More Than 50,000 People Call For An Inquiry Into The Use Of Queen’s Consent

More than 50,000 people have called for a parliamentary inquiry into a mysterious mechanism that allows the Queen to vet draft laws before they’re approved by the UK’s elected representatives.

They’ve signed a petition backing an urgent investigation by a House of Commons committee as they’re concerned that the royal family has a disturbing and undemocratic ability to influence the government behind closed doors.

The petition was started following an inquiry by a news outlet into an arcane mechanism known as Queen’s consent.

Under the procedure, ministers are expected to inform the Queen of draft laws that affect her personal property, such as her private estates in Balmoral and Sandringham, and possibly anything considered to affect her personally.

A newspaper outlet revealed how the Queen used the opaque mechanism to lobby for changes in proposed laws that affected her estates and pressed for government policy to be changed.

The paper also discovered documents revealing how the Queen’s representatives lobbied Edward Heath’s government to change a proposed transparency law, allowing her to hide her private wealth from the public.

The Queen’s representatives refused to say how many times she’d requested changes to legislation since she came to the throne in 1952.

The newspaper outlet gathered a database of at least 1,062 parliamentary bills that had been subjected to the antiquated mechanism during the current monarch’s reign, and it highlighted how the procedure had been exercised far more extensively than it was earlier thought.

The petition, organised by the campaigning group 38 Degrees, urges MPs on the public administration and constitutional affairs committee to explore how laws can’t be made without the Queen’s formal consent.

The petition says that it’s incomprehensible that in the 21st century, in a democracy, the Queen and the Prince of Wales hold such great power, and that it may well be a constitutional monarchy in theory, but it seems that the monarchy has a lot of power than many previously believed.

The request for an inquiry has been backed by a Labour MP who sits on the committee, Lloyd Russel-Moyle.

He said it was wrong that the mechanism operated in semi secrecy, and that if the royal household says it’s harmless, then they should let the public see that.

The petition has also been signed by the Labour peer Lord Berkeley, one of the few politicians to have questioned the mechanism in the past.

I guess some might say that the monarchy has been around longer than any politician and that they have more expertise in government than all of them, so why shouldn’t they vet laws that have an impact, especially if that impact is on them.

Well, I suppose that depends on whether you want to live in a democracy or not, and let’s face it, who gave them those powers? And if they’re abusing them for their own self-interests, then they shouldn’t have those powers in the first place.

Or is it that they use those powers to shield Prince Andrew from investigation? And what does the Queen do with that wealth, does she offshore it to someplace else? And her wealth is shameful!

And it would appear that the UK monarchy can veto laws proposed by parliament. Of course, a monarchy with no power would just be some variety of expensive museum exhibit, so one might wonder what is the point of it?

The Queen used the opaque mechanism to lobby for changes in proposed laws that affected her estates, and that’s the exact reason she shouldn’t be allowed to. It’s bad enough politicians exploiting the power we give them without the Queen fleecing the public purse even more.

Prince William Said The Queen Doesn’t Care For Celebrity

William is said to be completely appalled at his younger brother’s decision to take part in a prime time interview with TV talkshow legend Oprah Winfrey, but before this intimate discussion between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the popular US presenter aired, Harry made a surprise entrance on The Late Late Show.

The US programme is currently hosted by British comic James Corden, a long time friend of Harry’s, and he chose to take the rebellious royal for a bus tour around Los Angeles as they chatted.

The light-hearted nature of the segment, also known as Carpool Karaoke, usually includes guest appearances from former First Lady Michelle Obama to pop star, Lady Gaga.

Subsequently, there was a notable reaction amongst royal watchers to Harry’s trip with James Corden as he swerved away from typical royal behaviour.

While the Queen supposedly told Harry she’s pleased he found happiness in his new life in the US with Meghan and Archie, in a phone call before The Late Late Show aired, she also urged him to continue upholding the monarchy’s values.

Additionally, William once said that his grandmother had no interest in the celebrity element of living in the public eye.

In an interview with author Robert Hardman, the Duke of Cambridge said that the Queen cares not for celebrity, that’s for sure.

Speaking in 2012, he continued that was not what the monarchy’s about – it’s about setting examples, and it’s about doing one’s duty, as the Queen would say.

He said it’s about using their position for the good. It’s about serving their country, and that was the crux of it.

Indeed, the Queen gained extensive applause when she advised the public to follow her lead and accept the COVID 19 vaccine.

Although matters relating to her health normally remain secret, she broke royal tradition by discussing how the jab didn’t hurt at all.

The monarch then addressed a vaccine hesitation and maintained the public ought to think about other people rather than themselves.

This was an astounding intervention from the usually apolitical monarch, but it was overshadowed by Harry’s shock appearance on The Late Late Show.

Insiders even claimed that his appearance created uneasiness at Buckingham Palace, as there’s a tacit understanding amongst royals that the Queen gets precedence when it comes to the spotlight.

The Queen wouldn’t reduce herself to any kind of celebrity coverage, and it appears that Harry has jumped out of the frying pan into the fire, and let’s face it, neither Harry nor Meghan are celebrities, but perhaps secretly Harry always wanted to be some kind of celebrity deep down.

Of course, the Queen is from an older generation, and Harry is young, hip and energetic, and these are two different generations, so it’s a kind of given that Harry would want to go more with the times than to be stuck in the past.

However, here in the United Kingdom, we appear to go along with tradition, loyalty and integrity, the values that our ancestors brought to these shores, and whatever way you look at it, the Queen is ultimately a celebrity, and Harry’s far from stupid.

However, we must remember that she is the Queen, and above tacky celebrities – she’s the Queen of celebrities!

She smiles and waves and her entire mission in life is to be seen, and she’s now 94 years old, and we know nothing about her personality, and we’ve never seen her true persona.

BEGUM’S BELIEF

ISIS bride Shamima Begum may be ready to mount a legal bid to reverse an appeals embargo as she continues to fight to be allowed back into the United Kingdom.

Shamima Begum was defeated yesterday in her legal fight to return for a court appeal over the stripping of her British citizenship, but Government sources understand her lawyers may seek to challenge this.

The highest court in the land yesterday delivered a stinging rebuff to the Court of Appeal, which last year cleared the way for Shamima Begum to come back to Britain after discovering she was refused a fair and effective appeal.

But Lord Reed, the president of the Supreme Court, ordered the appeal process should be delayed until Shamima Begum was in a position to play an effective part in it without the safety of the public being endangered.

This means that Shamima Begum is set to languish in the fetid al-Roj camp under the guard of the Syrian Democratic Forces, who are said to forbid contact with lawyers. However, a news outlet reported that Government sources fear she may start a legal bid to force Britain to facilitate a court hearing that would be held remotely from the camp.

A source said that her appeal over her citizenship is in limbo until she can appear at a hearing.

The source said that they believe her lawyers will probably attempt to demonstrate that the Government has to provide the facilities to allow such a hearing to happen, but the reality is that she’s in a camp in northeast Syria which is very dangerous and has probably not got great phone reception, so how could they facilitate it?

According to a source, another way she could challenge yesterday’s Supreme court appeal embargo would be to take her case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Shamima Begum, wearing sunglasses, leggings and white trainers, declined to comment to reporters at the al-Roj refugee camp in Syria following yesterday’s decision.

The 21-year-old was said to have been in tears in her tent following the decision, and Mamdoh Abdalla, a Kurdish translator at the camp said she was furious and wept after getting the news.

She continued that Shamima did not talk to them, was in her tent, and that she did not talk to anyone or any other reporter.

The Supreme Court collectively ruled in favour of the Government and said Shamima Begum could not come back to the United Kingdom for a court case to reclaim her British passport for the safety of the public.

Not many people would feel safe if this young woman was to come back to the United Kingdom. However, we have a huge knife crime problem in the United Kingdom, and many are youths that are being enticed and groomed into joining gangs of one sort or another.

These gangs are perpetrating terrible offences, should they also have their citizenship removed and shipped off somewhere?

As a UK citizen Shamima Begum is entitled to legal aid until she’s been officially rubber-stamped that she’s no longer a UK citizen, then until that time, she’s entitled, and she will probably win in the end because the law states that she can’t remain stateless.

If she’s forced to return, then potentially it’s a death sentence, and legally we can’t allow that because if we did, then that would only make us as bad as she’s been, and if she’s allowed her citizenship back and returns to the United Kingdom, then a prison sentence for her punishment because you can never tell if she’s reformed or not.

A Culture War Has Been Fermenting At The Capitol For Years

Guns, masks and conspiracy theories. These have been controversial issues brewing for months, and even years, between political parties and legislators that now seem to be at boiling point on Capitol Hill.

Tensions in Congress have been high in the past, but the rhetoric of the last few months is not business as usual.

Julian Zelizer, a professor of political history at Princeton University, told USA Today the current climate is one of the bad moments in American history.

Compared to the days before the Civil War, in the 19th century, and the 1960s, Julian Zelizer said, today is at least like those, and in some ways, it’s worse. Though members may not be attacking each other physically as they did in the 19th century, sometimes it feels like they’re getting close.

Now, points of contention have appeared to have reached a crescendo, and have been magnified by the Capitol riot, and here are some of the problems that have legislators angrier with one another now than in recent history.

The 117th Congress brought in a new set of legislators, including some linked to right-wing fringe movements, including the QAnon conspiracy movement, which baselessly claims a deep state cabal of paedophiles tried to bring down Donald Trump, amongst others.

Representatives Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia are two of the rookie legislators most known for supporting QAnon ideas.

Taylor Greene has been a particular cracking point on Capitol Hill over the tolerance of conspiracy theories and the discourse that frequently accompanies them.

The Democratic-led House last month voted principally along party lines to remove Taylor Greene from her two committees for a litany of incendiary, conspiratorial and menacing social media posts before she was elected, which included questioning whether the 9/11 terrorist attacks ever happened, stalking and taunting a teen survivor of the bloody Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, and implying that space lasers were causing lethal wildfires in California.

The floor debate over Taylor Greene, in a chamber already motivated by division and distrust, turned bleak as House members took turns arguing not just about Greene’s particular conduct but what it said about House members who demanded or opposed her punishment.

On top of QAnon and other right-wing extremist beliefs, 147 congressional Republicans expedited misleading claims that Donald Trump won the presidential election and voted to not accept election results in Arizona and Pennsylvania.

But this is what happens when othering and demonisation become the norm. When the extremes on each end of the political rainbow silence the moderate voices in the middle.

It’s the fault of both sides, and there’s no way back but for the moderate voices in both parties to reclaim the centre, and it wouldn’t be so sad if they didn’t act like bitter, pretentious high schoolers, all belonging to their own clicks and behaving literally like spiteful children.

They all just act like attention seekers, go-getters, narcissists, seekers to condemn others and not taking a serious role in what they’re there to do, and it makes me question how these cult members get elected into Congress.

And I do not doubt that there are numerous in the closet in Congress who are at the point of coming out of the cupboard.

They’re a pretty reckless bunch of people who will end up doing more harm than good for the American people, and the fence needs to be taken down as quickly as possible because if they can’t protect their people, then they shouldn’t be protected either.

Donald Trump Warms Up For His CPAC Speech On The Golf Course

Donald Trump played golf in Florida on Friday, as anticipation rose ahead of his return to the political centre stage, and he gave a clear hint of his possible course of action.

The former president declared on Friday his endorsement of a former White House aide who’s running for election in Ohio, opposing one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him in January.

Max Miller, a 32-year-old Marine reservist and Trump supporter, is the first hopeful Donald Trump has endorsed since departing the presidency.

Donald Trump’s support is intended to punish the incumbent Republican, Representative Anthony Gonzalez, who voted for Donald Trump’s impeachment.

The endorsement is viewed as the first step in Donald Trump’s crusade to get retribution on those who crossed him while in office.

Donald Trump was at his West Palm Beach course on Friday, ahead of his Sunday address to CPAC, held this year in Orlando.

Headline speakers on Friday included Ted Cruz, the Texas senator who last week escaped the snowstorm that stranded millions of his constituents, and made an ill-advised getaway to Mexico.

Ted Cruz, chastened, returned 24 hours later to help his fellow Texans and admitted it had been a mistake, and he told CPAC that Orland was excellent, although it wasn’t as nice as Cancun, but it was nice.

Madison Cawthorn, the spokesperson for North Carolina and the youngest House member at 25, whipped up the conservative crowd by predicting that cruel and vicious Democrats wanted to turn the US into a Communist ash pile.

Josh Hawley, senator for Missouri, was given a standing applause for relating how he’d supported Donald Trump’s evidence-free allegations of election fraud, while Tom Cotton, senator for Arkansas, used his time to lash out at The New York Times, citing the paper’s staff of being woke children.

Matt Gaetz, the insanely Trumpian Florida spokesperson, used his address to take aim at Andrew Cuomo, New York governor and persistent Trump critic.

Matt Gaetz said that now, the bogus news media and their collaborators in Silicon Valley made Governor Cuomo out to be some iconic cross between King David and Tom Brady, and what a huge crock that turned out to be.

He referenced assertions of sexual harassment made against Andrew Cuomo by a former staffer, who claimed Cuomo suggested other staffers engage in strip poker.

I always laugh every time I hear the expression, former President, but I do worry that possibly Donald Trump will be back in some fashion, but what makes me laugh even more is that the Democrats don’t even trust Joe Biden with the nuclear football – perhaps they believe that one day he might be playing with his grandchildren and randomly nuke Canada, but I must put the craic down.

The problem is, over 80 million people got him that football, and it seems that at the moment Joe Biden is a shadow President or a puppet resident of the White House.

And as for Donald Trump, he can now golf as much as he likes, but he’ll always be a twice impeached president with no honour, decorum, reverence or sincerity. Although even though he was accused twice because impeachment articles are accusations, he was acquitted twice – that means, not guilty – a clean slate.

However, being acquitted in a political court setting has no bearing on the wrongs that were committed during Donald Trump’s drastic acts of America’s biggest loser, and the best is yet to come.

And he will always be known as the twice impeached president because of a sympathetic government like we’ve never seen before in our history, and he’ll go down as the most celebrated president ever!

A Woman Uses Her Own Thong As A Mask

Don’t get caught with your pants down, unless, of course, you need a face mask in a jiffy.

A woman in South Africa avoided getting thrown out of a Pick n Pay supermarket by using her panties as a mask.

Smartphone camera footage captured by Newsflash caught the fantastic intercommunication in which the store guard asked the maskless woman, who was waiting with her cart of groceries in the checkout line, to put on a face mask or leave the shop.

Having no mask handy, the resourceful renegade objects before pausing, probably the second a lightbulb went off in her head.

In the next moment, the cheeky customer can be observed reaching up under of paisley printed skirt, then pulling her black thong lingerie down her legs and up to her face, where she placed it in such a way as to cover her nose and mouth.

“Happy?” she asks sarcastically. A shocked spectator can also be heard saying “Good Lord” from behind the camera.

Meanwhile, another customer standing in line immediately behind the now pants less woman encouraged the stunt, and she said that she thought it was acceptable, it’s a mask, and that quite honestly, the bacteria on your knickers is less than on the mask.

“Well done to you,” she continues with a celebratory clap. “Brilliant.”

However, internet critics weren’t so dazzled and they told the woman to grow up, and what must her family think?

Another added, “This makes me sick. She is aware of the law worldwide. We have a serious virus and (she thinks) a G-string will save her.”

However, these stores should have courtesy masks handy just in case, and it might not be their responsibility, but that’s why it’s called a courtesy mask.

But it was this lady’s thong, and if she was bold enough to put it over her face, so be it, but it was funny and she solved the problem! And sometimes you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do, although I don’t believe I would have been that inventive.

Thousands of Migrant Children Detained in Resumption of Trump-Era Policies

Thousands of unaccompanied migrant children have been making their way to the southwestern border in recent weeks, presenting the new challenge for the Biden administration as it attempts to create a compassionate approach to unauthorised immigration.

Most of the children, who are coming from Central America by the hundreds each day, are being placed under COVID 19 quarantine for 10 days and then seesawed to shelters around the country, prompting accusations that President Biden is returning to one of the most questionable practices of the Trump administration, the extended detainment of migrant children.

In the last week, the Border Patrol intercepted more than 2,000 young migrants travelling without an adult, most of them in their teens but some as young as six years old, and there’s widespread concern that their numbers in coming months could break the record set in May 2019, when 11,000 migrants were encountered by the Border Patrol.

One Homeland Security official said that they’re being hammered and that they were seeing minors up and down the line, although he was speaking on the condition of anonymity because the official wasn’t allowed to speak publicly about the situation.

The influx of unaccompanied children in vast numbers, compounds a difficult situation already in the making, with migrant families and single adults arriving at the border in ever-larger numbers in recent months.

Numerous migrants, not all, are being turned back by US officials under an emergency public health law invoked by then President Donald Trump at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

But the Biden administration has chosen not to deny entry to minors, and they’re now crowding border processing facilities and straining government shelters.

Human rights groups have criticised the decision to keep children in confinement during the weeks or months it takes to place them with relatives, a strategy they say harks back to the Trump administration’s construction of tent encampments along the border to hold an overflow of migrant children.

Last week, the Biden administration reestablished a makeshift shelter in Carrizo Springs, Texas, to house up to 700 migrant teens. The shelter, which faced a torrent of critique, was closed in July 2019 after the number of children arriving at the border piercingly declined.

Joshua Rubin, an activist with Witness at the Border, which was planning to stage demonstrations outside a soon to reopen migrant children’s centre in Florida said that it seemed that this administration can’t think its way through to a new way to manage the situation and that spending time in these large, impersonal places traumatises migrants.

It’s only been a short while since Joe Biden has been in office, and I’m guessing that he’s got a lot on his plate because Donald Trump left numerous things in a complete mess, and it’s going to take a while before the Biden administration turn it all around.

But I do hope that we’re not going to hear this same argument four years from now because Joe Biden only has four years to undo Donald Trump’s damage. After all, at the moment it seems like the same dog and pony show.

Sadly, this is a desperate situation, especially for those children that are unaccompanied minors, and I no doubt, some will never be reunited with their families, and if they are to be put in shelters, these shelters should be as humane as possible, they’re not animals, they’re children! And should be processed as quickly as possible and then released to foster carers or their relatives if any can be located because you can’t just throw them into the wild.

Texas Woman Whose Electric Bill Soared Over $9,000

A Texas woman filed a class-action lawsuit seeking $1 billion in relief for customers of electricity retailer Griddy, which the lawsuit says illegally engaged in price gouging amid widespread power outages across the state last week.

Lisa Khoury, who filed the action on behalf of all Griddy customers who were charged the steep prices, faced a $9,546 electric bill from February 1 through to February 19 as a result of the massive spike in wholesale electric prices in Texas amid a severe winter storm.

The company says on its website, that instead of a fixed price, Griddy is a service that enables customers to pay variable rates on their electricity, being charged what wholesale customers would be charged or precisely the amount they buy electricity at.

The suit says that last week, wholesale prices soared amid the outages that hit millions of Texans, spiking to $9,000 per megawatt-hour compared with the average rate of $50 per megawatt-hour.

Derek Potts, an attorney representing Khoury, said in a statement that they didn’t know how many people had been hit, but there were likely to be thousands of customers who would have received these exorbitant bills.

And he said that a class action would be the most effective and efficient way for Griddy’s customers to come together and fight this greedy pricing.

Griddy didn’t immediately respond to USA Today’s request for comment on the case, but on a page of commonly asked questions about the storm on its website, the company denies allegations of price gouging.

The suit endeavours to stop Griddy from billing and receiving payments on the charges with excess prices during the storm and forgiveness for late or unpaid payments as well as the monetary relief.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Wednesday that the state was investigating providers whose prices spiked, and the Public Utility Commission of Texas issued an order on Sunday stopping providers until further notice from disconnecting customers who’ve not paid their bills.

Numerous customers use Griddy with the exception of paying less, the lawsuit said. On its website in a video demonstrating how the service works, Griddy bills itself as a company that saves customers money by not marking up prices as do all those other guys, you know the ones who’ve been preying on you, your parents and your neighbours for the past 20 years.

What people should be doing is reading the terms and conditions of the contract properly because what the big print giveth, the fine print taketh away, and most people don’t trouble to read it.

You should always read everything before you sign for it, and if the company is attempting to rush or pressure you, then maybe it’s not worth signing at all!

And what’s baffling is is how did they get those bills in the first place, and how did they use that much electricity if there was no electricity, to begin with? And what are they going to do when people can’t pay because their bills are so high? Shut off the power to everyone, that way they’re going to put themselves out of business – good luck Griddy.

Whether they agreed to pay a variable rate or not, charging them such excessive prices is a bit much, don’t you think? And we’re not talking about something that occurred slowly, we’re talking about something that happened overnight.

The whole thing about is now, is that these people will go out of business because they were greedy, and at the end of the day, they didn’t achieve anything, and they’re not supposed to price gouge in an emergency.

Gamer, 18, Killed Female Call of Duty Competitor

A student gamer purportedly stabbed a rival Call of Duty star to death before uploading a grisly video of the victim’s bloodied body to social media.

Guilherme Alves Costa, 18, has been arrested following the death of Ingrid Oliveira Bueno da Silva, 19, a gifted professional video game player in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The two had played on competing teams in the game Call of Duty: Mobile and she’s understood to have gone to his home to take part in a joint competition after making contact last month.

Guilherme Alves Costa played online under the nickname ‘Flashlight’ for the team ‘Gamers Elite’ while the victim, a player for ‘FBI E-Sports, was known as ‘Sol’.

Local reports suggest that the alleged attacker left an extensive note explaining why he committed the crime, bemoaning about being tired with life, not having any goals, and not getting on with people.

Fellow gamers raised the alarm after Guilherme Alves Costa posted a video of the victim’s bloodied body, in which he could be heard laughing, on WhatsApp.

In the chilling clip posted after the killing, he said that people might think it was ink or that it had been edited or something, but it wasn’t, and that he’d actually killed her, and he said that he had a book as well, and he asked people to share it and read it because it contained some truths.

Guilherme Alves Costa is said to have fled the scene but police were summoned when his brother came home and discovered the bloodied young woman, who he didn’t know, lying motionless on the floor.

He’s reported to have also called his family to tell them he would commit suicide, but his brother purportedly then talked him out of it, urging him to hand himself in to the police instead, which he did.

Asked why he’d attacked the victim, Guilherme Alves Costa is said to have replied that he wanted to, and he’s said to have told the police that the victim had crossed his path and that he’d been planning the crime for two weeks.

Sources say he’s written a 52-page book to explain his motive, which is being examined by detectives.

The inquiry continues.

A Gamers Elite spokesperson told local media that the team’s leadership had never met the suspect and that members of the team were horrified by Guilherme Alves Costa actions.

This is horrifying, and yet people still don’t seem to see the link between violent games and violent conduct in real life. Although there are numerous gamers out there, and just because a tiny majority of gamers obscure the line between real life and games, it doesn’t mean they all do.

Numerous people play GTA et cetera, but not all of them have the urge to pick up a gun or do anything that the games portray, but some might because not everyone knows the distinction between right and wrong, so instead of raging at the game, they rage at other people.

Many people play GTA and might have a bundle of money, all by robbing banks, casinos, drug Lords Islands, selling weed, coke, fake cash, guns and forged documents. They might own about 60 cars including a Batmobile and a flying Delorean, 6 helicopters, a yacht and a submarine, but haven’t done any of the above in real life, and they’re certainly not multimillionaires.

People have been blowing people’s heads off in these games in unreal tournaments since they were about seven or eight years old, and are now older and have never had an inkling to go and shoot or stab anyone, and usually, these games are more of an outlet for stress and anger than causing them, but it only takes one unhinged soul!

Patrick Stewart Anger Over Brexit Outcome

Sir Patrick Stewart, 80, is one of the nation’s best-known performers and has experienced a remarkable career that has crossed six decades.

He’s taken on a variety of roles including Shakespeare productions, the TV show Star Trek and Marvel’s X-Men film franchise, but Sir Patrick Stewart, who was knighted more than a decade ago, came under attack after he unleashed a tumultuous rant about Brexit.

Three years after the British public voted to leave the EU, the actor stood up before a crowd in Paris to condemn the results of the referendum, and he whined that it was sickening to see Britons vote to break the invaluable bond between the United Kingdom and the EU.

And he confessed to taking part in a march for a second referendum in London in 2019, and he also argued that more of the country wanted to remain, despite the clear results from the first vote.

He told the 2019 Comic-Con audience that he needed them to know that well more than half of the population of the United Kingdom wanted to stay in the European Union.

His claim was contradicted by the results of the EU referendum, where 52 per cent of the public voted Leave and 48 per cent voted Remain, but some have suggested that reduced turnout may have been a factor in the 2016 vote but the claim remains unsubstantiated.

More than 72 per cent of the population, about 46.5 million people voted in the EU referendum, and in comparison, five per cent more of the population turned out to cast votes in the Brexit vote than they did in the 2019 General Election.

About 67 per cent of people voted in the referendum, which ended in victory for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party.

Through Sir Patrick Stewart’s rant, he cited key historical moments that were influenced by Europe’s collective efforts.

He explained that when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the Soviet Union ended its dominance and control over so many countries.

Sir Patrick Stewart listed the end of Apartheid in South Africa and the Good Friday Agreement, despite acknowledging there were still difficulties between the two Irish nations, and he said that the European Union was all part of that movement.

However, do people care what he thinks? Or has our withdrawal from the EU affected him financially in some way – always follow the money.

And he appears to have gone nuts, especially when he’s gone against the majority.

What does it matter to him, and why should he care when financially he can live anywhere in the world – a freedom very little of us can afford, and the elite millionaire club has surprisingly little impact on our well being, and it only seems to be wealthy personalities that endorse their policies.

At the end of the day we had a vote and it was Leave, and there’s not much we can do about it now, so perhaps we should just move forward instead of trying to plot to change the majorities wishes, and before the Remainers start distorting what I’ve said, I voted to remain and Labour, but what will be, will be, and there’s no point crying over spilt milk.

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