THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

Boris Johnson Suddenly Realises He Can’t Trust His Friend Donald Trump

Donald Trump is in town and Boris Johnson is doing about everything he can to dodge being seen with his guest but usually, Prime Ministers embrace the opportunity to be photographed beside the US President as a method of polishing their credentials as a world statesman or woman.

Boris Johnson isn’t even holding a one to one meeting with Donald Trump, who flew in for the NATO summit, for concern the association will play badly with voters and the Conservatives are also worried the unpredictable American leader will use an interview or one of his Twitter harangues to either attack Jeremy Corbyn, which would be seen as a badge of honour for the Labour leader, or fuel the row about US firms eyeing up the NHS.

But if the Tories are so afraid of the President’s behaviour it hardly permeates you with confidence in their capacity to achieve a post-Brexit trade deal with the US and if he can’t be trusted to keep silent for two days how can he be trusted to act in our interests on a more substantive matter?

Jeremy Corbyn is naturally attempting to utilise the visit to his maximum advantage and has been goading Donald Trump by writing to him directly to demand the NHS is kept off the table in any post-Brexit deal but will the toddler in chief be able to resist hitting back?

This will be the week when the main political parties start to panic because the Conservatives will be worried their lead is going to be whittled away and Labour is worried the surge has come too late and if we’re to believe the polls, then the pressure has already started to happen.

A Tory lead of double figures is now down to between seven to nine points and if Labour can continue to coax Lib Dem voters to vote tactically and its previous voters to come back to the fold then we could be in hung parliament territory.

Many have said it feels a lot like 1992 when they believed they would ultimately end thirteen years of Tory rule only for John Major to snatch victory.

The mood on the ground is far from optimistic with competitors and canvassers saying that Jeremy Corbyn remains the biggest obstacle to persuading people to vote Labour because they don’t like him and they don’t trust him but others were somewhat more positive, saying that former Labour voters were more inclined to sit on their hands than put Boris Johnson in No 10.

But there are groans the leadership is targeting resources at seats being contested by candidates loyal to Jeremy Corbyn rather than swing constituencies and eyebrows have been raised at the decision to field Rebecca Long-Baily and Richard Burgon, both allies of Jeremy Corbyn, in the seven-way television debates rather than more skilled players such as Emily Thornberry, Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner or Jonathan Ashworth.

Rebecca Long-Bailey did well but the decision to give her such a prominent stage has stoked speculation the Labour leadership is more occupied in succession planning than election-winning.

To be fair to Jeremy Corbyn there was a comparable feeling of melancholy in 2017 and the media, by and large, failed to pick up on his surge right up until polling day.

Labour has a good retail offer on the doorstep and a great campaign foundation, however, the Tories have fewer grassroots followers and a single offer to get Brexit done, that’s insidious and limited in its popularity and it would be ironic if Boris Johnson, who came to power by pledging to be the antidote to Theresa May’s caution, came unstuck because he ran a safety-first and uninspired campaign.

But Boris Johnson runs scared of everything he believes might make him look corrupt and Boris Johnson seems to be lying to everyone as so does Donald Trump and these savages must be seen off out of public office because they’re not fit to lead anyone and yet they’re both leaders, how did this happen?

Boris Johnson is just a grade-A jelly roll and a serial liar who will do anything to get and keep himself in power, not because he has any special ability for anything other than seeking his self-promotion and because he believes he has the God-given right to rule, even though he’s as dense as mincemeat and twice as fatty and Russian money dominates him.

And now suddenly we appear to need America, why, they’ve managed to drag us into wars which we had no grounds to join but it’s hilarious, this government can finance those wars but can’t stop Food banks, homelessness and services have been cut and we’ve never actually needed America before but they seem to get us involved when it accommodates them.

And anyone who trusts Donald Trump is a nincompoop and suffers from incurable madness but then the same goes for Boris Johnson and now Donald Trump is saying he wouldn’t touch our NHS with a bargepole and he further said that he wanted to stay out of the UK election during his appointment to the United Kingdom.

But then Donald Trump wouldn’t want a socialised NHS because it’s not profitable but then he would love to get the green light to de-socialise our NHS so that he could make it profit-making and to make it a lean, mean money-making machine.

And how do we know if the process isn’t already on its way and that Boris Johnson hasn’t asked Donald Trump to dismiss it before the election? And Brexit will destroy our country because it’s only for the people who are already rich.

Tony Blair Says Vote Tactically

Tony Blair has branded the Tory plan to deliver Brexit a daydream and said he wouldn’t trust Boris Johnson with a blank cheque and the former prime minister is to deliver a speech and is expected to describe the plight of British politics as completely dysfunctional.

Tony Blair, will say that the voters should look at this election seat by seat, defining the General Election as 650 mini elections and he’s expected to say that the Conservative Party say vote Tory and Brexit will be done, it will be over.

They’ll even add, do it and then we can get back to dealing with the important issues, so obviously they don’t believe that Brexit is that important.

And what a cheek they have and in some ways it’s breath-taking, having visited this catastrophe upon us, which has diverted us from those important issues over three years, they’re now using that diversion as a reason for doing Brexit, not for abandoning it.

And even though Brexit is appealing for some but not for others, it doesn’t seem that Brexit is over, on the 12 December or at any other time, it’s simply a fantasy of being over and the Conservatives have calculated that they can force people to elect them, despite the apprehension over Brexit, because Jeremy Corbyn is the alternative.

The Labour Party leadership calculate they can combine traditional Labour support around issues like the NHS, with Remain voters who hate Brexit, despite fear about the Labour leader.

In other words, both parties want to win on the premise that whatever your hatred of what they’re offering, the alternative is worse and even though Brexit is a diversion, it’s also the essential determinant of the nation’s future.

Yet it remains the single most important decision since 1945 because of the impact it will have on our economy and how it’s done matters and a no-deal Brexit isn’t off the table and we are as a nation are slap bang in the middle of it.

When people hear the phrase no deal, they frequently think we just mean failure to agree, what it means is that we’re launching our economy off a cliff and hoping it finds a parachute on the way down.

And it’s a risk no rational leader would take, yet we may be about to allow a leader, Boris Johnson in taking such a gamble and it promises a revolution, and if achieved it would certainly amount to one but the problem with revolutions is never how they started but how they end.

But then why would we take advice from a warmongering car salesman? Because Tony Blair dirtied his reputation forever as a War Criminal and entered us into an illegal war which annihilated a million people, nearly destabilised the Middle East, left thousands of our forces dead, wounded or suffering from PTSD and also jumped ship when the economy was starting to disintegrate, so does his opinion really matter? But then psychotic disorders are severe mental disorders that cause abnormal thought and perception and who lose touch with reality.

But then people will vote for who they want to vote for without someone telling them who to vote for, especially Tony Blair.

And remember this is the same Tony Blair who began the war on the sick and disabled by hiring ATOS and don’t forget how these people have been treated.

Tony Blair should stay out of it, he’s had his time and should have had to answer for taking Britain to war with the Middle East over weapons of mass destruction, that didn’t exist and Tony Blair has no credibility whatsoever.

Boris Johnson Said UK’s Poorest Communities Are Made-Up Of ‘Chavs,’ ‘Burglars,’ ‘Drug Addicts,’ And ‘Losers’

It’s been unearthed that Boris Johnson wrote that the poorest 20 per cent of British society is made up of chavs, losers, burglars, drug addicts and criminals in a newspaper column.

Boris Johnson, who was a Conservative MP and editor of the Spectator magazine at the time, wrote in the Telegraph in 2005 that the poorer voters who live in run-down estates only continued to vote for Labour due to the deluded hope of bigger handouts.

He added that this bottom one-fifth of British citizens furnish us with the chavs, the losers, the burglars, the drug addicts and the 70,000 people who are lost in our prisons and learning nothing except how to become more efficient offenders.

In an aside aimed at his political opponents, he said that some Labour MPs only wanted to ban the smacking of kids due to their disgust when they see a chav belting their children in supermarkets.

It further emerged that Boris Johnson had labelled the kids of single mothers ill raised, vulgar, threatening and illegitimate and accused their fathers of being too weak to take charge of their women.

But Boris Johnson’s remarks simply show that he has a hatred for working-class people across the United Kingdom and before becoming Prime Minister, Boris Johnson used the prerequisite of high profile newspaper columns to spread prejudiced abuse at Muslim women, black people, single mothers, working-class people and other groups.

And this history makes him ill-equipped to be Prime Minister, particularly at a time when our country is divided and urgently needs to come back together again.

Boris Johnson has also previously claimed that income inequality may be necessary due to the lower intelligence of some poorer people. Boris Johnson said that whatever we may think of the value of IQ tests, it’s surely relevant to a conversation about inequality that as many as 16 per cent of our species have an IQ below 85 while about 2 per cent have an IQ above 130.

Boris Johnson further argued that he didn’t think that economic equality is plausible because human beings are far from equal in raw ability.

Boris Johnson has been dogged for decades by criticism about his hateful remarks that he’s made about groups including Muslims, black people and gay people and a Business Insider previously revealed, in a 1998 Telegraph column about Peter Mandelson’s withdrawal from the Labour government, Boris Johnson said the announcement would lead to the blubbering of tank top bumboys in the Ministry of Sound nightclub, and the soft-lit Soho drinking clubs frequented by Mandy and his pals.

He further added that Mandelson’s departure would cause the lipstick to come away from Tony Blair’s government and in a separate Telegraph column, Boris Johnson further bewailed attempts to increase equality at the BBC for gay people.

It must be a spoof, he wrote.

“In my hand was a magazine from something called the BBC Resources Equal Opportunities Unit. There were letters from gays asking about their “partner’s” right to a BBC pension.”

In his 2001 book “Friends, Voters, Countrymen,” Johnson compared gay marriage to bestiality, writing that “if gay marriage was OK – and I was uncertain on the issue – then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men, or indeed three men and a dog.”

And when questioned about his record, Boris Johnson declined to apologise and told LBC that his earlier remarks had been taken out of context and were undeniable perversions of what he’d written.

And he told LBC’s Nick Ferrari that he needed to go back and look at the context and that so much of the stuff is disinterred to deflect from the basic issues of this election.

It’s this sort of biased discourse that makes Boris Johnson so attractive to numerous Tory voters because such people would see his flamboyant, dismissive and generalised description of people as telling it like it is.

And the whole tone of them insinuates that there’s always a spiffingly manageable solution to society’s more complicated problems and that Boris Johnson and his followers have it up their sleeves, provided it doesn’t require too much money and if you want simplicity in our public life, then fascism must be an attractive option.

I have always believed in fairness equity and honesty, but sadly Boris Johnson’s party is the embodiment of the opposite of all three.

But well done Boris, now he’s going to put the voters off and now I suspect we’ll get a hung parliament, silly clown Boris and watch this space, Labour will catch up in the polls before you know it, so be extremely afraid Tory rent boys.

And maybe instead of slating off the chavs as he so eloquently puts it, he should be doing something to make them more flush and not destitute but he won’t because Boris is just an Eton mess and there are loads of people that went to public school and had a vested background but they didn’t become a lying beaver, like Boris Johnson.

And I’m sure Boris Johnson has had many a bailout through his life from his father, trash a restaurant, just get a cheque from daddy, yet most people have to take it on the chin if stuff goes wrong or they mess up in their life.

Some people have marked learning difficulties and then everything in our complex society is more challenging for them to manage but easy peasy if your toff family provide a safety blanket financially but not so easy when you’re on zero-hour contracts and an unreliable number of hours a week.

Every country has vulnerable people but if that country looks after them, the crime rate goes down because they’re not pushed to desperation but then Boris Johnson doesn’t live in the real world and he unquestionably doesn’t understand the country he’s running because some of the best-hearted people in the country are what Boris Johnson calls the bottom of the barrel and it’s Boris Johnson who’s the low life with his dishonesty and betrayal which puts him right at the bottom of the barrel.

The Conservatives have made so many poorer and they intend to do even worse when Boris Johnson finally gifts the NHS to Donald Trump and only the top echelons of society produce extorters, liars, financial criminals, corrupt crooks, political perverts and exploiters, isn’t that right, Boris Johnson – Better class of thief, better class of crime!

But then this is representative of Boris Johnson, discrediting the poorest in society, but then again, the Tories have been doing this for over 200 years. The worst thing is, we’ve come to expect it from them and we know what Boris thinks about the blacks, gays and Muslims and working-class men, so what he thinks about the poorest comes as no shock.

And women, they’re just there for his pleasure and to be thrown aside when no longer needed, just like a pimp would do. You know what they say, Boris, if you’ve got nothing nice to say, then don’t say anything at all!

London Bridge Terror Attack Was Revenge Attack

The terrorist who killed two people on London Bridge may have been acting in retaliation over the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Usman Khan, 28, who was shot to death by police for his terrorist attack, was previously sentenced of a conspiracy to blow up the London Stock Exchange in 2012.

He was known to security chiefs and investigations were initiated to unearth if he had any associates and it’s thought that he was one of 20,000 UK jihadi suspects known to police and MI5.

Colonel Richard Kemp, ex-COBRA security committee chief said that if he turned out to be an Islamic terrorist, then he was possibly motivated by Islamic State and that it was even possible his action was in revenge for al-Baghdadi’s death and that it was something ISIS had called for since the US Delta Force attack in Syria.

Al-Baghdadi died after blowing himself up with a suicide vest during a US raid of the Syrian camp he was being held at on October 26 this year and Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu verified that a man and a woman were stabbed in the attack which saw Khan, wearing a fake suicide vest, killed up to five people before being shot dead by armed police as hundreds of commuters retreated in fear.

The assault coincided with a similar disturbance in Holland which saw three children stabbed on a shopping street in The Hague but national broadcaster NOS said the assault couldn’t directly be attributed to terrorism.

Dutch police started a manhunt following the assault, which took place on a bustling shopping street near the city’s historic centre and the area was cordoned off and dozens of police and ambulances were on the scene.

And in Paris, the Gare Du Nord train station was temporarily evacuated after an alleged explosive device was discovered in an unattended bag and unsubstantiated images show the device, which resembled a mortar shell, inside an old duffel bag with some people suggesting the device was a dummy explosive used for training purposes.

Commissioner Basu also revealed that Khan, who was from Stoke-on-Trent, had a previous terrorism conviction and had been imprisoned for eight years in 2012 but he was discharged on licence in December 2018 and was still wearing a monitoring tag at the time of the assault.

Anti-terror police stormed a house in the Staffordshire region connected to the killer.

Khan had been attending a seminar in Fishmongers Hall run by Cambridge University’s Criminology Department to help offenders reintegrate into society following their discharge from prison.

Khan had threatened to blow up the building at the commencement of his five-minute rampage which ended in his death on London Bridge and climactic video footage showed him being tackled to the ground by at least six members of the public.

One man pursued the criminal with a fire extinguisher while another used a Narwhal whale tusk to restrain him.

Khan had previously been arrested on December 20, 2010, four days before he and his nine-strong Al-Queda-inspired gang planned to plant a bomb in the toilets of the London Stock Exchange.

He was a member of a nine-strong Al Queda-inspired gang planning to blow up the London Stock Exchange and following the arrest of Khan’s gang, police found a handwritten list of victims which included the US Embassy and the homes of then London Mayor Boris Johnson, the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral and two rabbis.

The gang also carried out surveillance of other potential targets including Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, the Palace of Westminster and the London Eye.

The group planned to send five bombs in the post to London synagogues and the Church of Scientology headquarters, as well as spreading panic on Stoke on Trent by planting bombs in pubs and club toilets.

The attack came after the terror threat in the UK was reduced from severe to substantial and police were guarding the area over the weekend in case of a copycat attack and to reassure the public.

But all those convicted of past terrorist attacks need to be locked up for life, they’re too much of a risk to good, ordinary citizens going about their daily lives.

ISIS has since claimed the London Bridge terror attack was carried out by one of its fighters and the terrorist organisation said Usman Khan, 28, who killed two and wounded several more when he went on a knife rampage in central London, acted on their behalf.

The group, however, didn’t present any proof this was the case as it claimed its news agency and added that the assault was made in response to Islamic State calls to target countries that have been part of a coalition fighting the jihadist group.

What this story shows is both the greatness and risks of immigration and the danger of having people like Khan in our country, where they don’t have any wish to adapt or have any love for the culture of the nation they live in.

On the other hand, you have the Polish immigrant Lucasz, who seeing the attacker might be a suicide bomber was prepared to give his life to protect others in his new country.

The brave man who fought off the knife-wielding terrorist with a 5ft narwhal tusk is now being treated for stab wounds in hospital.

The hero, who is believed to be a polish chef by the name of Lukasz, courageously helped bring down convicted subversive Usman Khan with others on London Bridge.

Lukasz, who works in the kitchen at Fishmongers Hall where Khan’s assault began, is believed to be in the hospital where he’s recuperating from stab wounds.

A work-mate said that staff have been urged not to say too much, but that he had his number and he’s still in the hospital.

Friday’s heroes were Cambridge graduate Jack Merritt, a 25-year-old course coordinator who was the first victim to be identified after grieving father paid tribute to his son as a beautiful spirit.

Three people, one man and two women, were rushed to hospital on Friday night, one was in critical condition, one was stable and a third had less severe injuries and an NHS Chief Executive said that one patient who was in critical condition has improved and the status of the other two was the same.

It came after a woman, who didn’t give her name, said a woman in her 20s had slash wounds on her arms and stomach and a man had to be put in an induced coma.

Lukasz was one of the many onlookers who endangered their lives to bring down the London Bridge terrorist. Another hero was a kitchen porter named only as Mohammed who is said to have tackled Khan on his lunch break before going back to wash dishes.

Two other men who helped to catch the attacker were courageous tour guides Thomas Gray, 24, and Stevie Hurst who jumped out of their vehicle to help.

Prisoner James Ford, 42, helped take down Khan while he was on day release. James Ford murdered a 21-year-old disabled girl back in 2004 and was at an event about rehabilitating criminals when he stepped in.

A British Transport police officer in plain clothes bravely picked up one of the knives from the floor and moved it away from the aggressor.

Khan, who was from Staffordshire, was released from prison last December and police said he was known to the authorities after he was convicted in 2012 for terror attacks and was forbidden from entering London but succeeded in getting a one-day exemption to attend an ex-convict event.

The killer deceived police by travelling to the prisoner rehabilitation conference at Fishmongers Hall where he began his horror rampage and one academic who was there stated that Khan suddenly just flipped.

It was reported that Khan was given special dispensation to attend the Cambridge University run event. The heartless criminal attended the morning session before returning after lunch to begin his rampage furnished with two knives and a fake explosive vest.

Khan is the first freed terrorist to launch an assault in this country and the Parole Board said in a statement that they had no involvement in Khan’s release.

My Son Had To Do A Poo In A Bush

A pupil had to poop in his school’s grounds because the toilets are locked during class time.

The 12-year-old Treorchy Comprehensive pupil, who had a bad tummy, had no alternative but to cower behind a school block when he had to relieve himself in an emergency – Treorchy Comprehensive verified that the toilets are locked during lessons.

Students at the school must ask a teacher for permission to go to the receptionist to get a key if they require the toilet during lessons and the boys parents said that their son, who’s in year eight, was given permission to go to the toilet by his teacher in a classroom five minutes walk from reception.

But when the receptionist declined to give the boy a toilet key he was caught short, although he did make his way back to his teacher to tell his teacher but could wait no longer and had to squat down to poop behind a bush near a block outside.

The unfortunate boy had diarrhoea and didn’t want it to run down his leg so he simply had to find a quiet area outside and this is just negligence by the school.

The boy told his mother what had occurred later that evening, although he wasn’t unwell when he went to school but had a belly ache after lunch and said it was quite intense and he just told his mother he had to poo outside.

This is a health and safety concern because the poor boy couldn’t even clean or wash his hands and it’s negligent to not have unrestricted use of the toilets and they shouldn’t be permitted to just close off the toilets like this.

And now this boy is anxious about not being able to go to the toilet in school when he needs to and he’s also concerned because he feels he did something wrong and the boy’s parents don’t want their son named or for them to be named in case that identifies him and they did complain to the deputy headteacher following the incident.

But they were told that students have to get a key to circumvent trouble making in the toilets and kids skipping class professing they need to go and a spokeswoman for the 1,644 pupil school said that the toilet policy would be examined in light of the concern raised by the boy’s parents.

There are nine sets of toilets placed across the school site and most of these are locked during lesson times to ensure all pupils have access to the highest standards of toilet amenities when they want to use them, upon request, although that’s no good when you have some receptionist refusing to give out the key upon request from the teacher and it does make you wonder who’s in charge of the school.

No school should ever refuse a desperate child the toilet and I feel sorry for the boy who was reduced to such an embarrassing situation and an electronic lock type system would be simple and cost-effective to fit, then all teachers could have an access card solely for the toilet to give out as and when needed.

Personally, if I went to work somewhere and was told the toilet was key access only and that key was kept by reception and managed by someone else, that would be my interest in that job gone because if you need to go to the toilet you need to go and that’s that.

There’s supposedly been some manner of significant dilemma that has transpired in this school before and they’ve had to resort to this sort of action and it would be good to know what those reasons were for this radical move to be taken where children are not permitted to visit the toilets as they please.

Does the pope crap in the woods, no but the pupils from Treorchy Comprehensive do!

Jobless Somali Refugee Family Who have Not Worked Since Arriving In The UK in 2008

A family of Somali refugees have sparked a row over council housing when they were given a £2 million taxpayer-funded mansion have been moved out, into a £1.3 million semi around the corner.

Jobless Saeed Khaliif and his wife Sayida and their family prompted an uproar in 2011 when they moved into one of the most costly properties ever to be financed by housing benefit but it has now surfaced that the family have now left the six-bedroom property in West Hampstead, north-west London, due to variations in the welfare system.

However, campaigners have been left additionally outraged after they were given a home worth £3,000 a month in rent in an up and coming area of the metropolis and it’s understood that Mr Khaliif hasn’t worked since he appeared in Britain in 2008.

The family were originally housed in a £1,000 a month property in Coventry, West Midlands but they created outrage when they decided they would sooner live in London and were given the keys to the huge house not far from the homes of pop star Boy George and movie director Ridley Scott.

Their case was one of a number which revealed just how much was being paid out for housing benefit and provoked the government to cap benefits at £500 a week for couples with children.

And after the limit was imposed, Camden council moved the couple and their reported eight children into a new home in up and coming Cricklewood, where the neighbours said the house sustained notable restoration before the family were moved in.

The council had given them a house of extravagance and spent thousands restoring it before they moved in and where it was restored to a particularly high standard with open plan design, high spec kitchen and slate patio.

They don’t open the door to council workers and it’s not right that some people are given so much for free when others are struggling.

The council own the property and is said to keep rents inside the benefit cap, while comparable homes in nearby streets command amounts of up to £3,000 a month.

The welfare system is meant to be a safety net for those who are struggling, not a comfort blanket and hard-pressed families struggling with their bills will be enraged at such an exorbitant amount being spent on housing a single-family in one of the most costly areas in London.

It’s understood the couple are entitled to such a huge home because two of their children have disabilities and Camden Council uses council housing to help families who can prove they need assistance finding a genuinely affordable home and for many their tenants require help because they have special high-level support need like illness or disability.

And usually, the support needs of tenants are neglected in discussions about social housing and also, London’s economy depends on having access to a wide base of labour from the highly experienced and professional to more commonly lower qualified and lower paid.

And that the provision of affordable housing is crucial to meeting this Labour demand in addition to the responsibilities helping vulnerable families suffering illness and disability.

But Douglas Carswell, the UKIP MP for Clacton, attacked the Government and stated they were mad in allowing Mr Khaliif to be subsidised so heavily.

This Somalian individual and his family are getting all this money but then some have been paying into the system all their lives and also have children with special needs but can’t get a penny in support.

At the house, no one from the family was prepared to comment, yet we have a world of freeloaders that are welcomed to the United Kingdom to succeeding Governments and EU open doors with more immigrants, no wonder the lady is grinning so broadly, laughing at us to the bank.

So, it’s true the streets of London are paved in gold and it’s no surprise that there are 1,000’s waiting across the channel to get into Britain don’t want to claim asylum anywhere else in Europe.

Paris Bus Driver Hailed A Hero

A French driver has been celebrated for booting every single passenger off his bus after they failed to make room for a gentleman in a wheelchair.

Francois Le Berre, who has multiple sclerosis, was waiting to get on a bus in a Paris neighbourhood, but none of the passengers would move to grant him space.

The bus driver, who hasn’t been identified, saw the problem and took the unusual action of asking every single passenger to vacate the bus. He then allowed Francois Le Berre to come on board and drove off with him as the sole passenger.

A tweet reporting the incident was shared by a group called ‘Accessible Pour Tous’, which translates as ‘accessible for all’ on behalf of Francois Le Berre.

Nobody wanted to move and because no one was moving the driver stood up and said “Terminating! Everybody off!” and he made them get off and wait for the next bus and it’s been shared more than 5,000 times and liked by more than 10,000 people, with many congratulating the bus driver and reprimanding the passengers who failed to move.

“Bravo to the bus driver, but shame on the passengers,” wrote one person. But another responded: “You wouldn’t have moved either.”

Buses in the French metropolis usually have one or two spaces for a wheelchair and passengers are supposed to give priority to them and enable users to get on but most people believe that it’s not their problem and they’re simply out for themselves.

Sadly, people in wheelchairs are just transparent to other people that are not disabled and most people that aren’t disabled just will not move for a disabled person and we should be praising this bus driver, I would have also have booted them off in a heartbeat if they refused anyone disabled, elderly, pregnant or perhaps someone with children because these people are just narrow-minded human beings that only think of themselves and this bus driver was a real gentleman.

Although I’m not sure how all the passengers were causing problems aside from the person that was in the disabled space and how could have their removal helped? And I guess it was a tad unfair on all the passengers that were sitting on regular seats, it’s not like the wheelchair user could have used those seats.

By all means, boot off those using the priority seats but it could be classified as a huge overreaction to kick off all the other paying customers but still well done to the man because I’m disabled and have had to face the London Underground in my wheelchair and everyone was especially accommodating and Londoners are clearly much more helpful than Parisians.

Saying this, the service was terminated and was presumably the quickest way for everyone, then the able-bodied could promptly jump on the next bus because drivers often get vilified if they attempt to police individual or small groups of passengers and usually have to wait for reinforcements.

And perhaps next time the other passengers are sitting, no doubt staring out of the windows or at their phones to circumvent the issue could help and ask other passengers to move because presumably any of the passengers could have got up to help make room, even if they were sitting down.

I guess the moral of the story is, that if one person won’t move, they all have to!

Boris Johnson’s 50,000 New Nurses Claim

Boris Johnson’s promise of 50,000 new nurses for the NHS includes 18,500 current NHS nurses. That was the headline policy from the Tory manifesto that was launched in Telford.

But it fell apart inside hours of being announced, as the party was made to confirm the figure included thousands of nurses already employed in the health service and Labour has branded the claim ‘deceitful’.

The party also announced the restoration of maintenance grants, worth £5,000 and £8,000 a year for student nurses but there was no mention in the manifesto of help to pay for tuition fees.

Tory officials said the 50,000 figure would be made up of 14,000 new undergraduate student nurses and 5,000-degree apprenticeships. They will be supplemented by 12,500 nurses brought to the United Kingdom from abroad, making 31,000 new nurses.

The other 18,500, the party say, will be nurses who are employed in the health service who would have otherwise left and they said they had strategies to keep nurses in the field including professional training, support and more childcare for returning mums.

But then that means that at least 40 per cent of the promised 50,000 nurses are already NHS nurses and that the Conservatives claim on nurses is honestly dishonest and the sums just don’t add up.

First, we had Boris Johnson’s fraudulent 40 new hospitals and now, we have his bogus 50,000 additional nurses.

Matt Hancock and Tory ministers pushed through the abolition of the bursary partly causing the nursing dilemma tormenting our NHS today and the new damaging Tory nurses tax on European nurses will make it impossible to deliver the nurses the NHS needs.

Labour is now saying they will deliver over 50,000 new nurses through bringing back the bursary and allowing ethical international recruitment.

The announcement marked an embarrassing climbdown for the Conservatives, who reversed their ruinous policy of scrapping students nurses bursaries, which was launched in 2016.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock stated the policy was already about generating new training places for student nurses but figures reveal that 1 in 20 student nursing places, some 1,450 in total, went unfilled in 2019.

Between the policy being implemented in June 2016 and February this year nursing degree applications in England dropped by 13,000, with 40,000 vacancies remaining unfilled, the nurses union announced the fall in student numbers had put patient safety at risk.

And the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said the promise of maintenance grants for student nurses didn’t amount to a return of the student nurses bursary and the current double calamity of both tuition fees and living costs for a nursing degree are a hindrance to many wanting to seek a nursing profession, so they require extra funding for both factors, not just living costs as the Conservative manifesto suggests.

Forcing would-be nurses to pay tuition fees has demonstrably failed in the last two years and with this announcement, Boris Johnson hasn’t brought back the bursary, he’s promising to return one component of the package but wants to keep the high-priced tuition fees in place and figures now confirm the amount of adult nursing student applications from people over 25 in England has seen an even greater deterioration, declining by 41 per cent since the bursary was removed.

And I don’t know how many wheels are on the Tory campaign bus but they’re falling off at a startling rate with Boris Johnson being exposed as a liar about new hospitals by his own Health Secretary at the launch of the manifesto leaflet and then a car crash interview with Nicky Morgan exposing more lies about the number of new nurses.

Do they believe that voters are that dense that they can’t do the math? All you have to do is unpick a little bit of the truth in some of these pledges and is Boris Johnson going to do anything for your children, for your family, other than lying to them? And if he can’t be bothered with his children, how bothered is he going to be about yours? That’s if he even knows who his children are.

And it’s entertaining that there are masses of people out there that believe a Prime Minister who lied to the Queen not so long ago, that would have been a resignation matter and the Prime Minister would have been compelled to resign but we now know what this sleazebag riddled Prime Minister is like.

We were also promised 200,000 starter homes by the government a full five years ago but they were never built, so now we know what the Tory promise is worth and if people believe their rubbish then they’re deluded.

The Tories have already pocketed all the money in offshore accounts and the Tories have already managed to ruin this country and people should open their eyes.

We print our own money, therefore the country can’t go bankrupt, not that it’s worth the paper it’s printed on because money is just an IOU and banks are rolling in it.

And back in the 1930s, Henry Ford was thought to have said that it was a good thing that most Americans didn’t know how banking worked because if they did, there’d be a revolution.

Then something extraordinary happened, the Bank of England let the cat out of the bag and they said outright that the most common premise of how banking works was totally incorrect and that the kind of populist, heretical beliefs more frequently associated with groups such as Occupy Wall Street was correct and in doing so, they completely threw the whole theoretical basis for austerity out of the window.

To get a taste of how extreme the Bank’s new position is, you have to consider the more conventional view, which continues to be the basis of all respectable debate on public policy.

People put their money into banks, banks then lend that money out at interest, either to consumers or to business people willing to invest it in some profitable venture.

It’s true, the fractional reserve system doesn’t permit banks to lend out considerably more than they hold in reserve and if the savings don’t suffice, private banks can attempt to borrow more from the central bank.

The central bank can print as much money as it wants but it’s also mindful not to print too much. That’s why we’re usually told this is why independent central banks exist in the first place.

And if governments could print money themselves, they would put out too much of it and the resulting increase would force the economy into turmoil.

Institutions such as the Bank of England or US Federal Reserve were designed to carefully control the money supply to stop inflation, that’s why they’re prohibited to directly finance the government, say, by purchasing treasury bonds, but instead, fund private economic activity that the government simply taxes.

It’s this understanding that enables us to continue to talk about money as if it were a limited resource like bauxite or petroleum, to say that there’s not enough money to finance social programmes, to speak of the depravity of government debt or public spending, crowding out the private sector.

What the Bank of England admitted is that none of it is true. To quote from its initial summary: “Rather than banks receiving deposits when households save and then lending them out, bank lending creates deposits” … “In normal times, the central bank does not fix the amount of money in circulation, nor is central bank money ‘multiplied up’ into more loans and deposits.”

In other words, everything we know isn’t just wrong, it’s backwards and when banks make loans, they generate money. This is because money is just an IOU.

The function of the central bank is to preside over a legal order that effectively gives banks the sole right to create IOUs of a particular kind, ones that the government will recognise as legal tender by its readiness to accept them in payment of taxes.

There’s no limit on how much banks can create, provided they can find someone willing to borrow it, so they’ll never get caught short, for the simple reason that borrowers don’t, generally speaking, take the money and put it under their mattress, so ultimately, any money banks loan out will simply end up back in some bank again.

So, for the banking system as a whole, every loan simply becomes another deposit.

What’s more, insofar as banks do need to obtain funds from the central bank, they can borrow as much as they like and all the latter doesn’t set the rate of interest, the cost of money or its quantity and since the start of the recession, the US and British central banks have decreased that cost to virtually nothing.

In fact, with quantitive easing, they’ve been expertly tapping as much money as they can into the banks, without producing any inflationary effects. So, what this means is that the real limit on the amount of money in circulation isn’t how much the central bank is prepared to lend, but how much government, firms and ordinary citizens, are prepared to borrow.

Government spending is the principal operator in all this but nobody will admit it, particularly the newspapers that the central bank doesn’t finance the government, so, there’s no question of public spending crowding out private investment, it’s precisely the reverse.

So, why did the Bank of England suddenly admit all this? Well, one reason is that it’s true.

The Bank’s job is to run the system, yet the system hasn’t been working particularly well and maintaining the fantasy-land version of economics that’s proved so accessible to the wealthy is simply an extravagance it can no longer afford.

But politically, this is taking a huge risk and just consider what might happen if mortgage holders realised the money the bank lends them is not, really, the life savings of some frugal pensioner, but something the bank simply flitted into existence through its possession of a magic wand which we, the people, handed over to it.

Historically, the Bank of England has tended to be the leading sheep of a flock, with a bell on its neck, staking out seemingly radical positions that eventually become new beliefs and if that’s what’s happening here, we might someday be in a position to determine if Henry Ford was right.

Boris Johnson doesn’t do what he says he will do but then will Jeremy Corbyn do what he says he will do, or at least try and is what Jeremy Corbyn wants to do worth doing?

Perhaps their both committed to doing what they say they will do but that doesn’t mean it will happen and how can they solve the problems that they created and perhaps it’s time for actual change because the people of the United Kingdom have been in a coma for years.

It’s lies, lies and more lies and we as a nation need to wake up because there have been far too many U-turns from Boris Johnson and it’s a disgrace.

The great Tory swindle, have you been caught?

Boris Johnson Will Keep Charging Thousands Of Patients

Boris Johnson will promise to keep charging thousands of patients, visitors and personnel to park outside hospitals and the announcement is set to come in the Conservative’s manifesto, which only ends charges for a portion of patients, staff and visitors.

Most NHS staff on daytime shifts and the preponderance of outpatients will still be stung with charges to park outside hospitals but Labour’s manifesto pledges to stop the charges for patients, visitors and staff.

It would only apply to protected groups including the aged, disabled, terminally or gravely sick patients and their families plus NHS nurses working night shifts.

Labour has described the charges as a ‘tax on the sick’ and this is another hollow assurance that proves just how out of touch the Tories are and they attempt to tinker when the country requires actual change.

Under this proposal NHS workers on daytime shifts and the preponderance of outpatients will have to pay for parking, leaving people out of pocket just for using public services.

In Wales, Labour has shown it’s possible to conclude this tax on sickness and if the Tories are genuinely engaged on stopping this dilemma they’ll have to go further and match Labour’s promise to ban all charges.

Young people can’t afford to buy a home, older people are going without the care they require, the NHS is heading into the worst winter crisis on record and millions of kids are growing up in poverty.

The only people who profit from this no hope manifesto are big businesses and the super-rich who don’t want to see the actual change this country requires and this election is a once in a generation opportunity to choose a Labour government that will change our country, with a manifesto that proposes real change and will take on the vested interests holding people back.

The pledge will be financed with £78 million a year for hospitals in England and £216 million in capital funding for 19 hospitals to build multistorey car parks.

Overall, the Tories said their manifesto will announce:

No rise in Income Tax, National Insurance or VAT for five years
£78m a year to fund partial free NHS hospital parking for a select few in ‘vulnerable groups’ – disabled people, frequent outpatient attendees, gravely ill patients, visitors to relatives who have an extended stay in hospital or their carers, and staff on night shifts
Raise the threshold for National Insurance to £9,500 next year, which he says will mean a £100 tax cut for 31 million workers – though experts say it won’t help the poorest who already don’t pay NI
Keep pensions triple lock, winter fuel payment and the older person’s bus pass
£1bn for extra childcare on school premises after lessons and during holidays in a bid to get 250,000 more primary school children onsite childcare over the summer. This is £250m a year for 3 years to boost term-time and holiday provision in schools; and £250m capital for the first year to kick-start the plan by getting staff, equipment or premises
£6.3bn making social housing more energy efficient
Keep energy price cap
A new ban on exporting plastic waste to poorer countries outside OECD
£2bn over four years for a national programme to fill potholes

But he won’t give automatic free TV licences to over 75s, stating that will continue to be the BBC’s responsibility despite the Tories breaking an earlier promise to protect the benefit.

As it stands, where this Tory government social care policies are concerned, a person has to sell their family home to finance private for-profit care homes of about £1,500 a week.

Although once a person’s funds are down to the point where they can claim benefits, then it’s covered by the state and then there are those NHS chiefs making £300,000 a year and then claim back £149 on a parking ticket on their expenses.

But then the Conservatives enjoy taxing the sick because they see it as completely normal and it’s representative of this clown government, making staff, doctors and nurses pay, rather than give it for free.

But then this government has never had to visit a hospital long term as a visitant, or a patient, as all theirs will be done privately, one law for them and another for the hard-working staff of the NHS.

Ralf Little Locked Out Of Twitter

Ralf Little said that he was booted out of his Twitter account after he mocked the Tories for their fact-checking rebrand.

Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) caused outrage for rebranding their account factcheckUK during the first election debate between Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson.

Twitter has since threatened to ban them from the platform should they do so again.

Soon after their rebrand, dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts promptly copied the move to pillory the Tories, one of them being Royle Family actor Ralf Little. He altered his name to ‘Conservative Press Orifice’ and the description to ‘Not a fact-checker or the Conservative Press Office’.

Ralf sent a message that he’d been logged out of his Twitter account without explanation and assumed he’d been suspended, which was fine but only if the CCHQPress account is suspended for the same thing and he asked for people to press the issue with Twitter in his absence. The account continues to be visible but no Tweets have been posted.

In the meantime, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab stated the Conservatives won’t make any apology for having an instant rebuttal of the garbage and lies circulated by opposition parties, he also didn’t rule out the party doing it again.

And speaking about the Tories changing their Twitter to factcheckUK during the leader’s debate, Dominic Raab stated that they’ll always abide by the rules with these things and that if there’s information that comes out, look at it extremely thoroughly.

He further added that he’s not in charge of social media but that he believed the account was very clearly linked to the CCHQ, it was on the face of it but that they were refuting the stupidity that regularly gets put about the Conservative position so that voters and the audiences know the facts.

The @CCHQpress account is verified by Twitter, displaying a blue tick which is designed to indicate that a user is authenticated and in acknowledgement, Twitter has warned that rules are in place on the platform which prevents behaviour that deceives the public.

Twitter said that it’s committed to promoting wholesome debate during the UK General Election and that they have global rules in place to prevent behaviour that can deceive people, including those with confirmed accounts and that any further endeavours to deceive people by editing verified profile information, in a manner seen during the UK election debate will result in certain corrective action.

And Twitter has been bolstering its efforts to prevent misleading information during the election campaign after launching a new tool to allow people to report intentionally misleading details about the voting process.

Of course, there’s nothing wrong with fact-checking and Ralf Little presumably wasn’t locked out of Twitter for what he said, it was probably the phrasing of his username and Twitter, Facebook and Youtube are not the purveyors of restraint, they’re the purveyors of a snowflake mentality.

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