THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

Britain’s Shame

Seventy children are treated at A&E for mental illness every day, four times as many as ten years ago, and shocking statistics unveiled 26,582 under 18s were rushed to casualty units in England and treated for psychiatric problems in the year to the close of April.

The year before it was 22 per cent lower, at 21,814, and 10 years ago, the figure was relatively low at 6,192, and the distressing figures cover children with conditions such as depression, anxiety, eating irregularities, personality disorders and addictive behaviours.

Children should never end up in the emergency wards because early intervention should have taken place, and increasing levels of poverty, isolation, social media influence and poor future prospects could be contributing to more children suffering from psychiatric problems.

These figures are profoundly troubling and it confirms that children are being let down, and by investing in prevention we can lessen the number of children who end up in a hospital bed.

Treatment and waiting times are considerably long, and children experiencing issues with mental health should never end up in A&E, and it’s a breakdown of the system that they do.

Long waiting times and high thresholds to access children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) indicates that multiple children only get treatment when they hit breaking point, and it’s essential that children are able to obtain immediate support and use services like mental health drop-in centres without requiring an appointment to prevent their problems getting any more serious.

Our children’s well being is in decline and a shockingly large amount of young people resort to self-harm. The reasons include problems around school and appearance to social media, bullying and even sexuality and gender stereotypes.

And it was discovered that teens consuming more than three hours a day on social media are twice as likely to suffer mental illness as those who limited their time on the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, as well as increasing poverty and reduced prospects was further feeding the crisis amongst children, with young people reporting increasing levels of isolation and hopelessness, and our government needs to urgently evaluate the current crisis in recruitment and maintenance of the mental health workforce.

The amount of child and adolescent psychiatrists have dropped five per cent in the past five years, while referrals in the past three have risen by 44 per cent, with 23,686 mental health workers quitting mid-June 2017 and May 2018.

And one in 10 mental health posts were vacant, and it’s disturbing that there’s been such a visible increase in young people coming into A&E requiring mental health support, and the chief reason crisis services are so overstretched is because young people who are struggling don’t get the help soon enough, which means problems can intensify.

There are many young people who go to A&E because they don’t know where else to turn, but A&E can be a packed and stressful environment and it’s not normally the best place to get proper help.

Less than a third of affected children get assessed treatment and support, and it shockingly takes an average of 10 years from the first onset of mental health symptoms before young people get the right help, and it’s now imperative that the government prioritise children’s mental health, and it was discovered spending on low-level children’s mental health services by both councils and NHS trusts, which covers early intervention had fallen in more than a third of local areas, which means more limited funding for vital drop-in centres, online counselling and school nurses.

Children experiencing anxiety and depression aren’t asking for intensive inpatient therapeutic treatments, they simply want to speak to a counsellor and be advised on how to prevent problems from turning into a crisis, because all these cuts have consequences.

Sadly this had got just as much to do with Labour as the Tories, with all the money being used on illegal wars by Labour that could have been spent on the NHS, and those poor lads who fought for their country, they can’t get the treatment they need.

They were treated as heroes when they went to war, but since their return, they’ve been seriously let down, it’s not only the children that they’ve failed but then this is Tory Britain at its very best with all their austerity and cutbacks which are affecting families and mental health problems which have gone through the roof.

This government is utterly repugnant and evil and we need a change.

NHS Hospital Charges £18k For Hip Op

NHS hospital chiefs have sparked fury by charging for operations that were free, and now Warrington and Halton Hospitals Trust will offer you a new hip for £18,143 amongst a list of 71 other expensive private treatments, and this is a total disgrace because desperate patients are being left in agony because they can’t afford the private operations on offer at an NHS trust that were once free.

Vital procedures such as hip and knee replacements cost up to £18,143, cataracts £2,368 and hernias £7,719, way outside most ordinary people’s resources, and now patients will only get free treatment if they meet certain guidelines, including how severe their condition is, which means that many will have to wait in agony while they get worse before surgeons will act, and Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Trust was accused of exploiting the sick after it advertised the operations.

It comes as Tory cuts have left the NHS rationing what it can carry out for free, and WHH is considered to be the first trust to brazenly welcome privatisation of many services, and the list of 71 treatments, recategorised as Procedures of Low Clinical Priority has sparked anger, and this shows you everything you need to know about the Tory NHS, as they squeeze funding, impose cutbacks, force more all-embracing rationing of treatments, increase waiting lists and then tell patients in agony they can pay if they have deep pockets.

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And there are numerous ways the appendages of private interests envelope our health service, but this rationing of access to health care on the NHS is one of the most glaring ploys, and it’s utterly shameful.

The Medical Technology Group, which monitors NHS rationing, called the private list “alarming”. It said 20 of the trust’s 71 procedures are those that were axed from free treatment when the NHS conducted a review last year.

And many, such as cataracts and hip or knee replacements are proven, evidence-led treatments that have been favourably used for decades, and to categorise them as a low priority is unacceptable.

Angela Walsh had a bunion removed on the NHS at the trust’s Warrington General Hospital 10 years ago but another one is now growing on her other foot, and now she’s been told she can only have it operated on privately because the surgeon said it wasn’t serious enough, and to come back when it got more serious.

Some people because they’ve not had their operations done then find it impossible to walk, and instead of a straight-forward removal it then becomes a bigger operation that’s not cosmetic or low priority and have a substantial impact on people’s lives.

The hospital doesn’t determine which procedures are available but they’re certainly profiting from it, and most people haven’t got the money to keep paying for these procedures that should be free, but with the growing number of procedures now classified as Procedures of Low Clinical Priority (PLCP), they’re now extending patients an affordable option should they be refused procedures on the NHS.

They further prey on the sick and vulnerable, telling them that the procedures that were once routinely offered on the NHS are no longer available, and the Tories had better sort this mess out because people won’t and are not going to pay for things twice.

This is shameful but not shocking that the Tories have let this happen due to creeping privatisation of a public service funded for by tax-payers.

The philosophy behind our NHS was that it was to be “Free at the point of need”, and Aneurin Bevin said that our NHS would endure as long as the people were prepared to fight to keep it, and that’s what we need to do because the Tories never wanted it in the first place, therefore they can’t be trusted to preserve it as it was meant to be, but then people who paid into the NHS through their National Insurance Contributions should demand their money back.

This is the future of Britain under Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt with input from Nigel Farage, all before it’s sold off to the Americans, giving Donald Trump a slice of the profits, and we all have to pull together as a country to prevent this from happening because the privatisation of the NHS is not acceptable.

And Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt and Nigel Farage are all advocates of privatisation and the slippery slope has already been well lubed by these bloodsuckers.

Mum Banned From Every Asda Store

A mum has been banned from every Asda supermarket in the United Kingdom after failing to pay for sixteen pounds worth of items, but 31-year-old Beth Robinson said that the self-scanning machine didn’t take down half of her shopping, leading to a dispute that saw her treated like a common criminal.

The mum, who has five children, was stopped as she endeavoured to leave an Asda supermarket in Scunthorpe by a security guard, and upon examination, it turned out that she hadn’t paid for various things inside her shopping bags.

She had used their scan as you go equipment to purchase items to a strict budget of £45, but once she’d paid and attempted to leave she was apprehended by a guard.

A security guard approached her outside the shop just after she had finished and said that she needed to come back inside because there were discrepancies with her shopping.

They rescanned all of her shopping and discovered it had missed £16 of items off. One of them was an £8 tub of baby formula for her seven-month-old son, who was with her at the time, the others were really cheap Savers things like 70 pence ham and crisps for her children.

Beth Robinson, who is currently on maternity leave, said that the scanning equipment beeped every time she passed an item across it, and added that she has never stolen in her entire life, and why would she steal from a store that she does her shopping in three times a week, spending between £100 to £150 each week?

The staff at the Asda store said that they could have understood if she had stolen the items out of desperation, as it wasn’t bottles of wine that people normally lift, but this unfortunate lady truly thought that every item had been scanned, and she was treated like a common criminal, plus she told them to watch the CCTV footage so that they could see for themselves that she had scanned every item.

But despite her protest, she was made to sign an exclusion order banning her from every single Asda location for a year, and if she does go into an Asda, she could be charged with trespassing and could get removed from the store.

The whole thing really shook her up. She tried telling them there was a problem with the scanner, but they said it would have frozen if there had been a problem with it, maybe they should check their devices before banning someone from their stores, and had they determined that she was lying, then send her a letter saying that she was banned from all their stores.

This lady goes to Asda all the time in Scunthorpe, she uses it for Christmas presents and school uniforms for her children, and they’re all registered at the opticians there, and now they will have to go somewhere else.

Beth’s husband Dale said that they contacted Asda to complain about the prohibition, during which he admitted that he became furious, well, anyone would become annoyed and frustrated if their wife was accused of stealing.

An Asda spokesperson said: “We always want to provide a welcoming environment for our customers and asking someone not to visit our stores is always an absolute last resort.

“Whilst the customer did understand why we had to make this difficult decision and we’re more than happy to discuss the situation with her further, we’d like to remind the customer and her partner that we cannot tolerate shoplifting or any form of abusive or threatening behaviour towards our colleagues.”

I do hope that when and IF they do check their devices they discover that they were in the wrong that they give this lady and her family an apology, not only in writing but in person. If a customer states that they scanned all the items and to examine the CCTV footage, that is what they should have done before pointing the finger.

Maybe she didn’t scan it right, these devices aren’t the most straightforward things to use, particularly at self-service tills, and devices do go wrong, after all, it’s merely a machine and capable of failure.

I shop in Asda most of the time because it’s more accessible for me on the way home to do so, but it’s not the friendliest shop to shop in, most of the time staff are rude, most of them don’t know where anything is if you ask, and some of them can be extremely condescending.

I have complained twice, once in writing and once in the store. The first time I was with my son shopping, he was going to a party that evening so bought himself a bottle of Absinthe and another bottle of alcohol, of which I can’t remember now. He went through first, paid for his stuff and then put my things on the belt because I’m disabled and it was easier for him to do it than me.

Whilst he was doing that I remembered that I needed some cigarette papers which was on another counter close by, so he went to get those for me and I proceeded with my stuff, but whilst I was paying for mine, he came back and said that they wouldn’t sell him any cigarette papers without ID, taking into account that my son was 27 years old at the time, 6 foot 3 with more hair than an Orangatang. But hold on, he had just been through the till with alcohol and they’d not asked him for ID, so why for cigarette papers?

I then went to the other till and asked for the cigarette papers and the lady behind the counter refused me, saying that I was buying them for my son, taking into account that my son doesn’t smoke because he’s Asthmatic. I looked at the woman and said, “What’s he going to do, eat the damn papers?”

I emailed Asda and complained but I got a pretty feeble defence, telling me that they would retrain their staff. Then there was a second time where my son was coming through the till, now my son has Asperger’s Syndrome so he likes to count his money before he leaves the check out, and can be a tad slow, but as he left the check out after examining his change the woman at the till called him stupid, or words to that effect.

I asked to see a manager who came down and apologised and then offered me some £3 vouchers, in which I said it wasn’t good enough and that my son was really upset, and that I wasn’t interested in her damn £3 vouchers, like £3 vouchers were going to make my son smile after he had been called stupid.

So, no Asda isn’t a particularly pleasant store to shop in, and they seriously need to retrain their staff in the art of etiquette because the customer is always right, and perhaps I’m a tad old fashioned but I like a little smile and courtesy from the checkout people, but then they’ve made so many people superfluous, no wonder their workers are discontented, but then this is the price you pay for replacing people’s jobs with machines in the pursuit of profit.

And if she asked the store to examine the CCTV, why didn’t they? I’d like to see the security camera film, why won’t Asda produce it? Plus this sort of thing has happened in other stores before, where you get to the checkout and are chosen for the normal random check and a few things have come up unscanned, it happens, scanners are not infallible.

I myself don’t use scanners, won’t use them, I’d sooner that the cashier scanned the allusive bar code, and then if anything goes awry, the onus is on her and not me, and you are innocent until proven guilty, not guilty until you can prove your innocent, what’s this, a trial by your supermarket?

To be honest, if Asda is saying that she’s a shoplifter then this self-service is obviously not working, and it’s clearly creating shoplifters. For some it’s a genuine mistake by defective equipment, but for others it’s an excuse to get a discount on their weekly or daily shopping, and this self-service malarky has also created unemployment, and these stores only have themselves to blame if they end up making a loss, although I’m sure, all things considered, they’re still very much in profit.

Millionaire Tory Benefactor Demands Boris Johnson Come Clean

A top Tory contributor has said Boris Johnson must answer questions about his family life and the domestic disturbance with girlfriend Carrie Symond’s if he wants to be Prime Minister.

John Griffin, the taxi magnate who founded Addison Lee, said Boris Johnson needed to answer questions about the number of children he has and what occurred when police were summoned to the home he shares with Carrie Symonds.

I’m not too sure why Mr Griffin needs to know the goings on with Boris Johnson or how many children he has, perhaps it’s because in the last six years he’s invested £4 million in the Conservatives.

The domestic row has plagued Boris Johnson’s campaign since it surfaced on Friday, but we certainly don’t need an explanation. It’s Boris Johnson’s business, and everybody has arguments, but we don’t get entangled in everyone’s disputes.

Boris and his girlfriend are just human beings, and like everyone else, they fight like everyone else, and like everyone else, they should be left alone to their own devices.

I can’t say that old Boris is going to be a great Prime Minister or a bad one, but the fact that he can have a good argument means he has character and at least a little understanding, it’s more than I can say about other MPs.

Police were called to the house Boris Johnson shares with Carrie Symonds on Thursday night after a loud disturbance was heard and recorded by neighbours. Jeez, haven’t they got anything better to do with their time?

Mr Griffin also added that Boris Johnson further needed to discuss his family life and come clean about his behaviour as a father if he wanted the top job, but his family life and his behaviour as a father has nothing to do with him becoming Prime Minister, one is parental responsibilities and one is ministerial responsibilities, and one should not conflict with the other.

Boris Johnson has four children with Marina Wheeler, his estranged wife, and another from an affair. He has declined to discuss on rumours of other children. It’s none of our damn business!

But Mr Griffin believes that Boris has been a wee bit offhand about his responsibilities and his family, and he said that his children need his love and attention and that he needs to prove that he’s given it to them and that it was one of the ways you measure a person. My mother always told me that you can measure a person by the kind of shoes he wears!

Whether Boris Johnson is a good father or a bad father, he certainly doesn’t need to tell us about it, and a neighbour of Boris Johnson’s said he had no idea who was living next door to, he simply assumed he was a bloke he’d chatted to about aliens, yeah right…

It’s not like Boris has disguised himself in a red wig and a red nose, he has this glorious mop of blonde hair that’s often unkempt, you could recognise him from a mile away, okay, perhaps a bit of an overstatement, but I’m sure you get the idea.

Film director Wayne Mosley, 47, said the Tory MP never introduced himself by title and that he only knew him as a neighbour when they had a six-minute discussion about aliens. Now you would assume that a film director would recognise such a public personality whose on TV and on the front of the tabloids, or was he carrying his white cane at the time?

I know that if Boris Johnson was living next door to me I would make it my vocation to know what was going on, and I would certainly be curtain twitching, which I’m sure this guy was doing at the time of their argument. Neighbourhood Watch has nothing on this guy!

And if I noticed a chap getting out of a black car like Men in Black, I’d be thinking “nice car”, I wonder who owns that? I wouldn’t mind his phone number, and apparently, as Boris was getting out of the vehicle this chap was standing there smoking weed, well, not to piss on this guys bomb fire, I’m sure Boris and his chums done much worse in their heyday, but then whose going for brownie points? Oh yeah, the guy that supposedly didn’t recognise Boris Johnson, oh do me a favour!

I suppose Boris could have said who he was while they were chatting, but as the guy said, he didn’t know who Boris Johnson was, probably because he was smoking too much weed and he was actually seeing aliens, well, what do you expect from a film director! And he said that if he’d known it was Boris Johnson he would have told him to get him a job, but hey, I thought he was a film producer, wow, that spliff must have been good.

Distressing Images Show Desperate Bedrooms Where Britain’s Children Are Forced To Sleep

These images capture the bedrooms where disadvantaged children sleep and live across London.

Bedrooms of London is a new photographic exhibition at the Foundling Museum and documents the living conditions of London’s children who are living in poverty.

In partnership with The Childhood Trust, the series of photographs by artist Katie Wilson are accompanied by often-heartbreaking narratives of how families manage in such situations.

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Some of the tragic photographs and narratives display cots crammed in tiny spaces next to kitchenettes and expose how parents are forced to wash clothes in the shower.

Other children, like newborn Jane and her mother Amelie who live in a bedsit at a hostel and are kept awake at night due to nightly parties, late-night disturbances and chronic substance abuse from next-door-neighbours, in a city where total poverty and wealth live side by side.

Bedrooms of London looks at the shocking existence of home life for the 700,000 children currently living beneath the poverty line in the city.

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There are more than 1 million families waiting for social housing in England, and shelter figures reveal that around 1.15 million households are on waiting lists, with approximately 290,000 homes made available.

Around two-thirds (65 per cent) of families have been on lists for more than a year, while 27 per cent had been waiting for more than five years.

Six London authorities were amongst the top 10 councils with the greatest shortfall, with areas including Brighton, Blackpool and Strood in Kent also struggling.

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In Newham, east London, 25,729 households were on the waiting list, with only 588 social homes free, and in Brighton and Hove there were 24,392 families on lists, and only 949 homes available, and the gap has been created by a shortage of newbuild social homes, and many existing homes being sold off through the right to buy scheme and not being replaced.

And the fact that some survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire were still homeless a year on from the accident has completely swayed people’s confidence in the safety net the state apparently provides.

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Imagine how frustrating life must be for the millions of people elsewhere in the country who have been stuck on waiting lists, for years on end, and it’s not only restricted to London but happening right across the country, from Brighton to Blackpool, families who are unable to get settled and unable to get on with their lives.

The Grenfell disaster should have marked a turning point in the nation’s approach to social housing and its tenants, and there should have been a bold new plan for social housing so families were not sentenced to waiting lists but given reliable, safe and affordable housing as soon as possible.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government stated more than 357,000 new affordable properties had been delivered since 2010, and it stated it would be investing an additional £9 billion in affordable homes, including £2 billion to help councils and housing associations build properties for social rent, while also giving councils the capability to acquire £1 billion to build new properties in areas with the highest affordability constraints.

The £2 billion was pledged by Theresa May but critics, including Tory council leaders, announced it wasn’t enough to fix Britain’s housing dilemma, but then we have the Royals who live off benefits paid by the taxpayer, yet those renters in council houses are classified as subordinate subjects and commoners, and this is where class distinction and out-and-out pomposity will remain strong and healthy in the United Kingdom for as long as the Queen and her jobless family rule these subordinate subjects.

The Monarchy has sometimes been defined as the most expensive institution, with Royal finances shrouded in complexity and secrecy, and about £10 million from the Queen’s private estate was paid into the Cayman Islands and Bermuda between 2004 and 2005, and a leak, which saw millions of documents published and exposed how the powerful and rich have secretly invested large sums in offshore tax havens.

And while Britons are all expected to pay tax either directly, through contributions, such as National Insurance and Income Tax, or indirectly through things such as VAT, the Queen is an exception.

One of the perks of being monarch is that she is officially excluded from UK tax laws, but despite this, in 1992 the Queen decided to voluntarily start paying income tax and capital gains tax, however before this, she did not.

It’s not the culmination of her investments, it’s not a question of tax avoidance, but of judgement on behalf of her advisors, and it’s remarkable and perplexing that her advisers could have felt that it was fitting for somebody whose reputation is based so much on setting a good example to invest in these offshore funds.

The Queen should, of course, apologise for her adviser’s investment decisions because anyone that’s putting money into tax havens in order to evade taxation in Britain, should either apologise, but further realise what it does to our society.

If a really rich person wants to evade taxation in Britain and therefore puts money into a tax haven somewhere, who loses? Schools, hospitals, housing, all those public services lose and the rest of the people have to pay to cover up the shortfall created by that.

Eventually, people will no longer have the right to live in their council home for life as ministers impose a five year limit on new tenancies. It’s likely to break up communities because the government has unobtrusively tabled an amendment to the housing and planning bill that sets a maximum of five-year terms for new secure tenancies.

This policy brings an end to the principle of council tenancies for life in which people were sometimes allowed to pass on the right to live in the home to their next of kin, and even though it doesn’t apply retrospectively to current contracts, those who inherit tenancy of council housing will be subjected to the new regime.

It was David Cameron who first indicated that he would like to make such a move as long ago as 2010 when he proposed it could assist to improve social mobility, and of course, not everyone will support this and it will cause quite a big argument, and in future when you’re given a council home, you should ask if it’s for a fixed period because maybe in five or ten years down the line you might be doing a different job and be paid better money, and you won’t need that home because as far as they’re concerned you can now afford to go into the private sector, but it won’t stop there!

People are now being told that if they work, and it doesn’t matter how much they get, they’re not classed as needing social housing because they work, and that’s enough for them, even if they are below the breadline, and now new legislation forces councils to offer all new tenants contracts of between two and five years.

At the end of the fixed term, local authorities will have to carry out a review of the tenant’s circumstances to determine whether to grant a new tenancy, move the tenant into another more suitable social rented property, or end the tenancy.

Where the local authority decides to end the tenancy, they will be expected to provide support the tenant into home ownership or to assist them access other housing options, whichever is suitable, but this is startling that ministers have legislated to deny families a permanent home.

Margaret Thatcher passed a law that gave council tenants secure tenancies, which David Cameron then ripped up, with these Tory ministers seeming to have a vendetta against council tenants and council homes.

These pictures look like prison cells with precious few amenities, so welcome to Toryland where things can only get worse, and clearly, these aren’t the good times that David Cameron promised us, we’re still waiting for those – well, actually these are the good times, wait until Brexit is concluded!

Or perhaps we’ve simply been spoiled because before and following the war children would have to eat gravel if they were starving, and people lived in worse conditions growing up, but then these aren’t war times and things should have got better because now we’re simply descending into the depths of poverty.

People whine about people on benefits having an iPhone but most people have a pay as you go phone, people who can just manage this months gas and electric bill, and some who don’t actually own a TV, don’t smoke and the only drugs that they’re on are prescription drugs required to keep them moving and alive.

Some homes are damp, have mildew and are drafty in the winter, and don’t have many chattels. I wonder where these people are going wrong because they would love the amount of money the Tories get and can afford an iPhone.

Propaganda is a wonderful thing as far as the press are concerned, but you shouldn’t believe all the drivel they elbow down your throat, and most but not all justify the cuts and abuse from the DWP and capita, and they do it to justify the governments next pay rise, which they don’t deserve, they deserve a pay cut of 30 per cent to help pay off the countries debt.

There might be some people out there that was one of ten children, born during the war and slept three to a bed, shared clothes and were really poor, but this is not war, this is the 21st century, and people just don’t know how to live like this, they’re not used to it, and maybe we have been spoilt, but instead of going backwards, we should be going forward, and many of these people are living in hostels, that’s why it’s called a housing crisis because there are not enough affordable homes, not only in London but elsewhere as well.

This is Britain in complete denial, this is Britain with a government that is not fit to run a toilet, and the Tory party should be removed before they grind us all to the depths of the sewers from where they crawled from to punish those in need of help, and it wouldn’t matter if thousands of children a week were dying through dictatorial policies, there would still be shallow, ignorant indoctrinated jerks who would still vote Tory.

I’m not saying that everyone is shallow or ignorant, but I would love to hear from at least 10 people on what they believe is causing this major issue in this country, where people have lost their jobs or the DWP has messed up again, which leads to more poverty, eviction and having to live in crack holes like these.

This is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet most elderly people have to live on pensions in the United Kingdom, and it’s a riotous jungle out with the government raking in millions, while the preponderance of people out there are broke, and it’s about to get worse.

This is not a third world country, and I bet our MPs wouldn’t live like that, they don’t live like that, and that’s mental cruelty by our government, and Charles Dickens would be horrified.

Lack Of Tory Condemnation

Foreign Office minister Mark Field was rightly suspended on Friday after his hostile assault on a female demonstrator, but if the Tory MP had any decency he would have quit immediately, and it speaks volumes about Jeremy Hunt, one of the contenders for the leadership, that he declined to denounce Mark Field’s actions, and it tells you even more about Boris Johnson that he declined to discuss it at all.

The picture of Mark Field in a dinner jacket seizing a woman by the throat could be a metaphor for all that is evil with this overbearing Government.

It’s the feeling of entitlement, disdain for those outside their gilded circle and contempt for those who try to protest, and the removing of Tory MP and expenses cheat Chris Davies only adds to the stink of corruption encompassing this Government, and with each day that’s passing the Conservatives are demonstrating they’re no longer qualified to govern.

It’s odd how the Tories will support any right-wing gathering or subversive, boldly taking to the streets against a foreign left of centre government, but any nonviolent demonstrators here are only fit to be beaten, punched, wrestled, imprisoned and generally abused.

Even being consistently on the wrong side of history doesn’t hinder their sense of entitlement whilst they destroy thousands, and torture tens of thousands, and exile hundreds of thousands.

Welcome to the safe haven in Chequers General where they perhaps are the biggest abusers of poverty, and then they go to Chequers for their New Year festivities, and don’t forget, the Queen will then give them an OBE or even a knighthood, after all, if Jimmy Savile could get one, it appears that anyone is now qualified.

The female demonstrator may not have been an invited guest, and she could have been carrying anything from a gun, knife or corrosive liquid on her person, but isn’t that what they have security for? Has Mark Field suddenly become the security services for the government?

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The MP might have atoned for confronting Janet Barker, but he hardly marched her away, he grabbed her by the neck, and although he’s been suspended as Foreign Office minister, this is a genuinely disturbing situation, because she could have simply been escorted out peacefully, but instead, this mad man lost his temper and grabbed her by the neck.

A Tory monster with no moral compass, and like most MPs, they think it’s okay to get stinking drunk and grab this woman from the back of the neck.

This man was a government minister with responsibilities, and it’s really not appropriate, even though the woman he attacked said he had an anger issue, but it goes way deeper than that. Clearly, he’s extremely superior against women, and it’s getting more noticeable how these Tory beasts are being exposed more and more as the modern world closes in around them.

Janet Barker informed the BBC the purpose of the demonstration had been to talk to men who are in power, the bankers, the investors that are continuing to invest in fossil fuels.

They were there to deliver a polite message, but the MP unquestionably mistreated her in a way that was extremely disagreeable, yet Janet Barker doesn’t think that his actions amounted to criminal assault and that she didn’t want it turned into a mud-slinging competition, and she would rather that he speculated on what he did and not do it again, and maybe go to anger management classes.

Apparently, Mark Field said that he felt threatened and that he intuitively reacted when Janet Barker hurried past.

Wow, a man that feels intimidated by a woman, he must have been horribly threatened by Theresa May!

Evidently, there was no security present, which I find difficult to believe, and that for a split second, he was genuinely concerned that she might be armed. Yes, armed with a mouthpiece to exploit the true dealings of what government is really all about.

It was stated that Mark Field presumably placed his hand on Janet Barker’s neck because if he had touched her anywhere else it would have been considered extremely improper, but it was extremely inappropriate that he touched her at all.

Clearly, security had been breached, and there should be an inquiry on how it was breached, and now Theresa May should invite the Climate change protesters to No. 10 to put forward what they would like to happen.

Alarming Precedent Being Set

The NHS was created on the belief that it was free for everyone, regardless of means or circumstances, but this is no longer the case because patients at a trust in the north-west of England have been informed they will have to go private if they want treatments that were once customary on the NHS.

Because a disturbing precedent is being installed which threatens to threaten the foundations of our National Health Service, and the consequences of the funding restraint imposed by the Conservatives, and cash-strapped commissioning groups are having to ration operations that were once free.

As a result, people are being turned away, usually in severe discomfort, except if they have the funds to pay for private healthcare, and we’re presently seeing the core values of the NHS being slaughtered by a Tory government which has starved it of funds and then permitted private firms to feast on people’s pain and suffering.

And the empty words of Theresa May were exposed when she was questioned by Jeremy Corbyn on the Government’s response to the Grenfell disaster.

The Labour leader, who praised our Never Again campaign, challenged the Prime Minister to clarify why hundreds of blocks still have unsafe cladding. He further wanted to know why sprinklers had not been retrofitted and why no action was taken to improve tenants’ rights, but Theresa May failed to answer any questions, yet in the wake of the disaster, she promised to do everything she could to keep people safe.

Her record tells a different tale. Fire regulations have not been updated, tenants are still denied a voice and firefighter numbers have been cut. Sympathetic words are just not enough, and the survivors of the fire should not still be waiting for her Government to make good on its word.

One day the Mirror might actually write an editorial about the £1.7 billion the NHS had to pay out due to its workers not bothering to do their jobs properly, or they might do an article about the real cost to the taxpayers of a broken system that hires “disability denial” firms to conduct Personal Independence Assessments, in which 75 per cent of cases are overturned on appeal.

There’s no real saving in using these firms, and the government has to pay the assessment company for their work, then use DWP staff to conduct Mandatory Reconsiderations which are normally rejected, then pay DWP workers to present a case of their decision when it goes to Independent Tribunal, then, when the DWP decision is overturned the taxpayer has to repay all the benefits to the claimant from the time they were wrongly assessed, and continue paying the correct benefit to the claimant.

Wouldn’t it have saved a lot more money to bring all assessments back in- house with real professionals, and doctors doing the assessments? And the government has done its best to destroy the NHS beyond repair, leaving it wide open to privatisation on the grounds that it’s the only way to save it.

And the Tories and Nigel Farage are all on the payroll of the private sector and disaster capitalists because the NHS is just another cherry to pick, and they’re sleepwalking into an abyss, they don’t care about you, they merely care about their bank balance. They’re millionaires already with their private healthcare which is their holy grail, and if the poor can’t pay for their healthcare, you die, but then that would be the Tory mission accomplished.

The Tories did everything they could to hinder the formation of the NHS and have used every opportunity since to wound it. Now they’re going to use Brexit to kill it off altogether by selling it to a greedy and seedy corporate America. The people of the United Kingdom can either have Brexit or the NHS but be warned, we can’t have both.

No Action Over Jo Brand

Jo Brand will not face police action over a comment she made on the radio about throwing battery acid over politicians, even though Scotland Yard were considering an allegation of incitement to violence.

Jo Brand made the remarks on Radio 4 programme Heresy and has since apologised, describing her remarks as crass and ill-judged, but her comments sparked an objection with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage amongst the critics, and the Met said it was assessing them following an allegation of incitement to violence.

The force said that police received an allegation of incitement to violence on 13 June 2019, relating to remarks made on a radio programme, but now the referral has been viewed by the MPS and no more police action is going to be taken in connection to the allegation.

In response to a question about the state of UK politics, Brand had said: “Well, yes, I would say that but that’s because certain unpleasant characters are being thrown to the fore and they’re very, very easy to hate and I’m kind of thinking ‘Why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?’

“That’s just me. I’m not going to do it, it’s purely a fantasy, but I think milkshakes are pathetic, I honestly do, sorry.”

Comedian David Baddiel, who created Heresy, stated the BBC was wrong to edit the joke out of a repeat of the programme, and speaking to Newsnight, he said: “I don’t think I would have nipped it out. Morally wrong? I’m not sure. I think they’re just trying not to cause trouble.

“The BBC are still to some extent the aunty of the nation and they don’t like trouble. Even though they did commission a show, Heresy, that was designed to push the boundaries of what people might think and say.

“If it was up to me, I would have kept that line in for the repeat. Apart from anything, it’s a bit silly when it’s had massive coverage to cut it out – that looks a bit cowardly.”

Jo Brand has since atoned for the joke, calling it “crass and ill-judged”, and the BBC said it regretted any offence caused by the radio programme, which was never intended to encourage or condone violence.

But tell me one joke that doesn’t offend someone? We’re a politically correct world gone wrong, and there doesn’t appear to be any escape, and our leaders don’t seem to be giving us any hope.

But her comment really was no laughing matter if you consider those unfortunate people who were victims of acid attacks, and Danny Baker got fired over a royal baby remark, so should Jo Brand get fired too?

The problem is, comedy is a pretty questionable arena, where some remarks can be taken the wrong way when it’s merely comedy and nothing more, and if you listened to her comment, she never specified anyone in particular. After all, Katie Hopkins has said much worse in the past and got away with it.

Jo Brand is a comedienne, it was a joke, the apology is in the title of her job, and we shouldn’t be upset by her comments, but we should be offended by the lies told by politicians about money and the unfair distribution of benefits and how the poorer members of our society are penalised, time and time again.

And if there are people out there that believe that Jo Brand’s comment was offensive, then perhaps the BBC should ban stabbings, rape, paedophilia, prostitution and drug taking in the soaps on TV because that could actually incite violence and other unlawful things, as well as upsetting those who have suffered from them.

We hear anecdotes about all members of society, from disabled people to your mother in law and nobody actually complains about that, and it might have been bad timing, but anyone with a grain of sense should have known that it was a joke on a comedy show, even it if was a tad close to the mark.

The fact that they’re targetting satire now is a bit extreme, don’t anybody leave their homes because you might get arrested for saying something witty and then it gets distorted in our politically correct society, and do we now have a judge of comedy?

I guess you could say that because she commented, even though it was a joke, that some idiot out there might carry out her remarks, now that she’s put it out there, but if this is the case perhaps Horror movies shouldn’t be put on TV because someone out there might go on a rampage and start killing everyone.

At the end of the day television influences most people that watch it, but it doesn’t mean that someone who watches “This is England” would carry out racism or when an advert comes on the TV about Mars Bars that someone would instantly run out and buy one.

However, Jo Brand is an ex-mental health nurse, so you would expect her to realise that there are vulnerable and unstable people out there who may now see this as acceptable behaviour. It’s not a question of idiots and ignorance or how low one’s IQ is, you would have expected Jo Brand to have some perception and consideration of this, even if some others don’t.

Boris Johnson Branded A Racist

Boris Johnson had an unhappy birthday as he was branded a racist unfit for office, and while the former Foreign Secretary managed to tighten his grasp on the Tory crown in the latest leadership vote, the Mirror Chicken brought him down a peck or two as he proceeded to evade some big questions.

Boris Johnson, who just turned 55, secured 143 votes in the latest ballot, up 17 on Tuesday.

He said: “Thank you again for your support, especially on my birthday! We’ve come a long way but we have much further to go.”

International Development Secretary Rory Stewart, who began the race as an outsider but bookies had made second-favourite, was the latest hopeful to drop out after getting only 27 votes, 10 fewer than on Tuesday.

The next vote is Thursday and MPs will decide between Boris Johnson, Home Secretary Sajid Javid, Environment Secretary Michael Gove and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, but while Boris Johnson continues the runaway favourite, his now tarnished standing has experienced a fresh bruising.

Citing the gaffe-prone Brexiteer’s previous comments, Scottish National Party leader Ian Blackford told the Commons “not only is [Mr Johnson] racist, he is stoking division in communities and has a record of dishonesty”.

Avoiding a criticism from the Speaker, he said Mr Johnson has “called Muslim women ‘letterboxes’, described African people as having ‘watermelon smiles’ and another disgusting slur that I would never dignify by repeating”.

He added: “If that’s not racist, I don’t know what is. Does the minister honestly believe that this man is fit for the office of Prime Minister?”

Outside, Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesperson said: “ Boris Johnson has clearly made a series of troubling Islamophobic and racially charged comments going back over an extremely long period of time.”

The blasts came after Boris Johnson’s day got off to a poor start when the Mirror Chicken put him in a flap yet again, but he was given a birthday cake outside his South London flat, and as he set off to Parliament ahead of the leadership vote, he was still dodging questions on why there should not be a general election, given he called for one when Gordon Brown took over from Tony Blair in 2007.

Boris Johnson was boosted in the poll by the support of ex- Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, who stated he was the sole person who could guarantee Brexit by October 31, and his nearest rival Jeremy Hunt got 54 votes, followed by nearest rival Mr Hunt who got 54 votes, followed by Michael Gove with 51 and Sajid Javid with 38.

Mr Stewart said of his departure: “I am so moved and inspired by the support I have received. It has given me new faith in politics, in our country.”

And as the two hours of voting commenced, Mr Stewart had accused competitors of using “dark arts” to blast his bid and gave possible backers city status for constituencies in a bid for support.

Theresa May again declined to disclose who she backed, waggling her finger as she said: “I told you yesterday, none of your business.”

The fourth and fifth rounds will leave two competitors standing. The decision is expected by late afternoon, and the expected 160,000 Tory Party members will then decide between them, with the victor announced in the week starting July 22.

Meanwhile, an employment solicitor who challenged the leadership candidates during the live BBC debate was suspended from his position over a former social media remark, and law firm Leigh Day is investigating a tweet by Aman Thakar, a former Labour candidate in a South London local council election.

Earlier, Imam Abdullah Patel, who asked about Islamophobia in the TV debate, was suspended from his mosque and the school he works at amid a probe over past remarks on Israel. The BBC stated he would not have been chosen to quiz hopefuls had they been known.

And Boris Johnson being a bigot, sexist, Islamaphobe and simply an idiot will seemingly get him in as Prime Minister, what a sad world we live in, and people need to wake up and smell the coffee, and in the end the United Kingdom is going to be controlled by a host of Establishment, posh boys.

The Conservatives operate at the huge double standard as it seems does the speaker, Mr Bercow, and Boris Johnson has made some dreadful comments about Scotland and the Scottish people which shows the attitudes of the Conservative party who would be delighted to see the break up of the United Kingdom to deliver Brexit, and the Conservatives are effectively all by themselves causing the break up of this once magnificent country.

We should truly question why Boris Johnson is the favourite to win, and it should actually make us question what is really going on, and anyone with half a brain must realise that he’s not fit to be Prime Minister, his track record demonstrates that over and over again.

As for his private life, well it’s his life, but now he’s a confirmed liar, but then all politicians lie, but Boris Johnson is so blatant about it, and he couldn’t care less, and he’s certainly no diplomat, he’s demonstrated that often enough, and it really doesn’t make any sense why he’s the favourite for Prime Minister.

Perhaps they’re using him as the fall guy, but then that wouldn’t make much sense because if that was the cause it could lead to a general election, which they don’t want.

Perhaps I’m a little thick and need to be treated like a six-year-old, but out of all the competitors, Boris Johnson is the least equipped to do the job, and even those who back him, evade the obvious questions about his competence and simply bang on about what a fabulous mayor he was et cetera.

Perhaps it’s just my paranoia kicking in, but I can’t help but question what is really going on and if there’s some concealed agenda, and to be fair I don’t think much of the competitors. There’s the fool Boris Johnson, who lies more than Pinocchio, then there’s Michael Gove and the only vision he sees is Vision Express, and then there’s Sajid Javid who looks like a boiled egg with a face, and then there’s the miry looking Jeremy Hunt.

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Jeremy Hunt made a mess of the NHS and now believes he can run a country… the four of them are pitiful, and let’s pray that Theresa May doesn’t leave her bloomers on the bedroom radiator when she leaves No. 10, as those four look more into knicker sniffing than running a country.

It appears that the Tories are only supporting unfit for office Boris Johnson because they’re hoping they’ll get a top position in his cabinet, putting the wicked Tory party before industry and the country and its people because the despicable Tories only think about saving their own bacon.

But maybe that precisely why Boris Johnson will become the next Prime Minister because Tory members see him as some sort of hero who will sort out Brexit and reverse political correctness, but the whole world knows that Boris Johnson is a bigot, fool, stupid, pretentious, bloated, elitist, right-wing nincompoop, but that’s why they’re Tories, they’re all mini-Boris’s, and if it walks like a racist, quacks like a racist, makes as many references that are blatantly racist, it’s Boris.

Boris Johnson’s supposedly good job left London as the most polluted city in the EU and saddled taxpayers with a £950 billion burden for his failed vanity schemes, and people want his ridiculous fool in charge of the nation’s finances, why? Good grief!

Boris Johnson is a continual liar, adulterer and fraudster, but the principal judgment against him should be that he’s just incompetent and unfit for purpose. He’s a total liar, and as mayor, he cut all parks police officers under a bog off, and following 3 years the contracts concluded and parks police suffered and now parks aren’t patrolled as much, and whoever wins now, we lose.

Boris Johnson Finally Surfaces

Submarine Boris Johnson is finally surfacing to launch his Tory leadership campaign, and the blonde-haired Brexiteer Buffon is currently the frontrunner for 10 Downing Street.

Yes, that’s the same MP who jeopardised incarcerated mum Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran, called black people “piccaninnies”, rugby tackled a 10-year-old boy on a business trip, accused the President of Turkey of defiling a goat, called Barack Obama “part-Kenyan”, said a Libyan city would be great once they “clear the dead bodies away”, and bragged about whisky tariffs at a Sikh Temple.

He was further dismissed from the Tory frontbench in 2004 over allegations, he lied about an affair and dismissed from the Times as a young journalist for making up a quote.

He quipped about homosexual people as “tank-topped bum boys” and ridiculed Muslim women as “letterboxes”, and he has questions to respond to over his conflicting accounts of whether he ever took cocaine, so you can sort of tell why the gaffe-prone ex-mayor of London has been kept hidden until now.

Those who worked with him accused him of not reading his briefs and neglecting to show the thoroughness required to be Prime Minister, and rival Rory Stewart implied he couldn’t be trusted with instructions for the UK’s nuclear submarines.

But despite previous flip-flopping, writing one article for Remain and one for Leave, he’s convinced a parade of Tory Brexiteers MPs will support him by pledging to leave the EU on October 31, deal or no deal.

That means MPs look set to put him in the final two candidates next week. Then all he needs is to win a vote by 160,000 Tory members and he’ll be Prime Minister by the end of July, but there’s more than just Boris Johnson going on, but he’s still the star of the show, and here’s everything you need to know.

Slippery Boris Johnson is out of hiding and pushing towards No Deal Brexit, and he has more than twice the number of MPs supporting him than his nearest competitor, including Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay, but he’s been kept out of the limelight to circumvent blunders which might endanger his lead.

He will say: “After three years and two missed deadlines, we must leave the EU on October 31.” And he will take questions from the press, but how many? At this point, no number of questions will be enough, and he’s starting just an hour before PMQs so may have to conveniently run off.

In a sarcastic jibe at the notoriously unreliable politician, former Tory leader William Hague warned the victor would only survive if they had a plan to break the Brexit deadlock, and the Tory heavyweight stated that without one, the next Prime Minister would lead a sandcastle administration, which would quickly disintegrate.

In comments described as a warning about Boris Johnson, he stated it was “by no means clear” that candidates were ready for “what is going to hit them if they win”.

But will MPs attempt to prevent a no deal? They will certainly attempt to ambush the Tory leadership hopefuls with a vote to try and pave the way to block a no deal Brexit.

Jeremy Corbyn’s party has united with the SNP, Liberal Democrats, Greens and some Tories led by Oliver Letwin, and their motion will force a vote, and if it succeeds, it will put MPs, not the government, in command of the parliamentary agenda on Tuesday 25 June 2019.

MPs can then use that time to pass a legally-binding motion to block No Deal Brexit, and it’s significant because numerous Tory leadership contenders, including Boris Johnson, have said they will leave the EU with or without a deal on October 31.

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Dominic Raab even stated he would prorogue Parliament, effectively suspending the House of Commons, in order to avoid MPs blocking no deal on October 31, and Labour’s Shadow Brexit Minister Jenny Chapman denied it would undermine Britain’s unwritten constitution.

She told the BBC: “This is just about parliament doing its job and saying to the government, ‘you don’t have the consent of parliament.'”

Sajid Javid will begin his campaign too, and the Home Secretary awed intellectuals with a glossy video boastfully showcasing his heritage, his upbringing, his family and his pet pooch.

The video told of his father leaving Pakistan in 1961 with “one pound in his pocket”.

But he’s had a faltering start to the race and some think he can win the support needed from backers of competitors like Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove.

He’s also been hit by his handling of migrant boats in the Channel, when he was accused of playing politics, and earlier when he was Business Secretary, the now-failed salvation of British Steel.

Dominic Raab declined to lift an old non-disclosure agreement, and the MP signed the agreement with a former colleague after he faced a bullying claim in 2007, but Dominic Raab has repeatedly and strenuously dismissed the allegations as false and sued the newspaper that published the claims in 2011 for libel, but his ally Maria Miller, a fellow MP, said the allegations were brought vexatiously.

Maria Miller implied he may have been “forced into” signing the non-disclosure deal because it was “used to try to allow the case to be settled.”
Yet Dominic Raab is refusing to willingly pull out of the agreement.

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Furthermore, according to BuzzFeed News, Dominic Raab’s legal team e-mailed the woman concerned in 2011 warning of “consequences” if she breached the agreement, and a spokesperson for Dominic Raab told BuzzFeed News: “The right time for the confidentiality obligations to be lifted on both sides for a fair and balanced airing of the dispute was before the court back in 2012.”

Theresa May is finally trying to get a legacy, and it’s about climate change, and it appears that at the moment she’s the lame duck Prime Minister, and she’s attempting to kick-start a legally binding plan for the UK to have zero carbon emissions by 2050.

The Government is setting out legislation to establish a new binding target to cut emissions. The statutory instrument will amend the current goal to cut climate pollution by 80 per cent by 2050, which was agreed by MPs under the Climate Change Act in 2008.

Hitting net zero, a 100 per cent cut in emissions will mean an end to heating of homes with conventional gas boilers, more green electricity, and a switch from petrol and diesel cars to electric vehicles, walking and cycling.

It could require people to consume less meat and dairy and take fewer flights, and any residual pollution in 2050, from aircraft, for instance, will need to be offset through measures to cut carbon such as planting trees.

Sajid Javid, the home secretary, has described himself as the change candidate in the Conservative leadership election, dismissing Boris Johnson, the favourite, as “yesterday’s news”.

At a launch event where he emphasised his upbringing as the son of immigrant parents and the contrast with his more vested competitors, he said the Tories needed a “new kind of leadership from a new kind of leader”. Asked how he differed from Boris Johnson, Javid said:

I’m a change candidate. Boris Johnson is yesterday’s news.

He’s been around in politics for a while, he’s achieved a lot, he’s still got a big role to play, but I think if we are trying to connect with the next generation and move forward as a country then I think it’s time for the next generation with a bold new agenda.

What I can do in terms of the policies, I think being able to articulate the policies, it’s not just about articulating that core message – I think the messenger makes a real difference as well.

Javid insisted his background as a leading international banker gave him the expertise required to achieve a Brexit deal. Asked how he would be able to agree on a deal, he said:

When I look at my own experience of doing deals – big international deals in the 19, 20-year career I had before I came into politics – I started at the bottom of the finance industry and finished towards the top, and that was because I built a reputation of doing many multibillion-dollar deals, including some of the largest financing and bond transactions the world had ever seen. And they weren’t easy. They weren’t straightforward. They were all involving negotiation, involving competition to win the deals.

So, while I think no one has got perfect experience to deliver Brexit because no one has done anything like it before, I think with that experience that I’ve got outside government and the experience I’ve got in government … I think I’m in a very good position to get a good Brexit deal for the United Kingdom.

Conservative leadership hopefuls including Boris Johnson hoping to push through a “deal or no deal” Brexit in October have been given a boost after MPs defeated a Labour-led struggle to begin legislation to prevent the UK leaving the EU without an agreement.

But Philip Hammond stated that Boris Johnson’s Brexit plan was unlikely as the UK wouldn’t be able to leave the EU with a deal or with a deal by the end of October, and the Conservative leadership hopeful Esther McVey has spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money claiming for a personal photographer on expenses.

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And why does the Queen allow the Tory party to only act in the interest of themselves when they should be acting in the interest of the country?

Forget what side of the Brexit debate you’re on, the fact is that the prevailing party in government aren’t legislating for the prosperity of society, nor are they even purporting to act in the interest of its people, and they’re merely concerned with their own survival, and any pretence at good governance has gone by the wayside.

And any attempt at mitigating the whirlpool of events beyond Brexit, about shaping and familiarising our political future is just backgrounded noise, and any endeavour to address the harsh dilemmas confronting this country within has simply ground to a standstill.

And worse than that, those government ministers such as Michael Gove now actively ignore the truth, and he’s attempted to allege that racially motivated brutality has not risen, and to put it in simple terms, the government has stopped governing.

We are a nation that has been decapitated, and the only concern our government has is with their future and not ours.

Violent crime has risen by 19 per cent in the last year. Life expectancy has declined by 13 months for men and 14 months for women, and five million people are now in precarious and low paid work.

The amount of children in absolute poverty has increased by 200,000 in 17/18, and the number of pensioners in relative poverty rose in the same period from 17 per cent to 18 per cent.

Literacy is falling too, and to such an extent that it’s predicted that by 2030 we will have dropped four places on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) index.

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Forty-four NHS hospitals are in deficit, and this increases to 90 per cent of acute treatment centres, and all of this is happening right now, in front of our very eyes and yet we haven’t even started to scratch the surface of the difficulties plaguing us, yet our government are not prepared to do anything about it.

Our government are actually showing no leadership or moral backbone when it comes to tackling the growing problems facing ordinary people from every class. Instead, they’re more involved in finding a new leader and delivering a Brexit with no actual benefits.

So, back to the original question, why does the Queen permit this state of affairs to continue? And how can she sit idly by while her government literally play games with themselves rather than actually govern?

How much longer can this country survive this assault on its very being before the Queen stands up and says enough is enough, you have failed? The problem is, as the Head of State, the Queen has to remain stringently neutral with respect to political matters, and her only role involves ceremonial and formal functions in relationship to the government of the UK.

The Queen has the power to create governments, and the Queen has before utilised the authority to dissolve Parliament and call a general election, but the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act put an end to that in 2011, and now a two-thirds vote in the commons is required to dissolve Parliament before a five-year fixed-term is up.

Can the Queen of England dismiss the Prime Minister? She can because her Majesty Queen Elizabeth is the one who actually appoints the Prime Minister, so technically she could ignore a General Election, and further has the ability to dismiss the Prime Minister, who serves at her pleasure because the Prime Minister is simply that, the prime or most important minister that the monarch has.

The Queen, however, holds no political power, but she still has a powerful pull over British society.

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