Plane Carrying One Of Britain’s Most Senior Civil Servants

An aircraft thought to be carrying one of Britain’s most senior civil servants on a mission to protect the vaccination programme came within 100 feet of a possibly catastrophic collision with a suspected drone.

The BAE-146 jet, an RAF aircraft used by members of the Royal Family and Government ministers, was returning to the United Kingdom from Brussels on March 23 when the pilots detected a 3-foot device flying extremely close.

A report by the UK Airprox Board, which investigates near-misses, said the suspected drone was flying at 4,000 feet, ten times higher than the legal maximum height, and the jet’s pilots reported that it seemed to be within 50 feet to 100 feet above their altitude and passed just to the starboard side of the aircraft.

It’s understood that the passengers included Sir Tom Barrow, Political Director of the Foreign Office, who’d been assigned to Brussels after the EU threatened to block exports of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the United Kingdom.

Sir Tom Barrow, was previously an ambassador to Ukraine, Russia and the EU and a principal figure in the Brexit talks.

The aircraft was travelling at 175 mph – too fast for the pilots to be sure it was a drone, but aircrew at RAF Northolt in West London informed the police, but it appears that we’re waiting for a catastrophic plane crash before tightening up rules on drones, although there are some rules already, but there will always be someone that doesn’t follow them.

And all aircraft should have dashcam to later identify drones, or whatever it is, although drones are excellent at capturing video evidence of things the authorities would prefer you don’t see, and it baffles me why a tragedy has to happen with one of these things before action is taken against them and their owners.

Hefty fines would hopefully prevent these incredibly dangerous drones from operating near air space, and hopefully, the word would quickly get around, but until then, these acts will continue and it’s only a matter of time before one comes into contact with an aircraft with unfavourable consequences, but instead, we have to wait for a plane crash before this incompetent government will take this seriously.

And why are civil servants flying on our forces aircraft? They’re paid enough to pay for their own transport, but it looks like it’s the norm for the RAF to put on flights to places to pick up civil servants and high ranking forces officers, and because some senior rich bloke was on the plane, it made this newsworthy, but had he not been on board, this wouldn’t have made the news.

Suspected drone means unidentified flying object (UFO), and had it been a drone, they would have dropped the “suspected.”

Freedom Day In Doubt

Matt Hancock said that Ministers are open to delaying England’s June 21 Freedom Day if the information on COVID cases turns bad in the next week and that it could be pushed back to a fortnight.

The Health Secretary made positive noises about the link between cases and people going to the hospital being loosened by vaccines as the Indian variant drove infections to more than 6,000 a day on Friday.

He told Sky that vaccines would be rolled out to under the 30s this coming week, saying the jabs were the way they could get out of this and restore freedoms, but he was cautious over when the freedom might come, as he confirmed that the Indian variant was 40 per cent more transmissible than the earlier dominant Kent variant.

And it was reported that plans were being made to push the lifting of coronavirus measures back to July 5, to enable more people to get the second dose of COVID vaccinations, and Matt Hancock said that ministers would be looking at the latest data over the next week before deciding on June 14.

Asked on the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme if Freedom Day could be delayed past June 21 if the information on cases and hospitalisations turned bad in the next week, Matt Hancock said that they were open to doing that if that’s what needs to happen.

He said in the roadmap that the 21st of June was the date by which they would not take step 4 before that date and they would look at the data, and that was precisely what they were doing.

Asked if the wearing of face coverings and work from home measures could continue in the long term, the Health Secretary added, that he wouldn’t rule that out, and Matt Hancock told Sky that this week they would be opening up vaccines to the under 30s and so they were getting a step closer to the point where they have been able to offer the vaccine to all adults in the country.

He said that once they’ve got everybody having had their second dose of the course, then there will be this protection that we’re seeing at the moment amongst older people, and then you get that protection amongst the entire adult population, and then that way we can get out of this and restore our freedoms, but the time of precisely when they can take that move is the big mystery.

However, do we believe a single word of what they say, well that’s the big question? And this is no big surprise because the goalposts are constantly evolving, and what they say one week has changed the next.

However, people would like to be able to work eight hours a day without wearing an air restricting Boris bib, but of course, that won’t happen because there are too many muzzle enthusiasts out there, and June 21 was in doubt the day it was set – everything in the plans was in doubt!

And this is like a pantomime playing out for the cheap seats while the real serious business at hand goes on elsewhere, tightening the screws on us, and then tightening again and by the time people become aware it will be too late, and what we now consider to be normal would have been unimaginable 18 months ago, and it’s not ending people because what will they have in store for us in another 18 months?

But our government are beyond ridiculous because on a sunny day people are still going to the park or the beach and no one is afraid, and all have been sitting about maskless whilst “Hey, be scared, be scared” headlines are running amuck.

Female Amazon Delivery Driver

A 21-year-old Amazon delivery woman brutally beat another woman, 67, who had called her a bi**ch after the San Francisco area driver told her to check her white privilege when she’d complained about a delayed parcel.

The sheriff’s office said that Itzel Ramirez, the Amazon driver, was arrested after she was filmed attacking the woman in Alameda County.

The video posted to social media shows the unknown victim from Castro Valley appearing to say something to the driver after she dropped off the packages in front of an entrance to Vista Creed Apartments at about 6 pm on Thursday.

Doug Smith, the owner of the apartment complex where the victim lives as a resident, told KTVU-TV that the victim got an alert that a package she’d been waiting for had been delivered.

When she went to the lobby of the apartment complex to retrieve the package, it wasn’t there. The Amazon driver, Ramirez, was standing nearby, and according to Doug Smith, the woman asked Ramirez where the package was, and Ramirez is said to have responded that the package would be arriving shortly.

Doug Smith said that the victim waited for approximately 15 minutes in the lobby, and then she went back outside and once again asked Ramirez about the status of the delivery.

Doug Smith told KTVU-TV that he believed the Amazon driver said something about “your white privilege” and that his tenant said “You don’t need to be a b**h about it”, and then turned around and walked away.

Ramirez was so enraged that she started hitting the woman in the head and upper body, landing as many as 10 blows, and she maintained that she was acting in self-defence.

Surveillance footage filmed by cameras located both outside and inside the lobby of the building shows Ramirez push the woman up against the front entrance and continue to strike her.

The woman was seen hunched over with her hands covering her head in an attempt to protect herself, and the victim is believed to have sustained a broken nose and other visible injuries.

Ramirez was seen wearing her Amazon vest as she posed for her booking photo with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.

Smith told KRON-TV that the victim was too shaken up to reveal her identity and described her experiences to the press.

Ramirez was booked into jail and she’s being held on $100,000 bail.

Everything appears to be surveilled in today’s tech culture, but hasn’t this sort of behaviour been going on for decades? Although, now we’re seeing it up close and personal and people are going to jail for it.

And we see attacks like this all the time because the schools, large corporations, mainstream media, federal and some state government tell people that it’s okay and even promote it, but elected officials talk of unity, and yet people are being forced further apart.

Well, it looks like the Amazon driver just lost their job, and Amazon will be paying out quite a chunk of money pretty soon, and let’s face it, Amazon isn’t fussy about who they use to deliver their packages, and yet these people come onto our property and into our apartment buildings.

And how is this not a hate crime? As soon as she brought up race it was about race, but it’s California, and the odds are there will be very little punishment.

It makes you question why the young are so bitter, perhaps it’s because society has done them a tremendous wrong, and they think that they’re owed so much more by society than what they’ve been given and that the older generation are the ones that are holding them down, and that’s why they’re so hostile.

Or is it because they being told they’re oppressed and that their elders don’t matter? But then again, we have social media and Facebook to blame for that.

Girls Gone Wild Founder Joe Francis Was Arrested And Jailed

According to a report, Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis was arrested in Mexico after purportedly grabbing a woman by her neck and spitting in her face to give her COVID.

According to Mexican court records, a newspaper outlet says the 45-year-old Kardashian friend was arrested on August 13, 2020, and was charged with domestic violence and intentional harm following an incident at his Punta Mita home.

And according to a newspaper outlet, he supposedly spat in a woman’s face and pulled her across the floor.

The publication reported that court records that were translated to English say Joe Francis told the woman, whom the news outlet didn’t name, that he’d tested positive for COVID the day before the altercation.

Then, on August 1, the court records allege, he asked her to jab him with vitamins, and when she refused to get too close to him, he started to yell at her that she was an evil ‘b‘ and a ‘w‘ who he hoped rotted.

It’s unclear what the woman’s involvement was to Joe Francis, and he didn’t comment to the news outlet, which said it contacted him.

Another news outlet also contacted Joe Francis by email, but he didn’t immediately answer.

The news outlet contacted the local police department in the area of Joe Francis’s Mexico home and also the Mexican Federal Police for comment, neither immediately responded.

According to the report, the alleged victim became frightened and hid in the cupboard, shutting the door behind her, but soon, Joe Francis began shaking the door.

According to the report, she opened it and ran into another room in fear, and he allegedly told her he was kicking her out of his Casa Aramara and proceeded to grab her right arm, turning her towards him, grabbing her by the neck and spitting in her face.

According to the report, he told the woman that she didn’t care about him, but that she’d now care because she was infected as well, and the report said that Joe Francis had tested positive for COVID 19.

The report said that at that point, the court documents say, the woman tried to call the security team for the house, when Joe Francis ran at her, grabbed her by the hair, and shoved her to the ground.

He then allegedly stepped on her head and put all of his weight on her body, twisting her neck and spitting in her face again, before telling her to leave the house.

Booze? Are You 18?

At the age of 94, the last thing Ruby Goswell expected was to be asked to confirm she was old enough to enjoy a sip of Bailey’s, but when an Amazon courier delivered a couple of bottles of her favourite tipple he demanded she prove she was over 18 before handing them over.

Ruby Goswell’s son and daughter in law David and Janet had been sending her two £20 bottles of Bailey’s every fortnight for many months throughout the lockdown.

But in April, one delivery driver left her flustered by refusing to give her the bottles until she showed him ID and things got worse because the grandmother had no driving licence in her Aldershot home and her passport had expired.

The courier only relented after Ruby Goswell’s neighbour stepped in to help on her behalf.

Janet Goswell, 68, from Bletchingley, Surrey, said that she was appalled when she learned what had occurred and she knew she was flustered, and that it was absurd to think that someone would ask a 94-year-old for ID and that it was essentially a form of harassment to ask elderly people for something like that.

In another case, a charity worker 63-year-old John Bull was also asked to prove his age after ordering eight cans of cider as part of a grocery shop last month, and when he refused to show his identification, the delivery driver tried to take back the groceries.

Finally, the courier left John Bull with his shopping, but when he complained to the retailer he was pointed towards its terms and conditions.

John Bull, who lives near Manchester, said that it was ridiculous to ask someone of his age to prove they’re over 18, but on its website, Amazon tells customers buying drink that they have to present photographic ID, such as a driving licence, passport or bus pass, and it adds that if there’s anybody at the address aged 18 years or over who can show valid photo identification, the item will be returned to Amazon for re-delivery the following day.

Tory MP Sir John Haye said that Amazon was showing a total lack of common sense and a disregard for customers and that by asking pensioners for ID, they’re only making their customers suffer – a spokesperson for Amazon refused to comment.

The laws in this country are that no drink is to be sold to under 18’s and that if in doubt the seller must challenge whatever the company policy is, whether that be under 21, 25 or even 30. So, to guarantee that they don’t get it wrong some businesses simply operate an ID must be recorded and documented, even if the person is 94 years old, but this is what our country has come to, and we should blame our government for this.

And, ironically, this is one item that Amazon delivery drivers won’t leave unattended on the doorstep, but everything else they’re happy for anyone to steal.

Andrew Lloyd Webber Threatens To Sue The Government

Andrew Lloyd Webber last night said he could take ministers to court if they don’t allow theatres to operate at full capacity from June 21.

The impresario said it would be the ultimate death blow if the relaxation of restrictions didn’t go ahead as planned later this month.

Indoor entertainment venues were able to reopen on May 17 at half capacity, but numerous theatres have remained closed because it’s not profitable to play to smaller audiences.

Lord Lloyd Webber said if theatres can’t reopen 100 per cent after June 21, the problem becomes what is the legality of the whole thing? And he said if the Government’s own science has told them that buildings are safe, he’s advised that at that point things could get pretty difficult.

He said that this was the very last thing that anybody wants to do, but there would become a legitimate case at that point because it’s their science, not ours, and that he would dearly hope that we don’t have to, but he believes that they would have to consider it.

Lord Loyd Webber, who aspires to open his new musical Cinderella starring Carrie Hope Fletcher at the Gillian Lynne theatre in the West End next month, said he would be happy to ask theatre-goers to wear face coverings.

He continued that they would comply with anything the Government asks them to do to get 100 per cent open and that they have to be 100 per cent.

He further pointed to the success of the Government’s indoor events trials, such as at the Brit Awards at London’s O2 Arena and the World Snooker Championships at the Crucible in Sheffield.

Lord Lloyd Webber said the snooker had shown there’s no heightened chance of transmission of COVID in a theatre, and that if scientists are so concerned about everything, then they should be saying there should be a total circuit breaker and lock everything down again for two weeks.

And he said, to keep the arts sector completely closed implies the Government doesn’t care. Although he praised Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden for fighting hard for them.

It needs more people to sue the Government now.

Pubs, bars, clubs, restaurants, travel firms, hotels, airlines, theatres, TV production companies, just anyone who’s now being barred from opening fully because of single figure death numbers and hospitalisations in the low hundreds.

And good on Andrew Lloyd Webber because the response to COVID has been blown out of all proportion on so many levels, and it’s alarming how the timid public have just gone along with it.

Four-Day Bank Holiday Confirmed For Next Summer

Britons will enjoy a four day bank holiday next summer to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee as the country marks her 70 years on the throne.

Buckingham Palace said 2022’s elongated bank holiday will run from Thursday, June 2 to Sunday, June 5 and include a catamaran of public events and community activities, including a Platinum Party at Buckingham Palace and The Big Lunch, which will encourage neighbours to participate together for street parties.

Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation was held on June 2, 1953, just more than a year after the then 25-year-old ascended to the throne on February 6, 1952, following her father George VI’s passing.

It was the first coronation ever to be televised, with 27 million people in the United Kingdom tuning in, and according to Buckingham Palace, the BBC is set to take a pivotal role in next year’s festivities, with Britons invited to apply for tickets to the Platinum Party at the Palace, which will see some of the world’s biggest entertainment stars join together to create a live concert to commemorate the most important and joyful moments from The Queen’s seven-decade reign.

Plans for the Platinum Jubilee festivities have been released for the first time as the Queen marks her 69th year on the British throne.

A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said that an extended bank holiday, from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th June, will present an opportunity for communities and people throughout the United Kingdom to come together to mark the memorable milestone.

The four days of festivities will include public events and community activities, as well as national moments of reflection on The Queen’s 70 years of service.

On the Thursday of next year’s events, Trooping the Colour is supposed to be staged in full for the first time since the pandemic.

The following day a Service of Thanksgiving for the Queen’s reign will be held at St Paul’s Cathedral and the third day of the weekend, a Saturday will see the Queen accompanied by members of the royal family at the Derby, held at Epsom Downs.

That evening the live concert will be staged at Buckingham Palace.

The Palace revealed that members of the public will be invited to apply to attend this exclusive event and details of the ballot for UK residents to secure audience tickets will be released in due course.

The Queen of course has done a magnificent job, but she’s 95 years old, and June 2022 is a long way off.

However, she is an exceptional lady that has devoted her life to her country and the Commonwealth for nearly 70 years, and at 95 years old is still carrying on her duties, and perhaps someone like her will never be again.

Travellers Have Set Up Camp In The Queen’s Front Garden

A group of travellers last night set up camp on the Long Walk of Windsor, in full view of Her Majesty’s private quarters.

The group parked vehicles and up to 30 caravans and motorhomes outside the legendary Windsor Castle, widely regarded as the Queen’s favourite royal residence and the one in which she’s currently staying at.

Prince Andrew was observed driving through the camp in his Range Rover yesterday, apparently unperturbed by his new neighbours.

Last night, officials launched an attempt to move the travellers on, with images showing police, council officials and Windsor Park wardens all in dialogue with the group, and it’s understood the group have since disbanded.

The vans and motorhomes were parked near signs which state that vehicles are forbidden, while photographs revealed the group blocking the Long Walk.

The 2.6-mile track, a popular tourist attraction, connects Windsor Castle with Snow Hill in Windsor Great Park. It’s still used by the royal carriages every year as part of the route from Windsor Castle to the Ascot Races.

One person who earlier saw the group said they were amazed at how they’d parked their vehicles on the Long Walk.

Much of the 2,000-hectare royal estate is open to the public free of charge from dusk until dawn.

While the Queen has spent much of her time at Windsor Castle during the pandemic, including after the death of her husband Prince Philip in April, she’s believed to have left for Balmoral earlier this month to privately mourn the consort’s passing, but she’s since returned to the residence.

The royal standard, the flag which when flown means that the Queen is present, was yesterday observed hovering above the Berkshire castle, and yesterday, while at Windsor, the monarch took part in a virtual audience at Buckingham Palace to receive His Excellency Dr Zalmai Rossoul, Ambassador from Afghanistan.

It comes as travellers earlier were seen parked up in an affluent park in West London. Officials said they would be forced out after the local council took its five-day battle to remove them to the High Court.

Legal representatives from Richmond Council were seeking a court order for their removal from Kew Green, where the group have unsettled neighbours over the bank holiday weekend.

The order was expected to be approved, with a local authority spokesperson saying that how much time the group has to leave depended on the court, and what was the Queen’s security doing at the time all the travellers arrived?

Joe Biden officially Ends Donald Trump’s ‘Remain In Mexico’ Policy

The Biden administration on Tuesday formally ended a Trump-era immigration policy that forced asylum seekers to remain in Mexico for hearings in US immigration court.

A seven-page memorandum by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas marked the end of the ‘Migrant Protection Protocols,’ which returned approximately 70,000 asylum seekers to Mexico from January 2019 until it was halted on President Joe Biden’s first day in office two years ago.

The move came the same day as the Biden administration marked the first day of National Immigrant Heritage Month by asking Congress to pass the US Citizenship Act of 2021, which Joe Biden pitched his first day in office, providing a way for an estimated 11 million undocumented people to legally stay in the US.

A White House proclamation read that the plan was to provide a pathway to lawful permanent residency and citizenship for those undocumented immigrants, including Dreamers, people with Temporary Protected Status, farmworkers, and other essential workers who contribute to the Nation every day.

The White House memorandum further noted that it was an especially difficult period thanks to the COVID 19 pandemic and the all too familiar demonisation of immigrants, with Joe Biden urging Americans to recommit themselves to their values as a welcoming nation.

Joe Biden’s changes to Donald Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ were a foregone conclusion, as Joe Biden had pledged as a competitor to end the policy, but the president left a window open by ordering a review before closing it down permanently.

Mayorkas said keeping the policy intact or changing it would not be consistent with the Administration’s vision and values and would be a poor use of the Department’s resources, and he said that the costs would far exceed any benefits.

The policy coincided with a sharp decline of asylum seekers at the border, but critics noted that people were hindered by violent conditions in Mexico, lack of access to lawyers and difficulty making it to court.

Mayorkas recognised those concerns by noting the extraordinary rate of rejected claims for failing to appear in court and the shortage of housing, income and safety in Mexico.

Since February 19, approximately 11,200 people with active cases have been allowed to return to the United States to wait for a decision, a process that can take years in the backlogged court system, and the administration has yet to say if tens of thousands more whose cases were either rejected or refused will get another opportunity.

It must be a dire situation that the Mexican’s are escaping from because why would anyone want to go to America? Land of the dumb, home of mass shootings, obesity and COVID.

Joe Biden and the Democrats want to open borders, as long as they’re shielded by fences and National Guard Troops, and the situation is going to continue to get worse because now every illegal, gang member and criminal will hurry to take advantage of Joe Biden’s immigration policies, or lack of to cross the southern border, fearing it will be closed again, and which country is Joe Biden actually working for?

Of course, numerous nations were built on immigrants and that’s great, but does the US have jobs to support those people? Or are they being sponsored? – so many questions, and it looks like Joe Biden is winning the most awful President prize in the history of America right now.

However, it’s amazing that 81 million people voted for him, but nobody likes what he’s doing.

Most of these immigrants pick food on the farming fields, build houses all over the country and work in service industries to contribute to society in jobs that most American’s won’t do.

Should the US focus on immigrants when jobs could be going to desperate Americans, or would American’s even work such servile jobs that immigrants are prepared to do for less money and more hours?

Or are Americans just lazy, and get paid way too much money in unemployment that staying at home is way more attractive? And are immigrants just the great replacement?

Oxfordshire To Become First Smoke-Free County In England

Oxfordshire is set to become the first county in England to ban smoking outdoors as the Government’s roadmap out of lockdown comes to an end.

The county, which has unveiled proposals to be the first region in the country to go smoke-free by the year 2025, will crack down on smoking later this month, with outside dining areas and workplace break spots as the top spots to go smoke-free.

The embargo, which has been described as a long game to change smoking habits, strives to prevent mortality from disease connected to tobacco.

The priorities for the country’s smoking strategy this year include creating more places where people feel enabled not to smoke.

This would include encouraging employers to stop the habit outside offices and factories, or by creating smoke-free spaces in newly created pavement dining areas.

Oxfordshire’s public health director, Ansaf Azhar last week said the move aimed to create an environment in which no smoking is encouraged, and he said it’s not about telling people not to smoke. It’s about moving and creating an environment in which no smoking is encouraged and they’re empowered to do so, but that it wasn’t going to happen overnight.

Dr Adam Briggs, the public health official driving the strategy, added that they’ve got a condition that’s entirely a commercially driven cause of mortality and morbidity, and that it’s impossible to be on the wrong side of history with tobacco consumption.

He also pointed to figures given by the chief medical officer Chris Whitty at a recent conference, who said more than 90,000 people died from tobacco-related illnesses in 2020, compared with 75,000 from COVID.

A report by Dr Adam Briggs said smoking was the leading cause of preventable mortality in Oxfordshire, costing £120 million to the public pocket each year.

While 12 per cent of Oxfordshire’s population currently smoke, people earning lower incomes, those with mental illness, the displaced and travellers, all have a higher percentage of smoking.

Andrew McHugh, a member of the health improvement partnership board, said he’d asked Cherwell District Council, where he’s a councillor, to make all new pavement licenses smoke free.

Pavement licenses allow eateries and bars to put tables and chairs outside their premises.

The council rejected the application, saying that the easing of coronavirus restrictions was not the time to impose more rules on trade, and now they’re taking away a person’s choice as to whether or not they want to smoke, and our freedoms are gradually being worn away.

And will this also apply to drink drivers? Because we don’t want to worry that some fool is driving under the influence. And yes, walking past a smoker might be a slight nuisance, but someone running you over or crashing into you because someone believed it was a great idea to get behind a wheel drunk, and could also be a life-changing situation.

I wonder if Oxfordshire is planning on outlawing alcohol, and would that be okay with everyone, or is it a case that if it doesn’t harm someone else, then they don’t care – until it does! And this is the thin end of a wedge ending in a police state.

Smoking is a personal preference, and it’s not for the nanny state to determine, and if establishments provided comfortable, well-ventilated spaces for smokers to sit, it wouldn’t be a dilemma. And in a society like ours, everyone has a reasonable expectation to be accommodated, and everyone is a taxpayer, so have the right to be accommodated.

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