THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

Ofsted Says Golders Green School Content Doesn’t Show Respect For Women

Ofsted inspectors stated that material discovered at an Orthodox school in Golders Green does not teach respect for women and said that texts discovered in the Lubavitch Senior Boy’s School main room carried messages about gender roles.

The material, which was found amongst religious textbooks during an inspection, included suggestions on how to handle women and references to their functions as guards protecting their families well-being, rather than as workers but the school’s leaders told Ofsted that they were not knowledgeable of these texts being in the school and that they didn’t represent their beliefs.

During the inspection that was carried out without warning, the school was ranked as inadequate because it was found that their curriculum was narrow and condensed and that the pupil’s accomplishments were considered inadequate in English, mathematics and science and inspectors discovered age-appropriate textbooks to be censored through teacher selection of content studied.

The school educates 22 boys aged from 11 to 13 and they moved from Stamford Hill to share premises as the Lubavitch Yeshiva Katana where students couldn’t present proof of written work for English and Ofsted recorded that the school’s permanent head was missing and it was unclear if he would return.

And in a separate report, it was announced by Ofsted that an inadequate Chasidic boys infant school in Stamford Hill had 100 more children than its official maximum.

Talmud Torah D’Chasidei Gur, which has 242 boys from three to seven, was deemed unsatisfactory in all categories following the inspection service and Ofsted reprimanded the inadequate model of secular education and noted that students struggled to read because teachers lacked the awareness of how to teach boys pronunciation and as a result, boys got confused between Yiddish and English.

Subject plans were too narrow and concentrated largely on the experiences of the Jewish people with nothing about how Britain has influenced or been affected by the wider world and that students did not learn about the role of women.

The basic function of the Lubavitch is to gather Jewish children (children in the plain sense of the word), as well as children in terms of knowledge of G-d, his Torah and Mitzvot, in order to reveal their inner soul and true essence, that they should recognise that they are the children of G-d, their G-d and should continue to forge the golden chain of their ancestral tradition to the point of veritable self-sacrifice for the preservation of the Jewish way of life, the way of the Torah and Mitzvot.

And that’s excellent as long as they’re learning the ways of the world outside of their culture as well and are being taught an all-inclusive curriculum.

Alert as 8,000 In Southend Miss Screening For Breast Cancer

Women are called for a breast screening every three years between the ages of 50 and 70, to help detect cancer early but new statistics reveal the proportion of women receiving the invitation has decreased across England over the last decade.

Only 64.3 per cent of the 23,641 women in the Southend Clinical Commissioning Group area due to screening the three years to the end of last March took up the offer, which indicates that 8,433 women were not up to date with their checks.

The information reveals how numerous eligible women were checked at least once in the three year period, indicating that some women could be years overdue and that across England, 71.6 per cent of women eligible for a screening attended their last check.

The UK National Screening Committee stated at least 70 per cent of women sent an offer should attend, but that the NHS is anticipated to obtain an 80 per cent uptake and of those who were posted an offer in 2018-19 across England, only 71.1 per cent had attended inside six months of their invite.

This was up somewhat from the past year, which had the lowest participation rate since the current screening programme started in 2007 and about a third of the 195 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) in England failed to reach the lower target, while only one passed the 80 per cent benchmark.

Baroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive of charity Breast Cancer Now, stated: “It’s promising that uptake of breast screening in England has improved slightly after reaching a decade-low last year and we hope this now continues.

“But screening uptake is still barely above the minimum target, with hundreds of thousands of women across the country not attending.

“While screening comes with some risks to be aware of, we’d encourage all women to attend their appointments when invited.”

Uptake in Southend grew slightly from 63.8 per cent in 2017-18, despite a drop nationally. Nevertheless, it’s descended from a peak of 64.8 per cent in 2010-11.

The breast screening programme uses an X-ray test called a mammogram to identify tumours before they’re large enough to feel by which discovering the disease early on gives a better likelihood of survival and while screening is an individual decision, it’s better to identify the disease before it takes a grip.

Breast cancer survival is at a record high in England with deaths falling quicker than anyplace else in Europe, thanks to earlier detection and advances in treatment and it’s vital that women attend their examination and the NHS is looking for ways to encourage the uptake, including making appointments more convenient.

Boris Johnson wants £ 500,000 to Bong Big Ben on Brexit Night

Boris Johnson has called on Brits to crowdfund up to £5000,000 so Big Ben can bong at the moment of Brexit.

The Prime Minister announced he’s drawing up plans to bung a bob for Parliament’s famous bell to ring out at 11pm on January 31 and scores of Tory MPs have been asking for the bell to toll to rejoice the moment Britain legally becomes the first country to leave the EU.

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But so far no plan has been announced because Elizabeth Tower, which holds the Great Bell known as Big Ben is presently being renovated and the matter was presented at a meeting of the House of Commons Commission but the cost was calculated at £500,000, so the idea was jettisoned.

Commons Speaker Lindsey Hoyle advised care over any proposal to ring the bell, saying that you’re talking about £50,000 a bong. Yet in an interview, Boris Johnson announced the Government was working up a proposal to finance the costs.

The bongs cost £500,000 but evidently, the government are working up a plan so that people can bung a bob for a Big Ben bong because there are some people who want to.

However, Big Ben is being refurbished and they seem to have taken the clapper away, so the clapper needs to be restored in order to bong Big Ben on Brexit night and that’s expensive, so now they’re now looking at whether the public can fund it. The proposals provoked immediate ridicule from opposing MPs with SNP MP Stewart McDonald stating, a global Britain, that has to run a crowdfunder to ring the bells of its most renowned clock tower, we really are through the looking glass.

The fascination with Big Ben ringing for Brexit actually does highlight the shallowness of the Vote Leave campaign.

The 315ft, Grade I listed Elizabeth Tower that contains the bell and clock face is currently undergoing a £61 million renovation in which costs have more than doubled.

It has previously chimed for Remembrance Sunday and New Year’s Eve but the special chiming requires two days of rehearsal and testing each time, and even more time in preparation.

Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons and chairman of the Commission said that the Commission thinks it’s necessary to weigh up the costs this would involve if Big Ben is to sound on 31 January, you’re talking about £50,000 a bong.

We further need to bear in mind that the only people who will hear it will be those who live near and are visiting Westminster, not the entire nation and even if it was reconnected, only the haunting low E dong of 13.7 tonnes, 1859 Great Bell would ring out, not the musical quarter bells which make up the clock’s famous chime.

The bell was detached in 2017 to protect the hearing of the craftsmen renovating the tower, yet Tory Brexiteer Mark Francois insisted he and fellow Brexit ultra Bill Cash could go up the column with a hammer and bong the bell themselves and that if all else fails, the BBC must have a recording of Big Ben clanging they could play at 11pm at no cost whatsoever to taxpayers.

Commons authorities stated for the Bell to ring on 31 January, the temporary striking device used for Remembrance Sunday and New Year’s Eve would need to be reattached and tested to guarantee the timing is right.

A tempory floor of the tower would also need to be established as comprehensive work is currently taking place in this region. The cumulative costs of this would be £120,000 but this would, in turn, push back the work by two to four weeks, with delays costing £100,000 a week, the whole cost would come to between £320,000 and £500,000.

It looks like Brexit’s going to be a huge clanger, but then we knew that anyhow and Boris Johnson who wants to bring our country together is now proposing national celebrations on the day that we leave, which is absolutely outrageous, divisive and wicked.

People aren’t worried whether Big Ben is chiming in London on Brexit night, why not just have all the churches around the United Kingdom sounding their bells in recognition instead? That way the entirety of the United Kingdom can hear the chimes live for once and not just for those who live in London.

This is pretty much a vanity thing and instead of wasting taxpayers cash, he’s now expecting them to crowdfund it from whatever they have left out of their earnings.

Meanwhile, in the real world people are dying on trolleys in A&E, the 75s can’t have free TV licences anymore and people are relying on food banks and then this joker comes up with this ludicrous scheme and it appears that Boris Johnson has gone bonkers and we’d be better of striking Boris on the head with a lump hammer, that should have a nice hollow ring to it.

And hearing Big Ben strike on the night is a tad over the top for blundering Boris Johnson. Why doesn’t he instead donate that money to our struggling NHS, rather than spending it on some lavish and expensive escapade? This is a typical Tory stunt from a bungling clown.

Of course, people should be allowed to rejoice as they want, perhaps with some fireworks going off rather than the ringing of Big Ben and costing so much money that could be used elsewhere, after all, how are people going to benefit from Big Ben ringing?

And why has this even been considered? We should go quietly and with pride and it appears that the United Kingdom is swiftly becoming a theme park being run by a Mickey Mouse government and Boris Johnson is just rubbing it in how much he’s relishing the power he’s been gifted by the Tories.

And we’re not out of Brexit yet. Boris Johnson is going on about Big Ben chiming on the night, yet it all could change between now and then and we could still not come out, he keeps stating that we will, and even if we do, we have no concept of what the future holds for us and yet all we see is fellow voters ridiculing Remainers, it’s just all playground stuff and we all need to grow up!

And if Boris Johnson wants it to bong, he should pay for it himself, that’s if Brexit really happens because the only plan Boris Johnson has ever had was to get into No 10, and he did and said whatever it took to get there.

Now his plan is to stay there and his default method is again to do and say whatever it takes to stay there and he doesn’t care about anyone apart from Boris, and to believe that he cares about the poor, sick, and ageing who need assistance with the most fundamental of human needs, is delusional.

After all, why should he care? He’s a millionaire and his family are millionaires and they can pay for their social and health care needs and the sad thing about this is that thousands and thousands of elderly people are going to live and die in terrible need and there will be people like Boris that won’t give a damn.

We have become a nation of “If I’m alright Jack” and we should be ashamed of what we’ve become.

Boris Johnson Refuses To Say If Meghan’s Coverage Is Racist

Boris Johnson has declined to say if coverage of the Duchess of Sussex is racist as he was questioned on the Royal row gripping the United Kingdom but Boris was certain that they’re going to sort this out but declined to discuss it any further.

Home Secretary Priti Patel dismissed there’d been racism in the media towards Megan, although she did say that she hadn’t actually listened to the debates, but she wasn’t in that category at all where she thought there’d been any racism.

Last year, more than 70 female MPs signed a letter denouncing antiquated, colonial undertones in coverage of the Duchess. Yet when asked if race was an issue, Boris Johnson stated that he was going to reiterate his point that he didn’t believe this has helped by continuing criticism from politicians.

The Queen reluctantly gave the couple her blessing to step back following talks with Prince Harry at Sandringham when he and Meghan announced they wanted to split their time between both sides of the Atlantic and took a swipe at incorrect reporting in the UK media.

But Boris Johnson’s views on this were pretty candid and he said that he was a huge fan of the Queen and of the Royal Family as they were an incredible asset for our country and that he was utterly confident that they were going to sort this out and that they were seemingly going to be able to sort it out easier without any critical commentary from him.

And when asked if the taxpayer-funded couple, who say they want financial independence, had a right to a private life, Boris Johnson said that he thought those perplexities were well understood.

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The Queen held a summit at Sandringham with Prince Harry about his and Meghan Markle’s choice to step back as senior royals and the Queen said while she wished Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to remain senior royals, she would support their decision to become financially independent and move partly across the Atlantic.

But few details of how that independence from the UK taxpayer will happen and has not been revealed and the UK government has repeatedly declined to rule out continuing to finance the couple’s security.

One thing that should be asked is should Harry and Meghan have the right to privacy which is publicly funded? But Boris Johnson is correct on this, it wouldn’t be helpful if politicians began commenting on what goes on with Harry and Meghan and the Royal Family, it’s their business and the Queen has already given her blessing, so we should just let them live their lives now.

The media needs to drop this petulant narrative about racism because if you put the term “House of Windsor” into Google, the first inquiry would be “Is the Queen of England German?” Well, the Queen is British, although she is part German, and the House of Windsor is really the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, but they changed their surname a long time ago.

And when British citizens were being killed by Germans, a royal family with a foreign surname was a problem. So, yes, the Queen is partly German, so what, and she belongs to a family that recognised a century ago that names matter less than behaviour and the same goes for Meghan because it shouldn’t matter that she’s of mixed race, it should matter that she’s a human being like everyone else and therefore, should be treated as such.

But it’s much easier to condemn other people’s biases than their own weaknesses, particularly when we live in a society that overindulges this kind of thing and the word racism has lost all meaning now and it’s the most overused and abused word in the English language.

Now we should just move on with the news because Harry and Meghan are yesterday’s news and let’s hope it stays that way when there’s more urgent and important news to be getting on with.

Clive Lewis Drops Out Of Labour Leadership Race

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Clive Lewis has dropped out of the Labour leadership contest after failing to obtain enough nominations to get onto the ballot paper and with merely hours to go before the deadline, the shadow business minister had convinced just five MPs to formally support him to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.

And it was obvious that he wouldn’t get on the ballot, so he announced that he was standing down in the spirit of pluralism, diversity and generosity that he’s promoted during his campaign, although he did in the morning say that he had confidence in his colleagues to put him through to the next round of the contest, despite him touching on complex problems throughout his leadership delivery.

He stated that he realised that it was difficult because he’d been addressing things which have been difficult for people to hear and that it wasn’t about triangulating policies, it was about stating that you’ve got a political system that’s stacked against you and that it was like playing by the rules with both hands tied behind your back and that we needed to change the rules – well, he’s not going to be doing that anytime soon!

And even though Clive Lewis hasn’t shied away from his controversial stand, portraying himself as a republican and calling for a vote on the future of the monarchy which seemingly didn’t get him many brownie points but then people don’t like the truth and those that are loyal to the Royal Family weren’t going to give him any points at all.

Clive Lewis further said the drive to take Britain out of the EU had prejudice at its heart and that politicians like Nigel Farage had used Brexit to divide our communities but ultimately our country has decided to listen to Boris Johnson, someone who’s got a track record of discriminatory discourse.

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He also suggested that the Duchess of Sussex had been the victim of structural racism in the media and he suggested his race had played a part in his fight to get enough nominations from his parliamentary colleagues to get on the ballot paper but had he thought that he just wasn’t good enough? On the other hand, he could have been browbeaten out of the race because he was a person of colour but we’ll never truly know for sure.

Sadly bigotry is tossed about all over and it’s pretty overused so now nobody actually takes it seriously and he did appear to blame everything on racism and the monarch and literally, that was his entire stand and now, of course, he’ll be screaming racism and according to this man everyone is racist and he talks about others dividing the country but this is a chip on his shoulder which is a kind of anti-white racism, which certainly didn’t help him.

People Die Waiting For Reforms To Benefit Rules For Terminally Ill

About 1,700 people have died waiting for improvements to cruel benefit rules and it marks six months since welfare chief Amber Rudd announced a revision of the Special Rules for Terminal Illness, yet it’s still continuing and Amber Rudd has since quit her position.

Now Marie Curie and the Motor Neurone Disease Association say that 1,700 people have died waiting for a decision on Personal Independence Payments (PIP) since the changes were promised in July.

The estimation is based on the previous Department for Work and Pension figures which show 17,070 people died waiting for a PIP decision in five years and people currently have a benefit claim fast-tracked if a GP agrees they’re expected to die inside six months but charities say the rule is arbitrary, unworkable and uncaring, with people being forced to demonstrate that they have six months left to live or suffer long delays in getting access to benefits and when they do get benefits they can still face stressful reassessment, even though they’re dying.

The review gave people some certainty at least but six months on these people are no further forward and people are still dying without any monetary help they need and are entitled to and we need the Government to act on its promise.

Amber Rudd announced the review two months before she quit the DWP, highlighting the grief of losing ex-husband AA Gill to cancer but at the time the Mirror understood the review had no end date, no set terms of reference and no separate budget, although the DWP maintained it had now made positive moves, including a dedicated web page and would be carrying out more research with claimants over the coming months and that the evaluation of support for people nearing the end of life was an undeniable priority for them.

They further stated that important work was well underway and that they were working closely with medical professionals and charities like the MND Association and Marie Curie and that they were making assertive changes and actively collecting all the pertinent medical evidence required to shape the proposals.

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Jo Lynton, 60, was able to get PIP for her dying husband Mark quickly after getting the six-month form but she’s warned that others can’t get the magic piece of paper, adding that the six-month rule definitely has to end because it’s wrong and unfair.

Jo Lynton said when they applied for Universal Credit she and her husband Mark ran into obstacles, trying for 15 weeks before they became ineligible when Mark cashed in his pension and Mark who was an IT consultant from Bromsgrove died at the age of 54 from MND in July after a 22-week illness.

Jo, his wife was his full-time carer and she said that claiming benefits was horrible and when on the telephone to them they were put on hold for at least 50-60 minutes but she couldn’t be on hold for that amount of time because her husband could choke on his own saliva. What was she supposed to do, tell him to choke quietly while she was waiting on the telephone to get £50 a week?

Mark was diagnosed on February 27 four days after his last day of work and was unable to drive inside a week and his wife Jo would just sit there and cry because there wasn’t anything she could do and she said they paid into the system and the one time they needed relief they couldn’t get it.

They still had a mortgage and all the bills to pay and it was hard but they were lucky, they had a little bit of savings but other people have nothing and all DWP said was that it awarded the full rate of PIP to Mr Lynton two days after receiving notice he was terminally ill.

However, there was a UN report released in 2018 that said that the UK Government enacted systematic violations of the rights of people with disabilities due to their welfare reforms by the coalition government of the Tory Party and the Liberal Democrats, that was part of their wider agenda of austerity.

These included cuts to disability benefits and social care budgets and the bedroom tax, all aspects of the welfare state that support people with disabilities live independent lives and as a consequence of these reforms, the report discovered that the threshold of grave or systematic violations of the rights of persons with disabilities had been met in the State Party.

The government’s reply by the Work and Pensions Secretary repudiated the report’s conclusions, stating at the heart of the report lies an antiquated view of disability which is condescending and insulting and that they strongly refuted its conclusions.

Complete rejection by a ruthless Tory government where 130,000 deaths which are connected to their austerity policies and still the killing goes on and things will get much worse as Universal Credit is designed to get people back into work but I’m just wondering how they’ll get people with disabilities and Mental Health back into work by 2027 because by then half the people might have died because of the system.

And this Tory government haven’t finished with their contempt of the sick and disabled because this government just does whatever it wants with our sick and disabled and they don’t care what anyone else says about it and it’s beyond offensive and quite honestly it’s disgusting.

But this has always gone on, nothing has changed, they’ve just given it a different name, and it’s just another example of our bureaucratic computer says no to a society where the identity of the patient has no place and we need to create a system where they treat the sick and disabled like real people in need and the people who work for the DWP need to make more humane decisions and if they don’t it won’t make much difference what the benefit is called, this indifference will go on and on.

Clive Lewis Calls For Referendum On Royal Family

Clive Lewis has called for a poll on the fate of the Monarchy as part of his pitch to be the leader of the Labour Party. He further declared that one of the reasons why he has so far struggled to get on the ballot paper is because he’s a black man.

He told an audience in Brixton that the decision by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to step back from public life could be a model for the fate of the Royal Family and he stated that he admired the couple’s decision following press interference they’ve encountered and the prejudice that Megan has encountered in the British media.

So, why not have a vote in this country on the future of the Royal family? The people should be allowed to decide on what the fate of the monarchy is, and for the Royal Family being sized down and I’m sure that a bunch of people would like to see the monarchy scaled-down and there’s been a lot of talks because the monarchy is quite extensive and there are a lot of people in the Royal Family being funded by the public purse.

We’re a democracy and the people of this nation need to be seen as citizens rather than subjects in the 21st Century and we should be speaking about what a modern state looks like and what the function of the Royal Family would look like.

Let the British people determine what the fate of the monarchy is and what shape it should take. After all, we’re not subjects, we’re citizens of this country and I would imagine the vast preponderance of the people in this country would consider themselves citizens.

Yet this could not end well for Clive Lewis because Jeremy Corbyn also wanted to get rid of the Royal Family, and that didn’t end well for him either and he’s picking the wrong fight because he needs to win power before making such sweeping moves and he further stated that the reason no one voted for him as leader is because he’s a person of colour but now he’s another person that believes he’s Jeremy Corbyn, an expert protestor who complains about anything that the competition is working on.

And after the last debacle, it’s questionable we’ll ever see another referendum anytime soon and in recent polls, it suggested that 64 per cent of the people still support the monarchy. There are truly more important problems in our country and it’s doubtful his thinking would be embraced.

But there are people out there that would like to get rid of the ruling elite family, after all, they’re no better than us and they freeload money from us and treat us with discourtesy and disdain, and they’re malicious users of all good and decent people and numerous people might say that we should have a vote because the Royal Family get more money than anyone on Universal Credit.

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And as a regimental band moves towards Windsor Castle, rounded a corner by a sculpture of Queen Victoria and entered the 11th-century fortress through the Henry VIII gate for thrice-weekly changing of the guard, pipers and drummers clad in kilts and bearskins lead the way, followed by the New Guard carrying bayonets over their left shoulder.

It’s a quintessential British display, cheered by sightseers lining their route but a few metres from the castle walls at least 10 rough sleepers huddle in doorways and bus shelters, covered in wet blankets and sleeping bags and one man in his 40s who lives on the streets, was rolling his first cigarette of the day.

He’s one of the increasing number of people living on the streets in the royal town of Windsor where police have been called to circulate enforcement orders against the scourge of rough sleepers and homelessness before the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle because it was thought that it was presenting a beautiful town in a sadly bad light.

But for this man who lost his private tenancy, lives in a makeshift shelter of cardboard and blankets by a bus stop opposite the castle, these enforcement orders were a stark difference to the charity and kindness countless people in the town have shown him and other rough sleepers.

And if they want to clean up the royal borough, at least give these people a place to stay but of course, they don’t want vermin like this man on the street when the entire world is watching but at the end of the day, they’re human beings as well and just want to get back on their feet.

Only the Labour party can suggest ideas that make them unelectable with divided offensive strategies, more involved in doctrines than winning elections and at this rate they’ll never become a powerful opponent or win an election and it’s not about the colour of his skin that’s holding Clive Lewis back, it’s his hypocritical foolishness.

And Clive Lewis needs to understand that we’re citizens of this country, not serfs and if he’s fighting to get on the ballot paper because of the colour of his skin then he’s acknowledging the Labour Party is institutionally racist and why would he want to remain in, nevermind want to lead such a party?

He’s just looking for a pity vote, how pathetic, and I’m surprised they haven’t begun calling for a Queen of colour in the name of diversity.

The monarchy and the House of Lords are really antiquated and they all need to be modernised because we live in the 21st Century and we live in a modern age where things are shifting quite quickly.

The Royals are not what makes up this country, the people who live in it are but instead, we just get treated like peasants and commoners but then its been like this for a pretty long time where social institutions comparable to serfdom occurred in the ancient world.

Serfdom was a system that provided most of the agricultural labour throughout the Middle Ages and slavery continued right through to the Middle Ages but it did diminish, mostly confined to the use of household slaves but actually, it’s always been there and still is.

Sliding Standards

The media bully, deceive, trick, browbeat and smear, we all know this, yet it’s now become normal and the preponderance of people in our society accept this, but in turn, this will eventually shape our children’s lives.

This is how standards slide and nobody holds the media to account, it’s no surprise people are turning on each other, yet they still listen to the media rubbish and what an utter disgrace of a nation we’ve become with no standards.

But then we should stop watching and listening to the news and quit reading newspapers and we should be shaping our children, not anyone else and the only people who can sort this are the parents of this world because we’re allowing the pied piper of commercialism to take our children and distort their minds.

Sadly, we now live in a destructive world, which is getting more dangerous by the day and it’s terrifying what our children and their children are heading into and this media ethos is to never let the truth get in the way of a great story.

Of course, every person has a brain and thinking ability and a choice, and time to think things over, but some people are too lazy to bother and it’s far easier to follow the crowd and baa along with the rest and it’s no good getting older if we don’t get wiser.

Parents should have the right to know what their children are doing at school, but they usually don’t and parents should be permitted access to their children’s personal information but the government will say that a child has a right to their alleged right to privacy.

And the government at all levels has become entangled in the private lives of families, dictating child-rearing measures and punishing parents who don’t obey the rules.

This is the condition of an oppressive state and interference in the lives of families which is pervasive and decisions have been taken out of the hands of parents only to be determined by politicians, school administrators and unelected functionaries which at first appeared seemingly harmless, yet now, children are being separated from their parents care because they’re overweight.

Now the government and the media tell women what to do with their bodies, while other agencies are making life less palatable by regulating the diets of schoolchildren.

This isn’t just a matter of parenting best practices but the failure to adhere to a bubble-wrapped vision of child-rearing which a parent can then end up being charge and maybe end up on the child-abuse registry.

And it appears that we have lost our civil rights and even the right to remain a parent to a child and it seems that parents have to come to accept all the rules and specific instructions about how to cut up fruits and vegetables sent from home and the ban on plastic bags being brought into schools.

Next, it won’t be safe for your children to go out onto the ice because it’s far more dangerous than staying indoors and this is the sort of thing that government nannies are seeking to prevent because everything is in the interest of your offspring and soon when you make your child’s lunch there will be government-empowered food inspectors at your child’s school looking into their lunchbox, or it might be that schools ban home-packed lunches completely because they think that their menus are more nutritious than what parents choose to prepare themselves.

Who gets to decide what’s in the best interest of children is murky water when it comes to schools in general and in numerous cases, a child’s weight and height information is collected along with each child’s body-mass index, usually without the consent of the parents.

But while pupils are in school the school can collect such basic health information without restraint and in the most heartbreaking of instances agencies seem to be able to determine what’s in the best interest of one’s child and in some instances children have been separated from their parents for being insanely overweight.

And agencies have supported these removals by stating it’s in the best interest of the child and that the state can take charge of their lives and they will say it’s for the well-being of the child but sometimes it can do more harm.

The problem is we are inappropriately defining private and public life and yet we are advocating breaking apart families that will cause no harm to anyone but the victims and we should be concentrating on restoring the rights of the parents to raise their children.

And as common-place as nanny-state parenting has become, it will take a huge struggle to reverse the tide of public policy and the overprotective culture that has brought us to our current situation but then being a good parent, and a good citizen has never been straightforward.

But if you want to make a difference, you have to get out amongst Joe Public, discuss and debate without confrontation because people need to come together and make a stand, the sooner the better before it’s too late.

We need to quit buying these so-called newspapers and to switch from the BBC and to find alternative ways to find out what is going on.

We whine perpetually on social media, meanwhile, our country is being stolen from us and being transformed forever and we have to take a stand against the madness and end the progress of the swamp people that some people so clearly admire.

We have turned on the poorest and most defenceless and demonised them and the gutter press and this cruel government need to be held to account and we should fear for our children’s future that’s enveloped by fanatics and people who believe the excrement they read, however, it will take decades to undo the damage caused.

Asthmatic Student Passes Away

Schools must protect our children but tragically a school failed in its duty, with devasting consequences.

Ryan Gibbons was a lively child who should still be alive but due to the inept leadership at his school, he’s no longer with us.

Ryan Gibbons was active and enjoyed being outdoors but there was one thing always reining in his energy, the child had asthma.

Most people know that asthma is a treatable condition and Ryan Gibbons should have been able to prevent his asthma attacks from having any dangerous consequences upon him but the school had a lousy system that stopped him from using it.

It all began when Ryan Gibbons and his friends were playing soccer and the asthma attack hit the boy and he urgently required his inhaler but didn’t have it because a school administrator had confiscated it and locked it away earlier that day.

His friends lifted him and hurried him to the office where the inhaler was being stored but the administrator was not at the office and they couldn’t get inside and by the time they found anyone who could get into the office Ryan Gibbons was dead.

If the school hadn’t had this pointless policy of impounding Ryan Gibbon’s inhalers, then the child would not have died, yet Ryan Gibbons and his family had previously tried telling the management of his school that they shouldn’t take away his inhalers.

The school didn’t listen and they cared more about establishing a pointless school rule than protecting one of their pupils and after the family realised that the school would keep on taking away the child’s inhalers, they’d gone to extreme measures of making their son plant them on his person but the school administrators would frequently find them and take them away.

The school’s policy was that all prescribed medication needed to be kept in an office but obviously, none of the school staff members was bright enough to understand that this policy could threaten a child’s life.

This inhaler that Ryan used was a device that he required all the time because when an attacked happened it opened up his airways and enabled him to breathe again and by not being able to have access to his inhaler Ryan passed out and never woke up again.

This event took place at the Elgin Country School located in Ontario, Canada and an investigation was done that revealed that in spite of various attempts, Ryan was not permitted to keep his inhaler on him, this was even with a note from his doctor.

Ryan’s mother recalls that the school called her numerous times asking her to come to pick up his inhaler that Ryan had brought to school and since Ryan’s death, his mother has decided to do whatever it takes to stop this from happening to another family.

It’s vital for each child that has asthma to have immediate access to their inhalers while at school and in America, at the time of Ryan’s death, there were laws that enabled pupils to carry their inhalers on hand, yet numerous children were still being denied as the inhalers were still being labelled as a prescription medication and they’re forced to leave it in the office.

More than 10 Americans die every day due to complications from asthma, even though death rates have diminished, they’re not absent and deaths are potentially preventable.

Nevertheless, since the story was published in 2012, a new law has been passed called Ryan’s Law which now requires all school boards in the province of Ontario to develop and maintain asthma policies that better protect students with asthma.

New Style ESA Explained

We’re now amid the biggest welfare reform in a generation as claimants are transferred onto Universal Credit from six existing benefits and amongst the legacy benefits it will take over from its income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).

However it is possible to get ESA as well as Universal Credit, so how precisely does this work? And what are the rules for eligibility and the payment rates?

ESA is given to those who have an incapacity or health condition that influences how much they work.

There are two types, contributory ESA, which has been renamed new style ESA, or income-related ESA.

Income-related ESA is being replaced by Universal Credit.

New style ESA is not means-tested but is taxable, whereas income-related ESA is means-tested, so it takes into account income and savings but it’s not taxable.

The new style ESA can be claimed on its own or at the same time as Universal Credit and you’ll be able to get Universal Credit as well if you and your partner don’t have savings of more than £16,000.

Sounds great doesn’t it but the new style ESA will be classed as an income when determining how much Universal Credit you’re qualified to get, so if you’re paid the new style ESA it will reduce your Universal Credit payment by the same amount, bit pointless actually, it’s almost like robbing Peter to pay Paul but I’m sure it looks good on paper but not when it’s coming out of your pocket.

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