A Shocking 4,000 Racehorses Were Sent To The Abattoir

An investigation found that at least 4,000 racehorses have been sent to the abattoir in Britain and Ireland since 2019.

Some of the sport’s most successful horses were amongst those being put down at one of the UK’s biggest abattoirs, where secret filming revealed that laws protecting animals from unnecessary suffering were being disregarded.

Three of them, including High Expectations, had been trained by disgraced trainer Gordon Elliot, the suspended three-time Grand National winner, at his stables in Ireland.

Gordon Elliot was banned from racing in Britain in March after he was photographed sitting on a dead horse, holding a mobile phone to his ear and making a victory sign.

Dene Stansall, horse racing consultant at Animal Aid, the campaign group which set up hidden cameras at the Drury and Sons abattoir in England for the BBC’s Panorama investigation said that they wanted to see what was occurring there and that when they looked at the footage, they were surprised at the sheer amount of young thoroughbreds.

The covert cameras were filming at the end of 2019 and the start of 2020 and captured dozens of ex-racehorses, mostly from Ireland, being killed.

Gordon Elliot told Panorama the three horses had retired from racing due to injury and were not under his care or ownership when they were destroyed, and he said that none of the animals were sent by him to the abattoir.

The investigation found rules meant to protect horses from a brutal death seemed to be disregarded at the abattoir.

Regulations say that every attempt should be made to ensure a rapid death and horses shouldn’t be killed in sight of each other.

But the footage revealed that on 91 occasions, horses were shot from yards away, and animals were shot together 26 times over four days of filming.

After watching the footage, equine expert Professor Daniel Mills said that it didn’t look like the horse was even stunned and that you could see it turning its head with control of its head and neck, and he said that taking a shot from a distance at a horse, to him, that was totally out of order, and that if you’re going to euthanise a horse, then you’ve got to get a bullet in the right place.

He said that if that’s representative of how they’re being killed, then they’ve got a really serious dilemma.

But let’s face it, the racing brotherhood doesn’t give a damn once the horses have outlived their use and have quit making big money for the owners, betting firms and other vested interests.

It’s the same as with Greyhound racing. Money is everything and animals mean nothing, and these are classy people in a dirty money-grabbing business, cloaked in a façade of respectability because of the connections with the great and good.

This is a brutal sport so that they can make money, then discard them if they don’t make them money, and they can’t even humanely discard them, and animals deserve so much better.

This is such a tragic end to such magnificent creatures, but the racing business overproduces, and there’s just not enough people to take all these unwanted, excess on so that they can retrain them as pleasure horses.

And there are many career-ending injuries for a racehorse. Injuries that most regular owners wouldn’t use their insurance to pay out to treat rather than euthanise. They might not be able to compete again, but they could have great lives as happy hackers once removed.

A horse with a broken leg can recover, although it would never race again. Sadly no one wants a racehorse as a pet. They’re a commodity and an expense if they can’t make money, and the owners won’t feed a useless mouth.

Israeli Spyware Was Used To Hack Journalists’ Phones

It emerged, kindling fears of widespread privacy and rights violations that activists, reporters and lawmakers around the globe have been spied on using cellphone malware developed by a private Israeli firm.

The use of the software, called Pegasus and developed by Israel’s NSO group was exposed in a data leak containing 50,000 phone numbers that belong to people targeted by NSO’s clients since 2016.

Amongst those clients are some of the world’s most repressive government regimes, including Hungary, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco.

One of those targeted was Hanan Elatr, the wife of Saudi born Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed by a Saudi hit squad in 2018.

Her phone, as well as that of a second female associate, was allegedly targeted before his death. The leak appeared to confirm Saudi involvement in the murder.

Another key figure on the list was Roula Khalaf, who became the Financial Times first female editor, and according to a newspaper outlet was chosen as a possible target throughout 2018.

Analysis of the data suggests Roula Khalaf’s phone was chosen as a potential target by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) while she was deputy editor at the Financial Times.

The information was originally leaked to human rights group Amnesty and not for profit group Forbidden Stories, which helps promote the work of persecuted journalists. It was then shared with a consortium of other newspapers, including the likes of the Washington Post whose reporters were targeted.

If a number appears on the leaked list, then it means that the phone was targeted for hacking, though it can’t be conclusively established whether the hack was successful.

However, Amnesty did confirm that at least 15 people on the list were successfully hacked after they gave over their phones to the group to be examined.

Among those confirmed cases were Siddharth Varadarajan and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, of Indian news site Wire, who have worked on stories about the Indian government spreading disinformation online.

Omar Radi, a Moroccan reporter who’s written repeated exposes of government crime, was also amongst those successfully hacked.

The information also shows that the phone of Mexican freelance journalist Cecilio Pineda Birta was also chosen a month before he was killed by gun-wielding criminals at a car wash. His phone was never discovered and it wasn’t clear if it had been hacked.

Another was award-winning Azerbaijani investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova, was confirmed to have been hacked in 2019.

It’s like we’re all eating from the tree of knowledge, and for those people who use such knowledge, they have everything at their fingertips, and every new device has its benefits and drawbacks, it depends on the user.

Sadly the minute you agreed to use a smartphone, WhatsApp and Facebook, you agreed to be spied on, and then happily everyone shows off every aspect of their life on Facebook.

There is no privacy, it doesn’t matter who you are, every key you hit is being recorded somewhere, and I’m sure there’s always been some sort of spyware on cell phones from the very first cell phone, and any government involvement just piggybacked on what was previously there.

The cost of the storage of the data collected must be enormous, but it’s in that black budget that mere mortal taxpaying voters aren’t even permitted to know.

To keep things people have said in perpetuity is proving to have life-changing consequences for the behaviour of teenagers, and this is so wrong, and now teenagers are learning societal limits by pushing their boundaries like it’s the normal thing to do.

And this behaviour, coupled with peer pressure to conform to the crowd makes for some people to do incredibly stupid things. Of course, most people regret the stupid things they do, but with an all remembering internet, nothing slips from memory.

Terrified Fans At A Washington Nationals Baseball Game

Fans at a Washington Nationals baseball game ran for shelter after three people were shot just outside the stadium’s third base gate when gunmen in two cars exchanged gunfire.

The Nationals were in the sixth inning of a game against the San Diego Padres, and players were walking off the field in between innings when numerous gunshots sounded out in speedy succession, sparking concerns of a mass shooting in the stadium.

Supporters poured out onto the field to find cover and flipped tables in a bar to hide behind while players frantically searched for family members in the stands.

Umpire crew chief Mark Carlson told a newspaper outlet that it was just chaotic and what they heard seemed like rapid shots, and they didn’t know where it was coming from.

Ashan Benedict, the Metropolitan Police Department’s executive assistant police chief, said that in the shooting that ended up being outside the stadium, one of the victims, a woman, who was an innocent bystander, was caught in the crossfire when the criminals opened fire at each other.

Ashan Benedict said the victim’s injuries were not deemed life-threatening.

The other two people who were shot were in the same car and walked into area hospitals, where they were being interviewed by police. DC police are also looking for a second vehicle.

DC Police first said there were two victims taken to the hospital and two walked into area hospitals for gunshot injuries, but they updated the number to three victims during the press conference.

Jennifer Jacobs, a senior White House correspondent for Bloomberg News, was at the game and tweeted that the first sign of concern was when everyone in and around section 115 quickly stood up, looking west towards main concourses, and then word soon spread about the gunshot, and ballplayers headed off-field.

She also shared videos on Twitter showing fans and workers in a bar running for shelter, falling over tables to take cover.

The game was officially postponed and is scheduled to continue. The Padres were up 8 to 4 heading to the bottom of the sixth.

Sunday’s originally scheduled game will be played 25 to 45 minutes after the first game is completed. Both games will be nine-inning games, as opposed to doubleheaders, which are reduced to seven innings.

Saturday night’s gunfire outside the stadium happened 24 hours after six-year-old Nyiah Courtney was killed and five adults were wounded in a mass bombing less than a mile away.

It doesn’t appear that anyone is safe, not on this planet anyhow, and it’s just scary.

DC tonight, a 10 per cent chance of rain, and a 99 per cent chance of a 13 per cent showing up with a gun! And with 40 million guns sold in America, what could possibly go wrong?

America has an enormous gun problem and despite the denials from the gun lobby, people wouldn’t get shot if people couldn’t access guns so damn easy, and the American Constitution should be revised because people in America aren’t living in 1776 and they don’t need rural militia anymore.

And the shooting will only increase because there are too many guns on the street in the hands of people who shouldn’t have them.

The Grand Old Party (GOP) won’t do anything about gun control because they get too much money from the National Rifle Association (NRA), and the money seems more important to them than people’s lives, and now America is just a shooting gallery and people can’t live safely even in their own communities.

Boris Johnson U-Turns And Will Not Use Trial Scheme To Avoid Quarantine After Sajid Javid Gets COVID

Boris Johnson was forced into an embarrassing U-turn after endeavouring to sidestep quarantine despite close contact with Sajid Javid, who has COVID.

The Prime Minister and Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced they would use a little known pilot scheme that allows people out of self-isolation every day to continue working if they pass a daily lateral flow test.

But amid red hot fury from politicians, business leaders and the public they caved in within hours and announced they would join thousands of people who are having to self isolate.

They’d faced accusations they were accessing a VIP lane that wasn’t open to workers who were having to isolate, bringing some businesses and public transport to the verge of collapse.

The Health Secretary triggered fears of a disruptive pingdemic striking at the core of Government after announcing he’d tested positive.

Sajid Javid had visited the Commons and Downing Street in previous days and is understood to have held a long face to face meeting with Boris Johnson just before his symptoms developed, sparking concerns that senior figures across Whitehall would have to be confined to home.

One insider warned that half the Cabinet could be in isolation by the end of the week, and a No 10 spokesperson said that the Prime Minister had been contacted by NHS Test and Trace to say he had been in contact with someone with COVID.

The spokesperson said he was a Chequers when contacted by Test and Trace and would remain there to isolate, and that he wouldn’t be taking part in the testing pilot, but said that he will proceed to conduct meetings with ministers remotely.

The Chancellor has also been contacted and will also isolate as required and won’t be taking part in the pilot.

In a tweet, Rishi Sunak said that whilst the test and trace pilot was somewhat limiting, allowing only necessary government business, he realised that even the sense that the rules aren’t the same for everyone was wrong, and to that end, he would be self-isolating as normal and not taking part in the pilot.

But Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said that the Conservative Government was in turmoil and that Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak had been busted yet again for thinking the rules that we’re all following don’t apply to them.

He said that the public has done so much to adhere to the rules, and at a time when they need to maintain confidence in self-isolation, parents, workers and businesses will be questioning what on earth is going on in Downing Street.

He said that the way the Prime Minister conducts himself generates chaos, makes for bad government and has dangerous outcomes for the British people and then yet again the Conservatives fix the rules to serve themselves and only backtrack when they’re found out.

Boris Johnson needs to make his mind up because he’s becoming a hindrance to the country, or is he just taking the widdle out of us all?

He’s doing more U-turns than a driving instructor, and that’s no offence to driving instructors! And the trolley Prime Minister just crashed into another decision, although the damage was already done, and he now has no credibility or respect.

And his actions tell you everything you need to know, that we’re being lied to on a grand scale, and it’s time to wake up Britain. The important question is, who’s pulling Boris Johnson’s strings?

He certainly won’t lose all of his earnings like the vast preponderance of the lowest paid in the private sector who get nothing if they isolate.

The Machine Is Real!

When the “Person of Interest”, CBC cop show began to air, I started to question if this cop drama about a government supercomputer that could predict the victims and perpetrators of crime, might not be so far fetched, after all.

Jonathan Nolan said that the government had been attempting to build precisely the kind of machine that was highlighted on the show for decades and that now, it seems to have succeeded, and according to a report, the National Security Agency was in the process of building a $2 billion data processing and spy centre in Bluffdale, Utah.

The one million square foot facility would be used to intercept, save and examine everything from private emails and cellphone calls to Web searches and parking tickets.

No longer a secret project and first exposed by the tech magazine Wired in March, it was the apparent realisation of the Total Information Awareness project proposed by the Bush White House in the months following 9/11.

Total Information Awareness (TIA) was nixed by Congress in 2003 amid fears of invading the privacy of ordinary Americans, and “Person of Interest”, which producers called science fact, was based on the belief that a version of the cyber-surveillance system had actually been created and was now being used covertly by its creator to counter violent crimes on the streets of New York.

The show was the top-rated new drama and it was a near-instant success when it debuted, and on the show, the reclusive billionaire computer genius Harold Finch, played by “Lost” star Michael Emerson, created the Big Brother system for the federal government, but he quits when he realises it was going to be used for illegal surveillance.

Back out on the streets, Finch hacks into “the machine,” as he calls and uses the information to anticipate smaller, local offences.

In each episode, the machine spits out a social security number that belongs to someone who will either be a victim or perpetrator.

Finch then enlists ex CIA agent John Reese (Jim Caviezel) to stop it from happening, but in real life, many in government were unhappy when the plug was pulled on the TIA programme, designed to predict when and where the next terrorist attack may come.

However, Congress still left funding in place for processing, analysing and collaborating tools for counterterrorism foreign intelligence, which is how the National Security Agency (NSA) was justifying its new undertaking.

The Utah Data Centre (UDC), also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Centre, is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that’s designed to collect data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger.

Its mission was to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), though its exact purpose was classified.

The National Security Agency (NSA) leads operations at the facility as the executive agent for the Director of National Intelligence, and it’s located at Camp William near Bluffdale, Utah, between Utah Lake and the Great Salt Lake and was completed in May 2014 for $1.5 billion.

And critics believe that the data centre can process all kinds of communication, including the entire contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Internet searches, as well as all kinds of personal data trails, parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital pocket litter.

And in response to accusations that the data centre would be used to illegally monitor emails of US citizens, in April 2013 an NSA spokesperson said that numerous baseless allegations had been made about the proposed activities of the Utah Data Centre and that one of the biggest misunderstandings about the NSA was that they were unlawfully listening in on or reading emails of US citizens, and that was just not the case.

Shamed Police Officer’s Harangue On An Innocent Man

Police have released the bodycam footage of a discredited police officer who was imprisoned for his attempt to cover up an attack on an innocent man.

Darren McIntyre, 47, was condemned to 19 months behind bars after he assaulted a man during a welfare check at a property in Ainsdale, Merseyside.

Judge David Aubrey, QC, slammed the PC, who later tried to cover up the crime, for acting with pure hostility and abuse of the powers bestowed upon him.

The judge jailed Darren McIntyre, of Derwent Avenue in Southport, to four months in prison for assault and 15 months in jail for perverting the course of justice.

Merseyside Police have now released video footage of Darren McIntyre’ and another police officers bodycams just moments before he repeatedly punched Mark Bamber.

Darren McIntyre’s attack unfolded after he and three co-workers visited a home for a welfare check in Ainsdale in the early hours of June 19, 2019.

In the footage, Darren McIntyre, who’s served as a PC for more than two decades, can be seen in the face of Mark Bamber and can be heard saying: ‘And what if I am getting in yours?’

Mark Bamber then says: ‘You’re getting in my face now.’

To which Darren McIntyre aggressively replies: ‘Am I? ‘You best wind your fg neck in. The next time you obstruct me doing my job I’ll put you in the fg car and put you in a cell.’

The disgraced policeman then forcibly grabs Mark Bamber by the arm and shoves him against the wall.

He’d been called to the Ainsdale home with three co-workers by paramedics attempting to carry out a welfare check on Mark Bamber’s partner.

During the incident, the 47-year-old flew into a frenzy and subjected the victim to an unprovoked attack.

According to Judge Aubrey, who oversaw their case. Two of his co-workers turned off their body-worn cameras during the attack and all four present provided accounts that did not live in the same world, breathe the same air as to that which transpired.

The four were exposed through an investigation by Merseyside Police’s Professional Standards Department, leading to their trial earlier this year.

The claims of the officers included that Mark Bamber was intoxicated, aggressive and had tried to headbutt Darren McIntyre, but those allegations were rejected by Judge Aubrey, who said he was happy that Mark Bamber hadn’t been aggressive and didn’t display any brutality.

Luckily, this judge saw through all the lies, but it’s not always the situation, and if it had been the other way round, the victim would have got a much longer sentence for attacking a police officer.

Perhaps they all think they’re TV stars now and are all above the law?

And body cams are just a waste of time because the police can selectively turn them on and off at will, and this seems to be representative of PC plod now, probably on a sugar rush after their doughnut break, and then they question why the public has no regard for the police.

Do they not vet these people before they’re taken on or do they intentionally select reprobates? Or are these just typical bullying police that takes the view that if you’re not one of them, then you’re against them?

Which in effect makes them the biggest organised gang in the country, and the police believe that they starring in their own movie.

COVID Cases Will Stay High For Months

Experts have warned that coronavirus cases will stay high for months until autumn after passing 100,000 in two weeks, and a new lockdown will be needed by September.

This comes just two days before England is set to ditch most restrictions including social distancing and legal limits of gatherings on Monday, dubbed Freedom Day.

Professor John Edmunds, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), said that with the lifting of lockdown restrictions in England on Monday the virus would continue to increase.

He told the BBC Radio 4 programme that he thought this wave of the pandemic would be pretty long and drawn out and that it was his feeling that they were looking at a high level of incidence for a protracted period right through the summer and probably through much of the autumn.

Jeremy Hunt, who’s now chairman of the Commons Health and Social Care Committee, said the situation was extremely serious, and he added that he thought coming into September that we were almost certainly going to see infections reach a new daily peak going above the 68,000 daily level, which was the previous daily record in January.

He said that if they’re still going as the schools are coming back he thought that they were going to have to reconsider some extremely tough decisions, and how they behave over the next few weeks will have a material difference.

It comes as more than 1,200 Zero COVID scientists, who believe that coronavirus should be annihilated with global lockdowns and social distancing, accused the United Kingdom of compromising the world and creating conditions for the emergence of a new variant by pressing on with Freedom Day on July 19.

Professor Edmunds warned that in the meantime, the Government is best to take the Beta variant of the coronavirus circulating in France seriously because it may evade vaccines.

Professor Edmunds said there would be a surge in cases amongst unvaccinated Britons this summer because the unlocking was coming too early, and he said that if we begin lifting restrictions before everyone was vaccinated, that was going to lead to infections in the unvaccinated people, primarily in this instance, the younger individuals and that it was inevitable that this was going to happen.

Professor Edmunds said cases could reach 100,000 a day within weeks because the number of infections has so far been doubling every two weeks.

Either these vaccines work or they don’t work, and some people are convinced they do work, and others don’t, but suppose you were on a secluded island connected to a party isle by a wobbly broken old bridge, and there’s a 1 in 400 chance that if you try to cross the bridge it will snap and the sharks below will get you, but there’s also a 399 to 400 chance you’ll be downing tequila by lunchtime by the edge of the pool and be tucking into a steak, do you stay on the deserted island forever, or do you take the chance on the bridge?

But just like 9/11 and the war on terror, this virus has allowed those higher up the food chain to accumulate extraordinary amounts of power and money, and this is precisely the trick to achieve a communist regime, and we should be careful now!

Zero COVID, zero carbon, zero freedom and zero life.

There will never be an end to lockdowns. The regime may relax for a little while, for a short time, to give the impression they want to give you back your civil liberties, but people are being sacrificed at the altar for the Sage High Priests.

The British Business Owners On The Brink Of Ping-Demonium

Factories are now on the verge of closing and small businesses have now been forced to shut because so many workers are having to self isolate across Britain in the pandemic.

Almost 900,000 alerts telling people to quarantine were announced in the first week of this month alone after contact with a coronavirus victim.

It’s causing anarchy for families and firms, prompting business leaders to demand changes on the NHS COVID 19 app to circumvent a self-inflicted economic wound.

In retail and hospitality, a third of staff are self-isolating in the worst-hit regions, forcing thousands of venues to close.

People are pinged by the app and told to self isolate for ten days after coming into contact with an infected person.

There’s no legal obligation to self isolate if pinged by the app, however, it’s illegal to disobey an order to self isolate in a phone call from NHS Test and Trace.

Plans to make the NHS COVID app less sensitive, meaning fewer people would be pinged, have been delayed as concerns mount over increasing infection rates, and businesses around Britain have been revealing the problems caused by the pingdemic.

The boss of a brain tumour charity in West Yorkshire told a newspaper outlet how the pingdemic was causing the organisation a real problem.

Marie Peacock, chief executive at Yorkshire’s Brain Tumour Charity in Leeds, said that their fundraising revenue had been decimated and they were just beginning to see some possibilities to begin to bring in the money they need to keep their support going and that the pings are going bonkers.

She said the charity was attending the Great Yorkshire Show over four days, but lost half of their planned staff and volunteer cover due to self-isolation, even though they were testing every day and were showing no signs of symptoms.

Marie Peacock added that she’d moved work and resources around, closed their charity shop and tried to cover the best way imaginable, but that it was costing the charity additional time and money that they could ill afford, but that she would support and encourage her team to follow the advice, but had to admit the app had been removed from her phone.

An HR and training consultant blasted the Test and Trace system as woefully inadequate, saying that for numerous small businesses, particularly in hospitality, events and retail areas, it was crippling.

Every week businesses are at risk, and people must understand that this entire deception has nothing to do with a pandemic and that the government’s of the world are conspiring to slaughter the economy and bring in the Totalitarian Reset they all keep talking about, and it’s going to wreck our lives and livelihoods – this concerns all of us.

Of course, the solution is simple, don’t download the app, and if people do keep using the app, that will be what brings the country back to its knees again, and if you have the app, then you’re the problem.

This app is causing chaos and must be removed immediately.

The vulnerable have all been vaccinated and the rest of us should just carry on as normal because people’s livelihoods are at stake here and far more pressing things will probably happen to them compared to this virus, which most of us can’t even tell we have.

About £35 million was spent on this app. You could buy an entire battle fleet for the Royal Navy, but we’re supposed to believe this money was all spent on a small crew of soy latte hipster coders working in a shed, and the only reason this app is pinging everyone in the country is that whoever took the money is trying to make out it does something, and they would rather slaughter the country than it is found out how much was stolen.

Boris Johnson Supports Proposals For A New Tax To Cover Social Care Reforms

Boris Johnson is preparing to announce a cap on the amount people have to pay for their care as soon as next week.

Number 10 and the Treasury are said to be putting the final touches to a deal to fix the social care crisis.

The Prime Minister is understood to be keen to publish reforms before the second anniversary of his admission into Downing Street on July 24, when he first pledged to bring forward plans.

Last night it was claimed that Downing Street was contemplating introducing a new tax to pay for the reforms.

A newspaper outlet reported that No 10 was comfortable with imposing an additional tax on families.

However, senior Tories fear it would break the party’s manifesto pledge not to increase income tax, National Insurance or VAT.

It could mean a separate social care levy on income, or an added amount that only the over 40s would have to pay.

Caroline Abrahams of Age UK said that if a reliable package of social care refinancing and reform needed a tax increase, then so be it, given that it’s fair.

Following a speech, Boris Johnson said people would see his social care plans before too long.

The reforms, intended to prevent people from being landed with sky-high care bills, which forced them to sell their homes, are considered to be based on those first put forward by Sir Andrew Dilnot just over a decade ago.

Sir Andrew Dilnot proposes that there should be a lifetime cap on care costs set at £50,000, after which the state would step in to pay.

One senior Tory said the Prime Minister refers to Sir Andrew Dilnot’s proposals as his plan, but the Treasury, concerned about the £10 billion cost of the reforms, has been arguing for the cap to be placed at a somewhat higher level.

It’s understood that Boris Johnson is personally pushing for the social care package to be nailed down in the coming days as the second anniversary of his promise to fix the crisis approaches.

And he told colleagues that he wants to use his 80 strong majority to find a lasting settlement that will smash the problem for a generation.

Sources initially played down the possibility of a breakthrough, but following further discussions, optimism was mounting that a settlement might eventually be struck.

Tax, tax and more tax, that’s all we’re hearing from this Government these days, aside from the usual COVID threats, of course, along with all their green agenda policies.

And it’s this Etonian motto, tax the serfs to pay for the regalia they own.

The middle rich will become poor, the poor will become non-existent, so it’s not worth working these days as you’re simply giving your wages away to your masters, and you’re working in servitude for the likes of Boris Johnson, and now you’ll be paying through this new tax, it doesn’t matter which arm of the government it’s funnelled through, and denial doesn’t solve the problem.

In another article Boris Johnson was cited as saying that he wasn’t drawn to the idea of additional taxes on hardworking people – one day he’ll decide precisely what he does stand for, or maybe he just needs more advisors to make that choice for him.

This is a man who said no new taxes or tax rises, but he appears to now be threatening the opposite every day, which means that his manifesto was just more lies by a perpetual deceiver.

History Brought Back To Life

Henry VIII was one of the most fascinating figures in English history. Tall, good-looking, charismatic and intelligent, a fine musician and a magnificent sportsman, he was also grasping, unpredictable, suspicious and cruel.

He began his reign as the striking picture of gallant valour, but he ended up as a bloated, stinking whale, despised and feared across the land, but in his determination to protect his Tudor line, Henry changed England in ways that still reverberate today.

Succeeding his father in 1509, Henry ruled during one of the most revolutionary periods in European history, the Reformation, when radical intellectuals were testing the grasp of the Roman Catholic Church.

At first, Henry treated the new ideas with mistrust. The new books were burned in public and revolutionaries against the Catholic Church, who were nicknamed Protestants, were hauled to their deaths.

But then events took an unpredictable twist. The great religious debates of the day became tangled up with Henry’s tortured love life, and then everything changed.

Henry’s father had acquired the crown on the battlefield after years of civil war. So for Henry, nothing was more important than keeping his family’s grip on the throne.

To do that he needed a son, as no woman had ever ruled England unchallenged, and in his desperation, he worked his way through not one or two wives, or even three or four, but a record-breaking six.

As Henry’s wives came and went, from Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour to Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr, England changed with them.

The only way Henry could get rid of his first wife was by severing the link with Roman Catholicism and setting up a new Church of England, with himself at its head.

It was a huge moment in England’s history. For the first time, Englishmen came to think of themselves as a nation apart, separate from Europe, chosen by God to fight for freedom.

More than any other king in our history, Henry really did make a difference, as well as his six wives, whose names have gone down in history, but when it comes down to it, he was an overweight leader with numerous wives, lots of children and a lack of morality – he was born into privilege, aggressive and a narcissistic fool, and thank God people like this don’t lead our wonderful country today.

And I never could understand the romancing of Henry the VIII. He was believed to have had over 57,000 to 72,000 people executed during his reign, although that’s likely to be an exaggeration, but he wasn’t a nice man and was the ultimate dictator.

But what a wonderful and captivating history, and perhaps the descendants of those should ask for reparations.

All royals married not because of love but for strategic purposes, and in Henry’s reign he married so he could have a son to carry on the Tudor bloodline, and some royals still do this today, and all of Henry’s wives were condemned for their lack of giving him a male successor, where we now know that the only person to blame was Henry himself, because clearly, he had a lot of X chromosomes instead of Y ones.

But the life of England’s King VIII is a royal enigma. He was a lusty womaniser who married six times and canoodled with innumerable ladies in waiting in a time before reliable birth control, although he only fathered four children who survived childhood.

He was handsome, robust and relatively benevolent in the early years of his reign, but he ballooned into an ailing 300-pound dictator whose capriciousness and paranoia sent many heads rolling, including those of his two wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.

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