THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

Health Chief Warns That There Is Already Coronavirus In The UK

Public Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle suspects there could now be cases of coronavirus in the United Kingdom but emphasised the country is well prepared for an outbreak, and the former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt hinted Brits could be airlifted out of quarantined cities in China to evade the lethal virus.

Jeremy Hunt further stated that the NHS is well-equipped to deal with patients returning with the virus but predicted it could stretch the health service.

At this time of the year, it becomes a particularly challenging time for the NHS, and usually, the NHS is really experienced when having to cope with these kinds of emergencies. Sadly, we’re well over-stretched with not enough doctors and nurses to dispense with another crisis, that will clearly have a knock-on effect on other NHS services.

It’s going to be extremely challenging for the NHS in terms of the daily workload that they have but there is no doubt that when it comes down to it, they will do what’s needed to quarantine the virus and keep the country safe, and the Home Secretary Priti Patel said that the Government is looking at all possibilities to help Britons leave Wuhan.

More than 50 people have been tested for coronavirus in the United Kingdom and according to the Department of Health (DoH), all tests have returned negative, and the prevailing danger to the public remains low and that they’re continuing to monitor the situation closely.

The Foreign Office updated its guidance to advise against all travel to the Hubei province, which has been locked down as China attempts to contain the illness, but the guidance further added that if people were in this area and able to leave, they should do so, this is due to the continuing novel coronavirus outbreak.

There’s a good possibility that cases will appear in Britain as the overall number reported around the world rises to about 2,744 including 80 deaths, which have all happened in China, and Britons trapped in the Chinese province at the centre of the outbreak have been asked to the leave the area if they’re able to do so.

A pair of British teachers who have been working in Wuhan said that they’ve not left their residence for days and that all transportation has been suspended and that there’s no place to go and so they’re pretty much stuck.

Jason Neal and Sophie Hunt told BBC Breakfast there has been no reassurance from the British authorities whom they have struggled to contact, probably because of the time variation and them being closed over the weekend.

They have about five days of food left and are keeping in touch with colleagues online while the view outside is now like a ghost town, and at the moment the news is to just sit tight, but the silence is disconcerting, and they’ve not heard anything from outside of Wuhan for a week now.

There is a support group for people who may require help and to get masks and some volunteers are going out to make deliveries, and emailing and attempting to ring the authorities has just brought a hopeless automated reply back from the embassy, telling people not to go into the area.

Chinese authorities have locked down the city and all that people keep hearing is that the death toll is accelerating every day and all that people can do is sit tight and wait for more news, and even though it’s difficult being stuck there, it’s the safest possible option for people at the moment.

Thousands of people have been contaminated with the flu-like virus, with a surprisingly extended number of Chinese sightseers across Europe right now, and unless the Chinese manage to control this, and it’s doubtful whether that’s possible, we will get cases in the United Kingdom.

Spectators celebrated the Chinese New Year in central London, which marked the start of the Year of the Rat, but the authorities in China have cancelled a multitude of celebrations marking the New Year as they increased their measures against the virus.

Jeremy Hunt said he wants to airlift UK citizens trapped in Wuhan, but for the sake of everyone, he should have insisted that every one of them be kept under stringent quarantine until we know that they’re not affected and not to do so would be very irresponsible, and not only that, planes travel in daily from China, so we can expect to see some cases here and the only way to stop this would be to ban all flights.

DWP Blasted By Amy Winehouse’s Mum As She Demands Urgent Benefit Changes

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Amy Winehouse’s mother argued Boris Johnson to stop the sickening treatment of disabled welfare claimants as Janis Winehouse presented a 21,000 signature petition to Downing Street, with campaigners demanding a response from the Prime Minister.

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They’re asking for Boris Johnson to fix the process for claiming Personal Independence Payments (PIP).

The benefit, which succeeded Disability Living Allowance, was intended to help with the additional expense of a long term health condition or disability, however, there are concerns about the assessment method and the complexity of the forms.

Janis Winehouse, who has secondary progressive multiple sclerosis wants to help people living with multiple sclerosis whose voices are still not being heard, and the late singer’s mother announced that some of her closest friends have been through the exhausting and demoralising process of claiming PIP and that it can’t go on any longer.

Multiple sclerosis is painful and crippling, and right now PIP is costing countless people their independence rather than giving it to them, and after handing over the petition on her 65th birthday, she blasted how sickening it is, that claimants are examined by people with no understanding of the condition.

While she’d not individually experienced difficulties with PIP, her friends have seen undeniable horrors and Janis Winehouse urged the Prime Minister to support those people and for him to listen and understand what these people are saying.

The UK’s welfare system is a disaster and it’s leaving thousands of disabled people suffering as a result, even though it was a process that was created to protect society’s most vulnerable, it’s now too often doing the reverse.

More than 100,000 live with Multiple Sclerosis in the United Kingdom and there need to be common-sense changes to PIP so that people can get the necessary help they need. This doesn’t need a lengthy consultation or elusive Green Paper, it simply requires decisions backed up by evidence, and assessments carried out by experts with a good awareness of the condition.

And it’s hoped that the Prime Minister will read the letter attentively, and understand the impact these profoundly flawed assessments have on people, and it’s about time that we had a benefits process people can trust.

These injustices need addressing quickly because what sort of government turns a deaf ear to the pain and suffering?

This is now a government that believes that the sick and disabled are worthless and must be got rid of and if we’re not mindful there will again be workhouses on the horizon.

There have been thousands that have died, so how serious does it have to get before we do something about it, and it seems that it’s time to fight back because anyone can end up disabled, even the elite of the elite.

Sorry to say people voted for more of this cruel Tory government and it doesn’t look like anyone will prevent the death of the disabled because this Tory government certainly doesn’t care about them.

These assessments that they do are flawed and more often than not it’s making people take their own lives over the situation and as long as the Tories are in it will never change, and the voters that voted the Tories in, they don’t care either, all they’re concerned about is getting Brexit through and then turn a blind eye to their own people that are being killed by government policies, and the Tories and their voters are the ones that are a stain on humanity, not the starving and poverty-stricken, talk about passing the buck!

People are being assessed that have the most appalling infirmities such as epilepsy, osteoporosis and many other conditions such as seizures, and that are constantly in pain, pain that is intolerable.

The assessor writes the report to the DWP and then the claimant gets a copy with numerous claimants finding that the assessors have told so many lies, which is nothing short of criminal, and people are being told that their health is manageable and they’re passed fit for work.

And one could agree that these assessments are cruel, with people doing the assessments that aren’t qualified enough and some can’t even spell the person’s health issues, and yet, the Tories just laugh and look down on the suffering and the poor, and it’s designed folks because the UK’s social safety net has been intentionally eliminated and replaced with a rigid and uncaring ethos, and no one should be made sicker due to the DWP process!

Nobody Can Really Be Free!

Nobody can really be free until all of us are free, that’s what Martin Luther King said, and that’s not only to do with prejudice but any kind of injustice.

He inspired the world and stood among the perpetrators, but nothing much has changed while we leave patients dying on hospital trolleys, we’re still crying freedom!

And there is still discrimination within our communities and we are presently moving down a dead-end road that can only lead to national disaster with Brexit on the horizon.

Like anyone else, we would like to live a long life but listening about the horrors that took place before I was born was a frightening reality but I always imagined that I was comparatively safe in the United Kingdom.

And now we should be asking ourselves, why are there so many starving people in the United Kingdom, and we should be raising questions about our economic system and what is needed today because it appears that now we have humans with no humanity and we can only dream that one day our children are not judged by the appearance of their skin but by the content of their character.

There was once a legacy given out by Martin Luther King that we would win in the end, so that those who attempt to put people down because of the colour of their skin will ultimately fail, after all, we all have the same colour blood, even if the skin is different, and it’s a disgrace that our education system misses out on educating our children about this and the other wonderous people who have battled throughout history for our rights and freedoms, and which we should be embracing today!

Humans like Martin Luther King and his visions are missing today, and it’s important to know that we were all born different, including shape, colour, language and the ways that we relate with each other, and this in itself should enrich our lives and not fight each other to destroy it.

We have to respect differentiation, to respect each other so that we can live in harmony, this is what makes our life vivid. We either live together as friends or fade away together as a stupid species, and it’s difficult to believe that we still live amidst prejudice and that we’ve forgotten what it’s like to be persecuted, but then the establishment always eliminates great people one way or another.

Inequality has continually been a roaring theme and the statistics are still stark with the imprisonment of people with colour that is cosmic. Gay marriages may be taking place but hate crimes and workplace discomfort are still quite real, and women still face threats of violence and lower earnings because of their gender, and people with disabilities and transgender people brave their own struggles for freedom as well.

Everywhere we look, we see differences in wealth, power, and status, and some groups have a higher rank and greater privilege than others, and discrimination is based on race called racism and usually, gender prejudice or discrimination is referred to as sexism, and often discrimination is the result of prejudice which drives people to view certain people or groups as inferior.

If everyone respected each other, societies would truly thrive if people discarded their prejudices and celebrated their differences, and we should encourage understanding and inclusive living, giving people the scope to exercise their beliefs and faiths, but instead, it’s commonplace to say that inequality has reached its peak.

We treat people differently because of their status or perceived class, which in many ways is comparable to racism, sexism, heterosexism and other methods of persecution, and it appears individually through attitudes and behaviours, institutionally through policies and practices, and culturally through the norms and values, and it has a trend of making sweeping generalisations or stereotypes about people, such as ‘poor people or lazy people’.

And social status isn’t just about the cars we drive, the money we make or the schools we attend, it’s more about how we feel, think and act, and as people reconstruct their days, it’s obvious that in every single decision they make, class is an inherent feature, and the implications are larger than our selection of breakfast.

Class affects whether someone is going to be accepted into a particular kind of school, their likelihood of succeeding in that school, the kinds of jobs they have access to and the sort of friends they make, and social class defines as a social context that people inhabit in enduring and pervasive ways over time and is the primary lens through which we see ourselves and others.

Because lower-ranking people have less support and opportunities than those of comparatively high rank, and success for them, consequently, depends on how well they can read, and growing up has a lasting impression on people’s personal and social individualities and this affects both the way they think and feel about their social environment and key features of their social behaviour.

Freedom is a good which all humans possess and to degrade this is deemed an attack on human dignity and on the Rights of Man. But is it true that we can do everything that we want to do?

It is, unless sick or paralysed, that we enjoy certain liberty, freedom of movement because we’re able to move our heads, or lift our fingers, or to run et cetera, but this physical freedom is not unlimited because we can frantically shake our arms but we can’t manage to fly.

Our freedom of movement is dictated by rules which we’re unable to transgress, we can’t live without eating, and to resist against the limits of our physical liberty is futile. On the other hand, if we accept to resign ourselves to the laws of nature, like that of gravity, for example, we can succeed in flying but by going up in an aeroplane.

This same thing goes for the rules of our governments because we’re dictated to by the rules which we seem unable to rebel against. They know we can’t live without eating and that we can’t go without specific things, so we are dictated to by the rules and our physical liberties might be futile, but our spoken words are not, we have a voice and we all have a dream!

Hundreds Of Thousands Of People Living Without A Fridge In Britain

A charity alleged that hundreds of thousands of people in the United Kingdom are living without a fridge and it exposed the shocking figure to highlight what it described as millions living in poverty without necessary white goods.

The charity commissioned a study of 2,017 people earning less than £35,000 in December 2018 by private research firm Dynata and of those who responded, 312 – 15.5 per cent stated they were living without at least one of these, a cooker, fridge, freezer or washing machine.

In all 5.8 per cent stated they were living without a cooker, 2.9 per cent without a fridge, 9.5 per cent without a freezer and 5.6 per cent without a washing machine.

The charity used the data to provide a rough estimation that 900,000 people are living without a fridge in the United Kingdom and the charity alleged Tory welfare reforms since 2010 had contributed significantly to the rise in appliance deficiency and a spokesperson stated 70 of 100 charities had pointed to the determination to scrap a system of crisis loans called the Social Fund in 2013.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) stated people on Universal Credit can get a budgeting advance to assist with comparable costs but these are repaid through Universal Credit by docking future benefits.

Universal Credit budgeting advances are available and as the DWP state, can help pay for emergency household things, including washing machines or other appliances.

Household appliances are not indulgences these days, they’re essentials and everyone warrants the simple freedom to store their own food, cook their own dinner and wash their own clothes because not having a washing machine has a huge impact on one’s life and it requires a lot of money to have to keep going to the launderette, plus there are not many launderettes about now.

It can be emotionally upsetting for that person because they can’t provide sufficiently, particularly if they have children and it’s also disheartening for that person because they can’t provide basic essentials for their home and family and living without white goods results in a harsh and extremely stressful reality for people who are already some of the most marginalised in our society.

Everyone deserves to live in a sustainable home suitable for human habitation and single, childless people on benefits or minimum wage get crushed by the system and if it wasn’t for families donating, god knows what sort of state they would be in, but not everyone has a family who can help out.

And it seems that the Tories idea of these people is if they can’t afford heating, why on earth would they need a fridge and that if they have no heating, then most likely they have no food to put in a fridge. Problem sorted, and it seems that the Torie’s motto is “If I’m okay Jack bol*ocks to you”.

The problem is this country already knew the state of hardship and distress as a result of this Tory government and yet some people still chose the Tories, so either Brexit surpasses living without fundamental needs or the vote was rigged and those who voted Tory believing that they would actually help those in need, you need to give your head a jiggle.

Produce is getting smaller, the price of fresh food keeps growing, particularly meat and salaries, and benefits stay the same because the plan is to decimate those worse off and the ones they class as a stone on their shoe will suffer even more and they have surpassed their expectations on how low they will sink.

And when the people of the United Kingdom can’t afford essential appliances, then something is dangerously wrong, and I hope those Brexit voters who voted to leave are ready for what comes next or will they just continue to be gullible and accept the distortions that this Nazi government keep telling them?

Far too many in this country look down on those who rely on benefits but you just don’t have a clue on what their struggle is like, perhaps one day you’ll find out!

But some might say that it’s the responsibility of the person to get a job and pay for their white goods but what about those with disabilities and mental disabilities who can’t work and have to completely rely on getting help from the government? What if one day something happens to you and you can’t work, will it still be your responsibility or do these people think they’ve got some master plan to purchase things with buttons?

Most people who have jobs still struggle to pay their rent, council tax, gas, electric, fuel costs, food costs, clothing costs et cetera. They don’t want handouts but most low-income families have to rely on them to make ends meet and the worst thing is, those that are better off look upon the low income of this country as if they’re the problem but the problem with this country is our government, end of.

John Bercow Put £1,000 Taxi On Travel Expenses That Could Have Cost £67

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John Bercow splashed out £1,000 of taxpayers money on a taxi ride that could have cost as little as £67 by train and before he resigned as Commons Speaker, John Bercow paid the eye-watering amount to take a taxi from Westminster to Nottingham to give a speech.

Aides have said that he was encouraged not to take public transport to Nottingham Trent University, where he was giving a speech to the Political Studies Association conference about how Parliament should respond to the anti-politics age, because of security concerns.

The taxi waited for him throughout his speech and dropped his colleague off in Bicester on the way back, and the cost before VAT was calculated was £836.50.

John Bercow has also enjoyed a £7,000 jaunt around the United States during the end of his tenure.

His expenses, funded by taxpayers, included a £118 a month subscription to Sky for the Speakers House, the home within the Palace of Westminster where John Bercow lived with his family.

The former Conservative MP also left the public with a £12,000 bill for leaving parties. It included an invoice of £3,168 for a retirement party for Speakers chaplain Rose Hudson-Wilkin and rather than retire, she became the Bishop of Dover.

John Bercow also spent £2,376 on a retirement party for the Commons invitations secretary and a month later another £3,187 for a formal goodbye to Clerk of the House, David Natzler.

The Speakers official account spent £3,696 on giving the principal clerk of the Table Office a send-off and the Speakers Office has financed retirement receptions for senior staff numerous times in the past.

Before he left the Commons chair, John Bercow used his official account to pay for a £234 drinks bill at a reception for the Panel of Chairs, MPs who help him oversee Parliamentary debates, and £560 on lunch for his counterparts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The Remain-voter John Bercow refereed proceedings in the Commons for nine years and he’s since been hired for media appearances since stepping down, including giving commentary for Sky News during its general election coverage last month.

Of course, we shouldn’t be surprised by this because this is really a great illustration of a typical mercenary Tory politician and the man is nothing but a common criminal and the expenses were for his role as Speaker of the House of Commons, not for any of his private jaunts and he was nothing more than a champagne Socialist.

And like all the biased little fannies they’re used to travelling the gravy train at our expense but there seems little point bleating on about it like the sheep that we are and they’re all at it and they seem to get away with it, no questions asked while the people of this country have no funds for education or medical, but that appears to be someone else’s problem as another Tory climbs into yet another taxi.

All non-essential work-related expenses should have a listing of recommended hotels and travel plans to guarantee that bookings can only be made for those recommended lists, then all second homes should be eliminated, and all food and drinks. If they want to wine and dine, they can pay for that out of their wages and then we will see the MPs that do the job for the right reasons and not because they can make thousands from the taxpayer.

John Bercow is a deeply dislikable person with a frankly cruel aura and what a greedy wicked man he is and it’s no wonder these MPs don’t want to reveal their expenses because they all know they’re an utter disgrace and we should be fed up with the whole process and constant hands in the till set up, while austerity and big wiggling backsides are feeding themselves at the pig trough and Boris Johnson has rewarded the hardest working people with a 51 pence an hour wage rise, just shows what he thinks of the public and to think, some people actually voted for this little piggy!

And a parasite of a human being comes to mind!

Keith Vaz, Disgraced MP, Wins Fresh Election

Former MP Keith Vaz was named as the president of the constituency party he served for 32 years and the former chair of the Select Committee on Home Affairs was voted in as chair of the Leicester East Labour Party.

The disgraced politician told members that he was standing because there was turmoil in the local party and he wanted to sort it out.

Police are also investigating an allegation of assault at the meeting, although it’s unclear who was supposedly involved.

The police received a report of an assault at the Belgrave neighbourhood centre and additional investigations are being done into whether there has been any criminal aggression.

It was exposed how he offered male sex workers to buy cocaine while posing as Jim, an industrial washing machine salesman.

Mr Vaz received the longest ever ban imposed by parliament after a damaging report found he displayed a willingness to buy two prostitutes cocaine and it was more likely than not he had paid for sex and the explanation given by the former politician that he had amnesia and was unable to remember key events was not reliable and indeed ridiculous.

His punishment was doled out approximately three years after the embarrassment was exposed by the Sunday Mirror.

Mr Vaz is also a member of Labour’s ruling body, the national executive committee giving him an important position in the running of the party despite the embargo and it’s been said that Mr Vaz stood because the local party was failing to function and that the local party is in total turmoil and that some people had asked that Mr Vaz get involved.

Well, Mr Vaz does like a party, he’s got a track record for it! And it appears that now degenerates like to rule, and so Mr Vaz rules again, what a surprise but there’s no suggestion that Mr Vaz has personally broken any party rules.

And it’s been generally rumoured that the former MP would like to stand again at the next election and that his position as chair would give him a platform for this. He wants to get back to Westminster and the story is that now he’s ideally positioned.

Parents Fined £1 For Every 5 Minutes They’re Late To Pick Up Kids From School

Teachers at Holy Trinity C of E Primary, in Gravesend, could ring social services if the children are still waiting to be collected at 4pm and if parents can’t be reached, children will be accepted into the responsibility of the local authority.

The new policy to prevent even a ten minute late pick up has left parents angry and has been dubbed a disgrace and parents of the school are astounded and shocked to receive this announcement from the school.

Gravesend is a deprived area and numerous parents struggle to work due to the cost of childcare.

Many schools finish about the same time and this means that it’s a struggle for parents to get to their children on time.

The school used to let children wait in the library then were told the library was closed for refurbishments.

The school did offer an after school club a few years ago but this was then closed by the headteacher with little warning because it didn’t make enough money.

The letter from the school said that if children weren’t picked up by 4pm the school would ring social services and the fact that the governors have agreed to impose this disgraceful thing is shameful because it’s meant to be a Christian school.

And it’s shameful that the headteacher cares more about making money out of struggling parents than supporting the community.

The Late Collection of Pupils Policy was introduced in an effort to guarantee all the children were collected from school on time and the school said that this was for each individual child’s benefit as well as for the entire school.

The school finishes at 3.30pm but it was becoming a frequent daily occurrence to have a significant number of uncollected children still on site at 4pm and the school stated that when this happens members of staff have to be paid overtime to supervise those children and that the school isn’t able to support this continuing cost without it affecting upon other areas of the school’s resources and hence on the children’s education.

And now the school is saying that pupils that are collected late usually display signs of agitation and anxiety as they don’t know where their parent or carer is and despair that something may have happened to them.

So, now children’s parents will have to set up informal groups for a designated person to take children home with their own children, without the ability to run official checks on them.

There will always be problems at this time of the day, but that doesn’t make these parents bad parents but then perhaps teachers should try and work in an industry where workers don’t get the luxury of the number of holidays these teachers get, then they might know what a job is, especially having to do 10 or 12-hour shifts, then they might not be so keen to then charge parents for being late to pick up their children.

And not all children get into the same school as their siblings, so which child do you pick up first?

The problem is more and more schools in the United Kingdom are becoming harsh dictators and they should be penalised proportionately for their anti-social ways, after all, who do they think they are?

It’s understandable that schools are cash strapped and most can’t afford after school clubs and they should be given more money by the government because there are many parents who have to work and can’t always get to the school on time. The government want people to work but they’re not willing to support these parents in any circumstances and there are numerous children who really like going to after school clubs and there are parents who are willing to pay for that service.

And ringing Social Services is a tad over the top because they’re already grossly overburdened and schools should take funded provision for after-hours cover, it works elsewhere and if the school can’t get the funding then why don’t they ask parents who don’t work to volunteer to run the after school club. They would need a police check but there are numerous mums out there who would happily volunteer their time to help out.

Ofsted Says Golders Green School Content Doesn’t Show Respect For Women

Ofsted inspectors stated that material discovered at an Orthodox school in Golders Green does not teach respect for women and said that texts discovered in the Lubavitch Senior Boy’s School main room carried messages about gender roles.

The material, which was found amongst religious textbooks during an inspection, included suggestions on how to handle women and references to their functions as guards protecting their families well-being, rather than as workers but the school’s leaders told Ofsted that they were not knowledgeable of these texts being in the school and that they didn’t represent their beliefs.

During the inspection that was carried out without warning, the school was ranked as inadequate because it was found that their curriculum was narrow and condensed and that the pupil’s accomplishments were considered inadequate in English, mathematics and science and inspectors discovered age-appropriate textbooks to be censored through teacher selection of content studied.

The school educates 22 boys aged from 11 to 13 and they moved from Stamford Hill to share premises as the Lubavitch Yeshiva Katana where students couldn’t present proof of written work for English and Ofsted recorded that the school’s permanent head was missing and it was unclear if he would return.

And in a separate report, it was announced by Ofsted that an inadequate Chasidic boys infant school in Stamford Hill had 100 more children than its official maximum.

Talmud Torah D’Chasidei Gur, which has 242 boys from three to seven, was deemed unsatisfactory in all categories following the inspection service and Ofsted reprimanded the inadequate model of secular education and noted that students struggled to read because teachers lacked the awareness of how to teach boys pronunciation and as a result, boys got confused between Yiddish and English.

Subject plans were too narrow and concentrated largely on the experiences of the Jewish people with nothing about how Britain has influenced or been affected by the wider world and that students did not learn about the role of women.

The basic function of the Lubavitch is to gather Jewish children (children in the plain sense of the word), as well as children in terms of knowledge of G-d, his Torah and Mitzvot, in order to reveal their inner soul and true essence, that they should recognise that they are the children of G-d, their G-d and should continue to forge the golden chain of their ancestral tradition to the point of veritable self-sacrifice for the preservation of the Jewish way of life, the way of the Torah and Mitzvot.

And that’s excellent as long as they’re learning the ways of the world outside of their culture as well and are being taught an all-inclusive curriculum.

Alert as 8,000 In Southend Miss Screening For Breast Cancer

Women are called for a breast screening every three years between the ages of 50 and 70, to help detect cancer early but new statistics reveal the proportion of women receiving the invitation has decreased across England over the last decade.

Only 64.3 per cent of the 23,641 women in the Southend Clinical Commissioning Group area due to screening the three years to the end of last March took up the offer, which indicates that 8,433 women were not up to date with their checks.

The information reveals how numerous eligible women were checked at least once in the three year period, indicating that some women could be years overdue and that across England, 71.6 per cent of women eligible for a screening attended their last check.

The UK National Screening Committee stated at least 70 per cent of women sent an offer should attend, but that the NHS is anticipated to obtain an 80 per cent uptake and of those who were posted an offer in 2018-19 across England, only 71.1 per cent had attended inside six months of their invite.

This was up somewhat from the past year, which had the lowest participation rate since the current screening programme started in 2007 and about a third of the 195 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) in England failed to reach the lower target, while only one passed the 80 per cent benchmark.

Baroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive of charity Breast Cancer Now, stated: “It’s promising that uptake of breast screening in England has improved slightly after reaching a decade-low last year and we hope this now continues.

“But screening uptake is still barely above the minimum target, with hundreds of thousands of women across the country not attending.

“While screening comes with some risks to be aware of, we’d encourage all women to attend their appointments when invited.”

Uptake in Southend grew slightly from 63.8 per cent in 2017-18, despite a drop nationally. Nevertheless, it’s descended from a peak of 64.8 per cent in 2010-11.

The breast screening programme uses an X-ray test called a mammogram to identify tumours before they’re large enough to feel by which discovering the disease early on gives a better likelihood of survival and while screening is an individual decision, it’s better to identify the disease before it takes a grip.

Breast cancer survival is at a record high in England with deaths falling quicker than anyplace else in Europe, thanks to earlier detection and advances in treatment and it’s vital that women attend their examination and the NHS is looking for ways to encourage the uptake, including making appointments more convenient.

Boris Johnson wants £ 500,000 to Bong Big Ben on Brexit Night

Boris Johnson has called on Brits to crowdfund up to £5000,000 so Big Ben can bong at the moment of Brexit.

The Prime Minister announced he’s drawing up plans to bung a bob for Parliament’s famous bell to ring out at 11pm on January 31 and scores of Tory MPs have been asking for the bell to toll to rejoice the moment Britain legally becomes the first country to leave the EU.

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But so far no plan has been announced because Elizabeth Tower, which holds the Great Bell known as Big Ben is presently being renovated and the matter was presented at a meeting of the House of Commons Commission but the cost was calculated at £500,000, so the idea was jettisoned.

Commons Speaker Lindsey Hoyle advised care over any proposal to ring the bell, saying that you’re talking about £50,000 a bong. Yet in an interview, Boris Johnson announced the Government was working up a proposal to finance the costs.

The bongs cost £500,000 but evidently, the government are working up a plan so that people can bung a bob for a Big Ben bong because there are some people who want to.

However, Big Ben is being refurbished and they seem to have taken the clapper away, so the clapper needs to be restored in order to bong Big Ben on Brexit night and that’s expensive, so now they’re now looking at whether the public can fund it. The proposals provoked immediate ridicule from opposing MPs with SNP MP Stewart McDonald stating, a global Britain, that has to run a crowdfunder to ring the bells of its most renowned clock tower, we really are through the looking glass.

The fascination with Big Ben ringing for Brexit actually does highlight the shallowness of the Vote Leave campaign.

The 315ft, Grade I listed Elizabeth Tower that contains the bell and clock face is currently undergoing a £61 million renovation in which costs have more than doubled.

It has previously chimed for Remembrance Sunday and New Year’s Eve but the special chiming requires two days of rehearsal and testing each time, and even more time in preparation.

Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons and chairman of the Commission said that the Commission thinks it’s necessary to weigh up the costs this would involve if Big Ben is to sound on 31 January, you’re talking about £50,000 a bong.

We further need to bear in mind that the only people who will hear it will be those who live near and are visiting Westminster, not the entire nation and even if it was reconnected, only the haunting low E dong of 13.7 tonnes, 1859 Great Bell would ring out, not the musical quarter bells which make up the clock’s famous chime.

The bell was detached in 2017 to protect the hearing of the craftsmen renovating the tower, yet Tory Brexiteer Mark Francois insisted he and fellow Brexit ultra Bill Cash could go up the column with a hammer and bong the bell themselves and that if all else fails, the BBC must have a recording of Big Ben clanging they could play at 11pm at no cost whatsoever to taxpayers.

Commons authorities stated for the Bell to ring on 31 January, the temporary striking device used for Remembrance Sunday and New Year’s Eve would need to be reattached and tested to guarantee the timing is right.

A tempory floor of the tower would also need to be established as comprehensive work is currently taking place in this region. The cumulative costs of this would be £120,000 but this would, in turn, push back the work by two to four weeks, with delays costing £100,000 a week, the whole cost would come to between £320,000 and £500,000.

It looks like Brexit’s going to be a huge clanger, but then we knew that anyhow and Boris Johnson who wants to bring our country together is now proposing national celebrations on the day that we leave, which is absolutely outrageous, divisive and wicked.

People aren’t worried whether Big Ben is chiming in London on Brexit night, why not just have all the churches around the United Kingdom sounding their bells in recognition instead? That way the entirety of the United Kingdom can hear the chimes live for once and not just for those who live in London.

This is pretty much a vanity thing and instead of wasting taxpayers cash, he’s now expecting them to crowdfund it from whatever they have left out of their earnings.

Meanwhile, in the real world people are dying on trolleys in A&E, the 75s can’t have free TV licences anymore and people are relying on food banks and then this joker comes up with this ludicrous scheme and it appears that Boris Johnson has gone bonkers and we’d be better of striking Boris on the head with a lump hammer, that should have a nice hollow ring to it.

And hearing Big Ben strike on the night is a tad over the top for blundering Boris Johnson. Why doesn’t he instead donate that money to our struggling NHS, rather than spending it on some lavish and expensive escapade? This is a typical Tory stunt from a bungling clown.

Of course, people should be allowed to rejoice as they want, perhaps with some fireworks going off rather than the ringing of Big Ben and costing so much money that could be used elsewhere, after all, how are people going to benefit from Big Ben ringing?

And why has this even been considered? We should go quietly and with pride and it appears that the United Kingdom is swiftly becoming a theme park being run by a Mickey Mouse government and Boris Johnson is just rubbing it in how much he’s relishing the power he’s been gifted by the Tories.

And we’re not out of Brexit yet. Boris Johnson is going on about Big Ben chiming on the night, yet it all could change between now and then and we could still not come out, he keeps stating that we will, and even if we do, we have no concept of what the future holds for us and yet all we see is fellow voters ridiculing Remainers, it’s just all playground stuff and we all need to grow up!

And if Boris Johnson wants it to bong, he should pay for it himself, that’s if Brexit really happens because the only plan Boris Johnson has ever had was to get into No 10, and he did and said whatever it took to get there.

Now his plan is to stay there and his default method is again to do and say whatever it takes to stay there and he doesn’t care about anyone apart from Boris, and to believe that he cares about the poor, sick, and ageing who need assistance with the most fundamental of human needs, is delusional.

After all, why should he care? He’s a millionaire and his family are millionaires and they can pay for their social and health care needs and the sad thing about this is that thousands and thousands of elderly people are going to live and die in terrible need and there will be people like Boris that won’t give a damn.

We have become a nation of “If I’m alright Jack” and we should be ashamed of what we’ve become.

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