THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

Tories Will Strip Workers Of Tea Breaks And Bank Holidays

Jeremy Corbyn warns that a vote for Boris Johnson’s Tories will strip workers of their tea breaks and bank holidays and force them on to zero-hours contracts and Labour stands shoulder to shoulder with ASDA workers facing the sack for refusing to sign spanking new contracts.

And Labour is going after the bad bosses because they know whose side they’re on, the side of the workers but Boris Johnson’s Conservatives are on the side of bad bosses like ASDA who cut holiday days, end flexibility for workers and make other cuts to terms and conditions.

Supposedly Labour will put wealth and power in the hands of the many in our country, not the elite few after union bosses claim that 12,000 ASDA workers face the sack after declining to sign brand-new contracts.

Jeremy Corbyn warned that if the Tories get back in workers would increasingly suffer under contracts like those inflicted by the US-owned chain, operated by parent company Walmart and his criticisms came after ASDA declared a seven-day delay on Friday to the deadline for workers to sign the contracts.

Nevertheless, the firm, which doesn’t use zero-hours contracts and does pay the national living wage, stated that anyone returning would do so under its new arrangements.

The GMB stated that thousands of ASDA’s 12,000 hourly-paid workers have been pressured into signing the new contracts, which improve flexibility and could mean short-notice changes.

This 11th-hour stay kicks the can down the road for ASDA workers who are unable to sign this punishing new contract and they now face the likelihood of being fired.

Under the terms of the new contract ASDA will make an £80 million investment to boost the pay of over 100,000 of their colleagues to £9 per hour, and in April will see a further pay rise of £9.18 as well as protecting the enhanced ASDA package which includes an annual gratuity.

And despite widespread commitment throughout the process, there continues to be some misinformation from outside parties to their colleagues, and this is why they’ve given the 330 colleagues who are still uncertain a little more time to sign-up.

And whilst the large preponderance of their colleagues have chosen to sign the contract, ASDA has said they don’t want anyone to leave as a result of the significant change and that they’ve worked extensively with them and union representatives to understand and discuss concerns.

And ASDA has said that the contract is about fairness for all their colleagues and moves them in line with their rivals and whilst retail as a whole is under pressure, they will do all they can to ensure they have a sustainable business for their customers, their colleagues and the communities they serve.

The party has further criticised US-owned Amazon for exploiting its workers in giant warehouses and Labour has promised to ban zero-hours contracts and introduce a £10 minimum salary for all workers.

At a campaign gathering in Swindon, Wiltshire, Jeremy Corbyn also stated a majority for Boris Johnson’s Tories would expedite an NHS sell-off through more intimate relations with Donald Trump’s US regime.

And that since Boris Johnson has been Prime Minister, there’s already been at least six high-level meetings between British officials and pharmaceutical companies in the USA. So, why would there be a meeting? And what would they be discussing?

Donald Trump and the US ambassador and others have stated frequently that any trade deal with Britain would require their access to the British healthcare market which should make us profoundly suspicious.

And a million people are waiting for social care and in our NHS 34,000 nurse positions are waiting to be filled and some doctors are under unimaginable levels of pressure and the longest waiting times for operations in the antiquity of the NHS, however, none of this is necessary because all of this is a result of the austerity brought in, in 2010.

And you can see how this is becoming a reality with ASDA workers because they’re all getting cheated by this shocking employment market.

ASDA is controlled by US giant Walmart who want to force its 12,000 UK employees to sign new contracts, removing lunchtime pay and special rates for Sundays and Bank Holidays et cetera and anyone declining to sign will be fired.

So, why on earth would anyone trust the Tories with workers rights? Not only have they always voted against the introduction of every single working right we have, but they’ve also spent the last 40 years unwaveringly hacking away at the rights we do have.

Only last year they attempted to make victims of workplace bullying and wrongful dismissal pay £3,000 to take their employer to a tribunal, effectively giving bad employers carte blanch to abuse workers.

And they’ve made the social safety net so harsh and inadequate on purpose so that people dare not quit no matter how they’re treated at work.

They’ve enacted against Trade Unions and made striking illegal in virtually all circumstances and several of Boris Johnson’s cabinet have lauded Brexit as a glorious opportunity to deregulate employment.

With Pritti Patel and Dominic Raab who penned a book about how to scrap workers rights and called British workers the most inactive in the world and that they were too spoiled, so is that who you trust with your working rights?

And the Tory government will not retain to the European Rights Charter in the UK law after Brexit which implies they will have you by the short and curlies as a worker and they’ll be able to punish people on disability more.

The Tories are just destructive and perhaps next they’ll close all the schools in poor neighbourhoods and turn them into workhouses, after turning all the hospitals over to Donald Trump.

Perhaps they’ll double tax for zero-hour workers and trash taxes for the millionaires and make people work till they’re 90 years old and it’s going to get especially bad when Boris Johnson wins and Jeremy Corbyn might not be the most suitable option but on the other hand, he might just end up being our protector.

The election is about the next four years and Brexit will get done no matter what party wins and the Tories have been crippling and hurting the NHS for ten years while they’ve been in control and they WILL go for the kill if they win and they’ll deep more suffering on the public and then ask you to praise them for the privilege.

This is terrifying news for the feeble workers and which will no doubt be accompanied by no meal breaks at all with holiday pay being cut and Union Leaders took out and whipped every day.

But we should also bear in mind that this kind of scaremongering by the media is bad for people’s mental health because every mind matters and Boris Johnson is a bonking idiot because he couldn’t run a bath, let alone a country.

And here’s what the Tories don’t tell you with their visions of a mythical New Jerusalem built here, post-Brexit, in England’s green and pleasant land, yeah right, that will have to be paid for in hard cash.

Newton’s Third Law of Motions demonstrates there’s no such thing as a free lunch, someone always has to pay, so connect the dots and figure out who’s lined up to pay for their extraordinary adventure, why, you of course and some ideas are so absurd that only stupids can believe them.

Everything in life has to be paid for by the people, so Labour can promise whatever they like that appears beneficial to the people but we will still have to pay for it in one way or another because nothing is free.

Yet the government whether it be Conservative or Labour attempt to bribe the people, they attempted to bribe the students, then the nurses, now low paid workers, who’re next?

And then forced pay increases come back right to the door of the consumers via petrol, gas, electric, food and clothes, so let’s just say everything that we require for living but never has the government addressed the real problems in the United Kingdom, yet they’re thrilled to give our money away free all over the world.

And ultimately workers will be stripped of their rights and we’ll be back to Victorian standards in a heartbeat, just as Margaret Thatcher intended, so it’s all coming together beautifully for them now.

And we should be sick to death of Torie’s victimising sick families as they attempt to quietly cull our population and I wonder how many homeless people will die this winter? All because of the Tory cuts and the harsh benefits system.

The Conservatives and their voters are brutal, ruthless and apathetic people who have turned their backs on the sick and disabled, the proof is there for all to see with more Conservative murder in a seemingly caring society.

And who would have thought we’d have over 2,000 food banks, hundreds of zero-contract hours, families stuck on Universal Credit and big companies now forcing contracts that are more damaging than their current ones?

We are being indoctrinated by a Tory government and we’re like rodents stuck in a cage and austerity is staying and Boris Johnson and his playmates are getting fatter on the back of the poorest in society and in the end, your retirement present will be a coffin, if you make it that far, or even if pension still exists by then.

And now that food banks are here, they’ve become part of normal society, so now that it’s normal, maybe we should have our loyal MPs eat from them on a daily basis, instead of the subsidised food they get from the House of Commons restaurant and bars because food banks are degrading and they should try standing in one.

We need to build more houses so that we can resolve the housing crisis and to support the homeless. We need to find more money for the NHS, to help the overburdened and underpaid doctors and nurses.

This is all true, but where do we get this money from? Well, it will, of course, all come from the taxpayer and whoever gets to become the next Prime Minister will promise us everything they think we want to hear and that’s excellent but it will still all come from the taxpayers pocket.

Michael Gove Fudges Reply

Michael Gove fudged his response when he was asked if he could promise people wouldn’t die if the United Kingdom crashed out of the EU, only 10 days before the deadline.

But Michael Gove told MPs that he’d been instructed to increase contingency arrangements because a settlement had not been reached and Boris Johnson was ordered to write to the EU asking for an extension to the leaving date but he accompanied it with a letter to President Donald Tusk emphasising that he felt a further stay was not in Britain’s and the EU’s interest.

Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies, said ministers could not ensure that lives would not be lost if there was a no-deal, yet, Mr Gove, who was in charge of no-deal preparation, was previously explicit in ruling out deaths but then he refused to categorically rule it out.

Tracy Brabin asked Mr Gove, who’s in charge of no-deal planning if he could replicate a promise he had earlier made because she had earlier challenged him directly if he thought anyone would die because of a no-deal Brexit.

Mr Gove was unequivocal then and he was very robust in his answer, which was ‘no’, and asked if this was still the case, he spoke to the government’s preparations stating that they would ensure that there would not be any deficits or delays that the honourable lady was worried about.

On 10th October Dame Sally Davies said that the health service and everyone has worked extremely hard to prepare but that we can’t guarantee that there will not be deficits, not only of medicines but of technology and gadgets and things and that there may be deaths and that we can’t guarantee that there won’t and when asked directly if patients are at risk, she stated that they were at risk.

Parliament had the opportunity to establish a meaningful vote which would have enabled the Tories to progress smoothly to the ratification of their deal and exit, but instead, the House voted in such a way as to put an orderly exit in doubt.

But with no clear agreement in the House to ratify the Withdrawal Agreement, there was no extension granted, nevertheless, the Prime Minister believes the only way to get legislation is to browbeat and coerce MPs with the intimidation of no-deal but the Prime Minister has lost the approval of the House and he’s double-crossed the DUP and he’s taken a bulldozer to most of the procedures.

And he’s acting more in the style of the Godfather, throwing confetti at a Mafia family wedding in the way that he’s disposed of the goodwill of the House.

Of course, there have been 12,0000 plus deaths through Austerity, what’re a few more deaths and we must realise that the Tories just don’t give a damn and we have some of the cruellest politicians and they put themselves before the people they serve.

Doctors Accuse Boris Johnson Of Only Recognising NHS Crisis Because Of Election

Doctors have attacked Boris Johnson of only recognising an unprecedented NHS crisis coming this winter because of concerns it will hinder the Tories’ prospects in the General Election and the British Medical Association reprimanded ministers over the plight of the health service as the Observer published rising concerns in the Government ahead of the December 12 vote.

The criticism came as the Prime Minister met with calls to permanently ban fracking after doing a major U-turn to suspend the dubious process over earthquake concerns.

Jeremy Corbyn said that imposing the moratorium in the run-up to the vote was an election stunt after Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom announced the position could be reversed.

But, despite the criticism, numerous polls inferred that the Tories were riding high in the public’s view with a notable lead over Labour and with the first December election since 1923 approaching, Downing Street was taking contingency steps to keep the effects of winter pressures in the NHS to a minimum.

And under this Government’s watch, patients and personnel working in the NHS have endured winter after winter of congested emergency departments, long delays and pitifully low staffing levels and it shouldn’t take an election to take stock of just how serious the situation has become.

Staff have already come under intense pressure, trolley waits are at a worryingly high level, A&E targets aren’t being met and as such, the British Medical Association (BMA) predicts that the NHS is crashing towards an unprecedented crisis this winter.

Downing Street insiders, nevertheless, stated they didn’t recognise the report that an operations unit was being planned for No 10 over the seasonal pressure on the health service and two leading doctor’s groups have urged politicians not to make absurd assurances about the NHS simply to entice voters.

Boris Johnson and his chums don’t care about anyone, all they worry about is power and wealth.

There are UK citizens out there pleading for food at food banks. There are people out there who are genuinely disabled and are refused benefits to conserve money.

Women’s pension rights at 60 years old were abandoned and all migrants coming into the United Kingdom are bankrolled by these things to preserve money.

Our soldiers are homeless after tours of duty and have no help and the enemy which they encountered are in the United Kingdom with money and homes available – Tory, the party of the businessman for the businessman.

The Tories are infected, money-chasing freeloaders with no social conscience and we’ve yet to meet one with any actual ability and they’re simply connected to the previous generation of sick parasites.

And when will Boris Johnson quit going to hospitals to panic the suffering? No wonder he’s hidden away from people and sent to the research department, there’s no one to challenge him there.

And when he does go head to head with Jeremy Corbyn it will be like debating with a bullfrog on a mixture of amphetamines and Prozac, kind of like a man, manic nincompoop who can only replicate one thing, Brexit and it appears that the only time they acknowledge the NHS is when there’s a run-up to an election.

But of course, there’s nothing else left for the Tories to sell off, the NHS is their biggest asset and the Americans are waiting like ravenous dogs outside the butcher’s shop.

We mean nothing to them and our votes are a means to an end and probably your end and Boris Johnson should be squirming like a maggot on a fishing line and he should be attempting to explain to people why they can’t get certain medication due to cost, particularly when he and his Government have wasted 100 million on TV ads when they were trying to get ready for Brexit in October, which of course, never happened and instead of going around various hospitals he should be looking for a nice trench to lay in because he’s not to be believed.

And Boris Johnson is setting up the first sale sign by saying that the NHS is in dire need of funding which is unlocking the doors for the US troops to ride in as our protectors before lumping us all with private insurance and death.

The Tories only care when there’s going to be an election and they’re nothing more than an Eton mess and yes, the NHS is in crisis but it’s our NHS yet Boris Johnson can’t wait to sell it off but our NHS is not a political football to kick around.

And broken promises by this Government should mean penalties and prison time and we should be fed up with seeing various Tories touring hospitals with their sleeves up and NHS badges on show because they’re just turning hospitals into zoos and the sick patients into shop dummies.

Boris Johnson keeps telling the British people lies, it must be in his DNA not to tell the truth and the state of Britain is in neglect. The Tories have failed our country, they’ve failed the people and they’ve failed the police. They’ve failed our schools and our NHS and the Government is an outright mess.

Boris Johnson has spent 100 million telling us that we leave the EU on the 31 October but that money could have instead built five new hospitals.

Boris Johnson Claims…

Boris Johnson may claim the NHS isn’t up for grabs in any US trade deal but a former doctor fears the Prime Minister won’t be able to stop himself flogging parts of our cherished institution to private firms and he’s warned that would lead to sky-high post-Brexit treatment and prescription prices as it is, forced open to profit-hungry drugs companies and health insurance monsters.

The more we’re assured that the NHS isn’t for sale, that the NHS won’t play any part in negotiations with the United States, the more we know it will because we’ve seen Boris Johnson’s dishonesty, so why would we expect him to be good to his word about anything?

And we shouldn’t accept that the NHS won’t be part of a trade deal because let’s face it, it’s a multi-billion-pound industry and he’s not going to be able to resist putting that on the table.

In June, Donald Trump declared to the world that the NHS would be on the table in any forthcoming negotiations with post-Brexit Britain, provoking speedy denials from a flustered Boris Johnson.

That could open the door for US pharmaceutical titans to charge the NHS excessive market prices for medications.

Currently, they’re kept at bay by checks and balances which ensure health service costs are a fraction of US market prices and the British health service is free for all, unlike the American system.

This would gradually lead to it becoming a model of the US health system where citizens pay high costs for health insurance, about £7,800 a head, compared to our estimated £2,500 through taxes and those who couldn’t afford that, could pay with their well-being or even their lives.

America has a somewhat different health care design to us and we should see it as a truly scary ghost of Christmas future and people die in the United States because they can’t afford medications.

And as soon as there’s a two-tier system, people who have the least will suffer the most and ultimately, if you reduce people’s access to healthcare it will cost lives.

Donald Trump is also attempting to discard his forerunner Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, brought in to assist poor American’s.

In the run-up to the referendum, Boris Johnson repeatedly claimed the NHS could get £350 million a week more following Brexit but the system has become increasingly strained and there are now more than 100,000 openings, 10,000 fewer junior doctors than we need and more than 30,000 nurses.

But it’s no longer only cuts or forced overtime which is creating an all-out crisis, it’s the imminent threat of a no-deal Brexit and the use of the divisive language coming from Westminster, led by Boris Johnson himself which is forcing EU and foreign national workers to quit the health service because they feel unwelcome.

This is leaving gaping holes which only deliver more pressure on those left behind and a skeletal system may simply not be able to cope with a winter health crisis this year.

The NHS is on such a knife-edge at the moment because the NHS is its staff and it’s spread thinner than it’s ever been.

Boris Johnson will eventually sell off our NHS to Donald Trump because those pair are more dangerous than Arthur Daly and if our NHS is sold off people in this country won’t be able to afford private health insurance which will put their families and themselves in terrible jeopardy.

This will be the fault of the Tories, yet ordinary working people will fall for this utter madness and if the selfish greedy Tory liars happen to get a majority the NHS is gone and the NHS belongs to the people but the selfish greedy Tory liars will sell it for quick cash for them and their wealthy cronies.

Impotent Tory Posh Boy Boris Johnson

Efforts to divert attention don’t come more polluted than ashamed Boris Johnson’s election ploy and this is an incompetent Prime Minister who by his own words should be rotting in a ditch after declaring his pledge to leave the EU on Halloween is a Tory fright show.

Of course, his demands are a smokescreen to conceal his latest defeat and he’s so inept he can’t get an election or should that be an erection! And Jeremy Corbyn ordering his troops to abstain again means Boris Johnson will crash a third time to get his necessary two-thirds majority in Parliament.

Yes, Jeremy Corbyn might look like a chicken, but better that than being a turkey gambling a vote for Christmas and we should question whether the Tory Grinch wants an immediate election campaign.

The privileged Old Etonian entitled rich boy Boris Johnson wanted to have his cake and eat it, demanding Labour give him an easy timetable to deliver Brexit and that election and Jeremy Corbyn was right to hold fire and as the clocks went back on Sunday so Labour’s extensive army of foot soldiers would be neutralised as it’s dark by 5 pm and it would have been the first December clash since 1923.

And now the bold strategy is to challenge Boris Johnson’s defective Brexit and prepare for decision day next March and seen from a distance, Brexit Britain has resembled a bluebottle heaving itself at a pane of glass next to an unlocked window.

It’s been almost a year since Theresa May negotiated a way out of the European Union but the window wasn’t good enough for Leavers who thought they should smash the glass instead and on it went, buzzing and thudding, a country going nowhere in a frenzy.

Then Boris Johnson took over, promising deliverance by 31 October, do or die – Buzz, buzz, thud with exhaustion, defeat, frustration and lack of imagination which has ultimately brought Parliament to the verge of destruction.

It’s an erratic motive and MPs on all sides are trepidatious about a December vote and Christmas isn’t a traditional election period and it isn’t clear how kindly the voters will take to the concept.

Brexit has previously corroded traditional party allegiances and incentivised tactical polling and there’s no one pendulum rotating between blue and red and in 2017, polls at the start of the contest demonstrated a hopeless guide to the outcome.

Boris Johnson has no intention of repelling voters as efficiently as Theresa May did. He’s exceptionally better on the stump and the campaign he wants to run has been sitting in a Downing Street drawer for months anticipating activation, a presidential-style race against Jeremy Corbyn.

And No 10 tacticians surmise that Labour’s prospects would be magnified under any other leader but Boris Johnson also fancies his luck as the holder of a Brexit deal and safe exit out of the quagmire, when everyone else in the game offers more swamp.

But many Tories are worried about this plan and a promise to deliver Brexit isn’t the same as Brexit delivered and even Boris Johnson’s promises aren’t a high-value coin.

Even his most familiar allies hesitate to list integrity and consistency amongst his qualities and there’s also scepticism around his supposed electoral attraction and it’s never been tested in Labour heartland seats where, in speculation, Leave votes are up for grabs.

There’s also a cultural inoculation against Tories in those parts that pre-dates Brexit and in Scotland, the blustering Etonian shtick is a hindrance on a paltry Tory Brand.

Factor in a departure of pro-Europeans to the Liberal Democrats and it gets pretty hard to map Boris Johnson’s route to a majority and Jeremy Corbyn’s path is even harder, which is why many Labour MPs resisted the election and some of them further believe he’s unfit for Downing Street and dread having to pretend he should be Prime Minister, regardless of whether they believe it can happen.

The maestro himself enjoys a campaign because that’s the kind of politics he can do but Jeremy Corbyn would sooner be in a town hall, firing up the faithful with desperate warnings about Tories and the NHS than cooped up in Parliament with a convoluted Brexit position.

Labour misanthropes hypothesise that their leader would sooner fight and fail than delay, better martyrdom in the electoral campaign than suffocation in the Commons because the Corbynite faithful expect their champion’s willingness to come alive in the exhilarating air of an election.

Even Tories who believe Boris Johnson’s gamble will work acknowledge that it’s precarious because no one has a clue how a December vote will play out, which would be something to rejoice if there was also a way to believe the air would be clearer following the aftermath.

There ought to be something exciting about a roll of the democratic dice, yet there’s a depressing gloom over the whole enterprise.

Activists would sooner be pounding the streets in the spring sunlight, but winter weather isn’t going to hinder the hardcore. Furthermore, a lot of the message delivery these days is done by algorithms that don’t feel the chill and the sense of dark foreboding in Westminster isn’t meteorological.

Boris Johnson’s Britain and Jeremy Corbyn’s Britain are hugely diverse countries, on starkly diverging paths. Each one contains millions of contestants who will feel more like protesters under an antagonistic ideological regime than citizens under a government they happened not to want.

Also feasible is a Parliament in which forces are as finely tuned as they are now and few MPs expect a vote to determine the economic or political difficulties caused by the decision to leave the EU.

None thinks it will accelerate cultural agreement between those who necessitate Brexit at any price and those who want it abandoned, and the tenor of British politics in recent years hardly spurs belief that a campaign will illuminate the issues or promote a sense of understanding.

And even if headline campaign messages were positive and election law forced a vulgar perspective on broadcast communications, the uncontrolled digital platform would host a grim gladiatorial free-for-all.

The turbines of radicalisation and polarisation that inspire hyper-partisan politics on and offline are revving strong already and it’s a more haunting sound than the needling buzz of the continual Brexit stay.

And the dread of an indecisive result isn’t a reason to avoid an election and it would be unreasonable if we were only called to vote when a landslide outcome was guaranteed.

Parliament is stuck and dissolution is what the constitution prescribes to restart it but electoral uncertainty shouldn’t be cause for alarm in a mature democracy and true democrats don’t shy away from a polling booth.

However, it’s difficult to shake the fear that British politics will be even more hostile and more divided following an election campaign than it is now and no one imagines there’s a result to please everyone.

There must be winners and losers.

Democracy doesn’t require consensus, but it does require losers to accept the authority of winners and winners to recognise the legitimate concerns of losers.

That’s the quality that’s been destroyed by the past few years. The problem is not our failure to reach agreement over Brexit but the gloomy obscuration over an election is cast by the breakdown of our politics to perform in a state of civil disagreement.

So, now there’s going to be a Christmas election and Boris Johnson, Cummings and Rees Mogg are going to be the three wise men bringing cold, frank intent and murk.

Sadly, we’re shuffling the pack of cards on the off chance that we’ll get a better hand next time around and that’s the fundamental principle of democracy, living in the belief that the next batch of shysters will be slightly less rubbish than before and a vote for Boris Johnson is like buying a lottery ticket to lose your job.

And it’s easy for Boris Johnson to win, all he needs to do is drive around the country in a big red bus, with a great big lie printed on the side of it, it’s worked once already and Pandora’s Box has been opened.

And Boris Johnson should stop opportunistically trashing for political gain, he should stop cheapening with his dishonesty, hollow assurances and belligerent repetition and stop using every dishonest trick in the book to evade democratic inspection.

Nevertheless, Boris Johnson is quite fortunate in the same way that Theresa May was, by having Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the opposition.

Boris Johnson would have a rather different ride if Tony Blair was challenging him at the dispatch box but of course, we shouldn’t be knocking Jeremy Corbyn, there are some aspects of his character that we should admire.

However, Jeremy Corbyn isn’t charismatic, he’s not dynamic, he’s humourless, he’s terrible at handling the media and the press and he’s not a player and this matters a lot during an election campaign.

Boris Johnson will probably do well at the General Election and he’ll clean up all of the Brexit Party votes and he’ll mop up the Labour Leave votes.

He’ll also have the full strength of the Conservative party behind him and most of the British press, certainly the zealous right-wing press who will be pitiless against Jeremy Corbyn.

That’s a sizeable advantage and Jo Swinson and the LibDems could become the next opposition which suggests that Boris Johnson could still be remaining as Prime Minister.

Keith Vaz Set To Be Suspended For 6 Months

Disgraced MP Keith Vaz faces the longest Commons suspension of all time after he met two prostitutes while chairing the Home Affairs Committee and the damaging report said that the Labour grandee must face a six-month postponement from Parliament more than three years after the embarrassment was revealed.

The Commons Standard Committee declared the 62 years old displayed disregard for the law by showing readiness to buy cocaine in a rendezvous with two sex workers who he told ‘We need to get this party started’.

And MPs ruled that his actions were a particularly grave violation of the Code of Conduct which states members must not harm the reputation and integrity of the Commons and the Committee rejected his outlandish claims of amnesia as it savaged him for failing repeatedly to clarify questions and MPs dismissed his request a transcript and recording were unreliable following forensic examination.

And if agreed by MPs, the prohibition will trigger a recall petition against the disgraced MP, which will enable voters to force a by-election booting him out of office.

The Committee further took the unusual step of demanding that Mr Vaz is excluded from a former MP pass that would let him wander Parliament at will if he stands down.

The MP described himself to the two men as a washing machine salesperson called Jim, yet he told an investigation that the object of his meeting with the two men was not to engage in paid sex but to discuss the internal design of his flat.

And in a statement, Mr Vaz’s office announced that Keith Vaz had been treated for a serious mental health condition for the last three years as a consequence of the events of 27th August 2016 and he’s now shared all the medical reports in confidence with the Committee.

And he has nothing more to say on this subject other than what was said in his verbal and written statements to the Committee and the Commissioner.

The report confirmed that the Metropolitan Police had chosen not to continue with a case against Mr Vaz, despite two referrals.

The incident was reported to the House of Commons officials three years ago and the matter has stretched over the tenures of two separate Standards Commissioners but the inquiry was repeatedly delayed by the two police referrals, which didn’t lead to a prosecution, the 2017 election and Mr Vaz’s ill health.

MPs took the extraordinary decision to redact delicate information from the MP’s doctors about the precise nature of his continuing poor health and while accepting that Mr Vaz’s well-being has still not entirely recovered, the report is scathing.

It stated “it is more likely than not that Mr Vaz has engaged in paid sexual activity”, continuing: “We are satisfied from the evidence we have considered that Mr Vaz did on 27 August 2016 offer to procure and pay for illegal drugs for use by a third party.”

The report added: “He has not ‘co-operated at all stages’ with the investigation process”.

Mr Vaz had failed, repeatedly, to respond to direct inquiries and he has given sketchy explanations and his account has, in parts, been unbelievable and he’d not given a complete and detailed account of the relevant events.

According to the report, Mr Vaz offered several alternative and conflicting suggestions on what had transpired and he suggested variously that the men were called over to discuss redesigning his flat, and that they were sent there to entrap him.

And that he developed amnesia after his drink was spiked, that the recording of the incident was falsified and that no sexual activity took place.

The report stated: “It is difficult, to put it mildly, to see how all these separate defences could simultaneously be true.”

The report rejects allegations that the Sunday Mirror had ensnared Mr Vaz and it stated that Mr Vaz had not provided compelling or credible proof to prove that they forced or provoked him to act in a way that was out of character or inconsistent with past conduct.

It was almost certainly true that the conversation was being driven by the two men but there was no proof to suggest that Mr Vaz was being steered in directions he was reluctant to go.

It, however, concluded that he breached section 16 of the 2015 House of Commons Code of Conduct, which declares that members shall never undertake any activity which would cause meaningful harm to the character or integrity of the House of Commons as a whole, or of its Members generally and Mr Vaz’s behaviour was a very serious violation of the Code.

But Keith Vaz could avoid his suspension from Parliament thanks to the general election being called which suggests that Keith Vaz could be on a course to avoid his punishment as he will be permitted to stand again at the election and his proposed suspension will be withdrawn if he’s re-elected.

This would mean that he effectively would avoid any punishment, except for the committee’s proposal that when he ceases to be an MP that he’s not given a former member’s pass.

Mr Vaz, who sits on Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee, has already been re-adopted as the party’s candidate in his Leicester East constituency but given the incriminating report and his approach to parliamentary rules, he should lose the Labour whip and be unfit to stand as anything other than an independent.

And according to Keith Vaz, that night with the two rent boys was all a terrible misunderstanding and if the Labour party have even the slightest remains of respectability they wouldn’t back this man. So, either they no longer care or fear information he has on them as otherwise there isn’t any way that the Labour party would support this man, who has more skeletons in his closet than a medical school, to continue as a Member of Parliament.

How many get out of jail free cards does this slimebag need? He’s been up to no good for years and constantly uses ill health to get off and if he gets re-elected then his constituents are total fools and should be detained along with this treasonous meat sack and surely his constituents if they have any morals will jettison this guy.

But then if this guy had any morals he wouldn’t be standing for election because this is a confirmed liar who’s prepared to make up absurd tales to get himself out of trouble and yet he will still be voted back in by the red rosette brigade and if anything confirms the deception of Labour it’s this man.

Women on Universal Credit Left Selling Sex For £5

Women on Universal Credit have been left so desperate that they selling sex for just £5 and MPs have been warned that women are turning to prostitution to survive due to the five-week wait for their benefits to be paid.

But a Government enquiry by the Work and Pensions Committee has discovered a fundamental design flaw in the policy and the committee is now asking the Government to withdraw the five-week wait at the start of their claim.

One woman affected by Universal Credit stated that she was thinking of going back on the streets because the last six months of her life had gone down the drain.

She had gone out of prostitution and got guidance on how to apply for benefits and was just about managing but then she was transferred over to Universal Credit.

She got less money but was still managing, but then she got a letter in the mail saying that she was no longer entitled to Universal Credit because she was an EU Citizen and that she had to apply for settled status.

She added that it was difficult to live with no money and she felt she had no alternative but to sell herself and if women are selling themselves for a fiver it’s not because they’re working for an escort company but then this is all down to Ester McVey who was pretty satisfied with herself to save a few quid by coming with these ideals to punish people.

But then when you see articles like this concerning benefits and this Government’s war on them, you can wager the variety of posts you’ll get which are frequently harsh, indifferent and sometimes plain cruel, so welcome to Britain! But then I guess it makes people feel better about themselves and their own ordinary monotonous lives if they’ve got someone to look down on.

And I hope Iain Duncan Smith is enjoying his state handout known as a landowners subsidy, along with the Duke of Westminster and all the other wealthy men and women who are entitled to it – curious how they never get labelled as scroungers.

But then there are people out there that are stating that if you can’t afford children, then just don’t have them because why should the taxpayer pay for other people’s children? But then we’ll cheerfully pay whenever another Royal pops out another baby and not only that, we’ll glorify it as well.

But what some people don’t understand, benefit is not only for the unemployed, there are millions of workers who claim Working Tax Credit which is designed to top up your earnings if you work and are on a low salary.

Nevertheless, it’s being superseded by Universal Credit and most people now have to claim Universal Credit instead and it’s a really great way of pulling the wool over other people’s eyes to make them believe that that said person is on Universal Credit because they’re on benefits when in fact that said person is working but on a low salary.

Brexit: Government Stands Down Operation Yellowhammer

No-deal planning was entirely scaled back on Monday night after hundreds of civil servants returned to their day jobs from full-time operations centres across the country and it’s understood that Operation Yellowhammer was stood down after the EU granted a three-month extension.

Operation Brock, designed to handle traffic gridlock on the M20 which leads to Kent’s ports of Folkestone and Dover, came into force around 6 am but the plan restricting trucks to 30 mph wasn’t expected to be dismantled until at least Wednesday because of the time required to remove the barriers.

Monday, Downing Street confirmed a £100 million advertising campaign around the 31 October departure date was being put on hold but couldn’t confirm how much of the budget had been used and sources said that despite the changes, no-deal preparations remained in place.

Overall the government has spent at least roughly £2 billion or about £30 per person on no-deal preparations up till now and business grudgingly embraced the extension but mourned the ongoing lack of certainty and many have been forced to shell out thousands of pounds to prepare for no-deal only for there to be another extension.

For countless small firms, extensions are double-edged swords and they may safeguard against the damage of a no-deal Brexit but they additionally lengthen doubt without really eliminating the potential of a no-deal further down the road.

And these firms have been starved of certainty, pounding down the hatches for a possible no-deal that would have crippled almost 40 per cent of its members and all this has done is cause them to quit making business decisions.

They’ve quit hiring staff, they’ve stopped investing and they’ve stopped growing and the UK can’t waver on the edge of Brexit indefinitely as Brexit’s uncertainty proceeds to take its toll on retail businesses and the three million retail jobs that exist today.

This extension doesn’t allow time for complacency and Parliament must pledge to resolve Brexit once and for all. However, firms will be relieved that common sense has prevailed and a damaging no-deal exit has been circumvented this year.

But uncertainty continues to be high, and it’s important this time that the additional time leads to a deal because all politicians must break the gridlock and let the country move on but then the economic evidence must be the guiding light as the UK’s future involvement with the EU develops.

Firms are keen to see commitments to regulatory alignment, frictionless trade and the UK’s all-important services sector, shielding the UK market over the longer duration.

The Tories seem to think they’ve got a money tree in their allotment and if they do believe in this money tree of theirs, at least they could do is use the money where it’s needed and not spend it on things that could have waited.

And this country that used to be great is no longer great and hasn’t been for years and those people that have rose coloured glasses on believe we still rule the world, well we don’t and we need to work together with others to be able to survive and we need to take those rose coloured glasses off and have a proper look at what things are actually like.

What we need is to work with our closest neighbours to be able to get ahead now and to quit spending money and time because we no longer own anything and all our chief industries have been sold off by the Tories.

And they will never leave, democracy has been hijacked, the people have been deceived and the United Kingdom is a laughing stock and we the people have been stabbed in the back.

And speaking as a time served proletariat myself, I too have been stabbed in the back by ten cruel years of a harsh Tory class war waged against us under the semblance of austerity, a concept foreign to the wealthy.

And according to the Prime Minister, it’s costing the country £1 billion a month and Brexit is the Tory’s baby, they hatched the monster, brought it to life and then bred and raised the deformity and they own its entirety and to try and condemn everyone and anyone else for this unfolding tragedy is ridiculous but then they simply want us to walk silently like convicted men to the scaffold, I don’t think so.

Universal Credit Staff Taped Making Disgusting Comments About Claimants

Benefits managers have been caught on tape making horrifying remarks about claimants and one advocated blowing them up with grenades, another accused them of getting money for nothing while the disabled were accused of faking it.

And in one disturbing recorded conversation, a manager said: “The police sometimes have sting operations where they gather people together.

“We should nominate one person to throw a grenade in.”

Another reveals a case manager railing at claimants, who can be out of work because of ill health.

They rant: “It does my head in. They’re getting something for nowt, they don’t really have to do a great deal to get it. They still whinge.”

Another said they “have absolutely no time” for claimants with depression and anxiety.

A regular caller with four children, including one who is seriously disabled, is branded a **** after a call.

One manager questions: “Has she got a disabled child?” before another says: “She’s not disabled. She acts it.”

Benefits charities were appalled at the tapes, passed to the Sunday Mirror by a whistleblower and Jamie Grier, of the benefits, support charity Turn2us, said that stigmatising people undergoing financial crisis was divisive and wrong.

And the Liberal Democrat’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Tim Farron added that this sort of language and behaviour was nothing short of heartless and that the Conservatives had created a noxious environment originating from social security cuts that have left thousands unable to afford the basics.

Department for Work and Pensions Staff were taped making the smears working at a call centre in the Midlands where they complained of balancing 700 cases each and said despised Universal Credit is a nightmare to grasp and one stated that they didn’t know what they were doing half the bloody time.

Universal Credit merges existing benefits to simplify them but has been slammed after deaths arising mistakes or delayed payments and the whistleblower stated that these people hold claimants with thinly-veiled disdain.

And they become so ground down by the scale of the work they give up being nice and they strive to exceed the other in all the nasty things they say and the Sunday Mirror is not publishing the recordings to preserve the anonymity of the whistleblower, who fears retaliation from the DWP if their identity was discovered.

And the DWP has said that the Sunday Mirror had not presented them with the recording, or any additional details so they were therefore at this stage unable to confirm the origin of the recording but that they were however very concerned by the allegations and were taking them seriously.

And that they would urgently investigate the matter, so far as they could with the limited information that they had and that where wrongdoing has been identified, they would take suitable disciplinary action.

In fact, we should be saving the disdain for rich people who pay limited to no taxes and the wealthy corporations that get corporate welfare, subsidies, bailouts et cetera because the above-entitled entities are playing those who are not rich, pitting the poor against each other, so that the poor, including the working poor, will not unite and rise against the people and corporations who are schtuping them over.

Hopefully, these people will never get anxiety and depression because then they will sadly see that it isn’t a joke and that it’s a nightmare to live with.

The bedroom tax has always been unjust, immoral and unfair and to be clear about this tax, a person doesn’t have to pay the bedroom tax if they pay rent in full without the help of benefits, and it appears it’s only those who receive benefits that has to pay.

If you have a child who lives half time with the other parent, then you pay bedroom tax, if you have a disabled child who doctors state requires a separate bedroom space or if you have a girl and boy both under 13 years old, that is you have two children, then you have to pay bedroom tax – this is an unjust tax.

And the Tories have always been ready to waste our money to support their ideological onslaught on the disadvantaged and this makes no sense when housing is not available and they’re not offered other accommodation and it’s merely another excuse to fleece the poor.

Perhaps the Queen should pay the bedroom tax, she has loads of rooms to spare. Think of how many rooms she has spare and that she could help the homeless with, after all, she lives in London and has 52 bedrooms, all funded by the taxpayer.

She also has various other houses with multi bedrooms. Balmoral, Sandringham, Osborne House, Kensington Palace, Edinburgh Castle and Windsor Castle and yet she’s never mentioned when it comes to taxpayers money, although Balmoral and Sandringham are not publicly funded.

Although some people might tell you that we shouldn’t be having a pop at the Queen and that she’s an asset to this country’s finances and yes, they might be right, after all, no tourist ever came to see me, they come to see the Queen and her Palaces which of course, does aid to attract millions of tourists to London every year, although they won’t get to see the Royals unless they’re going to stand continually at Buckingham Palace and wave at them all day, perhaps that’s what excites them, the Royal wave.

But the fool and their money will quickly be parted where tourists to old Blighty are concerned because this is the land of Rip Off.

And according to O’Donovan and The Times, the hardest working royal in the monarchy goes to Princess Royal Anne, Prince Charle’s sister. In 2018, the 68-year-old Anne attended 447 engagements in the United Kingdom and 71 overseas.

Of course, the Queen isn’t on benefits, she doesn’t have to be, she’s paid by the taxpayer, but the point is, why does this woman require so many bedrooms and why does she need so many homes?

And why is the taxpayer funding them? Well, of course, Buckingham Palace is not owned by the Queen, it’s not the private property of the Queen, it’s just somewhere that she resides while she’s the Queen and it’s held in trust by Crown Estates for future generations.

But it’s shameful that the taxpayer has to be made to suffer so that we can finance the Crown Estates, after all, we come into this world with nothing and we were not genetically engineered to believe that we had fund this but once we’re born we’re conditioned to believe that we have to. Why? It’s not like she’s the air that we breathe or the water that we drink!

As for being an asset, there’s some scepticism about the money that she brings into this country against what the taxpayer has to pay and people come to see the taxpayer-funded palace, not her and the palaces will still be here when she’s gone.

And if she’s an asset to our country, then so are all the people that live in this country because most of us give something back, whether we have worked all our lives, served in the forces, or volunteered at some point in our lives and all of us have served, we serve the Queen by paying our taxes to the Crown Estates.

The bedroom tax is a shameful and sickening attack on the poor, elderly and vulnerable with the assessments of a health assessor overriding medical consultants at DWP meetings, meaning that the sick and vulnerable are being pronounced fit to work when not fit to do so and this has to end.

And Boris Johnson will soon be rid of the European Court of Human Rights, so the poor can just die without a voice but then that would suit him and his oppressive friends but then the bedroom tax has always been an excuse for the Tories to steal from the poor and those people should not be charged more unless they’ve been offered suitable housing and this bedroom tax is almost like we’ve been raped, stalked and brutalised.

Our benefits system is funded by all of us for when we need it but the bedroom tax was never about benefits, it’s about charging people more for having additional bedrooms even when suitable housing is not accessible and it’s Torie’s justification to rob the poor.

Number Ten doesn’t come with a spare bedroom tax nor all the other housing held by Royals and others owned by the people, this is simply aimed at the poor and it’s being robbed by those who have more than enough already.

This is simply a sad tax from the sad Tory government and it should be torn up because it’s an unfair strain on Council Tenants and its an insulting tax plucked from thin air from a Government with no thought to the suffering it would cause like a vast number of their ideas and this tax should be repealed.

And it might have seemed reasonable on paper but the thing is there were never enough places to downsize to and most people who’ve lived in their homes all their lives and have brought children up in that said home because all of their memories are there and they don’t want to relocate and leave their memories behind.

This might seem a tad sentimental to those with no compassion and have the funds to up sticks and relocate whenever they want, well that’s just dandy, but a number of these people who’ve brought up their families and their children have now left home are too exhausted to up sticks and move because our government deemed it fit to do so.

Then you’ve got someone who’s lived in their council house for over 50 years, worked and paid rent all their life, a generation that owed nothing to anybody and that person if you count up all the rent they paid has kind of bought their home many times over, so why should they be forced to pay more because their family have either died or grown up and moved out?

Pensioners are of course, exempt from paying the bedroom tax but because pension age has gone up dramatically there are some people still paying bedroom tax that would have not have done so before pension age went up.

Cancer Sufferer Has Benefits Axed

A cancer victim who was given months to live claims she has had her benefits terminated because she’s survived longer than anticipated.

Single mum Kathy Hall says she has always sought to fight her disease but feels like she’s being punished and says she now feels like she’s deteriorating and is a hostage in her own home.

Kathy Hall was told she had only six months to a year to live in 2016 when she was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Yet in August this year, the 44-year-old was assessed at home and considered eligible to work despite experiencing severe headaches and lethargy and Kathy’s disease makes her forgetful and causes her speech to slur.

The former charity shop manager is now in despair as she has lost £140 per week from her Personal Independence Payment (PIP) when it was discontinued just after the assessment.

She now struggles to get by on Universal Credit, providing her and her 17-year-old son, Luke Godden, whose in full-time education, at their home in Buxton, Derbyshire and Kathy Hall, whose a keen car enthusiast said that she’s always tried to fight her cancer because she didn’t just want to give in and die.

She wants to fight to live for herself and her son and her doctors have told her to remain positive and to get out and exercise, so every day she takes her dog, Stewie, out for a stroll to get out in the fresh air, and she and her son are doing their best to spend time together on good days, going to car shows that they love, to make memories together.

But now she’s being penalised for this and she said that as far as the DWP are concerned she’s lived far too long for their liking and because of this, she now feels that she’s getting worse and is now suffering from her pain and her mood.

Kathy Hall was diagnosed with a grade four tumour after complaining of headaches and falling in and out of consciousness while on holiday in Wales two and a half years ago.

She was taken for an MRI scan which found her brain was being crushed by fluid between her skull and her brain.

An emergency helicopter rushed her to Salford where the fluid was drained off and surgery removed 95 per cent of the tumour on her brain and she was then given between six months and a year to live.

She had daily radiotherapy at The Christie in Manchester for six weeks as well as rounds of chemotherapy.

She said: “I’m a very strong person and I refused to let it beat me.”

And she would love to be able to work and once she had her diagnosis she continued to work for two days a week, although working part-time ended up losing her managerial post but at the end that proved challenging and it was difficult to maintain those two days.

Her consultant accepts that she can’t work. She is dying of cancer and even though at the moment her cancer is stable, anything could occur at any time because it’s still there and now she’s worried that all this stress will make her lose her fight.

The DWP stated that people with a terminal diagnosis, such as Kathy Hall, are given the higher rate of PIP allowance for a specific period of time but what that means is as long as you die.

Kathy Hall was assessed in the summer by the DWP and they have stated that her consultant reports state that her prognosis has changed and that her PIP needs to reflect this, that’s seemingly because they believed she would be dead by now.

Apparently, the DWP is committed to ensuring disabled people and those with health conditions get the support they’re entitled to, well, obviously not because now they believe that because Kathy Hall is still alive and has lived longer than expected they don’t have to help her anymore.

Are the DWP that stupid as they make themselves out to be. This woman has cancer and she’s trying to stay as positive as possible, not only for herself but for her son and wants to make as many memories for him as possible. She has cancer of the brain and the DWP are acting like it’s nothing.

This lady has terminal brain cancer, it’s not like it’s going to swiftly go away and the pain that it causes makes it difficult to concentrate on the simple things and even the chemotherapy that this lady has had would have decreased the number of white blood cells produced by the bone marrow which can have a significant impact on the immune system and which diminishes your body’s resistance against infection during and following treatment.

But then the DWP will try anything to avoid paying the suffering what is due and it’s shameful but then that’s the government for you and they treat disabled people like they’re a burden to society.

This has caused her stress and it’s victimisation which is cruel but then I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the purpose of denying her money and this is sickening and just because she’s not dead yet, that doesn’t negate her disease and this is a prime illustration of the brutality under the evilest Tory government and welfare department in living memory.

But this is beyond just evil at this point, it’s a holocaust and it doesn’t get much crueller than this and what’s worse is this poor lady has been told it’s the correct decision, fewer benefits because she’s lived longer than they thought.

The DWP is designed and staffed by sociopaths who have no shame or compassion and presumably they want her to die so there’ll be more cash for the next Royal wedding.

This lady still has cancer, it’s simply dormant but that could change at any time and knowing you have cancer and could die at any time is like a death sentence hanging over your head and this really shows the lack of understanding in the system and she’s still ill and PIP should be paying her something.

But the whole point of this is that they’ve stopped her PIP because she’s overstayed her welcome on this earth and it’s called Personal Independence Payment for a reason, but what people fail to understand is that when people are refused their PIP, their independence is taken away from them.

This government are monsters towards the disabled and ageing and it’s appalling but then who’s to say that any other government will do things differently or not, they might even attempt to reduce the ever-growing welfare benefits bill.

It’s wrong and should be stopped but it’s reached the stage that you can’t trust any politician to be honest and fair and this is what happens when we allow ourselves to be governed by insane, cruel, thick-witted Tory government but these are the outcomes that the Tories want, and punishing the have-nots is what gets them up in the morning.

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