Letting Agents Turn Away Tenants On Housing Benefits

Shelter and the National Housing Federation found one in 10 agents in England refused to let to those on benefit.

The covert investigation discovered the policy was implemented even if tenants could afford the rent.

Stephen Tyler told the BBC that housing benefit discrimination had forced him to sleep in his car.

The wheelchair user told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme that they’d endeavoured to find accommodation since they were ousted from their last property when they asked for adaptions to be made for wheelchair access.

He said that he called anything up to 20 landlords, estate agents, a day and none of them would accept DSS, tenants on Department of Social Security housing benefits.

The Birmingham resident said he’d approached his council as well as housing associations, but no one wanted to help at all.

A spokesman for Mr Tyler’s local council, Birmingham City, stated it had offered him suitable alternative accommodation, and it added that while this was far from an ideal situation, and that it was no doubt distressing for Mr Tyler and his family, unfortunately, they were faced with a national housing crisis which was affecting an unprecedented number of families across the region.

Polly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said that this ugly undercurrent of discrimination was wreaking devastation on hundreds of thousands of people’s lives and that DSS was an obsolete and outrageous illustration of heinous discrimination.

The investigation into 149 regional letting agent branches discovered five of England’s leading letting agents were discriminating against tenants on housing benefit and Haart was the worst culprit.

Mystery shoppers, deployed by the charities, had encountered a prohibition on housing benefit tenants in eight out of 25 Haart branches and a spokesman for Haart said that it wasn’t their policy to prohibit housing benefit tenants and that anyone who passes referencing checks can rent properties listed with their branches.

They continued that they regularly arrange tenancies for those claiming housing benefits and presently have 112 tenancies where this is the case, but this research had brought to light that some of their branches had been misinformed and were working to ensure that this policy was being followed across their network and that they were sorry for any occasion where this had not been the case.

Others named as having individual branch guidelines not to accept people on housing benefit were Bridgfords (two out of 25 branches visited), Dexters (two out of 25), Fox & Sons (two out of 24) and Your Move (one out of 25).

The report said that nearly half of all branches contacted during the investigation said they had no suitable homes or landlords would not let to someone on housing benefit.

The report claims that a shortfall in social housing meant that an estimated 1.64 million adults depend on housing benefit to help cover private rents and it was said the preponderance were women, especially single mothers with childcare responsibilities, while people who received disability benefits were three times more likely to need a housing benefit top-up.

David Cox, chief executive of letting agents body Arla Propertymark said that rents are paid in advance, whereas housing benefit is paid in arrears, and thus with such a shortage of rental accommodation, landlords and agents will naturally pick a tenant who can pay the rent when it’s due, rather than a tenant who is always a month in arrears.

He said that they’ve called on the Government time and time again to fix this issue, but that their calls have fallen on deaf ears.

A Ministry of Housing spokesman said those on housing benefit who felt discriminated against could complain to redress schemes, which all letting and managing agents must be part of by law.

He added that they were determined to tackle stigma in social housing and the private rented sector and that they had published their Social Housing Green Paper setting out their strategies to rebalance the relationship between tenants and landlords.

Unfortunately, for the time being, disabled people and single mothers are still being discriminated against because of housing benefit discrimination and the Government and wider society do not care.

And the entire idea of letting agents is evil because they’re completely driven by money and can push rents up as much as possible because they get a percentage and this is making people homeless as the cost of renting gets higher and higher, and this is a more short-sighted governance – rents should be lowered then capped and capitalism sucks.

Margaret Thatcher came up with the concept of ‘Right To Buy’ and then Tony Blair became her poodle. And Right To Buy was fantastic for those who could afford it, but for others, it wasn’t such a good idea and it also the scheme meant they ceased building enough social housing.

The point is that council houses have not been built under any Government for many years – Conservative, Labour, whichever party you support, neither have bothered to think logically and now we have more people needing affordable rental properties and there’s not enough to go round, or they simply can’t afford them.

And what is going on is shameful and yet we call ourselves civilised, yet our Government are allowing this to happen and our Government are treating people like they’re not even human beings.

Olivia Newton-John Strikes Back As Woke Brigade Label Grease SEXIST – Danny Changed For Sandy

The hit musical Grease is one of the highest-grossing film musicals of all time, taking in over $400 million at the box office back in 1978. But since then, some movie buffs have felt the film’s account of Sandy’s raunchy transformation was sexist – after all, this is what it took for John Travolta’s Danny to be won over by her Grease’s end.

However, Sandy star Olivia Newton-John reacted to the claims that Grease is sexist in a new interview.

The 72-year-old said that it was a movie and that it was a story from the fifties and things were different then.

She said that everyone forgets, that at the end, he changes for her, too and there was nothing deep in there about the #MeToo movement.

It’s just a girl who loves a guy, and she believes if she does that, he’ll like her and she said that she believed that was pretty real – people do that for each other and it was a fun love story.

Meanwhile, her Frenchie co-star Didi Conn has also shot down the claims that Grease was sexist.

The 69-year-old felt that Sandy’s makeover was more about her being true to herself than attempting to win over Danny and Didi told GMB that it’s like the first makeover show and it was just about becoming more of herself to come through.

And that it wasn’t so much about getting her man, it was to be who she was 100 per cent because she ran away from the dance because he was dancing with Cha-Cha and she couldn’t face him because there was this part of her that wanted to come out.

Also, some movie buffs have pointed out that the James Bond franchise has been sexist in the past and needs to revamp in light of the MeToo movement, which No Time To Die appears to be doing.

This includes the idea of updating the Bond girl or Bond woman as is the wording preference on the 007 set nowadays and back in the summer, The Man With The Golden Gun star Britt Ekland told a news outlet that she was the proudest Bond girl there because there wasn’t a lot of them left and that there wouldn’t be any in future – the Bond girl has to look good in a bikini.

And while appearing on GMB, she shared her views on what James Bond should be like and the 78-year old told Piers Morgan that she felt that Bond should probably be a little bit more untouchable.

At the end of the day, boy meets girl, they fall in love, it’s the oldest story in the world and some people have very twisted minds. The movie is iconic!

It’s just like any other love story – one character ultimately changes for another, which can be exampled in numerous counts in real-life love stories, and if people don’t like it, they don’t have to watch it – why do people these days believe that just because they don’t like it, no one else should be able to watch it?

I can’t believe that this is being debated on TV – it just seems that some people need to whine about something and I’m just laughing because, after all these years, I still haven’t figured out how Olivia Newton-John managed to pull herself into those leather pants.

Come on folks, just take it for what it is, entertainment.

Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer Slams Into An Electric Bike While Endeavouring To Complete A U-turn

Eyewitnesses told a news outlet that Sir Keir Starmer slammed into a cyclist while endeavouring to execute a U-turn close to a busy intersection with traffic lights.

The Labour leader, 58, was involved in a collision near his home on Grafton Road, Kentish Town, North London on Sunday on his way to his tailor.

It took place between The Grafton pub and the adjacent OYO Camden hotel with two eyewitnesses claiming that Sir Keir Starmer was driving on the opposite side of the road.

They maintain that he slowed down outside the Kentish Town Sports Centre, which is on the opposite side of the road to the pub and the hotel and was endeavouring to turn his automobile around when he struck the cyclist.

Eyewitnesses claimed that the cyclist was a Deliveroo rider who was using a black and white electric bike. A passer-by called for an ambulance soon after 12.08 pm on Sunday.

Sir Keir’s office told a news outlet that he was attempting to park and was not performing a U-turn and that he left the scene only after an ambulance arrived.

Darryl, 31, who lives only yards from the scene of the accident told the news outlet that he was taking his shopping in and heard a loud racket. So, he went to see what had happened and saw an SUV across the middle of the road.

He said it appeared as if it was trying to do a U-turn and struck the cyclist who was coming in the opposite direction.

Electrician Darryl added that there were a few scuff marks on the driver side door and at first the cyclist was on the ground but then he was helped up and sat outside the OYO hotel holding his left arm and crying in pain.

He said that he didn’t know who the driver was at the time, but he went over to the cyclist who was yelling, “How did you not see me?”

After the ambulance took the gentleman away, somebody padlocked his bike to a lamppost and it remained there until Monday night when it was collected.

Both sides of the road are marked with double yellow lines close to what is one of the busiest intersections in the area and a spokesman revealed that Sir Keir Starmer had been in touch with the cyclist on Monday night to apologise and check up on his condition.

I’m guessing Sir Keir Starmer’s feeling a bit of a fool now because you don’t do U-turns on busy intersections, but then I guess he’s used to that, seeing as he does them in parliament – the real tragedy here is he missed his appointment at his tailor!

And why wasn’t he breathalysed? Isn’t that the policy after an accident, or is that just for ordinary folks? Next week he’ll be cycling to work to show how sorry he is and how much he supports cyclists.

First Trial At Train Station For Dogs That Can Smell COVID-19 In Humans

The dogs which are being taught to sniff out coronavirus have had their first experience of a busy train station as they train to do it for real as soon as early 2021.

The dog and their handlers from the charity Medical Detection Dogs spent the morning training at London’s Paddington Station before showing the Duchess of Cornwall and the health secretary what they can do.

The animals can sniff out the virus in humans in less than a second, even those who have it asymptomatically and aren’t displaying any signs of coronavirus.

Health Secretary, Matt Hancock said on Tuesday that you could immediately think of several uses they could put this to, and find people who don’t know they have COVID 19.

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall who’s the Patron of the dog’s charity, said that she was optimistic that the Government would take note of the dog’s progress.

She said after watching the demonstration with the Secretary of State. “How could you not be impressed by them?”

The dogs have learned how to detect the virus in laboratory conditions but this was the first time they’ve been taken to a location where they might soon be detecting COVID 19 in a trainload or a planeload of passengers.

COVID like numerous diseases has an odour, and the Medical Detection Dogs also trains dogs to detect cancer, Parkinson’s disease and diabetes.

This scientific trial, with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is progressing well but they only have half the number of positive samples they need.

Professor James Logan from LSHTM urged anyone who has tested positive for coronavirus to contact them to get a sample pack which the dogs will then sniff.

The pack contains a mask, a t-shirt and socks which anyone with a recent positive test are asked to wear for a few hours before sending them back.

The trial is also working with airports to see how the dogs might be used there to open up travel once again.

Claire Guest, the co-founder of Medical Detection Dogs, said the animals could be a gamechanger for passengers travelling under COVID conditions and it was a wonderful chance to illustrate to the Secretary of State how fast these dogs can work.

There have been in-depth studies that have found that people emit a smell when unwell and the results strongly support that humans emit a chemical cue during a generalised sickness response that can be sensed by others.

However, because the new study was performed in a laboratory, it’s not evident whether the same results would be seen outside the lab in people who have other infections, and perhaps this is the same for the doggies.

However, dogs can pick up on their owner’s body giving out different smells than what would be normal, and dogs have been known to detect seizures minutes or even hours before they’ve occurred – this is because their owner’s body gives out different scents and signals and the dog can detect the dissimilarity.

Damilola Taylor’s Tragic Final Words

Damilola Taylor was only ten years old when he died alone, attacked and left to bleed to death in agony in a south London stairwell.

His killers, Ricky Preddie was only 13 and his brother Danny only 12, when they committed the crime that shocked the nation.

Damilola Taylor had only been in the United Kingdom for a few months when his life was tragically cut short.

His family had moved from Nigeria to Britain in August 2000, the 10-year-old was killed on November 27 the same year.

It happened as Damilola Taylor was strolling home from the library that the child, who dreamed of becoming a lawyer, was stabbed in the thigh with a broken bottle after he was approached by a group of youths.

Damilola was found bleeding to death in a stairwell near his home in Peckham, south London, where local workmen tried to save his life.

He had desperately tried to crawl to safety and a 30 trail of blood was left on the street after the horrifying attack, but it was six years before the killers were brought to justice.

Ricky and Danny Preddie were convicted of manslaughter and were sentenced to eight years in youth custody, but Damilola Taylor’s parents, Richard and Gloria, were determined their son’s death would not be in vain and set up the Damilola Taylor Trust, which strives to support young people in deprived and inner-city areas.

Yinka Bokinni, radio presenter hosted a documentary with the youngster’s friend, the documentary was called The Boy Next Door on Channel 4.

The Capital XTRA presenter explained that the kid that she knew was shouting and running and jumping and screaming and laughing. He was so easygoing and courageous.

She said it’s a tribute to our friend and it’s also a film of hope and the hope that it humanises Damilola, and gives you more than what that now-iconic picture of him symbolises.

She said that she felt that when people see him in his school uniform and that when people see him with his half-smile, they only see the victim.

Popular schoolboy Damilola Taylor was also close friends with Star Wars actor John Boyega and his sister, Grace.

Richard Taylor, Damilola’s father, explained that Damilola, John and Grace were so close and they looked after him when he came to the United Kingdom because they went to school together.

John and Grace, who Richard said was like a girlfriend to Damilola, where the last two people to see the schoolboy alive.

As he left the library Damilola was caught on CCTV getting into a lift with two friends, who were not identified at the time, but were John and his sister.

Richard said they were the last to see him. They wanted to accompany him home, but he said he was going to be okay.

They left him by the junction then he went around the corner and the gang were waiting for him.

John has never forgotten his childhood pal and nominated the Trust set up in Damilola’s name to receive a donation from the Star Wars launch.

Richard, who attended the premiere, said that he was overwhelmed and that it filled him with happiness.

However, John’s success, along with Damilola’s other close friend Yinka has made his father consider what his young son could have accomplished if his life hadn’t been cut short in such a harrowing way.

Richard said that he thought that Damilola could have been working with him as an actor.

Damilola Taylor was acting in primary school, in Christmas plays, school plays, reciting poems and all that sort of stuff, but there’s good coming out of the place because John’s promoting Peckham, not renouncing his roots and Damilola would have been doing the same thing.

And he can see through those friends the life Damilola might have lived because many of those who grew up in scandalous housing in North Peckham still made a name for themselves. Some became GPs, accountants, footballers or are in the media.

He said that he was so proud that they lived under those excruciating circumstances, they struggled through life but have done extremely well like Yinka Bokinni and John Boyega.

This was heartbreaking because the poor boy was so full of life and an unforgettable and painful loss, that his parents will never forget and may his memory go on.

We must educate our children early and have more understanding of child violence and more resources are needed.

We would like to have more peace in the world but unfortunately for generations to come there will always be destruction and unfortunately we choose to destroy – it all goes together, power, money, religion, greed and awareness is needed because so many young people are struggling in life with many falling victim to criminality or being killed.

One of the killers Ricky Preddie didn’t learn his lesson and since being released has been in and out of prison numerous times for loads of different offences and gang association.

Ricky Preddie ended up back in prison for driving into a female police officer.

He was sentenced to four years imprisonment and banned from driving for 12 years, which will start when he’s released from prison.

After serving his sentence for Damilola Taylor’s death, Ricky Preddie was paroled in September 2010. His brother Danny followed the next year after being given early release.

Ricky Preddie was sent back to prison in March 2011 after breaching his licence conditions.

He was released in January 2012, but just 16 days later he was imprisoned again for violating his parole when he visited places he was banned from and seeing friends from his old gang.

Sadly, some people can’t be helped and they just need locking up for good, and you just have to watch the very tragic loss of a lovely young boy to realise that, and what a pitiful sentence those boys got, regardless if they were kids, they should have got much longer.

I remember this like it was yesterday – ten years old, truly heartbreaking, he was just a baby.

Manchester Arena Attack

A public inquiry has heard that a security guard had a nasty feeling as he eyeballed Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi, but didn’t approach him for fear of being branded a racist.

Kyle Lawler said he was stood 10 or 15 feet away from Salman Abedi, who had been reported to security by a member of the public who believed he looked dodgy.

The Showsec security guard, aged 18 at the time of the terror attack, told police in a statement read to the inquiry sitting in Manchester that he felt uncertain about what to do, and he said that it was extremely difficult to determine a terrorist and that for all he knew he might have well been an innocent Asian male.

He said that he didn’t want people to think that he was stereotyping him because of his ethnicity and that it made him reluctant.

He said that he wanted to get it right and not mess it up by overreacting or judging someone by their race.

Paul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry, said that if he was to have approached him and he had been some innocent kid, people might have thought that he was racist. Mr Lawler replied, “Yes”.

Abedi, 22, dressed all in black and carrying a big, bulky backpack, was spotted and was reported to security at 10.15 pm on May 22 2017.

The Manchester-born bomber, whose parents were Libyan, was seated on steps near the back of the foyer of the arena, known as the City Room, awaiting the end of an Ariana Grande concert.

Around eight minutes before he detonated his device, Showsec steward Mohammed Ali Agha alerted Mr Lawler to the report by a member of the public and both started observing Abedi.

Mr Lawler said that at that time he was simply an Asian male seated amongst a group of white people.

He said that as Ali turned to have a look he clocked that they were looking at him. He then became twitchy with his hands. No sudden movements. He was watching them, watching him.

He said he would sort of look, then slightly look away and then look back at them and in his statement to police, Mr Lawler said that he merely had a bad feeling about him but didn’t have anything to justify that.

The inquiry heard that the witness said Abedi was twitchy and perspiring and he said he panicked slightly and was conflicted because he thought something was amiss but could not put his finger on it, he was just a good human being weighing up a complicated and difficult situation.

And if this poor man was only 18 years old at the time and only making minimum wage, that’s hardly the pay grade we should expect to be responsible for apprehending suicide bombers.

He was unequipped to deal with this type of situation, he was just there to prevent people from hurling bottle caps and knickers on stage, but certainly not to deal with suicide bombers.

This is why it’s important to stop and search people who look questionable irrespective of what ethnicity they are, these people are simply doing their job, and if they’re stopped and nothings found, then there shouldn’t be an issue, but if something is found, then it can save lives.

And if the bomber had been confronted he would have detonated the bomb, the security guard would have died a hero, but what consolation would that have been to his family?

Poland’s Abortion Marches Bring City Streets To Gridlock

Thousands of Poland’s people took to the streets across the nation on Monday for the fifth day of demonstrations against a court ruling that paves the way for an almost complete abortion ban.

People were bearing placards with messages such as ‘You have blood on your hands’ and ‘Fight the virus, not women’, with crowds of mostly young protesters blocking roads and roundabouts, bringing parts of several municipalities, including the capital of Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw and Szczecin, to a gridlock.

A woman called Patrycja said that every woman should have a choice, and it’s just outrageous that one person, or even five, should have the right to decide for everyone, as she held a placard that read ‘I am not an incubator’.

She said that she cried when she heard the ruling and that she couldn’t imagine that she or her child wouldn’t have the right to decide about their child and that it was tragic.

The demonstrations were kindled last week when Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal ruled that a 1993 law permitting abortions in circumstances of extreme foetal disabilities was unconstitutional, paving the way for a dramatic tightening of Poland’s abortion laws, which were already among the most stringent in the EU.

Once the ruling comes into force, terminations will be permitted only in cases of rape, incest or when the mother’s health or life is in danger. Such cases accounted for just 2.4 per cent of the 1,100 legal abortions that took place in Polish hospitals in 2019.

Since coming to power in 2015, the conservative nationalist Law and Justice party (PiS) has made promoting traditional, Catholic values a central plank of its political platform.

Over the past 18 months, the party has ratcheted up its rhetoric against LGBT rights movements and backed away from a prior endeavour to tighten Poland’s abortion laws in 2016 only after huge street demonstrations.

He wrote on Twitter, both healthy and disabled children, apart from their duties, give a lot of joy and build family strength and through that, a strong Poland.

However, women’s rights groups say that the court ruling means that women would be forced to give birth to babies with severe and fatal conditions and no possibility of survival.

Others, such as Iwona Hartwich, an opposition MP with a disabled child, who led a campaign for greater support for disabled people and their families, accused PiS of failing the disabled and she wrote that PiS just promises and doesn’t live up to those pledges.

Polish law is already the strictest in the EU and this amendment forces women to carry to full term dead and heavily deformed fetuses and it’s previously been described by Amnesty International as torture, but respectively, I’m lost for words.

Abortions happen regardless whether a country permits it or not, and here on Planet Earth anti-abortion laws don’t stop abortions, and sadly women will go to any other source for an abortion, and this encourages women to seek help in less favourable conditions.

And a ban on abortion for gross foetal handicap is just plain immoral.

How could someone force a woman to carry a grossly handicapped foetus to term or until dies? And I understand that some might not support abortion on demand, but this tightening of the law is wicked and heartless.

It’s also stunningly stupid, and now women will consider seeking alternatives, which are very often dangerous, but it looks like Europe is returning to the 19th century along with back street abortions.

Stick To NHS COVID Test, Ministers Advise

Ministers are discouraging the public from using a coronavirus testing service offered by Boots.

A nasal swab test that costs £120 and delivers results in 12 minutes will be available at designated stores across Britain and is being marketed to people without symptoms.

The pharmacist is also offering a separate PCR test, suited to people wanting to fly abroad or to see vulnerable relatives, which will be processed in an external lab with the results delivered in 48 hours.

Chief executive Sebastian James said the devices were the first step towards mass testing on high streets and will help relieve the pressure on the NHS.

He said that they think they’re the most affordable private test and that they believe it’s pretty good value compared to others on the high street, which range from £270 at the very expensive end to around £150 in online clinics.

And that once it becomes more available in terms of cost it could be an extremely important weapon in the arsenal against COVID 19.

He added that they hoped that by offering this testing opportunity in local community stores, Boots could help relieve pressure on the NHS and the Government by delivering additional access to testing and crucial reassurances for people across the United Kingdom.

Customers can book the Boots test via an online app and tests are administered by staff in private rooms.

The equipment connects to a cloud system, which could potentially allow for fast-tracking of the disease outbreaks by health authorities.

The technology has been developed by UK based life sciences company LumiraDx, which has also struck a deal to provide supplies to the NHS in Scotland.

The test, which detects the presence of a COVID 19 antigen protein, is said to be vastly faster than other rapid tests presently being trialled, which delivers results in an average time of 90 minutes.

The rapid test comes as hundreds of thousands more people ready themselves for the imposition of the most challenging coronavirus restrictions as discussions continue between the Government and local leaders.

It was revealed on Sunday that contacts of people contaminated with coronavirus may have to self isolate for as little as seven days amid concerns in Whitehall about the levels of public compliance with the Test and Trace system.

Officials on the Government’s COVID 19 taskforce are understood to be examining the case for decreasing the current fortnight period of isolation to between 10 days and a week.

The move, which wouldn’t apply to those who test positive for the disease, come amid increasing discontent with the performance of the system from ministers and MPs, and anyone who suspects they have COVID 19 is advised to go to an NHS testing station, where results are expected in 48 hours.

However, the public needs to be clear that this is a private company doing this work, and we should also have grave concerns about how the Government is trying to privatise the NHS through the back door and that ex-Tory ministers are profiting from this.

And the issue with this testing is that it’s only good for right there and then. So, you’re paying £120 to find out if you have it, then you step out into the street and you could very well catch it, but then you’ll have a certification that says you don’t have it, which will allow you to fly to some other country.

And it seems that if you need a test like for trekking abroad, but have no symptoms, you’re not allowed to use the NHS. You can only use the NHS if you have symptoms.

Of course, the Government is advising against this, but if their system is less efficient, of course, people will access this if they’re able and inclined to pay – it’s all about supply and demand.

Girl’s Iconic Christmas List Goes Viral

One dad might be regretting asking his daughter what she wanted for Christmas after she returned with a 26 line wish list which will require Santa’s elves to have some extremely deep pockets.

People were loving both her bravery and the phonetic spelling of the items she’s expecting to find under the tree after her dad posted the list on Twitter with the caption:
‘My ten-year-old daughter must be out of her mind with this Christmas list’.

Santa will need to work closely with Apple as she began the list with an iPhone 11, AirPods and a new MacBook Air.

There were also the unusual favoured requests among children, such as clothes, makeup and a real bunny, as well as garments for the bunny of course, but it was choices like ‘Chanel purs’, ‘purfume’, ‘julery’ and particularly ‘ascenchal oil’ which caught people’s attention.

One individual posted that she loved how the young girl had enunciated the items and another penned that baby sounded it out.

Others were merely wondering what a ten-year-old was intending to do with £3,000 in cash, with one calling it a rockstar move, but she’s a child with big dreams and there’s nothing wrong with that.

And obviously, her dad won’t be able to buy all the things on the list. However, if they’re small enough to purchase, let them have their dreams or at least some of them.

She’s just a little girl who just likes the look of things. Children want everything they see when they’re that age and it’s good to dream.

The problem is when you spend years telling children that Santa will bring it, then you’re setting yourself up for disappointing them.

Dreams are brilliant, unfortunately, reality is a disappointment, so children should be allowed a few dreams before reality jollies in, and to be fair, every child deserves a bit of pampering after the appalling year they’ve had – so come on Boris Johnson, be a bit of a Father Christmas this year and put your hand in your sack!

BBC Has Become A Celebrity Cult

Mr Anderson claimed the BBC has been pushing a left-wing agenda in its programming.

Talking to Defund the BBC, Mr Anderson said that the fundamental differences were that you had normal people probably earning a decent salary back in the 70s or 80s, but that now it’s become a celebrity cult where they pedal out this left-wing drivel and he added that they’re all probably privately educated.

He continued that they’re all champagne socialist, which he said he knew a lot of them were, with their left-wing agenda and that they despise Boris Johnson and they hate the Government.

And he said that he believed they were far too intellectual to have voted Brexit and that they were using their own experiences and feelings to pedal out their narrative through the media and that the BBC should be bigger than that.

The BBC has always repudiated allegations of bias and in its editorial guidelines, the corporation states it’s impartial aiming to reflect the views and experiences of their audiences.

On the BBC position, a spokeswoman for the Department of Media said that it’s an open recruitment process and that all public appointments were subject to robust and fair election criteria.

Mr Anderson went onto reveal that he would not be paying another penny to the BBC amid controversy on the TV licences and he said that he didn’t know what they were playing at because people were switching off in their droves and they were ripping up their TV licences.

Mr Anderson’s comments came as Richard Tice urged the BBC reassess its licence fee structure as Britons can get almost everything the broadcaster offers elsewhere.

The ex Brexit Party chairman said Britons shouldn’t be forced to pay a fixed amount for a fixed set of TV services.

Richard Tice said that it just felt like in today’s world when there’s so much competition, you can effectively get almost all of what the BBC offers from other people – that’s how the competition works.

And he added that he thought that was why there needed to be a proper reassessment and that was why at the Brexit Party, one of their policies was to have a relook at the BBC licence fee structure.

Unfortunately, objective reporting of the truth gets in the way and is an inconvenience for right-wing Governments peddling lies. Thus all the attacks on the BBC under the Tories, especially from their billionaire press, or is this just coincidence? And the British brainwashing corporation needs to go.

And they get away with it, but why do they get away with what they do? It’s because they force people into a contract they don’t want with jail and fines if they don’t pay.

They know older people have no money to pay for it, but so does the Government, and the Government over time knew that they’d been intimidated with jail and fines if they didn’t pay for something they didn’t want or couldn’t afford.

The Government also knows that it’s full of prejudice and propaganda aimed at whatever agenda and it’s all a scandal because you’d better pay your TV licence fee. After all, day and night the BBC’s detector vans roam the streets seeking you out and you could be next.

We haven’t heard quite so much about these four-wheeled agents of surveillance in recent years, but now they’re back in the news with apparent plans to update them to detect people watching iPlayer, the BBC’s online live and catch up viewing service, which is accessible free of charge within the United Kingdom.

Previously, a licence was needed to watch live programmes on iPlayer, in just the same way as if you watched them using a TV aerial, but not if you watched them later, but now a licence will be required to watch any TV content on iPlayer.

Now BBC vans will spread out across the country capturing information from private Wi-Fi networks in homes to sniff out those who’ve not paid the licence fee and the corporation has been given legal dispensation to use the new technology, which is generally only available to crime-fighting agencies – so now, instead of being armed with a knife or a gun, we’re armed with a TV connection!

But the disclosure will lead to fears about invasion of privacy, so rapidly did those concerns saturate social media that within a day the BBC was stating that it was wrong to imply that their technology involved capturing data from private Wi-Fi networks.

This appears to render moot an emerging controversy between computer security specialists about how the BBC might detect, from the kerb, that people were accessing iPlayer, along with a similar debate between lawyers about how it might do so without its staff or contractors going to jail.

Capturing data from private networks would certainly require some type of legal cover.

The Regulations of Investigatory Powers (British Broadcasting Corporation) Order 2001 already permitted TV Licencing, the BBC’s licence enforcement arm, to use powers created in the notorious Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) to deploy detection equipment.

If this was to be amended in the even more notorious Investigatory Powers (IP) bill currently going through parliament, there was no sign of it in existing drafts. However, if no data was to be captured at all from private networks, what would TV Licencing be asking permission for? And what would the vans be doing?

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