THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

Coronavirus: The EU Ventilator System Mix Up

The government said that there was a communications mix-up which meant that they missed the deadline to join an EU scheme to get more ventilators for the coronavirus crisis.

Ministers were further accused of putting Brexit before public well-being when Downing Street said that the United Kingdom had chosen to pursue its own scheme, but now No 10 officials are saying that they didn’t get the emails asking them to participate and now it can’t participate in forthcoming schemes.

And now Labour is demanding to know why the government switched its information, and the party’s Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said that given the enormous demand for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), testing capacity and crucial medical equipment including ventilators, people will want to know why on Monday ministers were saying they had decided other routes over the joint EU procurement initiatives but now they’re claiming that they missed the relevant emails.

Of course, we now need urgent clarification from ministers about how they will get vital equipment to the frontlines as a matter of urgency, and the United Kingdom should be co-operating through international schemes to ensure we get these urgently needed pieces of equipment.

The EU extended its support to the UK and said that we could take part in the procurement project, even though we are no longer a member of the bloc, but Downing Street refused that hand of kindness and said it was because we are no longer members of the EU.

And now our government has said that they’re conducting their own work on ventilators and that they’ve had a pretty strong response from business and that they’ve also procured ventilators from the private sector in the United Kingdom and international companies.

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But Boris Johnson has denied the decision was motivated by Brexit, and he said that this was an area where they wanted to make their efforts – oh, what a saint he is – pity he didn’t ask the people what they wanted!

And now Boris Johnson faces resentment from the opposition, and they’re saying that he’s putting Brexit before breathing.

The UK currently has 8,000 ventilators that are accessible and has placed orders for another 8,000 from existing manufacturers, but there are concerns about capacity in hospitals as the extent of the virus worsens.

Last week, the government put out a request for other British businesses to utilise their facilities to make the equipment and has since signed a contract for 10,000 ventilators with Dyson.

However, these ventilators still need to go through standards checks and wouldn’t be bought and distributed until that happens.

Now Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, and we hope that he recovers, but I’m sure it wouldn’t worry many of us if he couldn’t conduct any of his political responsibilities.

The Tories can all quickly be superseded by another set of equal Tory incompetents, and if Boris Johnson isn’t severely criticised in Parliament over the ventilator embarrassment, then we certainly know that this country has problems that we’ll seemingly never overcome.

And Boris Johnson’s government are continuing to put more lives in danger with their sluggish ordering of ventilators, on top of the thousands of lives they’ve already put at risk due to their lethargy to act, and their failure to protect front line medical, nursing and care workers, and their inability to get behind those serving so selflessly to safeguard society against this virus is beyond belief.

They said they missed the email, curious that, nobody else appears to have missed it and this just shows the disdain the Tories have for us in the United Kingdom.

They couldn’t even be bothered to make up a believable reason, they just rolled out this pitiful pretence of an explanation, but then you can’t blame them when they saw how even the most outrageous deceptions were engulfed by large numbers of people in both the referendum and the General Election.

And once again it’s if ‘I’m all right Jack’, and let’s thank the Tory voters for electing a government that’s cut NHS spending over the last ten years and then again and again.

Thanks to government austerity we have nurses using food banks, but we’ll all praise our nurses now because now we need them, very hypocritical.

It appears that NHS staff who are presenting manifestations are being tested for the virus, just like Boris Johnson was tested when he displayed symptoms, but the common people are not being tested except if they end up in the hospital, and there seems to be no logic or reasoning because everyone should be tested.

I have friends that have symptoms, but they’re just being advised to stay at home and not go out for 14 days, but they’re not being tested, therefore we don’t have reliable data for who is infected with the virus.

And when watching Boris Johnson on video, there appeared to be no sign of a tenacious cough, so could he perhaps be looking for a pity vote? Because the only thing that Boris Johnson is persistent about is lying and leaving his offspring.

Boris Johnson tested pretty early for the coronavirus and evidently, he tested positive. Either he has access to a super-fast test, or he’s telling lies, and we know he’s around a lot of people doing his job as Prime Minister, so he must be tested and given the results promptly, but that testing was super fast.

And why is it that our government perpetually appears to be idle in these kinds of things and only acts when it concerns them directly, and it was a shocking decision by Boris Johnson, the EU held out their hands in the spirit of generosity and Boris declined to accept and opted to turn a vacuum making company instead.

Sadly Boris Johnson isn’t a team player and it seems his arrogance and pride rule his British psyche, and it seems that joining the EU scheme was too embarrassing for Brexiters with their fevered fantasy.

And now we have confusion, inner chaos and shallow reasoning and the Tories are failing the people of the United Kingdom.

All in it together, yes, even the Prime Minister and the heir to the throne can’t escape it, and for them, no expense or resource will be spared, so now we have to pray that we the common people survive.

Should we have confidence in this government, don’t make me laugh. Years of austerity, for what? While the wealthy get richer and are still happy to see nurses having to use food banks while our government gives away billions of pounds each year to overseas aid.

And how did Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock get tested for the virus when they were only displaying mild manifestations, clearly they know the government guidance of self-isolation with no testing if you’re only displaying moderate symptoms, after all, it was the government that wrote the guidelines and now they’re flaunting them in our faces.

It appears that now, so many people are resentful over Brexit, such a pity they’re all in a minority now because now we have a pandemic, nobody cares about Brexit, all they care about is their families and the front line staff who are risking all to make sure you get treated if you get ill with this virus.

But in the end, each countries depth of character will shine through, but what is coming is grave and there’s no way of dodging it, and we could all be in a state of lockdown for months, and anything to do with Brexit will have to go on the back burner for now.

Because this world has encountered countless trials and tribulations, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands and the United Kingdom et cetera, and all have had long and illustrious histories, and what’s going on now will damage the economies and traumatise its people, and we’re all concerned for our families, however, the world will still turn, the sun will rise, and each countries depth of character will shine through.

But what would a zealous Brexiter do if they ended up having the coronavirus? Would they turn a ventilator down if the EU offered it? Or would they take a Dyson instead? And now, we’re promoting Dyson as some kind of British hero, but what he’s trying to do is make a quick buck at our expense.

I suspect that most people who decided to leave the EU would have a problem with purchasing European goods, they just didn’t want the political mechanism of the EU, and if we can interact with our neighbours without living in their houses, then we can cooperate with Europe without being in their union.

But with a global deficit of ventilators, it looks like Dyson will benefit considerably, but not swiftly enough though because it’s an expensive process to get a medical ventilator approved, and shifting from vacuum cleaners to ventilators can’t be that simple, but I’m convinced he’s up to the task.

Ventilators are complicated devices that use complex software and specialised parts, and companies that endeavour to build them face numerous obstacles, including intellectual property rights, and the demand for specially trained workers, regulatory approvals and safety considerations.

We appear to be demanding untested stand up cordless vacuum cleaners, I mean ventilators because this could be the first ventilator ever to be available in lilac and red, with a pet hair attachment!

Boris Johnson needs some sort of attachment because he can’t seem to get his head in check. First of all, he said that he didn’t want medical equipment because they were from the EU and we weren’t in the EU anymore, then he changed his mind and said they missed the email, well, he proper screwed that one up!

And there’s nothing like getting your priorities right, in this instance, wrong. It’s a government building for Christ sake, everything is organised meticulously, but oddly the email was missed, perhaps they should have gone to SpecSavers.

Two weeks ago Matt Hancock said we were involved in it, but then Boris Johnson said we weren’t as we’re not in the EU anymore, then some hours later blamed it on not checking his inbox.

But there were several meetings about it which the United Kingdom were involved in, so to say it was an email mix up is about as true as Boris jumping in a ditch, and let’s face it, if any cabinet member needed a ventilator, they’d get one even if they didn’t meet the guidelines.

The government should also look at how the coronavirus started and trust that politicians around the world are negotiating something with food processing, which is very important so that we never have to deal with this pandemic again with poor food hygiene.

All this media hype was simply a useful way to evade scrutiny and challenging questions. Prince Charles was supposed to take away media attention, but that was Plan A and that didn’t work. Now there’s Plan B with news on Boris Johnson having tested positive for coronavirus so that people don’t centre on how the pandemic is impacting our country and how poorly it’s being handled by Boris Johnson.

And Dominic Cummings was reportedly seen fleeing out the back door of Downing Street after Boris Johnson was reported as having coronavirus, so now we all know where Bungle and Zippy are, we just need to find George and all those rainbows the kids have been drawing and we’ll be ready to go.

The breaking news on the Prime Minister and the Health Secretary having both been tested positive for coronavirus, what it should have read: Utter stupidity – mind you, that wouldn’t have been breaking news because most of us already knew that.

We’re now expending the coronavirus test so that it’s much more broadly available, all you have to do to qualify for this testing is be heir to the throne, prime minister or a member of the cabinet.

What the government should have done was give funding to existing ventilator manufacturers, and how did Boris Johnson get tested for the virus after presenting mild symptom when we don’t have the lab capacity to test all over 70-year-olds, or is it because they’re just not important enough?

Did the NHS staff leave their hospital posts to go to Downing Street just to test him? And why didn’t he phone 111 to be told to stay home? And the government even admitting they made an error on the ventilators, will deter many who support the Tories from being loyal.

And whilst the government are wasting their time with Dyson, they’re letting an order of 5,000 ventilators and 50 million testing kits slide through their fingers.

So, this is what the UK’s turned into, a clapped out basket case, and now our government are giving excuses about a missing email.

So, now both Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock have tested positive for the virus, while mortality in the United Kingdom soars.

The cabinet is going for its own herd immunity while the rest of the country remains on lockdown, with no testing insight to measure what we’ve accomplished, or not accomplished.

And the Tories have been caught telling fibs once again, and right on cue, Boris Johnson gets the virus.

Most viruses fade naturally after a certain amount of time, although a vaccine would simply accelerate its departure, so if no vaccine is found for the prevailing virus it should be entirely gone by about July 2021.

The danger for the world right now is that if the lockdown and restrictions are lifted too quickly in the haste to get back to normal, it might result in the virus coming back for a second wave.

And should we be feeling charitable to our Prime Minister, a man that has jeopardised the supply for all of us by adhering to ideology rather than humanity, and he said the email went missing, that’s just as believable as ‘the dog ate my homework’.

At this rate with Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock having tested for the virus, soon we might see Priti Patel in charge, what a terrifying thought and all these MPs have been working closely with our esteemed leader, so some manner of infection was always possible – didn’t think it would be this kind of virus though.

Dominic Raab, he seems a tad unpredictable, and Chris Grayling having a go at being Prime Minister, well, he’s got no prospect of handling a crisis. Gives you a bit of a fuzzy feeling, doesn’t it, wondering who will be in command now.

So, now Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock test positive – this is getting a tad suspicious? And now countless more in the cabinet might be coming down with the virus?

These are the very people who were experimenting with herding and now they’re self-isolating, but they didn’t lockdown fast enough and exposed the country to the virus, and if it’s going through the cabinet they couldn’t have been following their advice.

This is criminal ineptitude and wilful manipulation of the truth by the Tories which is unbelievable, and how anyone still votes for these nasty little turncoats is beyond comprehension.

But then judging by people’s failure to understand the concept of ‘stay at home’, I’m not shocked because stupid is as stupid does.

The primary message here is that this is Civil Service who missed an urgent email, yet they haven’t been investigated for neglect, but what we are seeing is Boris Johnson and his dimwit cabinet just shrugging it off as if it was an unimportant email from the canteen about their menu, and the pantomime just gets better and better each week.

But there are 3 things we do know about Boris Johnson, he’s a liar, he’s lazy and he’s a liability, and now that we’ve gone into lockdown, it’s a great time for a liar to find an excuse to slip out of the spotlight, with Jeremy Hunt and Javid implying that the whole of the UK is thinking of Boris Johnson.

What, even those who the Tories grabbed benefit from, even those who the Tories inflicted the bedroom tax on, even those who lost their jobs through the Tory austerity measures? Somehow that seems pretty far fetched and I’m sure people have more pressing things to think about than Boris Johnson.

The whole country isn’t thinking about Boris Johnson, although I’m sure his family and friends are concerned, the entire world, of course not. They’re concerned about their own family and friends and those on the frontline caring for our fellow citizens, and let me point out, politicians are not held in higher regard than any other stranger.

And on the news it announced that Boris Johnson was tested, so was he tested before 8 am and if he was, why was he out in Downing Street at 8 pm? And now he has to self isolate, so I’m wondering which rules he disregarded and don’t forget that in the PMQs there were MPs and Ministers sat within a metre of him.

Our political leaders were not distancing themselves from each other and now they’ve been caught with their trousers down because it’s politics before people and they should be ashamed of themselves.

Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, let’s hope he doesn’t need a ventilator, and let’s hope he doesn’t need to be looked after by nurses without the essential PPE.

But there is a lack of ventilators and someone is going to lose out, whatever arises, and the EU scheme does nothing to address the global deficit of ventilators, all it does is say ‘screw everyone else because we’re taking care of number one’.

The Torie’s ineptitude and lack of willingness are embarrassing and rather than lying about everything, why don’t they just confess that they missed the boat, it was their mistake and that they don’t actually know what they’re doing?

At least we would respect them more if they told the truth, but now that they’ve lied about it, they’re not really fit for office, and seemingly, Boris Johnson stated that he’d had the symptoms for 24 hours, so what was he doing out on the street while the remainder of us were told that if we presented symptoms we were to self isolate.

I consider Boris Johnson as an utterly terrible Prime Minister who relishes hopping on the populist bandwagon, and there’s a lot of people out there that wouldn’t pay to vote for him, but at times like this, we are all fellow human beings and we should be pulling together where this virus is concerned.

At the moment it shouldn’t matter who we voted for, if we chose to Leave or Remain, we’re all in danger of this deadly virus, and it is deadly, it kills people and it really doesn’t care who we voted for.

It takes hostages and it’s relentless who it takes hostage, including all government ministers and the Prime Minister, which makes us no better than each other, we’re all in this together, and when this is all over, whoever is Prime Minister should think about this before stitching everyone up and should come to the table with some compassion.

It doesn’t cost anything to give empathy to people, wealthy or impoverished, and look, all that money the government believed they’d saved by taking it from vulnerable people, well now you’re economy is going to go down the toilet, and now you can’t blame the impoverished, immigrants or people who are out of work – this is a natural disaster, I wonder who the government will blame that on – naughty, naughty Boris, I can see the cogs ticking over there in your head!

Losing Public Goodwill

Boris Johnson has drafted stringent new measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus, including a prohibition on public gatherings of more than two people.

He stated that people should only leave their home to exercise once a day, travel to and from work, where necessary, shop for basic items and fulfil any medical or care needs.

He further ordered the immediate closure of shops selling non-essential goods, but the police have said that they’ve received loads of calls asking what was still allowed.

On Monday evening, 27 million TV viewers watched Boris Johnson tell the nation it was facing a moment of national emergency and that staying at home was required to protect the NHS, save lives and tackle the biggest threat this country has suffered for decades.

Police and local authorities will have the capabilities to disband groups, including through penalties, and the constraints will be under continuous review and relaxation of the rules would be considered in three weeks.

Putting it plainly, if too many people become severely ill at one time, the NHS will not be able to handle it, which means more people are expected to die and not just from the coronavirus but other illnesses as well.

The new rules came following a sunny weekend during which groups of people were seen at beaches, parks, markets and other public places.

The new guidance states people should only leave their homes to shop for essentials such as food and medicine and shopping trips should be as sparse as possible.

People can have one form of exercise a day such as a run, walk or cycle but this should only be done alone or people that you live with.

You can provide care to anyone with a medical need or a vulnerable person. This includes transferring children under the age of 18 between their parent’s homes, where appropriate and you can travel to and from work, but only where it’s necessary and can’t be done from home.

Even when following the above guidance, people should reduce the amount of time spent out of their homes and should keep two metres (6ft) away from people they don’t live with.

The parents of thousands of children are keeping them out of school to try to decrease the spread of the virus and Downing Street said school attendance in England was about 10 per cent on Monday.

Meanwhile, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said employers should take every conceivable measure to allow for remote working, but added that when people absolutely can’t work from home they can still go to work because it’s important they keep the country running.

The government is also stopping all social events, including weddings, baptisms and other ceremonies, but funerals attended by direct family members are allowed.

Downing Street said the use of penalties, starting at £30, will be targeted at disbanding groups, and failure to pay could lead to criminal actions and a summary conviction and these measures represent some of the most far-reaching restraints on personal freedom ever introduced in the United Kingdom in peacetime.

However, it’s unclear how the rules can be made to work and the first obstacle is getting them on to the statute book, even though the Prime Minister stated the constraints on travel and gatherings would come into effect immediately, even though the police don’t have the powers to implement them yet, nor have they had official direction.

But assuming legal regulations are approved, there’s the practical difficulty of getting crowds to disband and accurately distinguishing people who shouldn’t be on the streets, without losing public goodwill and sparking a rebellion.

However, when these attempts to persuade those who don’t comply have failed, officers will be able to dispense penalties, with prosecutions expected to be the last option, but at a time when officer numbers are increasingly exhausted through illness or self-isolation, forces will be hoping communities do the right thing without the necessity for intervention.

Businesses that will not need to close include supermarkets, petrol stations, post offices, launderettes, bike shops, pet shops, hardware stores and banks.

Michael Gove said that all-important construction work should go ahead but works carried out at close quarters in someone’s home would not be suitable, but critics, including London Mayor Sadiq Khan, challenged his approach and Crossrail and housebuilder Taylor Wimpey halted work. However, competitor Redrow announced its sites have remained open with stringent precautions in place.

The mayor has also warned London Underground passengers that if they don’t stop packing into trains, more people will die, and premises such as libraries, non-essential stores, playgrounds, outdoor gyms and places of worship have been ordered to close.

Hotels, hostels, campsites and caravan parks must also close unless key workers need to stay there, or if others staying there can’t get back home.

Parks will remain open for exercise but people are not permitted to congregate in groups.

Golf courses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will close, and in Scotland, golfers have been urged not to play.

Community centres can stay open but only to host quintessential voluntary or public services such as food banks or service for homeless people.

Barristers have been told not to attend Crown Court except if they’re involved in one of the 34 ongoing cases in England and Wales.

On Monday night, the government amended its travel guidance, telling all British people travelling overseas to return to the United Kingdom now. This was because of the rate of new border constraints and those requiring urgent help could call the local UK embassy or high commissioner.

Prisoners in England and Wales will be restricted to their cells for 23 hours a day and let out only to shower and use payphones, with all visits cancelled, it’s conjectured.

More than 83,000 people in the United Kingdom have been tested for coronavirus with 6,710 testing positive. Nevertheless, the actual number of cases will be far higher as tests are primarily done on hospital patients with signs of the virus.

It seems difficult to emphasise how enormous an impact this will have on the people, and what a huge decision this is for the government to have taken, whose effect will last at least for three weeks at the shortest, possibly for very much longer.

Although this is not quite like the kind of total crackdown we have seen in other countries, at least not yet, so not surprisingly, there’s already tremendous debate about whether the United Kingdom has been moving fast enough.

And there have been calls for more information about the guidance, and Lincolnshire Police warned of an extremely large amount of calls and Humberside Chief Constable Lee Freeman said his force had received several calls on the matter, which he said he wasn’t able to answer.

Implementing new constraints is going to be a real challenge, as there’s already huge amounts of sickness amongst officers across London, and the National Police Chief’s Council stated officers wouldn’t be deployed on patrol specifically to police social distancing rules but would still patrol their communities as always.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the measures were the right response but asked for more direction on workplace closures.

Millions of workers have been worried about whether they should be at work, while millions of self-employed and precarious workers were dreading being sent home because it would mean no wages.

And asked in the Commons about help for the UK’s five million self-employed workers, Chancellor Rishi Sunak stated the government was determined to find a way to help them and was looking at the matter in immense detail and speed.

The Prime Minister said he knew the damage the constraints were causing to people’s lives, businesses and jobs and said that countless lives will sadly be lost, despite the measures.

But he added that there was a clear way through by strengthening the NHS with former clinicians returning to work, expediting the search for treatments and a vaccine and buying millions of testing kits.

Sports Direct has confirmed it will not open its stores to the public following a U-turn by the sportswear retailer, and most of Ryanair’s flights are expected to be grounded with no further flights expected in April or May.

Chemicals giant Ineos is to build a hand sanitiser plant near Middlesbrough to produce one million bottles a month, and emergency legislation introducing steps to respond to the virus will go before the House of Lords after it passed through the Commons on Monday evening.

The Olympics, scheduled to start in July, is going to be moved to next year and 514 more people have died in Spain, and Donald Trump has declared that the US will soon be open for trading as more states are shut down.

China announced it had 78 new cases, 74 of them from abroad, nevertheless, Wuhan, the city where the virus began is to lift its lockdown next month, and one of Africa’s most influential musicians, saxophonist Manu Dibango, has died of the virus.

We’re supposed to be in isolation, but with the number of people on beaches last weekend, what does the government think will happen in about a week and a half? And it’s almost always the youngsters that are flaunting the rules of the exclusion.

And those who were the unlucky ones that didn’t make it through the virus and died, supposedly they caught the virus weeks ago, back when the government said it was okay to be in public and go to sporting events.

Is the government under-reporting to us, and would Boris Johnson lie to us?

And is this virus about people suffering, making them beg for a lockdown to make themselves feel tied up and protected by someone, and is this lockdown about ending civil liberties and killing off as many old folk as possible and blaming the virus?

Especially now they need the next of kins permission to count a COVID death as a death, which is a diabolical lie to conceal the actual level of the disease, and one should be suspicious when the UK government are using data protection laws to misrepresent the figures.

And will all these NHS volunteers be tested for coronavirus to stop them from spreading the disease, and if so, how long will that take?

Given that we are in lockdown, is this lockdown working? Because in Spain they’ve been in complete lockdown and the deaths are still climbing, and we should expect it to get more acute because COVID 19 doesn’t recognise borders.

But assuming the data is accurate, the rate of new infections is now going to grow linearly and thanks to the doctors and nurses and others, we can expect to see many new cases to peak and then start to fall gradually.

It’s not safe to go outside unless necessary and people should be following the guidelines with stringency.

As for the information on how many people have got it, how can the government possibly know the rate of infections without testing everyone, and it seems as if our government are playing fast and loose with the lives of people.

This virus has been here in England for a while, but the weather, storms et cetera and how people dressed in gloves, scarves, umbrella’s et cetera reduced the spread.

An umbrella gives social distancing, gloves stop lifts and crossing buttons getting contaminated and wet jackets don’t get used or touched for several days.

So, shopping trolley’s and baskets stayed relatively clean and door handles. The rain prevented people from going out and this is why we and other countries are at different stages.

The weather protected us and gave us time to prepare, but we didn’t.

I was unwell in November till January with a virus. I kept going in to see my doctor and all she said was I had a virus that was going around hugely. That was back in November!

I had a barking cough that went on for months, which I couldn’t get rid of and it eventually eased off in January, so I have no idea whether I had the coronavirus back then or not, or whether I could get it again.

Maybe these storms that we had in England prevented us from spreading it because we didn’t go out as much because of it and ridiculous as it sounds perhaps some of these storms helped save some lives, and if what they’re saying, that the warm weather will slow it down, then we should be thankful.

And you can’t measure whether this lockdown is working by looking at death rates, it has to be measured by the number of new infections, only a drop in these will indicate success or failure.

And people are dying at home because they’re sick and not being tested, so what is a credible source of news and figures? Sadly the current figures don’t indicate actual data and there’s a pretty strong indication that we’re going to be heading for a peak in the next few weeks, which might be delayed for a bit if the lockdown measures work.

The figure will, of course, rise significantly in the coming days or weeks as people are tested, as well as more people catching it of course. Sadly the deaths will also increase significantly, although some will not be affected 2 or 3 weeks down the line if our lockdown has an impact.

This virus has been around since last October, so we’re not doing too bad, even though we’ve had melodrama from the newspapers, and it never ceases to astound me how many armchair scientists come out of the woodwork, knowing more than the people who have worked with these viruses for years.

If you want to know more about COVID 19, then you should read or listen to a qualified Virologist, one that has excellent information which is presented in an extremely calm and communicative way, making it simple for laypeople to follow.

And if anyone is getting agitated, then listen to the person who knows about these things, not social media, and probably not all that’s going on in the news.

It’s far too early to get excited about the fact that the death rate has come down, as it’s only apparently halved in 24 hours. It needs to come down consistently for at least a few weeks before anything can be deducted from this.

Furthermore, we have only just gone into lockdown, and it hasn’t been that wonderful yet with some people being careless regarding staying 2 metres away from each other and only being with one other person.

As regards irresponsible people ignoring the 2-metre rule. There have been police wandering around in groups of 2 or 3, probably no more than a couple of feet apart, and then standing right next to the people they were advising – Have they been given magical powers that ward off the virus?

It takes the virus twelve days to breed, so I don’t think that after four days of isolation it’s suddenly gone away, especially as we’re not in total isolation, with tubes, buses and supermarkets, airports all open. Add people roaming around in parks, carrying on as normal.

Boris Johnson has been accused of letting Brexit ideology dictate his approach to coronavirus after the government declined to take part in an EU plan to procure much needed medical supplies.

European countries have banded together collectively to obtain bulk amounts of ventilators and personal protective equipment, with the first stage now having secured offers of substantial scale on short notice.

The UK was summoned to take part in the scheme, which is leveraging the 500 million people single market, with huge buying power to obtain faster and cheaper orders, with less admin at the time of intense global demand.

But it was confirmed that Britain wouldn’t be taking part in the scheme, after previously having said the government would choose which way to go. So, once again our government has chosen to go it alone, right over a cliff!

We must feel sad for those that have lost loved ones, and they should have complete privacy and that should be respected. Nevertheless, the government shouldn’t be withholding the actual fatality figures – it’s not like they have to give out names, all they have to do is say that another person has died, but no names are to be given out to the public.

By withholding these figures it’s heading dangerously towards dictatorship, and we all know how that ends.

There are masses of people whining about what’s going on, but this country managed throughout WWII and no one sat there thinking about themselves or their mental health conditions, they simply rolled up their sleeves and did what they could to assist others.

We have become a self-indulgent society, not even giving someone else a second thought. We don’t think to pick up the telephone to see how other people are getting on. This is the time that everyone should be supporting each other, even if it’s just a phone call to someone who lives on their own.

Hopefully, Britain will come out of this relatively unscathed, perhaps this is because we’re not a hugging and kissing country when we greet each other. Unlike other countries like Italy and Spain where everyone continuously kisses and hugs one another, making them continually exposed to the virus.

Although we sneeze into our hands, rub them on our pants and then shake hands with people and sit on chairs in cafes, so the Latin style cheek kissing isn’t the only route to contamination.

And in Spain people kiss each other every day, even people they meet on the off chance for two minutes but will likely never see again, that’s their custom, so it’s no wonder why these type of countries are the worst afflicted by the virus.

The difficulty with data and people seemingly having the virus or not having the virus is that not everyone is being tested, so there could never be a true interpretation of the data because there are people out there that have symptoms and are self-isolating but have not been tested to see if they actually have it or not.

Perhaps we should get our tin hats at the ready because at the moment it looks like we’re being manipulated.

There were lots of people that were horribly sick in February, some still have not completely recovered, and it might have been a standing joke at the time, but it’s not a joke now.

And more and more stories have been emerging on how this virus has seemingly been spreading across the country for longer than the authorities were aware, so either they were pig-ignorant or merely careless, but it’s starting to be extremely doubtful that they were unaware, and maybe we’ve not been told the entire truth from the start.

This is what we call a natural disaster, yet the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the air appears to be cleaner because natural disasters are a way of curing the earth of Mankind.

What I would like to know is how many people have survived after having this virus because all we hear about is how many have died, and several milder cases have recovered or are well on there way to recovery, but have not been tracked.

Triple Child Killing

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David McGreavy murdered Elsie Urry’s children, Paul Ralph, four, Dawn, two and nine-month-old Samantha, at their Worcester home in 1973, but Elsie Urry has now been notified of his discharge from prison.

The Ministry of Justice stated that David McGreavy will be on licence for the rest of his life and subject to stringent stipulations and would be subject to exclusion zones following his discharge.

When he got convicted, they said he was going in for life and then they switched it to a minimum of 20 years, but he took three lives, not just one, but three.

David McGreavy was named the ‘Monster of Worcester’, and was 21 and lodging with the family at the time of the killings, and with whom he’d been staying with at the time because he’d fallen out with his parents.

He killed Paul at the home in Gillam Street, Rainbow Hill, while Dawn was discovered with her throat cut. Samantha died from a compound fracture to the skull and the bodies of all three children were left impaled on railings.

The chance of David McGreavy’s discharge had been considered for at least 10 years, but a request was rejected in 2016, but in December it was revealed that a Parole Board stated that David McGreavy had changed considerably over the 45 years he’d spent in prison.

Ms Urry was able to put restrictions on David McGreavy that he would be subject to on his discharge from jail, including exclusion zones that would be forced on him, but they were extended somewhat following discussions with Ms Urry.

It might give Ms Urry a little peace of mind that there are exclusion zones but that’s still not right that this man has been freed from prison after what he did, and there are other inmates that haven’t done half as bad as what David McGreavy did to her children and they haven’t been put up for parole, so why him?

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Conservative MP for Worcester Robin Walker has repeatedly written to successive justice ministers and home secretaries opposing David McGreavy’s discharge, and someone who carried out such atrocities should never be let out.

And there might be a strict curfew and tag requirements and the fact that he’s banned from Worcester, still means that it’s very distressing for the family of David McGreavy’s victims.

David McGreavy might have done a long time in prison, and some might have been rehabilitated enough to be released, even if it is on a licence, but sometimes crimes that have been perpetrated are so horrific that may be the perpetrator has to remain behind bars for good and for the overall benefit of society.

This has nothing to do with the fact that David McGreavy was a triple killer because we all know for someone to be able to do that, they must have had one sick mind to take the lives of anyone, let alone babies, and the horrendous way he ended their brief lives.

But the pain still goes on for the mother, and the parole board may believe he’s no longer a threat to society, but he perpetrated three murders in the most grisly way, and all they’re concerned about is essentially tagging him with curfew restrictions, and now he’ll simply calmly enjoy his old age, unlike the children he killed.

The mother will never get any remission because this man murdered her children, so this is a total life sentence for her because David McGreavy should have never been considered for parole and he should never have been freed, and the parole board that released him should serve the remainder of his sentence.

David McGreavy impaled these poor children on fence railings. That is not the mind of a rational man, a person that simply had no regard for human life, and irrespective whether this man has changed or not in jail, a life sentence should actually mean to the end of his natural life for this horrific crime he perpetrated.

David McGreavy might have changed, he might repent what he did, he may be sorry, but the fact remains is that being sorry won’t bring back the lives of those three children, and for him to be able to live with that in his head only goes to show that he’s still a psychopath.

And there are undeniable crimes that are so bad, that life behind bars should mean just that, and David McGreavy fits that category, because letting a man out to cause mental torture to a surviving mother and causing her more pain is simply not right.

This man will now be discreetly reintegrated into an environment where he’ll be able to live a normal life, and he will get loads of free stuff from the system, whilst the mother of the victim suffers again, and it’s all so wrong.

David McGreavy’s atrocities were past the imagination of most of us. This man murdered three small children in such a horrific way and now they’re saying he’s been reformed and he’s safe to roam our streets.

And even if he is reformed and regrets his actions, which is extremely questionable, he still did it and should never have been released back on to the streets.

Not only that, but people are also now going to be afraid, having this kind of person wandering the streets amongst the general public and nobody actually knowing who he is, and that’s a terrifying thought.

We now know what he’s capable of and it’s extremely disturbing, and how can we be expected to trust such a person? Because this is a man that’s evil to the core, as anyone who commits a crime that’s so disturbing that they can never truly be rehabilitated.

This isn’t some psychotic drug trafficker who shot another drug dealer in a turf war. This was a person who was left to care for three small innocent babies, and David McGreavy’s crimes are a horror beyond all measure.

He should not know freedom because that mother shouldn’t have to lay in bed one single night knowing that the monster that brutalised her babies is out there. This man stripped her of her parenthood, and permanently removed her sense of safety and is roaming free, and would the members of the parole board that enabled him to go free, would they allow him to be alone with their children or family?

He should have spent his entire life in prison because those poor children will never get parole, so why should he? He took three lives and should have paid with his own.

Coronavirus Has Left Boris Johnson Haunted

Boris Johnson has been left looking troubled by the rapidly worsening outbreak of coronavirus across the United Kingdom as he realises the choices he makes now will determine his time in office.

The Prime Minister has been criticised for advocating a less vigorous approach to closing outlets and banning large scale events than countries in Europe, with the number of deaths in the United Kingdom that have soared to 35, up 14 in a day, while the number of cases has risen to 1,391.

The Prime Minister has reportedly stressed to his inner circle the need to be seen to be taking action, following last week’s onslaughts of complacency, and one co-worker of the Prime Minister said that they’re not liking this much and that they look haunted because they know the Prime Ministers entire premiership will be determined by the choices they make.

Last week, Boris Johnson gave an astonishingly sobering message to the people, stating he had to level with people that many more loved ones will die as a consequence of the coronavirus.

They reportedly fear a second influx of infections this winter could lead to even more deaths, so are keen to be taking action as public opinion necessitates more action is taken amid fears of an Italy style fallout.

This involves banning crowd gatherings, secretly regarded by decision-makers as a peripheral move.

The Premier League and EFL postponed all football until April last week, while other top sporting events were axed, but this went against the official government advice, which was to let them continue in the face of comparable measures being taken on the continent.

Some people appear to be under the misapprehension that we can prevent it but that boat has sailed globally and what we need to do is moderate and safeguard as many people as possible.

An unnamed Tory MP said the Prime Minister fears the possible backlash in the United Kingdom will claim more lives than elsewhere, and Health Secretary Matt Hancock stated people aged over 70 will be asked in the coming weeks to self-isolate for up to four months, to protect themselves from the virus.

Questioned if that time frame was in the Government’s plan, he stated that was the action plan and that they would be setting it out with more force when it was the right time to do so.

The steps that they’re taking, and the measures that they’re looking at taking will be pretty important and they will disrupt the lives of virtually everyone in the country to tackle the virus.

It has also been confirmed that ministers will be seeking to give police powers to detain and coercively quarantine people who are infected with the virus but are not self-isolating.

And if schools close, what about those children who will be taking their GCSE’s, what will happen to them? And has this been thought out enough or has the government taken into consideration the consequences of cancelling exams and the knock-on effect that will have on them?

Of course, Boris Johnson is doing the right thing. The trouble is, the closing of schools will mean that parents will have to stop work to look after their children.

The thing is, this country should have been closed a long time ago, but our government left the front door wide open for people to fly in and out at will from every country without them being properly monitored, and even now countries are locking down but not the United Kingdom.

Air travel has been our biggest problem because people can come and go as they please without any quarantine, and from now on everyone that comes in and out of a country should be checked.

All it would take at airports would be a temperature check, and if they have a temperature, they should be sent back from where they came from or quarantined, and it would also tell officials from where the infection came from so that it could be nipped in the bud straight away.

The problem is, the only thing that Boris Johnson cares about, is how he will look after all this, and at the moment he’s playing Russian Roulette with people’s lives and he should be shutting everything down like other countries.

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And it appears that Boris Johnson believed this would be his Winston Churchill moment but instead it’s turning out to be his Winnie the Pooh moment.

Institution Of The British Juvenile Offenders

For some of you that have seen the film ‘Scum’, which was an unyielding account of life in a British juvenile offenders institution in the 1970s, the BBC banned this years ago for being too graphic, and yet organisations cloaked people like Jimmy Saville for decades.

This movie brings back memories for some, recollections that they might want to forget. And some didn’t get put in these places for doing wrong, sometimes maturer children would get separated from their families home because parents couldn’t get along.

Some were put in institutions for delinquent boys for years and were reminded every day that they were no good. And imagine being sent to a juvenile facility because you weren’t attending school, imagine having a learning disability and being so ashamed you left school, and for that punishment, the government put you in an institution.

Those kids came out different people, and rarely talked about it, then years later on the stories came out in the media about the abuse at those facilities, horrific stories, and a number of those institutions had bad people looking after those kids.

They also used to put people in those places because they might have run away from home because there was an abusive father in the house, yet the kid was put down as a tearaway. Maybe the system didn’t know any better, either that or they were very sick themselves.

Mind you, the schools back then and before had some right tough nuts and the teachers were pretty much like the wardens in prisons.

But have teachers been too soft since it’s been against the law to slap a child, and now teachers can be arrested for dishing out such discipline, even though some teachers only had that job because they enjoyed being cruel to kids, and many went the extra mile, going too far because they got a thrill out of being cruel?

School, of course, could be harsh with kids bullying and picking on each other, but it’s not any different today, there’s still bullying that goes on, only now, instead of fists, its knives and anything they can find, which usually ends up in deaths, and no one can ever forget that brand of cruelty, which could scar you for life and then makes you realise that it’s a harsh world we live in.

Plus being bullied from a young age could cause permanent mental health difficulties and distrust of people, and countless parents would rather not put their kids through this cruelty in the school system.

After all, who enjoyed a grown man caning your backside when you were a kid? It’s a tad pervy don’t you think? And it was shocking in the 50s and 60s, and many of those cruel teachers, well, I hope they come out in a cold sweat each time there’s an allegation of historic injustice that comes to the fore.

Of course, kids could be wicked but the teachers were the biggest bullies and it was particularly unmerciful, and it was great to see this gem of a film, and maybe it should be shown in schools as a history lesson and how harsh it was because today kids live a charmed life where teachers are concerned.

Although it might not be such a good idea to show a movie where a teenage lad gets violated by 3 others. On the other hand, it might show the kids of today that life isn’t that bad in school now and that it could have been much worse.

And that at some secondary schools there were a few damn cruel teachers and the headmaster and deputy headmaster was so ruthless, sadistic and sarcastic that when he whipped the pupil’s butts they would urinate in embarrassment, and that was for just making a sound in class while the teacher was talking.

Mind you, if any teacher did that to a student these days, the pupil would have beaten them to a pulp.

No wonder these lads came out bigger and worse and also angrier in the real world. Although some of those lads that went to places like Borstal, some did get decent trades in there and did go onto live normal lives, but sadly many didn’t and finished back in the system again and again.

Some of those lads that went down the stupid route and finished up in institutions, some changed their path and ended up on the straight and narrow, perhaps they should bring back National Service? But that’s still no justification for brutality.

Although this snowflake society seems to have ruined people, and maybe these places gave character building? Because the youths of today have got worse since the closing of these institutions, and these offenders are worse now than ever before and the murder rate amongst youths has grown as well as immoral sex and drug behaviour, and perhaps we’re simply mollycoddling our children.

But numerous kids killed themselves in these institutions. My father was in one when he was younger. His father had sent him there for stealing a little bit of money out of his pocket.

I remember my father telling me about it. He told me that a kid in there couldn’t hack it and slit his wrists and my dad attempted to stop the blood by ripping up a bedsheet to make it into a tourniquet. The kid lived but these places were crap holes and the wardens that worked them were arseholes.

You have to take your hat off to these people that done there time in these institutions because the kids of today just don’t listen, and not only don’t they have respect for the world around them, but they don’t have any respect for their parents either and these little gangsters going around shanking and bashing people in their gangs have no concept of how easy they’ve got it these days.

Now instead of the adults treating these kids like animals, it’s the kids treating the adults like animals like praying mantis.

Institutions like this, you learnt a lot and you learnt how to survive because you had no other option. And these wardens were tormentors who relished beating the kids, they got a thrill out of it, and they just tyrannised these kids until they’d had enough.

But these kids of today are out there, with kids of their own, pandering to a life of weakness, learning nothing of respect, but in these institutions you had to learn respect, you had to learn to be clean and tidy and to respect your elders, and it was arduous.

Now the system has softened up and inmates take more liberties, and these institutions for young kids back then, well I bet they wish the system was as soft then as it is now.

The wardens then used to tell you to stand to attention, then twist your nipples between their finger and thumb and God help you if you lifted your hand to stop the warden doing what the perverted rat wanted to do.

They would get you in a wristlock, make you stand on tiptoes, then boot your feet from under you and you would land on the back of your spine and couldn’t walk properly.

Other lads were so severely beaten that some ended up in the infirmary, and then the wardens would put them on light duties for the rest of their stay for keeping their mouth shut.

Of course, you had sex perverts at these places and if you were a big kid they wouldn’t pick on you, they just picked on the frightened small quiet boys, no wonder the suicide rate was somewhat high.

There was square bashing in the rain, running barefoot on the exercise field, shovelling coal from one side of the parade ground and then when they went to tell the officer that they’d moved it, he would tell you to move it back to where you’d moved it from.

It was good training if you wanted to go into the Army, but a complete negative waste of time otherwise, and it was an extremely sad experience for those young men to have to endure and perhaps the authorities should have been held accountable for their immoral actions.

Riots in these institutions were settled in one of two ways, either someone from the Home Office attended the institution in question to discuss the events with the governor and a representative inmate to hopefully work out a resolution or the institution’s governor could just call in the Riot Squad or the Army.

The Riot Squad or Army suppressed the uprising and the majority of inmates were locked up in their cells or dormitories, and those who were seen to be the instigators or troublemakers, they were dragged off by the wardens for a good kicking, somewhere out of sight before being tossed into solitary.

Of course, there were some truly committed people out there, but when you watch the film it does strike a nerve because some Private schools were like this as well, well, let’s say, they weren’t much better than these institutions.

The purpose of the cane was to beat you until you would vomit, and if you went whining to your parents, the punishment was even harder, and to think these parents spent thousands to send their children to private school.

Some of these kids were targetted by violent teachers, wardens, well, almost anyone with some authority. The punishment was harsh and no wonder some of these kids left school early to get away, and the psychiatric doctors and nurses were the most sadistic of all.

The wardens were a shower of rats who would set you up and give you a thrashing as quickly as taking a breath, and one could not forget these kids were severely spanked by a teacher simply because a kid said they didn’t understand.

Pupils are encouraged to speak up now if they’re not sure what’s being taught to them, but back then, you got spanked, and all that taught was that you would get punished if you weren’t sure on what was being taught.

Nowadays kids are being encouraged to talk up if in doubt, but being beaten for not understanding back then affected a kids development in understanding knowledge, and it’s not until they became adults, they found that the way that they were taught was totally and utterly wrong, and I wonder if Jimmy Saville had a few keys for places like that.

This might be one of the most honest and saddest movies you’ll ever see. There were a lot of people that didn’t like watching it, but I believe that was the intention so that it would frighten the crap out of you, and I don’t suppose we’ll ever see another film made like this again.

These were the good old days when punishment meant punishment, those days have well and truly gone, it’s all spice heads now and complete chaos, and thank God they outlawed all those places that were run by psychopaths and what a nightmarish bunch of heels they were.

It was extreme violence from the start because back in the day, that’s how they taught the meaning of respect. After all, it was thought that the more you beat the kids, the taller they stood, and how the world has changed.

And these institutions were run pretty much on military lines and indeed some schools at that time used the same policies but it appears that nobody has found the right way to maintain discipline, educate or support these people that are put away by society.

Those wardens needed stringing up because most were nefarious and corrupt and worse than most of the cons and inmates and this film demonstrates quite clearly the contempt the establishment had for its people here in the United Kingdom.

And there were schools back in the day that had teachers that were unmerciful and who thought they were above their stations and got off from being sadistic and who were obvious losers in real life, hence the bullying of kids.

Can you imagine today’s generation in these institutions?

Detention Centres back in the day was what succeeded borstal and that was also violent and your six sense was the main one that you used as would be gangsters in small clicks slashed your face off just to earn a rep and some of the wardens were animals, constantly slapping the crap out of you and they had you marching around everywhere like you were in the army.

Bed block, kit and room inspection every morning and if you never had a job you couldn’t just lie on your bed during the day and in some places, smoking was banned but the offenders would always get it from other cons on another wing at a cost.

The only upside was the food wasn’t that bad and they came out much fitter than when they went in and unquestionably wiser, although I’m sure many came out with emotional and anger issues that developed because of the torture they suffered.

Power corrupts and these places were run on minimum salary, unschooled, unchecked thugs who enjoyed abusing kids and it was an out of control spiral of violence and it was designed to teach these kids a lesson.

There were bullies and kids were battered stupid and they had to fight back and most went on to commit further crimes because it was survival of the fittest and total insanity, and it was there to put the fear of God into these kids, but then the world is run on fear.

Boris, Shaken But Not Stirred

Boris Johnson has no idea what to do when it comes to the Coronavirus and he’s scratching his head and his butt, not knowing what to do, and he unquestionably hasn’t shaken any hand of someone with Coronavirus, even though he kind of made out that he did.

If he’s to keep this virus from spreading any further, then he should be handing out masks to everyone in the United Kingdom free of charge and he should be opening up abandoned aircraft hangers that are no longer in use and making them into temporary infirmaries.

There are countless military doctors and nurses on the ground that could be utilised, and just because the milder weather will be on its way shortly does not guarantee that the Coronavirus will wither away.

Masks are the way to go and the government needs to be giving them out, and even though this is a new illness, it’s not known precisely how Coronavirus spreads from person to person. Still, similar viruses are spread in cough droplets.

It’s extremely doubtful it can be spread through things like packages or food but just in case, gloves should be handed out as well free of charge.

It’s going to cost the government millions of pounds but does that matter when people are dying?

The people in this country have to do their bit by scrubbing their hands with soap and water regularly.

Always wash your hands when you get home or into work, and use sanitiser gel if soap and water are not available.

You would have noticed that people have been bulk buying sanitizer. The government should be giving this out free as well, as well as tissues, and if people have to stay indoors because they’re sick, the government should make sure that they’re guaranteed sick pay.

Sadly, no one knows for sure whether or not the more temperate weather will curb the Coronavirus.

Viruses that cause influenza or milder Coronavirus, and there are seven in total that affects humans, some much less concerning than others which usually wane in warmer months, although people spend less time inside in the warmer weather, which means that viruses could circulate more easily.

However, because SARS-CoV-2 is so new, there’s no way to say for sure whether the virus will undergo the same seasonality as other viruses.

There’s one main difference between the novel Coronavirus and the flu, immunity. Because many of us have built up an immunity to the flu, this isn’t the situation with this new illness.

And we won’t be off the hook just because we’re getting to springtime and the warmer weather, although I’m sure that spring will be greatly embraced this year, we unquestionably shouldn’t be letting our guard down just because it will be warming up outside.

And everyone should still follow the preventative steps suggested.

There’s another potential way Coronavirus can spread between people and that’s by faecal transmission, and according to recent research from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC), those with confirmed cases of the novel Coronavirus have live virus in stool specimens, suggesting there’s a possible faecal-oral route for the virus, as well.

Unfortunately, the only way to know if someone has COVID-19 is to test them, that’s because the manifestations of the illness look remarkably similar to that of the common cold or flu with a cough, fever and body aches.

And it’s important to know that not everyone who’s infected with Coronavirus exhibits symptoms, which suggests that they’re asymptomatic carriers who carry it around with them, spreading it to other people, but never falling ill themselves.

While scientists are currently working on a Coronavirus vaccine, it probably won’t be available in time to fight the current outbreak because there has to be an entire vaccine process, from early development through to human testing, which takes time and costs lots of money.

Fortunately, when coming up with a vaccine for the current Coronavirus, researchers may uncover clues that may help treat or even prevent future outbreaks, but of course, by that time there will be another kind of virus that has mutated, of which they won’t have a vaccine.

Bedroom Tax Domestic Violence Discrimination Ruling Is Final

The Department for Work and Pensions attempted to overthrow a decision that the hated Bedroom Tax prejudges against sufferers of domestic brutality, which was rejected, and judges at the European Court of Human Rights ordered in October that the benefit cut, discriminated against a domestic violence victim who was forced to pay additional money for her panic room.

Following a six-year legal battle, the UK government was ordered to pay the woman, who suffered rape and assault, 10,000 Euros (£8,600) for the damage she sustained, but lawyers for the Department for Work and Pensions demanded the matter be heard in the court’s Grand Chamber, attempting to overthrow the judgment, but the request was denied, meaning the ruling stands and is irrevocable.

The victim’s legal team are now asking for the government to make adjustments to the law immediately, and they say that around 300 more victims of domestic violence are in the same position and that a woman, related to as ‘A’, is a victim of rape, assault and harassment at the hands of an ex-partner.

The DWP cut her housing benefit by 14 per cent for under occupation of her social housing and the department determined she and her 11-year-old son only required two bedrooms, despite a third bedroom in the home being specially modified by police to include a panic room as part of a sanctuary scheme.

An investigation by the legal team representing ‘A’ found almost 1 in 20 households using the Sanctuary Scheme for people at risk of severe domestic violence have been hit by the bedroom tax, amounting to 281 homes across the country and that the vast preponderance of people in the Sanctuary Scheme are women, yet a DWP spokesperson stated that they were carefully considering the court’s ruling.

This woman, whose life is in danger, has suffered great distress as a result of the bedroom tax and the uncertainty about this case.

She’s a vulnerable single parent who’s been a victim of rape and assault and lives in a property which has been specially adapted by the police, at great cost, to protect her and her child and she’s had to fight the UK Government for seven years to defend her right to be protected in her own home.

And she’s pleased that following such a lengthy battle, the European Court of Human Rights has recognised the impact that the bedroom tax is having on her and others like her.

We now call on the UK Government to take speedy action and to modify the rules to exempt from the bedroom tax the small but extremely vulnerable group of women and children who need the safety of a sanctuary scheme whilst they try to reassemble their lives after surviving domestic violence.

And the Domestic Abuse Bill, currently making its way through Parliament, is the obvious route to right this injustice and protect ‘A’ and others in Sanctuary Scheme homes.

Remember Iain Duncan Smith, he laughed at the terror he was causing a rape victim by using the Bedroom tax to make it too costly for her to keep a panic room because he thrived on browbeating others.

And he used the Department for Work and Pensions to convince a court that she had to pay the Bedroom Tax on a panic room installed in her home to stop further attacks against her.

As a result of the ruling, she was evicted from her home and Iain Duncan Smith laughed with delight when he learned of the news, and the fact that Iain Duncan Smith appealed against the decision simply proves what a cruel, ruthless and wicked individual he is.

Only Iain Duncan Smith and the fellow Nazi mutts would laugh at the plight of a rape victim, and this was another disgusting justification for his entertainment and the brutal, psychopathic policies of the government over the recent years were well represented in Iain Duncan Smith.

Hatred engenders hatred, it further feeds violence, and what a despicable person he is, his family must be so proud of him and I’m amazed that given his rather feeble intelligence he managed to become a government minister in the first place.

Poverty Not Only Inflicts Suffering

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Millions of children are living in poverty in the United Kingdom and this marks the 20th anniversary of Labour’s promise to eradicate child hunger.

Much progress was made under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown but that good work was destroyed by the Conservatives, and there have been debates about how you measure child hunger, but the metric used by most charities shows 4.1 million children are living below the breadline.

And the number is estimated to soar to as high as 5.2 million within the next three years as Tory welfare cuts continue to bite, and the two-child benefit cap alone could force another 300,000 children into poverty by 2023-24.

The Conservatives have long contended that work is the best route out of deprivation. The dilemma is that it’s not proving to be the case, and it’s estimated that 70 per cent of children found to be in poverty are in working homes.

And behind every statistic is a story of a child going hungry at school or living in crowded and inadequate accommodation or unable to keep warm because there’s no money for a winter coat.

The most disheartening aspect is not just that the most disadvantaged have paid the highest price for a decade of austerity but that in doing so the government have failed a generation of children who have so much to contribute.

Because if you’re going hungry or continually being moved from one temporary accommodation to another, then it affects the child’s education, and if that child is sharing a cramped room with their siblings, then it’s more difficult for them to do their homework.

Impoverished families can’t afford things which others take for granted such as music lessons or school excursions that can improve a child’s development, and talent and potential are going untapped because of want and deprivation.

And if our Government is serious about levelling up, it could start with levelling up the incomes of the most affected in this country in the impending Budget, and the Government should all be behind eradicating poverty – the trouble is, Boris Johnson always appears to be absent while blaming everyone else.

There are numerous people out there that suffer from extreme poverty, not the nonsense Ipad poverty people and the government attempt to stuff down our gullets, but the poverty of yesteryear. However, we do have a sense of responsibility to get ourselves off the plantation.

Bullying Cover-Up Fury

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Boris Johnson, was the subject of accusation for the covering up of bullies after he insisted that he was sticking by Priti Patel following the numerous allegations against the Home Secretary and Jeremy Corbyn called Boris Johnson a part-time Prime Minister in a feisty exchange.

The Prime Minister said an investigation was taking place into the conduct of the Home Secretary, but supported Priti Patel and maintained she was keeping the country safe.

He pointed to the latest barge of allegations facing Priti Patel throughout her time as International Development Secretary, suggesting that it indicted a shock and unacceptable pattern of behaviour across three government departments.

Priti Patel is facing allegations from three government departments with a senior official at the Department for International Development (DfID) reporting a tsunami of allegations of mistreatment by officials in her private office when she was secretary of state.

A former aide at the Department for Work and Pensions had also reported having received a £25,000 payout from the Government after alleging she was browbeaten by Priti Patel when she was employment minister.

Jeremy Corbyn described the reported payoffs as taxpayers money being spaffed up the wall in reference to the language Boris Johnson used to refer to money spent investigating historic child sexual allegations, and he asked whether the Prime Minister knew of the history of allegations when he appointed Priti Patel as Home Secretary.

The leader of the Opposition called on Boris Johnson to deliver the conclusions of the inquiry into the Home Secretary’s behaviour, and Jeremy Corbyn insisted that a government can’t be judge and jury over its own contact and that there has to be an objective element to that investigation.

Overnight further allegations have surfaced that the Home Secretary frequently raided and humiliated her private secretary while she ran the department for international development.

If this is true, this implies a shocking and unacceptable pattern of behaviour across three government departments, and was the Prime Minister conscious of these allegations, and if he was, why did he appoint Priti Patel?

Yet the Prime Minister doubled down on his support for Priti Patel, telling MPs that the Home Secretary was doing a wonderful job and that he had every faith in her, but Jeremy Corbyn was raging and stated that we have a part-time Prime Minister who hardly turns up but is determined to cover up for bullies in his government.

And in response to a later question from Labour’s Matt Pennycook about whether Priti Patel would be fired or expected to quit if the inquiry finds she’s breached the ministerial code, Boris Johnson stated that he was sticking by her.

The recent allegations about Priti Patel follow the departure of the top official at the Home Office, Sir Philip Rutnam, who quit, accusing her of bullying underlings, but a spokesperson for Priti Patel said the Home Secretary categorically refutes all of these allegations.

And it was said by a Tory source that there had been a collective effort by sections of the Civil Service to undermine Priti Patel and that dark forces were seeking to influence a Cabinet Office inquiry into her behaviour.

The latest allegations relate to the period around 2017 when Priti Patel was dismissed by Theresa May as international development secretary over unofficial meetings with the Israeli government.

Following her removal, a senior figure in DfID was said to have approached staff in her private offices about allegations that they’d heard of bullying, and the senior person was said to have been informed of multiple allegations of staff being humiliated and coming under huge pressure in emails, comparable to the allegations made about Priti Patel’s behaviour at the Home Office.

The senior person then went to see another senior figure in DfID and asked them to contact the then cabinet secretary, the late Sir Jeremy Heywood, so that her conduct record was in the system if she ever returned to government.

And even though the person making the allegations hasn’t been identified, they were said to be prepared to give testimony to the Cabinet Office probe, currently underway into allegations that Priti Patel broke the ministerial code.

The person concerned was further said to be ready to give evidence in support of Sir Philip, who’s claiming constructive dismissal if his case goes to an industrial tribunal, and a Tory source said that what they were witnessing was a concerted attempt by certain sections of the Civil Service to undermine a Home Secretary seeking to deliver what people want on crime and immigration.

Priti Patel expressed her regret at the decision of Sir Philip to resign and urged staff in the Home Office to come together as one team, and in a joint email to staff, written with Sir Philip’s interim replacement Shona Dunn, she insisted they cared about the wellbeing of all employees.

And they displayed their appreciation to the staff for their ongoing hard work and dedication to deliver the Government’s priorities and said that they both genuinely appreciated the work that every person in the department was doing and that they cared about the well-being of all their staff.

They further said that they understood the significance of honesty, confidentiality and respect in building trust and confidence between ministers and civil servants.

What is it that they say? Birds of a feather stick together and all that because all Tories are made that way and more, as they gather together like flies around poop.

It’s a pity though because she does look quite lovely and it seems that these fiery women that end up in the Tory party are born wicked or do they simply become that way when they enter the Tory party and this misuse of power goes to their head.

And it appears that Priti Patel and Boris Johnson have got a lot in common, they have both been dismissed for lying. And Boris Johnson said that she was doing a fabulous job – Hitler also once said the same about his henchmen and women.

And as for Jeremy Corbyn, he does, I must admit look a little sad at times, and some might agree with his politics, but there’s no disputing his passion to help others, but his career appears to be kind of fizzling out.

But to be honest, it’s better that his political career is fizzling out than crashing and burning, which I no doubt, that in the end, Boris Johnson will befall.

Boris Johnson can stick by Priti Patel, but then when he needs to fire her, should he go as well? And I’m sure many people can’t wait to see them both go, along with their overbearing, lying, bullying, ingratiating ways.

And I wonder if Boris Johnson and his buddies practice that Priti Patel smirk at the beginning of every meeting and he won’t discard her because then it might look bad for him. After all, he has no choice, does he? He formed a Cabinet in his image, so now he can hardly question his judgement, in fact, he probably never does.

And it might occur to even a random outsider that he knew what she was doing there in Israel, hence her promotion to one of the highest offices in the land and hence his unequivocal support for her, and an observer might quickly assume that she’s got the goods on him and he can’t dismiss her.

And we should for one second not think that there’s prejudice or antisemitism anywhere within Parliament, with scores of MPs that have been excluded. And in all honesty, these are only allegations against Priti Patel until proven otherwise in court, and note that Boris Johnson hasn’t endeavoured to refute them.

On the other hand, Jeremy Corbyn has been described as an antisemite, based on unproven allegations, and even if Priti Patel falls on her sword, there will be another one along in less than five minutes.

However, it’s all allegations, someone claiming or stating that someone has done something illegal or improper and typically one made without evidence, and which simply demonstrates we’re a laughing stock in the eyes of the world.

But let’s face it, what has she done? Has she reinstated the 20,000 police officers that the Tories got rid of?

Has she brought in a workable immigration policy? Has she tackled the crisis in our prisons, probation services or border force?

Currently, she’s done nothing important, apart from being attacked for bullying, but I suspect the facts will come out when it goes to a tribunal, and if the enquiry finds her guilty, then she must go, but until then she should be deemed innocuous and should be permitted to get on with her work.

Although, if she was in the police force or a doctor et cetera and was under investigation, she would have been suspended until the enquiry was concluded. So, we could say that this a typical overbearing Tory government turning a blind eye, but still she’s no different to anyone else and should be considered innocent until proven guilty.

Coronavirus: Weak Zero-Hour Workers Are Led Into Choosing Between Isolation And Food

MPs are demanding an emergency law to stop thousands of zero-hour and part-time workers being left poverty-stricken by Coronavirus as Unions and Labour sounded the alarm over the government’s sick pay laws amid concerns huge numbers of people in the United Kingdom may need to self isolate as a precaution.

Statutory Sick Pay doesn’t cover people who receive less than £118 a week and those who’ve been off ill for more than 7 days also need to present a GPs note to qualify. Nevertheless, people are being advised to avoid their GP if they have Coronavirus symptoms, to stop further spread of the virus, and self-isolation is meant to last 14 days.

And it’s been claimed the situation will leave part-time or zero-hour workers choosing between protecting their own and others health and putting food on the table, and the government have been called on to act and for private firms to do their bit to ensure workers aren’t left in the lurch.

Because there will be workers out there who will have to choose between putting food on their table and putting their health first, and the government and employers have to intervene in some way to support those workers.

Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) is paid to employees or agency workers who have been sick for at least four days in a row. They earn at least £118 a week on average and tell employers before a seven-day deadline.

People have to make an average of £118 per week to be eligible and the government should now guarantee that workers can get Statutory Sick Pay regardless of income because there are about a million workers in the United Kingdom on contracts with no guaranteed minimum hours.

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Labour leadership hopeful Lisa Nandy called for an emergency law to extend Statutory Sick Pay, £94.25 per week to workers on all incomes from day one because the menace of Coronavirus is worrying enough without having to fret that it will leave you without money for rent and food.

Workers on insecure contracts and those with questionable employers or bogus self-employed in the gig economy are being left to fend for themselves and to make needlessly tough decisions.

Self-isolation for some means no sick pay and this is a global health emergency and we need to do everything we can to make sure it’s not also a personal or financial hardship for families in the United Kingdom.

Ms Nandy said the burden should also fall on private firms, many of which have their own sick pay schemes, and she stated that employers need to wake up to their wider obligations.

There are going to be consequences for everyone if sick people are attending work when they should be at home because bosses shouldn’t put their profit margins before public health and people need to be able to follow medical advice.

The General Trade Union (GMB) first raised the matter last week, stating that a delivery driver was recently contacted by a high-risk customer. The unidentified driver’s company told her not to come back into work, but that meant she wouldn’t have any wages until she was given the all-clear.

However, GMB stepped in and the company backed down, but sadly more and more gig economy workers are experiencing the same outcome, and the threat of Coronavirus is an enormous problem for employers and workers across the United Kingdom, and workers in the so-called gig economy, or on zero-hours contracts are being left abandoned and poverty-stricken if they have to self isolate.

Once again the bogus self-employment model is screwing over the disadvantaged, but GMB is calling on all employers, regardless of the contract to do the right thing and pay their workers if they have to take time off due to the global health emergency.

And employers have been asked to make sure they use their discretion, and respect the medical need to self-isolate when making decisions about sick pay.

Anyone not eligible to get sick pay will be entitled to claim Universal Credit and/or contributory Employment and Support Allowance, and further action will be taken if needed to protect low wage or zero-hour workers, however, there’s no confirmation on whether this will involve widening Statutory Sick Pay.

And it was said that officials are drawing up strategies to ensure that the Coronavirus doesn’t leave people in the lurch, and a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spokesperson later urged Universal Credit claimants, some of who are in low paid work, to contact their Jobcentre if they’re affected.

The spokesperson stated that their staff were ready to assist people who are affected but they were advised to contact them by telephone, or via their work coach via their online journal, to explain their situation.

But this comes after ten years of austerity and one payday away from living on the streets and an expanding crime wave in the United Kingdom – Achoo. This country is doomed and the best thing about it, most of you voted for it, and we are simply slaves under the Tory government.

And what they don’t mention is that you can get help but you’ll have to fill out multiple forms that will arrive consecutively once the previous one is returned and then they’ll have to wait 5 weeks before they’ll get any money – what should they do in the meantime? Starve to death? Because they won’t be able to go to the food bank and don’t forget you’ll have to lick the envelope before sending it!

It’s a terrible and frightful position for anyone to be in, and the point is, self-isolation won’t work if people have to go to work as they have no savings and no sick pay. However, by the time the government have worked it out, it will be too late in the prevailing circumstances.

So, it’s work or starve, doesn’t give much of a choice, plus the major outbreak of the virus could further result in panic buying, empty shelves and food riots, and only PAYE staff members will get compensated for having time off because of Coronavirus.

But the UK public on zero-hours contracts can starve and now there’s a discrimination between PAYE and zero contracts on the working class who have no choice but to take those zero-hours contracts or not work at all, and it now seems this is the way to get rid of the poor peasants and I bet numerous Tories will be overjoyed.

Booting the Tories out at the next election would be a great start, especially now it appears Brexit won’t pave the streets with gold after all.

Just a 0.16 per cent increase in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at best after the US Trade Deal or a 5 per cent plus decline if we lose out to the Americans. But the kamikaze Tories intend to crash us out anyhow and pick off the UK remains, and in a few years, people will look back at this, calling them the good times under the Tories.

Maybe we should just eat the rich?

Yet somehow the Tories will still blame Labour, like their incredible attitude and acknowledgement to the floods, and where’s Boris with his mop?

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