Gas Pumps Run Low On Fuel Ahead Of July 4th Weekend

Gas services across the country were running out of gasoline just as 43 million Americans were planning to hit the road for the July 4th holiday weekend.

Those that do manage to obtain gas are expected to discover some of the highest prices in almost seven years, with gas now averaging $3.10 a gallon across the US, the highest since October 2014.

Demand has skyrocketed since last summer as COVID weary Americans hit the road again, although the prevailing shortages are being caused by a shortage of available truckers to deliver fuel.

According to CNN, it means numerous services will not be able to get gasoline delivered at all.

The prices are also up 42 per cent compared to a year ago when the pandemic sent gas prices plunging following a huge drop off in demand.

Currently, the outages are not concentrated in one place with services running bare in the Pacific Northwest, Northern California, Colorado and Iowa as well as Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio.

Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis for the Oil Price Information Service said it used to be an afterthought for station owners to schedule truck deliveries – now it’s job No 1, and he was concerned because July had an increased demand, which worked out to approximately 2,500 to 3,000 more deliveries needed every day, and there were just not enough drivers to do that.

Although a deficit of drivers is a problem throughout the trucking industry, and specific qualifications are required to drive a gas tank and finding new drivers is no easy task, and the pandemic saw several tank drivers retiring with others moving to other trucking jobs after the demand in gasoline dropped so abruptly.

National Tank Truck Carriers estimates 20 per cent to 25 per cent of tank trucks across the country are currently parked up, and Ryan Streblow said to CNN, the executive vice president of the NTTC, that it had certainly grown exponentially.

Although the gasoline demand was comparable to the 2019 pre-pandemic, and that demand was up 16 per cent compared to the end of last year.

AAA is forecasting more than 43 million people to hit the road this Fourth of July weekend with the 2019 record, which saw 41.4 million Americans hit the road, likely to be broken.

There’s a serious deficit of all truck drivers in the US and the United Kingdom, and not every truck driver can drive gas tankers, they need additional qualifications, and it affects everything.

How much fuel do you think that FedEx and UPS use in a week? How many big rigs are moving food around the country every day, or airlines? And big rig trucks transport everything, and gasoline is skyrocketing, and the cost of delivery is climbing, and everything that the trucks carry will go up in price.

This isn’t about equating the increasing price of gas with any governmental party, this is COVID driven and it will take several years to right itself, and things are spread out in the US and they don’t have sufficient public transit everywhere, so Americans must drive a lot more miles than a lot of countries, so need a lot more gas, which gets pretty pricey.

Of course, the situation has been caused because of the COVID pandemic, which has been allowed to spread all over the US, and now they’re just having a meltdown, and I believe it’s going to get a whole lot more expensive, and next will be the lack of consumables.

And inflation due to scarcity is the direct consequence of a post-COVID world, and now there’s not enough stock coming in, with loads of bare shelves in stores, but it’s a great way to keep people from their July 4 celebrations, and is this all about control yet again?

Are We Heading For A Buy-To-Let Exodus?

The number of homes for rent in Britain could fall dramatically, as landlords leave the market thanks to higher taxes and more stringent rules.

About a million landlords, more than a third of the total, will review their property holdings in the next year, according to the Nottingham Building Society, and the amount planning to sell homes outnumbers those planning to purchase new ones.

A fifth plan to sell some or all of their portfolio, it said, while 16 per cent plan to purchase more.

While those homes going to first time buyers or families would benefit more people to climb onto or up the property ladder, it could also lead to a deficit of property to rent, and in some popular parts of the country, a shortage of rental homes has lately led to bidding wars.

Meanwhile, a new report by the University of York and the Nationwide Foundation noticed that a huge group of baby boomer landlords were now ageing out of the market and were not being replaced at the same rate by younger landlords due to diminishing returns and more rigorous regulations.

This, it said, could suggest that there will not be enough rental homes to go around in future, particularly for those renters on lower wages or who receive benefits.

It added that across the whole sector, there was a decline of 30 per cent in the amount of buy to let mortgages between 2014-15 and 2018-19.

Both reports noted that tax changes have been one of the principal factors making buy to let less attractive for some.

Previously landlords got tax relief on mortgage interest, but this stopped in April 2020.

There are also new constraints on private residence relief, which decreases the capital gains tax due on homes which people rent out after living in them.

Dr Julie Rugg, the lead author of the report, said that letting property looks altogether different to landlords now and that it seems like a much more precarious proposition, delivering a lower level of return and with a lot more hassle, and as one landlord said to her, stocks and shares may not deliver the same level of return, but they don’t phone her on a Sunday morning because the boiler’s bust.

Julie Rugg also mentioned the regulatory burden which landlords felt they were confronted with thanks to more stringent Government rules on how they managed their tenancies.

Not everyone can afford to buy a house, and now they will be faced with fewer rentals and the price will go up, and it was obvious this was going to happen, and it’s all very well people moaning about landlords purchasing properties, but changing the taxation rules to make it profitless and was always going to cause many of them to sell up, and the people will suffer won’t be the landlords, they’ll put their money into something else. It’s the lower-paid people who can’t get a mortgage who will end up having to pay inflated rents for the properties that are left.

And everything the government does just makes the problem worse, and even the help to buy has stopped the house prices from falling to affordable levels, and it just puts young people in even more debt.

And many landlords are selling their rental properties and putting the proceeds with corporate landlords who are buying into buy to let properties, and of course, they’re charging higher rents to the tenants, but their return on their investment is as good as buy to rent, so why should they worry?

He’s Had His Play Already!

This is the hilarious moment armed Downing Street police officers mocked cheating Matt Hancock when a member of the public humorously asked whether the former Health Secretary could come out to play.

In the video posted on TikTok, an officer standing guard cheekily tells the chortling heckler that disgraced Matt Hancock was cleaning out his locker before another quipped that he’d had his play already.

Matt Hancock left government and ditched his wife of 15 years last week after a news outlet splashed photographs of his clinch with millionaire aide Gina Coladangelo in his ministerial office.

The clip, taken by company boss Dan Wright on Monday afternoon, has gone viral and has been viewed more than a million times already.

In the video, Dan Wright asks the group of armed policemen: ‘Is Matt allowed to play? Is Matt allowed to come out and play?’ The smirking officer then replies: ‘No, he’s cleaning his locker out at the moment’ – to howls of laughter from his co-workers.

Passerby Dan Wright, of Chelmsford, Essex, also burst out laughing, while a second armed police officer quips: ‘He’s had his play already.’

Social media users applauded the video, with one writing that they loved the British humour. Another said that they found everything about this so hilarious, and what a stinker he’s had.

The Metropolitan Police have been contacted for comment.

It comes amid reports Gina Coladangelo, 43, has left her husband and is determined to make a go of her relationship with the disgraced former Health Secretary.

Gina Coladangelo stepped down from her Health Department director role hours after Matt Hancock himself resigned over images of them in a loving embrace.

Matt Hancock, 42, had also ended his marriage to wife Martha shortly before the revelations were made public and is now understood to be living with his lover.

It’s now been reported by a news outlet that Gina Coladangelo, 43, has split with her husband Oliver Tress after her affair was exposed, and sources have said that the millionaire has been left devastated by the affair and her departure from their 12-year marriage.

She was pictured leaving her £4.5 million southwest London home hours before images of their hallway rendezvous was exposed. Husband Oliver however helped as she packed bags into the back of her £70,000 Audi Q7 – he didn’t leave with her.

Friends now say that Matt Hancock and Gina Coladangelo are in love and want to make a go of their new relationship.

However, this incident isn’t funny and the armed police officers guarding the official residence of the Prime Minister have no business frolicking with the public, and they should not have been spoken to, although I guess it is great to see the police having a joke with the public – it kind of makes them seem more human.

And although this is funny, the police shouldn’t be involved like this because they should remain unbiased and not get distracted, particularly when guarding a sensitive area, although it seems that Matt Hancock has already handled all the sensitive areas.

Matt Hancock might not have been the most effective Health Minister during the pandemic, but he now looks really effective with his tongue down his aide’s throat, breaking the very rules he inflicted on the nation.

And has Matt Hancock traded up because Gina has definitely traded down because Matt has all the personality, appeal, and lovability of a used wet wipe? And I certainly wouldn’t consider anything that involves inflicting great distress on your children a trade up, but hey that’s just me, I guess!

Classified UK Defence Papers Discovered At A Bus Stop In The Southeast Of London

The BBC reported that sensitive defence documents containing details about the British military had been discovered at a bus stop in England.

The BBC said that the papers included proposals for a likely UK military presence in Afghanistan, as well as talks about the possible Russian response to the British warship HMS Defender’s travel through waters off the Crimean shoreline last week.

The broadcaster said a member of the public who wanted to remain unnamed contacted them when they discovered the pile of documents, about 50 pages in all, in a soggy pile on Tuesday behind a bus stop in Kent, southeast of London.

The Ministry of Defence said an employee had reported the loss of the papers last week, but it didn’t provide details about the incident or confirm the documents were discovered at a bus stop.

It said in a statement that the Ministry of Defence was notified last week of an incident in which sensitive defence papers were found by a member of the public and that the department takes the security of information very seriously and that an inquiry has been launched, and that it would be improper to discuss the matter further.

John Healey, the defence spokesperson for the opposition Labour party, said the incident was both disturbing and troubling, and that ministers must be able to verify to the public that national security hasn’t been threatened, that no military or security operations have been affected and that the proper procedures were in position to ensure nothing like this occurs again.

The HMS Defender upset Russia’s military on Wednesday when it navigated south of the Crimean Peninsula in a Black Sea region that Moscow maintains as its territorial waters.

Numerous countries, including the United Kingdom, don’t accept Russia’s 2014 occupation of Crimea from Ukraine and consider that expanse to be Ukrainian waters.

But if these documents were so classified, why were they printed out so that they could be misplaced and why was this person carrying them to take them on the bus? And at what level of official would someone be carrying current and sensitive information on a broad spectrum of topics as HMS Defender and Afghanistan as a hard copy? Something smells fishy to me.

Or was it the Russians, it’s not as if they’ve not extracted classified documents from Whitehall before, but then the Russian’s wouldn’t have handed them to the BBC! And to leave such a large amount of sensitive classified documents in a soggy heap behind a bus stop implies more than just absent-mindedness, although stranger things have happened, you do have to wonder.

But I can only see three imbeciles here. The person that left the documents at the bus stop, the person that found them and gave them to the press instead of back to the MoD, and the BBC for publicising national defence papers, and in 2021, in this digital world that we live in, people shouldn’t be carrying around sensitive documents.

And of course, it’s typical of the BBC to divulge these sensitive documents sooner than to act in the national interest and just return them, and I hope that the messenger knows that in the United Kingdom, the Official Secrets Act is a law, not a contract and that individuals are bound by it whether or not they have signed the act.

So, could this force the government to reform its safety methods to stop further leaks, so that they do their jobs properly, or is it that these details aren’t classified since the papers legal team would have checked with the MoD, meaning that this is a distraction as usual.

Muslim Boy, 11, Who Told His Class He Wanted To Give Alms To The Needy

An 11-year-old Muslim student who told his class that he wanted to give charity to the needy was referred to as controversial anti-terrorism watchdog Prevent after his teacher misunderstood the word’ alms’ for ‘arms’.

A legal challenge lodged by the parents against the school asserts that his teacher had asked the class what they would do if they inherited a substantial amount of money.

The primary school pupil, whose family portrayed him as knowledgeable and widely read, and who is said to be very interested in medieval history, had then responded that he would give alms to the oppressed.

In the past, religious people with financial means would give alms, usually, food, clothing or money to help the needy or less fortunate.

But the teacher is said to have panicked when they mistook the word ‘alms’ for ‘arms’, and referred the child to the anti-terror programme Prevent without getting permission before sharing his data with the unit.

However, police closed the case down after discovering there was no substance to it, no indication of radicalisation or extremism, or any threat to national security.

The parents are now taking legal action against the school and are demanding a written apology, damages and the expunging of the Prevent referral from the boy’s record ahead of him attending grammar school.

The parents also claim that the teacher who referred their son to Prevent breached the Equality Act 2010, alleging they applied stereotype about his racial and religious background.

The solicitor representing the boy’s parents said the case proves how dangerous the Prevent programme can be and asked for the unit to be scrapped.

Attiq Malik, director of Liberty Law Solicitors, told a newspaper outlet that this was yet again another instance of a fail by the Government’s Prevent Programme on vulnerable impressionable children, highlighting why the Programme was possibly dangerous and needs to be discarded as it just doesn’t work.

He said that in the current economic climate, teachers are scarcely equipped properly to carry out their teaching duties, let alone the additional policing responsibilities forced on them by Prevent.

He continued that criminal legalisation and safeguarding policies have always existed to protect the public and defenceless members of our society and that there was no need for a policy that was nothing less than the equivalent of using a sledgehammer to break a nut and thus unnecessary.

It’s astounding how misguided our teachers are these days, but on the other hand, should we be glad that there’s a system to prevent possible indoctrination?. But let’s face it ‘alms’ and ‘arms’ do sound very much alike, and perhaps the teacher should have clarified this simple mistake before running off to report it Prevent before this boy was being wrongly accused of something like that.

On the other hand, perhaps the teacher was too scared of losing their job, due to challenging a child of their Muslim belief, but of course, one more inquisitive question from the teacher would have prevented all of this.

Although to be fair, you can see how the confusion arose. The word ‘alms’ is an old fashioned term, and one that one would not necessarily expect to be used by a child, and you should never make assumptions with children, and a teacher who makes assumptions is a dangerous thing, and 99 per cent of readers wouldn’t know what ‘alms’ meant either, so there’s no surprise the teacher thought he said ‘arms’.

Saj Gets Down To Business

Sajid Javid announced his most pressing priority will be ending the pandemic as quickly as possible and praised cheating Matt Hancock’s record in government after the discredited former minister was pictured ridiculing coronavirus restrictions.

Talking to the media for the first time since becoming Health Secretary, Sajid Javid said that he just wanted to begin by saying that he believed that Matt Hancock worked especially hard, he accomplished a lot, and he was certain he would have more to contribute in public life.

Sajid Javid said that he was honoured to take up the position and that he also knew that it came with tremendous responsibility and he would do everything that he could to make sure that he delivered for the nation.

He said that we are still in a pandemic and he wanted to see that come to an end as quickly as possible, and that will be his most immediate priority, to see that we can return to normal as quickly and as promptly as possible.

The former Chancellor of the Exchequer left government in February 2020 after Boris Johnson tried to sack his whole team and amid reports of a tumultuous relationship with former senior No 10 aide Dominic Cummings, who himself quit in November last year.

Sajid Javid has returned to the Prime Minister’s cabinet as an emergency replacement for Matt Hancock, who resigned as Health Secretary and left his wife, Martha of 15 years after a newspaper outlet splashed photographs of him kissing aide Gina Coladangelo in his ministerial office.

The Prime Minister faced a tsunami of calls to fire Matt Hancock from Labour and anti-lockdown Tories after photos and a video showed the disgraced ex-minister flouting the very restrictions he forced on millions of people throughout the pandemic.

Leading medics are warning Sajid Javid that he faces a baptism of fire in his new position and will need to be honest with the people over tackling a backlog of care and negotiate the resources that the NHS requires as continuous lockdowns push the health service to its limit.

British Medical Association council chairman Dr Chaand Negpaul said that BMA members were feeling exhausted after 15 months of this pandemic and that many have worked flat out without breaks.

Speaking to Sky News, the doctor added there were a recorded five-plus million patients on waiting lists, which didn’t include approximately 20 million patients who were not seen in outpatients clinics last year.

However, choosing Sajid Javid makes no sense at all because he has no understanding of the health system, but now he’s in charge of it.

Boris Johnson could have picked Nadim Zahawi who has been working with the NHS in the vaccine roll out or even Jeremy Hunt who’s had the position before, but Boris Johnson is terrified of upsetting his cabinet, so fell back on someone he previously sacked, which makes this government a sham, and our Prime Minister may as well be walking on stage with his pants falling down!

But then there appear to be several cabinet posts that are being recycled.

Sajid Javid said that the most immediate priority was ending the pandemic as soon as possible – so no one else could have done this, but he can – this speaks volumes about his intellect.

One Health Secretary wasn’t particularly bright and is now gone, and has been replaced with another who embarrassed himself with the first statement, and it might be funny, but I don’t think he could beat Matt Hancock.

Cheating Aide Gina Coladangelo Quits £15,000 Department of Health Board Position

Matt Hancock’s mistress Gina Coladangelo is stepping down from her £15,000 position at the Department of Health after footage of the pair’s romance was brought to light.

The married mother of three Gina Coladangelo, 43, was discovered locking lips with former Health Secretary Matt Hancock, 42, in leaked CCTV footage from May 6.

Matt Hancock had hired her as a health aide in September as a non-executive director at the Department of Health but the couple has both left in disgrace after they were observed caressing each other and breaking social distancing rules they imposed on the British people.

Gina Colandangelo’s departure came just hours after Matt Hancock declared he was stepping down from his position as Health Secretary after tension arose from the public and other MPs for breaking social distancing rules that he helped to create.

The pair’s kissing session was captured on CCTV a year to the day after Matt Hancock went on TV to expose an epidemiologist for having an affair and breaking lockdown rules.

Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist who helped to shape the government’s response to coronavirus and instigated a lockdown, was caught last year having an affair and breaking social distancing rules he’d helped to create, in a comparable manner to Matt Hancock.

And Matt Hancock told Sky News that he backed the police and that they would make their decisions independently from ministers, and that was quite right, and that it had always been like that, and that he would give them their space to make that decision, and that he took the right decision to quit.

Matt Hancock and Gina Coladangelo became friends at Oxford and have been close ever since.

A close friend of Matt Hancock said that they were in love and that it was serious, but the friend insisted that the affair all started in May, and that might not be so easily believed.

It’s come to light that the former Health Secretary told his wife, Martha, he would be leaving her on Thursday night, shortly after learning that his romance with Gina Coladangelo was about to be laid bare.

According to a news outlet, Martha was oblivious of the affair until the footage was brought to light, and he reportedly even woke up the couple’s youngest child, aged eight, to break the news he was leaving.

And who takes a 15K job unless there are other perks to be had? But of course, we all know what those perks were, and she was married to a multi-millionaire, so she didn’t need the money, so presumably just took the job so she could have her wicked way with Matt Hancock because she felt like it.

Matt Hancock hasn’t just left his wife, he’s left his children as well, but is that worth it for a piece of skirt? And will both Matt Hancock and Gina Coladangelo live to regret this?

All I can imagine is that Gina Coladangelo must be sensational in the sack for Matt Hancock to have jeopardised his marriage and children and to have given up so much. And certainly looks wise and bank balance-wise, Gina seems to have it all, but will she still be interested in Matt Hancock now that he’s lost his powerful position? Although I’m sure Matt Hancock has made his millions, and his salary was just chicken feed.

But I don’t think they thought they would get caught, not for one minute because the elites always believe that they’re above everyone else.

Andrew Marr Reveals He Suffered A Nasty Bout Of COVID

BBC news presenter Andrew Marr revealed he caught COVID 19 last week despite having been completely jabbed.

The 61-year-old journalist made the astonishing statement on his eponymous television programme.

He said that he had symptoms similar to a summer cold and said it had been pretty bothersome.

He filmed his Sunday morning programme live from Cornwall on June 13 while the G7 was going on, but he wasn’t inside the closed-off area at Carbis Bay, instead filming from the Tate St Ives gallery, but he missed the programme last week, which was presented by Today host Nick Robinson.

At the start of an interview with Professor Sir Peter Horby, the chairman of virus advisory group Nervtag, he said that he hoped that it wasn’t self-indulgent of Sir Peter Horby to question him because he got coronavirus last week.

He said that he’d been double jabbed earlier in the spring and felt, if not the king of the world, at least almost completely protected, but that he got it, and was unfortunate.

Sir Peter Horby responded that he believed that he was and that what they know of the vaccine is that they’re especially effective at stopping hospitalisations and mortality.

They are less effective at stopping infection, so although he was sick, he was not hospitalised and there wasn’t any fatality and that’s presumably because of the vaccination.

Andrew Marr, then 53, almost died following a stroke in 2013 and was admitted to Charing Cross Hospital in the middle of the night. So, he’s likely to have been vaccinated amongst the first wave as someone who’s clinically vulnerable.

He added that he was pretty clear that by being vaccinated he didn’t end up in the hospital and that was a great thing, and he said that we use somewhat glibly occasionally the expression ‘mild and moderate infections’, but for him, it was pretty unpleasant.

Last week Health chiefs in Cornwall denied the G7 wasn’t to blame for spiralling COVID cases locally, but Rachel Wigglesworth, its director of public health, argued infections were already rising before the three-day summit took place because of May’s easing of restrictions.

Leaders of the United Kingdom, US, Canada, Japan, France, Germany and Italy descended on the region between June 11 and 13, along with their teams, security staff, journalists and protesters.

Surely you don’t get a touch of COVID like you don’t get a touch of the flu – either you have it or you don’t. On the other hand, flu is the most serious thing you can get – maybe it was that, or a cold or even hayfever?

The point is, he’s okay, and without the jab, he could have been in a dangerous position, but there’s no way of actually knowing if he did have COVID, only his word for it, and some people have been working around people since last March, no mask, nothing, and didn’t catch anything, but then got jabbed and was laid up in bed for several weeks with COVID, or perhaps it was the flu!

And perhaps we will get a lot of really sick people this winter, whose immune system has been compromised by the jab, but hopefully, I’m wrong, but then Boris Johnson did say we were going to have a particularly harsh winter, perhaps he knows something we don’t, but of course, he’ll blame it on COVID.

But it’s not just about the jabs, it’s about people being locked up all the time, hand sanitising and compromising their immune systems, and as I always say, ‘You eat a speck of dirt before you die’.

COVID Patients Are Sicker Than They Were Two Weeks Ago

Doctors are warning that growing numbers of COVID patients are needing oxygen and intensive care compared to just a fortnight ago.

The latest government data on hospitalisations shows a steady incremental rise in the amount of COVID patients being taken to medical institutions in recent weeks.

Even though numbers remain comparatively low in comparison to the earlier peaks, where more than 4,500 people were being admitted to the hospital, doctors have shared disturbing news that those coming in for treatment are sicker than before.

And leading medical figures have warned of the implications of hospitals seeing greater amounts of patients who are coming down with more severe bouts of COVID that require oxygen and intensive care treatment.

Although the latest figures show hospitalisations are steadily sneaking up, although the UK’s strong vaccine rollout has kept mortality remarkably low with earlier waves of the virus.

The most recently available government data from June 21 recorded 224 daily COVID hospitalisations in the United Kingdom, with a weekly rise of more than 13 per cent.

PHE said cases of the Indian variant, which is about 80 per cent more transmissible than the earlier dominant Kent strain, grew 46 per cent in a week across the United Kingdom with 35,204 more infections detected.

Nick Scriven, former president of the Society for Acute Medicine, told a newspaper out that unlike a couple of weeks ago patients were sicker, needing oxygen and some needing ICI, which was worrying.

He said that any number of COVID positive people will have implications as hospitals will want to ensure they’re infection control safe, which in practice will mean cohorting in ward areas that then can’t be used for non-COVID people.

Patients are at a greater risk of being hospitalised with the mutant Delta variant if they had only been given one vaccine dose, highlighting the importance of two.

In more encouraging news, data showed that no one under the age of 50 and fully vaccinated has died from the Indian COVID variant in England.

Public Health England’s report further revealed that only 3 per cent of people in that age group who caught the strain and were admitted to hospital by June 21 were double jabbed.

Commenting on the news, Dr Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency said that through the success of their vaccination programme, data suggested that they’ve started to break the link between cases and hospitalisations.

Sadly, our freedom is lost, gone forever, and it doesn’t matter what Boris Johnson says, they will never surrender their stronghold, and the object of the exercise is all about control and their machine has done a cracking good job of putting us all in line.

And the strength of feeling is that they’ve been abused and it seems that the COVID assembly is carrying out an independent COVID death audit to determine how many people have perished from this virus, and our government has absolutely no credibility and who knows what’s true and what’s false in what they tell us? And it’s better to assume that anything they do tell us is designed to manipulate our emotions, and it seems that the government and the newspapers are involved in daily acts of terrorism against the British people.

Here we go again, there are not enough deaths to frighten us, so they say more hospitalisations. There are not that many hospitalisations either, so now the ones that are, are sicker, and next week it will be that they’re not actually sicker, but they do have the capacity to rob banks more after catching COVID.

Keir Starmer Calls For Proposals For A New Royal Yacht To Be Scrapped

Sir Keir Starmer will attempt to draw Labour back towards the political centre-ground with a promise to crack down on sickening anti-social behaviour.

The Labour leader last night said questionable plans for a new royal yacht should be scrapped, with the savings used to finance the deployment of more CCTV cameras and community support officers in neighbourhoods blighted by crime.

The move will draw comparisons with Tony Blair’s focus on antisocial behaviour as he forged New Labour more than two decades ago.

Sir Keir Starmer, a former director of public prosecutions, accused ministers of dropping the ball on anti-social behaviour.

In an echo of Tony Blair’s notorious pledge to be tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime, Sir Keir Starmer accused Boris Johnson of being soft on crime and soft on the causes of crime.

Figures from the national crime survey suggest that 19 million people suffered the impact of anti-social behaviour in 2019-20, up by one million on the previous year, and an increase of 40 per cent on the 13.5 million reporting problems a decade earlier.

Sir Keir Starmer told a news outlet that he’s spent five years as chief prosecutor and he saw too many cases of crime which some people said was low level not being tackled before it intensified.

And that anti-social behaviour ends up terrorising people, and that numerous people won’t go out of their own home and don’t feel like they can go down their own street and won’t go out after nightfall.

It takes many forms. Sometimes it’s abuse, sometimes it’s driving cars around at speed, sometimes it’s taking drugs on corners and children being threatened walking to school.

Labour’s plan would create a £283 million reserve to tackle anti-social behaviour in the worst affected communities.

But does Sir Keir Starmer actually know what anti-social behaviour is? How many times is he being kept awake by anti-social behaviour with neighbours having all-nighters?

But MPs salaries should be reduced as well, and their perks should be scrapped because we could use those funds elsewhere too. And more CCTV, of course, that will help because London has the most CCTV observed area in the world and still has a crazed crime rate.

And what is this rationale for building a new royal yacht, has one actually been given? And it appears that despite their sensitivity, they’d sooner score a few cheap populist points whilst amidst their own ranks there are elements usually leading to anti-social behaviour themselves.

The biggest problem is our justice system because we treat criminals with kitten gloves, and God forbid we might offend a criminal by calling them one, and it appears that this guy has been selected from the very shallowest of shallow ends of the gene pool.

Police and councils do practically nothing about anti-social behaviour, and it isn’t money stopping them, they have easy solutions, they just couldn’t care less, so long as the gravy train is rolling in for them.

And feckless politicians can always find a more deserving cause to spend money on. It’s their way of looking holier than thou, and Sir Keir Starmer has lived up to all those expectations by pulling this virtue signalling stunt.

ASBO’s are now collected by children like trophies, and Sir Keir Starmer is morphing into Tony Blair before our very eyes, not long now!

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