THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

Meet The Ordinary Brits Stockpiling At Home

An increasing number of ordinary Brits are stocking up on extra food, medicine and other supplies, as fears grow because people think there’s going to be an enormous disruption if Britain leaves the EU without a deal in October.

And food, fuel and medicine deficits are likely, as well as heavy and sustained delays at borders for UK imports and exports, and there was a survey which inferred that approximately one in five people had started stockpiling, buying hundreds of pounds of additional goods and spending an approximated £4 billion ($4.8 billion) overall so far.

Yahoo Finance UK spoke to four members of the public about their concerns of deficits from important children’s medicines to toilet roll, with some purchasing hundreds of tinned foods they could survive on for months.

And Melvin Burton, an IT software tester, said he had several hundred tins, jars and other supplies at his home in Ely, enough for his family to survive on for four or five months, and he started stockpiling six months after the EU referendum in 2016 and warned that it was complacent to rely on the government and businesses for vital supplies.

And with limited information available, he turned to prep guidelines from the US but discovered they were essentially intended for surviving an apocalyptic or nuclear war, and Melvin Burton, who lives with his wife and eight-year-old daughter, even briefly consulted a Mormon survival guide.

But with much of the US information online concentrated on storing food for 20 years, he decided to simply buy long-life versions of his normal go-to items, lentils, tuna, beans, peas, and other preserved foods. He further imported tools from the US to start canning his own vegetables and said he expected his family would eat most of the food anyhow even if it wasn’t needed.Burton also bought a “shattaf” shower head in case loo roll stocks ran out, as well as paracetamol and antihistamines, and he did a risk assessment and wrote down what might occur if trucks were held up at borders, and that meant any shortages on the shelves, then there could be panic buying and then nothing on the shelves.

But hopefully, a no-deal will be less destructive than most experts are prophesying and there might be some people out there that are more optimistic than others, but we really should be prepared, and we should be particularly concerned about the outcome after a no-deal Brexit because if the economy falls off a cliff, we’re probably going to be in quite a bit of trouble.

And there a lot of people out there that have grave concerns about their medicines, particularly with the extensive reports of possible disruptions to essential supplies, and there are countless people with severe illnesses where their meds are imported and one day without them could be catastrophic.

And even though the government has announced a £25 million contract to deliver medicines to Britain and is working to build up supplies, it’s really not that encouraging to the public who have to take medications on a daily basis.

But we’ve been told not to panic, and that we shouldn’t stockpile medicines at home in case of a no-deal Brexit, and Britain’s have been informed that the Government has plans in position to make sure there’s a sustained supply of at least six weeks worth of medicines and that the public doesn’t need to worry about it, but what happens after the six weeks?

Health Secretary Matt Hancock wrote to colleagues informing them of the latest plans. He said that ministers were working to make sure patients would get their medicines and that hospitals, GPs and community pharmacies didn’t need to stockpile extra medicines, beyond the ones that they already stock.

And there was also no need for clinicians to write longer NHS prescriptions, and that local stockpiling wasn’t needed, and that patients would not need to and should not attempt to store extra medicines at home, yet health chiefs warned that hospitals could run out of life-saving medicines in a no-deal situation, and this is because the government haven’t prepared for what might happen if the United Kingdom leaves without a deal.

But Dominic Raab has emphasised that it was doubtful that we would leave with a no agreement, and he stated that he’s convinced a good deal was within their sights, and that our institutions will be set for Brexit, deal or no deal.

However, other technical notices issued were more unenthusiastic about the impact of a no-deal because things will likely increase, indicating more expensive holidays and online shopping will be pricier too, but Brits will still be able to enjoy the BLT sandwich after we leave, after there were scare stories insinuating that there might not be enough supplies for sandwiches.

And he ensured that, contrary to one of the wilder claims, we would still be able to enjoy a BLT after Brexit, and that there would be no plans to use the army to secure food supplies, but the 25 papers released noted that imports from Europe would be subjected to customs duties and VAT from day one of a No Deal outcome.

European banks will be able to operate in Britain for at least three years without any change, but UK institutions would have to strike their own deal to avoid being shut out of the EU market completely, and Ministers are refusing to force new checks on European medicines for fear they will cripple the NHS.

Organic farmers could be severely thrashed because their goods could be shut out from the continent, and cigarette packets will get new warning images because the contemporary ones belong to Brussels, and Civil servants are ramping up their work on No Deal with thousands of more officials implicated in the plan.

And the papers now reveal that without such a deal British pensioners could be unable to claim payments without a deal on cross-border transfers between Britain and Europe.

Nevine Mann is a woman that’s concerned about the disruption to her country if it fails to reach an exit deal with the EU, and Nevine Mann is a Brexit survivalist, and she’s stockpiled at least two months worth of food in her home in Cornwall, England, in case Brexit happens without a withdrawal agreement with the European Union.

And she’s transformed her home so she and her family will have an independent source of water and electricity.

The possible implications of a no-deal departure from the EU are quite remarkable and extensive to daily life, and she said that as a mother, she can’t just sit there and not do something, and those like Mann, who are preparing for possible disruptions, have been named Brexit preppers.

And there’s a Facebook group with over 1,000 members where people can talk about practical preparations for life after Brexit. There’s also a flyer called “Getting Ready Together”.

We might not be able to change a lot of things, but we can get set for the most damaging feasible outcome because nobody died for being over-prepared.

On Mann’s fridge, there’s a shopping list of things to stockpile, including chickpeas, tuna, pasta, rice and Marmite. The family of five is also buying up medicine, but Mann’s stocking up is because she expects delays caused by a possible no-deal that might last a long time.

The family has a 1,100-litre water collection tank in the garden and solar panels on the house, but Mann said that the family still requires the facilities to enable them to pull power from the panels in the case of a blackout, and she believes there’s unquestionably a strong possibility of disruption to power and water.

But Brexit preppers have been blamed from being alarmist, but of course, it’s better to be safe than sorry. Furthermore, if we do leave with a deal, and Mann and her family don’t need the goods, it doesn’t matter, they’ll already have it, and they’ll still use it.

We don’t, in fact, know what the outcome of Brexit will be, but if you’re considering investing, do you put all of your money in one investment, even when financial experts are asserting that the possibility of losing everything is very small, or, do we spread our investments around as a hedge?

And if the possibility of ruin is not zero, then it’s smart to hedge, and that’s what this lady is doing, and she believes that the possibility of real hardship after Brexit will not be zero, so she’s bulking up on a few things and being self-sufficient in some areas and feels that this is justified as a hedge.

And if she’s wrong, then all she’s done is spend a bit extra and will be well equipped for future problems, but if she’s right, then she’ll be really happy she did what she did for her family, and all of the cynics and foil hat finger-pointers will look like perishing idiots.

And when it comes to making these kinds of choices, it’s sensible not to allow people’s sheep herd mentality to discourage you from thinking problems through.

Very Significant Birthday Gift

Meghan’s life in the past three years has been like a crazed tornado because not so long ago she was the actress starring in Suits, and she was a campaigner, and even had her own fashion line.

Since then she’s abandoned everything to become the Duchess of Sussex so that she could marry her darling Prince Harry, and since then, they’ve had their first son together, and if that’s not cause for celebration, then we don’t know what is.

Nevertheless, Meghan has also had quite a tumultuous year, having suffered a lot of critique from the public. Either for the way she’s been perceived to be treating other segments of the Royal Family or for her apparent extravagant taste in food and clothing.

But Meghan is a Royal now, which means she can expect to get all sorts of gifts, even from the Queen herself.

Meghan is presently 38 years old but before she married Harry, she probably went on wild nights out for her birthday with her girlfriends or had dinner parties with the cast of Suits. However, Meghan is now a segment of the Royal Family and must celebrate as such, and it’s seemingly been a massive culture shock to Meghan.

But it’s not been long since she gave birth to her son Archie, but as a Royal, she still has obligations, however, it appears the Queen is taking one stress away because it seems the Queen was intending on doing some kind of birthday surprise for the Duchess.

This, of course, is quite the honour, and not one that’s readily bequeathed upon people, and very few people get to be personally considered by the Queen. However, it appears that Meghan is getting all the attention from the monarch, but even close segments of the Royal Family have a difficult time being welcomed into the Queen’s personal time.

Of course, Harry and Meghan are a huge exception because Harry is the Queen’s grandson, and it’s splendid that things are finally looking up for the pair after all the adverse attention they’ve been subjected to, and it was suggested that the Queen had invited Meghan to mark her 38th birthday at Balmoral in Scotland.

Meghan hasn’t been seen much since the birth of Archie, but that’s to be expected following the birth of her son, and even though she did take a brief step out of her maternity leave to accompany the rest of the Royal Family at the “Trooping the Colour”, which is a yearly celebration for the Queen’s birthday.

But in the few years that Meghan has been with Harry, she’s never actually been to Balmoral castle, and it’s been no easy path for Meghan, that’s for sure, not when you think of all the negative press she’s received, and it seems that relationships between Meghan and other segments of the Royal Family have also been slightly turbulent, especially when William and Kate came into it.

And there were reports that Meghan had once made Kate cry as a consequence of her pushiness and requirements when Kate’s daughter, Princess Charlotte was going to be one of Meghan’s bridesmaids at the wedding, and of course, Meghan wanted everything to be perfect, and whilst most brides want perfection, Meghan necessitated a little too much from Kate, who was still recuperating from giving birth to Prince Louis, leaving the Duchess of Cambridge in tears, leaving the room, along with Meghan’s demands.

Sources have said that Meghan can be a bit too pushy, and members of staff inside the Palace have further alleged that Meghan has a particularly extravagant taste and things only got more serious when other segments of the family urged Harry against marrying Meghan because many members of the family felt as if the couple were moving too swiftly and that Harry needed to think about his decision a lot more carefully.

And one outlet even reported that Prince Philip weighed in on the “Meghan Markle debate”, giving his viewpoint on what he thought about Harry marrying the former actress, and he was thought to have said that “one steps out with an actress, one doesn’t marry them.”

In other words, Meghan was good arm candy and nothing more, and while that does seem like a strange thing to say in this modern era, Prince Philip is extremely old and quite old school in his ways.

There have also been reports that things aren’t so sweet in utopia anymore, and according to some trusted inside sources, Meghan now wants to leave the United Kingdom which could be causing some excitement with husband Harry.

Of course, all families have their difficulties, even the Royal Family, so it makes sense that they fall out every now and then, but when they do fall out everything is usually transmitted or leaked in some way but from the start, it seems the Queen has made some allowances for Meghan, showing how she feels about her.

One of the well-known examples is the fact that Queen Elizabeth invited Meghan to the family’s Christmas celebration at Sandringham back in 2017 before Meghan and Harry were even married but traditionally, only family members are given an invite, so bringing Meghan along before she was officially a Royal was an enormous departure from the norm.

Countless people have been attempting to figure out why the Queen has been so welcoming toward Meghan, but Queen Elizabeth appears to be particularly enamoured with Meghan, and perhaps it’s because she gave up everything including her career and moved to another country just to be with Harry.

In addition, the Queen is thought to be sympathetic of Meghan and her difficulties with her family, prompting the Queen to make Meghan feel more at home with the Royals.

Royal fans were further shocked at how swiftly the Queen invited Meghan to accompany her on a solo engagement, and in fact, Meghan and the Queen were out together only months after Meghan and Harry tied the knot.

Kate, on the other hand, had to wait years before she was invited to a solo engagement with the Queen which appears to be another instance of the exceptional treatment Meghan has received from the monarch, and the Queen sure seems to be enamoured with Meghan’s company.

Boris Johnson Accused Of Lying Over £1 Billion

The Prime Minister claimed he was giving £1.8 billion of new money to the NHS, but a leaked letter states £1 billion is set to come either from hospitals’ own funds or projects that were previously approved and on hold, and Labour has accused Boris Johnson of misleading patients over £1 billion of new money he promised to the NHS.

The Prime Minister unveiled a cash pot claiming: “This is £1.8bn of new money. It wasn’t there 10 days ago.”

But while £850 million will directly finance 20 new hospital upgrades, a leaked letter states the other £1 billion is set to come either from hospitals’ own reserves or income or projects that were previously approved by the government but put on hold.

The clarification appeared in a letter obtained by the Health Service Journal from Julian Kelly, chief financial officer at NHS England, to heads of NHS trusts, and it states the £1 billion will mean hospital spending that was put on hold earlier this year due to spending limits can now go forward.

So for 2019/20, the Government has agreed to a £1 billion increase in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) baseline capital expenditure limit. This means that they can now return to their initial capital plans where these were financed by their trust’s own income and assets or where DHSC had already approved the business case or funding for programmes.

But now its been established in black and white by NHS bosses that Boris Johnson was misleading patients, hardworking NHS workers and the British people, and as warned, this wasn’t new cash and nor would it make up for the years of multi-billion pound Tory cuts, and it’s been proved yet again that the Tories really don’t care about and can’t be trusted with the NHS.

And to claim this as new money is a little like finally giving back the £10 you borrowed some time ago and expecting to be praised wildly, and there’s a catch because the £1 billion is cash hospitals and other NHS trusts already had but had been forbidden to use, and when the NHS Trust has a cash residue it can’t spend, it stores in the governments bank account, where the HM Treasury effectively uses for other government spending.

So, yet again Boris Johnson is telling porkie pies, nothing new there, and it’s all lies, as plain as the nose on Pinocchio’s face, but nevermind the details, Brexit is going to do or die on 31st October, and it won’t be good, even though Boris Johnson appears to believe it’s going to be great for the United Kingdom, and so do some of the most renowned political minds, and magnificent Boris seems to think that he’ll able to manage the care of the process and the country – I mean, what in the world could go wrong?

Of course, Boris Johnson was born in America, so he wasn’t born British, but he’s been living in the United Kingdom a very long time, and he was born to British parents, but his paternal great-grandfather was Circassian Turkish, and his other ancestry includes English, German and French.

And Nigel Farage, check out the name, it doesn’t sound particularly English, that’s because evidently, it’s not.

Boris Johnson supporters fell for his lies over Brexit, which suggests they’ll seemingly fall for any other lies he tells, and they probably know that he’s misleading them but they’re so far down the Brexit path they will take it as truth, and then end up making themselves look stupid.

At the end of the day, Boris Johnson is just another neurotic story-teller with an upper-class drawl, who has spent his entire life beset by people of an equal mindset, so it’s hardly surprising that they’ll get away with it, and if most of us behaved, in the same way, we’d ultimately get locked up, and the key is thrown away, whilst numerous clinicians performed very questionable legally and ethically grey area experiments to see what makes us tick, and where the USA leads, the United Kingdom will shortly follow.

And seemingly Donald Trump will soon control our NHS, only it won’t be ours anymore, and it does make me truly question if people are wandering around blindfolded, or their hearing aids are switched off. This country needs to wake up because the United Kingdom is operating on fumes.

The Tories have had over 9 years of practising the pickpocket technique.

Remember the other Prime Minister saying that all the hard work had paid off, is that really so? Because you’re still being driven down the garden path. Austerity is still in full sway, and the taxpayer is still getting shafted, and the Tories can’t be trusted.

Look around you, nothing has improved, and nothing will improve, we still have food banks, zero-hour contracts, the universal sarcophagus, the pension saga, taxation, utility bills and council tax to name a few, but then what do you expect?

That’s what politicians do the best, they fabricate the truth, and they’re the biggest legalised thieves in the world, and it’s time to wake up Britain, they’re pulling the wool over your eyes, and Boris Johnson is merely robbing Peter to pay Paul, it’s just an insidious trick.

John Bercow Vows To Fight With Every Breath

John Bercow has insisted he will fight with every breath to stop Boris Johnson from dissolving parliament to push through a no-deal Brexit, and the House of Commons Speaker’s comments amounted to his most powerful signal yet that he was prepared to personally intercede to prevent prorogation.

John Bercow stated that he firmly believed the Commons must have its way and that MPs must proceed to assemble and debate the matter as the Halloween deadline approaches, and if there’s an endeavour to circumvent, to bypass or God forbid, to close down parliament, that would be an abomination to him.

And he said that he would fight with every breath in his body to prevent that from happening because he believes that they can’t have a situation in which parliament is shut down and that we’re a democratic society and parliament will be heard.

And it came after he in June warned the then contenders in the Tory leadership race to replace Theresa May as Prime Minister that prorogation was not an option, and he stated that was simply not going to happen.

But MPs who are against leaving the EU without a deal are endeavouring to obtain a parliamentary path to prevent plans for the UK’s departure on 31st October, and it became apparent that Boris Johnson’s Brexit proposals may be jeopardised early next month after a court agreed to fast track a hearing on whether he can legitimately prorogue parliament.

And a judge in Edinburgh agreed to facilitate a legal challenge from anti-Brexit campaigners including more than 70 MPs and peers, but Mr Bercow’s comments came as former Chancellor Philip Hammond warned Boris Johnson that he risks betraying the EU referendum decision if he pushes through a no-deal Brexit by listening to unelected saboteurs.

Philip Hammond, who resigned in anticipation of Boris Johnson becoming Prime Minister, urged the Tory leader to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union with a deal in place, and he stated early signs for that were not reassuring, warning that demands to terminate the backstop had become a wrecking stance over the withdrawal agreement.

The Tory backbencher said that the unelected people who pull the strings of this Government know this is a demand and the EU cannot and will not accede to and that a No Deal will be crippling to the country, both economically and to the union.

Of course, most people in this country want to see us leave in a tranquil and quiet fashion that will not disturb lives, cost jobs or decrease living standards, and Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd stated that she would urge Boris Johnson not to take the questionable move as part of his do or die commitment for Brexit by the 31st October deadline.

We probably will leave without a deal because everything bad that happens to this country, including a no-deal itself, over the next decade will be blamed on the EU, Remainers and immigrants, and John Bercow is a man that needs to be fired, and Boris Johnson WILL find a way to get Brexit done.

Bercow can’t fight the will of the people wanting to leave the EU, and the speaker is supposed to enforce Parliamentary procedure, not make foolish statements, and let’s hope he speaks very little pretty quickly because how can we call ourselves a democracy when boneheads like Bercow are calling the shots?

Essex Doctor Struck Off For False Claim

A doctor has been struck off after sending letters to patients incorrectly alleging they had been professionally abused by a co-worker when having contraceptive coils fitted.

Dr Frank Hlordzi wrote to six women who had been treated at Clayhill Medical Practice, in Basildon, Essex, telling them a chemical could have been improperly used on them, and a Medical Practitioner’s Tribunal found he knew this to be incorrect, and it heard that the letters that were sent out had caused a lot of anxiety.

Dr Hlordzi’s association with other staff at the practice, including Dr Francisca Ogunbyiyi, had broken down in 2016, the tribunal heard, and there appeared to be this desire to avenge, so he wrote to some of her patients, using emotive and incendiary language to tell them a chemical called Hydrex Pink may have been wrongly used to cleanse their vaginas, which he said was professional abuse.

In one instance it had been inadvertently used to wash a patient’s pubic area, but it had not been used as Dr Hlordzi stated, the tribunal determined, and the tribunal decided Dr Hlordzi had acted because of his desire to avenge what he considered to be wrongdoing committed against him by co-workers.

It said he had not made necessary inquiries to determine what had really taken place before writing to patients and had behaved dishonestly, and despite Dr Hlordzi apologised to the tribunal, the panel decided he should have his name deleted from the medical practitioner’s register.

The doctors from this surgery simply appear to get worse and worse, and it was only back in 2011 that a widow talked of her fury after an out of hours doctor diagnosed her stroke victim husband with vertigo over the telephone, yet she escaped being struck off.

Dr Francisca Ogunbiyi twice declined to attend Jeffrey Wingrove, 48, after he collapsed at home with severe vomiting and crippling headaches. Instead, she decided he was suffering from vertigo and prescribed some anti-sickness drugs for his wife, Isabelle, to get.

Mr Wingrove, a father of two who ran marathons, died 48 hours later, and his family were given a six-figure sum in an out of court settlement for clinical negligence against the family doctor and East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

Nigerian-trained Francisca Ogunbiyi could have been struck off by the General Medical Council, which discovered Mr Wingrove would have lived if his stroke had been diagnosed earlier, but instead, she was given a warning which had to be submitted to her employers for the ensuing five years.

And of course she appealed against the decision, but it was sustained during a five hour hearing in London.

If Mr Wingrove had been given the right medical care, and his doctor had done her job correctly, this man would have survived, so why did she get a warning and still continued to work? Not only did she take this mans life away from him, but she took this father away from his children and his wife.

During the hearing in May, the board was told Mr Wingrove fell ill on the morning of December 9, 2006, at home in Braintree, Essex, after going to the bathroom and collapsing in terrible pain. He then crawled to his bedroom with a relentless headache and was powerless to move the right side of his body efficiently and was sweating and vomiting.

His wife, who was working at the local college, contacted her GP and was directed to an out of hours service run for Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust by private firm Primecare because it was a Saturday.

Dr Francisca Ogunbiyi called Mrs Wingrove soon after and told her to take her husband to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford. This would, of course, have been the nearest hospital to Braintree, Essex where they lived, but then why would you send a patient to the hospital if all you thought they had was vertigo? And why was an ambulance not called?

There was an alarming exchange that was played during the hearing where Mrs Wingrove, again asked for a doctor, saying that she couldn’t get him out of bed, and she certainly couldn’t have got him out of bed whilst he was having a heart attack, he would have been dead weight.

But Dr Ogunbiyi told this woman that she would just have to get him out of bed, so Mrs Wingrove then rang NHS Direct and a nurse there told her to demand a home visit from a doctor as soon as possible.

At 12.20pm she called Primecare again but was told by the doctor that NHS Direct was different from there, and they can insist and they can jump up and down, that they know the system, even though it wasn’t fair on her, and certainly not fair on her husband, who was now getting caught up in a mass of red tape.

Mrs Wingrove replied: ‘You’re telling me I cannot get a doctor here? I cannot get him out.’ The GP replied: ‘You’re shouting,’ and around 9 pm she called paramedics who also said her husband was suffering from vertigo when they arrived, and they gave him paracetamol and declined to take him to hospital.

The following morning he fell off his bed and was taken to Broomfield Hospital, where he was later transported to Queen’s Hospital in Romford where he died the following day.

Dr Francisca Ogunbiyi, who lives in Benfleet, Essex, and works at Vange Health Centre in Basildon, and was dismissed by Primecare following the tragedy.

So, what has this world come to when we have to dispense with cruddy doctors, and it seems that this particular doctor was amazingly lazy and couldn’t be bothered to do a home visit, and simply fobbed Mrs Wingrove off, and she shouldn’t be practising as a doctor if she’s that slothful.

The paramedics were probably just following the doctor’s diagnosis, however, not to have taken him to the hospital was an absolute disgrace.

They’re not fully qualified medics and should always assume the most critical diagnosis, and quite clearly this gentleman was displaying significant symptoms of a stroke, as we lesser beings have had it drummed into us by the government’s ad campaign, and he should have been admitted to the hospital even if only as a precaution.

But if anyone’s loved ones fall ill suddenly, they should ring 999 directly, particularly if they think that person is having a stroke because this out of hours services in this country is diabolical.

The problem is we learn about dozens of related things, for example, a locum giving painkillers to someone with chest pain or someone with Bowel Cancer being told they’ve got IBS.

Or a young man with Testicular cancer who was told that the mass he had was nothing to worry about or the woman who was told her brain haemorrhage was a migraine et cetera.

So, avoid your GP for anything more than very secondary stuff, it could save you your life, and I wonder what a doctor has to do before they get struck off because it seems being too lazy to do a proper job which leads to a patients death isn’t enough.

Man, 66, Told He’ll get £2K A Year Less

People are continually annoyed and frustrated that they aren’t getting the amount of state pension they were anticipating, and they struggle to get a simple answer as to why.

When Eric, 66, from Middlesbrough, went to claim his state pension last year he was horrified to discover he was going to get £40 less than the £168.60 a week full state pension, that’s £2,000 a year less or £41,600 over a typical 20-year retirement.

He contacted the Department for Work and Pensions to ask for an explanation regarding his low pension and couldn’t understand the gibberish he got sent, an eight-page document that made no sense to him.

Eric had reviewed his state pension entitlement about 10 years before retirement, thinking that if he needed to do anything to increase it he would have the opportunity to sort it out before he retired.

He was told he was on course for a full state pension, but he knows now that he should have reviewed it again, but then hindsight is a wonderful thing, and last year when Eric went to claim his state pension he was informed he had 33 years of full National Insurance contributions, two years short of the 35 years required to get the full amount.

He was told he could pay for those two missing years, but he would still not be guaranteed to get the full amount.

There was loads of toing and froing and he got more perplexed, so gave up, and was informed he was due £127 each week but was a tad miffed as to why two years National Insurance contributions could make that much difference, cutting his pension by nearly a quarter.

So, Eric went on a mission to try and find out why he was so much worse off. He questioned why and no one appeared to be able to resolve it, so he requested a written explanation. That’s when an eight-page document thumped through his letterbox and then he got completely confused.

The state pension system is a minefield. It’s virtually impervious and there are only a few people outside of the DWP who actually know how it works, and you really do need a stiff drink to get through it.

It all comes down to two things, and the most significant impact is for what seems to be seven years when Eric was contracted out of the state pension. So, for those seven years, he wasn’t building up the rights to the state pension but was building up additional pension benefits in workplace pensions.

Eric would have been paying a lower amount of National Insurance as a consequence, but equally significant would have been building up an extra pension in workplace schemes, and these additional amounts would be part of the amount he now gets in private pension income.

Numerous people don’t make the connection between periods of contracting out and higher private pension benefits, and while they get less in state pension it’s not clear how this amount is made up from private/workplace pension income.

The two incomplete years of National Insurance records, which could be down to periods of not working a complete year, and not claiming unemployment benefits which would automatically mean National Insurance credits were made would have reduced his state pension further.

You need a full 12 months of National Insurance to record one year under the rules, anything less won’t count towards your state pension, and these factors combined, via some complex DWP calculations, reduced Eric’s state pension by about £40 a week.

The problems really arose from the fact that we’re working with two systems, pre and post-April 2016, with most people retiring today having built up benefits under both systems, and at some point in the past, numerous people would have had periods of contracting out, which was popular in the ’80s and ’90s, and they may have been unaware this had occurred.

Figures show at its peak, more than five million people had opted out of the additional state pension through contracting out, but this practice stopped with the start of the new flat-rate system in April 2016.

Contracting out helped to boost private pensions but on the flip side reduced state pension income, and many people forgot when or if they had periods of contracting out, but pension forecasts show these numbers as a Contracted Out Protected Equivalent.

The state pension is the foundation of most people’s retirement income plans, and it’s an especially valuable benefit, and if you had to buy the equivalent of the full state pension using your own pension funds it would cost you about £277,000.

Over the last few years, and in an attempt to simplify and make the system better for all, the Government launched a new flat-rate pension in April 2016, but this has actually created additional complexity and chaos.

So, where does this leave you if you’re seeking to work out how much you are expected to get? Well, not in a great position if this post is anything to go by, and under the old state pension, it was possible to be contracted out of additional state pension, as a result, people paid less National Insurance and were also contributing to an occupational pension meaning the large preponderance benefited.

But the state pension age is rising today for millions of people, possibly costing them thousands of pounds, and under plans set out by the coalition Government in 2011, people born after 5 December 1953 will see their state pension age rise as elements of reforms appear to be designed to cut billions from the UK’s welfare bill.

The state pension age for men and women will slowly rise from 65 to 66 from now until 6 October 2020. The state pension age is then expected to rise to 67 by 2028 and 68 by 2039, and you will be expected to work until you drop.

It’s the first state pension increase for men since the modern system was launched in 1948, and as the increase is being introduced bit by bit, people will encounter different state pension ages depending on when they were born.

Anyone born from 6 December 1953 to 5 January 1954 will have a state pension age of 6 March 2019, meaning some have to wait up to three months longer to begin getting the payment.

Those born later will see a greater increase depending on their date of birth. This suggests that a three-month rise in the state pension age could cost someone over £2,000 in retirement income, while those who have to wait a full year longer could miss out on over £8,000 state pension.

This could have a notable impact on people’s finances, and a state pension age increase presumably isn’t what most people asked for in their Christmas stocking, but that will be the actuality for countless people who are about to turn 65.

And while this might feel like a cruel lottery for those immediately affected, younger generations will need to prepare for increases in the state pension age to 67 and 68, and if life expectancy continues its long-time trend upwards, then a state pension age 70 could well be on the cards.

And when it comes to younger people, the clear signal coming from the state is that if you want security in retirement, you’ll need to provide it for yourself.

10 Products Linked To Cancer That Are Hiding In Almost Every Home

Do you ever wander through someone’s home and take notes of things that could possibly be dangerous to their health? There’s that fluoride filled toothpaste lying on their bathroom shelves or chemical-ridden detergents lurking in their cupboards, but, what if some of those things are sitting in your own home?

Most people have deadly products which are linked to cancer hiding in every corner of their homes, and often without even realising it.

It’s not like the labels on these products all have a huge warning sign that reads, I can cause cancer. Nonetheless, whether people consciously buy these cancer-causing products or not, we need to be educated on their potentially dangerous effects.

Shampoo is one of the most common items hiding in most people’s homes, particularly shampoos and conditioners, and some of the typical chemicals within conventional shampoos include sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), parfum/fragrance, parabens, synthetic colours and more.

Parabens are a known carcinogen, and they’re directly associated with different types of cancer. For example, one study found that 99 per cent of breast cancer tissues tested had parabens in them.

Some common ingredients in parfum/synthetic fragrances are benzene derivatives, aldehydes, phthalates, and countless other poisons linked with cancer, birth defects, nervous system disorders and allergies.

Head and Shoulders specifically contains fragrance, synthetic colours, and SLS, amongst a myriad of other chemicals in the deadly cocktail that makes up their shampoos and conditioners.

Some of their shampoo products also contain methylchloroisothiazolinone, a possible mutagen.

Non-Stick Cookware, everyone absolutely loves it, that was until we found out about the possible health hazards that come with cooking with these products.

The problem is that non-stick cookware is produced by using a synthetic coating of polytetrafluoroethylene, otherwise known as Teflon, a plastic polymer that will actually release toxins when heated at 450 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.

One investigation discovered that heating cookware covered with Teflon for only two to five minutes on a standard stovetop can cause the coating to break apart and release poisonous particles and vapours.

Even just breathing these once can cause people to become ill with what’s known as the Teflon flu, and some of the chemicals within that coating are also considered possible carcinogens.

Artificial Sweeteners are in so many products, and one of the most widespread ones used is aspartame. Aspartame is generally believed to only be in diet sodas, but it’s frequently added to teas, energy drinks, protein shakes, milk products, juices and other artificially flavoured beverages.

Aspartame has been linked to many health problems, including cancer, and there’s been a lot of debate encompassing the aspartame/cancer connection, and numerous companies that profit off aspartame have funded research in attempting to refute the causal link.

But, a study performed in 2007 revealed that aspartame can cause leukaemias/lymphomas and mammary (breast) cancer, and instead of using artificial sweeteners, try a natural option such as maple syrup, raw honey, Xylitol, Stevia, organic cane sugar, or dates.

Plastic Bottles and Food Containers

So much of our food comes in plastic bags, containers, and bottles. Even our fruits and vegetables are generally covered in plastic. Not only is this greatly wasteful and harmful for the environment, but it isn’t really good for our health, either.

And if you’re drinking from a plastic water bottle, the chemicals within that plastic that are touching your lips can actually seep into your mouth, particularly if your water has been sitting in the bottle for a while.

Has anyone ever left their bottle in a hot car? Well, that’s even worse because the heat facilitates the chemicals leaching. And you’ve probably seen more and more BPA-free labels on plastic bottles, and that’s because people have become increasingly conscious of how using plastic containers can harm our health, as many include BPA, which can cause cancer in people.

An easy solution is to use a refillable water bottle and glassware, which is not only better for your own health, but the health of the environment too.

Air Fresheners Well, this is a huge one because air fresheners are all over people’s houses, from bedrooms to bathrooms to cars, people love them, but they’re made with synthetic fragrance, otherwise known as parfum.

Parfum is essentially a cocktail of toxic chemicals, but instead of listing all of those chemicals on the back of the products, it’s conveniently identified as parfum so that companies can keep their signature fragrance a trade secret.

Sadly, this also enables the companies to hide toxic ingredients, many of which are known carcinogens in their products without the consumer even knowing.

For a more natural option, try brands like Saje Natural Wellness or DoTerra, or make your own using essential oils and water. You could even use natural disinfectants like tea tree or pine essentials oils.

Conventional Cleaners Well, most families have a whole shelf packed with toxic cleaners because companies persuade consumers they need different products to clean specific facades, and even though most of these products have toxic warning signs on them that explicitly state they’re poisonous and/ or corrosive, people proceed to, quite literally, buy into this corporate propaganda.

Not only are they breathing in these fumes while cleaning, but so are any of their household guests and/or children, and some of the common chemicals found in household cleaning products include 20-BE, which causes reproductive problems. Ammonia which is associated with kidney and liver impairment. Then you have coal tar dyes which can cause cancer and harms the nervous system.

Toothpaste essentially uses toxic substances as a means to clean your mouth as the ingredients in regular toothpaste can cause enamel damage, dental fluorosis, stomach ailments, skin rashes, and more.

One of the worst ingredients found in most conventional and dentist-approved toothpaste is fluoride, a known carcinogen.

Fluoride has been a known neurotoxin for a long time, but the government insists it helps our teeth, and in fact, it hasn’t actually been proven to stop the accumulation of unhealthy oral bacteria, however, it has been proven to be toxic, with long-term ingestion linked to brain, heart, and bone problems.

In point of fact, fluoride causes more human cancer mortality than any other chemical, but because the government have the power they don’t have to tell the truth, and that’s a rule that’s been working in this world for generations.

And there are a great many people who don’t tell the truth when they’re in power of administrative positions, and this amounts to public murder on a huge scale, and it’s a public crime.

Soap Whether it’s dish soap, hand soap, or body wash, conventional soaps frequently contain an extensive collection of chemicals, and antibacterial soaps regularly contain Triclosan, which is a possible carcinogen, along with various other ingredients frequently found in typical soaps. Conventional soaps also frequently contain parfum/fragrance.

The good news is that organic or all-natural soap is widely accessible, and Dr Bonner’s makes a great dish soap, as does Green Beaver, and there are tons of great body products made by all-natural brands like Andalous and Saje Natural Wellness.

Laundry Detergent frequently contain phosphorus, enzymes, ammonia, naphthalene, phenol, and sodium nitilotriacetate, all of which can cause rashes, itchiness, dryness, and sinus problems because these chemicals are quickly absorbed through the skin from clothes and bedsheets.

In addition, numerous conventional detergents contain artificial scents and fragrance, which is a code name for a sweet cocktail of dangerous chemicals and possible carcinogens.

Baby Powder

Many baby powders are talc-based, meaning that they contain large amounts of talcum powder, and talc in its natural form contains asbestos which can cause cancer, but one of the most common baby powders used and is produced by Johnson and Johnson is talc-based, and the company has been sued numerous times and has paid millions of dollars to those who’ve claimed their baby powder caused their cancer.

A more recent case against Johnson & Johnson involved a California woman who was given more than $70 million in her suit against the company, as she claimed their baby powder caused her ovarian cancer, and Johnson & Johnson, like many other companies, has failed to disclose the hazards of using their products.

The great part about all of this is that there are unbelievable, all-natural options to all of these products, and you don’t need to be living in fear that you’ll get cancer because there are so many things you can do to stop it, starting with substituting these products with all-natural alternatives.

Graffiti Granny

Isn’t the older generation supposed to be setting an example, rather than vandalising the community, and this lady’s a retired teacher.

But when you get to this lady’s age, it doesn’t make any difference. Did she just think, oh what the hell?

This woman has been accused of scaremongering, but according to this lady that isn’t the case because if this form of Brexit goes through, we’re facing catastrophe.

This isn’t scaremongering. We’re facing a disastrous situation where all the privileges we have had from being in the EU will be lost at a swoop.

There is such an unbelievable lack of information about the way we use the EU, about the way the EU works, the way we benefit from it, and such an incredible amount of misinformation leading to people demonising this union of 28 nations working together for the common good.

The trouble is, it doesn’t matter, the debate is over, the vote has been taken and we leave on 31st October.

We know things aren’t foolproof, but if we also refuse to ignore the huge and notable damage it will do to this country, then this country is over, and we really don’t know what we’re in for.

At least being in the EU gave us some durability. We had a vote, and we knew who our friends and foes were, but we had more clout being in such an influential alliance, particularly with the USA and Russia having their own agendas.

We should really be fearful for the future because the world is in such confusion, particularly with the Tories and Boris Johnson because Boris is such an opportunist and chancer, a lot like his buddy across the pond.

It’s the moneyed elite that are the people who want to crush the EU, and if anyone wants to debate about the end of the EU, an institution which has kept unity across Europe for 70 years, then please at least question who profits from destroying it.

Some might not agree but it took a lot of guts to do what this lady did, so I’m with her all the way, and she has more intelligence than some of our MP’s, and a lot more savvy to the actuality of the situation.

As for this lady scrawling graffiti on the wall, it’s only chalk, it will wash off, and I’m sure the police have got more important things to do – it’s probably washed off by now anyhow!

This lady was pretty smart writing on the wall in chalk, let’s hope it doesn’t rain because some of us oldies feel a sense of responsibility to make a stand against Brexit, and most of us have profited considerably from the UK’s EU membership, but the younger generation will be denied all of those opportunities.

Of course, there are many that wish we’d never joined the EU, and apparently, there are more Leavers than Remainers. Of course, it wasn’t a great idea to join the EU in the first place, Britain was doing reasonably well on its own, but of course, there’s always one bright spark out there that thinks otherwise.

And of course, nobody was complaining or has complained when we can just jump on a plan to any EU country that we like without a visa, or that our children can go to University in an EU country without much ado because being in the EU gives us the power to live, work and study in any country in Europe.

And if there were people there that didn’t take that opportunity, it’s not anyone’s fault but their own fault and clearly not the EU’s, and whilst we’ve been in the EU your employment rights have been protected, the environment that you’ve been living in has been protected, but that’s not enough for some people, but of course, it could have been much worse without EU laws.

But that’s okay, go ahead and sabotage the future of our young people!

Home Office Stabbing

A man in a suit was slashed in the face by a knifeman outside the Home Office in Westminster where armed police swooped on the scene and a cordon was put in place after the victim, who was allegedly in his 60’s, reportedly went into the building for help.

Climactic photos reveal a man with a bloodied face nursing an injury as he was escorted out by paramedics, and Scotland Yard has detained a 29-year-old man on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and ownership of CS spray.

An eyewitness reported seeing blood-soaked tissues in the entrance hall of the Government building, but police are keeping an open mind on motive and have not yet ruled out terrorism, and there have been unconfirmed rumours that the victim was a member of Home Office staff and that he was targeted because he was wearing his pass.

It has further been alleged that before the attack, a man asked a woman if she worked in the building, and it was alleged that he had an albino ferret in a pet transporter with him.

Police initially said the victim had been left with life-threatening injuries but have since established his wounds were not life-threatening or life-changing, and Home Secretary Priti Patel tweeted that her thoughts were with the victim and their family following the horrific unprovoked knife attack on Marsham Street.

Police officers on motorbikes and paramedics appeared on the scene at about 1.20pm, and observers claim the person who stabbed the victim ran off.

The victim was seen being brought out and taken away in an ambulance, and eyewitnesses at the scene said: The gentleman who was escorted out by paramedics looked to have a black shirt partially on, with blood down his front, possibly from his face, and it looked like his clothing had been removed to possibly check for other injuries.

An office worker opposite, who requested to remain nameless, described seeing a man, thought to be the perpetrator, walk calmly down the road after the incident.

He was standing over there outside the Home Office and then he was putting something away in his bag, but I didn’t see a knife or anything. He was putting something away and then he just calmly walked off down the road as if nothing had happened. Then people were being asked to go into the Home Office, they were being ushered in.

A barista working opposite the headquarters said she noticed the man full of blood wandering out of the Government building. She said the victim appeared to be in his 50s and was not wearing a shirt as he walked out with police. He had just trousers, nothing on top. He was full of blood. He was escorted by police and paramedics. I saw just the police when the police came. He was coming out from the building, the officers came in and took him out.

Eyewitness Guy Ellis, 54, further reported seeing a man remove a long knife from his bag before the incident. He said: I was sat outside the Home Office waiting for a friend to meet for lunch and on the other side of the entrance I just saw a bloke take a knife out of his bag, and just wander up the path, stop in front of two girls who were just sat there having a chat, and then he wandered back and turned around and crossed the road very calmly and merged into the crowd.

A second cordon was in place around the entrance of St John’s Smith Square, a few minutes walk away, where a knife sheathing could be seen, and a train ticket to Birmingham, a cap of pepper spray, a pager and a pair of glasses, as well as a rucksack and cat carrier, lie nearby.

Police was called at 13.06 to Marsham Street, Westminster following the description of a man with a knife. Officers attended to discover one man with knife injuries.

London Ambulance Service attended to treat the wounded man, and one man has been detained and is in custody. The building was not evacuated.

The man was taken to a major trauma centre where he got medical care, but this is a genuinely troubling incident.

If Boris Loses No-Confidence Vote

The Queen is not amused, and she is reportedly troubled at being drawn into the escalating Brexit mess, and if Boris Johnson loses a no-confidence vote and refuses to budge then it will be up to the Palace to determine whether the squatter should be ousted from Downing Street.

It smashes the myth that the Queen is somehow beyond party politics, but then the Queen has never been an indolent observer with a ringside throne. They have always been a significant player in the political process, and by accident of birth, they’re awarded the privilege of a private chat each week with the Prime Minister.

By accident of birth, they can request at any time a meeting of the Privy Council, peers, senior ministers, bishops and judges to ask for their opinions. By accident of birth, they sign off Charters governing the BBC, universities and, press regulation.

By accident of birth, they are given access to every government file, and we’ve endured this because we admire the personal conduct and integrity of the current head of state, but will we think the same when Prince Charles, who has repeatedly intervened in ministerial affairs, takes over?

So, not only is Brexit now endangering our representative’s parliamentary democracy, the British Constitution, and the union of the United Kingdom, it’s ultimately endangering the monarchy itself, and it now appears that all is being sacrificed at the altar of Brexit.

And it appears that Boris Johnson is leading a neo-Jacobin coup. First, you must destroy everything, the whole socio-political construct, bring the status quo crashing down in order to establish a New Jerusalem on the smouldering ashes of the ancient regime.

And if people think that immigration will end after Brexit, think again because this government are excellent at telling the people what they want to hear and the more they hear it, the more they believe it.

Next, we will be electing our own monarchs, rather than having a hereditary monarchy.

I don’t know about you, but I really like the concept of having an inherited monarchy. The problem is, it’s not actually a British monarchy, it’s more like the United Nations hereditary wise, and I’ve heard of keeping it in the family, but when is far enough before we get a deranged royal? Oh, no. I think we’ve previously had a few of those.

But of course, the public can’t elect a monarch because once you begin electing a head of state, it becomes a republic.

I can’t say that I’m thrilled about the Royal family or the Queen come to that. I can take her or leave her, it actually doesn’t bother me too much, but perhaps it is time that she got down off her throne and got her whip out and beat our government up into some sort of shape because she certainly needs to do something.

After all, this is her country as well, and the Queen might have said that she’s disappointed in Britain’s political leaders, and their failure to govern correctly, but rather than talking about it, why doesn’t she do something about it? After all, she is the Queen.

Mind you the 93-year-old monarch only mentioned it privately, and it was reported that the Queen was really dismayed over the situation and unhappy with the state of Britain’s politicians amid the Brexit disorder.

Her disappointment has possibly grown because MPs are threatening to pull her into Brexit and the United Kingdom moving closer to a no-deal under the new Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but the Queen stays out of political affairs of state and is known for being rigidly neutral.

Her views have rarely been exposed and this is said to be amongst the starkest political statements she is known to have made, coming as a shock to courtiers, but of course, Buckingham Palace has refused to comment on those claims.

And claims have surfaced that Tory rebels and Labour MPs plan to call on the Queen to intercede if Boris Johnson declines to leave in the wake of a Commons no-confidence vote.

Boris Johnson has reportedly agreed to meet Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar to discuss Brexit and the Northern Irish backstop, and the UK has accepted Leo Varadkar’s proposal to meet and dates are being reviewed, and Boris Johnson told the European Union that there was no point in having new talks on a withdrawal agreement unless negotiators were prepared to drop the backstop agreed by his forerunner Theresa May.

The EU has said it’s not ready to reopen the divorce deal it agreed with Theresa May, which included the backstop, an insurance policy to block the return to a hard border between the British province of Northern Ireland and EU-member Ireland.

Theresa May’s deal was refused three times by British parliament, saying that the United Kingdom would remain in a customs union unless and until alternative arrangements were determined to avoid a hard border.

Boris Johnson has said Britain will leave the EU on October 31 with or without a deal, and he’s stepped up preparations to leave without a divorce agreement if Brussels refuses to renegotiate, prompting some lawmakers to assume a no-deal Brexit is his intention.

The Telegraph said it was hoped a meeting between Boris Johnson and Varadkar could take place before the G7 summit in France later in August. In the meantime, former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has said that the United Kingdom, having previously been honoured around the world for being inclusive and outward-looking, now displays a portrayal of division, prejudice and introversion.

Gordon Brown wrote that three weeks into Boris Johnson’s premiership, English nationalism is on the rise, the Conservative and Unionist party has been reincarnated as the Conservatives and Brexit, and unionism appears to be sleepwalking into oblivion.

He concluded by saying that the ideals of an inclusive outward-looking Britishness could not survive the divisiveness and chaos of a no-deal Brexit. And he said that to prevent the rise of dysfunctional nationalism, the first step was to stop no-deal in its tracks.

The Queen really should do something, perhaps dismiss this government. She should maybe make it her legacy before she leaves this planet, and she would be praised for it.

Theresa May’s agreement was denied three times by the British parliament, but an agreement that is rejected is not an agreement, but a suggestion, and I actually wonder if the Queen reads these comments, she’ll be at the end of her tether if she does.

Hopefully, Great Britain will stay in the European Union, which would be much more beneficial than being the largest trading block with our friends in Europe, and it would make much more sense to cement further relationships with them, than leaving with a no-deal.

The Queen should terminate this parliament and prevent the Conservative party from putting forward any competitors in any seat for the next General Election. The people of the United Kingdom are not happy, but then the English are not happy unless they’re miserable!

How does the Queen know what’s going on in the world while she lives in her Ivory Tower, living the closed life that she does, and does she really think that the entire country smells like new paint, with everywhere she goes being done up for just a few moments that she’s there?

But if the Queen does get drawn into this, unwillingly, I’m sure, she might have to eventually make a decision, and I’m confident that she will put the country first, whatever the people think about the rights and wrongs of having a Royal family.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re in support of the monarchy or not, myself, I’m not, but you can’t help admiring a woman who took on a job because she was born into it, who vowed to do it for the rest of her life, and has done it well as anyone could right into her 90’s.

The problem with this country is that people accept what the papers tell us, and propaganda is widespread, but what would you rather have the boring truth, or an exciting lie? Well, if you want lies, simply carry on reading the newspapers.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

The Queen is not amused, and neither are the rest of the population.

The Tories have been in power for a decade, and all we’ve seen from this incompetent government is endless austerity cuts, underfunding and wage stagnation, and all these policies were inflicted upon the poorest in society.

But evidently, we’ve never had it so good.

And we urgently need a shift of direction in this country, and we need a fresh government that guarantees that future wealth is spread fairly across the whole of the United Kingdom. Sadly, that will never be achieved by this prevailing government or Tory lead government.

You can’t cut and slash your way to prosperity, that can only be done by investment and growth, and that’s something this government have no intention of doing, and Boris Johnson has become Prime Minister with the lowest approval ratings in living memory, but his election team doesn’t appear to be concerned because that still puts him on a significantly better footing than Jeremy Corbyn, who is considerably behind Boris Johnson on personal approval ratings.

And when the opposition fails in being a reliable option, then it puts precisely zero pressure on the government actually doing their job because they know that no matter how badly they mess up they won’t be replaced.

And it makes you want to beat their miserable heads together, and not necessarily when connected to their shoulders, and the Queen has consumed the last 70 years doing nothing but smashing champagne bottles and Ascot, but suddenly the 93-year-old has got the world’s most difficult political puzzle to solve.

But to be honest, what’s best for this nation is to do what’s in the best interest of the country, and revoking Article 50 would certainly be in the best interest of the country. We should either pass the withdrawal agreement negotiated between the United Kingdom and the EU or withdraw from Brexit altogether.

A petition calling for Article 50 to be revoked, effectively cancelling Brexit has been signed by more than six million people, but Theresa May said that it shouldn’t be revoked, but the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling last year verified that the United Kingdom could revoke Article 50 itself, without having to ask the other 27 EU countries for permission.

This could be done by writing a letter to the European Council, made up of EU heads of state, and it would remain a member of the EU on the same terms, as it has now, including keeping its budget rebate, but it did set some conditions.

The ruling said revocation should be unequivocal and unconditional, insinuating that the UK could not just revoke Article 50 in order to buy more time and then resubmit at a later date. Well, that sounds fair enough to me, our government can’t have its cake and eat it!

So, who decides? Well, the UK government has a power known as the Royal Prerogative, which allows it to do certain things including deploying armed forces, granting honours and altering international treaties without consulting Parliament.

This is the only way to prevent the devastation of a no-deal Brexit because a run on the pound was once the kind of event that disturbed a Prime Minister, now the Conservative government’s central policy will not only crash the pound but also end Britain’s manufacturing and agriculture overnight and block half the country’s transportation of food and medicines, and it seems to be showing no remorse whatsoever.

A no-deal will spell the end of Britain’s car industry and various other manufacturing divisions which depend on exports and complex supply chains. Farmers will suffer harmful tariffs overnight and many will just go under.

And revoking Article 50 would accommodate a lot of people, but I suspect that the right-wing press will let that happen because together with their billionaire-backed ogre facilities and paid rabble-rousers there will be a lot of political objection to dispense with.

Rate this:

Share this:

Rate this:

Share this:

Rate this:

Share this:

Rate this:

Share this:

Rate this:

Share this:

Rate this:

Share this:

Rate this:

Share this:

Rate this:

Share this:

Rate this:

Share this:

Rate this:

Share this: