THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

Passport Office Workers Assigned To Process Universal Credit

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Passport Office workers who’ve been ordered to return to work are being seconded to process millions of new Universal Credit claims.

A huge 1.2 million claims have been made since lockdown started and an insider at HMPO in Glasgow has revealed workers are being given a five-day crash course in training to process them that would ordinarily take six weeks.

Passport Office workers said they were horrified to discover they would be responsible for being told they would be involved in sanctioning claimants as well as processing new claims and were distraught at the idea of leaving some vulnerable people without anything to live on for perhaps weeks at a time when they have precious little understanding of the system.

About 40,000 claims are being made a day, opposed to the 10,000 that would ordinarily be anticipated and over seven days since the COVID 19 crisis started, 5.8 million calls to the Universal Credit helpline were made.

Some of the 2,000 workers who are being ordered to go back to work will help process them and there are strategies to have 500 people in offices at any one time.

But the Home Office has been accused of a nonchalant approach after staff were reportedly told that 80 per cent of the population will get infected and we can’t hide away from it permanently.

The Home Office stated it was adhering to Public Health England’s guidance by managing social distancing at passport offices and added there was no advice saying that you should only go to work if you’re an essential or key worker.

On a conference call on Tuesday, staff were informed by the Home Office deputy scientific adviser, Rupert Shute, that 80 per cent of people would get COVID 19 in the end and according to a leaked transcript of a Zoom meeting, Rupert Shute stated that there was no more risk at the workplace as there would be in your home or at a supermarket and that it was about minimising it.

He further said that they were working on the assessment that 80 per cent of us, if we haven’t already, will get the virus and that we can’t hide away from it forever.

A Government spokesperson said that since the inception of the pandemic the whole of Government has looked at ways to support priority work and that staff will be thoroughly equipped to ensure that they can commence work on behalf of other government departments adequately so that the most vulnerable in society can access public services as promptly as possible.

And it’s understood the reason training has been cut to five days is that a streamlined package that only includes components explicit to the tasks needed will be delivered.

But the welfare system over the last decade has help to kill countless people and the assessments are farcical for the disabled, and the DWP have put claimants through weeks of stress doing Mandatory Reassessments before a claimant can go onto appeal their case.

Another hurdle the DWP put claimants through, creating more despair but then Universal Credit was done merely as a means for cuts and demeaning claimants in the process.

The DWP and their beloved Universal Credit are bursting at the seams, now drawing in staff that have had insufficient training and this is only the start of the real nightmare that all new claimants will suffer under Universal Credit and some are in for a rough ride.

The DWP and the government will never change for the better and it will only get worse once coronavirus is sorted out. Then it’s back to Austerity and people having to go on Universal Credit will be pressured into finding any job, otherwise, they will risk being sanctioned.

And it’s a cruel, ruthless draconian benefits system, created to make life as difficult as possible for potential claimants.

It’s A Load Of Bunk

We all agree that we cherish our NHS workers and that’s why people across the United Kingdom show their love for them every Thursday by cheering and hooting and whacking pans with spoons.

Yet the Government bestows its appreciation by giving them sod all equipment, so instead of protecting themselves with tedious items, they can have loads of pleasure making their own.

Because it was reported that nurses are being made to wear bin liners as there’s a deficit of aprons but this is how to make the pandemic fun and at last our nurses are being given a chance to wear something to get them noticed, instead of wearing those boring white gowns, that may protect them, but wouldn’t catch the eye of a Paris fashion designer.

Someone should bring Blue Peter back to BBC1 to make a special coronavirus show for NHS workers and then one of the presenters can say: “Hi, today we’re going to make protective equipment for doctors out of cornflake packets, dandelion leaves and a pair of your dad’s old pants.”

Medical staff say they’ve not received any long-sleeved gowns, making them more prone to catch the virus off patients but on the other hand, in this weather, they’ll get a nice tan for when they’re laid up for three weeks and with the same spirit of muddling through, there were barely any ventilators available for the crisis.

Perhaps doctors were supposed to preserve funds and give patients oxygen by breathing through the cardboard piece inside a toilet roll but sadly, they were all bought by stockpilers.

So, now they’ll be appealing for folk bands to perform in the ward, so anyone short of breath can put their mouth over the end of the accordion and numerous hospitals are running out of masks, so they’re also appealing to nail bars and hairdressers to see if they have any.

Hairdressers could also offer their hair dryers as extra ventilators so patients can get an extra supply of oxygen and a blow-dry for their lungs too and if this still doesn’t secure enough masks, the NHS could appeal to bank robbers and the IRA to give them their old ones.

Not only that, but according to an Intensive Care doctor on the BBC, protection face masks that they’re using at the moment have all been re-labelled with new best before end dates.

And several had three stickers on them, one with an expiry of 2009, the second sticker, expiry 2013, and the third sticker on the very top said 2021 but I’m sure it doesn’t matter if a mask that’s supposed to save your life is 11 years out of date because it appears that face masks are like wine, they get better with age.

Experienced nurses can sniff one and go: “Hmm, it’s got a pleasant scent of Swine flu, I’d say it’s a 2009 vintage.”

This government’s inaction has meant that the country has been caught with its pants around its ankles and now we’re heading for the biggest death toll in Europe.

Herd immunity indeed, a plan that had to be evacuated after the medical and scientific establishment told them it was crazy and would lead to mass destruction and the NHS wouldn’t be able to cope.

The United Kingdom considered a situation such as this not that many years ago, but as usual, did nothing to prepare, and cuts in the health service have not helped us either.

The NHS was in a desperate state before COVID 19 and it’s even worse now and our government should have been prepared for all eventualities and that’s not the sign of a stable government, one that’s scrambling around for help when the shit hits the fan.

And when this is all over and hopefully that will be pretty soon, questions need to be examined about the handling of this because apologies are no good when people are dying within the health service and outside the health service.

And when PPE is not available it beggars belief and it’s a national scandal and this government should be held responsible for this turmoil and now we should be slamming our so-called Government for the brave NHS staff that have so tragically died because the Government failed to provide proper PPE and still months later they’re still messing about.

Cabinet Minister Robert Jenrick Breaks Lockdown Rules

The Housing Secretary has been cited of ridiculing lockdown rules again after it appeared he travelled from his London home to his second home just days after urging the country to stay at home.

Robert Jenrick, who’s the Tory MP for Newark in Nottinghamshire, has defended escaping 150 miles from London to his £1.1 million mansion in Herefordshire, where his family are staying.

Robert Jenrick should be giving a pretty good reason as to why these excursions were needed and if he can’t, then he needs to consider his position, yet Downing Street stated it was confident that Robert Jenrick followed the rules.

And a source close to Robert Jenrick stated that he’d been residing at his family home in Herefordshire and working from there and that he’d been keeping up with his Westminster and constituency work from home where he’s done media and video work by video link.

The cabinet minister said he and his wife Michal Berkner, a partner at City law firm Cooley LLP, and the children consider the country retreat their family home and he had moved back there as he was no longer required in Westminster.

Robert Jenrick additionally boasts a £2.5 million townhouse less than a mile from the Houses of Parliament while also renting a £2,000 a month property in his constituency, which he bills to the taxpayer.

His official website doesn’t mention his Grade I listed country house at all. Instead, it simply states that he’s married to Michal, and together they have three young daughters and that they live in Southwell near Newark, in London.

He was further forced to justify why he’d been seen on his elderly parent’s front lawn in Shropshire at the weekend. He declared he was delivering medication and other supplies.

But this all came as a surprise after he advised others to stay at home for all but the most basic activities, and all travel to second homes was forbidden, and referring to him moving back to Herefordshire, Robert Jenrick stated that his family were there before any constraints on travel were declared.

He stated that he’d been working in London on ministerial duties, putting in place a system to shield the group most exposed to coronavirus and organising the response at a local level, but that once he was able to work from home, it was right that he went home to do so and be with his wife and also help care for his three young children.

He continued that he would be staying at the family home until Government advice changed or he was required in Westminster.

Robert Jenrick said he respected social distancing when he drove to his parent’s home who at 69 and 79 are extremely vulnerable to the virus.

He was spotted at the Shropshire residence, 40 miles from Herefordshire by a bystander who then notified The Guardian before it was reported. However, Government guidelines which were released on March 23, state that you shouldn’t visit anyone who lives outside your home, including ageing relatives, you are permitted to leave your home to support them, for instance by leaving shopping or medication at their door.

However, people should remain in their main residence and not taking these steps puts added stress on communities and services that are already at risk.

And tweeting a response, Robert Jenrick stated that for clarity his parents asked him to deliver some essentials, including medicines. That they were both self-isolating due to their age and his father’s medical condition and that he respected social distancing rules.

Going to work is allowed – if you can’t work from home. Medicine and food shopping is allowed and caring for others is allowed. There’s nothing to see here!

But what is going on here? This guy has a £1.1 million mansion and a 2.5 million pound home in London and he rents a £2,000 pad in London courtesy of the taxpayer, and this is our Housing Minister, who owns a couple of mansions, yet does nothing for those who need it, those that are living on the streets, but he’s okay because as far as he’s concerned, as long as I’m all right Jack!

This is just like WWIII and survival is the rule. During WWII, the powers that be got additional rations for their families, whilst the rest went without, so nothing has changed.

But having said that, this man was taking food and medication for his ageing parents, most people do it for their ageing parents every week, it’s allowed and it seems like he was within the guidelines, even though I’d rather not be on his side, considering he’s got three houses and one’s paid by the taxpayer, but it does sound like he’s within what was set out in the guidelines.

There must be hundreds of thousands of people transporting food and medicine to their ageing parents and if the house he’s at is the main residence, which appears to be the only grey area here, then he’s not done anything that violates the rules.

Mind you, many of us don’t even have a second home to move to, let alone a garden – yet we’re all in this together, I don’t think so!

And I wonder how much he will be earning to work from home, plenty, you can guarantee that, whilst other people are working from home getting a pittance and some can’t work at all.

And I don’t know why British taxpayers have to pay for their supplementary homes, well, I do understand, it’s called thieving and I can detect a whiff of hypocrisy in the air.

We Won’t Know When Lockdown Will End

The coronavirus lockdown will continue for numerous more weeks at the very least, and the government are seeking to give a more precise message that this isn’t going to end anytime soon.

The coronavirus will likely shadow over us until we have an effective vaccine, so we need to prepare ourselves for life to be isolated for a long time, and time has been shaped into two milestones, before and after coronavirus.

In our current existence, our loved ones suffocate to death in near-total solitude.

Outside of our hospitals, life has ground to a standstill, and we’re confined to our homes.

We’re losing our jobs, businesses are going to the wall and the global economy is wavering on the verge of collapse.

In Spain and Italy, intensive care units are failing under the number of dead and dying, and such is the scale of suffering, doctors are forced to decide between who should live and who should die, with the military assigned to manage the sheer amount of corpses, and soon, countless more countries will have their accounts of these stories.

It took only twelve weeks for the virus to bring the world to a standstill, to put our lives and societies on lockdown.

More than 40,000 people have now lost their lives, but this is just the grim initial act of the coronavirus crisis.

In the absence of a vaccine or any established treatments, it’s expected that COVID 19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, is here to linger for at least the next year.

While the worst part of the outbreak is immediately ahead of us, it will be a long time before life returns to normal.

For the British government, this realisation came like a punch to the gut. From its botched communications in early March, it seems like officials were anticipating that COVID 19 would be a short, sharp, shock, tearing through the population until enough herd immunity was built up against the virus and that its velocity would be naturally suppressed.

If any traces of this approach remained, they were stamped out by March 16 when a report from the Imperial College London set out the cost of inaction over coronavirus.

Without a switch to much more comprehensive social distancing measures, the capacity of intensive care units would be surpassed eightfold and 250,000 people would die, and that was in a best-case scenario.

The same day, the Imperial report was published, and the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, urged everyone in the country to stay at home and avoid pubs, restaurants and theatres.

A week later this became a total lockdown with police being given the ability to fine people who were outside for anything other than a small list of state-sanctioned activities, which was exercise, shopping for food, travelling for essential work or assisting the vulnerable.

Overnight, the social framework in the United Kingdom had declined immeasurably.

How long will it all last? These were the words, in their many forms, which were fired at politicians and civil servants at the government’s daily press briefings, and the answers may spark more or less confidence depending on whom you listen to.

Boris Johnson’s initial register was positive arrogance, telling the people on March 19 that in twelves weeks that we could turn the tide on coronavirus and finally send it packing altogether.

Ten days later, the deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries struck a more serious tone, warning that social distancing measures might be in position for six months, and possibly even longer.

Each of these scenarios, twelve weeks or six months, will likely only encompass the beginning of the struggle against COVID 19.

And while there’s a faint belief that transmission could wither away altogether through the summer, it’s more probable that the threat of this disease and its disastrous impact on health and the treacherous undermining of our society is here to stay until we have a vaccine, and things are unlikely to be normal again for a long time.

The dilemma is that we don’t have a vaccine and the government can’t lock down the population indefinitely, and by the time the coronavirus ends we will be facing economic collapse and we will be just as prepared for that as we were the coronavirus outbreak.

Royal Mail Changes Its Delivery And Collections

Royal Mail has changed its delivery office depot opening and closing times amid the coronavirus crisis, as well as changing the way it makes deliveries.

The depot changes came into force on Monday and have been put in place to ensure a safe and reliable service for its patrons.

To protect workers and the public, Royal Mail has changed the opening times of Customer Services Points in local delivery offices.

The largest locations will now be open between 07.00-11.00am. All other Customer Service Points will be open between 07.00-09.00am.

All will be closed on Wednesday and Sunday.

To support the Government’s advice to stay at home and avoid non-essential journeys, bosses are asking customers to only visit Customer Service Points where necessary, and as a reminder, workers can also redeliver items for free.

To give patrons longer to collect or have their item redelivered, Royal Mail has provisionally prolonged the time it will keep parcels and post to 30 calendar days before the item is returned to the sender.

This applies to the following:

Items we’ve left a ‘Something for You’ card

Items that have a ‘Surcharge to Pay’

Items that have a ‘Customs Charge to Pay’

Local Collect items where the parcel is addressed to the Customer Service Point.

Due to increased absence levels, staff reviewed timed guarantees for Special Delivery Guaranteed by 9 am and 1 pm services and will make the subsequent changes:

For items posted from Tuesday 31 March 2020 onwards, guaranteed delivery for Special Delivery Guaranteed by 9.00 am the next working day will change by noon the next working day.

Guaranteed delivery for Special Delivery Guaranteed by 1.00 pm will change to by 9.00 pm the next working day*.
*existing postcode exceptions apply.

To protect both workers and patrons as much as possible, Royal Mail says it’s minimising contact during delivery.

Staff will not be handing over the hand-held devices to customers to obtain signatures but instead, log the name of the person receiving them. Additionally, for all customers where they need to deliver any item that won’t go through the letterbox, postmen and women will put the item at the door.

Having tapped on the door, they will then move away to a safe distance while you retrieve your item. This will guarantee your item is delivered securely rather than being left outside.

The Government has introduced measures to protect our most vulnerable groups, including those in residential care. These include restricting all but essential access to care homes for external contractors.

Royal Mail said it recognises post is important to the ageing, especially those away from their friends and families in care homes.

Hence, to support the effort to keep the post moving but stop the spread of coronavirus, workers have made arrangements to deliver to a central point, eg. reception, rather than specific locations within care homes from March 19.

These changes will serve to ensure the health, safety and well-being of staff and the vulnerable.

Staff will deliver unaddressed door to door advertising postings to consumers who are getting addressed letters or packages at the same time, wherever realistically feasible.

Door to door postings provides a really important service to small businesses and companies of all kinds as they endeavour to provide their goods and services.

Numerous small businesses require that support now more than ever. They want to send it, many consumers want to receive it.

Door to door postings also includes important communication from local government.

I would like to say that the Postal Service is doing a fabulous job because this is an indispensable service that’s needed more than ever in these times of self-isolation.

But in times like this, why is junk mail still being delivered, and why would people possibly want it at a time like this?

Gordon Brown And Tony Blair Call For Global Government To Tackle CoronaVirus

The Coronavirus pandemic can offer lessons about global coordination and that we should seek more join-up Global thinking on the subject according to a recent speech by Globalist politician Tony Blair.

Speaking at a live-streamed event that was hosted by the Progressive Policy Institute and the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Tony Blair described the outbreak as a tough crisis that will damage countries health care systems economies.

Now in a shocking move, his co-creator of New Labour Gordon Brown has called for even more drastic action turning the Blairite project into reality.

Gordon Brown has asked world leaders to form a temporary form of global government to tackle the twin medical economic crisis caused by the COVID 19 pandemic.

He said there was a need for a task force comprising world leaders, health experts and the heads of the international organisations that would have executive powers to coordinate the response.

A virtual meeting of the G20 group of developed and developing countries, chaired by Saudi Arabia, will be held, but Gordon Brown stated it would have been better to have also included the UN security council.

This is not something that can be dealt with in one country, there has to be a harmonised global response.

Gordon Brown said the current crisis was different from that of 2008:

“That was an economic problem that had economic causes and had an economic solution.

This is first and foremost a medical emergency and there has to be joint action to deal with that. But the more you intervene to deal with the medical emergency, the more you put economies at risk.”

During the financial crisis, Gordon Brown persuaded other global leaders of the need to bail out the banks and then hosted a meeting of the G20 in London, which came up with a $1.1 trillion rescue package.

Gordon Brown said his Global Government would have two aims which were the effort to find a vaccine, and to organise production, purchasing and to stop profiteering.

Many countries have announced economic packages, but Gordon Brown said a task force could make sure the aims of central banks were coordinated, take measures to stop the record flight of capital from emerging market economies, and agree on a joint approach to the use of government spending to promote growth.

Gordon Brown said there had been resistance in 2008 to using the G20 as a means for tackling the financial crisis, but that it should be clear to world leaders that there was no chance of a go it alone approach working.

He said: “We need some sort of working executive. If I were doing it again, I would make the G20 a broader organisation because in the current circumstances you need to listen to the countries that are most affected, the countries that are making a difference and countries where there is the potential for a massive number of people to be affected – such as those in Africa.”

He maintains that The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund needed a huge improvement in their budgets to cope with the impact of the crisis on low and middle-class countries.

It seems as if they simply want to be seen as the hero’s but it would be the UK taxpayer that would be paying for this approach, and we will have enough to pay for, rather than attempting to save the rest of the world.

These two are rich millionaires living in the lap of luxury, and they want you to pay for the healthcare of other countries and then that will be handed down to your children and grandchildren.

Note they don’t say anything about the sick and dying here!

These are the globalist that we elected, then we pay their salaries, and it seems they only worry about people in other countries and they want your money to massage their ego and shine their moral compass at your expense – self-interest masquerading as Altruism.

Essex Deaths From Virus Fall To Zero

NHS England statistics reveal no deaths have been reported in Southend Hospital, Basildon Hospital, Broomfield Hospital, Colchester Hospital or the Princess Alexandra Hospital, in Harlow in the last 24 hours.

There were also no deaths in the trust which provides mental health care in Essex.

The latest figures comprise the period leading up to 5 pm yesterday which are issued every day by NHS England.

NHS England said 403 people, who tested positive for coronavirus have died in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative number of established reported deaths in hospitals in England to 4,897 – the patients were aged between 35 and 106 years old.

Bosses say 15 of the 403 patients, aged between 52 and 94 years old, had no known underlying health conditions, and in entirety, 66 people have lost their lives in Southend and Basildon hospitals after catching the virus.

At Basildon Hospital, 49 people with the virus have died, while 17 have lost their lives at Southend Hospital.

Elsewhere in Essex, 46 people have died at Princess Alexandra Hospital, in Harlow, while 15 have died at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.

According to NHS England, a total of 43 people who tested positive for coronavirus have lost their lives at the trust which runs Colchester Hospital, and while the number of deaths falling to zero is cause for optimism, it comes as more than 1,000 positive cases of the coronavirus have been established in Essex.

The latest figures reveal there are now 858 cases in the Essex County Council region, a further 118 positive cases in Southend and 120 in Thurrock.

The number of cases is an increase of 102 on the day before bringing the total to 1,096.

But what about those in care homes and deaths from the coronavirus? What about people that are dying at home of COVID 19? Or is it only NHS hospital deaths that are being calculated?

It appears that the UK daily death figures are only including those dying in hospital, so people who die at home or in care homes et cetera aren’t being calculated, so the UK figures are somewhat misleading because other nations are counting all deaths, and are we going to have to wait for the delay in admin before the real figures come out?

Boris Johnson Taken To Intensive Care

Boris Johnson has been transferred to intensive care in hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worsened.

He was moved on the recommendation of his medical team and is getting wonderful care, and Dominic Raab is to deputise where required.

The Queen has been kept notified about Boris Johnson’s well-being by No 10.

Throughout Monday afternoon, the condition of the Prime Minister has worsened and, on the recommendation of his medical team, he’s been transferred to the intensive care unit at the hospital.

Dominic Raab said that there’s been an especially strong team spirit behind the Prime Minister, and he added that he and his colleagues were making sure they realised the plans that Boris Johnson had instructed them to address as soon as possible.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak said his thoughts were with the Prime Minister and his pregnant partner, Carrie Symonds, and that the Prime Minister would come out of this even stronger, and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described it as extremely sad news.

There’s been precious little information shared today about the Prime Minister until he was taken into intensive care at about 7 pm.

The Prime Minister is still conscious, but his health has worsened throughout the afternoon, and being in intensive care changes everything because intensive care is where doctors look after the sickest patients and his admission to ICU is the clearest indication of how unwell the Prime Minister is – the only good thing is that Boris Johnson is awake and is not being ventilated at this time.

Not every patient in intensive care is ventilated, but around two-thirds are within 24 hours of admission with COVID 19 because the disease attacks the lungs and can cause pneumonia and problems breathing.

This leaves the body struggling to get enough oxygen into the blood and to the body’s vital organs.

There’s no documented drug treatment for COVID 19, although there are numerous experimental candidates. The cornerstone of the Prime Minister’s care will depend on getting enough oxygen into his body and supporting his other organs while his immune system battles the virus.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was sending Boris Johnson every good wish, while Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster added she was praying for a full and expeditious recovery.

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his thoughts were with the Prime Minister and his family and praised NHS staff for their hard work and commitment.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced that he hoped Boris Johnson overcomes this ordeal swiftly, and the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan tweeted that St Thomas’s Hospital has some of the finest medical staff in the world and that the Prime Minister couldn’t be in safer hands.

We might not all be Tory supporters, but Boris Johnson is in grave peril now. However, Boris Johnson has exceptional drive, and I’m sure he will strive to win through this virus, and it shouldn’t matter which party we’re supporting, we should be wishing our Prime Minister a quick recovery and everyone else touched by this virus.

And in these times we must cross from politics and gather humanity and standing, and regardless of the situation, we shouldn’t wish death or bad on anyone, imagine if he was one of your family members?

Coronavirus is an equal opportunity virus. It doesn’t discriminate against anyone.

Her Majesty Issues Historic Coronavirus Message

Queen Elizabeth II made a sincere and passionate appeal to the country and the Commonwealth as the impact of coronavirus sets in across the globe.

She delivered her speech to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth at 8 pm on Sunday as the coronavirus pandemic proceeds to grip the globe.

Buckingham Palace yielded aspects of the Queen’s address earlier this week and revealed it was pre-recorded on Thursday and it evoked the touching words of Dame Vera Lynn’s legendary World War II song ‘We’ll Meet Again’.

She said: “This time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavour, using the great advances of science and our instinctive compassion to heal.

“We will succeed – and that success will belong to every one of us.

“We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.

“But for now, I send my thanks and warmest good wishes to you all.”

The Queen opened her address by saying: “I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time.

“A time of disruption in the life of our country.

“A disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulty to many and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all.”

The Queen went on to thank the numerous service people allowing Britain to cope throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

She said: “I want to thank everyone on the NHS frontline as well as care workers and those carrying out essential roles.

“Those that selflessly carry out their day to day duties outside the home in support of us all.

“I am sure the nation will join me in assuring you that what you do is appreciated and every hour of your hard work brings us closer to a return to more normal times.

“I also want to thank those of you that are staying at home, thereby helping protect the vulnerable and sparing many families the pain already felt by those who have lost loved ones.”

She added: “I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge.

“And those who come after us will say that the Britons of this generation were as strong as any.

“That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet, good-humoured resolve and of fellow feeling still characterise this country.”

“The pride in who we are is not a part of our past, it defines our present and our future.

“The moments when the United Kingdom has come together to applaud its care and essential workers will be remembered as an expression of our national spirit, and its symbol will be the rainbows drawn by children.”

The Queen also referred to her first speech to the nation during World War II.

She added: “It reminds me of the very first broadcast I made, in 1940, helped by my sister. We, as children, spoke from here at Windsor to children who had been evacuated from their homes and sent away for their safety.

“Today, once again, many will feel a painful sense of separation from their loved ones. But now, as then, we know, deep down, that it is the right thing to do.”

But to all you people that are now salivating over the Queen, this lady isn’t going to give you any of her many ventilators on hand, even if you did pay for them and she won’t worry if you drop dead, it’s as simple as that!

And that was a lovely brooch she was wearing – not sure who persuaded her to put it on while the rest of the country is struggling while they have their palaces and enormous parks, with the most exquisite food and wines, staff and medicals at their beckoning – who are they fooling?

The Queen has lived a vested lifestyle for numerous years, living in a palace with servants and security, which must be such hard work, and this isn’t like WWII and we don’t have Vera Lynn crooning in the backdrop.

Our Grandparents had bombs dropping on them and they had family members overseas who were being slaughtered and every day they had to prepare themselves for bad news, but despite that, they also had to keep the family fed on next to nothing and they had to put on a smiling face.

The whole world is fighting this virus and nobody knows what to do to defeat it and we’re all in the same boat, and it’s odd how the Queen only pops up when she knows most will be home watching the TV – Christmas Day and lockdown.

It’s one thing to be whisked away to safety where nobody can contaminate you but others have to go into work to look after people who are seriously ill, or to deliver vital services, but then we live in the real world, Your Majesty.

The Queen has all the security she requires, and she doesn’t have to stay up until midnight so that she can get a slot for her food to be delivered to her, and broadcasting this message while holed up in your second home behind high walls sends the country entirely the incorrect message.

And who listens to the Queen anymore? Because what she says means nothing to the average family.

She can self-isolate herself in her 150-acre castles while us insignificant humans have to quarantine in our home, often with no garden.

I now, here that the front line doctors are going to discriminate against over 75s when it comes down to choosing who gets a ventilator – I bet it won’t come to that if the Queen needed one, she would be top of the list.

I must sound like the green-eyed monster because of course, there are numerous people other than the Queen who live vested lives and who have huge gardens or grounds, but they’re still not as privileged as the Queen.

Maybe I should stop frothing at the mouth!

And there doesn’t appear to be any Prince Phillip about, that’s because they’d have to get him out of his crypt for special occasions and sit him up.

The vested Royal Family are there but no one asked for them with their composed speeches written by a professional writer – nothing came from her heart, she simply did what she was told.

And I’m sure for some, her address felt artificial and staged, and many won’t of cared about what she had to say because we need actions and not words, and this is too little too late because there’s no real wisdom or leadership on this planet, only fools second-guessing at best.

Perhaps British Royalty should be abolished because they’re falling apart from within and only concern themselves with self-preservation while the rest of us bear the consequences.

Corona beer is excellent, people drink it all the time, but this virus is not and will ultimately kill millions.

Now the Royals are nothing more than celebrities, overpaid and acting, putting on a show for the masses, and the Royal Family aren’t going to have to worry how they’re going to cope when this is all over.

While the whole country is full of failed businesses and bankrupt, they will go on their merry way, still taking our money, and I wonder if any of them have a clue to the destruction this will create, but it hasn’t prevented them scurrying off to their second homes, has it?

I do hope that some people got a good message out of her address that was canned by a teleprompter, but if it brings you peace, then I’m thrilled for you.

I’m not saying that she shouldn’t have addressed the people, we all have freedom of speech, including the Queen, but it does show how out of touch she is with modern UK.

Seventy per cent of the younger generation wouldn’t even be able to relate to Vera Lynn, they wouldn’t even know who she is, and instead of the Queen giving great speeches, how about she gives some of that money she gets to the NHS, now that would prick everyone’s ears up.

To be fair, listening to the Queen was like listening to my nan waffle on, and seriously, who’s this woman again? What does she do, or have I missed something while I’ve been in isolation?

And I love the way she acts, “We’ll Meet Again”. I’ve never met her in my life, nevermind meeting her again.

A true Queen would have donated money towards equipment, supplies and people who need it and her address was a pitiful rouse.

Of course, it’s not for the Royal Family to supply the NHS, that’s for the government, but in dire times like this, you would have at least thought she would have offered out of the goodness of her heart.

What’s going on isn’t like a war because we’re up against an adversary that we can’t see, can’t be beaten and doesn’t care if it wins or loses.

We can’t fight it, all we can do is hide from it and trust that it eventually goes away, on the upside we’re not being blitzed, and someone should have the acumen and courage to recommend that all NHS staff receive an OBE and a bigger pay packet when this crisis is over, it’s better than footballers and singers getting it.

I couldn’t imagine a footballer or singer performing open-heart surgery or cleaning up patients sick or blood, but then I can’t see a nurse or doctor booting a football round or singing, but these are not essential parts of our life, saving a life is.

By the time I’d watched the Queen’s address, I’d lost the will to live, and I do try to be understanding, but I just can’t see how a speech from the Queen helps morale.

They’re quite different from the likes of us ordinary men, woman and children in the street, and even further from the frontline workers from all walks of life, all doing their best in so many ways and so many diverse roles to keep this country going.

Next, she’ll be crooning ‘Blue Birds Over The White Cliffs Of Dover, that’s until a Royal Hunting party bags the lot.

Her address certainly evoked the wartime feeling in me, now I feel like sleeping outside in an Anderson shelter for the night in 2 feet of water while the Royals sleep in a palace with a light aircraft on standby.

And why didn’t they open up the palace as a temporary hospital? They have enough rooms in it to sink a battleship. It would prove to the country that she’s united with her minions, but how nice and supportive that would be. Perhaps the children of the key workers could have a garden party when all this ends?

Boris Johnson In Hospital With Coronavirus

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Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital after failing to shake off coronavirus symptoms 10 days after testing positive, but Downing Street said that the 55-year-old Prime Minister had gone to the hospital for tests as a precautionary measure.

Boris Johnson continues to have tenacious manifestations of the virus understood to be a high temperature, and No 10 insiders would only say that the Prime Minister had been admitted to an NHS hospital in London, although was not taken by ambulance and the location was not disclosed.

The nearest hospital to Downing Street is St Thomas’s across Westminster.

It’s understood he will be staying overnight, with officials saying he will stay in hospital as long as needed, so Monday’s COVID 19 war cabinet meeting will be chaired by the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab for the first time instead of Boris Johnson.

But Downing Street has asserted that Boris Johnson continues to be in charge of the Government and is still in touch with ministerial colleagues and officials, but it’s understood that Dominic Raab will take over as caretaker Prime Minister if Boris Johnson is incapable of being in charge.

Downing Street has insisted that the Prime Minister’s hospital admission was merely for precautionary purposes and not an emergency admission, and Downing Street said it was deemed prudent for doctors to see the Prime Minister in person given he has continuous manifestations.

However, some aides had become increasingly concerned about the Prime Minister’s well-being when he continued to exhibit symptoms seven days after testing positive.

The most common reasons coronavirus patients are admitted to hospital is for signs of breathlessness, but the other reasons for this are when a person fails to rid the symptoms, which could be due to unexplained underlying health conditions.

Having the virus past 10 days is a red flag and the Prime Minister will likely be having X-rays on his chest to determine if he has any respiratory difficulties.

Some patients who have failed to get rid of the symptoms have developed a bacterial infection on top of the virus, which could explain complications.

The Prime Minister’s last on-camera appointment with the public was on Friday when he recorded a Twitter video telling viewers he still had symptoms so was following Public Health England guidance to stay in self-isolation.

His voice sounded croaky and he looked tired.

Breathlessness is a troubling indication of severe illness and can occur at any period of the illness, it can happen on day seven or day 10, but it’s still only likely that the Prime Minister has moderate manifestations of the coronavirus.

The preponderance of people who develop coronavirus will have mild symptoms, that’s 80 per cent or so. The older you are the more likely it is that a person will become seriously unwell with this.

There’s a severe stage, a moderate stage and a critical stage.

Government aides said that the Prime Minister had been coughing and spluttering on video conference calls over the last few days.

You couldn’t make this news up if you tried and it’s insane times that we’re living in and yet the minority still isn’t observing the rules.

We all knew that Boris Johnson had COVID 19 and now he’s been sent for further testing because he’s had a temperature for over 10 days, and we should wish him well. Some might not like him as a Prime Minister but he’ still a human being and shouldn’t have to go through this, like countless other people that have caught the virus or died from it.

And it shouldn’t matter who you are with the virus. Empathy, compassion, unity and taking care of each other should come first in a crisis because arrogance and stubbornness have no place in these troubling times.

The question is, will Boris be told that he has to wait his turn for treatment as the most serious will have to be seen first, so take a seat somewhere along the corridors with everyone else.

Or would he have been hurried straight through, given a bed straight away, that others have been told they will have to wait for some 16 hours ago as none were available?

We should wish him well, despite his politics and we shouldn’t wish that upon anyone, otherwise, that just makes us as wicked as Boris himself.

And there are many people out there that have been showing signs of the coronavirus and still had symptoms 13 days after and have just been given antibiotics for a post COVID chest infection.

Are these people going to their GP? No. Did they go to the hospital? No. They were just told to stay at home for 14 days or longer and to self-isolate.

I hope that Boris Johnson does get better and then emerges as a better human being, that would be nice.

I don’t wish the man any harm because he is a human being but it doesn’t seem fair that he gets all the tests that he needs, yet our front line workers get the finger, and maybe now he will realise how valuable the NHS and its workers are, and how important it is to fund the NHS.

Coronavirus does not discriminate!

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