Andy Burnham Wants Council Tax Slashed

Andy Burnham yesterday called on Labour to support a wealth tax based on the value of the property.

The Greater Manchester mayor said he wanted to see council tax scrapped and replaced with the new tax.

The proportional tax would see homeowners paying a yearly levy worth about 0.5 per cent of the value of their home instead of council tax and stamp duty.

Supporters, such as the think tank Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), say it’s unfair that those who have benefited from rising house prices should pay so little, and talking at an IPPR fringe event, the former Labour MP said that there was a really interesting discussion about how they reform property tax, and he said that the party couldn’t tiptoe around it anymore and that Council Tax was carrying too much weight.

Wes Streeting, Labour’s spokesman on child poverty, told the conference the Government was punching down on families with the cut to Universal Credit.

He continued, Boris Johnson dares to tell parents slogging their guts out on minimum wage to work harder, and that this was coming from a man who hasn’t done a single day of hard work in his life.

Andy Burnham added that the party should push for property tax reform and that this could be a form of Land Value Tax or Proportional Property Tax, but he said they should rename it, saying, call it the levelling up tax.

The council reform should be based on square footage, the number of occupants and local amenities provided, not value.

If five adults live in a house, they all benefit from the services provided, so why should a home of one or two occupants pay the same as a multigenerational home that has several incomes coming in or houses where a specific number of people are jammed into a three-bedroom house? Therefore, a family of six over the road might pay less than a family of two just because their home is detached and the other is a semi.

Council tax should have no bearing on what your house is priced at, and we should all pay the same, it’s the only fair way, but then again it appears that councils are having a disco with our money.

Numerous people who have bought their house, but have a mortgage basically means that the bank, or whoever you got the mortgage from owns your home. Does this mean that if the bank owns your home because you have a mortgage with them, that they should pay the tax and not the person living in the property?

High prices for property means that people have to take out massive mortgages and work twice as hard to pay them off. And countless young people can’t even get onto the housing ladder.

Immigration has taken precedence in the United Kingdom in the last two decades, making house prices high.

Seven million people have entered the United Kingdom since the year 2000, and there aren’t enough properties for all those people, so it’s the basic economic law of supply and demand, and then property prices shoot up.

What we need to do is reduce the UK population to what it was in 2000, to get property prices back down, but of course, things are too late for that, but it’s the working classes who will suffer
the most with these high property prices, so what needs to be done is to get to the root of the problem, the current overpopulation and the ongoing immigration issue.

Are Brian Laundrie’s Parents Using A Burner Phone To Communicate?

Brian Laundrie’s mother has been accused of buying a burner phone to keep in touch with her runaway son as the hunt for the prime suspect in Gabby Petito’s death continues.

A popular Twitter account created to help find Brian Laundrie tweeted the claim that Roberta Laundrie, Brian Laundrie’s mother, has a burner phone. Confirmed by FBI. However, the claim hasn’t officially been confirmed or rejected by the FBI.

The FBI said, according to 10 Tampa Bay reporter Shannon Clowe that they did not confirm or deny contact with any person or entity to preserve their privacy, and that as such, they didn’t confirm or deny the receipt of any tip, and that they had no further comment.

Lyssa Chapman, Duane Chapman’s (Dog the Bounty Hunter) daughter, tweeted that the FBI confirmed the accusation that Roberta Laundrie has a burner phone but didn’t present any proof of the evidence.

The Laundrie family’s attorney, Steven Bertolino, had no comment.

Internet sleuths have claimed that Brian Laundrie is using a burner phone after supposedly noticing changes to his Instagram and Spotify accounts since he disappeared two weeks ago.

According to Inside Edition, Brian’s Instagram account reportedly became active for three seconds on Monday showing waves and just a peak of an olive green boat. The account also allegedly unfollowed numerous people.

There have also been claims online that Brian’s Spotify playlist name changed from ‘Selfconsomption’ to ‘Nomatic Statik.’ The playlist was reportedly created after Gabby Petito’s disappearance.

Brian Laundrie has been named a person of interest in the investigation into his fiance Gabby Petito’s death. Her remains were discovered in Wyoming and her demise was ruled a homicide after she was reported missing on September 11.

Dog the Bounty Hunter joined the hunt for Brian Laundrie on Saturday and was immediately inundated with tips, one of which claimed that the Laundrie family spent the night in Fort De Soto Park with their son twice after he came back alone from Wyoming in early September.

Dog told TV reporter Brian Entin Monday night that Brian Laundries parents spent the night in For De Soto in Pinellas County, Florida, from September 1 to 3, staying in spot number 1.

He further claims that they returned with Brian to stay on spot 15 from September 6 to 8.

To be fair, this has been a particularly interesting case, and there’s been a lot of TV coverage on it, with loads of people online sleuthing about it, but we have to remember that these are human beings that we’re talking about, and this isn’t a game of Inspector Clouseau. An actual crime has been committed, whether Brian Laundrie did it or not!

He may be the perpetrator of a crime, or he may not be, but at the moment he’s just a person of interest. At the moment it’s all speculation, and no one will really know anything about what really took place until Brian Laundrie is found, that’s if he’s ever found.

We do know that before Gabby Petito’s disappearance they were both seen at a restaurant in Wyoming where Brian Laundrie was reportedly involved in an inflammable argument with a waitress.

Nina Celie Angelo, of New Orleans, said that she’d been visiting the state with her boyfriend on August 27 when they stopped for lunch at Merry Piglets, a Tex Mex restaurant in Jackson Hole between 1 and 2 pm, and she claimed that she watched on in shock as the agitated Brian Laundrie started arguing with a waitress and that Gabby Petito was with him at the time.

And that while she couldn’t hear what words were being exchanged between Brian Laundrie and the woman, she believed the dispute was either over the bill or about money, and she described Brian Laundrie’s body language as aggressive and said that he left and returned to the establishment about four times, continuing the conflict and that at one stage Gabby Petito came inside and apologised for Brian’s behaviour.

Brian Laundrie clearly had an aggressive nature, although that doesn’t mean that he killed Gabby Petito in cold blood.

Perhaps with all this rage pumping they both got back and argued. Maybe he shoved her and she got wounded in the fight – maybe he didn’t realise she was dying when he sped off in the truck to get away from her, and then came back and realised she was dead, and just panicked because they’d been stopped by the police earlier on, and that’s why he went to his parents home because after calming down, having realised what he’d done, and maybe that’s why they had their attorney on speed dial because they knew what would happen.

Sadly, there are a lot of maybe’s and people making hypotheses, with everyone wanting to be the Pink Panther. But this is not a movie, nor is it funny, and hopefully Brian Laundrie will be apprehended and then we can find out what the actual truth is.

Is This The Beginning Of The Fourth Wave?

Official figures suggest amid concerns a fourth wave could be coming because children are starting to spread coronavirus to their parents again.

Department of Health statistics shows England’s infection rates has been rising for a fortnight, following the return of millions of students to classrooms at the start of the month. But that infections were only increasing in youngsters, reinforcing evidence that the reopening of schools was to blame.

Government data now show, however, rates have begun trending upwards in 35 to 39-year-olds, 40 to 44-year-olds and 45 to 50-year-olds, suggesting that children may have taken the virus home with them.

Experts had always warned of a fresh wave after the return of schools, where the majority aren’t vaccinated, and in the worst-hit parts of the country, up to one in 24 children tested positive last week alone.

Scientists say the rise in adults might be the result of millions of more Britons returning to offices this month, following the end of work from home guidance.

Department of Health data reveals the infection rate amongst 40 to 44-year-olds was 361.2 positive tests per 100,000 people in the week ending September 21, up 13 per cent from 318.1 in the previous seven-day spell.

For 45 to 49 years old, the rate stood at 300.9 per 100,000 in the latest week, also up 13 per cent from 264.4 the previous week. And for 35 to 39-year-olds, the infection rate was 276.2, up slightly from 267.6 before.

But rates were still falling, albeit at a more leisurely pace, in every other age group besides children.

For 10 to 14-year-olds it was as high as 1,2617.7 per 100,000, meaning 1.2 per cent of all youngsters in that age bracket tested positive in the most recent week of data. The age group had the highest infection rate last week.

There was also a slight increase in cases amongst 0-4-year-olds, 5 to 9-year-olds and 15 to 19-year-olds.

The most up to date data on the dashboard only goes up to September 21, and the infection rate may still change as more cases are recorded in the coming days.

Dr Simon Clarke, a microbiologist at Reading University, told a newspaper outlet the uptick in infections in older age groups might have been sparked by COVID infected children returning home from school.

He warned the rise showed ministers cannot be complacent about rising infections in younger age groups and said cases were set to rise over the autumn and winter, but he continued that thanks to vaccines this was unlikely to spark a significant surge in hospitalisations and mortality.

But it amuses me how all the newspapers spread malevolent doom and despair, and every single newspaper is a business that sells to people who lean to the left or right, but there isn’t one single newspaper that simply reports the news as it is, in an impartial way, but that’s because the people who manage the media and own these publications push their own agendas through them.

Perhaps we should be buying our Christmas presents now to circumvent supply deficits. There are now Christmas stocks in the shops and Christmas films and adverts, which makes you question if another lockdown is planned, and it’s so obvious that we’re being played for fools, although some fools haven’t worked it out yet.

Inevitably we’ve just got to get on with it now. We can handle it, and the country needs to get back to normal and stop this madness – the world isn’t about to end!

Most people are having their jabs, and then it should be back to living life, otherwise what’s the point in it?

A Huge Backlog Of Cancer Care Will Result In Thousands Of Deaths Over The Next Decade

A damaging report has shown that thousands of cancer patients will die over the next decade because of the overwhelming treatment backlog caused by the pandemic.

About 19,500 people in England with cancer haven’t yet been diagnosed due to COVID associated disruption to the NHS.

According to an analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research and the CF healthcare consultancy, it could take more than a decade to clear this missing cancer patient backlog.

They calculated that even if stretched, hospitals conducted 5 per cent more treatments than pre-pandemic levels and that it would take until 2033 to catch up with the cancer accumulation.

But, with additional funding and personnel, that figure could be driven up by 15 per cent, allowing backlogs that could be cleared by next year.

The study lays bare the catastrophic impact of the pandemic on cancer diagnosis and treatment.

During the height of the COVID crisis, from March 2020 to February 2021, 369,000 fewer people than expected were referred to a specialist with suspected cancer, and the number of chemotherapy treatments also fell by 187,000, while there were 15,000 fewer radiotherapy treatments.

The reports suggest the backlog in chemotherapy and radiotherapy could take until 2028 and 2033 respectively to clear.

There’s also been a dramatic decrease in diagnostic procedures, with endoscopies down 37 per cent, MRI scans 25 per cent and CT scans ten per cent.

The report said that behind these statistics are thousands of people for whom it will now be too late to cure their cancer and that they think that the number of cancers diagnosed while they’re still highly treatable dropped from 44 per cent before the pandemic to 41 per cent last year.

Early diagnosis and immediate treatment are crucial to survival chances.

Parth Patel, an NHS doctor who headed the study, said the pandemic had destroyed years of growth in cancer survival rates.

He added that now the health service faces an immense backlog of care that threatens to disrupt services for well over a decade.

He said that the funding announced this month was just enough to keep the health service afloat but didn’t provide the funds to bring down pandemic backlogs as quickly as possible or transform service excellence.

And it’s not only cancer, people who have been told that they have Alzheimer’s and have to go for brain scans to work out what treatment they need still haven’t had their scans and it’s all being blamed on COVID.

Although some people are saying that people with Alzheimer’s should be left in peace, and that treating them would be a misuse of resources, and that we’re crippling the young to save the old, and that scans for this condition are unnecessary.

The NHS isn’t fit for purpose and is being run into terminal decline, and it won’t get any better.

All this money has been given to the NHS, and for what? Probably more managers. We have been attempting to save the NHS, and we cheered for our nurses with staff productively dancing in videos, and now we have GPs treating us like we’re cash cows, and this is why I never clapped like a demented seal.

They clapped and now they’re all clapped out.

Fools clattering pots and pans outside whilst everywhere you looked there was a perfect choreographed NHS dance routine, and now the NHS has become the No Hope Service – no hope of seeing a GP, no hope of cancer screening programmes, no hope of timely treatment.

Deputy Secretary Of State Says She Wants Her Staff In The Office Only Two Days Per Week

A top civil servant says she only wants her staff to go into the office two days a week so women aren’t dominated by men and she can continue using her Peloton bike.

Sarah Healey, the permanent secretary for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, said meetings would still be held over Zoom, even for those working in the office, in a bid to stop male workers asserting themselves over their female colleagues.

A newspaper outlet reported that the mother of three, who’s hailed working from home as a very, very good thing in terms of spending more with her children, spoke at the London Tech Week conference.

She said that she finds big meetings with lots of people were most effectively done online because then you can see better who wants to speak, and that she’s noticed that sometimes women struggle with that.

Sarah Healey also welcomed the opportunity to use her exercise bike at home, while saving time on commuting.

Her comments came as public sector workers seem to be resisting a return to the office, with more than 100 government buildings earmarked to be sold as a consequence of the shift in working patterns.

This is despite millions of workers in other sectors making their way back to traditional workplaces in recent weeks as a result of the end of the school holidays and the lifting of COVID restrictions.

But Sarah Healey maintained a hybrid approach to allow for some office time was necessary, highlighting the impact on younger co-workers who she described as having spent the pandemic working in the corner of their bedroom.

It comes after it was revealed that more than two million workers could be allowed to ask their bosses to let them work from home from day one of a new job under proposals unveiled by ministers.

The proposal would ease the current rules that allow workers to request flexible working once they’ve been in a role for six months.

It’s been launched after millions of people worked from home during the COVID pandemic, with numerous firms deciding to keep some measures in place permanently.

Ministers intend to keep in place rules that enable businesses to refuse the requests if they have good business reasons to do so, but they want to put pressure on employers to negotiate with their workers rather than deny requests completely.

Many people who’ve been working from home prefer this to working in an office all day, getting distracted, plus the commute to the office would be drastically less productive than staff working from home, and it appears to be the way forward and numerous companies are realising this.

But what about those people who don’t have the space to work from home? I guess those that don’t have the space will have to go into the office, but it doesn’t stop those that are considerably more productive and far better off financially from working from home.

Work is work, as long as you get the job done. It doesn’t matter where you are, and it now appears that working in an office is old fashioned and out of date now, and working from home seems to be the future.

Although we haven’t had work from home for long enough for anyone to have a vast knowledge of the topic, and numerous firms saw a decline in productivity early on and there are numerous disadvantages to working from home, some of which are not yet understood.

A Very Proud dad!

Prince Harry was pictured coming out of the United Nations Plaza on Thursday holding a laptop bag with the words ‘Archie’s Papa’ embossed on the side during his tour around New York City with Meghan.

The proud father spent Wednesday night and Thursday with his wife Meghan in New York City while the children, Archie and Lilibet, stayed back in Los Angeles. However, Harry carried a little memento of his son with him during his highly publicised tour of New York City, which was the Sussex’s first public trip to the Big Apple since their permanent move from England to Meghan’s native California in March 2020.

The image was taken Thursday afternoon after their visit to the United Nations for a 40-minute meeting where they had an important discussion on COVID 19, racial fairness and mental health with US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield called the meeting wonderful as she shared snaps of the trio chatting on sofas in a lounge area and then posing in from of the UN branding.

Thursday’s UN visit was sandwiched between a sombre, morning excursion to the 9/11 Memorial at One World Trade Centre, where they were greeted by New York Governor Kathy Hochul, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, National September 11 Memorial & Museum President Alice Greenwald and Patricia Harris, CEO of Bloomberg Philanthropy.

Harry and Meghan spent hours at the memorial before continuing with their day that included the UN visit and a trip to the World Health Organisation headquarters.

Thursday evening was spent with a nightcap in Manhattan’s Upper East Side Bemelmans Bar in the lobby of the $1,300 a night Carlyle Hotel.

Harry was seen in newspaper exclusive photos in the corner of the banquet with two men in suits and a woman in a white blazer. It’s unknown who they were, but Meghan was noticeably absent.

Harry chatted animatedly, gesticulating often, with a glass of white wine set before him at what seemed to be a business meeting.

The New York City trip concluded in the bar for the second night in a row.

Exclusive photos for a newspaper outlet show that on Wednesday night, Harry and Meghan were spotted at the bar partying with Misha Noonoo and Mikey Heiss to kickstart their four-day tour of the city.

Misha and Mikey’s association reportedly goes back years, according to last year’s bombshell biography Finding Freedom, co-authored by journalists Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, which documented Meghan and Misha’s friendship.

Harry and Meghan appear to see themselves as world ambassadors, but alas for them most of the world doesn’t bite them so kindly, and if these two are deemed to be private citizen’s these days, then what’s with all the hoopla and special treatment for?

However, this is all very sweet, bringing family close together – very American, building a family on love and memories, although they do seem to use their son as self-promotion.

Harry clearly never had any kind of love in his life since his mother’s accident, and he’s clearly a proud loving father to his children and isn’t scared to show it, although someone might be paying him to carry the folder, that’s how they make a living.

But Harry really isn’t afraid to show that he’s a devoted father, apart from when he leaves the children behind when he goes on excursions and appears to have this obsession of keeping them hidden. And I’m not why they’re still called Royals when they’re no longer members of the Royal Family.

Missing Brian Laundrie’s Grim-Faced Parents

The parents of missing Brian Laundrie broke cover together Thursday morning, accompanied by two law enforcement vehicles as they drove through their hometown of North Port, Florida.

Christopher Laundrie, 62, and his wife Roberta, 55, were seen appearing from their home at 8:15 am before getting into their red Dodge Ram pickup truck and travelling in the direction of the local police station on their own.

Soon after they were spotted retreating to their three-bedroom home on the usually peaceful residential road, tailed by a North Port Police SUV and a black Ford 150 assumed to be an FBI vehicle.

But then the grim-faced pair took off again in their vehicle, by themselves, to parts unknown.

Brian’s silver Ford Mustang convertible, which was taken by the FBI in a climactic raid on the Laundries’ home on Monday, was returned to the house by a tow truck crew when the couple returned from town only to leave again a short while later.

Christopher and Roberta Laundrie looked solemn as they headed to their pickup truck for the start of the mysterious journey.

The development came on day five in the hunt for Brian Laundrie, 23, the fiancé of van-life woman Gabby Petito, 22, who was found dead at a national park in Wyoming on Sunday, eight days after she was reported missing.

Brian Laundrie is deemed a person of interest in her disappearance and death, which has been ruled a homicide.

Police divers joined the hunt for Brian Laundrie on Wednesday as more than 50 law enforcement officers from eight agencies proceeded to search the 25,000-acre alligator and snake-infested swampland of Carlton Reserve, near the Laundrie house.

Brian Laundrie was believed to be hiding out in his parent’s Florida home until September 14, when he purportedly set off on a trek at the local nature reserve.

His family said they last saw him that day wearing a hiking bag, but did not report him missing until three days later, on September 17.

His silver Ford Mustang was also discovered stranded near the Carlton Reserve with a note requesting it be towed away.

North Port Police commander Joe Fussell, who’s helping to organise the hunt, said on Wednesday that the guys, their law enforcement partners are motivated and they’re hungry to find Brian Laundrie.

He said that it was rough out there, it’s hot and it’s wet and that they’re working to cover every area of the reserve.

How the police even let Brian Laundrie out of their sight is a great mystery.

Do the parents of Brian Laundrie know where their son is? Because if they didn’t, they would be out looking for him as well, but then they’ve been put in a position to rat out their son, and most parents wouldn’t do that because blood is thicker than water. They might have even got him out of town.

However, we don’t know what really happened. We can surmise what might have taken place, but we actually have no idea, and everyone acts as if they know what transpired or what he told his parent’s et cetera, but at the moment there’s so much circumstantial evidence.

There are a lot of suspicions, and sadly they might be true, but for the time being, people shouldn’t throw out accusations or judgement because it’s hurting everyone concerned, but the plot does thicken.

The question he is, what would you do for your son? How far would you go to protect him?

Brian Laundrie might have killed Gabby Petito – perhaps not intentionally but in the heat of the moment. Then returns home to where he was living, with his parents, and he will probably give himself up at some point when the reality of isolated wilderness and living outside in the winter sets in.

A Shortage Of Lorry Drivers Could Lead To Panic Buying In The Run-Up To Christmas, Warns Tesco

Tesco is advising customers to expect the return of panic buying in the run-up to Christmas as bosses call on ministers to help end the lorry driver deficit.

The supermarket giant announced it was currently experiencing a shortfall of about 800 HGV drivers as it urged the Government to relax restrictions on foreign workers to help ease the supply chain crisis.

Despite being the United Kingdom’s biggest supermarket chain, offering new workers a £1,000 bonus since July, Andrew Woolfenden, Tesco’s distribution and fulfilment director, warned they were still unable to make up the lost numbers.

Nationally, food supply chains have been put under extreme pressure because of a deficit of about 100,000 HGV drivers, with empty racks across most UK supermarkets as a consequence.

Slamming the problem as industry-wide, Andrew Woolfenden compared companies frantically seeking to hire from a limited pool of expert drivers to moving deckchairs around.

He warned ITV News that their concern was that the images of bare shelves would get ten times more serious by Christmas and then they’ll get panic buying.

Despite gaps appearing on supermarket racks across the nation this summer, customers are yet to see a return of full-scale panic buying that was endured at the start of the pandemic.

However concerns are continuing to grow should demand abruptly rise again, with replenishing empty racks already a problem for most major UK retailers.

Trade association Logistics UK has called on ministers to provide up to 10,000 temporary work visas for qualified EU drivers to paper over the cracks.

The Government has so far denied these calls, instead insisting firms recruit from a pool of British workers.

It comes as shorter, fast-track HGV tests have been mooted as a possible answer to help plug the spiralling vacancies in the haulier industry.

Industry experts say better pay and improved working conditions are required to further improve staffing levels and put the deficit mostly down to Brexit and the pandemic, which led to 14,000 European drivers going home and just 600 of those returning.

The Road Haulage Association said the total number of people in the United Kingdom with HGV licences this summer is 516,000. But the latest Department for Transport data reveals 278,700 HGV drivers were employed in 2020, equal to 54 per cent of the total.

The crisis, which has also been made more acute by COVID-related delays to testing new drivers, has seen supermarket racks across the nation go empty as companies strive to restock their merchandise.

In short, prices will be going up again, and then some, and the last time inflation was high, the Tories were in charge. They can’t seem to run the economy for the vast preponderance of the public – only for their monied friends.

If this crisis goes on, they will have to ration people, as they did in World War II.

What the government should be doing is encouraging people to pass their HGV licence, which means they would have to put cash in the pot for that kind of thing, but it seems the only way so that people who want to work can get the aid they need from Boris Johnson, that way we would have more lorries on the road, and no deficits because sometimes you have to invest to speculate.

The other problem is that there are UK lorry drivers with an HGV licence but they refuse to take a reduction in wages.

This is a real head-scratcher, but here’s a mad idea, pay them more than minimum wage and accept that costs have to go up to support a salary that makes it an attractive career.

The ‘Anti-Vax’ Strictly Stars Get A Hammering From Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson waded into the Strictly Come Dancing jabs controversy after claims three professional dancers had refused COVID vaccines.

Questioned about the row, the Prime Minister told GB News that everyone should take their jabs and that he was saying it, not in a bullying way but just because he believed it was the best thing to do.

BBC bosses were repeatedly battling to save the show after celebrities were left fearing a backstage outbreak, and a source claimed one star, a household name, told friends that they should be protected, after learning their professional partner hadn’t had the jab.

A source told a newspaper outlet the celebrity was previously oblivious their professional partner hadn’t been jabbed and was surprised by BBC bosses failure to ensure their safety despite harsh COVID measures.

They said that they just couldn’t believe that their partner would not have the jab and that they believed that they’d be protected, so to find that their partner hadn’t had a single jab was extremely worrying and that the pair had previously spent tens of hours practising together, and there was a lot of anger and several questions to be asked.

It comes as the latest data revealed that Britain’s COVID crisis seems to be rising again as daily cases increased week on week for the fourth day running amid concerns of a delayed back to school surge.

Department of Health bosses posted 31,564 new coronavirus infections, up 18.5 per cent on the 26,628 recorded last Tuesday.

Cases had been falling for the nine days before Saturday, suggesting the United Kingdom may finally be seeing the effect of the return to schools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland at the start of the month. Experts warned that classroom reopening would cause a sharp uptick in infections.

Mortality also rose today, with the number of people dying within 28 days of testing positive for the virus rising to 203. This was up 9.7 per cent of last Tuesday’s 185.

The news is further proof of the effectiveness of the jabs in averting severe cases, with more than 65 per cent of the UK population now having been vaccinated.

The BBC has been keen to play down the Strictly dispute and maintains it’s based on speculation.

A spokesperson told a newspaper outlet that they don’t comment on speculation of COVID vaccination status and that the Strictly Come Dancing production has, and will, proceed to follow stringent government guidelines to ensure the safety of all on the show.

No one really wanted to take the jab, but I guess it’s the best thing to do, to protect yourself and those around you, but it also appears that several people believe it’s a complete load of BS.

And there is a huge proportion of the jabbed that are becoming holier than thou about it, telling people that they’re selfish for not being jabbed, but remember you can still catch it and pass it on.

It’s up to the person to determine whether they want the jab or not. You have it or you don’t, but other people can’t choose for you, but then you have to consider that Boris Johnson has become a glorified salesperson for big pharma masquerading as Prime Minister, and these dangerous experimental drugs are causing numerous severe adverse reactions including myocarditis, stroke and death according to the government’s own Yellowcard reporting system, and where there’s risk, there must also be a choice.

The Killing Of Alexander Litvinenko Was Carried Out By Russia

European judges have ruled that Russia was responsible for the 2006 death of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko who was killed with radioactive Polonium.

Alexander Litvinenko, a prominent critic of the Kremlin, died at age 43 after drinking green tea laced with Polonium 210 at the luxurious Millenium Hotel in Mayfair.

Britain has long blamed the attack on Russia, straining relationships between the two countries, and the European Court of Human Rights has now agreed.

A ruling issued from the Strasbourg court said that Russia was responsible for the killing of Alexander Litvinenko in the UK.

Judges also ruled that Andrei Lugovoi, an ex-KGB agent, and Dmitry Kovtun, who’d met with Alexander Litvinenko at the hotel, were the poisoners.

The court, which rules on whether states have breached the European Convention on Human Rights, were responding to a complaint brought by Marina Litvinenko, Alexander’s widow.

Marina Litvinenko had presented the complaint in November last year, claiming £3 million in punitive damages and lost wages over her husband’s demise.

She also asked the court to rule on a pattern of targeted assassinations in Europe and the Middle East, including the UK attack on Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia, which have been blamed on Russia.

It wasn’t instantly clear whether the court would be ruling on those matters, or where the Litvinenko ruling leaves Marina Litvinenko’s compensation claim.

Marina Litvinenko had brought her claim before the ECHR once before, in 2007, when it was suspended because a public inquiry was underway in the United Kingdom.

At the time her legal team was being led by Kier Starmer, now Labour Party Leader.

Litvinenko was born in 1962 in the Soviet Union, in the city of Voronezh which is 290 miles south of Moscow.

After a brief stint as a platoon commander for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Litvinenko was drafted into the KGB as a military counterintelligence officer.

He proceeded to work at the agency after it was transformed into the modern-day FSB and rose to the position of senior operational officer in a unit responsible for tackling organised crime. He also worked for a time as Boris Berezovsky’s bodyguard.

In 1998, Litvinenko fell out with FSB leadership when he backed Boris Berezovsky who’d accused senior FSB officers of ordering his assassination.

He was subsequently expelled from the organisation, arrested, and twice appeared in court on charges of overstepping his authority, but saw both proceedings quashed.

Fearing for his life, Alexander Litvinenko fled to London in 2000 with his second wife Marina and was given asylum in London, and he then went to Boston, Lincolnshire, where he worked as a journalist, author and consultant for British intelligence.

During this time he wrote two books accusing the Russian state of staging apartment bombings and other terror acts to bring Vladimir Putin to power. He also invented the phrase ‘mafia state.’

Of course, we all know that Russia won’t pay a single penny of compensation, so the court’s judgment is insignificant. And of course, they will have cast-iron evidence.

Deny everything is the Russian way. The world may prove it, the courts might find guilty, but Putin’s Russia will answer to no one – how does Vladimir Putin sleep at night, probably in a big bed on silk sheets!

And how much money has been wasted to find out precisely what was known when it happened? It’s not like Polonium’s available at your local pharmacy!

Although being responsible doesn’t mean they did it. It’s a bit like saying that Boris Johnson is responsible for killings in care homes disguised as COVID, and then a situation has been created.

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