Tax Fury Grows Over Tobacco

Smoking bodies have warned that the government’s tobacco tax will hit the most disadvantaged hardest and promote bootlegging, and they said that Rishi Sunak’s plan to increase prices by 88 pence to about £13.60 per pack will leave holes in the wallets of those worst hit by the pandemic.

Smoker’s group Forest blasted the move and insisted it could see a surge in unregulated and counterfeit goods trafficked into the United Kingdom.

The Chancellor’s Budget on Wednesday unveiled the latest tax hike for tobacco, which will see the cheapest cigarette packs increase by 63 pence to £9.73.

He said duty rates on all tobacco products will rise by the Retail Price Index measure of inflation plus 2 per cent.

Simon Clark, director of Forest, told a newspaper outlet that smokers are sick and tired of being targeted every year with above-inflation hikes in tobacco tax.

He said that the majority of smokers come from more disadvantaged backgrounds and that many have suffered financially as a result of the pandemic and shouldn’t have to endure yet another hike in the cost of tobacco at a time when they can least afford it.

He added that raising the rates of tobacco tax will surely promote illegal trade which destroys legitimate retailers and puts customers at even greater risk from unregulated and counterfeit tobacco.

The latest figures show that tobacco smuggling is an industry worth about £2.2 billion a year.

HM Revenue & Customs says that the illicit tobacco market in the United Kingdom has changed significantly since 2000 and that historically it was made up of genuine UK brands of tobacco smuggled from lower-priced EU countries.

And that currently, it’s much more of a mix of genuine UK and non-UK brands of cigarettes, hand-rolling tobacco, counterfeits, and increasingly, illegal whites.

Hand rolling tobacco has also increased due to the Budget, by RPI plus 6 per cent meaning a 30g bag will now cost above £9.02, and the minimum excise tax will go up by RPI plus 3 per cent.

Ministers hope that the move will decrease the number of people smoking, but they were panned on social media following the announcement, with one branding the cost ludicrous.

Others pointed out the cost of cigarettes had been increased while at the same time taxes on some alcoholic beverages such as prosecco and cider were reduced.

Another wrote that the cost of cigarettes had risen again, so let’s not pretend this is about health, and of course, the Government know that numerous people will have to give up smoking, especially the poor, and it’s well known that Government is addicted to tobacco taxes and excises and they just keep wanting more and more, and it will never stop because there will always be something in the pipeline to tax on.

Although non of it makes any sense because the tobacco tax has gone up, but alcohol has been reduced. So, it’s not okay to buy cigarettes, but it’s okay to go out, get bladdered and then come home and beat the hell out of your wife and kids?

Yet there are many people out there that will say that if a person can’t afford to smoke in the first place then they should give up. Does this also mean that when food becomes too costly they should give up eating as well?

Food might be essential, but smoking also lowers stress levels, which can be linked to heart disease, high blood pressure, asthma, obesity and numerous more.

Don’t Swim In Britain’s Rivers

An Environment Agency boss urged Britons to not risk swimming in the country’s waterways amid lingering concern over sewage being deposited into them.

John Leyland, the agency’s chief of staff, insisted rivers were not there for human bathing and were instead for the wildlife and the fish that live within them.

It comes after data released by the EA agency showed that water companies discharged raw sewage into England’s waterways and seas more than 400,000 times last year.

Environmental campaigners have also raised concerns that only 14 per cent of rivers in England are rated in good ecological health and none met chemical standards.

John Leyland spoke during an ITV documentary, looking at water quality following a spike in interest in wild swimming during th pandemic.

During the programme, reporter Joe Crowley asked John Leyland if people should be wild swimming in rivers with evidence of raw sewage being deposited into them.

Mr John Leyland said that the rivers that they have weren’t there for human swimming, and that they were there for the wildlife and the fish that live within them, and that the prevailing regulations require them to try and get the water to a health that’s suitable for that.

And he said that he thought that if they wanted to start talking about water that’s suitable for human health then that was a great discussion to have, but that it was a much bigger conversation.

Questioned if it was a personal risk, he said that he didn’t swim in rivers and he would just urge everybody to use the data and information, and wouldn’t recommend anyone to take that risk.

Campaigners for cleaner waters believe the deterioration in UK rivers was due to raw sewage being deposited there and water companies self-monitoring this since 2010.

The firms carry out their own pollution testing and are expected by the EA, which is the regulator, to report how frequently they’re dumping untreated sewage, but pressure groups say the EA’s enforcement budget has been cut by about two thirds since self-monitoring was drawn into action, meaning monitoring was inadequate.

Guy Linley-Adams, the solicitor for the Salmon and Trout Conservation, said there was no incentive for some to report, adding that it was only human nature and that if you’re a sewage works manager in a small town and your boss in central office is giving you a hard time because the works have been having a bit of a problem and you get the opportunity to tweak it to make it look a tad better, what are you going to do?

The lack of public swimming places in England is a disgrace. Every possible body of water is either fenced off by the council, or too contaminated to swim in, and the Government must sort this problem out.

Government in generations past genuinely cared about the environment, but not this lot, and they don’t want the shareholders to lose their profits, and no doubt Joe Public will be expected to fund the cost of putting it all right by paying higher bills.

The real disgrace is that while water companies have been hoovering up enormous profits to finance shareholder dividend infrastructure investment, which has been compromised, raw sewage is being poured into our waterways and seas around the United Kingdom.

The Middle Class Is Squeezed By Rishi Sunak

Experts said that Rishi Sunak tightened his grip on Britain’s squeeze middle with a Budget that will see it bear the brunt of tax increases for a splurge of public spending.

Experts warned that millions of people will be left worse off under plans unveiled by the Chancellor, with no realistic prospects of taxes falling in the future.

The Chancellor met with resentment over his big-spending economic plan as it was revealed all strata of society will end up paying more in the middle of a cost of living crisis.

Experts said the scale of the spending he announced yesterday would see the state increase to its biggest size since the late 1970s before Margaret Thatcher conducted a decade of reform to bring it under control.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies said middle earners would lose an average of £180 per year, and the Resolution Foundation warned that middle-income households, normally defined as those earning around £30,000 a year, would take a huge hit to pay for strong investment decisions in the wake of the COVID pandemic.

It revealed families will pay an additional £3,000 in taxes during Boris Johnson’s premiership at a time of low growth and decaying wage growth, and it warned that the Government is squaring the circle of a smaller economy post-pandemic, but was also planning on spending slightly more with huge tax increases.

And that small tax cuts were announced including business rate discounts, a lower bank surcharge, reduced alcohol duty and yet another fuel duty freeze, but the big picture is of fast-rising receipts.

With National insurance and Income Tax increases which will kick in next April, while Corporation Tax will rise from 19 per cent to 25 per cent the following year.

By 2026-27, tax as a share of the economy will be at its highest level since 1950 (36.2 per cent), amounting to an increase per household since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister of about £3,000.

Higher taxes will mainly fall on middle and higher-income households.

In the meantime, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said that mounting inflation could wipe out any increases in benefits for the worst off.

Rishi Sunak tried to reassure Tory MPs that he intends to cut taxes before the next election after unveiling his Budget, and in a meeting of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers, he said he wanted to use every marginal pound in the future to reduce taxes rather than boost spending, although he’s only doing what Boris Johnson wants, and Rishi Sunak should resign, rather than be a Boris bag carrier.

They should end foreign aid because they can’t afford it and they should be looking after their own instead, but we should also remember that we are just menials and won’t get to have a say.

Although foreign aid is just a drop in the ocean compared to all the billions they’ve wasted on Track and Trace and contracts to their Tory friends and donors because it’s all a diversion, a divide and conquer technique to get those at the bottom all huffing and puffing, but we keep falling for it.

Governments hate people because they’re frightened of us because there’s more of us, that’s why they acted like demi-gods during this pandemic.

Suddenly we have fewer or no liberties and rights, and now we’re seeing our livelihoods destroyed and the economy trashed, and big pharma is making its biggest play since the Spanish Flu, and the green revolution that they want is being acted out now, and we have no choice in it, and if you defy them, they will cut you off, no job, food or shelter, and if you think this won’t happen, then think again.

A British Woman Accuses Her American Daughter-In-Law Of Xenophobia

An American woman was accused of being xenophobic after she refused to try black pudding made by her British mother in law on a visit to the United Kingdom.

The 28-year-old woman took to Reddit to ask if she’d been a jerk for turning down the black pudding, which was made from a 100-year-old family recipe and served as part of a Full English breakfast.

Black pudding’s made from pork or beef blood, with pork fat or beef suet, and a cereal, normally oatmeal, oat groats or barley groats.

The woman, who described the rest of her mother in law’s food as bland, was met with support by a vast preponderance of users, who agreed it had been wrong of the mother in law to make her feel guilty.

British users spoke up to say they’d never tried black pudding, despite being from the United Kingdom.

The woman, who described herself as Indian-American, said she’d been vegetarian until she met her husband three years ago, and they made the journey to the United Kingdom after he reconnected with his biological father, who’s British and lives there with his family.

She continued that the first day they were asked to join them for breakfast at their family home, and his dad’s wife had made all kinds of traditional foods for them and that although the food was bland, she powered through most of them because she genuinely appreciated her hard work and didn’t want her to feel bad.

However, when it was time for them to try their family favourite, she noped out of it because she didn’t want to eat black pudding, and she knew one of the ingredients was blood, and she didn’t want to eat blood and refused because it was just gross to her.

But her stepmother in law tried hard to persuade her to at least try it, as it was a 100-year-old family recipe carried down through generations, but when she didn’t budge, her stepmother in law got offended and accused her of being xenophobic.

Writing in support of the woman, one user posted that blood pudding was great, and that she believed that meat-eaters should give it a wee go, but it was hardly unusual for people to be weirded out by it.

But for someone who was once a vegetarian, to them, the Full English breakfast would be nothing short of murder on a plate, and everyone has different tastes that they will and won’t eat and it’s their preference on whether they eat it or not, and I certainly wouldn’t eat it, no matter what you call it.

However, some people love it and other people don’t but I certainly wouldn’t accuse them of xenophobia.

I’m British and I certainly wouldn’t eat it, and the mother is just ill-mannered, and it’s not xenophobic to refuse to eat something you find disagreeable. I doubt the mother would eat dogs or crickets should she find herself in a place where that’s the norm.

Black pudding is like marmite you either love it or hate it, but no one insists that you eat marmite which has been on our shelves for years, and we should be able to respectfully decline to eat anything we don’t want to eat, it doesn’t have to have a meaning or explanation behind it. If it’s done graciously, then that’s all that matters.

Bullies Post Video Of 12-Year-Old Boy On Instagram

The parents of a 12-year-old boy in Milwaukee have reacted with anger after their son was filmed by tormentors using the bathroom at school, with the video posted on Instagram.

Shameia Harris and Phil Rose told Fox News 6 that their son had been genuinely hurt by the incident at Morse Middle School, and Phil Rose said that his son felt ashamed, disrespected and almost embarrassed of what had occurred.

Shameia Harris added that she was appalled the bullies were permitted to get away with it.

The other children climbed over the stall to film the 12-year-old.

She said you expect them to be in a comfort zone, protected, and that they have too much freedom and access to things that aren’t instructional, and that she was pretty sure he wasn’t the only one that this had happened to, but that if he could be the last, that would be enough for her.

The video was uploaded to a page on Instagram called Morse Fight, where it was seen more than a hundred times. The page now seems to have been taken down, but Fox reported that it highlighted clips of fights in the classroom, corridor and restroom.

Phil Rose said that you don’t think that when you send your children to school you see this sort of stuff going on.

Harris and Rose have filed a complaint with the police, and the school said they were aware of the videos, and had spoken to the pupils involved, and that the school leaders have taken swift action to address the problems, including mediations with students, referring pupils to support staff, reporting insensitive content directly to social networking sites, and communicating and engaging with parents. The school said that they take the safety and well-being of their students seriously and had taken the required steps towards preventing future incidents like this from occurring.

Instagram is owned by Facebook, and how on earth were school fights even allowed on Instagram in the first place? This is just promoting bullying on these pages, and this is just not on Facebook, and if this is what’s going to be on there, it should all be closed down immediately.

Can you imagine if that had been an adult filming, that adult would probably have ended up in prison, and these boys should be treated the same, well, for a short while at least? Or charged with a criminal offence, which this was, because this wasn’t just bullying, this was sexual assault.

Students really shouldn’t be allowed mobile phones during school hours, and without their phones, these children might actually engage with each other and rediscover their humanity and also get some actual work done.

Students are too occupied texting to pay any attention to their lessons, and there really isn’t any need for a mobile phone during school hours, but good luck getting parents on board with that one.

These children and their parents should be sued for Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, and God forbid that you tell a student that they can’t have their phones at school, they would throw a hissy fit.

But when it comes down to it, all social media platforms belong in the dustbin.

I understand that some pupils need their phones so that they can be reached after school to arrange a ride or if plans change, but they should be turned off during the day or put into lockers, and if found on, impounded until the end of the school day.

Test And Trace, The NHS’s ‘World Beating’ £37.5 Billion Program, Was A Waste Of Taxpayers’ Money

A damaging report by MPs claims that the £37 billion NHS Test and Trace service has been an eye wateringly costly mess.

It’s failed to break chains of COVID transmission, prevent lockdowns or allow people to return to a more normal way of life.

The organisation, previously led by former TalkTalk boss Baroness Harding, also had muddled objectives.

Spending on Test and Trace is equivalent to almost a fifth of the 2020/21 NHS England budget.

Just 45 per cent of testing capacity was used between November 2020 and April 2021, and at times as few as 11 per cent of contact centre staff were being used.

Only 96 million lateral flow tests it distributed were registered, and it’s not clear what benefit the remaining 595 million tests have achieved.

The programme was championed by the then Health Secretary Matt Hancock, whilst Prime Minister Boris Johnson described it as world-beating.

Despite committing to decrease consultants, paid an average of £1,100 a day, the service employed more in April 2021 (2,239) than in December 2020 (2,164).

Committee chairman Dame Meg Hillier said that it set out bold ambitions but has failed to accomplish them despite the large amounts launched at it.

Meanwhile, the professor who helped create the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab has said it’s unfair to bash the United Kingdom over high numbers of COVID cases – around 40,000 in a day in recent weeks.

Professor Sir Andrew Pollard said that if you look across western Europe, they have approximately ten times more tests done each day than some other countries.

The damaging report has been published just ahead of Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget, where he will lay out the details of the newly announced £6 billion funding boost for the NHS.

It details how the Test and Trace system failed to hit set targets and that spending on consultants was out of control.

Matt Hancock had promised that the system would enable the Government to circumvent the use of national lockdowns and instead get the contacts of people who had contracted COVID 19 to isolate.

The report also describes how less than half of contact tracers who’d been hired were ever in use at any one time.

It said that NHS Test and Trace had a 50 per cent target utilisation rate for its contact centre staff, but the highest reached was 49 per cent at the start of January 2021 and that this had dropped to 11 per cent by the end of February 2021.

This has quite clearly made certain people extremely rich, and we should start finding out who they are and start recovering those funds from these individuals whilst they can still be traced.

This is what’s commonly known as legalised theft, and this cosy arrangement with the private sector requires a full-scale public enquiry of its own. Perhaps we should deduct the politician’s wages who supported this and had a share in it?

They don’t care because they’ve all made their millions, and the Government should give a full breakdown of precisely what the money was spent on and who really benefited, and there’s even more wastage to come with Boris Johnson’s green plans.

But the Tories have always been inept with our money. Not only do they not fix the roof when the sun shines, they take the roof off because they don’t believe we need it, and Government is appallingly bad at spending taxpayers money, and when they’ve spent it impulsively they want more from us.

Adding The Final Nail To The Coffin

The Chancellor will again delay plans to improve the business rates regime, pushing a nail in the coffin on the high street, and the Government will push back an announcement for improvement a second time.

The commercial property tax has been condemned for high street woes – retail pays a quarter of rates despite making up 5 per cent of the economy.

Helen Dickenson, of the British Retail Consortium, said that every week of delay was a nail in the coffin for high streets as four in five retailers said that they’re likely or certain to close their stores.

A consultation into the broken system ended in September last year, and the Government was supposed to announce its plan at the Spending Review, following a delay from the Spring.

Groups representing high street businesses are now worried the problem has been booted into the long grass, although last night Government sources told a newspaper outlet that ministers have delayed reform until a later date.

They said they’ve not had time to consider how the reform would affect the sector or the long term impact of the pandemic on high streets.

Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, said that it’s hugely disappointing because root and branch reform has been promised in two manifestos and was certainly overdue, and that they would urge the Government to grasp the nettle to reform rates to rejuvenate the high street.

She added that without reform, rates relief given to high street firms this year must be extended until longer-term changes were implemented to circumvent a cliff edge of support.

The Government has been reluctant to make important adjustments to a tax that raises £32 billion per year, but the high street has long argued that they’re overtaxed, with retail paying a quarter of all rates despite only making up 5 per cent of the economy.

Rishi Sunak is considering a digital services tax of 2 per cent of revenues to try and level the playing field between the high street and online giants, which could be announced as early as this week, but the measure has been rejected by numerous large retailers, including Marks & Spencer, who say it’s wrong to introduce a new levy on an already overtaxed industry.

They have proposed decreasing business rates by about a third and substituting it with an increase in corporation tax – a tax on a company’s profits.

High street shops are going to be a thing of the past, although they won’t vanish altogether, but they will be transformed, and frankly, there will always be a home for intelligent local retailers because they can offer more reliable customer service, more personalisation, and better localisation, which local retailers usually master key logistics, and many customers will still need a service that online shops won’t be able to give.

This is what the high street of the future will look like.

Imagine a future where the number of shops in Britain’s town centres would have halved, but you could never imagine how swiftly that revolution would come.

The impact of the pandemic in our towns and cities has been seismic, and the negatives of this are and will be visible with store closures, job losses and empty streets. But if the Government show some imagination, they could be turning our urban centres from shopping deserts into community hubs, with shops alongside medical centres, entertainment venues, restaurants and cafes – all the places and sorts of things that people will want to do and go.

A Neighbour Brought Food To Starving Siblings, 7, 10, and 15, and Charged Their Cellphones After The Power Went Out

The three abandoned children who were discovered marooned in filthy conditions in a Houston home alongside the skeletal remains of their nine-year-old brother who’d been dead for more than a year managed to survive thanks to a helpful neighbour.

The children’s mum and her boyfriend were interviewed and released by law enforcement officials, and child welfare services in Texas have also started an investigation.

According to law enforcement officials, the mother and her boyfriend left the children alone for numerous months. Occasionally, the mother would return to bring the kids food.

The three children were taken to a hospital for treatment and a post-mortem is being carried out on the fourth child to determine the cause of mortality.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Department told a news outlet that an unidentified Good Samaritan who lived in a nearby apartment complex in Houston brought the three children food and charged their phones after the electricity was cut in their house.

However, it’s not clear why she didn’t report the neglected children to the police or child protective services, and a fellow resident said that if the person was bringing them food to eat, they must have seen that child.

Law enforcement officials said that the neighbour was helping the three children, ages 7, 10, and 15, for at least the last two weeks, and according to investigators, the 15-year-old said that the parents hadn’t been living at the home for weeks, effectively abandoning the children to be on their own.

KPRC-TV reported that when the police arrived at the home, they discovered the brother’s skeletal remains out in the open and that the two younger boys appeared to be malnourished and according to law enforcement officials showed signs of physical harm.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez told reporters that it appeared that they had been fending for each other and that the older sibling was doing the best he could to take care of the others.

In an update, Gonzalez announced that the children’s mother and her boyfriend had been found and questioned by homicide detectives.

The sheriff stated that the couple had been released without being arrested or charged with any wrongdoing, and no explanation was given for the decision to let the pair go at the time.

You have to feel sorry for the poor children, and I guess that we really do live with monsters around us, and the scary thing is sometimes you don’t even know who they are until it’s too late.

Some parents never seem to care about their children, and not enough gets reported to the police.

How these children will ever recover from this kind of treatment is beyond me, and so many people are bitter and divided, with poverty increasing from all the economic statistics, despite the increasing wealth, which means that the US is turning into the very thing that their founding fathers didn’t want, and how is this happening in today’s world – is no one paying attention?

And the two burning questions that I’m sure everyone has on their mind, is why were the mother and boyfriend released?

It clearly stated that the mother would periodically bring food to the children, so she was aware of the conditions, and secondly, why did the neighbours fail these children? It was kind of the neighbour to take these children food, but why did she not contact the police?

Facebook And Instagram Will Require Parental Permission For Australian Children Under 16

Australian children under 16 will need parental consent to sign up for social media apps under proposed new laws.

Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, OnlyFans, Bumble, WhatsApp and even Zoom would all fall under the new requirements.

The companies must take all responsible measures to establish a user’s age and ensure a child’s parent has given consent.

Facebook and Instagram already require users to be over 13 in Australia and use artificial intelligence to determine their age.

Social media giants will face increased penalties of up to $10 million for infringing the rules, up from the current maximum of $2 million.

The changes were outlined in an exposure draft of new legislation released on Monday by Attorney General Michaelia Cash.

The new law aims to prevent children’s data from being shared without permission, and the draft legislation said that privacy practices of online platforms could be harmful to children and vulnerable persons, including sharing data for advertising purposes or engaging in harmful tracking, profiling, or targeted marketing.

Communications Minister Paul Fletcher told Parliament on Tuesday the online privacy code would strengthen protections for children and other groups of vulnerable users, and he said that they’re being pretty clear in their requirements on the social media platforms under the code, and they will be expected to take all reasonable measures to establish the age of users to take more prudent steps to verify parental or guardian consent for children under the age of 16 years old.

As well as social media services, the code will install new rules for data brokers and other large online operators with more than 2.5 million Australian users such as Amazon, Google and Apple.

The code will enable users to demand their data be kept from any third parties.

The draft legislation said that a person may wish to use this when, for example, they don’t want an organisation to disclose their personal information for direct marketing. However, the law wouldn’t give users the right to demand their data to be erased.

The proposed law is a response to the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal in March 2018.

The British consulting firm used the personal data of millions of Facebook users to target political advertisements.

Mia Garlick, Director of Public Policy for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, said Facebook was still reviewing the proposal.

It comes as Facebook endured a blizzard of criticism after former employee Frances Haugen leaked internal studies showing the company knew of possible harm stoked by its sites, urging US lawmakers to renew a push for regulation.

Of course, like everything else, kids will eventually know how to bypass this, and is this really about protecting children, or is it to ensure that every person using the internet has a digital ID that shadows their every move?

All around the world every government is moving in the same direction, while forcing us all to conduct all of our banking, work-life, booking events, literally everything online, and all of this requires ID verification.

However, social media is toxic to children and yet we allow it to happen, but the theory is a great idea, but the reality is that a 14-year-old is going to be able to get around this if they want to. I believe that children should be allowed to be children as long as possible, but of course, we all insist on giving our children mobile phones and computers so that they can access the internet without surveillance.

What Are The Chances Of Plan B?

Rishi Sunak insisted there was no need to move to Plan B to cut COVID cases after health leaders debated whether there needed to be an urgent rollout of tougher measures to combat a surge in cases.

The Chancellor insisted that the data showed that bringing back working from home and introducing compulsory COVID passports was not yet needed.

His comments to the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme came after it was reported that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) contacted local authorities on Friday to canvass their level of support for the immediate rollout of the winter plan – Plan B.

An official, sensitive document was seen by a newspaper outlet solicited viewpoints from the leaders and chief executives of councils across England to be furnished to the Cabinet Office before the end of the day.

But Rishi Sunak said the data didn’t imply they should be immediately moving to Plan B.

However, a leading Government scientist said some kind of Plan B was needed immediately.

Professor Adam Finn, who’s on the Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said COVID 19 hospital admissions and deaths were rising and cautioned against complacency in what he said was a worsening situation.

Meanwhile, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the Government should introduce its Plan B to tackle the increasing rates of coronavirus now.

Speaking on Marr, Rachel Reeves was asked what Labour’s position was on reintroducing restrictions such as the wearing of face coverings and working from home.

She said Labour as a responsible opposition has always said that they would follow the science and that they’ve seen that SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) was saying that some aspects of Plan B, like wearing masks on public transport and in shops, and also working from home more flexibly should be introduced.

And she thought the first thing is the Government have got to do more to make Plan A work, and that if scientists are saying work from home and masks, then we should do that, and so we should get A working better because the vaccination programme has been stalling, including those parts of Plan B.

She said that there are also things not in A or B that needed to be done, like paying statutory sick pay from day one and also better ventilation in public places.

Asked directly whether Plan B should be introduced now, she said that it should but that we shouldn’t let the Government off the hook with Plan A either.

Sadly, countless people are now terrified thanks to the scaremongering by the media, and if you drip feed the lies long enough people will believe it.

What astounds me is that almost everyone has access to the internet, yet they absorb everything from the TV, but there’s a wealth of information out there that the mainstream media will never acquaint you with.

And whatever you believe, we shouldn’t be throwing hatred towards other members of the general public. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, and I’m not sure why there seems to be a need to resort to childish name-calling.

If what some people are saying is true, that this is some scheme for mass control, then they’re just playing into the hands of those we believe are behind us, but really it’s all about divide and conquer, and as human beings surely we should be beyond turning and throwing childish remarks.

However, our Government is prepared to trash the country even though the data says there’s no need for any plan or COVID passports, which makes some people believe that this is all about control.

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