Seven-Year-Old Boy Dies After Contracting A Rare Brain-Eating Parasite

A seven-year-old boy has died after contracting a rare, brain-eating waterborne parasite from a lake in California last month.

His aunt Crystal Hayley told CBS News that David Pruitt died from primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, otherwise known as PAM, on July 30 after being hospitalised the same day in his native Tehama County.

The family confirmed David Pruitt’s passing on August 7, and they said that they were sad and broken-hearted to report that their sweet David had passed on, which the family wrote on GoFundMe.

They said that he’s now in the loving arms of our Lord and family members who have passed before him and that they were now rejoicing in knowing he was no longer in pain and in the best of care.

According to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the parasite in question, called Naegleria Fowleri, is typically contracted once contaminated water enters the body through the nose.

The dangerous amoeba is usually found in temperate fresh bodied waters such as rivers or lakes, however, several cases have been reported while swimming in poorly treated pools.

It said, that once the amoeba penetrates the nose, it travels to the brain where it causes PAM, which is normally fatal.

The CDC reported that those who contract the parasite initially experience severe headaches, nausea and vomiting. Those who have contracted it have also reported a stiff neck and even hallucinations and seizures as the infection becomes worse.

Crystal Hayley added that the family wants people to be aware of this amoeba and the illness symptoms.

David Pruitt’s death came almost a year after a six-year-old Texas boy, Josiah McIntyre, died in September 2020 after getting the same strain of parasite at either the Lake Jackson splash pad or a hose at his family’s home.

Three samples of contaminated water taken from the Lake Jackson splash pad were examined by the CDC two weeks after Josiah McIntyre’s death, and all three ultimately tested positive for the harmful bacteria.

At a benefit, days after Josiah McIntyre’s sad passing, his mother recounted the life her boy lived, and Maria Castillo told CNN at the time that he was an energetic little boy, and that he was a really good big brother – he just loved and cared about a lot of people.

So, it seems now that it’s not safe for children to go into the water. Even if the probabilities are minuscule that your child could get infected, that wouldn’t be much comfort if your child has the bad luck to get it – you just don’t know what’s lurking, and there are all kinds of nastiness proliferating in them.

All rivers and lakes are infected by a variety of parasites, and it would be great if we saw more information about preventing this, particularly if there’s no effective treatment once a person is contaminated.

And it’s a huge problem when water warms enough to grow bacteria, particularly in the hot weather.

More Than One Is Not Amused!

Visitors at Buckingham Palace Gardens took to TripAdvisor with poor reviews about their experience, calling the Queen’s official residence a money-making machine.

Ticket sales for the opportunity to enjoy a picnic at the palace has had to be suspended when they were first issued due to overwhelming demand.

However, visitors have warned other guests away from the attraction after discovering large parts of the gardens were out of bounds.

The palace website promised visitants the opportunity to soak up the charm and calm of this walled sanctuary on a self-guided tour, and according to a newspaper outlet visitors would then be able to enjoy a once in a lifetime chance to picnic on the lawn.

This summer the 39 acre gardens were opened for self-guided tours and picnics for the first time after admission into the palace exhibitions was discontinued last year.

The gardens include a 511-foot herbaceous border and plane trees planted by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Tickets went on sale in April at £16.50 for an adult or £42 for a family with up to three children, but guests were left unhappy with their experience, citing oppressive security guards, a prohibition on prosecco, overpriced food and rip off shop tat as a reason not to go.

One visitor called it a money-making machine, while another added they felt cheated by the royals.

Many also criticised the size of the area in the gardens, which opened in July, that was open for the public to access, and many were surprised that areas, including the rose garden and wildflower meadow, were off-limits without spending an additional £6.50 per person for a guided tour, which needed to be booked in advance.

Review sites have been inundated with comments criticising them as bitterly disappointing and poor value for money, and one disgruntled patron wrote on TripAdvisor that people should beware of this total rip off and that they paid £16.50 for entrance to the gardens, expecting to laze around and to see gorgeous flowers and trees.

What they encountered was first a lengthy queue to security checks, and then a piece of lawn enveloped by standing stewards scrutinising your every move and ropes segregating the rest of the garden.

And that the small portion of the park that people could enter was easily walkable in around ten minutes and nothing was interesting to see there.

People couldn’t even sit on the lake’s bank to view the wildlife because of the ropes everywhere, and people felt extremely frustrated and cheated by the royals, but then haven’t the royals cheated us since their existence?

And let’s face it, the entire Royal Family are a money-making machine.

Of course, Buckingham Palace isn’t owned by the Queen, it’s own by the Crown Estates, and the sovereign isn’t involved with the management or administration of the estate, and exercises only very limited control of its operations.

Of course, it’s a money-making machine – even if you were to go to Paris or Rome, it’s the same. Go, or don’t go, it’s an individual choice, and there are numerous beautiful gardens and lawns to see that are free, so what’s the appeal when it comes to Buckingham Palace?

And of course, the view across London alone is worth a visit to the top of Greenwich Park.

The Royal Family are my least favourite people, so I clearly wouldn’t want to be going to Buckingham Palace, especially to see their gardens and flowers, but there are still lots of people who are extremely devoted where the Royals are concerned, and that’s great, each to their own if they want to waste their money, that’s up to them.

Generous Landlord Praised Online

A landlord has been hailed online after selling his home and sharing the proceeds with his former tenants who helped to clear his mortgage.

Chris Robarge, from Massachusetts, revealed on Facebook he had got a note and a $2,500 (£1,800) cheque out of the blue from a former landlord, whose name he didn’t share.

In the heartfelt note, the unnamed landlord said he’d been happy to share his home with Chris and explained how he’d calculated the cheque’s total, and he said that he’d calculated the amount of principal he paid each month he lived there, split it by who was living in the house at the time and added 40 per cent, the increase in value of the home from when he purchased it.

Other social media users were left overcome by the post, with several saying it had left them in a torrent of tears.

Sharing a snap of the note online, Chris wrote that a person he had previously rented from asked him for his current address recently, and that this person had rented him a space in their house that was the first place he could call home when he had to leave his house after he got divorced.

He said that he paid a completely reasonable sum of money for his accommodations and enjoyed his time there, and like all rental situations, he thought that was that.

He said he’d got the note in the mail, adding that it was a letter from that person, notifying him that they’d sold their house and that they were paying him and every tenant they ever had for what they contributed to the profit they made from selling the house.

The letter read, that while it wasn’t much, it was his, and that it was a great house and that they were glad they were able to share it with him, and he said that he’d been sitting with this for more than a day and was still totally beyond an actual way to express what the act meant to him.

And that all he could say was that there are people who talk about their values and there are people who live them, and the reason he wanted to share was that he wanted to encourage people to live their values, and he said that the simple act of kindness had inspired his own, adding he would give away the $2,000 to worthy causes and people in need.

Of course, it was the person’s money to do with as he wanted, and it’s not often that you get anything back from a landlord, which was incredibly considerate, and hopefully, they all said thank you.

I do love stories like this because it really does restore one’s faith in humanity, and there’s always one kind of person that sits above the crowd, and this landlord is one of them, but I’m guessing these were extremely respectful renters.

It’s not often that a landlord will find good tenants, and if you do find a set of good tenants, then you should look after them and treat them like gold dust, and had there been more people like this person, we might have lived in a far happier and more gracious society.

Although I’m sure some will read this and have some pretty cruel and negative comments going through their minds, they might even express them, but it’s just nice that someone is given a break from time to time.

We Were Treated Like Slaves!

In 1946, Laurie Humphreys, a 13-year-old boy living in an orphanage in Southampton, we sent to a ‘better life’ in Australia under the Child Migrants Programme, along with hundreds of other children.

In numerous cases, they were taught only farm work and experienced brutality and hardship, including physical, psychological and sexual perversion.

Gordon Brown did make a belated apology to the former child migrants, but none of them was ever given a facial apology.

Laurie Humphreys mother died when he was four and his father, on the recommendation of a priest, put Laurie into an orphanage in Southampton.

He was evacuated to Wiltshire during World War II and, in 1946, he was transferred to another orphanage in Romsey, just outside Southampton. He said that one day, a nun gathered the boys together and asked who wanted to go to Australia?

He said that pretty much all of the boys said yes, even though they didn’t even know where Australia was.

Shortly afterwards, a Christian Brother came and talked to them about this faraway land where the sun shone 14 hours a day and where they’d be able to ride on horses to school.

He called it ‘the land of milk and honey’, and he was a 13-year-old boy and it sounded like paradise.

He was chosen to go, along with a couple of other boys, and they were given a new set of clothes.

They set sail from Southampton on the SS Asturias on 19 August 1947 and they reached Fremantle, Australia, on 22 September.

They arrived ready for their new life, and they were listed as war orphans, and he was given to understand that his father was dead.

He said that about 20 of them were taken to Boys Town, a home for children in Bindoon, about 60 miles away.

He said it was quite a shock because it was such a barren place in contrast to the green fields of England and there were barely any roads, and they were quickly put to work, and he said that he learnt how to milk a cow inside a week, and then they started building a new building and that by the time he was 14 years old, he was driving a truck – that they would work, sleep, that was it.

He said that there wasn’t much in the way of schooling and that he’d always been good at school in England, but that pretty much ended overnight, and a lot of boys at Bindoon never learnt how to read or write, and that they slept on open verandas all year round, and even when a wind blew up, it got pretty cold.

Foodwise, they got crushed wheat or porridge for breakfast, followed by bread in dripping. The rest of the meals were similarly plain, and they seemed to live on a menu of swedes and turnips.

And then there was the abuse. The Christian Brothers used to walk about with a thick 18-inch leather strap dangling from the waistband of their long, black outfits, and they’d give you a wallop at the slightest opportunity.

They would hit you wherever they could, be it on the backside or the bottoms of your feet, and it hurt and you would be left covered in bruises, and like most of the boys, they would try to keep clear of Father Eugene, he was the creepy Catholic priest in charge of the place, and he had an ominous way of talking to the boys, and he took a keen enthusiasm in whether the boys kept their private parts clean, which wasn’t exactly fitting for the person who was hearing their confessions.

Being one of the older boys, he managed to steer clear of the sexual abuse, but all the boys were aware that it went on.

He said that perhaps the most despised figure at the institution was Brother Kearney, a large Irishman who appeared in 1948 to teach them a trade, but he liked to prod them with a walking stick and was one of the most brutal people he ever met.

He could turn on the charm when dealing with government officials and was even given an MBE, and when he died, a statue was put up of him at Boys Town, and one night it was beheaded, which shows how much he was hated.

At 17 years old Laurie Humphreys had to leave. He’d spent 13 years in different institutions, three of them in Australia.

He worked hard to build a new life for himself Down Under. He worked on farms for a few years before getting a job driving long-distance oil tankers, which he did for the next 25 years.

Years later, to his shock, he discovered that his father wasn’t dead when he was sent to Australia and that he’d been lied to, and while he never got to meet him, he died in 1976, he learnt that he had family back in England.

So in 1984, almost 40 years after arriving in Australia, he returned home to hunt down his long lost relatives and found two brothers and three sisters. What’s more, he discovered that his father had remarried and had another seven children, so far from being an orphan, it turned out he was part of a huge family.

He said that he made a pretty good life for himself in Australia, and that he’s got family there, but that a lot of child migrants never settled, and still bear the scars of their early experiences.

Indeed, when he organised a get together for child migrants, one of the girls came up to him and asked what they were celebrating, and he answered ‘surviving.’ And whilst he never really considered returning to live in the United Kingdom, he’d been back a dozen or more times.

He said that perhaps the biggest wrench for him about being a child migrant was being taken away from his British family and everything that he missed out on, and apology or no apology from the Australian government, that was something that would never go away.

These child migrants did a magnificent job for Australia to the detriment of their own well being, and Australia and the Roman Catholic church should now compensate them all for the hardship and sexual abuse they suffered.

And there are a lot of people that have no idea that this perversion happened. These were the lost children – they were sent away and simply forgotten about, but the British government at the time sanctioned it and the Australian government took them into their country as free child labour, and it’s a disgrace, and the church’s culpability in this is, as usual, was shocking because it all happened in their own backyard.

Australia should bow their heads down in shame. This was a horrendous account of abuse and racism because just because it was whites exploiting whites, it doesn’t mean it wasn’t racist, and this reflects so terribly on a society that likes to portray itself as egalitarian.

Many parents had children that were shipped to Australia on the premise that either they were not wanted or their parents had died, and they never saw their children again and these parents suffered a lifetime of psychological pain, and so did these children who were told their parents were dead, and the Catholic Church played a somewhat inglorious part, although governments were the principal offender.

No amount of compensation will account for the loss of humanity or even forgiveness, and this chapter belongs to the history of the Cajuns or Arcadian’s, slavery, the Dutch Boer Concentration camps or even the work programme of the Nazi’s or Stalinists.

This should blacken Australia’s reputation, but British governments carry equal accountability for this criminal programme which treated disadvantaged children like cattle.

It shouldn’t matter that many of these children went on to make a good life there because the years that they lost needs to be addressed. After all, these children were from a stolen generation that governments stole for slave labour and abuse of the very worst kind.

Making Children Wear Masks In The Classroom Is Child Abuse

A health report approved by the Irish government has determined that making children wear masks in the classroom can stunt language abilities and heighten anxiety.

The Health Information and Quality Authority’s paper published in March apprised Dublin’s decision not to mandate masks for children in elementary schools.

The HIQA paper recorded that delivery of COVID was low in schools and that young children found it challenging to wear face coverings correctly.

The scientists also gave evidence that masks had adverse psychological impacts, including causing distress and hindering the growth of language abilities.

Tucker Carlson drew attention to the report on his Fox News program, calling it child abuse to force young children to wear moist paper burkas, and he said, the question was, what was the advantage of doing it?

Tucker Carlson said that the Irish government looked into it and concluded there was no benefit, and that children in Ireland were not getting ill from COVID, and they weren’t transmitting COVID either.

And, in the end, based on the scientific study using the disappearing art of intelligent decision making, the Irish government refused to implement mask mandates in school.

The report determined that since the pandemic began the extent of transmission between children or onwards to households by children, had been low.

It said that while masks for adults were associated with lower transmission of COVID 19, the data revealed a decline in mask effectiveness amongst children, which may, in part, be due to diminished capacity to comply with face mask-wearing.

Furthermore, the paper went onto add that there was a concern about the possible harms associated with face mask use, for instance, anxiety or adverse impacts on the development of communication and language skills, especially for younger children.

In Britain, school children below the age of 12 had never been expected to wear masks throughout the pandemic, neither at school nor anywhere else.

Public Health England’s medical adviser Dr Susan Hopkins said in March that the consensus opinion was to not encourage schoolchildren at primary school age, 12 and under to wear face coverings, and that was for two reasons, firstly they could have difficulty wearing them and keeping them all day, and the second part of that was that it was important they could see facial expressions, to strengthen their communication and language skills.

To be fair, it’s outrageous to even think of asking children to wear a mask, and it seems that sadly, people at the top pushing these vaccines and masks care nothing about our children, and it’s been destroying schools, and it’s dumbed everything down exponentially.

And with masking, children aren’t learning the very important non-verbal facial cues needed for good communication.

Can you imagine going to school and not even knowing what your teacher looks like because they always have a mask on? And don’t get me started on the hazardous germs that aren’t COVID that are on their masks.

Students should be able to see their teachers face and have a closer to normal school year, and for everyone reading who appears to be defending putting a mask on a young child, despite actual science and a medical study indicating strongly that not only is it unnecessary, but it’s also bad psychologically, and physically, when did it become okay to harm a child in order to protect adults?

This has nothing to do with our children’s health – it’s all a circus to show people that we have little control over the lives of our children, and this has been going on for some time now!

Anti-Vaxxer German Nurse

An anti-vaxxer nurse in Germany has supposedly injected up to 8,600 people with saline solution instead of a COVID 19 vaccine.

A police inquiry found that the Red Cross nurse may have given thousands of elderly patients in northern Germany a fake jab in the early Spring.

Authorities on Tuesday urged thousands of people who got their initial jab at a vaccination centre in Friesland, a provincial area near the North Sea Coast, to get another shot of the COVID 19 vaccine after making the discovery.

Police said the unnamed suspect had expressed sceptical beliefs about vaccines in social media posts but that their motivation was unclear, and Sven Ambrosy, a local councillor, said on Facebook as local authorities announced the call to about 8,600 residents who may have been affected that he was totally appalled by the incident.

While the saline solution is harmless, most people who got vaccinated in Germany in March and April, when the presumed switch took place, were elderly people at great risk of developing the possibly fatal viral disease.

Police investigator Peter Beer, talking at a news conference reported by German media, said that based on witness accounts there was reasonable suspicion of danger.

It wasn’t instantly obvious whether the suspect had been arrested or charged in the case, which according to broadcaster NDR had been handed to a special unit that examines politically motivated offences.

Local police refused to comment outside of normal working hours.

It comes as German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the state would quit paying for COVID 19 tests for unvaccinated residents by October to encourage more people to get the jab, and she said that free testing would conclude on October 11 because all citizens were now eligible for the vaccine.

About 55 per cent of Germans are completely vaccinated, but the speed of vaccinations has slowed and Angela Merkel has said she wants to see at least 75 per cent of the population jabbed.

Germany had made the tests free for all in March to help make a gradual return to normal life possible after months of lockdown.

From October, unvaccinated residents will have to pay for their tests but teenagers, children, and people who can’t get the jab for medical reasons will be excluded.

The government will also require people to be either vaccinated, test negative or have a recovery certificate to enter indoor restaurants, engage in religious services and do indoor sports.

As for the nurse concerned, was it not wrong that she made decisions for other people? Because agreeing to a vaccine and being given a placebo took decisions away from people, and perhaps now her days of nursing are numbered.

This woman is a nurse and as a nurse, people put a lot of trust in her, and her views shouldn’t conflict with her work, but it also demonstrates that nobody knows what they’ve been injected with.

This isn’t a good look for Germany, and I did wonder when having mine what was really in the vaccine that I was given.

So, was she an anti-vaxxer or just a nurse with a conscience? I guess it depends on your view and if you agree or don’t agree with being vaccinated, and it would be fascinating to see if those who got the placebo vaccine faired any worse or better with COVID than those who received the full monty.

And let’s face it, these COVID vaccines that haven’t been tested properly have already killed a few people here and there or at least made them extremely unwell, but saline of course doesn’t kill.

China’s State Media Invented Swiss Biologist

China’s state media supposedly invented a Swiss biologist and quoted him declaring the US had pressured the World Health Organisation into investigating that the theory of COVID 19 was leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan.

The People’s Daily, China Daily, and CGTN television channel all quoted so-called biologist Wilson Edwards but removed the content after the Swiss Embassy said it had no record of him as a citizen.

Beijing has reportedly pushed claims the US pressured the WHO to investigate the possibility that COVID 19 was leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, where the virus was first discovered in December 2019.

China has insisted a leak would have been extremely unlikely citing the conclusion reached by a joint WHO Chinese mission to Wuhan in January.

Wilson Edwards was quoted by state media terming the WHO investigation a political tool and saying that the international scientific community was disappointed in the US.

The People’s Daily announced that Wilson Edwards told them that sadly, Washington’s re-entry had brought geopolitical competition to the science spearheaded world body and that China Daily had reported Wilson Edwards Facebook post, citing him as saying that as a biologist, that he’d observed confusion over the past month how the source tracing of COVID 19 was politicised.

The article added that Wilson Edwards branded the WHOs inquiry as being mostly politically motivated, without embellishing, while state-run television channel CGTN reported Wilson Edwards as saying he was concerned about the WHOs independence and claimed the group of investigators investigating the origin of COVID 19 would become a political instrument.

CGTN said that Wilson Edwards insisted he and fellow researchers were under immense pressure and coercion from the US and some media outlets after asserting support for the joint WHO Chinese investigation which in January concluded a laboratory leak was very doubtful.

The state-run television outlet also reported Wilson Edwards cited an unnamed WHO source as saying that the US was so preoccupied with attacking China on the origin tracing issue that it was unwilling to open its eyes to the data and findings.

Wilson Edwards had both Facebook and Twitter accounts, both of which have since been removed, which peddled claims the US pressured the WHO.

His Facebook page was generated on July 24, boasted three friends, and had only one post which said President Joe Biden would spare no efforts to restore US influence over the WHO.

So, who do we believe, the Chinese or the US because they both lie, big fat porkies by the looks of things, or perhaps they’re all in bed together, but then again, what country doesn’t lie? And whoever is lying, who will be held accountable and by who – it certainly won’t be the United Kingdom, or perhaps it will – you’ll just have to take a seat and see what transpires. After all, when it comes down to it, everybody seems to be screwing somebody else!

But the short and tall of it is that the world will never forget what has been done, immaterial of who done it. Now life has changed, and this is evolving into a brave new world because you will have to be brave to live in it, and the faster we realise that, then our survival will be stronger than ever.

And don’t you all find it a tad peculiar that Facebook is banned in China, but apparently, they invented a Swiss biologist, on Facebook no less?

The point that people miss the most is that governments want people to fight over this and argue like they’re doing, and there’s a really good point to it because it’s a bit like being in the Trade Unions which were an organised association of workers in a trade, groups of trades, or profession, designed to protect and further their rights and interests, and while we’re all trying to do that and not looking at the larger picture, government’s were doing what they liked while we all fought and argued with our fellow man, and while we were doing that, government’s were slipping legislation through without us even realising it until it was too late.

And when I say they were an organised association, they were organised for a purpose, and that purpose was to pull the wool over your eyes! And guess what, it worked so well because while people are on comment segments of newspapers slating each other off, we’re not working together, and they’re working against us because they can because we’re working against each other, and that’s precisely what they want.

Harry Is Expected To Ask Eugenie For Help With His Autobiography

Prince Harry is expected to ask Princess Eugenie for help with his explosive £14 million memoir that’s set to drop truth bombs on the Royal Family.

The book, created with Pulitzer Prize-winning ghostwriter J R Moehringer, 56, is expected to be released next year.

Eugenie, 31, who knew Meghan Markle after working in New York and introduced her to Harry, is believed to be in regular communication with the Duke of Sussex, 36.

A source told a newspaper out that they could only imagine Eugenie talking or being approached as she’s someone Harry is still in constant contact with.

Eugenie’s husband Jack Brooksbank, 35, is also a close friend of the Duchess of Sussex and the couple were given Harry and Meghan’s former UK home, Frogmore Cottage.

Prince Harry is believed to have rubbed members of the Royal Family the wrong way by questioning them about their recollections of his mother Princess Diana before announcing he was writing the biography.

Buckingham Palace refused to comment.

It comes after it was announced that the book deal consists of four books and the second will only be released once the Queen dies.

The deal will see the biography released next year, when it’s the Queen’s platinum jubilee, with the second book to be held back until after her death.

Harry’s wife Meghan is to write a wellness guide as part of the deal with Penguin Random House. The subject and author of the fourth title is unknown.

Sources said that two publishers flew out from London to see him and others took part in the auction by video call, and an impeccably placed source in the publishing industry said that he conducted negotiations and that he had a very take or leave it approach.

They said that his opening price was $25 million (£18 million) and that the final figure was way north of that, probably as much as $35-40 million (£25-29 million), and that those involved were extremely shocked by his approach, which was to look at them coldly and state his demands, $25 million.

And that in Britain, publishing is still a somewhat refined business. That it has high stakes but is still handled in very courteous terms.

The source continued that the final contract was actually for a four-book deal, with Harry writing one when his granny dies.

Meghan will write a wellness type book and people are uncertain what the fourth will be, but what’s most surprising is Harry’s suggestion that the second book won’t be published until the Queen is no longer here.

And if Eugenie gives Harry help with the book, then she’ll probably be toast within the royal circles, but on the other hand, perhaps she won’t be because they all seem to be a pack of bigots and before they floated off to the US, why were they not asked to sign non-disclosure agreements just like all other staff members? Because of course, they were working members of the Royal Family, and if Eugenie is being consulted about the book, then this isn’t a first-hand account of Harry’s life.

One has to assume that Kate and Camilla are nervous as Eugenie helps Meghan and Harry pull back the dark veil of injustice that has plagued the House of Sussex since they were relegated to a dusty old cottage in a ramshackle pocket of rural England.

Eugenie is of course, loyal to her father, and perhaps the Yorks are resentful, bitter and soured that Prince Charles wants to slim down the monarchy, and perhaps that’s why they’ve thrown their lot in with the Sussex twosome.

Army On Standby To Stock Britain’s Shelves

The Army is on standby to cope with Britain’s food deficits created by a shortage of qualified truck drivers which has left numerous supermarket shelves empty in recent weeks.

Some 2,000 HGV drivers from the Royal Logistics Corps and other regiments are reported to be on a five-day notification to help dispense food and other vital stocks, including medication.

The Government is expected to make a formal request for help to the military imminently.

It comes after the Road Haulage Association warned in late July that there was a deficit of 100,000 lorry drivers in the United Kingdom, which has been hindering deliveries of food from warehouses to supermarkets.

Thousands of prospective drivers are waiting for their HGV tests due to a backlog created by lockdown, while several existing ones have left the United Kingdom after Brexit.

The problem has been heightened by COVID, with drivers having to go into self-isolation.

A source told a newspaper outlet that messages were being sent out to all Army personnel with HGV qualifications, and they’re being put on a five-day standby notice for driving jobs at major distribution hubs around the country.

Soldiers will be put up in hotels where required and will be working prolonged hours to help with the crisis.

They will be involved with food delivery as well as the transport of other essential goods and medical supplies.

The military intervention will form part of Operation Rescript, an ongoing operation that was launched to tackle matters relating to the COVID pandemic.

It comes after the Government tentatively extended the maximum number of shift hours for drivers from nine to 10 last month, enabling them to make longer runs, however, it was not enough.

James Bielby, head of the Federation of Wholesale Distributors (FWD), called for military intervention back in June.

He said that the situation had reached a crisis point and it was likely to get more serious as more hospitality venues opened up and demand increased, and he said that the Government needed to act very swiftly.

He said that they were concerned enough to recommend that the Government considered having Army trucks on standby to ensure there were enough vehicles and drivers to distribute food.

Premier Foods, one of Britain’s largest food companies, made a comparable proposal during a meeting between industry representatives and the Department of Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra).

But this country is in chaos, and project fear is now turning into project reality, and this now appears totally predictable and by design, and are our bare shelves in supermarkets because of Brexit, not the pingdemic, which it appears is being used as a cover.

Brexit doesn’t seem to be working out so well, but they’ll blame it on the ping app because of course, lorry drivers congregate so closely together in their trucks!

And although COVID was a worldwide virus, it was a great cover-up for Brexit, which has decimated this country, thanks to Boris Johnson’s ruinous agreement, although I’m not implying that Brexit is to blame entirely, so is COVID.

The Government appear to be hiding the shortcomings of Brexit under the COVID headline, but we can’t just blame COVID and the pingdemic because both are playing their small role in the deficit, but the most significant offender by far is Brexit, and of course, why use lorry drivers when they can get the Army to do it for free.

And it was evident that Brexit would create deficits, and that EU drivers would no longer want to work in the United Kingdom, but was that price worth paying for our freedom?

Boris Has Spent More Than £163,000 On Union Flags

The Government has spent more than £163,000 on Union Flags in two years as part of its drive to promote pride in the national symbol.

That figure, spent in 2020 and 2021, amounts to 85 per cent of flag purchases over the preceding four years.

Data reported by a newspaper outlet noted spending had risen in practically every Whitehall department since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister.

The Department for Digital Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) spent £54,420,89 last year alone as worn-out flags were replaced.

The Ministry of Defence has forked out £118,000 on flag purchases since the start of 2018.

The Cabinet Office has spent more than £3,000 since the start of 2018, with just under £2,000 of that funding the purchase of eight flags in the most recent fiscal year.

The figures, revealed by Freedom of Information Act requests, found the Treasury had spent almost £1,000 on Union Flags since 2018, including three this year for a cost of £607.06.

The Department for Transport has spent £1,100 since 2018, including £700 last year. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spent £90.05 on the flags this year, with no history of purchases in other recent years.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy spent £392 this year and last, nothing in the years before, while the Department for Work and Pension spent £1,045 in the last three years.

The Department for International Trade spent £653.05 this year and last.

The Department for Education spent £134 in 2019, the Wales Office has spent £824 since 2018. This included £597.50 in 2020-21 and the same amount again on Welsh flags.

Robert Colls, professor of cultural history at De Montfort University, told a newspaper outlet that he thought that what they’re seeing at the moment from the Government is a kind of pushback against devolution and threats to the Union.

In March, the DCMS issued new guidance, calling for the flag to be flown every day above Government buildings.

At the time, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the flag was a proud reminder of our history and the ties that bind us, and that people rightly expect it to be flown above UK Government buildings.

Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick at the time wrote to all councils in England in a bid to encourage them to fly the flag on their buildings.

The move also allowed dual flagging, where two flags can be flown on one flagpole.

Exemptions apply when other flags, such as national flags of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, county flags or other flags to mark civic pride, are flown.

It’s odd how there’s always money for meaningless gestures like this, or a quarter of a billion for a vessel for the Royals that they don’t need, but money never goes for things that matter to the preponderance of the country, like proper social care or feeding school children, or providing relief for our ex-soldiers or the homeless.

And of course, we appear to have the money for illegal migrants and putting them into 4-star hotels. If we have the funds for that, then we have the money to pay out for decent social care et cetera, but surely buying a few flags should be at the bottom of the list.

And boats costing hundreds of millions and flags are no good when the government are making you sell your home to pay for your care home later on in life.

We have lost our once magnificent country, and any pride we had is now gone, and it’s shameful the way we’ve become a ruthless, crime-ridden nation, and we’re being treated with disdain and ridicule, and now it appears that it now pays better to be a life long shirker, not a worker.

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