Boris Johnson Plans To Raise Chewing Gum Tax

A new tax on chewing gum is set to be introduced to help meet the cost of cleaning Britain’s streets.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson hopes to raise more than £100 million from the new scheme which will target gum manufacturers.

About 300,000 pieces of discarded chewing gum can be found on Oxford Street, London at any one time and it takes about three months to clean them all away.

According to a news outlet, the Government intends to recover the costs of disposing of the gum by taxing manufacturers, and hope to make the hundreds of millions of pounds spent on cleaning each year.

Previous proposals for a tax on chewing gum already won support from the Local Government Association and Clean Up Britain campaign.

A Whitehall source told the paper that the new tax would be implemented unless chewing gum manufacturers willingly offer to meet the cost of cleaning gum off Britain’s streets, and they said that there are talks to see if they will cough up voluntarily but officials are now looking at how they would impose a levy.

They want cleaner streets so they can make a significant difference to communities.

The Prime Minister, who’s described gum on streets as monstrous acne of viscous grey blotches, had previously written a newspaper column in 2010 addressing the cost of having a clear away discarded gum, which he termed a plague.

This isn’t the first time chewing gum tax has been proposed by the Government, with former Chancellor Philip Hammond having suggested one in response to tackling plastic waste, and Philip Hammond had been soliciting advice on which products and substances to include in a tax package, with chewing gum one of the options having been considered.

The proposed new tax comes as part of the Prime Minister’s attempt to restore Britain after the pandemic to make it stronger and better.

While relaunching his Government last year, speaking in Dudley, in the West Midlands, the Prime Minister said that, despite the ongoing health difficulties and emerging economic crisis, it was the time to be ambitious about the future.

Boris Johnson said the Government wanted to build, build, build, but added that he would build back better, build back greener, and build back faster.

Additionally, the Government announced a £56 million fund last week to help prop up Britain’s high streets, but shouldn’t they begin with providing more refuse bins and street cleaning operatives before they start fleecing us for any and everything?

So let’s get this right. They’ve made it illegal to leave the country, a draconian law that’s never existed in the last 1,000 years in the United Kingdom. They’ve put the country into an extra half a trillion pounds of debt and they’ve made it illegal to even enter a pub, yet they’re focusing their time on a chewing gum tax.

It’s good to see that our current Tory government are thinking about the important issues of the day.

And it seems that the Tories response to everything is tax, and it’s good to see that Boris Johnson has got his priorities sorted!

Shops To Stay Open Until 10 pm Six Days A Week

Shops will be able to stay open until 10 pm six days a week to turbocharge the high street and help the economy recover.

Robert Jenrick announced that from April 12, extended daily opening hours will be introduced when non-essential retail reopens its doors.

The Communities Secretary said this would further ensure the safe reopening of non-essential shops by giving people greater flexibility to dodge peak times and reducing transport pressures, and a news outlet said that our high streets and town centres are the core of our communities.

Yet over the last year, they’ve mostly fallen silent, with many of our cherished high streets struggling as lockdown and social distancing measures have taken their toll, and that’s why they’re set to do everything they can to support the safe reopening of shopping areas as they carefully move out of lockdown.

And as part of the £56million ‘Welcome Back’ fund, Mr Jenrick is encouraging councils to continue supporting social distancing measures and easing planning rules where possible.

The Government is also extending flexible working hours on construction sites, allowing food deliveries to supermarkets over more time periods, and keeping the flexibility for pubs and restaurants to erect marquees to help increase the seating capacity in a COVID secure way.

The arrangements will continue until June 21, when lockdown is expected to end, although this could be extended.

Of course, we will then see people shopping like fools, spending their money.

And what’s wrong with this government? Because if people are required to work these shifts, then they should be getting paid for it, and they clearly should be getting more than the minimum wage for working unsociable hours.

And working these extra hours will unavoidably cause a few more night crimes.

Of course, these shops are not being made to stay open, but if the shops do choose to stay open, they have to remember that their employees aren’t slaves, and I’m sure there are loads of people who could do with the extra money.

But more importantly, what shops will stay open, there are barely any left to reopen, and the retail sector has been impacted by numerous job losses, and are those shops going to be able to afford staff to cover the extra hours?

What the government should be doing is reducing the rents charged by the greedy commercial property multi-millionaire rentiers, but that’s never going to happen.

And we’re heading backwards pretty fast. It will be 12-hour shifts 6-7 days a week with no sick pay.

Rents and mortgages, in general, are now causing huge debts, and people just can’t afford them anymore because wages don’t meet the prevailing cost of living. It’s just not enough, and now they’ll introduce as many zero contracts as possible and they’ll max out the hours so that they can put money back into the pocket of the wealthy.

Licence Fee Payers Are Unconsciously Financing Costly Legal Bills For Martin Bashir

BBC licence fee money is being used to fund legal defence bills for Martin Bashir who’s facing a probe into how he obtained an interview with Princess Diana, more than 25 years ago.

Martin Bashir, 58, who’s the BBC’s Religious Affairs editor, is one of many current or past staff who was implicated in the controversial broadcast.

The BBC is covering the legal expenses of those who are going to be called to give evidence at an independent inquiry into how the interview was obtained, and according to a news outlet, Martin Bashir risks being fired if the inquiry is critical of his means of convincing Diana to talk on camera about her marriage to Prince Charles.

The investigation is being led by former Master of the Rolls, Lord Dyson.

The former director-general of the BBC, Lord Hall, is also being investigated by the inquiry.

A news outlet maintained that Martin Bashir is being represented by Lewis Silkin, who specialises in employment law.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed they’re not launching a criminal inquiry into the interview, and they said that no further action will be taken over allegations related to the Panorama programme broadcast in 1995.

A former employee of Earl Spencer, who claimed he was the subject of false documents allegedly used to gain access to Diana, had earlier made a formal complaint to the force.

A legal representative of Alan Waller, who used to work for Diana’s brother Earl Spencer as head of security, wrote to the Met claiming unlawful activity.

Commander Alex Murray stated that in recent months the Metropolitan Police Service had obtained correspondence claiming unlawful activity in connection with a documentary broadcast in 1995 – this was thoroughly assessed by specialist detectives.

And he said that they obtained legal advice from Metropolitan Police lawyers, independent counsel and the Crown Prosecution Service and that following this detailed assessment, and given the advice they received, they concluded that it wasn’t appropriate to launch a criminal investigation into those allegations and that no further action would be taken.

And that in this matter, as in any other, should any vital new evidence come to light, that they would then assess it.

It has been alleged that Martin Bashir used two mocked up bank statements to falsely show Mr Waller was getting payments as a way to persuade the Earl to give him access to Diana.

And now, of course, they’re using taxpayer money to protect their reputation, and this is the reason why we shouldn’t be paying for a TV licence.

The BBC is full of millionaire socialists, getting wealthy off the backs of the poor and pensioners, and do they not see the irony of this situation?

The BBC appear to be extremely generous with other people’s money, and now it seems a lot of people are cancelling their TV licence, and now wouldn’t watch the BBC even if it was free, and is there any part of the BBC that doesn’t understand that bullying over 75-year-olds to finance the defence of the indefensible is shocking.

Take Two Tests In Three Days For 24 Hours Of Freedom?

Boris Johnson is facing a new assault on his plan for COVID passports to go to the pub, amid claims ministers are attempting to strongarm young people into getting vaccinated.

The government is putting together a policy where an NHS app would be utilised as evidence people have had jabs, or been newly tested.

People who don’t have immunity could be required to test negative twice over three days to get the freedom to associate freely in pubs and restaurants for 24 hours.

But the blueprint, being driven by Michael Gove within Whitehall, is coming under extreme fire from Conservatives who view it as an unacceptable invasion of civil freedoms, and government sources have indicated that they believe the policy will focus minds amongst the younger people, who are expected to be far more hesitant to get jabs.

But Tories told a news outlet that instead of coercion, ministers should look at giving that generation £100 each to get immunised.

Senior MP Steve Baker, deputy chair of the lockdown sceptic COVID Recovery Group, is vowing an attempt to wreck the despicable policies, which are estimated to be set out by Boris Johnson next month.

Steve Baker told Times Radio that the scheme that they intend, as he understood it, is that people would have to have two lateral flow tests about three days apart, and then they could apply to the government for 24 hours of freedom, and he believed if people just mull over how that would work, and how it would feel. That to have one day where you could go and enjoy yourself, you have to have two tests over three days, and through that period, you’d be under the full weight of whatever the restrictions were.

And he said that was a pretty despicable way to live, and it was a way to live from which he would recoil in utter horror, applying to the government for 24 hours of freedom after a couple of tests.

Although uptake amongst older generations in the United Kingdom has been remarkably high, and Israel has reported a definite drop off in the under 35s attending appointments.

A UK government source told a news outlet that the COVID passports proposals could help address the problem, and they said that if the argument on health grounds doesn’t wash because young people believe they’re going to be fine and their grandparents and parents have all taken it, the most effective nudge is that they’re not going to be able to be as free as they’d like and that not being allowed into pubs may focus minds.

Sir Desmond Swayne told MailOnline that primary law could be required to allow pubs to discriminate on the grounds of health characteristics.

But evidently, the vaccine is so great and so safe that they have to bribe people with £100 of taxpayer money to take it, and it’s a very sad day when they have more freedom in Russia than we do in the United Kingdom, and this parliament is an authoritarian disgrace and will go down in history as the worst we’ve ever had.

This is a disgrace to our country and everyone who gave their lives for freedom, and having the first jab is the thin end of a pretty long and dystopic wedge.

Once jabbed, your immune system will never be the same again, and then the government sit back and let the vaccine created immunizer attack any version of coronavirus, and of course, we know there will be mutants.

You will then be pressured into having the next vaccine for the new variant, though it will then be four months out of date, and getting your passport updated so you can live your life.

Chris Whitty said that the preponderance of us have COVID mildly or even without symptoms, so the risk of all of us taking an experimental gene treatment is insane and sinister.

Scientist Warns That Human Penises Are Shrinking Because Of Pollution

Penises are shrinking and genitals becoming malformed because of pollution, an environmental scientist has warned in a new book describing the difficulties facing human reproduction.

Dr Shanna Swan wrote that humankind is facing an existential crisis in fertility rates as a result of phthalates, a chemical used when manufacturing plastics that impact the hormone-producing endocrine system.

Dr Shanna Swan wrote that as a consequence of this pollution, an increasing number of babies are being born with small penises.

Her book, titled Count Down, explores how our current world is threatening sperm counts, changing male and female reproductive development, and endangering the fate of the human species.

Dr Shanna Swan’s research started by examining phthalate syndrome, something which is seen in rats which found that when fetuses were exposed to the chemical they were likely to be born with shrunken genitals.

And she found that male human babies who’d been exposed to the phthalates in the womb had a shorter anogenital distance, something that correlated with penile volume.

The chemical has an industrial use in making plastics more flexible, but Dr Shanna Swan said it’s being transmitted into toys and foods and consequently harms human development.

Phthalates imitate the hormone oestrogen and therefore disrupt the natural production of hormones in the human body, which researchers have linked to interference in sexual growth in infants and behaviours in adults.

Dr Shanna Swan, who’s a professor in environmental medicine and public health at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, based her work on a range of peer-reviewed research studies.

One study published in 2017 discovered that sperm levels amongst men in Western countries had fallen by more than 50 per cent over the past four decades after examining 185 studies involving close to 45,000 healthy men.

Dr Shanna Swan believes that the rapidly decreasing fertility rate means that most men will be unable to produce viable sperm by 2045.

Is this the increasing cost of pollution or is this a scare tactic to make us all greener? And I wonder how many billions were used on coming up with that conclusion? And if we went by everything that scientists said, then the world would be non-existent, but then I guess without all the scientist’s none of this would have been written.

And shouldn’t everyone’s hair be on fire about this? Because this is arguably more important than climate change, and if most men won’t be able to produce viable sperm, then it’s lights out for the human race by the end of the century.

And I’m sure this has been brought to our attention before due to harmful chemicals in microplastics, but nobody seemed to care then either, yet plastic and chemical industries have been pumping this into our communities for ages, and industries did precious little research into the toxicity effects on humans before using these substances.

This might be all true because who knows if pollution can be absorbed into our body’s enough that it becomes part of our basic biology and over time something that our children will inherit.

But does that really endanger the future of the human race? If so, then women must move quickly – perhaps find a few healthy males, stick them in a clinically protective environment, harvest them regularly for sperm and freeze the sperm for future AI use.

Dr Shanna Swan said that she’d found that male human babies who’d been exposed to the phthalates in the womb had a short anogenital distance, something that correlated with penile volume – the way things are going, this will all be a census question in ten years – that’s if we’re all still here in ten years!

Britain Will Only Vaccinate Children Against COVID If Needed

A government adviser asserted that the United Kingdom hasn’t agreed on any plans to vaccinate children against COVID and will only do it if needed.

Professor Adam Finn, a child vaccination expert at Bristol University and a member of the JCVI advisory group, said no decision had been made.

Leaked government plans suggested ministers want to start getting jabs to millions of under 18s from August to try to achieve herd immunity in the United Kingdom, but the results from clinical trials involving children haven’t been released yet, and the effectiveness and side effects of the jabs when given to children are unknown.

AstraZeneca and Pfizer are both testing their vaccines on under 18s and expect to announce their conclusions by the summer.

Scientists say that giving COVID jabs to children is potentially complicated because they have virtually zero short term risk from the disease, and would only be vaccinated to protect old people, and it’s still unknown, however, how long COVID might affect them.

More than 28 million adults in the United Kingdom have had their first vaccine dose so far and the NHS is on track to reach all over 18s by the end of July.

Professor Finn said on Good Morning Britain that if it does turn out to be necessary to immunise children, he believed it was more likely that they would prioritise teenagers over younger children, only because the data they have at the moment is that transmission of the virus is more liable to occur from and between teenagers who are a little bit more like adults.

And he said that they need to discover before that, what symmetry of the population they need to immunise to get adequate herd immunity and to stifle transmission of the virus and to do that they need to have a clear perception of how efficiently the vaccines hinder infection and transmission, and that data is still on its way at the moment.

The United Kingdom will attempt to accomplish herd immunity, in which so many people are protected that the virus can’t spread, with COVID vaccines, but if the threshold of protection needed is high, and scientists say it’s possibly higher than two thirds, even vaccinating 100 per cent of adults with a 100 per cent effective vaccine, which won’t happen, would only offer 75 per cent, then children may need vaccinating too otherwise the virus will continue circulating amongst them.

However, should our children be forced to vaccinate for a virus that barely affects them? But then each time the virus is passed on, there’s a chance it could mutate, and the more times it’s passed on, the more mutations will occur.

The more mutations, the greater the risk of one of them being extremely dangerous and not being preventable by any of the current vaccinations.

However, this virus has been systemic, and we’d better hope that we’re all strong enough to survive, otherwise, we’ll ultimately stop fighting the new system, and eventually, it will just become easier to overlook the losses and forget what life was like before lockdowns and fear because we should never underestimate those committed to a plan.

Is This More Proof Meghan Markle Wants To Be The First Woman US President?

Meghan Markle has teamed up with one of the senior figures from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, adding fuel to the rumours that the Duchess is keen to enter the political sphere.

And it emerged that Harry and Meghan had combined forces with Genevieve Roth, who will serve as a senior strategic advisor at the couple’s Archewell foundation.

Invisible Hand, a social impact agency established by Genevieve Roth, will also be working with Archewell on initiatives and campaigns.

Alaskan born Roth, who says she has a lifelong commitment to gender equity, previously served as the director of creative engagement for the 2016 Clinton Presidential campaign.

A graduate of Emerson College and the Columbia Journalism School Publishing Course, Genevieve Roth also worked with The White House and Let Girls Learn, a US government initiative started by former President Barack Obama and wife Michelle.

The news adds to the speculation that Meghan Markle, who routinely uses her position to comment on gender and racial equality, is keen to launch a political career.

A statement said Invisible Hand would be concentrating on strategic development through storytelling and community building in support of gender and racial equality.

A spokesperson for the Sussexes added that they join a rapidly growing team that’s genuinely committed to developing systemic cultural change and promoting compassionate communities across the globe.

This comes after Harry and Meghan’s right-hand woman in the US stepped down from her position.

Catherine St Laurent was headhunted by the pair from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to become their chief of staff and executive director of Archewell, their new non-profit organisation, last April.

The couple called her an incredible asset when they announced her appointment, adding that they were delighted to have her on their side, but it emerged that the Canadian born mother of two had suddenly left her post.

There was no explanation from her directly, but according to a news outlet, Catherine St Laurent had already stepped down, although she would continue to work with Archewell in an advisory role.

Numerous rumours have suggested the Duchess is planning a course to the White House, reports which ramped up in the aftermath of her interview with Oprah Winfrey, and Meghan’s friends have previously prompted speculation about her political aspirations, detailing her rise from humble beginnings as the embodiment of the American dream.

And both Meghan and Harry are like teeny boppers bouncing from one after school club to another, in a bid for notoriety. Politics – seriously? Mental health, they must be desperate for any easy money, and aligning with Hillary Clinton – oh my God!

Meghan seems to have some skills at least, well at least the ability to lie, the ability to be ruthless, the ability to ditch everyone and rewrite her own history. However, there’s a much greater chance of Donald Trump becoming the first woman president than there is of Meghan Markle winning any office, and is she not aware that she’s one of the most disliked women in the world?

And Meghan Markle would be given an enormous reality check if she went for president because it’s all well and good firstly being protected by the Royals, and suing anyone who challenges her, but all of her dirty laundries would come out if she goes into politics, and let’s face it, she couldn’t even manage being a princess, yet she wants to be a president! But then it looks like you have to be a liar to do the job anyhow, so she would probably fit in pretty well.

Harry Gets A Real Job

Prince Harry has got his first job in business as an executive at a Silicon Valley start-up that claims to be worth $1.73 billion, where he will promote an app used by corporate goliaths including Hilton, Facebook and oil giant Chevron to improve the mental health of their workers.

The Duke of Sussex was unveiled as the Chief Impact Officer at BetterUp, whose CEO Alexi Robichaux has refused to say how much the royal will be paid, but comparable positions at other Calfornia firms would command six or seven-figure salaries.

Harry, who’s served in the British Army but has no corporate experience, will not manage any employees but will be required to appear at special company functions and spend time at the company’s San Francisco office for meetings once COVID restrictions are lifted.

The prince, who says he’s been using BetterUp’s app since January, started talks with them about a position last Autumn after being introduced to USC graduate Mr Robichaux through a mutual friend.

BetterUp employs therapists and executive coaches on contracts, who are matched with clients to give mental health coaching by video link through the app.

Most of its clients are in the United States, but it does have executive coaches employed in the United Kingdom. The tech firm works with corporate giants including Facebook, Google, Snap Inc, NASA, Hilton and Warner Brothers.

And there will be some raised eyebrows because Harry has spoken extensively on the necessity to protect the environment, but BetterUp has also worked with oil colossus Chevron and demonstrating why he’s taken the position, Harry told the Wall Street Journal in a suitably corporate response that he plans to help create an impact in people’s lives.

Proactive coaching provides infinite opportunities for personal development, heightened awareness, and an all-round better life.

The problem is, he’s got the job on the back of being part of the family that represents the United Kingdom, yet he no longer represents the United Kingdom, and this is the man who didn’t seem to be able to support his wife when she felt suicidal, so what skills does he have for this kind of specialised work?

And it might appear as if he’s got a job, but we shouldn’t be so ignorant as not to believe it’s some sort of made-up position, but perhaps it might be good for him because he’ll be in precisely the best place for his mental support if Meghan chooses to divorce him.

Or maybe he could enrol Meghan as his first high profile mental health patient.

Could Dimming The Sun Help To Cool The Earth?

The first test of a project backed to spray millions of tonnes of chalk into the stratosphere, to dim the sun and cool the Earth, could happen in June.

Harvard University experts will test the system by sending a big balloon 12 miles above the Swedish town of Kiruna and have it drop 2kg of chalk dust into the stratosphere.

The purpose of the estimated $3 million mission, backed by billionaire Bill Gates, is to have the chalk deflect a portion of the sun’s radiation and stop it from hitting the surface, and cool the planet.

But the plan has been massively criticised since its inception, with project director Frank Keutsch even calling the need for this scale of geo-engineering terrifying, and experts have warned that the novel technique could be disastrous for weather systems in ways nobody can predict.

Backed by a variety of private donors including Bill Gates, the test mission is launching from Sweden as they could offer a launch by the end of this summer.

The test balloon will lift 600kg of scientific equipment 12 miles above the surface of the Arctic town and if all goes well, about 2kg of dust will be released.

This will then create a dust plume several kilometres in length, not big enough to have any impact on the intensity of the sun’s rays hitting the Earth.

During the first test, the team will gather data on how particles of dust react with the air. This could then be fed into computer models to determine what would occur if it were ever carried to scale.

Keutsch told the Times he wants to learn the real effects, as current models may be too optimistic and make the technique look attractive, and that it would take tonnes of dust and plumes many hundreds of kilometres to make a difference, the theory being that the dust would create a massive sunshade.

This would reflect some of the sun’s rays and heat back into space, dimming those that get through and so protecting Earth from the ravages of climate warming.

Keutsch, whose Harvard laboratory is leading the project, says the strategy would only be deployed in desperation to stop parts of the planet from becoming uninhabitable.

Studies show that without any attempts to stop climate change, such as curbs on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and other pollutants, parts of the world will be up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than they are today.

But this is something right out of a comic book villains playbook, and if the day does come when people commence messing around with the weather, then we’re done, but then all you have to do is look up geo-engineering, and you can see for yourself.

And Bill Gates attempting to play God will be a disaster, and it’s not a good idea to start terraforming the only planet you’ve got and which we can live on, and this man is a threat to humankind, and he needs to be locked up for the sake of himself, his family, and most of all, the sake of humanity and wasn’t there a little fella called Adolf Hitler who was comparable to Bill Gates, only he never had the money to buy the world’s governments.

Either that, or he believes he’s God, and we should all be extremely concerned, and it appears that Bill Gates has too much time on his hands – someone needs to give him something constructive to do – a bit of manual labour wouldn’t go amiss.

Every Adult In The United Kingdom Will Be Required To Play Their Part

Every adult will be encouraged to test themselves for coronavirus at least twice a week under new plans to help ease Britain out of lockdown.

Testing chiefs are driving the message in the hope of identifying people without symptoms.

They think that getting people to regularly swab is essential in driving down the spread of the virus and an advertising campaign will encourage Britons to play their part.

The new drive, revealed by the Times, will be supplemented by national sewage monitoring, and it’s expected that areas with growing cases will then be immediately identified and stopped by surge testing, possibly reducing the demand for future lockdowns.

Britain’s successful vaccine drive has led to calls for the lockdown to be eased more quickly, despite fresh regulations to prolong emergency government powers to extend restrictions by up to six months.

The bill is expected to sail through parliament despite threats of a Tory revolt.

The Tory MPs warned that Britain risks squandering the advantages of our vaccination programme by moving too slowly to lift the lockdown.

Amid signs of a mass revolt, a string of MPs said they were ready to vote against the Government this week when it attempts to extend COVID laws to the end of September.

The NHS yesterday revealed a third consecutive record day of vaccinations with 844,285 on Saturday.

The Institute of Economics Affairs yesterday said the success of the programme meant there was now a clear case for bringing forward Boris Johnson’s road map dates by four weeks.

This view was supported by Tory backbenchers, including former minister Steve Baker.

Mr Baker, the head of the COVID Recovery Group, said he will vote against plans to extend government powers, warning that the detention powers in the Coronavirus Act were excessive, unreasonable, and completely unnecessary and that renewing them would not be reconcilable with the Prime Minister’s guarantee that they’re on a one-way road to freedom by June 21.

Windsor MP Adam Afriyie said that he worries that some minds in government were centring on arbitrary dates rather than looking at the reality of the data on hospitalisations and deaths, which was what they were told in January would determine the unlocking.

Christopher Snowdon, of the Institute of Economic Affairs, said that even if the vaccination programme slowed down next month, they were in a far better place than anybody anticipated in January and that there was a strong case for bringing the roadmap forward by four weeks.

So, it seems it’s back to cases we go, and it’s a never-ending cycle – deaths, deaths, deaths, and then when those numbers fall, it’s cases, cases, cases, and then when those fall, those that haven’t learned from the past year, never will, but don’t forget, vaccines are the way out – right?

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