Police Strip-Searched And Arrested A 55-Year-Old IT Consultant

An IT consultant is suing police for being wrongfully arrested in Waitrose and insists she was strip-searched by police for refusing to wear a facemask while shopping despite being exempt.

Juliet Johnson says she was questioned by store security and a manager at the store in Chichester, West Sussex, about not wearing a mask, which was mandatory at the time, and although she said she’d proved she didn’t need to wear a mask as she suffers from an autoimmune disease that affects her breathing, police were summoned to the store.

Juliet Johnson says that while browsing for groceries she was then confronted by two officers and subsequently arrested, taken to a nearby police station, questioned and strip-searched.

After being detained for two hours, the 55-year-old was discharged the same day with no charges.

The consultant maintains that during the whole episode she was neither abusive nor offensive to anyone in the store but has since been banned from Waitrose and John Lewis, a prohibition which even includes buying online.

She’s now suing the police for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment, assault and disability discrimination.

Sussex Police said a civil claim has been made which the force strongly disputed, with a spokesperson adding liability has been denied.

On February 25 this year, Juliet Johnson said she was peacefully and quietly pushing her trolley picking items from the store in Chichester, West Sussex.

She’d proved her exemption to the security guard of the store on a previous visit by showing three forms of evidence including her NHS exemption card, but she said she was then confronted by the supermarket’s manager who’d been informed by the guard and was asked why she wasn’t wearing a face mask.

At the time, wearing a face-covering in shops and supermarkets was a legal requirement, mandated by the government, unless exempt for health reasons.

After explaining she didn’t need to wear a mask, Juliet Johnson said the manager left her to carry on shopping but as she was picking up a tin of baked beans she was confronted by police officers.

Juliet Johnson said that she’d already explained she didn’t need to wear a facemask, and she said that like countless others, she suffers from a chronic health condition, invisible on the outside but at times debilitating.

The manager called the police without her knowledge. And that she told the police officer of her human rights and that she’d already proved she was exempt.

People with breathing difficulties should never have to mask their face at all because it reduces their breathing, and not only that there are major hygiene concerns with mask-wearing, and this woman was exempt from wearing one and had shown evidence that she was.

However, a lot of shops and stores got extremely enthusiastic with those who were exempt from wearing a face mask, and videos of such events were all-around social media at the time.

And it looks like these stazi police went overboard with these COVID restrictions. She had an exemption, she wasn’t charged with anything, and Waitrose will definitely be off my shopping list now.

But it looks like immigrants on dinghies come over, help themselves to a hotel, block the M25, and our government are bending over backwards to accommodate them, but if you’re not wearing a mask, the police will bundle you into the back of a vehicle and take off your trousers.

And why was this woman strip-searched? Being strip-searched had no connection to a virus that would cause someone to be strip-searched. It’s not like she was hiding stolen goods in her mask, she wasn’t wearing one, and these police officers involved need a major disciplinary and some training on knowing the difference between bullying and professionalism.

Mother Studied Black Magic After Quitting Her Architect Career

An architect who left her job to take up black magic was discovered dead with her one-year-old daughter after a ritual killing.

The naked body of Elizaveta Tsarevskaya, 32, was discovered with her daughter and a slaughtered cat in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.

Next to the bodies were images of her the architect’s ex-lover smeared with blood, with the eyes stabbed at.

A police source said that after opening the apartment, even trained law enforcement officers were horrified. Bloodied things, objects of magic rituals were spread throughout, and that the woman’s body was on her dead daughter – for some reason, the mother was naked, and a further victim was discovered – a cat.

All had stab wounds, thought to have been perpetrated by the woman, called a witch by local media.

Her husband Artur Rusin, 26, said she’d graduated with honours as a top architecture student, and was also a gifted clothes designer, but that she’d become fixated with the occult and tried to communicate with the dead.

And that when he went away to work, she became pregnant by a lover called Anton, who was also into black magic, and according to reports she gave birth to her lover’s child who her husband initially raised as his own.

Law enforcement said that her flat doors were secured from the inside and it’s believed she killed her daughter and the cat before taking her own life in a ritual killing. Her lover has not been found.

This was one severely broken mental patient, and her child paid the price, as did the poor cat.

Facebook Forbids Any Mention Of Cockshoot Dyke On Norfolk Waterway

Facebook has forbidden any mention of a Norfolk waterway because its name is considered too rude.

The stretch of water is called Cockshoot Dyke and is a popular visitor spot on the Norfolk Broads.

A dyke is a stretch of water that usually runs along or parallel to a body of water such as a river.

The administrator of the Love the Norfolk Broads Facebook page, Steve Burgess, 61, said the issue first came up when a member wrote on the group that she was moored along a stretch of the dyke.

The company claimed the reason it was removed was because of violence and sexual content.

Steve Burgess told a newspaper outlet that they put two and two together and got 58 and that you’ve got to laugh about it, and the irony was that we see so much that’s offensive, violent or sexual but nothing’s done about it, and even a businessman who runs a shop in the area has been banned from posting pictures for days in the past.

Steve Burgess added that it was a bit Big Brotherish but it did make sense.

Other places which have been removed from Facebook because of their names include Plymouth Hoe and Devil’s Dyke in Sussex.

And does anyone actually care what some woke person at Facebook finds offensive? But of course, all they really want to do is stifle free speech and the uncontrolled exchange of opinions, and I’m guessing that no doubt Cockermouth in Cumbria will also be deemed offensive by Facebook.

They might even ban Upperthong in Yorkshire, Oldham in Lancashire or even Ramsbottom.

Facebook seriously needs to sort itself out and chill out. Oh look out, it’s Pratt’s Bottom, but I was actually talking about Facebook, but then that’s typical Facebook fighting imaginary dragons while ignoring real problems.

I hope that there at Facebook they have enough intellect to realise that the name Cockburn is a real name or an extremely wonderful port – that’s not a sailing port, but something that you drink, and a real medical issue if when you think of these words, only filth satisfies your grey matter.

There are a lot of people that frequent Facebook, and enjoy going on there, but it has become a cesspool, if nothing but a petri-dish run by self-anointed egomaniacs hell-bent on shaping society to their notions of right and wrong, never mind the opinions of a preponderance of ordinary people.

This is a stupid age that we’re living in, the age of woke people and a world that has gone mad, but then I expect that the Germans might have said something similar about Hitler and his posse, not realising how truly evil he was.

Perhaps we should just ban the word Facebook because it could be said that it’s insulting books, although books aren’t human matter, the wokes of this world would still think it was a splendid idea.

If people don’t want to see this sort of thing on Facebook and think that it’s demeaning, then don’t go on Facebook, don’t even sign up for it, or if parents believe that it’s not proper, that’s what parental controls are for.

And does this mean that we can’t post words like Cockpit, Cockroach, Cocktail, Cockatoo and Cockapoo, the list is infinite, and God forbid you should even put a photograph of your Cocker Spaniel on there.

Currently, Only 1.6 Million Elderly People Are Eligible For COVID Boosters

Official data suggests that as No 10 gets set to kick off the top up drive, only 1.6 million Britons are currently eligible for COVID booster vaccines.

Health chiefs yesterday unveiled proposals to offer a third shot to 32 million over 50s, frontline NHS workers and over 16s thought to be very vulnerable.

According to officials who signed off on the move due to waning immunity, people will only be called for a booster six months after getting their second jab because that seems to be the sweet spot, but the Department of Health numbers show only 1.6 million people in the United Kingdom, chiefly care home residents and frontline health workers, were completely vaccinated by March 15.

The United Kingdom didn’t breach the 30 million mark until June, meaning the campaign won’t be open to millions of vulnerable adults until much more like Christmas.

Experts told a newspaper outlet the decision to delay boosters by six months shouldn’t be cause for concern because the gap means people are only given a top-up dose as their immunity begins to fade.

But they warned it could be a problem for a small number of older and vulnerable people whose immunity falls faster than anticipated.

Booster shots of the Pfizer jab, or a half dose of Moderna, will be given to those eligible from next week, regardless of which jab they originally got.

Those who can’t get either of those two mRNA jabs, such as due to an allergy, will be given a dose of AstraZeneca’s vaccine.

The jabs will be dished out through vaccination centres, primary care networks and pharmacies and can be given at the same time as yearly flu jabs.

Department of Health bosses said the booster campaign will ensure the protection vaccines provide for those most at risk of severe illness from COVID, which will be maintained over the winter months.

It’s the first stage of the Government’s winter plan to circumvent another lockdown.

If hospitalisations grow swiftly, ministers have warned they could be forced to reintroduce face masks and work from home guidance.

The Prime Minister was told it’s better to act early, rather than dithering and having to go harder to fight off any surge later this year.

Government statistics show the UK hit 10 million second vaccinations on April 18, meaning the third dose rollout will not be open to a third of those eligible until mid-October.

We don’t really know what the long term effects are of having the vaccine, but I suspect that we’ll soon find out.

I probably won’t be getting my third jab anytime soon, thank you very much, unless the booster guarantees to make me super immune, improves my IQ and guarantees me living until 100 – oh, Superman, where are you?

And maybe it might make some men better in the sack, while women earn a better wage – if they’re not getting all that, then we’ve been conned.

Intelligent folk are the ones who trusted their gut instinct – some refused the jab, others chose to try it, it’s simply a matter of preference. But those that did refuse to take the jab have been relentlessly attacked by people online, in the workplace and even by family and friends, but some won’t bend because they want to obtain the facts about an experimental drug before they take it, and some won’t be coerced into having the booster with the mix and match.

Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Have Been Listed Amongst The World’s Hundred Most Influential People

It was revealed that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are the stars of Time Magazine’s 2021 list of the hundred most important people on the planet.

The glossy photos are accompanied by a gushing profile, branded sycophantic by critics, written by their friends and chef José Andrés, whose charity World Central Kitchen is loved by the Sussexes and supported by their Archewell foundation.

He wrote: ‘In a world where everyone has an opinion about people they don’t know, the duke and duchess have compassion for the people they don’t know. They don’t just opine. They run toward the struggle.’

On the cover, Harry is dressed in all black and Meghan is all white on the terrace at their $14.65 million mansion and estate in Montecito, California, as José Andrés said, the couple are blessed through birth and talent, and burned by fame, adding it would be much safer to enjoy their good fortune and stay silent, but that was not what Harry and Meghan do, or who they are.

In another picture, they’re in matching grey office style clothes next to a window in photographs taken by Serbian Pari Dukovic, but one critic, a fellow photographer, tweeted that it was a terrible retouching job.

José Andrés describes the notorious event when Harry was serving in Afghanistan for the British Army when he was forced to run to his Apache helicopter when his airbase came under attack.

He wrote that the same sense of urgency drives Meghan, now the Duchess of Sussex, who has long been an active humanitarian and a strong advocate for women and girls around the globe, and springing into action isn’t the easy option for the young duke and duchess who have been blessed through birth and talent, and burned by popularity.

He said that they turn compassion into boots on the ground through their Archewell Foundation and that they give voice to the voiceless through media production, and that hand in hand with nonprofit partners, they take risks to support communities in poverty, offering mental health support to Black women and girls in the US, and feeding those affected by natural disasters in India and the Caribbean.

And he said that in a world where everyone has an opinion about people they don’t know, the duke and duchess have compassion for the people that they don’t know.

This, of course, should help keep the money rolling in for a little while, considering they just wanted a quiet life.

They look like a pair of waxworks on the front cover – perhaps Meghan will airbrush Harry out later! And Harry looks like a needy child grabbing his mummy from behind.

And what do they do for this accolade? A few nappies here, a soup kitchen there. A zoom call, and the mention of a noble cause here, and I have no problem with them at all if they were true philanthropists, but the Americans appear to love them, and I’m sure I don’t know why.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were also snubbed by the Obamas because the former president and first lady will always go towards William because of the brother’s rift.

Harry and Meghan were not guests at Barack Obama’s glitzy 60th birthday party and it’s been suggested their association with the presidential couple has cooled off, and royal insiders have suggested the Obamas are being wary about appearing familiar with Harry and Meghan due to concerns about public image and out of respect for the Queen.

Treasury Kills Boris Johnson’s £15 Billion Plan To Build The World’s Stupidest Tunnel

Boris Johnson’s £15 billion dream of building the world’s most ridiculous tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland looks to have been killed off by the Treasury.

Government officials have admitted the grand project mocked by Tory MPs and numerous experts, is dead, at least for now after fraught discussions with Rishi Sunak ahead of the Budget next month.

The Chancellor has warned that he needs to put public finances on a sustainable path in the medium term after coronavirus wreaked havoc.

Former No 10 chief Dominic Cummings seized on the briefing to a newspaper outlet, swiping that Boris Johnson would insist on feasibility studies continuing so that Boris can pretend it will happen.

The premier’s bold hopes for the link to strengthen the union were previously ridiculed with claims it could cost as much as £33 billion and require clearing out a huge munitions dump.

Other calculations put the cost closer to £15 billion, which would still account for a significant chunk of spending as the United Kingdom comes out of the other side of the pandemic.

The UK Government appeared serious about the link, commissioning a union connectively review which would, in part, evaluate its usefulness and cost.

Numerous opportunities for tunnels and bridges have been mooted. A link going from Stranraer in Scotland to Larne would be a comparable length to the Channel tunnel.

A spokeswoman for the UK Government didn’t dismiss that the plans had been shelved but said that boosting connectivity across the United Kingdom and improving transport infrastructure was at the centre of their levelling up agenda, and that was why they’d asked Sir Peter Hendy to lead a Union Connectivity Review to look at prospective transport priorities, based on the wider strategic case for investment and the benefit it would bring to people and businesses across the United Kingdom.

It was said that on the back of his interim report in March, they have committed £20 million to develop plans that can evaluate possibilities on road and rail projects and that they were now looking forward to his final recommendations ahead of the spending review, where they will consider and confirm funding strategies for delivering improved connectivity between all parts of the United Kingdom.

When the crossing emerged as a possibility again in February the Tory chair of the Northern Ireland Select Committee, Simon Hoare ridiculed the plan.

Although it will probably be £15 billion and the rest, and it’s a ridiculous idea, and how someone could be so simple-minded and also be the Prime Minister beats me, and of course, the tax from millions of people will pay for it, while consultants and advisors are raking in millions on assessments and feasibility studies so that Boris Johnson can have his vanity projects – the man is a liability to the future of our country.

And it seems that the world’s stupidest tunnel goes from Boris Johnson’s left ear to his right ear, straight through to his empty head.

This man is a liability – one moment he’s saying he can’t pay the NHS workers more than 1 per cent, but then he justifies spending £15 billion on a tunnel – remind me now, what fools voted for him again?

Perhaps this was his plan when suspending the pension triple lock money so that he could build this damn tunnel, or was it just another ‘Oh look at me’ tactic?

The man is totally out of control with his reckless taxing and money-grabbing, over the top green zealotry, throwing money around on his thick-witted pet projects, and inviting half the world to come and live here.

‘If Donald Trump Runs, She Will Be right There’: Melania Will Be By His Side

According to advisers and figures close to the couple, Melania Trump will be at her husband’s side if former President Donald Trump chooses to run for another term in the White House, but they hit back at a recent report that Melania was hell-bent on evading another four years as the first lady.

A regular visitor at Trump’s Florida club said that if you see them together at Mar-a-Lago you know they’re in this together and that all the stories about them leading separate lives was nonsense.

Donald Trump has dropped numerous suggestions that he’s planning a 2024 run but aides say he’s unlikely to make a formal statement until after next year’s midterm elections, which leaves political pundits speculating about his intentions, and those of his wife.

Insiders told CNN that the former model was content being the mother of her 15-year-old son Barron and had zero desire to return to the White House, but allies reacted by insisting the report was incorrect.

Donald Trump is soon expected to travel south from his New Jersey golf club to take residence at Mar-a-Lago for the winter.

The former first lady is now in Florida, where son Barron has started school at the elite Oxbridge Academy, and a person close to Donald Trump said that the only thing that Donald cares about these days is golf and Melania and that if she doesn’t want to run with him, then it’s going to be like pushing a large rock up a hill, and he said that he didn’t believe that politics was her thing – she doesn’t like the game.

The former first lady cut a private figure during her time at the White House, and she’s only been spotted once this summer, while leaving Trump Tower in Manhattan in early July with Barron.

During the 2016 campaign, Melania frequently declined to appear at events, and a political operative who served on Donald Trump’s team in the early days told CNN that they finally just stopped asking altogether, and that has led many to assume that she wants out of political life altogether.

The person said that being the first lady again wasn’t what she wanted and that for her it was a chapter in her life and that it’s now over and that’s that.

Melania is a mature woman, and she could have left Donald Trump at any given time, and she made her bed when she married him, and she obviously felt that the trade-off was worth it, after all, she’s still there by his side.

And if Donald Trump ran for president now, it would probably be a landslide vote for him after the mess that Joe Biden is making. Although Mickey Mouse would probably be better than Joe Biden, although that doesn’t say a lot for Donald Trump.

Of course, Donald Trump is a self-absorbed fool, but I worry that the people would roll over and vote for him just to get rid of Joe Biden. But we’re always faced between a rock and a hard place when it comes to presidential elections, and nobody really knows who they should vote for.

Long before Donald Trump lost the presidential election to Joe Biden, rumours eddied about Donald Trump’s marriage to Melania.

The probability is that they will stay together, and I would be shocked if they did formally separate or divorce.

Melania grew up in a pseudo communist difficult life, and when she married, she wanted security, romantic stability, financial security and through it all, it’s the one thing standing in their marriage, but it seems that the marriage has been nothing more than transactional.

Donald Trump got his arm candy when he married Melania, and she was a young model who was striving but didn’t yet have success, but she certainly does now, and Melania is one of the few people who hasn’t abandoned Donald Trump – not yet, anyhow.

As Few As Six Per Cent Of COVID Cases May Have Been Prevented By The 37 Billion-Pound Test and Trace Scheme

According to official estimates, No 10’s Test and Trace system has had hardly any influence on preventing the spread of COVID.

The controversial £37 billion scheme has been massively criticised over the past year for being ineffective at breaking the chain of transmission.

New Government modelling found the programme, which critics have characterised as being the biggest ever abuse of taxpayer money, may have only cut cases by as little as six per cent.

It also estimates that people isolating prevented 1.2 million to 2 million secondary cases, with NHS Test and Trace effective for stopping 300,000 to 500,000 of those.

The estimate assumed people with COVID symptoms and their households would still have to isolate if testing wasn’t on offer, but health chiefs noted that without the offer of testing, millions of more people would have needlessly self-isolated when they weren’t infected because they wouldn’t have been able to prove they were negative through a swab.

According to official figures, Test and Trace identified about 900,000 positive cases in August.

It comes as Boris Johnson will warn that the pandemic is far from over as he unveiled his winter plan, indicating that another lockdown couldn’t be entirely ruled out.

A report published by NHS Test and Trace looked at what influence it had over the above if people with symptoms still isolated without any access to testing.

It did this by examining the transmission reduction from testing, tracing and isolating from the current scheme. This was then compared to an imaginary situation where testing wasn’t on offer and households were told to self-isolate if someone developed COVID symptoms.

A panel including Professor Lockdown Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London, helped with the modelling.

The study, which looked at the period from last August to April, found that the Test and Trace scheme decreased transmission between 10 and 28 per cent.

But if people stayed at home when they suspected they had the virus anyhow, like they’re supposed to, the testing system only reduced transmission from six to 19 per cent.

However, the report claimed the T&T system was crucial in defeating the R rate, a measure of how fast the virus was circulating, and bringing it below one.

It told 11 million people to isolate during the study period.

But it wasn’t meant to stop COVID cases, it was meant to make the government donors and supporters a huge sum of money, and to be honest, opportunities like this are pretty sparse, so when they do come along, the establishment will always take advantage of them – it’s what they do.

We had the Nightingale hospitals, care home scandals, economic ruination, mental health problems, and now the additional National Insurance tax hike, and aside from financing the vaccine research, the government has got everything wrong in this pandemic, but don’t worry, they won’t be paying for it, you will!

And some people have got extremely rich over this, and continue to do so, and the people of the United Kingdom are getting screwed as usual, and perhaps there should be an audit of where this £37 billion went and on what.

Test and Trace turned into a financial feeding furore, and the government girdled like great white sharks, and it makes you question if they’re financing an even bigger boat.

With their extravagant spending, record National debt, higher taxes, nanny-state legislation, the threat of vaccine passports, a net-zero economy and liberty destroying the green agenda – does that sound like a Conservative government to any of you?

The Bin Collection Industry Is Under Threat

Bin collections in Britain are under threat as refuse workers are headhunted by HGV firms attempting to plug a shortfall of 100,000 lorry drivers that has emptied shelves amid a continuous supply chain crisis.

A shortage of lorry drivers and food processors in Britain has been partially blamed on the new Brexit visa regime introduced on January 1, which penalises lower-skilled migrants in favour of those with qualifications.

Bosses said that global factors were important too, including Chinese port closures and a shortage of shipping containers during the COVID pandemic, as well as the cancellation of HGV tests throughout the crisis.

With shop shelves emptied, local councils now claim refuse operators are being approached to fulfil the deficit, where starting jobs now start at about £50,000 as demand surpasses supply.

However, officials have warned that bin and recycling workers are being recruited live on their rounds, which they fear may disrupt collections and lead to an increased amount of uncollected garbage.

Tony Wilkinson from the North Somerset Environment Company told the BBC it lost five employees in the past two weeks and said that several drivers were getting poached with offers from big companies.

Councillor Mike Solomon, North Somerset Council’s cabinet member responsible for waste, said one of its drivers was poached last week after working for the company for eleven years, and offered a 10 per cent hike in earnings.

He told the broadcaster that they actually couldn’t ask for a more dedicated team out on the rounds and they were extremely grateful to all of them for everything they’ve been doing.

But that the staff shortages, caused predominately by the extensive deficit of HGV drivers, had reached the level where they know they’re not going to have enough people available to provide the garden waste service for the next two weeks.

He said that HGV recruitment was a problem affecting the entire country with the Road Haulage Association estimating a shortfall of 100,000 drivers nationwide and that they were fighting hard to find ways to solve the crisis locally and would have a more precise understanding of compensation for their customers and what they will do to alleviate further impacts within the next two months.

He continues that however, the situation wouldn’t be resolved immediately without government intervention which was why they were also lobbying their MPs and ministers to fix things and that he was sorry that there was going to be this brief delay to the service that would inconvenience people.

If they end up taking all the bin men for other purposes, what do they think will happen to people’s trash? Perhaps they will want you to burn your waste in your garden, that’s if you even have one.

The other problem is that many people can’t afford to take their HGV test.

How much is an HGV test?

Theory Test Part 2 – £11. CPC Certification – £23. Driving Ability Test – £115 (weekdays) £141 (weekends) Practical Test – £55 (weekdays) £63 (weekends).

Why doesn’t Boris Johnson just pay out for people who want to work and get their HGV licence? Perhaps not indefinitely, but for a limited amount of time, so that we can get people back on the roads.

Boris Johnson said that he wants to get our economy back on track, well I’m no bright spark when it comes to commerce but sometimes, even if we’re a tad hesitant. We have to invest our time, invest our resources and invest our effort, which means paying out more money.

And Boris, if you make the investments right, this country will make more than great earnings. They will get excellent experience, it will boost people’s confidence and hopefully success.

However, you have to invest in the people, and you have to treat employees like they make a difference, and Boris if you do that, then they will because a person who feels valued will always do more than what’s required.

People Could Just Work Two More Hours A Week, Therese Coffey Says

Therese Coffey today defended scrapping the £20 a week Universal Credit uplift, suggesting people could work two additional hours to make up the money.

The Work and Pensions Secretary said the increase had always been a temporary part of the response to the pandemic and maintained that she’s completely happy with it going.

The comments came amid increasing calls to retain the higher level in place to circumvent adding further pressure on struggling families.

Labour leader Keir Starmer said the policy was wrong and the handouts were salvation for numerous people.

The backlash has been fired by Boris Johnson’s extensive £12 billion national insurance hike, but Therese Coffey told BBC Breakfast that she was conscious that £20 a week was about two hours extra work every week and they would be seeing what they could do to help people possibly obtain those additional hours, but ideally also to make sure they’re also in a position to get a better-paid job as well.

Pressed about asking people to work longer, Therese Coffey said that it was a temporary uplift recognising the reason that its introduction was coming to an end. She further said the country was witnessing record numbers of openings.

Questioned if she was completely happy with the end of the uplift, which will start to be phased out from the end of the month. Therese Coffey said that she was happy and emphasised the necessity to expedite their plan for employment.

Labour MPs denounced her remarks, with shadow child poverty secretary Wes Streeting tweeting that for those working families, this will hurt. More children would end up in poverty. Yet Therese Coffey was entirely happy.

The increase will be phased out from the end of the month, based on individual claimant’s payment dates.

Recipients could lose £1,040 yearly if Prime Minister Boris Johnson goes ahead with the cut, and perhaps Therese Coffey should take some of her own advice and just eat two cakes less a day to go with her coffee.

But we keep voting people in!

We’re trillions of pounds in debt, and taking £20 a week off the most disadvantaged in society isn’t going to make a blind bit of difference. And to think, this party will be in power for a while longer, and Boris Johnson has been waning since he took control of the Conservative Party.

Labour have their problems, don’t get me wrong, but I think I would sooner they were in power over this shower party any day of the week, but then that’s just my view and not everyone’s, and that has to be respected.

Full-time minimum wage jobs do not get people out of the poverty bracket, and sometimes it’s considerably easier to remain on benefits because it makes more sense. People might still have to struggle, but at least they’re not struggling for nothing. Why work your butt off to get a pittance at the end of the week?

And usually, the salary doesn’t cover rent, utilities and living costs, and that’s the real problem because lower-paid jobs in restaurant chains like McDonald’s, Pret A Manger, and places like Starbucks were making a fortune out of cheap EU labour.

Consider the man or woman that cleans the streets, where they have to work seven days a week to keep them going in a pokey little flat, or a delivery driver that works seven days a week to keep his family going, and I no doubt there are tens of thousands in the same situation and working on poverty salaries.

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