First-Ever NHS Rich List Scandal

Hundreds of NHS executives are earning more than the Prime Minister, according to a report.

Despite failing to reduce waiting lists, nearly 1,700 fat-cat bureaucrats at NHS trusts were each given more than £100,000 a year.

With record sums already being poured in by taxpayers, the first-ever NHS Rich List found that 512 managers banked salaries higher than Sir Keir Starmer (£172,153).

 

Almost 300 received packages of £200,000 or more.

East Cheshire NHS Trust paid eight managers £100,000 or more despite being the worst-performing trust in percentage terms for seeing A&E patients within four hours.

It saw just 50.6 percent within the target time, well below the 78 percent anticipated.

Among the managers was the trust’s ‘director of people and culture’ and deputy CEO Rachael Charlton, who received a £ 367,500 package.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust also gave eight bosses £100,000 or more despite having the worst referral-to-treatment median waiting times. Chief medical director Catherine Walsh banked £387,500 in pay and perks.

The figures, covering more than 200 trusts for the 2023-24 financial year, will enrage the millions of patients stuck on waiting lists.

Approximately 6.25 million patients, relating to 7.42 million cases, are languishing on them, with almost 3 million waiting for more than 18 weeks.

The study by the TaxPayers’ Alliance will also fuel fears that much of the money lavished on health services is not making it to the front line and is instead helping to fund ‘non-jobs’ such as diversity roles.

Referring to Labour’s plan to hand 10 percent bonuses to NHS bosses whose trusts perform well, Tory health spokesman Edward Argar said: ‘The Labour Government plans to hand generous bonuses to NHS managers for simply doing what they are already paid to do as part of their jobs.

‘Patients will rightly be shocked, and asking why Labour aren’t focusing instead on making sure those who are already very well paid are delivering the results taxpayers have a right to expect. Diverting public funds into executive bonus schemes, instead of investing that money in frontline care for patients, is simply wrong.’

Shimeon Lee, who compiled the report, said: ‘Taxpayers will be appalled that while NHS patients face prolonged waiting lists and dismal A&E performance, hundreds of senior managers are pocketing six-figure pay packets.

‘This rich list shows that there are sky-high salaries for senior bureaucrats… that are impossible to justify.

‘If ministers are serious about getting the NHS back on track, they need to ensure that managers of poor-performing trusts aren’t being rewarded for failure.’

The study discovered that 1,694 senior managers got £100,000 or more in total remuneration across 224 trusts. Of these, 1,557 included a salary over £100,000. 

A further 296 got £200,000 or more while 17 got more than £300,000.

Ann James, the former CEO of University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, was paid a £382,500 salary. 

Her trust was rated 95th out of 136 in England for A&E waiting times.

Jonathan Brotherton, chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, received a pay package of £427,500, including a £262,500 salary. 

His trust was rated 128th of 149 for referral-to-treatment waiting times and 119th of 136 for A&E waiting times in England.

George Findlay, the chief executive of University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, was given a £32,500 bonus – on top of his £222,500 salary – despite it ranking 143th of 149 and 105th of 136 for the same targets.

By contrast, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust had the best referral-to-treatment waiting times. 

Chief executive Joe Rafferty got a total pay package of £257,500.

Another eyebrow-raising salary was the £257,000 that North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust gave its ‘chief people officer’, Louise Tibbert.

Despite directives to reduce the number of diversity programs, it was revealed in January that the NHS was employing one diversity staff member per week.

A recent poll discovered that almost two-thirds of voters back the idea of a new US-style ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ to cut billions of pounds of wasteful spending on bureaucracy and ‘non-jobs’ such as diversity and inclusion officers.

The TaxPayers’ Alliance study related to managerial positions at NHS trusts and not NHS England, the quango which operates the health service but which is being discarded by the Government.

A Department of Health spokesman said: ‘This Government is introducing tough new measures in relation to senior managers’ pay, to drive progress on cutting waiting lists.

‘The NHS should pay to attract top talent, but there can be no more rewards to failure.’

Politicians and NHS bosses are frequently rewarded for failure when most of us are unable to get a decent monetary increase for actually fulfilling our roles – sack all of them, do we actually need them?

This is what happens when you have managers paid enormous sums of money but no account for profit or loss.

Who are these managers? They weren’t there before – get rid of them and use the money on patient care. They are greedy pigs with their snouts in the trough.

These are eye watering figures considering our NHS is continually saying it is underfunded, that’s why it’s underfunded!

It’s appalling, these people come out of University and get right into management, right at the top. They spend twenty-odd years doing absolutely nothing, then stroll away with a lucrative pension.

Like all businesses, these people should be paid a lesser basic sum of money with bonuses if they reach realistic targets.

The Race/Gender Gap Holds Back Over A Third Of White Men

More than a third of young white men in Britain worry they are losing out on promotions because of their race and gender, a new poll has shown.

The survey by JL Partners found 36 percent of white men held concerns about being held back at work.

It also found that two-fifths (41 percent) of white men feel worried that they can be sacked for doing or saying the wrong thing.

And almost half of white men (46 percent) now censor jokes or give honest, but respectful, feedback to coworkers because of a fear it could impact their jobs.

It was claimed the findings showed how ‘millions of men are walking around on eggshells at work too scared to speak freely’.

There were also signs that male despair about their futures was ‘pushing men towards populism’ and social media ‘influencers’ such as Andrew Tate.

JL Partners surveyed a nationally representative sampling of 823 white adult men across the UK.

The survey was commissioned as part of a new YouTube and podcast series called ‘White Men Can’t Work’.

It also revealed that almost a quarter (23 percent) of white men feel they are discriminated against because of their race or gender.

More than one in three (34 percent) of white men now believe that white men are the least valued employees in their workplace.

And nearly one in three white men (31 percent) said they believe their sons will have fewer opportunities because of their race or gender, the survey discovered.

Award-winning documentary-maker Tim Samuels, the former host of the BBC show Men’s Hour, has created the ‘White Men Can’t Work’ series.

He said: ‘Millions of men are walking around on eggshells at work too scared to speak freely – whilst knowing that being male can now be a disaster for your career. 

‘The scale of discrimination, self-censorship and anxiety is staggering.

‘White Men Can’t Work has spoken to guys who’ve been sacked literally just for being men, or pushed out over crazy micro-aggression such as talking about the male and female ends of cables.

‘Younger men are very despondent about their futures. All this is pushing men towards populism and the likes of Andrew Tate.

‘Of course racism and sexism have to be stamped out but our biggest companies and institutions have implemented a very divisive and ideological form of DEI that demonises white men, disregards free speech and, when you look at the data, doesn’t even help those it was meant to.

‘We need smarter ways to tackle discrimination that actually work.’

Tate, a self-described misogynist, has amassed millions of social media followers in recent years, often with expletive-laden tirades about women. 

Police chiefs have warned about the impact of male ‘influencers’ such as him.

The first episode of White Men Can’t Work will be released tomorrow on YouTube, Apple podcasts and Spotify.

I suppose it’s a valid concern in the workplace, and if any white man/woman suspects they have been discriminated against they should get themselves a lawyer as soon as possible.

Sadly the modern workplace is nowhere to be seen for the pale face, and it seems that particularly in the public sector white men and women are at the bottom of the ladder.

It’s time for all the indigenous people of the United Kingdom to take a stand. No other Western nation would tolerate that, I’m sure. Ladies and gentlemen, please take a stance against this racial and gender-based insanity.

With all this woke rubbish these days, a male employee would be labelled a sexist if he assisted a woman in the workplace.

Yes, because of numbskull politicians from both the Tory and Labour parties, we have surrendered our nation to foreign invaders.

Sad really, but true. White men are discriminated against. If this happened to a person of colour, there would be a major outcry. It shouldn’t matter what colour, religion or sex a person is, we should all have the same opportunity to be able to speak freely and without fear.

Now white people feel like foreigners in their own country because of what our governments have turned into. It’s now division, exclusion and indoctrination.

I speak my mind because if people want it sugar-coated, I’ll just throw you a doughnut, and of course, governments don’t like to be challenged.

Nowadays it’s not about being the most qualified or competent, it’s about how many boxes you tick, and there are numerous men and women whose careers concluded decades ago with no possibility of getting back to work – too white, too male, too old!

Unfortunately, the days where you succeeded on merit have gone and the days of mediocracy are now here.

People are judged more on their ability to fit into predefined categories rather than on their actual skills and accomplishments. This shift towards mediocracy means that talent and hard work are often overshadowed by superficial attributes. As a result, many capable individuals are left feeling undervalued and overlooked in the workforce.

One day, a whole generation will suddenly wake up and realise that not only did they let this happen, but they supported it!

Fourth Child For Boris Johnson

Carrie Johnson, the wife of Boris Johnson, has given birth to their fourth child.

Mrs Johnson said the couple is ‘smitten’ with their newborn baby daughter, named Poppy Eliza Josephine Johnson.

The former Prime Minister was pictured cradling Poppy in the hospital, after her birth on May 21.

Poppy is sister to Frank, Romy and Wilfred, who was born during the COVID lockdown in April 2020.

Romy was born in December 2021 and Frank in July 2023.

Announcing the birth on Instagram, Mrs Johnson said ‘I can’t believe how pretty and tiny you are. Feel so incredibly lucky. We are all totally smitten.

She added: ‘Not sure I’ve slept a minute since you were born as can’t stop looking at how completely lovely you are.’

Friends of the couple said they left the sex of the baby a surprise and had been expecting a boy.

Mrs Johnson wrote ‘Wilf, Romy and Frank are utterly delighted, particularly Romy who was desperate for a little sister. Bring on the matching dresses.’

In the main announcement image, the baby is sporting a yellow babygrow and knitted jumper, chosen because the couple did not know whether she would be a boy or a girl.

Mrs Johnson also kept the pregnancy mostly a secret. Carrie Johnson gave birth at UCLH and thanked the ‘amazing’ maternity team in her social media post.

Announcing the baby’s name, Mrs Johnson wrote her nicknames are ‘Pops, Pop Tart’. Her middle name Josephine was chosen after Carrie’s mother.

She also suggested the baby would be the final one for her family, writing: ‘A final gang member.’

She posted a sweet picture of Romy holding her baby sister, as well as a photograph of Wilfred stroking her head.

She shared an adorable picture of Romy cuddling her little sister and another of Wilfred stroking her head.

Mrs Johnson also posted images of a pepperoni pizza and a bottle of Pina Colada cocktail, made by the ‘Lockdown Liquor & Co’.

She wrote: ‘Back from hospital now and time for cocktails and pizza with my tiny baby snoozing on my lap. Life doesn’t get any better.’

Poppy’s birth comes after Mrs Johnson was hospitalised with pneumonia for almost a week in January this year.

Posting at the time Mrs Johnson wrote: ‘Hospital confirmed I had flu and pneumonia. I was there nearly a week and I’m still not recovered.

‘It could take another few weeks until I feel like myself again.

‘I didn’t expect to spend the first week of 2025 in hospital. After having a nasty chest infection for nearly 18 days at home over Christmas, it just got out of hand and I was struggling to breathe properly.’

Mr and Mrs Johnson announced their engagement in February 2020 and welcomed their first child, Wilfred, on April 29 that year.

The following year Mrs Johnson gave birth to Romy on December 9, and their second son Frank was born on July 5, 2023.

Wilfred was named by the Johnsons in honour of Mr Johnson’s grandpa. He has two middle names: Nicholas, after a doctor who treated the former MP at St. Thomas’ hospital in London as he fought COVID, and Lawrie, after her own grandfather.

In honour of Mrs Johnson’s aunt Rosemary, their daughter Romy bears her name. In honour of Mr. Johnson’s late mother, she was given the third name Charlotte. Her middle name, Iris, is Greek for rainbow.

Mrs Johnson described Romy as their ‘rainbow baby’ following her miscarriage a year before she was born.

After giving birth to Frank, Mrs Johnson said: ‘Welcome to the world Frank Alfred Odysseus Johnson born 5th July at 9.15 am. (Can you guess which name my husband chose?!)’

Boris Johnson, the poor man probably lost count of how many children he had years ago. Some people would call him reckless, but he has the banknotes, so he doesn’t care how many he brings into the world.

Although it’s great that they shared photos of their new baby, I definitely wouldn’t post my child’s face on social media since there are some very odd people online.

The number of children they have doesn’t matter to me as long as they provide for them and don’t depend on handouts.

Boris Johnson has nine children – perhaps he doesn’t comprehend the term contraception. At least the Johnson family are helping to keep the English bloodline before we become extinct.

Boris Johnson’s third great-grandfather was H.İ.F. Kurucularından Yazar Ali Kemal Rıza, Bey who was born in Istanbul, Istanbul Province, Turkey. So, far from a British bloodline.

Ali Kemal Bey (1867 – 6 November 1922) was a liberal Turkish journalist, newspaper editor and poet who was briefly Minister of the Interior in the government of Damat Ferid Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.

He was killed during the Turkish War of Independence. He is the paternal grandfather of British politician Stanley Johnson, and great-grandfather of Boris Johnson, Rachel Johnson and Jo Johnson.

I’ve got to mention that it was nice that he included his children with Carrie Johnson, but he should have also mentioned his older children as well which is fault on Boris’s part because then he started to look like such an irresponsible creature.

Of course, I have criticisms of Boris, but he’s also 100 percent more likeable than Starmer.

Stanley Johnson, Boris’s father said in the Daily and Sunday Express: ‘We need to limit UK population growth to protect the environment.’ He obviously never spoke to his son about this.

The Labour Party Faces Growing Pressure To Scrap Winter Fuel Payments

Almost eight in ten voters believe Labour should ditch its winter fuel payments policy.

The party is under increasing pressure to reverse slashing the subsidy for 10 million pensioners amid a brewing backbench rebellion and a threat of ministerial resignations over more sweeping welfare cuts.

A YouGov poll discovered that less than one in ten (7 percent) of voters believe Labour should keep its policy unchanged.

A third said it should return to the previous system, where all pensioners receive Winter Fuel Payments regardless of their income.

Some 44 percent said it should stay means-tested but that eligibility should be widened to include more low-income households.

The results will pile pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to climb down over the cuts to the payments, worth up to £300 a year for vulnerable pensioners.

He said the Government will look at raising the income threshold (£11,800) to qualify for the payments.

However, he said this would be done at the earliest at the next ‘fiscal event’, which is the October Budget. 

It means any change may not come into force until the following year, meaning lower-income pensioners potentially face another winter of choosing between ‘heating or eating’.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said last July that stripping pensioners of the allowance was necessary to save £1.5 billion a year to help plug the £22 billion ‘black hole’ in the public finances she claims the Tories left behind.

But experts say it may save as little as two-thirds of this.

Every time see Starmer’s face I feel sick to the bone. Get this imbecile out. He’s decimating the country, and what a disgrace to believe that £11,800 is a living wage – Keir Starmer and his friends should be made to live on this amount for however long they have in office.

MPs should be on an average wage for the area that they represent, with no expenses, it’s the only way they will know how it feels to live on the breadline.

It’s also time for them to stop spending millions on illegal immigration, but millions upon millions are spent on illegal immigrants who have never given anything to this country, yet pensioners, most of whom have worked all their lives get screwed.

People on benefits get a £10 Christmas perk to help with the little extras at Christmas, which would go towards very little for Christmas extras.

These comedians (our government) had to plan what they would do once they got into power, and the first bright idea they had was to cut the Winter Fuel Allowance. Now after a year of being in power, with the peril of losing their seats, the nodding donkeys (Labour backbenchers) have discovered that it’s not a good idea.

However, Starmer won’t admit it was a mistake, and he will infer that partly because he cut Winter Fuel Allowance, the funds saved would have made the economy better, so he can now change it.

Stupid is as stupid does. Our government need to stop their excuses and just get on and do it – the Winter Fuel Allowance was eliminated instantaneously, so it can be reinstated in the same way and at the same pace, but spineless comrade Starmer is now playing for time, extending the ban by another winter, and let’s face it, Starmer lies, so if I was a pensioner I wouldn’t hold my breath until the money was actually in my bank account.

Of course, Starmer is the biggest liar on Earth and I don’t believe that he will reinstate the Winter Fuel Allowance. He will delay it as long as possible with his pitiful excuses.

He should quit caving into hotel visitors and stop sending money to other nations for no reason at all, along with his similarly inexperienced group of amateur MPs. Pensioners fear another chilly winter as a result of our government’s vile, cruel, and disgusting behaviour, while our government is throwing money away like confetti.

NHS Plan To Open ‘Calm And Welcoming’ Mental Health A&Es Across England

The NHS is planning to open a network of ‘calm and welcoming’ mental health A&Es across England to treat patients who are in crisis. 

The specialist units will be offered around-the-clock care to ease pressure on already overcrowded hospitals and emergency services.

About 250,000 people went to A&E last year due to a mental health crisis – with about a quarter facing a wait of 12 hours or longer. 

It comes as long waits and the so-called ‘corridor care’ crisis at major hospitals have been linked to thousands of avoidable deaths. 

Doctors and nurses at the new mental health A&Es will support patients who are either suicidal or experiencing symptoms such as psychosis or mania.

People will be able to ‘walk-in’ to the centres or be referred by either their GP or the police. 

The A&Es will be designed to provide a ‘calm and caring environment’, rather than the ‘noise and chaos’ of busy trauma centres, it has been reported. 

For example, one unit which has already opened in Ladbroke Grove, west London, has two ’emotional support dogs’ that cuddle up to patients.

Fresh fruit, biscuits, tea and coffee and other refreshments are also laid out for people who come in.

Sir Jim Mackey, the chief executive of NHS England, told The Times: ‘Crowded A&Es are not designed to treat people in mental health crisis.

‘We need to do better, which is why we are pioneering a new model of care where patients get the right support in the right setting.

Separate mental health A&Es have already been introduced by ten NHS trusts – with the scheme set to be expanded in the next decade by the Labour government.

It comes as UK public services have been struggling to cope with a rise in demand from people suffering from mental health problems.

Additionally, the Met Police said last year that they would no longer respond to emergency calls involving mental health issues unless there was a life-threatening situation.

The move is designed to free up officers to spend more time on their core roles, rather than dealing with patients in need of medical help from experts. 

However, significant questions were raised regarding the potential effects of the policy shift on those who are most at risk as well as its viability in practice.

A Met spokesperson said that the force needed to ‘redress the imbalance of responsibility’, noting the considerable amount of time taken up by such incidents.

Humberside Police introduced a similar policy, known as Right Care, Right Person (RCRP) in 2020, with mental health professionals dealing with calls.

It’s all very well planning to gain political points, but who and where will the staff magically materialise from, and who will they be?

Once upon a time, there were Mental Health Units across the country that could deal with the many and varied forms of mental health, then they were all closed down because the government deemed that care in the community would be more suitable – I guess that bright spark idea didn’t work!

Of course, mental illness is a serious thing, but with the day and age that we live in there are numerous people out there who are feeling depressed. So much so that they need medication to help them, but being stuck on Playstations and mobile phones does not help the situation.

Nobody visits each other anymore, nobody communicates unless it’s via a PC, mobile phone or other means of technology. There used to be youth clubs and sports for youngsters. Youth clubs are a thing of the past and sports for youngsters is almost non-existent.

Day hospitals need to be brought back, and they need to concentrate on children with mental health, also, years ago admissions to mental health hospitals were not just for crisis situations where they would go to get medication and the treatments right, and that all needs bringing back.

Care in the community was a cost-cutting exercise that went disastrously wrong. You also had Remploy for the disabled so that they had a place they could go and work with other disabled people, it was like a little working community where you could make friends as well as work, and Remploy needs to be brought back as well.

It’s time to open up lunatic asylums so that we can start with admitting our current government – I’m sure they hear voices all the time!

Machete Attack On London Bus

Two youths have confessed to killing a 14-year-old boy in a machete attack on a London bus while he was journeying home from school.

Aspiring rapper Kelyan Bokassa was stabbed 27 times as he travelled on a Route 472 bus in Woolwich, South East London, on the afternoon of January 7.

Emergency services were summoned to the scene at approximately 2.30 pm, but Kelyan died soon after medics arrived having suffered a severed femoral artery.

As part of an extraordinary public plea for information, Scotland Yard released CCTV footage and identified two lads.

They were arrested on January 15 after a manhunt by Metropolitan Police officers and charged the following day. 

The defendants, both aged 16, appeared at the Old Bailey for a plea hearing. 

The two admitted to possessing a knife on Woolwich Church Street and killing Kelyan.

Relatives of Kelyan gasped and appeared tearful as they sat metres away from the dock where the two boys sat flanked by officers. 

A minor delay in reporting the case resulted from one of the boys’ barristers requesting time to talk with his client due to what seemed to be an unexpected plea.

Afterwards, the youth returned to court and confirmed his guilty plea.

Judge Mark Lucraft KC ordered reports ahead of sentencing on July 25.

At an earlier hearing, prosecutor Tom Little KC said the victim was sitting on the back seat of the bus on the upper deck when he was attacked by two youths both armed with ‘lengthy machetes’.

The defendants knew in advance of the presence of Kelyan when they boarded the bus and walked directly towards him, the court was told.

Mr Little said: ‘It is clear this is not a form of spontaneous incident. The two defendants must have known the deceased was on the bus.

‘They approach him and almost instantaneously, the two of them pull out machetes and attacked the deceased.

‘He is stabbed or attempted to be stabbed on a total of 27 occasions before the defendants made their way off the bus.’

After being dumped into the Thames River, one of the machetes was eventually found.

Both defendants remained at large for a few days before being arrested. 

Both had prior convictions, one of which was for carrying a knife in public. When the murder occurred, one had a referral order in effect.

Due to their ages, the defendants cannot be identified.

However, Judge Lucraft indicated he would hear a media application to lift the reporting restriction at their sentencing hearing.

Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Lee from the specialist crime unit, who led the Metropolitan Police’s investigation, said: ‘Today I wish to express my team’s heartfelt sympathies to Kelyan’s family.

‘The brutal and senseless attack on Kelyan has deeply impacted his friends, the wider community and everyone that has worked tirelessly to identify, arrest and prosecute those responsible.

‘I hope Kelyan’s family can take some solace in this outcome but I know they remain deeply bereft at the waste of three young lives.’

An inquest in January heard members of the public attempted to help Kelyan after he was stabbed.

Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Lee said that police were called at around 2.28 pm on January 7 by a bus driver reporting a stabbing on the bus.

She said police understand that Kelyan boarded the bus at 2.06 pm at North Greenwich train station and then two male suspects boarded the vehicle at 2.26 pm.

DCI Lee continued: ‘They went up to the top deck where Kelyan was sitting and they immediately attacked him.

‘Members of the public who were boarded on the bus called for help and asked the driver to stop, which he did, on Woolwich Church Street, and the suspects fled the bus.

‘A number of passengers tried to help Kelyan. He came down the stairs and they placed him on a seat on the lower deck.’

She said the bus driver called for aid, and police and London Ambulance Service attended, but Kelyan could not be saved and he died at the scene.

At a vigil held in January at a church overlooking the bus stop where he was stabbed, one of Kelyan’s friends said the boy had a ‘pure heart’ and would ‘always be there for you’.

If these youths are old enough to kill someone in cold blood, they are old enough to be named, and if they were old enough to take a life, then a life sentence is what they deserve.

Unfortunately, there are no deterrents anymore, which is why we have an epidemic of criminality, and they should be sentenced as adults, age is no excuse where murder is concerned, particularly at their age.

This happens far too frequently these days and knife crime is out of control here in the UK. Stop and search needs to come back, with loads more police on the streets, and if you carry a blade, then it needs to be a minimum of 5 years in prison.

But our government is afraid of being sued for racism, so they won’t do it, but they should be searching all youths, male and female, because it’s another species we have spawned, and it will get worse now that they know all prisons are full to the brim and they believe they can get away with it!

Policing is all wrong, and they have got their priorities all wrong. All we have to do is post something someone doesn’t like and the police are booting our doors down for hurting someone’s precious little feelings. Oh, do behave everybody needs to get off their ‘woke horse.’ What if it was your son or daughter that had been killed, you wouldn’t be so ‘woke’ then!

Rayner Urges Rachel Reeves To Strip Middle-Class Child Benefits

Angela Rayner has encouraged Rachel Reeves to strip middle-class families of child benefits payments, it has been claimed. 

The Labour Deputy Prime Minister urged the treasury to ‘claw back’ the benefit from families where the highest earner’s annual earnings were between £50,000 and £80,000, The Telegraph first reported. 

If taken forward, the decision would undo an announcement by the Tories in March 2024 that was predicted to save 500,000 families around £1,300 per year. 

Ms Rayner’s suggestion was reportedly contained in the same leaked memo, in which the Deputy PM proposed eight tax rises. 

Ms Reeves encountered criticism this week after the memo’s details were revealed and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced an about-turn on her abolition of the universal winter fuel payment. 

The memo accepted that the change to child benefit rules would be ‘contentious’ but added Labour could argue that the Tories had never adequately funded the policy to begin with. 

Jeremy Hunt, the Conservative chancellor who announced the shift in 2024, urged Labour not to reverse it.

 ‘This may look like a relatively minor budget measure but was one of the most popular things we did because it helped striving middle-class families struggling with childcare costs.

 ‘Abandoning them would confirm that far from being a New Labour government, this is a traditional anti-aspiration Old Labour government.’ 

It comes as Ms Rayner called for migrant benefits to be cut and urged Ms Reeves to make changes, it was reported after the Deputy PM challenged the Chancellor’s economic approach.

The leaked letter also included bold recommendations that recommended making it more difficult for immigrants to obtain Universal credit.

Ms Rayner even said Labour should raise the fee migrants pay to use the NHS, in policies she and her team claimed were ‘contentious’ but still ‘worthy of consideration’.

Under existing policies, introduced under the Tories in 2015, foreigners on work visas pay to access healthcare – a fee presently set at £1,035.

The ‘radical’ policies also included restricting access to the state pension.

It comes amid rumours that Rayner is vying to succeed Keir Starmer, who was having difficulty yesterday controlling the disarray in his Cabinet.

As he surrendered to a rising dissent on his benches on Wednesday, the prime minister indicated an astonishing U-turn on cutbacks to winter heating allowance.

And the humiliating move could only be the beginning with signs Sir Keir is also contemplating giving ground on the two-child benefit cap, amid alarm at Labour’s poll decline.

The pressure amplified as it emerged Ms Rayner’s office wrote to embattled Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the Spring urging her to hike taxes again instead of cutting welfare.

Such talks are common in government, according to the Deputy PM’s advisers, who have denied leaking the document.

However, some Labour MPs believe that Ms Rayner is ‘on manoeuvres’ to ensure she does not have ‘blood on her hands’ from failed policies.

‘Angela has been loyal in public but she knows she needs to distance herself from some of the unpopular policies,’ one backbencher told The Times.

‘Starmer is not under any kind of threat now but if things have not improved closer to the next election that could change. Angela is ambitious and she needs to be credible if she is to present herself as the candidate of the left.’

Labour MP Cat Eccles admitted the government’s communications had been ‘really poor’, suggesting she blamed the PM’s advisers and Ms Reeves for not ‘listening’.

‘It’s annoying that we did raise these exact concerns at the time. And it’s only now or down the line after we’ve had those local election results, as you say, that all of a sudden, they’re all ears to their MPs,’ she told Times Radio.

‘Oh, what do you think the issues are? It’s like, well, actually, we told you months ago. So I think there’s a lot of us that are feeling slightly less buoyant than we did back in July last year.’

The winter fuel allowance move was seen as an embarrassment for Ms Reeves – who is at a G7 meeting in Canada.

Stripping around nine million pensioners of the payments was one of the first announcements the Chancellor made after Labour’s landslide election victory last year.

However, it has been generally held accountable for the party’s catastrophic decline in popularity.

Labour campaigners said it was toxic on doorsteps during May’s local elections, which saw the party lose councillors and the Runcorn and Helsby Parliamentary by-election.

Left-wing Labour MPs rallied behind Ms Rayner’s push on targeting taxes instead of welfare, prompting the Tories to argue that the Cabinet was in ‘open warfare’.

How about they remove all foreign criminals from our prisons and stop spending so much tax money on migrants? And then they go on about people claiming disability. I’m sick to the back teeth of seeing such things flung around.

They label everyone in the same category like they are freeloaders. What about those people who have Cancer and other life-debilitating diseases?

It’s infuriating that the government targets the most vulnerable in society while turning a blind eye to issues that truly need addressing. This scapegoating of disabled individuals and those in need reveals a cowardly approach to governance. Instead of addressing the root causes of economic challenges, they choose to pick on those who have no means to defend themselves.

Well, I’m among those individuals. I use a wheelchair but don’t worry about me or others who are similar to me. If I were a migrant, I would most likely be regarded as a king or queen, but we are just viewed as the remnants of civilisation.

It’s not like Angela Rayner doesn’t understand what it’s like to be poor since she was raised in poverty on a council estate.

She has an older brother and younger sister who could have been taken into care because their mother suffered from bipolar which affected the family.

Rayner said that when they were young they never had any books because her mother couldn’t read and write, and for the most part they were raised by their grandmother, so she should know how difficult is it for people living on the poverty line.

Her grandmother might have worked numerous jobs, which is extremely sad that she had to do that right up until she passed away, but jobs were easier to get then. Many were cash in hand and people weren’t falling over their feet to find employment, and although Angela Rayner should be proud of her far she has come, she should also remember where she came from because life could have taken a far less favourable turn!

I wonder how much Child Benefit Angela Rayner received—thousands of pounds? Recall that this woman got a council house by leaving school pregnant!

This government appear to despise the working class, they seem to hate everyone except asylum seekers, but not anyone that is British – they probably hate themselves for being British, but they want power of the state so that they can control every facet of our lives and to restrict all our freedoms.

We would save a lot of money if migrants were denied everything they receive while they are here since we shouldn’t be paying for them to have children that they cannot afford, but of course, we are the land of milk and honey, and our government seems to believe that money is no object as long as it’s not coming from their pocket, and so they shower every foreigner that rocks up.

If you go to the US you receive no benefits when you immigrate, and to be legally there you have to have a financial sponsor to ensure that you are not a hindrance to the taxpayer. I just can’t get my head around why illegal immigrants are given any government funds because then it gives those who want to come to the UK an even greater incentive.

Those who come into the UK and have applied for a genuine visa have to follow the rules, but it seems that when migrants cross over illegally on boats or by lorries the rules don’t seem to apply.

Rather than being a cabinet that serves the nation, our government functions more like a witches’ coven, and let’s face it, witches are far nicer.

Witches probably have more brains, morals and common sense than Robber Reeves and 3 Homes Rayner.

The working class and middle class are the backbone of our society, yet they get nothing for free, and what they do get is taken away – work hard, do well and end up with nothing.

Angela Rayner is attempting to present herself as the good guy, and that she’s being loyal to the masses. She is taking money from the needy because she’s become greedy, but she will cheerfully give it to migrants who are religion-obsessed and who reproduce and kill in the name of their God.

And she wants more of them here. She is on their side and she’s partying with them to keep their vote.

This isn’t Great Britain anymore, it’s Islamic UK, and she’s selling the UK to migrant benefit scroungers, Muslims and refugees, and she wants them to have the ideal conditions to produce as many children as they want.

Iraqi Asylum Seeker Avoids Deportation

The 32-year-old man, who judges have granted anonymity, illegally entered Britain on the back of a lorry in 2016.

He said he lost his Iraqi ID card and warned that sending him back to his home nation would violate his human rights.

When asked in a screening interview why he should be given asylum, he replied, “I don’t have a real reason to be here. Give me some time, and I will make up a reason.”

A senior immigration judge denied his asylum claim but has decided not to order his removal on humanitarian protection grounds after “undisputed” evidence revealed he would be subjected to ill-treatment in his homeland.

Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge Paul Lewis said in his ruling: “Absent good reason, we do draw adverse inferences against the appellant for his failure to give evidence on key matters in his appeal, other than in connection with the circumstances of his physical injuries.”

The Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber acknowledged throughout the hearing that the man had been abducted and tortured by ISIS extremists. At the same time, he was being kept as a prisoner and had also encountered conflict with other organisations.

Judge Lewis said: “It is clear and undisputed that the appellant has injuries and scarring which are consistent with ill-treatment.”

The man’s lawyers argued that there should not be much emphasis placed on the fact that he stated how he would “make up a reason” for seeking asylum, given the pressures he was under, Mailonline reports.

They argued the screening process was “oppressive” as he had only just arrived in the UK after being smuggled in.

This comes after a Kenyan migrant was permitted to stay in the UK after a judge discovered that a document dismissing her asylum claim was “riddled” with typos.

The married asylum seeker claimed she was forced to flee the country when it emerged she had been having an affair with a woman she met in 2013.

She feared she would be “killed” by her husband or the authorities if she returned to Kenya.

She appealed to the Immigration and Asylum Chamber’s First Tier Tribunal after the Home Office denied her original asylum petition.

The Upper Tier Tribunal later found a judgment dismissing her claims was “riddled” with multiple “careless” mistakes and “misstatements” of evidence, meaning she could remain in the UK.

This comes as Labour scrambles to cut the UK’s migration figures.

Addressing the country last week, Sir Keir Starmer said Britain risks “becoming an island of strangers” if net migration doesn’t fall.

Talking to LBC’s James O’Brien, Sir Sadiq said he “understands” why Labour is seeking to crack down on immigration but “wouldn’t have used” the same language as the PM.

When pressed on the PM’s comments, including his description of a recent period of high immigration as a “squalid chapter” in Britain’s history, Sir Sadiq said: “Those aren’t the words I would use.”

He added, “But if you listen to Keir’s speech, he also spoke about the strength of diversity.”

“I think what he’s referring to is the promise made by Brexiteers, I think he’s referring to that (high numbers of immigration).“What he’s not referring to is the contribution we make to British society.”

Greetings from a fractured Britain, and I do think that our government needs to analyse each law so that there are no loopholes. At the moment, immigration lawyers and foreign criminals are ridiculing us.

I keep saying this, but it always falls on deaf ears. We are a small country with the greatest numbers coming in because they know that they will get the care and attention that they wouldn’t get anywhere else, which plainly demonstrates that the Prime Minister is a betrayer to the British people.

European nations are not letting them in or to stay, so they’re all heading to the UK, and Starmer’s arms are wide open – roll up, roll up, get your benefits here and anything else you want!

Keir Starmer filed a lawsuit against the government over migrant benefits, particularly in the areas of human rights and asylum.

He was a barrister and later head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), and during that time, he was involved in cases challenging government policies related to immigration and benefits.

Labour wants mass migration, so if you want free movement of the third world landing on our shores, then Labour is the party for you.

With so many governments that don’t pay attention to what the people want, the nation is in ruins. A lack of spine is an understatement.

Since judges are now interpreting the law according to their political views rather than according to the statute, it is time for a complete revamp of the legal system.

We are now the laughing stock of the world with these people coming to our shores, and our government expect us to support them. We have no inkling about them or their former lives, et cetera, and nothing is being said or done about it, and it has to stop!

We, the people, must take action; simply complaining and pounding our feet won’t solve the problem, but anyone who opposes this madness will probably be condemned as a fascist or a member of the far right.

What about the human right of the British people? It’s time we started using the law to protect our country, oh I forgot, there are no laws to protect this country or its people.

The Golden Boy

‘He concentrates far too much on football,’ a teacher at City of Leicester Boys wrote on Gary Winston Lineker’s last school report card. ‘He’ll never make a living at that.’

Even though he was one of the best football players to have ever played for England, Lineker only became wealthy after retiring by working as a TV host.

Aside from hosting Match of the Day for 26 years, Lineker was known for fronting Walkers crisps commercials, having originally signed a £200,000 contract in 1994.

He is the creator of The Rest Is History series and its spin-offs covering politics, sports, culture, and money, and he has earned additional millions through Goalhanger Podcasts.

However, the 64-year-old has also become notorious in recent years for a string of major controversies over outspoken political comments he has posted on social media.

Now, the latest antisemitism row has resulted in him exiting the BBC sooner than initially expected – and he will not front its coverage of the 2026 World Cup.

The star had moved from footballer to one of the most prominent and highly-paid presenters at the corporation, earning more than £ 1.3 million a year in recent years.

Leicester-born Lineker has been married twice – to Michelle Cockayne from 1986 to 2006, with whom he had four sons; and to Danielle Bux from 2009 to 2016.

He started his footballing career at Leicester City, the club he had supported since childhood, in 1978.

The striker scored 103 goals for the Foxes in all competitions before signing with Everton for £800,000 in 1985.

He scored 40 goals in 57 games for the Toffees in his only season with the Liverpool-based side, before his six goals for England at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico won him the competition’s golden boot award and drew the attention of Spanish football giants Barcelona.

Moving to the Catalan side in 1986, Lineker went on to become the highest scoring British player in La Liga, Spain’s highest football division, under English manager Terry Venables. His record 42 goals was only beaten by Welsh winger Gareth Bale in 2016.

Lineker spent three years in Spain before moving to Tottenham Hotspur in July 1989 for £ 1.1 million.

He played a part in England’s run to the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup in Italy, which resulted in a defeat on penalties against West Germany.

After the match, Lineker, who captained the Lions from 1990 to 1992, famously said: ‘Football is a simple game: 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win.’

He won the 1991 FA Cup final with Spurs, beating Nottingham Forest 2-1 despite having a goal controversially disallowed for offside and Forest goalkeeper Mark Crossley saving a penalty.

In 1992, Lineker became the first English footballer to play in Japan’s highest division, the J League, when he joined Nagoya Grampus Eight for £2 million.

He retired after an injury-hit two-year spell at the club, which saw him play just 23 times.

Lineker was famous for never getting a yellow or red card from the referee during his career.

Lineker is England’s fourth record goalscorer with 48 goals in 80 appearances – below only Sir Bobby Charlton (49), Wayne Rooney (53) and Harry Kane (71). 

He is also England’s top scorer in World Cup history, having scored ten goals in two competitions. 

Following his retirement, Lineker joined BBC Radio 5 Live as a football pundit before becoming a team captain on the sports game show They Think It’s All Over from 1995 to 2003.

In 1997, he took over as host of Grandstand when then-presenter Desmond Lynam was at Aintree for the Grand National, which was abandoned due to a bomb alert.

He replaced Lynam as presenter of the BBC’s flagship football highlights programme, Match Of The Day, in 1999, when Lynam defected to rival ITV.

Lineker would later become the corporation’s highest-paid presenter, with the BBC’s annual report for 2023/24 showing his salary to be around £1.35 million a year.

Lineker has frequently voiced support for a liberal approach to border controls and has also voiced support for a second EU referendum.

In March 2023, he compared the language used to launch a government asylum seeker policy with 1930s Germany, describing the scheme as ‘immeasurably cruel’.

After receiving criticism for his remarks, the BBC fired him from anchoring the football highlights show Match of the Day.

After the controversy caused some of his colleagues commentators, including as Ian Wright and Alan Shearer, to boycott the broadcast, Lineker made a comeback.

Later, the BBC implemented new social media guidelines that prohibited flagship broadcasters from disparaging political parties.

Back in 2018, Lineker was criticised by BBC cricket presenter Jonathan Agnew after he posted a series of tweets criticising the Conservative Party.

Agnew told Lineker that as ‘the face of BBC Sport’, he should ‘observe BBC editorial guidelines’.

It came after Lineker tweeted: ‘Imagine how hopeless you’d have to be to still be behind the Tory party in the polls. The absolute state of our politics.’

And in 2022, the BBC found Lineker had breached its impartiality guidelines over comments he had made in February asking then-foreign secretary Liz Truss if her party would ‘hand back their donations from Russian donors’ after the invasion of Ukraine.

That same year, before the World Cup in Qatar, Lineker led criticism of then-foreign secretary James Cleverly for suggesting LGBT+ football fans be ‘respectful of the host nation’ – where homosexuality is illegal.

‘Whatever you do, don’t do anything, Gay. Is that the message?’ Lineker said in response to the cabinet minister’s comments.

Lineker later opened the BBC’s broadcast coverage of the World Cup with a critique of the host country’s treatment of migrant workers and record on human rights.

Another row in August 2022 saw BBC journalist Neil Henderson ask if Lineker had a contract which allowed him to breach BBC impartiality after he tweeted about sewage being pumped into the sea.

The presenter had posted: ‘As a politician, how could you ever, under any circumstances, bring yourself to vote for pumping sewage into our seas? Unfathomable!’

Amid the Gaza War, Lineker was also condemned for allegedly inadvertently retweeting a plea for Israel to be barred from international athletic competitions, including football.

He told the Guardian earlier this year that he has ‘received threats’, and said: ‘If you lean to one side or the other, the levels of attack are extraordinary. How could it be controversial to want peace? I just don’t understand it.

‘You don’t need to be Islamophobic to condemn Hamas or antisemitic to condemn Israel. But at the moment it’s just awful. Awful.’

In November 2024, he announced he would be stepping down from presenting Match Of The Day at the end of the season, but would still host World Cup and FA Cup coverage.

Then, last week, he ‘apologised unreservedly’ for sharing and then deleting an Instagram story from the group Palestine Lobby, illustrated with a picture of a rat, which prompted calls from the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) for him to be sacked.

He said: ‘I would never knowingly share anything antisemitic,’ and added: ‘I take full responsibility for this mistake. That image does not reflect my views. It was an error on my part for which I apologise unreservedly.’

After this, the BBC said Lineker would leave his presenting role following the conclusion of Match Of The Day for the 2024/25 season and added that he would not present its coverage of the 2026 World Cup or next season’s FA Cup.

It is believed that the license agreement for the Goalhanger podcast titles on BBC Sounds, which expires this year, is also being terminated.

In a statement, Lineker said: ‘Football has been at the heart of my life for as long as I can remember – both on the pitch and in the studio.

‘I care deeply about the game, and about the work I’ve done with the BBC over many years. As I’ve said, I would never consciously repost anything antisemitic – it goes against everything I stand for.

‘However, I recognise the error and upset that I caused, and reiterate how sorry I am. Stepping back now feels like the responsible course of action.’

Tim Davie, BBC director-general, added: ‘Gary has acknowledged the mistake he made. Accordingly, we have agreed he will step back from further presenting after this season.

‘Gary has been a defining voice in football coverage for the BBC for over two decades.

‘His passion and knowledge have shaped our sports journalism and earned him the respect of sports fans across the UK and beyond. We want to thank him for the contribution he has made.’

Gabby Logan, Kelly Cates, and Mark Chapman will take Lineker’s position as presenters on Match of the Day starting in the next Premier League season.

Gary, regrettably, is simply another member of the BBC glitterati who is unaware that they lack the competence to remark on topics about which they are ignorant or lack experience, and you can only say ‘I didn’t realise it was antisemitic’ so many times, not again and again. Now let’s hope he keeps his mouth shut and vanishes into unimportance and nowheresville.

However, I don’t believe there’s any possibility of that. Some other channel with snap him up because they will believe that he’s an audience pull, but this is what happens when you overpay people and then they become too powerful within an institution.

He obviously couldn’t help himself, he had to keep pushing until he fell over the line, which makes him extremely foolish indeed.

He is nothing but a champagne socialist, along with all those other champagne socialists that supported him – let’s see how much of a golden handshake he will get from the BBC, and now the Golden Boy has turned out to be Scrap Iron that has rusted. He’s evidently headed the ball once too often!

Of course, we are all entitled to Freedom of Speech, but now Gary has been cancelled, and what have we become as human beings? No, I’m not an activist, I’m just a human being.

But I guess this rubbish will run on and now. He said it, he apologised, and now he’s gone, end of!f

Tommy Robinson Is Set To Be Released From Prison

Tommy Robinson is expected to be released from prison within the next week after his 18-month sentence for the civil offence of contempt of court was reduced by four months at the High Court.

Robinson, whose actual name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was detained in October after admitting multiple breaches of an injunction made in 2021, which banned him from repeating false allegations against a Syrian refugee who successfully sued him for libel.

The sentence comprised a 14-month ‘punitive’ element and a four-month ‘coercive’ element, with sentencing judge Mr Justice Johnson telling Robinson he could have the latter taken off his sentence if he were to ‘purge’ his contempt by taking steps to comply with the injunction.

Robinson, who was previously scheduled to be released on July 26, applied to purge his contempt at a hearing today, with his solicitors telling the court that he had shown a ‘commitment’ to comply with the order.

Lawyers for the Solicitor General said they agreed that Robinson had taken steps to adhere to the injunction.

In a ruling, Mr Justice Johnson said that there was an ‘absence of contrition or remorse’ from Robinson, but that he had shown a ‘change in attitude’ since he was sentenced.

He said: ‘He (Robinson) has given an assurance that he will comply with the injunction in the future, that he has no intention of breaching it again, and that he is aware of the consequences of what would happen if he breached the injunction again.’

He added: ‘The practical effect, subject to confirmation by the prison authorities, is that the defendant will be released once he has completed the punitive element, which I understand will be within the next week.’

Robinson, who attended the hearing via video-link from HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes, showed no immediate response once the judgment was handed down.

He was detained last year for 10 breaches of the injunction, after the Solicitor General issued two contempt claims against him.

The first alleged he ‘knowingly’ breached the order on four occasions, including by having ‘published, caused, authorised or procured’ a film called Silenced, which contains the libellous allegations, in May 2023.

The film was pinned to the top of Robinson’s profile on the social media site X, while he also reiterated the claims in three interviews between February and June 2023.

The second claim was issued in August last year and involved six other breaches, including playing the film at a demonstration in Trafalgar Square in central London last summer.

Handing down the sentence at Woolwich Crown Court, Mr Justice Johnson said Robinson could ‘purge’ his contempt by showing ‘a commitment to comply with the injunction’.

After being detained, Robinson lost a bid to bring a legal challenge against the Ministry of Justice over his segregation from other inmates behind bars in March.

He then lost a challenge to his sentence at the Court of Appeal in April, but three senior judges said he could ‘still reduce the period he has to spend in custody by taking the steps identified’ by Mr Justice Johnson.

Barrister Alex Di Francesco, for Robinson, told the court today that several of the publications which constituted breaches of the injunction had been ‘removed’.

He said: ‘The defendant has demonstrated that commitment that Your Lordship required, both in his words and his actions.’

He continued: ‘Each admitted breach capable of being purged has been acted upon and has been entirely resulted in removal.’

Adam Payter, for the Solicitor General, said that a review had been carried out to assess whether the injunction had been complied with.

He told the court that following the review, the Solicitor General ‘agrees that the material has been removed from all bar two of the online locations’.

He added that Robinson had taken steps to have the publications removed from the two locations where they were still visible.

The injunction was issued after Robinson was successfully sued by Jamal Hijazi, a then-schoolboy who was attacked at Almondbury Community School in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, in October 2018.

After a clip of the incident went viral, Robinson made fraudulent claims on Facebook, including about Mr Hijazi attacking girls in his school, leading to the libel case.

Mr Justice Nicklin ordered Robinson to pay Mr Hijazi £100,000 in damages and his legal costs, as well as making the injunction stopping Robinson from repeating the allegations.

Mr Justice Johnson said that Robinson could be jailed for up to two years if he breached the injunction again in the future.

Court orders were put in place to stop Tommy Robinson from exercising freedom of speech, because his speech is problematic – now they have muted him permanently.

Tommy Robinson reveals the facts, and if it weren’t him, it would be somebody else, and he tells a story that another person might not.

Expressing your concerns or opinions is a kind of freedom of expression and should never be criminalised, and this is shocking what happened to this man, and all for speaking out, yet people who hurt or abuse people with brutality get away with it.

I never imagined that our government in the UK would openly produce political prisoners, particularly British ones.

Given that BBC paedophiles are allowed to roam the streets, he should never have been imprisoned in the first place, and whether you like Tommy Robinson or not, compared to some other prison sentences, or lack of them, he was definitely part of the two-tier system.

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