THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

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.

Furious Nigel Farage Loses His Temper

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Nigel Farage fought to restrain his annoyance on Good Morning Britain after host Charlotte Hawkins pointed out a problem with Brexit stats, as the Brexit Party emerged as a definite victor of the European elections with a third of the vote and Nigel Farage stating that he would end his sobriety with a beer to celebrate, quipping that the wheels would come off.

But Charlotte Hawkins, who was presenting the program with Richard Madeley, destroyed his mood by saying: “If you add up all the pro-remain parties they did get a bigger percentage – 35.8 per cent vs the Brexit party 31.6 per cent. So the pro-remain parties altogether did get a bigger percentage.”

But Nigel Farage was infuriated, saying: “This is absolute tosh! If you want to look at it that way…”

Charlotte Hawkins added: “Well it’s the facts.”

“It is not a fact, alright!” Nigel Farage asserted, outraged. “Add up the Brexit party vote, add up the UKIP vote. Let me finish! Add to that the Conservative vote, that’s still a party that says we’re going to leave, and you will find that leave beat remain.

“What you find is that overall, right now, our country is 52: 48 in favour of leaving! We’re supposed to be a democracy! We were promised that this would be implemented and I’m really tired of all these Remainers constantly moaning about every single election which they leave.”

And Nigel Farage stated he had gained the most seats in the European election because of his “simple message”, and he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We set it up and of course we had no ground campaign, no branches, and yet with a big, simple message, which is we’ve been badly let down by two parties who have broken their promises, we have topped the poll in a fairly dramatic style…

“If you look across the country it’s about 52:48 – we’re pretty much where we were three years ago.

“Things haven’t changed, people haven’t changed their minds.”

Maybe we should get the thieving cheat back on again and question him about the anti-Brexidiocy Liberal Democrats topping the Yougov poll, it would probably give him a heart attack. After all, he knows full well that the people are better versed now, and many have realised just what nonsense the Brexidiots were glibly spewing.

Of course, the Remain voters who are continually sniping and whining, seeking to reverse the Brexit referendum or have Article 50 repealed, if they were to succeed, Britain would have the Brexit Party securely entrenched in the European Parliament for an additional five years until 2024. And when Nigel Farage gets a tad annoyed its headline news, but when Boris Johnson talks total rubbish, the British people don’t appear to mind.

The media made a huge fuss when Boris Johnson made a silly frivolous remark on a TV show but didn’t appear to mind when he said on the same show that there wasn’t a vote on the 2nd war against Iraq when more Tories had voted yes than other parties.

That indicates he had the position of Foreign Secretary without knowing any basic foreign policy. Perhaps he put on a clown routine to get away with telling fibs and the media is in with him, or are Boris Johnson and the media that stupid?

Yet it’s taken the EU to do something about his lying, while the British people respond like birdbrain nincompoops, believing that he wants to leave the EU for the good of the British people. Then our pitiful Tory propaganda news lets Jacob Rees-Mogg give the only opinion, stating that Boris Johnson and other anti-EU Tories that were plastering lies about the EU on buses was really about free speech.

And then there are all those people who are losing their jobs because our news didn’t give accurate information, so it isn’t about free speech at all, and I can’t believe that England has become so thoroughly dumbed down, and it has to take the EU to prove that the USA born Boris Johnson whose family changed their name from the foreign relative names to Johnson to sound more British, and he just talks rubbish, while our media simply keeps protecting the lies.

And our media hasn’t given any accurate information about the EU. Such as saying to look at the US section in supermarkets, and to look at EU compliant labels over original US labels, and that the US doesn’t have to label genetically modified ingredients, and that their food is more inclined to be that, so that food companies can make more profits.

But then Nigel Farage is just a self-serving opportunistic clod, and hopefully, shortly he will be an antiquity, and the media should stop giving him air time.

The same Idle Nigel whined because Andrew Marr challenged him, and he didn’t like it, what a pity Robin Day isn’t still around to put Nigel Farage’s feet to the fire, the masquerade would soon be removed from this second rate hatemonger and he’d be shown up for what he really is.

But then Robin Day would have put every politician through interrogation, and Nigel Farage would have been shown up big time because he’s a manchild who chucks his toys out of his pram when he can’t get his own way.

Nigel Farage is a snivelling baby who doesn’t like answering awkward questions or like facing awkward facts and then goes off bellowing if anyone attempts to dishevel his feathers. Do we seriously want such a person running the country?

The thing is Brexit will cause chaos in UK politics for years to come with both major parties announcing that they would support the outcome of the referendum and then do everything they can to thwart the will of the people, and now they’ve divided the people, and have caused intolerance amongst the people.

But the blame for the situation that this country is in, lays heavily at the feet of the Houses of Parliament, nowhere else. After all, at the end of the day, we all had a vote, we voted and the rest was up to them, all power and no progress because of their squabbling.

The gentry of this country emerges from a pretty small gene pool, based on people standing and not the natural evolution and development of the human race, that’s why most upper-class people look like unintelligent Hobbits.

Society, however, evolves and develops from a broad and diverse gene pool and will proceed to do so until we get to the point were we take hold of the upper-class imbeciles, and elbow them back in the lockers we shoved them when we knew them at school, and take back control of this country with the determination needed to run it. After all, this country has withstood wars for our freedom, our integrity and our sense of “do not mess with us”

So, Leave won, but it was apparently based on lies, but hallelujah, that’s okay, it doesn’t matter because they will tell Leavers anything, and the Leavers will believe it, but unfortunately lies were told on both sides, and sadly such is the true nature of politics.

But Nigel Farage is so convinced that a Leave campaign will win again, well, if he’s so convinced, then let’s have a second referendum. After all, if he’s so confident that he’ll have the people on his side, what’s he so frightened of?

Would I vote for Nigel Farage in a General Election, absolutely not, and when are politicians going to get their heads together for this country, instead of seeking to boost their self-esteem? The days of having great powerful leaders are gone, and we have no idea who these people are masquerading as Cabinet Ministers or Shadow Cabinet Ministers are.

And watch as the chumps that voted for the Idle Nigel realised he’d duped them again. Nigel Farage who’s all piehole and no knickers.

If we don’t come out of the European Union by the 31st October 2019, maybe we shouldn’t come out at all, and most of us should really be terrified of being impaled on an island with nincompoops that fall for every deception that our government come out with, or get caught out with, but are still dim-witted enough to vote for, and time and again Nigel Farage has shown he’s nasty tempered when asked perfectly relevant questions, which should demonstrate that he’s simply a typical opinionated leader.

Poor Nigel, the pressure has been showing for some time, and Farage lies like a moody kettle when he wails, and he should calm himself down, turn the lights out, lay down and croon a tune…

All manifestos are fairy stories because, at the end of the day, they’re simply seeking to sell themselves, there’s no validity to them, they can make up anything and people will believe it, and hopefully this braggart, the Poundland fuehrer won’t get to stand in the General Election.

The problem was that when we had the referendum, at the time most people voting were too busy running up and down the motorways pursuing an illusory Pokemon and weren’t actually thinking about what they were really voting for, and now they’re whining about it, and the problem with Nigel Farage is he doesn’t like the truth, but as long as people agree with him, then that’s alright, but if he’s challenged on anything, it’s like stand back and watch the fireworks.

A second referendum would be the best idea with two clear choices, either leave with a deal or cancel Article 50 and remain in the European Union.

Nigel Farage is now claiming he should get a seat at the table regarding negotiations with Brussels, I myself wouldn’t let him near my sprouts, and people will accept anything they’re told, and seem to be too dense or slothful to work out when they’re being lied to.

I’m gravely concerned about Brexit because nothing is getting done, and we appear to be more concerned about that than what’s going on in the real world, like knife crime, public services, housing, homelessness and hospital waiting times, when we should be building more housing and opening Youth Centres across England.

Bus Services Plunged Into Damaging Decline

Bus services have been plunged into damaging decline because of spending cuts, and Theresa May and Chris Grayling have been accused of refusing to recognise that there’s a problem.

The Daily Mirror’s Save Our Buses campaign stands up for local bus routes and defends them from crippling funding cuts leaving commuters annoyed and frustrated, and since 2010 passengers numbers have fallen by 10 per cent while bus services have been reduced and fares have risen by 32 per cent, well above the rate of inflation.

And despite buses being the most prevalent form of public transport, the report depicts a panorama of steady deterioration amid “uncoordinated, fragmented government policy and squeezed funding for local authorities,” with approximately three out of five journeys by public transport that are on buses, but passengers are getting a bad deal, as there are long-term funding projects for rail and roads, but not buses, but the House of Common’s Transport Committee is asking for a national strategy for buses to give passengers a better deal.

The strategy should make bus services more passenger-focused and provide value for money, and help bring more people, particularly young people, onboard.

The report says local authorities should be able to create new publicly-owned bus companies and encourage people to switch from cars to buses.

The Tories have neglected buses, along with the people and communities who rely on them, and the government has cut funding and denied local authorities powers over services, putting the profit of private bus companies before passengers, and communities have been damaged by cutting people off from work and recreation and worsening congestion and air pollution.

It’s ridiculous that local authorities are prevented from setting up new municipal bus companies.

Reading, Nottingham and Edinburgh all have award-winning publicly owned bus companies, and other municipalities should be able to follow their example. Right now, shareholders extract millions every year from our bus network, and public ownership would mean more money to reinvest in better buses, and that’s the standard in other European countries like Germany and Austria.

More than 3,000 bus routes in England have been reduced, altered or eliminated since 2010/11, and the numbers using bus services are declining, which has direct consequences on people’s lives, affecting journeys to work, education and social events.

It narrows our transport choices and drives us towards less environmentally-friendly choices, and yet, there was no physical indication that the Government was prepared to take action to prevent this.

Passengers want manageable and reliable information on ticketing and fares and dependable services that turn up on time and get them where they want to go, and local authorities and bus drivers want to work together, whether to understand local traffic to better use bus priority measures, enforce moving traffic infractions or plan for new housing developments.

The Government has strategies on rail investment and road development, so it’s now time to bring forward a strategy for bus services outside London.

The strategy should make bus services more passenger-focused and provide value for money, and help to bring more people, particularly young people, onboard. This will also bring benefits for air quality, cutting carbon emissions and diminish congestion.

In February it was announced that the Local Government Association warned that approximately half of the bus routes in England are in threat of being discarded due to a lack of funding, and Town Hall chiefs fear the 12,700 services which councils finance are in jeopardy because the money may have to be redirected to fill a £652 million funding shortfall to pay for the free bus scheme.

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Free bus passes for off-peak travel are a legal entitlement for people aged over 65, or those with a disability, but budget constraints mean councils are spending less on discretionary items such as free peak travel, post-school transport and supported rural services.

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But Jeremy Corbyn promised to reverse the Tory cuts to bus routes with new funding of £1.3 billion a year, which would restore many lost services.

The bus ‘revival’ will be financed by revenue from Vehicle Excise Duty, which was designated for new road building and was welcomed by campaigners and union leaders.

Delivering high-quality bus services is a shared obligation and a national strategy could provide a sound foundation for government, workers and local authorities to act together to make bus travel even more attractive to commuters, reduce congestion and better the environment.

Keeping Abreast Of Things!

The world of politics, diplomacy and celebrity has responded with a fusion of amusement and horror when it comes to Boris Johnson, and his track record when it comes to interacting with other cultures is patchy, to say the least, and politicians throughout the world will no doubt be fascinated by the possibility of working with a man who once wrote a poem about the Turkish president having sex with a goat.

And in the US, the official response was one of carefully suppressed hilarity, but then just looking at Boris Johnson you struggle to keep a straight face, with his Mr Bean parody that’s unquestionably put him on the map, and what are the facts behind this slapstick laden man?

Boris Johnson is sheer slapstick, and I’m sure a complete delight to many of his disciples, but not everybody takes this opinion of him with his clumsy antics. He not only expresses himself visually but verbally as well, and when I think of Boris Johnson’s character, the picture I always get is of Mr Bean, and it’s only a matter of time before the hapless Boris Johnson acts up once again.

Boris Johnson is a slow-witted, but generally amiable buffoon, and he often seems oblivious to the basic aspects of the way the world works which makes him funny and often ridiculous, with his complete disregard for others.

Boris Johnson is frequently depicted as a buffoon, offensive and sometimes pretty simple, and he doesn’t show much interest for his partners or spouses, and I could quite imagine him standing in front of the Queen and inadvertently headbutting her.

Boris Johnson is an irritation and a menace. He’s hopeless, awkward, poorly dressed, and a blathering nincompoop who appears to be totally unaware of anyone and everything around him, but he’s every clever man’s stupid invention, and he’s unmistakably British, and often others are enraged by his bizarre character, but he’s become a genuinely iconic figure.

Of course, we seem to have this British tradition of self-mockery, but today when our country is a declining power, we no longer laugh from a position of strength, but from one of cringing, cowering self-hatred.

Boris Johnson may appear to be a plonker but don’t disparage his intelligence, because he’s certainly making a clean breast of things…

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And under that Benny from Crossroads hat is a really intelligent person. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, but as Boris Johnson as the favourite to be Prime Minister by the end of the summer, Boris Johnson has waited years to win the iron throne in our parliamentary version of Game of Thrones, but just as he appears poised to win the prize, there’s every possibility he will keep it for only a brief time.

To win the leadership of the Tory Party, Boris Johnson will seemingly make an assortment of promises that could leave him no option but to fall out of the EU with no deal, and he may allege that he can negotiate a better deal than Theresa May could, and he may argue that, if we take the EU to the brink, but it will crack.

He may promise there’s no way he’ll delay Brexit yet again except if it’s as part of a negotiated no deal. He may tell us there’s nothing to fear from a no deal, but it will just be a short sharp shock before we soar to our doom.

But the notion that he can negotiate a better deal is fantasy, and the only exit deal on offer is the one Theresa May agreed. The EU won’t crack because we need it more than it needs us, and the concept of a “negotiated” no deal is a unicorn.

The EU will only agree to ease our departure from the club if we adhere to the promises Theresa May made, including the notorious “backstop” intended to keep the Irish border open, and there’s a lot to fear from no deal.

Boris Johnson is not stupid. He knows this. But he may get fooled by his own discourse with the result that we crash out anyhow.

After all, if nothing improves by October 31, that’s precisely what will happen. And then what?

In the ensuing turmoil, the government, which doesn’t have a majority would fall and Jeremy Corbyn would probably enter Downing Street, at least if he comes off the fence and backs a People’s Vote unambiguously, but for Boris Johnson, that would be an embarrassing end to a premiership that was cruel, brutish and brief.

So how can he elude this outcome? Well, one possibility would be to call a general election before the end of October in the hope of thrashing Jeremy Corbyn’s backside and winning a majority which will be large enough to enable him to ride out the storm that will be unleashed if we crash out.

But this hope seems rather forlorn. Sure, Boris Johnson is an exceptional campaigner, but the Tories are tearing themselves to pieces over Brexit and Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is rising in the polls.

Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage could split the Brexit vote and allow Jeremy Corbyn to seize the iron throne, but in the latest analysis published implies that the Tories would get fewer MPs and Boris Johnson himself would lose his seat.

He might be able to circumvent this fate by cutting a deal with Nigel Farage so they didn’t compete in an election, and such a fiendish pact might save his skin, but Nigel Farage would drive a hard bargain, and it might not even work.

Sensible Tories would leave the party, splitting it irretrievably, and even if the ploy worked, we would still crash out of the EU with no deal, something that Boris Johnson seemingly doesn’t want in his heart of hearts – remember how shell-shocked he looked on the morning after the referendum?

But there’s one more option, call a new referendum. The choice would probably be between leaving the EU with no deal and staying in. Boris Johnson would campaign to crash out, so would Nigel Farage.

But there wouldn’t be any need for an electoral pact between the Tories and the Brexit Party because there wouldn’t be an election.

Boris Johnson might believe he’d win such a vote and that if he did, he would have the people’s blessing for crashing out, and if he lost, he’d presumably have to give up the iron throne, but, hey ho, it would take six months to organise and hold a referendum so his reign wouldn’t be miserably brief.

What’s more, if he kicked the can, who knows what might happen? After all, Theresa May managed to cling onto power for longer than most people anticipated by endlessly playing for time, but as Boris Johnson considers his next moves, he might just decide that his least damaging option is the People’s Vote, and if he does, we’d have to beat him soundly because we need to gear up for that probability now.

Free Social Care For The Elderly

Mah Rana travels up to five hours a day across London to care for her 87-year-old mother. Since her mother was diagnosed with dementia it’s something she’s been doing nearly every day for four years.

She’s classed as an unpaid carer, and it’s taken over her life, and it’s all-absorbing because it’s a 24/7 job, and it affects her sleep and it increases her stress levels because she’s always worried about her mother when she’s away from her.

Her mother goes to a daycare centre in West London, an important facility to help her to a point of extreme need, but to be cared for there she has to pay just like all attendees who live with dementia, but this leaves her mother with no disposable income.

Her mother doesn’t have a vital income, so that impacts on her finances because in terms of social care she has to pay for everything, even though she has a disability, but now a new report from the UK’s leading progressive think tank maintains that social care for the over 65s who need it should cost them nothing, just like the health service, and in turn it could save billions of pounds.

Under the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) proposal, older people who can afford accommodation expenses will still have to pay for it, but they won’t have to fork out for personal care wherever they live across the country.

Approximately 1 in 10 people face catastrophic care costs of £100,000 or more, and at the moment they’re paying for that largely out of their own savings, or what we have is a huge number of people going without the care that they need.

The report suggests that the change would create parity between cancer patients whose care is all free from the NHS, and those with dementia, many of whom have to pay for all their care. It says it would raise the number of people with access to state-funded care to just under half a million, easing pressure to unpaid carers, and it would further help shift hospital patients back into the community and give a higher quality and integrated service resulting in possible savings to the National Health Service of 4.5 billion pounds.

But where will the money come from?

The think tank proposes raising taxes to make up the funds, and they say that a two per cent rise to income tax is required.

A more long term strategy needs to involve probably a kind of social assurance scheme, and there are some really great models in Europe, but particularly in Germany where they’ve thought out a way to have a sustainable funding model for social care, which means that the costs aren’t lumped onto families at the end of someone’s life.

Plus the Department of Health and Social Care say they’re dedicated to ensuring that everyone has access to the care and support that they need because then people like Mah Rana and her mother will benefit, not only financially but emotionally if this latest proposal comes into force.

Boris Johnson Plots Quickie Divorce

Boris Johnson wants a divorce inside six weeks as he ventures to be Prime Minister.

The bookies favourite has been negotiating with wife Marina so he can move on with girlfriend Carrie Symonds and even move her into Downing Street if he gains the leadership battle.

Ex-Tory spin doctor Carrie, 24 years younger than Boris Johnson, 54 lives in a £1million flat in South London where he spends a lot of his time, and as well as easing tensions with wife Marina Wheeler, 55, there have been many heartfelt discussions and collations with each of their four grown-up children, and he has allegedly told them that he wants to do the right thing.

Marina will stroll away with an attractive deal, and Boris Johnson is now expecting the divorce will go through in six weeks, and politically it will work out well, but also personally so he can push ahead with Carrie.

The Tory’s £3.75 million family home in London’s Islington is up for sale with Marina assumed to pocket the money following the quickie divorce.

She’s also expected to take 15 per cent of his future earnings, and a source stated that Marina would never ruin Boris’s chances of being Prime Minister.

The couple announced their parting in September as his romance with Carrie was made public, and in a statement he and Marina stated it was in their best interests, adding that the divorce process was underway.

The ex-Foreign Secretary has had at least four extra-marital romances and made at least two of his consorts pregnant.

He married his first wife, university sweetheart Allegra Mostyn-Owen, in 1987. They parted following an affair with Marina, whom he married in 1993, and in 2004, he confessed to having an affair with writer Petronella Wyatt, who had an abortion and a miscarriage, while both worked on magazine The Spectator, but she said that they still remain friends and that he would be a good Prime Minister.

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In 2009, Boris Johnson fathered a love child with art consultant Helen Macintyre, then 39, who did volunteer work for him, but there were reports that Marina, mother of their children Milo Arthur, Cassia Peaches, Lara and Theodore Apollo threw him out over it, then took him back.

It doesn’t seem like anyone is in a credible position to become Prime Minister, and with Boris as Prime Minister, Downing Street will look like a high-class brothel, and by the time Marina is finished with him, Carrie will only be left with a lying, thick-witted, racist buffoon.

But it’s the deception that runs through all his behaviours in every sphere of his professional and private life that makes him unfit for public office. He’s generously shown when given the opportunity to prove his performance as Foreign Secretary, that he’s hopeless, careless, apathetic and gaffe-prone, running around giving the very people who are paid to protect his wild life the slip so that he could meet someone young enough to be his daughter, and he definitely doesn’t have the maturity to become Prime Minister.

And God help us if he gets to become Prime Minister, although it won’t have been the first buffoon in parliament. Britain’s in a bad place, but with him, in charge, we will just sink further into the mud.

Boris Johnson has a habit of wanting to do everything too quickly, that will mean trouble for the United Kingdom if he becomes Prime Minister, as details can be lost and then come back to bite us on the bum, and this maniac should never become leader, he will be a disaster, not only for the Tory party but also for Britain, and Boris Johnson may well be the Tories coffin nail, well, one can only hope.

Boris Johnson was given a crack at being Mayor of London, and he was hopeless and wasted £97,000,000 on vanity projects London neither wanted or needed, although Boris’s bikes were a great idea, but most of it was sold off at a loss.

Then they gave him a crack at being Foreign Secretary which he was even more hopeless at. He didn’t read briefs properly and didn’t get it right for any of the foreign visits he undertook and insulted every country he visited.

Then he got himself distracted by yet another marital affair and ran away. He is idle and has no self-discipline, but prattles a lot in an effort to cover it up, and would someone who’s been fired three times for blatant lying to the boss then get a promotion in another department?

He’s a confessed liar and cheat, but doesn’t that make for a good portfolio for a Tory Prime Minister? With no scruples whatsoever.

It appears that his ex-wife Marina was the brains behind any success that Boris Johnson had, and it will be another huge blunder if Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister. British politics is quick becoming a worldwide embarrassing laughing stock, but with Boris as Prime Minister, it will become a circus, and the next person to become Prime Minister should at least be human, not a Chimpanzee.

Young People Are Being Ignored Over Brexit

It’s horrifying that 70 per cent of our young people wants to stay in Europe, and they’re being disregarded by the 70 per cent of old people who want to leave.

The self-interest of this country self-evidently depends on our presence at the core of Europe, and all this stuff about sharing power and gaining power and sovereignty, it’s all slogans, it’s got no relation to the real world that we live in, and whilst there are some pretty brave Conservatives holding the fort and standing by their own convictions as to what our national interest is, there are too many who are in one of two camps.

Those who just it’s a quiet life, it’s all we can do, the people have spoken and all that, and those who are the Brexiteers, who are motivated by these delusions of yesteryear, by the misconceptions of the role of a medium-sized economy and nation-state in tomorrows world, unmindful of the wishes of the generations yet to come.

And it’s tragic that a generation has betrayed a younger generation. Sad that government denied Britain’s historical role at the centre of Europe. Sad that they stood down from their position as one of the leading countries of our sort in the world.

They gave up power.

Let’s be realistic here, Brexit was, is, and has been misrepresented, and the people of the United Kingdom didn’t really understand what they were voting for, but regrettably due to our democratic beliefs we have to accept the consequences, like it or not, and run with the new predicament we the people find ourselves in.

How strange this country will be when Brexit is proved to fail and the people who brought it to our door all leave to remain comfortable, whilst those of us who can’t leave strive to live through it.

There’s definitely no advantage to Brexit, nothing save ridiculous kindergarten jingoistic slogans, and leaving the European Union is simply an unattainable goal by the right win Euro haters who’s goal can never be realistically achieved in full.

At the end of the day, the Tory government should have had those Brexit negotiations well and truly sorted by now, but they were merely too far out of depth and incompetent to deliver Brexit for the people who voted for it, and the government needs to end any kind of Brexit urgently before they push this country off a cliff edge.

To be fair I’d prefer my food source to be from the EU. I don’t want GM food from the USA, and I’d like my food to be cancer free and relatively fresh, and we’re on a slippery slope to nowhere, and in the process of antagonising our closest allies and friends.

So, since the politicians can’t decide on what deal to go with, why don’t we simply send it to the people to decide? And since the Leavers are so happy with democracy and confident about their position, put Remain as an option, this would be the most democratic option because we shouldn’t be selective in our use of the democratic process, and we should be more comprehensive.

After all, democracy isn’t static, people are entitled to change their opinions, and just because you vote one party one year, doesn’t mean that you’ll vote for them in the next election. It’s never too late to end this economic madness, and there were countless people who voted for Brexit who had no idea of the consequences of this aberration.

I’m not really sure what we have to gain by coming out of the European Union, and I do appreciate everyone’s views! But by leaving the European Union the United Kingdom will have to give the EU £39 billion in order to break away, that’s a lot of money to be shelling out when we really don’t have to.

And even though a transition period has been granted to enable the United Kingdom time to adjust, which means that if the withdrawal agreement gets the green light, there will be no huge changes between the date of Brexit and 31 December 2020.

So, has our government supported the Withdrawal Agreement, well, no, they have voted against it three times.

If the Bill fails, then the way ahead is completely unclear, although senior politicians have warned it would lead to either leaving the EU without a deal, or Brexit being cancelled entirely. Of course, it’s still written into law that the United Kingdom will be leaving, even though the deadline has changed, three times, although the European Court of Justice has said that the UK could cancel Brexit altogether without the agreement of other nations, but politically, it’s not expected to happen.

The two-year period outlined by Article 50 came to an end on 29 March 2019, and unless all 28 EU countries agreed to prolong that period, the withdrawal agreement will have to be done and dusted well before then, and with no withdrawal agreement that would further mean there wouldn’t be any transition period following Brexit.

Instead, there would be a sudden break in UK/EU relationships, so a “no deal” needs to be taken extremely precariously, and there’s no point in looking tough under pressure regards these negotiations, it won’t get the government anywhere.

However, some advocates of Brexit say that it would mean that the United Kingdom wouldn’t have to pay the divorce bill to the EU, although that’s an argument that would presumably end up in court, and most definitely rile the other side.

There would be no specific arrangement on the future rights of EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens in the EU, and border checks would have to be re-imposed, and transport between the United Kingdom and the European Union would be seriously affected.

The UK would become a “third country” with considerably less access to the EU single market, and the UK’s involvement with the European Union would suddenly be ruled not by the common rule and regulations that have been built up over more than 40 years but by general international public law.

It’s worth highlighting that the UK government says it doesn’t “want or expect a no-deal scenario”, yet it’s stepping up contingency planning.

One major issue is timing, and if both sides decide reasonably quickly that negotiations will not succeed and that a “no deal” is extremely reasonable, they will at least have numerous months to prepare.

But if there is a last-minute glitch, that would prove very challenging. That’s when people talk of a cliff-edge Brexit, and there will be numerous priorities, and some of them are rather obvious, and that will be to guarantee the supply of essential services, and those highlighted were the need to protect supply chains for food and medicines under the almost unimaginable scenario of a cliff-edge departure, and the Department of Health has already stated that it would stockpile medicines.

And it was further mentioned that there would be a need to try to negotiate a range of bilateral agreements with individual countries to enable aircraft to fly if the UK left the European Aviation Safety Agency with no new arrangements in place.

Currently, 100,000 International Driving Permits are issued every day by 89 post offices around the country, but in the first year following a no-deal Brexit, those figures would increase to a predicted 4,500 post offices issuing up to seven million permits, to take into account journeys into the EU.

In other words, every area of the economy needs to be ready for no deal, just in case. In other words “It ain’t over till the fat lady sings”.

If Only She’d Shown Some Humanity!

So destroyed is Theresa May’s credibility that as she started to break, when she showed some emotions through her resignation speech, the trouble was, she cried the wrong tears, and if anything has changed throughout her time as Prime Minister is her waning of compassion.

And the millisecond in which one might feel for another person, even if they are different from you, is now merely political vulnerability, and the valley of tears is a mysterious place and Theresa May’s tears may only have been for herself, merely a single register of the shattering of her delusion, but there they were.

Make no mistake, she’s been an appalling Prime Minister, inaccessible to reality, profoundly indifferent, and entirely tone deaf. Avoiding any possibility to really compromise, and anyone who’s met her will tell you that she doesn’t actually do human, and a walk-in freezer has more warmth, and attractive accessories don’t make a personality.

More importantly, she doesn’t do conversation, she just repeats her lines and her mantras until people are so bored they perhaps agree with her, or she simply pretends that they did.

When she took up the poisoned chalice of delivering Brexit, we thought it was a duty thing, a Christian thing, a God thing, questioning how she got up every morning, walking into meeting after meeting where everyone in the room despised her and believed that she was not up to the job.

This has been called that dreadful catch-all word “resilience”. Actually, it appeared more delusional because Theresa May’s restricted emotional spectrum, disdain for Labour and a cheap knockoff of Thatcherite resoluteness amounted actually to a kind of absenteeism.

But was she ever there at all, this woman cleaning up mayhem, stooped with a burden of her own choice?

Margaret Thatcher wept, too, after being overthrown, but at least she believed things, but Theresa May has never seemed to have an ideology past insensitivity to immigrants, and her Home Office was inhumane, and the torture she caused is still being felt.

This is why her speech citing Nicholas Winton and speaking about injustice rubbed salt in the wound, and her policies were enacted when gay people faced deportation to countries where they faced persecution where people of colour are abused every day, and Grenfell and Windrush are her legacies, she should certainly cry for that.

David Cameron, of course, went out with nonchalant humming and was praised in the Commons for being a nice bloke. Yet all of this fine mess goes back to his decision to hold an election and not conjecture the consequences of the intentional torture his chum George Osborne had inflicted on the most defenceless people in the country, yet this pair’s extensive cruelty has been well compensated.

Never forget that disconnect.

Theresa May’s disconnect was between what she said she wanted to accomplish and how she behaved. She didn’t compromise, or ever show one bit of emotional intelligence. The job was beyond her, and it was also beyond the parochial narcissists who encircled her.

Theresa May was correct in saying that the Brexit vote was a vote for profound change, and it’s also self-evident that such a change couldn’t come from the Tory party, and the voice of healing comes too late.

This is a woman who choreographed an antagonistic environment for immigrants but whose own party became a hostile environment for her, and even now as a dead duck Prime Minister, she still has to endure a state dinner with Donald Trump when he and his entire family entourage arrive in Britain next month, this was yet another thick-witted thing Theresa May agreed to.

So, perhaps she was really crying mercenary tears for herself alone, and for the collapse of her own fantasy, for she has lost the power, to all those who care not for vulnerability, the perverse men, with their insane belligerent talk.

Her fall has been a long time coming but it’s real, and this isn’t about a woman blubbing, it’s much greater than that, she’s broken, because we’re broken, and whether people feel her pain or not, the pain for all of us is about to get worse.

And at the moment when Theresa May let her emotion to show while signing off her resignation speech, she did more for women that she has over her whole political career, and hearing her voice break when she announced that running the country she loves has been “the honour of my life”, it was very hard not to feel sad about the fact that another woman’s time at the helm of the country was over, not to mention the fact that her turbulent time in office will unavoidably be used against other women in politics in the future.

No, I don’t feel sad for Theresa May, she only wept for herself, not for Grenfell, Windrush or the homeless. She didn’t weep for the domestic violence shelters which were shut down on her watch, and the Northern Irish women who suffered because of the DUP’s draconian stand on abortion, or the immigrant women detained in Yarl’s Wood, and it will take decades to turn back the clock on that dismal record, no matter how hard she strives to push the “second-ever female PM” line.

But that moment at the conclusion of her resignation address it was like watching a woman shake off the patriarchal restraints she’d been chained to for more than two years and then finally exhaling.

It was a tad touching, maybe even relatable when you remember her humiliating herself with her dance routine of Abba’s ‘Dancing Queen’ trying so hard to be seen as just another human being, it couldn’t have been easy, but emotion has been weaponised against women since time immemorial, particularly in the political field.

As women our wombs make us irrational, our hormones make us delicate, so we’ve been told, and women supposedly shouldn’t work in these kinds of professions because when you criticise them, they cry, but it makes no difference whether we actually cry or whether we simply assert ourselves, studies have shown that men who respond to situations with anger are praised, and women who do the same are penalised.

Historically when women cry men become misogynistic and they try to demonstrate that women can’t hack it and that we’re too weak, but when women subscribe to do this as men do, it damages men just as much as women because masculinity is the norm.

Now men are frequently praised for crying or talking about their emotions but Theresa May has been torn apart for it, and she’s been mocked across the internet for those closing moments when she ultimately lost her composure.

Of course, Theresa May isn’t the first politician to show emotion, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, and even Margaret Thatcher all had their moments, but these tears felt much more real than the politically expedient crocodile tears adopted in a timely moment.

Theresa May’s done fighting, and she simply abandoned her defence mechanisms, she really has nothing more to give. The only thing she did have to give was a moving statement that she’d ultimately failed in an office that she held in very high esteem, but then name one male Prime Minister that cried when they didn’t get what they wanted, and perhaps she has lived up to the stereotype that girls always cry when they lose.

Or perhaps she was merely crying because of all the lies she’s told during her career, or for the total destruction, she and her predecessors have subjected us to? Or perhaps she was just showing typically psychopathic behaviour, seeking to garner pity and followers, after all, she did get the job through the illusion of being human.

But then the people of this country have been crying ever since she was elected, now it’s her turn to cry.

I listened through the whole resignation address, odd how she was so composed during her entire address, and then she cracked during the last few words of her resignation, almost like it was scripted.

But her entire address was nonsense. Theresa May was divisive, offensive and arrogant. She didn’t listen to anyone, she took no accountability for her decisions, and she surrounded herself with bungling nincompoops. All in all, she was a thoroughly hopeless Prime Minister, and the only two people she seemingly helped was herself and her tax specialist hedge fund husband, she did nothing positive for anyone else.

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