THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

UK MP Debbie Abrahams Denied Admission To India

A Labour MP sparked a diplomatic incident after being denied admission to India.

Debbie Abrahams said she felt like a criminal after she was put in a deportee cell and bodily marched onto a return flight when officials said she didn’t have a legitimate visa.

The Labour MP who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Kashmir and has been critical of the Indian government said she was being deported and she said it was shocking.

A Foreign Office minister raised the matter formally with India’s High Commissioner and a Foreign Office spokesperson said that they were in touch with the Indian officials and that Lord Ahmad has spoken with the Indian High Commissioner to understand why Deborah Abrahams MP was refused admission to India.

Kashmir is disputed by India and Pakistan and last year Debbie Abrahams said a legal change by the Indian government betrayed the trust of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

And speaking from her seat on the plane, the MP stated that she wouldn’t be surprised if the decision was to do with her association with the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG).

India’s High Commission in London kicked back, insisting that Deborah Abrahams did not have a visa to visit India and her denial was nothing to do with her work on the APPG.

The Labour MP stated that she landed at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi international airport with her Parliamentary aide Harpreet Uppal.

Debbie Abrahams stated that she wanted to pay a private visit to her sister in law’s cousin and aunt, who recently lost a family member, in Delhi, before then going with Harpreet Uppal to Pakistan for an official appointment with the APPG.

She said she had got her visa to visit India last October and that it was valid for a whole year. But when she gave it to a border officer, she said, he was looking on his screen and began shaking his head and going ‘no, no, no’, and said that her visa had been denied.

She said the gentleman left with her passport for about 10 minutes before returning and stating she wouldn’t be allowed into India.

Debbie Abrahams gave the copy of her visa on her phone but maintained the officer was then rude and aggressive, telling her to follow him.

She said that she was getting a little bit frightened and she didn’t know where he was taking her or what was going to happen. So, she said that she wanted to know what was happening, but then he yelled at her to follow him and she told him not to speak to her like that.

He took her and her aide to what could only be defined as a holding area, a fenced-off cordoned area, with two signs saying deportee cell and he told them to sit down and wait but she refused to sit down because she wanted as many people as possible to see her. After all, she didn’t know what was going to happen to her.

She said she asked to apply for a visa on arrival but was told she wouldn’t be allowed in. By this point, she said there were about five officials, some of which were remorseful and didn’t know what was going on.

She said that she felt like a criminal, being accompanied everywhere with security watchdogs, who made her sit in a transit lounge for an hour being watched and asked all sorts of details which she declined to co-operate on.

The MP spoke out about the revocation of article 370, a law which gave Kashmir a level of autonomy, by the Indian government.

She wrote to India’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and stated that the unilateral decision made by the Government of India to withdraw Article 370 betrayed the trust of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, dating back to the accession of 1947.

And she continued in her letter that it was particularly worrying that this would heighten tensions in an area where there are already reported issues of violence, aggression and human rights violations.

Debbie Abrahams was put on a flight to return to Dubai where she would then take her connecting flight to Pakistan. She was physically marched to the plane and still didn’t have her passport until just before take-off.

Vishwesh Negi, Minister in command of Press and Political Affairs at India’s High Commission in London, dismissed the refusal was to do with Deborah Abraham’s work on Kashmir.

He stated that she was insisting she had a visa and they’re saying that she didn’t have a visa and so it was her version against their version and Vishwesh Negi said that the MP could not get a visa on entry because it’s not available to UK passengers.

When asked to verify his position and questioned if her refusal was anything to do with her work on the APPG, Kashmir, or her visit to Pakistan, he stated that it wasn’t and that she had not been banned from India forever and could apply for a visa in the future.

It’s India’s choice who they deport and who they don’t, but it’s quite right to highlight the fact that their country is not open enough to allow the entry of people who are discerning of their government, and that was Debbie Abraham’s rightful voice and it appears that the current Indian government is quite right-wing and a somewhat offensive set of people that are currently in power there.

They said that Debbie Abraham’s had no visa and it is their word against hers and quite honestly it should have been investigated and if it had been established that she didn’t have a valid visa, then they owe her an apology, and if it was discovered that she didn’t have a visa, then certainly she should scolded for not having one.

It appears that India has effective restrictions on keeping out political dissidents who meddle in their sovereign country’s affairs and why was she spending taxpayers money on visiting her family? But then this entire madness is just part of the swamp.

But then, is she right? If India and Pakistan spent the £600,000000 we give each year, on the needy, instead of buying weaponry from the capitalists in this country, they wouldn’t want to migrate to other country’s.

However, when you bad mouth a country, is she not surprised they did not greet her with open arms? And she was somewhat naive if she didn’t realise, when you fight injustice, injustice is likely to fight back but still, the reporting of this story is plausibly worth more than her planned trip.

THE ARRON BANKS CHAOTIC TRIUMPH

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As the sun came up in London on June 24, 2016, Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore were strolling through Westminster, the political district of London, smoking cigarettes and swigging champagne from a bottle.

The shock outcome of the referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union had just been announced. Leave had won.

Arron Banks is an entrepreneur whose wealth comes essentially from owning insurance companies and he’d financed and led the most militant wing of the Leave campaign, Leave.EU and he’d given or loaned a sum of thirteen million dollars to numerous anti-EU causes.

In Britain, campaign spending laws have historically been extremely stringent and donations modest by American standards and Arron Bank’s offerings are believed to constitute the most generous sum ever given by a person to a political campaign.

He’s one of the self-styled bad boys of Brexit and he made history by giving the largest donations in British political history to the Leave.EU campaign and he’s worth anything between £100 million and £250 million and gave a reported £12 million in cash, loans and services to pro-Brexit causes.

Arron Banks was born in 1966 in Northwich, Cheshire and educated at private schools and he’s credited and condemned in equal measure for bankrolling Brexit and the foundation of his immense fortune is shrouded in mystery.

He co-founded the Brightside insurance firm and established the brokers Go Skippy, but much of his money is held offshore in Belize, the Isle of Man, the British Virgin Islands and Gibraltar, making interpretation tricky.

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And the source of some of the money he donated to Leave.EU was subject to investigation by the Electoral Commission, which investigated donations worth £2.3 million, to access whether Arron Banks was the actual source of the funds.

The National Crime Agency began an inquiry into the questionable insurance magnate over concerns he wasn’t the true source of the money he spent on the drive for Brexit and Arron Banks who funded the Leave.EU campaign was referred to the NCA by election watchdogs, along with Leave.EU chief executive Liz Bilney.

The Electoral Commission stated Arron Banks and Liz Bilney gave inadequate explanations about the £8 million worth of financial transactions to the Better For The Country organisation, which ran Leave.EU’s referendum campaign and who received money on its behalf and funded its referendum expenses.

It said it had just grounds to suspect that the pair intentionally hid and attempted to conceal the actual happenings of that money, which the group alleged had come from Arron Banks only.

The law is that loans and donations to registered campaigners can only come from certain sanctioned sources, which primarily prohibits overseas or foreign funding from any resulting impermissible influence on the outcome of the EU Referendum.

The Electoral Commission inquiry centred on loans calculating £8 million contributed to Better for the Country Limited and Leave.EU and on 17 October 2018, the National Crime Agency accepted a referral from the Electoral Commission of possible crimes under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA) and potential shortcomings under company law.

The referral from the Electoral Commission covered the following named persons and entities:

Better for the Country Limited
Leave.EU
Arron Banks
Elizabeth Bilney

In its published referral (1 November 2018) the Electoral Commission said it had reasonable grounds to suspect that Arron Banks was not the real source of the £8 million loans made to Better for the Country Limited and Leave.EU.

Loans to Better for the Country Limited on behalf of Leave.EU involved a non-qualifying or impermissible company, Rock Holdings Limited, which was incorporated in the Isle of Man.

And that Arron Banks and Ms Bilney and others involved in Better for the Country Limited, Leave.EU and associated companies concealed the true details of those financial transactions and that various criminal offences may have been perpetrated.

Arron Bank’s Leave.EU campaign team met with Russian embassy officials as many as 11 times in the run-up to the EU referendum and the two months beyond, documents seen by a media agency suggest it was seven more times than Arron Banks admitted.

The same documents suggest the Russian embassy extended a further four invitations to Brexit’s biggest funder, but it’s not known if they were accepted and it had been the third time the number of such meetings had been revised upwards.

For two years, Arron Banks maintained his only contact with the Russian government consisted of one debauched lunch with the Russian ambassador but it was reported that he had many meetings at which he had been offered profitable business deals.

And when Arron Banks was pressed, he revealed the fourth meeting but evidence suggested that there were at least seven more and when he was challenged about this, he submitted no response.

A leader of the Leave.EU campaign proposed conveying a message of support to the Russian ambassador after the then foreign secretary made a speech that was critical of Russia.

The material also appears to show that Andy Wigmore, spokesperson for the Leave.EU campaign and the business partner of Arron Banks, the biggest funder of Brexit, passed confidential legal papers to high-ranking officials at the Russian embassy and then denied it to parliament.

The documents related to George Cottrel, an aide to Nigel Farage who was with him on the campaign trail for Donald Trump in July 2016. George Cottrel was arrested by the FBI and indicted with 21 counts of money laundering, bribery and wire fraud.

Arron Banks and Mr Wigmore seem to have misled parliament and what we need to know is why and it does make you question what side they were on.

In September 2013, Arron Banks was the man that bought Brexit, so was he in trouble?

For two years, financial regulators in Gibraltar had been scrutinising his insurance under-writer, Southern Rock and they’d found it was keeping reserves far below what was needed.

This was a serious dilemma because Arron Banks claimed he’d already provided £40 million to plug the hole and he also told the regulator he’d step down as director but had since been required to find an eye-watering £60 million in additional funding.

A year later, those financial problems seem to have disappeared and Arron Banks had started acquiring diamond mines, investing millions into chemical companies and wealth management firms, setting up loss-making political consultancies and most famous of all, funding the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP).

One question remains though. If Arron Banks was in such a tight spot in September 2013, how did he manage to be so generous the following year?

MPs asked for the police and parliament to examine the links between the millionaire Brexit donor Arron Banks and the Russian government after it surfaced that he’d met the Kremlin’s ambassador in the United Kingdom three times, rather than the once he originally maintained.

With the pressure mounting on Arron Banks to reveal his relationships with Moscow through and after the EU referendum campaign, he faced a deferred hearing before the digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS) select committee, which investigates fraudulent news.

As well as his encounters with the Russian ambassador Alexander Yakovenko, leaked emails revealed that he shared at least one phone number for the Trump transition team with the Russians and he was offered the opportunity to engage in a potentially profitable gold-mining venture in Russia.

The emails further revealed that Arron Banks visited Russia in February 2016 and was invited for a further meeting with another Russian embassy official in August 2016 and Labour MP Stephen Kinnock asked Scotland Yard to launch a criminal investigation based on an in-depth forensic look into the Kremlin connection.

But the murky funding arrangements of the supposed grassroots Leave.EU campaign raises questions about who was paying to influence major constitutional issues.

The funds came from Arron Banks, Wigmore and Tice but that’s all the detail we have and we don’t know if the funds came from overseas. These men do, however, have some impressive connections.

Arron Banks who’s married to Katya, formerly Ekaterina Paderina, a Russian who was married to a Portsmouth seaman twice her age in the 1990’s but was investigated over her allegations of a fake marriage.

She was reportedly spared with the help of the then local MP, Mike “Handy” Hancock, who she described as a nice person. Hancock was then linked to a succession of young Russian ladies, one of whom was accused by MI5 of spying.

The pro-Brexit campaign group, Leave.EU also falsified a viral video and appeared to have staged photos of migrants shortly before the EU referendum, and an investigation by Channel 4 News discovered that pictures purporting to show migrants attacking young women in London appear to have been staged.

The group, backed by businessman Arron Banks, was also behind a fraudulent video, alleging to show how simple it is for migrants to sneak into Britain but in actuality, satellite data shows the men on board had not left UK waters and this shows you, folks, that you can’t believe everything that you see and hear and you can’t ever be certain if its fake rubbish you’re being fed.

The images and video both involved an ex SAS soldier, Jonathan Pollen, who worked for Arron Bank’s corporate intelligence agency and even though the photos were never used, the bogus video went viral, garnering hundreds of thousands of views on Facebook, and reacting to the investigation Arron Banks cited Channel 4 News journalists of generating fake news themselves.

The Metropolitan police took no further action against the Leave.EU campaign for spending offences in the Brexit referendum, despite admitting that it broke the law and in a statement, the Met decided that there was inadequate evidence to support further investigation of the group, which was set up by the insurance businessman Arron Banks.

And they stated that whilst it was apparent that there were some technical breaches of electoral law by Leave.EU in respect of the spending return submitted for their campaign, there was insufficient evidence to justify any further criminal investigation.

It further added that Leave.EU’s responsible person for legal purposes was Liz Bilney, a business associate of Arron Banks but that she would also face no further police action.

The investigation was launched after the Electoral Commission decided in May 2018 that the group had committed multiple breaches of electoral spending law throughout the EU referendum and fined it £70,000.

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Arron Banks was also criticised after he appeared to wish harm upon Greta Thunberg as the 16-year-old activist set sail across the Atlantic on a two-week excursion in a zero-carbon yacht.

The contentious Brexit backer warned the teenager that freak yachting accidents do happen in August when he responded to a tweet by Green party MP Caroline Lucas who said Greta Thunberg was carrying an important message to the UN that time was running out to address the climate emergency.

His remarks sparked outrage amongst MPs, celebrities and academics, but he defended the comment in a series of late-night tweets in which he blamed lefties of having no sense of humour.

Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi was amongst the first to reprimand the ex UKIP donor and pay tribute to the work Greta Thunberg had done to boost awareness around the imminent ecological crisis.

Johnson and Cummings Face Backlash

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Boris Johnson faces mounting requests to launch an ethics inquiry into a top aide who dramatically fired a young adviser to the Chancellor.

Dominic Cummings faces a turbulent backlash over his removal of 27-year-old Treasury aide Sonia Khan.

The special advisor, who before worked for pro-EU Philip Hammond, was escorted out of 10 Downing Street by armed police officers after she was accused of talking to critics of the Prime Minister.

Now Tory and Labour MPs, along with a former Scotland Yard officer are asking for a formal inquiry by Whitehall’s Director-General for Propriety and Ethics Helen MacNamara. However, a Downing Street spokeswoman stated that no investigation was underway.

But according to the Sunday Times, Helen MacNamara has already spoken to Ms Khan about the incident and a probe could yet be launched and Labour MP Stephen Doughty has written to Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, Helen MacNamara and the Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick alleging serious and legitimate concerns over whether Dominic Cummings broke the Code of Conduct for special advisors.

The code states special advisors must not ask civil servants to do anything inconsistent with their obligations or to use any power over civil service management except when it comes to another special advisor.

Tory MP Dominic Grieve further asked the Cabinet Office to initiate a formal inquiry, stating that it was wrong of the police to get involved.

Former Vote Leave director Dominic Cummings, who was found in contempt of Parliament, is ill-famed for his brash tactics and was accused of telling critics they could “f*** off”.

The dispute intensified after Scotland Yard stated it was standard practice for an officer on the door of No 10 to escort Ms Khan out when a visitor doesn’t have a pass, yet other visitors to No 10 are not escorted by armed police and government advisers should not misuse their authority by drawing the police into heavy-handed political stunts and this needs to be reviewed by the cabinet secretary and the Metropolitan police.

This is a shocking abuse of armed officers and we should expect the cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill to conduct an inquiry and the police to conduct an inquiry and this is a little like a Mafia movie, where somebody takes out a hit on somebody and hasn’t asked approval from the boss.

It’s understood the issue of leaks from Government was discussed with Ms Khan before her sacking. Yet there’s no suggestion she’d been involved in releasing sensitive data and government sources affirmed Ms Khan was not held accountable for the exposure of Operation Yellowhammer on no-deal Brexit.

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And Ms Khan is understood to have been left horrified by the event while Sajid Javid, her boss, is said to have not known until after it occurred and the Chancellor was made to deny any disagreement with the Prime Minister after he reportedly raised the sacking in an irate private clash.

It’s sad to say though that he won’t encounter any type of interrogation, as he probably won’t turn up and if he did, he’d simply tell them to sling their hook, as it would no doubt be another toothless useless performance by a group of posing MPs pretending to look like they’re doing something to earn their publicly funded salaries while securely cloistered inside the House of Commons.

And if a person looks like a nasty piece of work, then there’s a really good possibility that he is and Dominic Cummings certainly looks like an irksome character and if you dine with the devil a pretty long spoon is needed.

Ms Khan’s was clearly, a few feet short and there’ll be plenty of fools queuing up to succeed her, who’ll then whinge from the rooftops when the same thing ultimately happens to them.

And Dominic Cummings shouldn’t be anywhere near No 10 or parliament whilst he’s still in disgrace. Where have our standards gone in this country and under a Conservative government too?

And under this government, lowering standards in this country are as certain as night following day and I suspect they’re getting careless now and oligarch Boris Johnson isn’t satisfied with destroying democracy, he’s now quelling his critics.

And there’s a prima facie claim here for an employment tribunal case for many reasons and the possibility of an extremely big payout and it won’t be Dominic Cummings that will be picking up that tab, nor the immense legal fees, it’ll be the average taxpayer of course.

Armed officers are not there outside No 10 for employment conflicts, that’s down to HR professionals to ensure that idiot employers don’t make fundamental blunders or overstep their power, or act outside the accepted complaint procedures.

Dominic Cummings had done the lot and in normal circumstances, he would be for the high jump but when a dictator appoints a fool who’s already in contempt of Parliament, you know he’s not selecting the most intelligent and the most dependable.

Basildon Flying-Tipping Squads Target Shoppers

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New fly-tipping teams have been accused of harassing shoppers.

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The teams, introduced last week to crack down on high street fly-tipping across the district, have been accused of pursuing shoppers through shops and not adhering to their brief.

One woman was left in tears outside B&M, a shop on the Town Square, after numerous members of the fly-tipping clean-up crew, which is part of National Enforcement Solutions, had pursued her around the shops on the high street.

Basildon Council has denied these allegations and asserted that no formal accusations have been made about the fly-tipping teams but an unnamed claimant stated that they’re pursuing people through town.

And that they’re actively following people into shops and that they dragged a woman off her bike to give her a fine.

It appears that they’re tactics aren’t effective and not normal and they’re not doing what was promoted either.

All they’re doing is looking for people who are smoking and might drop their cigarette stubs on the ground, but according to Basildon Council, residents regularly tell the council that they don’t want to see littering and fly-tipping within their borough.

A council spokesperson said that many of their residents do the right thing with their rubbish and that they were proud of their community volunteers who give up their time to help support them in keeping the borough tidy.

According to the spokesperson, officers are always in full dual-branded uniforms which are highly visible and that the officers don’t hide and they patrol extremely populated areas and that officers patrolling, acts as a deterrent, however, if they witness an offence they will take details and issue a fine.

The spokesperson further said that officers are trained to do this often difficult job and that the council expects them to uphold high standards at all times and should they get any complaints, and it was said that at present they have not had any direct complaints to date, that they would take them seriously.

But they should be focusing on the large scale fly-tippers or are they on a bonus scheme?

A cigarette stub, whilst antisocial, is hardly the crime of the century, is it?

How about pursuing the genuine concerns, like the large scale fly-tippers who dump stuff in roads, driveways and fields or is the reasoning that once they’ve fined some people, it will make others aware of their actions.

Dropping a cigarette stub is littering, not fly-tipping and if the correct word was used and the crew did what their job title said they’re supposed to do instead of vexing shoppers and no doubt, old ladies who want to feed the birds.

And this all for fining litter louts, be it a wrapper or a cigarette stub. Of course, those who get caught will have a whinge about it but what does the litter police do, they stand there like a well-armed band of highly trained elite security force, their left hand, shaking their right hand, with the boss man in dark shades, and it’s a funny look for those that are merely searching out people dropping litter in the town centre.

There have already been litter wardens in the town centre and they were withdrawn after it was revealed that they were costing far too much money because at the end of the day they’re not making any revenue from what they do.

And sadly, they won’t find many fly-tippers if they’re too occupied roaming around the town centre for butt throwers.

So, rather than serving the good people of Basildon and providing much-wanted services, like fly-tippers, they’re aggravating people and making money out of the hard-working taxpayers of Basildon who are already funding this service through council tax.

An implementation which supports people to be effective is great, so educating children to use rubbish bins is a great step forward, after all, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks and some of these children are better behaved and responsive than some grown-ups.

And making people more aware of their lackadaisical attitude, which seems irrelevant to some, makes a huge difference in the concept of understanding our responsibility to our society and environment.

The problem is, they’ve hired people to do a job that gives them a little slice of power.

Cigarette litter is certainly a huge concern, but they don’t have to pursue people around the town centre, there are loads of shops where people stand and smoke, they’d be prime areas if that’s what they’re wanting to pursue and unquestionably makes more common sense.

And as a private litter officer has no powers of detention and is prohibited from touching you, I fail to see how they can force someone to give their details, and all they need to do is show their credentials and ask you to pick up the litter, therefore no fine, unless they decline.

And I see a dilemma here. So the council put a group of people together, the (litter police), to stop fly-tipping, like bin bags, cookers, rubble, garden waste, plastic, mattresses, toys and bottles et cetera.

If that’s the case, then why are they only working in the Town Centre shopping area? Seems a tad strange, unless the media have given out the wrong impression, and to catch fly-tippers they’d have to be out there 24/7 and be mobile and not on foot.

Stalking people and following people who smoke to see if they drop litter is covered under the RIPA act (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) and is illegal and if you believe you’re being watched or pursued by one of these enforcement gorillas, call the police, the real police, that is.

And porky the bus driver and his equally corpulent mates stand in the bus station smoking away, they’d better watch out but of course, nothing will happen to them.

Tory Ministers Blow £100k On Propaganda

Ministers have been accused of spending more than £100,000 on a propaganda website about school funding.

The novel site seems to be a bid to compete with SchoolCuts, a search engine that enables parents to see how much money their children’s school budget has been cut but unlike SchoolCuts, which is managed by teaching unions, the government’s website disregards the impact of inflation, increases in staff salary and other costs.

Education Minister Nick Gibb confirmed the Government had spent £112,125 creating the website and Lib Dem Education spokesperson Layla Moran, who uncovered the cost of the page using Parliamentary Questions, branded it as propaganda and blamed Boris Johnson’s right-hand man Dominic Cummings.

Both websites enable parents to search by school or local authority but while SchoolCuts confirms how much funding has diminished in real terms since 2015, the government’s Skills Funding site only accounts for variations between 2019/20 and 2020/21 and it doesn’t adjust the figure for inflation.

The research behind SchoolCuts has been declared a fair description of the state of education funding by the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies and Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union stated that the SchoolCuts website managed by the National Education Union gives parents the data they need to understand what the real understanding for funding is in their school.

The Government’s website doesn’t account for inflation and it only displays changes since 2019, disregarding all the cuts the Government has made since 2015. So, this website isn’t particularly helpful to parents and therefore every penny spent is a penny wasted.

And Dominic Cummings propaganda is nothing more than misleading the people about the funding crisis that schools are facing.

Boris Johnson’s spending policies won’t reverse school cuts because they force schools to pick up the bill for future rises in teacher’s pay. In the meantime, parents and teachers are still buying essential supplies out of their own pockets.

Instead of listening to Dominic Cummings and splashing out hundreds of thousands of pounds on social media and websites for a swift press hit, Ministers should listen to the Liberal Democrats and use March’s Budget to completely reverse school cuts.

But that’s not all the money Boris Johnson wants to waste, now he wants to waste money on a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland, and when a spokesman was grilled about Boris’s luck with bridges, the spokesperson said that he didn’t understand the question and there was no comment, in fact ‘no comment’ has been used alarmingly frequently of late.

And this money for a bridge won’t be coming out of his pocket, it will be coming out of the taxpayers pocket but then the Tory mantra appears to be ‘serve thy self and destroy the poor’.

And these idol Tories bleat on about things but what’s their contribution? They don’t make any contribution, they simply expect the people of this country to pay into the pot while they sell us down the river.

And lying in the political arena and misrepresenting figures should be accountable by prosecution because this kind of thing is sickening and all lies are wrong and just look at what they’ve done to the sick and disabled and we’re living in really bad and wicked times and these Tories don’t give a stuff about anyone but the wealthy.

And most of us know precisely what the Tories are up to, even though some simply prefer to pretend it doesn’t exist until they’re personally affected and it looks like Boris Johnson is already shafting those people who voted for him.

He’s already begun climbing down from immigration, stating that skilled migrants should be permitted to come to the United Kingdom without a job or have a promised salary of 25k, which has made him look like an inept liar.

Well, I guess you get what you vote for and we all knew that even before Boris Johnson stepped up to be the leader of the Tories that he had an affinity for spending cash that wasn’t his own, and on vanity projects no less, and as we can see, nothing changes.

And how can a minister be permitted to waste so much money on a website? It’s not their money, it’s the taxpayer’s money but it appears they can get away with whatever they like.

Can the people really believe everything the Tories tell us, no of course not because they’re established liars and this just proves it?

But this is about the Orwellian government or Pig Farm feeding on the trough of public funds on a nonsense website that tells lies. Let’s go Napoleon Bojoparte, let’s see you bankrupt the United Kingdom even further with your cursing and posturing.

Well, let’s face it, all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others and if you want to envision your future, just imagine a boot stamping on your human face.

Boris Johnson’s Government – Well, Seriously!

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Boris Johnson’s government is seriously looking at a foolish plan to build a 25-mile bridge to Northern Ireland and Downing Street maintained that the £15 billion plan isn’t a pipe dream despite it drawing extensive ridicule.

Boris Johnson’s record is littered with abandoned projects, from the much smaller 366-metre Garden Bridge, rejected by the London mayor Sadiq Khan in 2017 after costs spiralled, to an island airport in the Thames Estuary that never came close to approval by the Airports Commission.

Yet despite his past failures, leaked documents last year revealed officials at the Treasury and the Department for Transport were asked to look at the risks and cost of the project.

The Prime Minister’s official spokesperson confirmed that work was underway, looking into the idea of the bridge and it appears that the Prime Minister is determined in terms of infrastructure projects and that he’s looking at a wide range of projects across the United Kingdom that could expand productivity.

It’s believed the bridge would run from Portpatrick, near Stranraer in western Scotland, to Larne, near Belfast but experts have warned the sea channel between Portpatrick and Larne is approximately 1,000ft deep and may contain unexploded WW2 bombs and critics have further warned that a bridge could cripple shipping across the Irish sea.

Despite support for a bridge from the DUP and some Irish politicians, it’s also not known what role, if any, the Scottish would play in building or maintaining the bridge and its approach roads.

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However, when questioned if officials were taking the idea seriously, Boris Johnson’s spokesperson said that was correct and a source close to the Prime Minister talked up the idea of a bridge, by pointing to longer structures in countries like China.

They stated that greater achievements had been accomplished elsewhere in the world and that the Prime Minister believes it’s worth looking at and it’s understood that the UK government thinks there wouldn’t need to be any customs checks on the bridge.

That is despite the government’s documents previously saying firms would need to fill out customs declarations for goods travelling from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.

EU customs checks and tariffs would then be required on goods ‘at risk’ of entering the EU, for example, the Republic of Ireland, at a later date.

Boris Johnson personally indicated his support for the project in December, telling a DUP bridge backer that he believed it was a pretty interesting thought.

The SNP will of course, always welcome engagement with how we can restore relationships with Northern Ireland and Ireland, but first, we should concentrate on the more realistic and feasible ideas, not unsupported vanity projects and baseless briefings which this Tory Minister is all too familiar with.

And spending £15 billion of taxpayer’s money on a bridge just to replicate what these ferries already do is unnecessary and the money could be far better spent, even though the Scandinavians have done it, so have the Chinese, so it could be perfectly feasible.

This isn’t an unachievable goal and the bridge could improve our economy and bring our countries closer together, on the other hand, it could have the opposite outcome.

We constructed a tunnel under the sea to France. Some people thought it was a ridiculous idea, although only the Tories could come up with such a plan to boost the economy, you just watch, it probably will be done.

Although this is about a bridge and not a tunnel, connecting Scotland and Ireland but the debate is not so much about whether it can be built but rather if it should be!

Some people are going to deem it a bad idea, think of all those unicorns that would escape.

But some connections can make economies grow and for business to happen more swiftly, although some people might say that Boris de piffle is away with the fairies yet again.

This is going to be a bridge to a dying country – build a bridge but let the poor and needy starve – build a bridge, what are they going to call it? “The Boris Blunder Bridge”.

UK Coronavirus Declared Impending Threat

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The UK government announced an impending threat from the new Coronavirus because someone threatened to leave a quarantine centre.

A source said the reason emergency regulations were made is that an unnamed person indicated they might abscond from the Arrowe Park Hospital, Merseyside.

The new laws could give police or security the ability to physically stop someone leaving the quarantine centre. It’s understood the person in question is still there and a source said this highly specific problem, and not the Coronavirus itself, is what the government considered an immediate threat.

The overall threat to the British public continues to be moderate and hasn’t changed and it’s not known why the person threatened to leave or what the wider circumstances were.

It is not known why the person threatened to leave or what the wider circumstances were but Health Minister Matt Hancock announced that the emergency powers gives the government extra-legal authority to fight the spread of the virus.

Per Regulation 3, the Secretary of State announced that the occurrence or transmission of novel Coronavirus constitutes a grave or imminent threat to public health.

The steps described in those regulations are regarded as an effective method of delaying or preventing further transmission of the virus and the source said the move was as much for the person’s safety as the safety of the public.

Overwhelmingly everyone who’s been in quarantine has been very good about it.

There are now approximately eight confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United Kingdom and there were 83 British nationals who were flown home from virus epicentre Wuhan for two weeks and quarantined at Arrowe Park.

They were expected to be joined by 11 other Brits when more evacuation flights arrived and it’s believed that those who arrived signed a contract agreeing to stay in quarantine for 14 days.

But after one person said they wanted to leave, officials feared this contract would not give enough legal powers to prevent the person from exiting the building.

Known as the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations, the law is an emergency power made by the Health Secretary under section 45 of the 1984 Public Health Act. It will let police wearing protective gear restrain someone if they attempt to leave quarantine.

According to the 1984 Act, ministers could also force parents to keep a child away from school, prevent certain events or gatherings, or put constraints on the transport of human remains.

On top of all that, the 1984 Act further allows a ‘special restriction or requirement’ to be imposed by magistrates. However, it’s believed the new laws hold no criminal offences and will not criminalise those in quarantine.

It’s believed the law came into force when the Health Secretary signed and will terminate if not supported by Parliament within 28 days.

The law classifies Arrowe Park Hospital and Kents Hill Park in Milton Keynes as ‘isolation’ amenities and Wuhan and Hubei province in China as an infected area and it comes after a British man who caught coronavirus in Singapore seemed to be connected to at least seven other affirmed cases in England, France and Spain.

Health officials have not established a link or giving details on his relationship to the other people diagnosed with the illness.

These people have been flown back to the United Kingdom to restrict the spread or possible spread of this virus, by flying them in and putting them straight into quarantine, controlling and quarantining the disease and not relying on foreign isolation.

Ambassador of China Accusing UK Conservative MPs of Witch Hunt

The Chinese ambassador to the UK has attacked Tory MPs of mounting a witch-hunt after they raised concerns about Boris Johnson’s proposal to allow Huawei access to the 5G network.

Liu Xiaoming praised ministers for their good decision to let the Chinese tech colossus to build some non-sensitive parts of the new infrastructure.

The Prime Minister has suffered mounting critique from within his party over the proposal amid concerns that the company, classified as high-risk by officials, could be a significant security infringement.

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US President Donald Trump was apoplectic in a telephone call to Mr Johnson after the news of the decision, which disregarded Washington’s warnings over the firm.

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Senior Tories including ex-minister Iain Duncan Smith, David Davis and Damian Green wrote to the Prime Minister asking him to phase out Huawei’s involvement in the network over time.

But Mr Liu stated that they’re incorrect and that he believed that what they were doing was a kind of witch-hunt.

Huawei is a privately owned company and has nothing to do with the government and the only dilemma is that they’re a Chinese company and he said that the Chinese government, which supports the firm with extensive state subsidies, was pleased with Britain’s decision but not 100 per cent satisfied because a 35 per cent cap on market share undermined free competition.

Boris Johnson decided, on the recommendation of security services, that any risks were manageable.

Most thought it was a great idea to stand alone from the European Union, now we’re having a little taste of things to come.

To be honest, most people don’t even realise their home routers are attacked loads of times per day and even if someone does hack in you can see who got in and from what IP address and that should be the start for security. All traffic is manageable and this is a phoney trade war between Donald Trump and China.

What should bother us is that Boris Johnson might use China to decimate what manufacturing we have left. He’s also renationalising the railways and he’s stopping the early release of terrorists, as well as standing up to America but we’ll see how long that lasts for.

Boris Johnson’s dilemma is that the United Kingdom needs to cut deals with both countries but in the current climate, that’s simply not feasible.

The US economy is assumed to be overtaken by the Chinese economy inside about 5 years, making it the top economy and if he upsets China, then that could have far-reaching effects on our economy, not only in terms of sales but in terms of cheaper imports as well.

Dettol Warns There’s No Evidence Its Spray Can Kill Deadly Coronavirus

Dettol has advised there’s no indication its spray can kill the dangerous Wuhan coronavirus after customers spotted it on the label.

Eagle-eyed shoppers spotted a claim on the label of a bottle of the disinfectant that it could kill cold viruses (human coronavirus and RSV).

One customer shared a snap of the back of a bottle of the cleaning product, where it shows: ‘Kills E Coli, sammonella, MRSA, rotavirus, flu, virus, cold viruses, human coronavirus and RSV’.

Surprised, he wrote: “This kills coronavirus, how did they know about it in 2019?”.

But Dettol manufacturer RB has clarified that there’s nothing to suggest it’s effective in wiping out the Wuhan strain of coronavirus.

The label instead refers to more common strains of the virus which it’s been tested and shown to eliminate.

Coronaviruses are a collection of viruses that cause respiratory infections which are typically mild, including the common cold.

RB has become aware of speculation about Dettol products and the novel 2019-nCoV coronavirus, and as this is an emerging outbreak RB, like all manufacturers, doesn’t yet have access to the new virus (2019-nCoV) for testing and as a consequence, are not yet in a position to confirm levels of effectiveness against the new strain.

Their other products have been tested against other coronaviruses, such as MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV and have been determined to kill those.

The firm added it will continue to work to understand the virus and test Dettol’s effectiveness against it once health authorities make the strain available.

It goes on to say the firm will proceed to play their part in fighting and containing the outbreak of the virus and bequeath £5.5 million in cash and products and further bring in medical personnel to treat those affected and to give soap and hand sanitizers to hospitals in Wuhan.

It comes after a rescue flight evacuating more than 80 Brits from coronavirus hit Wuhan arrived in the United Kingdom.

The global death toll, in China, has reached 259 with 11,791 cases confirmed, exceeding the SARS infection.

The World Health Organisation has said the outbreak is a global health emergency on an unparalleled scale and the Foreign Office advised all but necessary travel to the country because of the virus outbreak.

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British Airways has also suspended all flights to and from mainland China.

Dettol’s active ingredient is chloroxylenol which is a widely available disinfectant. Chloroxylenol is effective against a broad spectrum of viruses and bacteria and including coronaviruses.

Its use is as a surface disinfectant on hard surfaces or skin and wounds and it can also be incorporated into soaps.

Chloroxylenol is toxic if ingested and it shouldn’t be used as an aerosol that people may breathe.

Coronaviruses are a collection of viruses but Dettol only kills off the common strains and it hasn’t been tested on the new emerged mutated form of coronavirus.

Coronavirus is the generic term, the common cold is a coronavirus and most people have almost certainly had a coronavirus infection at some point. Most are not dangerous and the Wuhan outbreak is a novel coronavirus, novel simply means its a new strain.

Viruses mutate into new ones all the time, which is why there’s no magical cure for a cold and why the flu jab is modified every year.

Shoppers Baffled After Tesco Put Security Cases On £1.10 Milkybar and Aero Chocolate Bars To Stop Thieves

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Amusing footage of one bewildered customer as Tesco displays rows of treats, including Milkybars and Aeros secured in perspex cases at one store in Bristol.

The footage captures the moment the man, goes in for his midday treat only to discover all his favourite chocolate locked away.

He went into Tesco on Park Street, Bristol and all of the big chocolate bars were being housed in perspex security cases and it seemed odd because nearly everything else around them was of greater value but had no security.

He asked the person at the till but he didn’t know why they were crated either but it’s not the first time Tesco has had to put everyday items in security cases.

Last year customers were stunned to spot Fruit ‘n Fibre on sale in multiple stores across the country for a staggering £7, so pricey, some boxes even had security tags on them.

Oli Headly, 32, was in his local Tesco on Whitecross Road in Hereford last year when he spotted the locked up cereal.

Oli Headly who runs his own business said that a friend of his works in the store and he was stood there gazing at it in disbelief.

It was run through the till and it came up as £7 and this seems rather odd and other people have seen the same thing so it appeared to be somewhat nationwide, even though Tesco did state that they don’t have it on their system that they sell the 500g box which is a tad peculiar.

Although we shouldn’t be shocked, some branches have put security tags on their shopping baskets and Tesco does need to watch themselves because if they carry on they’ll end up being taken over by places like Aldi and Lidl, well at least their sales will.

But this isn’t only happening in one store, it’s occurring in most stores across England and things like coffee, the racks are empty and large jars are being kept behind the till and blocks of cheese are also being kept in perspex cases and large chocolate bars due to the volume that is being robbed every day. There must be a lot of caffeine and cheese addicts!

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