THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

Here’s What You’ll Be Charged

During his hotly-protested state visit to the United Kingdom, US President Donald Trump let slide his intentions for the NHS. He revealed that the privatisation of Britain’s publicly funded health service would be “on the table” during post-Brexit trade talks.

Both Conservative and Brexit Party officials have shown their backing for a privatised NHS. Meanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced mighty disapproval to the President, but here’s what healthcare could cost you if Jeremy Corbyn’s warning goes unheeded.

And according to the most up-to-date Milliman Medical Index, the most popular health plan offered by employers to a typical American family of four costs an average £22,163 per year.

These costs are so astronomical, most people just can’t afford them. So on average, employers pick up over 70 per cent of the bill (based on 2016 figures). This means that if a person loses their job, they and their family also lose access to healthcare.

Without insurance, here are the costs for common services:

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*childbirth data via The Economist

Countless Brits further rely on the NHS for mental health services, but a recent case from the US is a reason for caution.

A 21-year-old needed a week-long stay in an Oklahoma hospital after attempting suicide, he was charged over $93,000 (£73,000). He shared his bill on social media, only to discover countless others with comparable issues.

He was charged over $93,000 (£73,000). He shared his bill on social media, only to find many others with similar issues.

But why is the NHS in crisis? Well, the explanation is simple. The government chose to underfund the service, rendering it with limited money than is needed. Hoping that people will feel let down by their services and in the end plead to go private, or our government will say, “Well, if you’re not happy with it…”

But what makes it even more bizarre is that the NHS is totally affordable. The UK has a GDP, the amount of wealth we produce each year of over £2 trillion a year, the NHS only costs about £150 billion, but right now, the NHS is suffering by a crisis that’s being fabricated by those endeavouring to benefit from its decline, enabling politicians and the media to scapegoat patients, staff, and the concept of the NHS itself, rather than taking accountability for a crisis of their own making.

Some argue we can’t afford to keep the NHS. The fact is, we can’t afford not to.

Make no mistake, Donald Trump didn’t come to visit England to commemorate the D-Day celebrations, Donald Trump has set his sights on our National Health Service, and the ridiculous thing is, our government are going to let him, and the US big pharma, which bankrolls the Republican Party, view the NHS as a barely exploited goldmine as the Tories lay it open to more and more private ownership.

And how tempting would it be as our government unravels to offer up the glittering prize of the NHS for protecting our Brexit bacon? No wonder Theresa May refused point blank to ensure protection for the NHS back in February during any bilateral trade talks with the US.

In May, Donald Trump condemned high US drug prices on “freeloading” countries that used their haggling power to force US pharmaceutical firms into giving them pills and medications at low cost, and the US health secretary Alex Azar has declared they would use trade agreements to put restraint on nations with “socialised” health care systems.

Donald Trump intentionally misinterpreted the huge UK demonstrations in support of the NHS during the winter crisis, tweeting that “the Democrats are pushing for universal health care while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their [universal coverage] system is going broke and not working.”

People were, of course, marching for more funding and support for the NHS, not to get rid of it and set up private health care, which would leave millions of people with no health insurance, as it does in the United States, and also keeps the US life expectancy below the UK’s.

And it’s not only the NHS that faces this threat, but it also affects all of our public services. The more the Tories lay them open to competitive privatisation and corporate takeover, the more danger they’re in from any bilateral agreement with Donald Trump.

And never mind chlorine-washed chickens, these dastardly rules cover everything from animal welfare to chemicals to the import of crops for biofuel, and we might assume that these rules are basic protection for us, animals and the planet, but the US simply believe that they needlessly restrict trade.

Even our Cornish pasties and Stilton cheese are in danger, as the US wants us to abandon those troublesome EU rules around the geographical origins of specific foods, and I’m sure that many would march against Donald Trump any day of the week for the Mexican children he has cages, some of whom, following their long separation, can no longer remember their parents.

His politics are wicked and discriminatory, along with his pussy-grabbing ethnocentricity, climate change dissent and his hate-filled agenda, and that’s what Donald Trump stands for, and even if you take the view that those things are none of our business, you should at least realise that Donald Trump wasn’t here in England for the heatwave or a nice cup of tea, he was here for the most lucrative thing, our NHS, and if there’s one reason to Remain in the EU, it’s so that Donald Trump doesn’t get his grimy little hands on our NHS.

If Donald Trump does get his hands on our NHS, it will simply show how weak our government is, and how quickly it will hand over control to this US puppet master, and those that can afford private healthcare, that’s excellent, adios and pay for your private healthcare, but there are millions in the United Kingdom that would never be able to afford to.

Since Aneurin Bevan pushed for the NHS to become a reality in 1948 it has saved millions of lives and improved countless millions more that would never have had access to health care otherwise, and this man would be turning in his grave right about now because the NHS is our national treasure that needs to be preserved at all costs, because without it, health care equality would be lost, taking with it, the lives of those who can’t afford to pay for private healthcare.

Shocking Facts About Bovine Growth Hormone

Since bovine growth hormone obtained FDA approval in 1993, three troubling health trends have developed. Cancer cases continue to grow, obesity has become an epidemic and early onset puberty has become the norm. Related? Perhaps, perhaps not.

You can be the authority on this as you read through the following truths about the substance known as BGH, or rBGH, but whatever judgment you come to, you’ll probably agree that keeping this substance far away from you and your family is good practice.

Bovine Growth Hormone is a GMO, and Monsanto created rBGH to stimulate milk production in cows, well, that’s a subtle way of putting it.

Bovine growth hormone occurs naturally in cows, the same way human growth hormone occurs naturally in humans, but to make it more effective Monsanto genetically modified BGH to create recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, or rBGH or rBST (recombinant bovine somatotropin).

This more potent GMO version of BGH is not a naturally occurring substance and does more than increase old Bessie’s milk production, and it was banned in the European Union and around the world, although it was originally approved by numerous countries soon after its release.

rBGH has since been banned by the European Union, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Israel, and most of these prohibitions went into force in 2000, some earlier, and it didn’t take their scientists long to figure out that this stuff isn’t quite right.

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Medical experts claimed it unsafe, and in 2007, Dr Samuel Epstein exposed the dangers of rBGH in his book, “What’s in your milk?”.

This book reveals the science, politics, and corporate greed behind the creation and approval of rBGH. Since then, numerous milk farmers have chosen to sell only rBGH-free milk, and Monsanto sold its rBGH business unit to Eli Lilly, but don’t be deceived, it’s still out there and expected to remain out there and in the food supply chain until a complete prohibition is set.

Milk from cows treated with rBGH contains greater levels of IGF-1, and the American Cancer Society reported early investigations linked IGF-1 as a contributor to tumour development, particularly breast, prostate and colorectal cancers, and while investigation has not clarified the connection, continuing efforts support these investigations.

Insulin-like growth factor has an abundance of problems, and a published scientific study centred on the relationship of IGF-1 (and IGF-2) to breast cancer tumour development.

These insulin growth factors are known to spur cell differentiation, and it seems IGFs have a bizarre interplay with estrogen which may contribute to tumour development in women.

A 2013 study assessed the relationship between IFG and prostate cancer. Little if any IGF was seen in healthy prostate tissue, and advanced tumours confirmed a high presence of IGF-1, while smaller localized prostate cancer tumours exhibited a lesser quantity of IGF-1. Ultimately the investigation concluded greater concentrations of IGF-1 do have a correlation to the presence of prostate cancer.

Like prostate cancer, advanced colorectal cancers have shown a direct correlation with higher levels of IGF-1, and one particular study confirmed higher levels in men, patients over 60 and those with cancers originating from damage to the mucus layer of the colon, and researchers discovered IGF-1 levels can indicate and further identify the presence of colorectal cancers.

Although not one of the original cancers connected to insulin-like growth factor, research from China had discovered that IGF-1 plays a vital part in non-small cell lung cancer. Lung cancer cases in the study had much higher blood serum levels of IGF-1 than the control group.

And while this research was relatively new, it did imply that IGF-1 might play a larger role in cancers than earlier thought, and it further increases additional concerns and issues about the role of increased consumption of IGF as a consequence of genetically modified cows.

FDA and Monsanto scientists determined the rBGH used on cows wouldn’t transfer or harm humans, particularly through milk. They further said that bovine growth hormone wouldn’t harm humans even if ingested, but a case documented in 2011 implies otherwise.

A 33-year-old man found himself in the ER describing a variety of symptoms including nausea, headaches, blurry vision, and more. In the course of the examination, the patient admitted taking anabolic steroids, which included bovine growth hormone.

Evidently, bodybuilders know something more about the impact of bovine growth hormone on humans than government and corporate researchers, as a consequence of the use, this man started a new life with diabetes, and while this was a pretty unusual case, it does confirm that bovine growth hormone whether introduced through milk, which we were assured it wouldn’t be, or through other means can have dangerous impacts on human health.

Cows given rBGH are more prone to develop mastitis, swelling and infection of mammary tissue, and early investigations discovered this led to bacteria and possible pus in milk, and while laws banned the distribution of tainted milk, the plain fact is that milk from cows treated with rBGH are more inclined to suffer contamination than others, and this is why the European Union and other countries banned it.

rBGH also causes an extensive array of health problems for cows, necessitating the use of antibiotics. Fortuitously, most farmers label their milk, so it is easy to obtain non-rBGH/rBST milk. Of course, the simplest way is to purchase organic or raw. Better yet, choose organic goat’s milk.

Whether you believe this or not, messing with hormones is very dangerous… period!

But infertility and sterility in young boys and men have been linked to hormone injections into cows, and have you watched what these injections do to the animals? But birth control is the actual issue here and how to keep a population down without calling it genocide.

Sixteen Year Old Hailed For Her Eloquent, Wounding Brexit Verdict

A 16-year-old audience member on the BBC’s Question Time has been praised for her harsh, articulate opinion on the Brexit chaos, and the young woman managed to sum up the UK’s dilemma more distinctly than most MPs, journalists and observers put together.

Speaking on the flagship debate show in Belfast, she said: David Cameron made the referendum policy because he didn’t want to risk losing 10 or 15 seats to UKIP.

But this has always been because Tories are playing party politics with issues that are going to be enormous generational changes for us all.

This young girl didn’t get a say in Brexit and she won’t get a say in it, because there’s not going to be a second referendum on it as it stands, but either way what we have to face isn’t an issue of parties coming together, because this isn’t a result of direct democracy.

And it all comes back to a party putting itself before the country it’s trying to govern, and she advised an additional extension and a general election to seek the representative democracy, this country was built on.

Her criticisms were extensively greeted on Twitter where users said she was exceptionally articulate and called for her to be made Prime Minister.

Sally Themans wrote: That she was brilliant. We should be listening to our amazing youth, and this young lady makes more sense than any politician in the past two years, and she’s a stunningly articulate young lady that could teach the government a thing or two.

Another Twitter user, James, wrote: “I showed the clip to my nan and she started to cry and said ‘This young lady is so spot on, I just wish the rest of my generation and the one after me would listen to the young more. They are our future’.”

This young lady should certainly get a say in Brexit, and many others like her because this country is their future, and much more politically knowledgeable than the ordinary Joe Bloggs.

This young lady is correct in every word that she says. The Tories have been putting themselves before their country and their people, and it’s a disgrace to British democracy, but then the Labour party hasn’t done much to help, they’ve also been putting their party before the country.

This lady is the honesty of youth, maybe we can bring her in and throw all the rest out and let her manage her own party of MP’s.

This young lady has more knowledge and understanding, and an undeniable right to speak about the European Union, she was expressive and wise, and she merits some admiration for having spoken out.

We’re in a mess because of campaign lies, going back many years about the European Union, from the right-wing press and none of our politicians had the boldness to stand up to them and take them to task, and this could have all been circumvented by the simple expedient of ensuring that the people were acquainted with the truth.

Of course, the Tories rely on right-wing media to do much of their campaigning for them, as well as the extremely rich, the only beneficiaries of Brexit who bankroll them, and why should we trust people that tell us lies, and we’ve gone along with this aberration for three years and we’re getting exactly what was promised, total anarchy.

And Remainers have just been ridiculed and maligned against, and it’s time for this insanity to end, and if this can’t be done with an agreed deal, then we have to have a second referendum or revoke Article 50.

This is a young lady that’s hit the nail on its head, so why can’t grown up people understand what’s going on, and this is a young lady that’s put an articulate debate across in an adult manner which should be cheered, and another referendum would give us all a second chance to vote knowing what we now know.

The problem with revoking Article 50 is it would have to pass through parliament, as it’s a process that has to be agreed by voting, and it would take at least another year, maybe more, and we don’t have that extravagance of time.

This young lady gives hope for the future, and such a change from the so-called lying, self-important politicians, and the younger generation has to deal with this because the older generation would rather things went back to how they were before immigration, and don’t really care how it affects them because they won’t be here much longer.

I feel pretty sorry for the younger generation because they’re getting shafted and it’s not right, and all in the name of greed, but then people have been getting shafted for centuries.

Every generation gets shafted, and this young lady isn’t going to be any different, due to the distortions and self-interest of the ones who shaft people, and the biggest shafter was Tony Blair, starting a war that no one agreed with.

And finally, if she ever gets to be a politician, then it will be her turn to shaft people for her own self-interest because she won’t be any different to anyone else.

Up To 220,000 Disabled People Will Have To Wait

Esther McVey has said that up to 220,000 disabled people will have to wait all summer for benefit payments they deserve.

Mentally sick people face having to last through the school holidays without additional Personal Independence Payments (PIP), despite winning the right to them in the High Court.

The claimants are set to get a higher rate of PIP after the High Court said rules for assessing them were blatantly discriminatory.

Staff are currently assessing all 1.6 million PIP claims, and up to 220,000 people will get additional money backdated to November 2016, but the Work and Pensions Secretary said the first of those back payments will only come at the end of the summer.

Esther McVey did not stipulate which month, and previous guidance to MPs had said the first back payments would come in summer 2018.

Esther McVey made the statement following a question by Labour MP Luciana Berger, who complained: “Six months later there’s still no confirmed timetable for when that High Court judgement will be implemented in full, and back payments made to those people affected.” But Ester McVey said that they had been making new guidance, consulting with stakeholders on how to work through it and that the first payments would start at the end of the summer, and that having to assess all the number of people will take and has taken a little time.

She further said that it had been meticulous, accurate, and the first of those payments will begin at the end of the summer, but the dispute is all about the 2016 tribunal, which stated people who experience devastating psychological anxiety when travelling alone should qualify more readily for Personal Independence Payments (PIP).

At first, ministers revised the law to evade obeying the tribunal, but after an outcry by mental health charities, the High Court ruled the government’s behaviour was blatantly discriminatory.

In a triumph for campaigners, Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey then U-turned and announced she would not contest the High Court judgment any further, she further stated up to 220,000 people was thought to be affected, higher than the initial estimate of 164,000.

The fight came as Esther McVey collided furiously with MPs over a second, separate PIP climbdown, and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) retired from a battle which two chronically sick people, AN and JM, who wanted higher PIP.

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One of the two people is severely diabetic and has to be watched at night to avoid slipping into a life-threatening coma, and the pair’s lawyers contended that this need for an observer counted as therapy, in which the claimant required higher PIP.

Esther McVey confirmed the DWP had backed down in the case, and the two people concerned would be given additional PIP within days, but she repeatedly declined to say how many other people in the same position would be affected, insisting that it wasn’t up for debate, and she dismissed Labour’s grievances as screams to howls of protest and a shout of rubbish.

Esther McVey said: “The opposition do not like to hear the facts we have, I would say, done a positive move by not seeking to appeal and support these extra people

“You wouldn’t believe that by the screams from the opposite benches.”

She added: “Sometimes listening in this chamber, listening to what oppositions are saying, actually you’re not helpful for your constituents because, in fact, you spread that fear unnecessarily.”

Labour MP Debbie Abrahams, who raised questions over the new case, demanded Ms McVey “get a grip”.

Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Margaret Greenwood said: “What reason do disabled people have to believe her department is fit for purpose?”

Tory former minister Anna Soubry said the government “need to look at assessments” for PIP, as two-thirds of claimants who mount a full appeal have them overturned.

SNP MP Alison Thewliss added: “The credibility of this department absolutely lies in tatters.

“They had to be dragged through the courts in the first place to be proven they are wrong.”

Odd isn’t it. If you owe the government money they won’t wait even 1 day for it, but if they owe you money, well, you simply have to wait and wait and wait, and that’s assuming they don’t try to go to court to get out of it or try to write new laws to get out of it. What a great country we have!

Esther McVey is so incompetent so she fits right in with all the other Tory enthusiasts, I mean prevaricators I mean ministers Ooops! And it’s shocking that this is the way our elected government treat their own people, and it’s clearly not a democracy when a government punishes its people like this.

Our government find the money for their wealthy donors, but surprisingly it won’t come from PIP because the cost of running PIP, ATOS et cetera is more than what they save by not giving disabled people who urgently need it, and they turn almost everyone down.

It’s not even about the money, it’s purely an ideological position about making the poor suffer and die, and it’s thoroughly contemptible. Perhaps we should stop her money and everything she claims for until the end of the summer, but I wager her massively over inflated wages and perks will be in her bank account at the end of the month. How does she sleep at night?

It’s tragic when someone who’s waiting for an appeal takes a doctors note to the Jobcentre and they tell you that they’ll fast track your money for you, that person waits a week and nothing, so they ring the Jobcentre and they tell them that they need a backdated one and that they’ll call you back the next day to get more details, then they don’t call, so you ring them, it takes over an hour to talk to anyone on the telephone. Then they take their backdated note to the Jobcentre and they’re still waiting three weeks, and still no money, in fact, they’ve been waiting 18 months for their appeal.

The DWP just don’t care what happens to people when they stop paying them for over a year, and then they deny having anything to do with homelessness and suicide rates going up.

There are people out there and children still waiting for their money 6 months on, children with extremely restricted speech and loads of other complications, and they get told, they will just have to wait! And how many will still be alive by the time their groats are dished out so they get their gruel?

Things like this shouldn’t be happening. Vulnerable people are launched all over the place and half the time they crack and end up committing suicide. Some have quite severe mental health issues and can’t defend themselves, some can’t even boil an egg, all of which falls on deaf ears from the Tories and their core voters because they’ve been told time and time again that mentally ill people are faking, lying or simply need to alter their thoughts somewhat.

But this is rather common for the nasty party because according to them, most mentally ill people are either pretending or want to be ill, and such is a typical right-wing concept these days.

Esther McVey Refuses To Apologise

Esther McVey has refused six times to atone for the rollout of Universal Credit in an agonising live radio clash, as the former Work and Pensions Secretary turned an interview into a car wreck as she savagely declined to say the word “sorry” for the six-in-one benefit’s flaws.

She was asked six times by LBC presenter Nick Ferrari whether she apologised to those who lost out on money in the rollout of the new welfare policy, and it came after she admitted that some claimants were worse off throughout her time as Tory welfare chief.

But despite revealing she’d had to make some modifications because claimants were losing out, she refused point-blank to say sorry.

Asked the first time if she would “apologise in any way”, she insisted: “The benefits system before was failing people.”

She said under Labour the number of households where nobody had worked had increased, and the benefits bill had gone up by 65 per cent, and she added that she made sure more people could get into work while Tories also supported the most vulnerable.

Esther McVey was asked: ” Do you apologise for the way it was introduced, that some people were left without money?”

But Esther McVey who is running to be the UK’s next Prime Minister said that she wasn’t in government when those reforms were brought in and that those changes were George Osborne’s changes, and that she actually strived to bring more money into the system because she could see where the weaknesses were.

This much is true, George Osborne denuded £4 billion out of the benefit, and Esther McVey as welfare chief prompted the Treasury to give some, not all, of that money back, but she still didn’t say sorry.

For a third time, Mr Ferrari said: “I get that, but do you apologise for those who did lose out?”

She stuttered: “What we’ve done is… Nick…”

But Mr Ferrari asked a fourth time: “It was reported that maybe 3 million households lost up to £2,000 each.

“If that were the case even if it was half that number do you apologise to those households?”

Again she emphasised she succeeded in getting more money into the benefit by being honest about the problems at Cabinet.

Mr Ferrari said: “I think I’ve asked you five times to apologise, Esther McVey.”

But she pressed on, still not saying sorry, telling him: “I made sure we changed them [the previous cuts], to make sure we reached out and helped the most vulnerable.

“Did I change direction for the party? Yes, I did, to help the most vulnerable.”

Asked, a sixth time, to confirm she would not apologise, she said: “If people didn’t get what they meant to get, that’s why we have a process by which you can appeal and give the money back.”

She added, correctly, that she had further changed prior restrictions on Personal Independence Payments (PIP), though she forgot to say it was after a High Court defeat.

“I’ve changed a lot of things for the benefit of people on benefits,” she insisted.

Esther McVey has the smile of a crocodile just before it attacks you, and appearances can be misleading, the Tories like to smile just before pushing the knife in, and it’s a shame politician’s think they have to play conversation dodge ball, and try to linguistically evade answering questions directly, it merely makes them look bad, less credible and less humble.

The entire thing was a complete car crash, and she’s clearly been taking media lessons, instead of admitting or defending the glitches in the Universal Benefit system, she instead blathered on at tangents designed to put her in a good light.

And she openly confessed to the glitches in the Universal Credit roll-out, and she highlighted the difficulties with the Universal Credit roll-out, and how she had fought for more money, and for that money to be paid sooner than 5 weeks.

Esther McVey had no reason to say that she got it wrong because she wasn’t in charge of the initial roll-out, she had no reason to apologise, but she should have apologised for George Osborne’s cock-up because as it stands she simply tried dodging condemning her colleagues for the roll-out failures.

She knows that rolling out Universal Credit was a blunder, after all, if it’s not broken, why fix it? But she still helped to implement it and its associated suffering where it left countless people dead and poorer, and that she should atone for.

Clearly Esther McVey isn’t losing any sleep over the deaths of people, as a result of Universal Credit, but then it’s extremely doubtful that anything like that bothers her, or her enabling voters, after all, it wasn’t that long ago that she was touring graveyards with Iain Duncan Smith snapping at the occupants, telling them they were fit for work.

The True Reason Behind Why The Royals Chose To Wear White

It’s no mystery that one of the significant topics of conversation as of late schools around President Donald Trump and Queen Elizabeth. On the first week of June, the President and First Lady made a visit to the United Kingdom where they engaged with the British Royal Family, a custom that’s been upheld for many years now.

One of the highlights of the trip is the state banquet held by the Queen at Buckingham Palace. This is one of the truly majestic and monumental occasions where royals and dignitaries attend in their absolute finest, even the royal women break out their tiaras for the event.

Many have noticed a pattern in the Queen’s attire for state banquets over the years, and without fail, she always opts to wear a white garment and looks utterly luminous and gleaming at that, but this year, though, another trend was spotted and it piqued the attention of many across the globe.

One thing a lot of people came to notice was that this year, it wasn’t only the Queen wearing white, but the rest of the royal women and the First Lady. Coincidence some initially thought, but for this number of women to choose this makes it anything but.

It then went on to spark the question, was there a reason for it? As it turns out, there was, and it was better than you’d ever imagine.

According to experts, the colour white holds a great deal of importance and the message was delivered loud and clear during the regal banquet. “White, of course, is the colour of peace and the colour of new beginnings.”

Coincidentally the psychological meaning behind this uncommon colour preference is quite appropriate when it comes to restoring and honouring diplomatic relations between various countries, and it’s a thoroughly reflective colour that creates simplicity, clearing the way forward.

Scientifically speaking, white contains an even scale of all the colours of the spectrum, so naturally, white’s most important feature is equality, impartiality, and independence.

And it’s so amazing to see the subtle messages like this between the British Queen and the First Family. They all looked utterly stunning on this event and the message delivered through the colour choice was the icing on the cake.

Of course, a white tie dress code doesn’t mandate that women wear alabaster gowns, but at the state banquet, the Queen, the First Lady, Princess Anne, and the Duchess of Cornwall and Cambridge were all furnished in hues of cream, and at state events such as a banquet, there are no colour conditions for women, and ladies have indeed worn all kinds of bright and muted colours.

Her Majesty the Queen normally prefers white, but not as a dictate. Furthermore, there are no conditions for attendees to coordinate their outfits, although the Queen and the Duchess of Cornwall more often than not wear white for a state banquet, which works best with sashes and jewels.

There are no hard and fast rules, and in the past, the Duchess of Cambridge has worn red or blue, but now she has a Royal Victorian Order sash to wear, so it would make sense that the Duchess of Cambridge would want to show off her new order against a blank canvas, but even when considering the sash, wearing white is not mandatory.

No official announcements have been made about First Lady Melania Trump’s style choices either, but it’s obvious that her garments for this trip were chosen with great consideration. From the shirtdress printed with British landmarks, including Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, that Melania wore to leave for Britain, to the careful parade of well-tailored silhouettes and hats in a mix of British, American, and European designers, her preferences have been a strict example of sartorial discretion.

In the past, Melania Trump’s attire decisions have provoked contention, a pattern she did not appear to want to replicate this time around, and she would possibly have discussed this with the State Department’s Office of Protocol before choosing her attire for the trip.

The department thoroughly prepared the President and first lady for what was expected all before the moment the door of Air Force One opened on landing in England. This involves cultural traditions and courtesies of the United Kingdom, arrival, motorcade, route, security, media, weather, which of course could affect dress attire at various events.

That preparation would certainly have turned up the fact that the Queen usually wears white to State Banquets and that first ladies have done so as well. Michelle Obama wore white in 2011, as did the Queen, so Melania Trump would have known it was a safe-and respectful-option, one not likely to receive criticism.

But in addition to making blue sashes and red rubies pop, white dresses at formal events have deep historical roots in the United Kingdom as a powerful sign of status.

Historically, courtiers would use dress as a means to confirm their social standing and wealth. White clothes, particularly when made of expensive materials such as silk and heavily embellished, were particularly beneficial for these means. However, white is not a particularly practical colour as it dirties quickly and shows even the tiniest flaws.

That meant, its wearer did not have to carry manual labour and could afford to have various costumes for different activities, and what you have to remember is that before the industrial revolutions, textiles were very costly, so much so, that in the 18th century, there was no invitation system at court, so long as you were clothed accordingly, you were let in.

These days, it’ll take more than an expensive gown to secure admission into a Buckingham Palace festivity, but the equivalence of white clothing with formality and wealth continues. After all, if you can confidently drink red wine without debilitating anxiety that you might spill it on your ivory ballgown, you’re indeed an elegant lady.

Prince Harry’s True Character

The British Royal Family is put on one of the biggest footstalls known to man, and it’s pretty simple to see why because their sole function in the grand scheme of things places them apart from others and causes the world to follow their every move as closely as possible.

It’s a known truth that the royal family has many rules and customs in which they’re expected to adhere. Many of these are fixed in place to assist them to sustain the longstanding style and majestic nature the family is known to possess.

Some members of the family, though, tend to warp the rules a tad more than others, and one of the repeat offenders over the years is, you guessed it, Prince Harry. From the moment he was born he has been one to wear a sneaky smile and tutu around the customs as much as possible.

Since becoming a husband, this certainly hasn’t diminished, and he married a bride that thinks quite similarly to him, and at times, causing many to scratch their heads in disbelief at their unrestrained habits.

Recently, more news about Prince Harry’s personality was exposed and followers were pretty excited and eager to learn all about it. It was leaked that Harry makes a slightly non-traditional request when staying in hotels, he asks for them to discontinue their use of plastic.

According to one of his old friends, Nacho Figueras, Harry has always been irritated by the amount of plastic waste in hotels. He gave an example in an interview: “He was there and we were at the hotel where we spent the night before the game. He talked to a person and said, ‘This morning I got my coffee and I saw that you have a plastic thing on the coffee. And then I also sent my shirt and got my shirt in a big plastic bag.’ The Prince then added, ‘Can we please not use the plastic?’”

He continued: “So that’s this guy, okay. I don’t like to talk about that at all, that’s who he is. That’s who they are. No plastic.”

This is not the first time someone has taken notice of his dislike for plastic waste. Prince William once spoke about it in an interview: “[Prince Charles] took us litter picking when we were younger. We thought this is perfectly normal, everyone must do it. We were there with our spikes stabbing the rubbish into plastic bags.”

But it appears that Harry does this because he’s literally programmed to do so because his father Prince Charles did, and believes that we should all be doing it, but then this is one more reason he’s not only a charming royal and loyal father, but also dedicated and enthusiastic about waste and keeping the planet a pretty clean place, and that’s something worth heeding.

Over the years we’ve had a glimpse at Harry’s personality, from his cheeky streak to his sincere, caring side, and his soft spot for children, and of course, he’s now a father himself, and there are three versions of Harry, the sensitive little boy, the fighting man, and that cheeky smile that you could fall in love with.

Of course, it’s that cheeky side of Harry that’s made him the more popular and relatable members of the Royal Family, and with his playful disposition he’s always been very charming, particularly in his party prince era, with some pretty public slips in judgement that accompanied it, but that’s what makes him human.

And his position within the Royal Family has given rise to his more laid-back, goofy character, while his beloved brother William has been primed for his position as successor to the throne from the second he was born, but Harry as the superfluous exists in something of a grey area.

It’s really tough being the second son because you don’t really have a designated purpose, and this dynamic was one the late Princess Diana was also very conscious of when raising her two sons.

Diana was keen to ensure Harry felt as loved and important as his brother, telling Prince Charles, you take care of the heir and I’ll take care of the spare.

While Harry always appeared carefree and approachable, his position as the spare likely had a profound influence on his personality than many of us would recognise, especially in his younger years, and Harry struggled to obtain a meaningful role in his life, and that culminated to make him a rather bitter man.

These days, however, it’s probably a different story for the happily married Duke of Sussex, who now has a child of his own, and some might say that he’s got a more appealing life than Prince William because he’s got all the prestige and gratification of being a royal but not all of the responsibility that his brother has on his shoulders.

Harry more likely than not will never be King, William, of course, will be, and probably at this stage of his life, Harry is realising it’s really not been all that bad.

Donald Trump U-TURNS

Donald Trump has delivered a screeching U-turn on his assertions that the NHS would be ‘on the table’ in a Brexit trade deal, but the US President rowed back on his remarks, made at a live international press conference after they led to public outrage.

The contradiction is expected to boost worries about which version of the President, who has frequently misrepresented in the past, the British people should believe, and Labour MP Stephen Doughty tweeted: “He’s a liar – no one’s going to believe his belated comments on NHS.”

Donald Trump’s comments to ITV’s Piers Morgan launch a fresh missile into the Brexit debate just as he withdraws from a three-day £40 million State Visit, and standing alongside Theresa May, Donald Trump announced the NHS and “a lot more” would be up for grabs in a “phenomenal” trading alliance following Brexit.

When a journalist asked him if US firms’ access to the NHS was on the table for a deal, Theresa May had to lean over and explain the question. The President then affirmed: “I think everything with a trade deal is on the table, and he said that the NHS or anything else, or a lot more than that, but that everything will be on the table.

The President’s comments came only two days after his own Ambassador, Woody Johnson, said healthcare would be on the table in a trade deal, and this has sparked fears of mass privatisation as Jeremy Corbyn said that our NHS was not for sale.

However, now Donald Trump has backtracked on his comments in an interview with Piers Morgan of ITV’s Good Morning Britain, and he then said that he didn’t see it being on the table.

He said: “Somebody asked me a question today and I say everything’s up for negotiation because everything is.

“But I don’t see that being… That’s something that I would not consider part of trade. That’s not trade.”

Labour’s leader told a Whitehall protest yesterday: “We will fight with every last breath of our body to defend the principle of a healthcare system free at the point of need for everybody as a human right.”

And GMB health union chief Rehana Azam said before Trump’s U-turn: “President Trump is just waiting to get his hands on our NHS. There’s a very real danger Conservatives will just hand it over to him in a trade deal.

The British Medical Association issued a statement asking all Tory leadership hopefuls to eliminate the NHS from any post-Brexit discussions. Matt Hancock, Jeremy Hunt and even right-wing free marketeer Dominic Raab all did.

Donald Trump and Piers Morgan developed a relationship when the former Mirror editor appeared on the US version of the Celebrity Apprentice, and the 30-minute interview took place in the Churchill War Rooms almost an hour following the press conference.

It took place in front of the generator that helped power the fight back against the Nazis and Adolf Hitler, and it aired hours before the end of the President’s three-day State Visit to the United Kingdom.

During the wide-ranging interview with Good Morning Britain, he also talked about Jeremy Corbyn, Prince Charles, The Queen, Iran and more.

It comes ahead of a major ceremony in Portsmouth, with 15 world leaders, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the conclusion of the President’s State Visit.

The Queen will be accompanied by Prime Minister Theresa May and US president Donald Trump alongside 300 veterans in Portsmouth to mark the approaching anniversary, and some 60,000 members of the public are expected to attend the Portsmouth Naval Memorial on Southsea Common for the event which marks the 75th anniversary of the biggest amphibious invasion in military history.

Considered a turning point in the Second World War, Operation Overlord saw thousands killed and wounded after it launched on June 6 1944, and Theresa May will be making her last official appearances as the British Prime Minister during the D-Day commemorations which continue on Thursday across Normandy.

Meanwhile, hundreds of ex-soldiers are flocking to northern France and Portsmouth as well as to events around the country to mark the occasion.

Leaving the NHS aside, could you envision any UK Prime Minister going to the United States and openly saying that they should nationalise their health care system, and can you visualise how they would be received by the US government, because any normal politician on a state visit from the United Kingdom wouldn’t even consider inflicting their views on another’s domestic policies, but then not many people would say that Donald Trump was normal.

But seeing as how the UK government has recruited medical personnel from overseas over the years, I can only see them getting more workers from the private sector, and I can see them using US Private Health firms as a means to do that, but if Donald Trump said he could save the NHS millions on drugs and X-ray machines, would our government groan at that? Of course, they wouldn’t.

But of course, Donald Trump will do another U-turn once we’ve left the EU. We will end up being isolated and weakened, and the powerful medical insurance US lobby will get its own way.

There’s no doubt that our NHS is in a shocking state, but then we have many sightseers using the NHS who don’t contribute a penny towards it, so how can that be right that a person living in the United Kingdom all their lives and paying National Insurance and taxes is no better off in the system than someone arriving a day ago?

If you came down with a malady in another country, the hospital wouldn’t lift a finger until a credit card was presented and they knew that the money was available, but here in England we simply roll over and give everything free to newcomers, but to our own people, they have to struggle, not only where the NHS is affected but where virtually everything is a struggle.

And we must remember that anything Donald Trump does, always has the aim of a quick profit, and we can’t believe anything he says, he’s neither loyal nor does he have good intentions.

For the people of the United Kingdom to support the NHS, which should stay just as it is, we would all have to pay an NHS contribution each month from our paychecks, an additional percentage or fixed price, which would depend on the amount that you earnt. This wouldn’t be a tax, and that should be made pretty clear, it would be an NHS contribution, this would be the only way to bring the NHS out of the rut that it’s in.

Donald Trump appears to be using this country like a business, and that’s really crafty, yet he puts his country first, but then that’s what the Prime Minister of this country should be doing, and should always be doing, and Donald Trump’s visit has probably changed many people’s view of him.

Hopefully, the NHS will not be part of any trade deal, and I don’t think our government would ever chance that, it would certainly be political hara-kiri.

The NHS is one of the greatest things that the United Kingdom has, it’s talked about all over the world on how great it is, and it’s the greatest institution and it’s NOT FOR SALE!

Food Bank At Primary School

A primary school has set up a food bank for starving kids whose parents are struggling under austerity.

Head Debbie Whiting started it after seeing students so hungry they were stealing from other children’s packed lunches, and if children are starving they just can’t learn anything. Children need to be fed, clothed and warm.

The food bank at North Denes juniors in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, is believed to be the first at a British school where staff and some parents donate additional items from their shopping and a charity has given £1,500.

Mum Sadie Carter, who has two children at the school, said she fell to “rock bottom” after running out of money and was “crying for days”. She didn’t know what to do, but the school stepped up to help.

Debbie Whiting, 54, has further introduced cooking classes for parents, a clothes bank and free breakfast toast for pupils.

Half the 420 students at the school – deemed good by watchdog Ofsted – get free meals. The trouble is, it’s a deprived coastal area and the difficulties parents encounter are not of their making because a number of families have switched from benefits to Universal Credit and have seen delays in their money coming through, even though Universal Credit said that they’ve made 100 per cent advances available from day one.

That’s five weeks without any income, no savings, and loads of debts with numerous people not having enough money to feed themselves or their children, and there are many people out there that are less fortunate and don’t have the skills to budget, organise or plan, and a little empathy wouldn’t go astray.

And the price of austerity in the United Kingdom has fallen disproportionately on children, leaving them starving at school and forcing teachers to collect food and send it home with their students.

Children are showing up late for school with empty bellies, and schools are assembling food on an ad hoc basis and sending it home because teachers know that their pupils will otherwise go hungry, and students who qualify for free school meals are missing out because their parents don’t sign up, as the government faces growing pressure to tackle a developing problem with food poverty and holiday hunger amongst children.

Children are growing up in poverty uncertain of their fate, with young people who believe that gangs are the only way out of their poverty, and then there are the people with disabilities who are being told that they need to go back to work or lose their support against their doctor’s orders.

And this suffering has been perpetrated needlessly on millions of children who are being locked into a cycle of poverty from which most will have great trouble escaping, and local governments are struggling with essential services they’re statutorily bound to provide.

Northamptonshire County Council has twice had to issue a formal notice indicating that it was in danger of illegally using more than the resources it had free, and as a result, there were concerns that hundreds of vulnerable children were at higher risk of harm due to quickly declining frontline child protection services.

We need additional funding for councils to tackle holiday hunger because, for approximately one in every two children to be poor in the twenty-first century, Britain is not only a disgrace but a social disaster and an economic catastrophe, all rolled into one.

Daniel Serra, Who Threw Deluge Of Abuse At Woman

Daniel Serra, 32, hurled abuse at a woman in West Horndon Train Station, Essex including threatening to get her pregnant, after she’d attempted to assist him with directions.

Daniel Serra started shouting at the woman at West Horndon station, Essex asking her how to get to his destination, and after directing him to the ticket office for advice, Daniel Serra subjected the victim to a deluge of textual degradation, including threatening to get her pregnant.

The court heard the victim told him she was, in fact, pregnant, but he maintained his furious attack and sexual threats, saying ‘I’ve got three women pregnant and you’ll be next. You won’t be no princess when I’m finished with you’.

The victim took shelter in the ticket hall and Daniel Serra proceeded to scream threats at her from the platform, and following an investigation by British Transport Police dedicated c2c Proactive Team, Daniel Serra was arrested at his home address.

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Daniel Serra, of Greaves Close, Barking, was found guilty of section 4 Public Order offence, at Southend Magistrates’ Court. He was sentenced to six weeks in prison suspended for two years, and he must also complete a rehabilitation programme and pay £500 in compensation to the victim.

This was a prolonged and revolting textual attack on a pregnant woman travelling on her own, and she was naturally left incredibly distressed by the ordeal, having gravely feared for her safety, and Daniel Serra is a despicable person, and it probably won’t be the last time we read about him in the newspaper.

No abuse is acceptable from anyone, and everyone has the right to feel safe and to be treated with dignity, and everyone has the right to live in safety, from abuse whether it be in a public place or inside the home, and verbal abuse, threats and name-calling is an experience familiar to many people, however, there are laws in place to protect from verbal abuse.

The police should be protecting people from this kind of treatment, but it’s not always the case, and this sort of abuse would have left this unfortunate woman in a state of trauma and distress, and the fact that she was pregnant and was abused by Daniel Serra is pretty sickening.

And safeguarding means protecting a person’s right to live in safety, free from abuse, but in this instance, the victim was not safeguarded and Daniel Serra is out on the streets again to do just as he pleases, and the fact that he said “I’ve got three women pregnant and you’ll be next.’ is not just abuse, it’s a threat, which should be taken extremely seriously, and should have come with a custodial sentence.

Not only that, abuse or violence or any sort of damaging behaviour can be directly damaging to the babies of pregnant women simply because there are changes to the mother’s stress response systems, raising their levels of the hormone cortisol, which in turn could increase cortisol levels in the unborn child, and this sends a strong message that abuse or violence affects the fetus even before it’s born.

But when push comes to shove, this should never have happened, and Daniel Serra is back out on the streets to harass and harry someone else, but perhaps this time the victim might not be so fortunate.

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