THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

Councillor Who Has Lived In The UK For 19 Years

A councillor who has lived in the United Kingdom for 19 years and who is married to a British man and has two British children has been refused “settled status” by the Home Office.

Maggie Filipova-Rivers alleges she was informed that she had not produced papers from the last five years that explained why she should be able to stay in the United Kingdom after Brexit and a Home Office spokesperson said that Ms Filipova-Rivers couldn’t be refused settled status because she’d not yet made an application.

EU citizens, along with those from other countries, can apply as part of the EU Settlement Scheme to remain living in the United Kingdom following June 30, 2021 but the Liberal Democrat, who was elected in May, said she was annoyed about the way EU nationals were being handled but was positive that her case would be sorted eventually and the South Oxfordshire district councillor claims she has so far been able to get pre-settled status, which gives her fewer rights than settled status.

Originally from Bulgaria, she said she’s concerned about how other EU citizens currently living in the United Kingdom will prosper and that the most significant worry for her is that there is a tremendous threat for people who are economically inactive or those who have studied for a long time because there were a lot of nationals who came to the United Kingdom as students.

The Home Office asks applicants to produce a history of their past work, but it appears that those who had taken time out of work apparently are at a disadvantage to those who had not and that is something that the Goring councillor worries could put mothers who might have taken maternity leave, for instance, at a disadvantage.

Settled status can work if you came to the United Kingdom five years ago and worked for an employer and they paid tax on your behalf but numerous people will not be in that position because if you think about the skill spectrum, and the many zero-hour contracts or the construction sector, or those that might be casually employed, they won’t have the documentation or work history to provide.

This lady isn’t concerned about herself, but she is furious and she understands the implications. She can obtain legal help, but it comes at a price and she will be most likely absolutely fine and it’s a journey that she’s on with other EU nationals.

The councillor, who is currently South Oxfordshire District Council’s cabinet member for community services, came in the United Kingdom to take her A-Levels, before studying at Newcastle University but she’s worried that EU Citizens will face difficulties doing everyday activities, such as getting work, opening a bank account or renting a home if they don’t get settled status in the future and the freedom of movement for EU residents will end on October 31, the proposed date for Brexit.

However, that date is now uncertain.

But the answer is simple, present the right paperwork and EU nationals will be able to stay, and if they can’t provide it then there’ll be offered pre-settled status rather than being denied and the fact that you have a National Insurance number can easily determine how long you’ve worked in the United Kingdom but then Brexit started 3 years ago so why are people waiting till the last moment to apply?

On the other hand, it’s not fair that people who have lived in the United Kingdom most of their lives have their lives turned upside down for the sake of a piece of paper, when a National Insurance number would suffice.

However, this woman is scaremongering that mothers will not have evidence of earnings, but mothers who have a National Insurance number which is automatically credited to Child Benefit once claimed will have that proof but this lady just didn’t provide the right paperwork and as a councillor, she should have known what paperwork to provide.

Parliament to forcibly evict Westminster Rough Sleepers

Homeless people are to be forcibly ousted from the Westminster underpass, which leads to Parliament, by installing rolldown shutters blocking the shelter off.

In December 2018, rough sleeper Gyula Remes was found dead in the underpass. The underpass is part of the Parliamentary estate.

One of the rough sleepers, Tim, a 58-year-old who became homeless nearly a year ago following the breakdown of a relationship, has named himself the ‘Earl of Westminster’ and has penned a blog about the removal of his group.

They were a good community sleeping in the tunnel, there was no mess, no drinking, no drugs and no unruly conduct, but now the group has been split up and they have nowhere to sleep and they’re condemned to stop being rough sleepers and instead have become rough walkers.

Laura Hughes, a friend of Tim’s, checks up on his progress regularly and gives him support said that this was a human rights infringement and that it was part of the antagonistic environment towards homeless people and it’s social cleansing.

Rough sleeping in the London borough of Westminster grew by 16 per cent between April 2018 and March 2019 and throughout that time outreach workers reported 2,512 people sleeping rough compared with 2,165 the preceding year.

In June, Westminster council boarded up an area outside McDonald’s in Victoria Street to keep rough sleepers away, and the number of homeless people dying on the streets had increased by 24 per cent in the last five years but official figures have revealed that approximately 600 homeless people have died in England and Wales last year, although the real total is likely to be much higher.

And the Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures reveal that there were 482 deaths amongst displaced people in 2013, growing to 597 in 2017, so, overall, an estimated 2,627 homeless people have died in that five-year span, and it’s sickening how we as a nation have allowed so many of our citizens to be forced to live on the streets.

So, why are we housing so many people from around the globe, yet allowing our own to live on the streets? We should be looking after our own first, but the liberal far left dictators call it racist, which seems to be their favourite catchphrase.

Meanwhile, our councils and government arrogantly stated that they were giving two Syrian families a house each, furniture, food, access to the NHS, school places, all free free free, while our own people have to sleep rough on the streets.

But then I guess people are just people and all deserve a roof over their heads and at least the very basics in our moneyed society and should race and nationality even come into it? And why are our own being treated so badly?

Sadly, it’s hard and there are people out there that might have given a few quid to someone who looks like they’re genuine. The dilemma is there are thousands of good players out there making £60 an hour in some places and then after a hard day of pretending they walk a couple of streets to get into their brand-new car and bog off to their nice house.

The thing is there are genuine homeless people out there who we would definitely give a few quid to, but in this world of dishonesty and deception, most of us have given up totally, but then it’s also really disturbing to learn of the lack of human kindness and understanding demonstrated by the “As long as I’m okay jack”.

Boris Johnson Branded Tin Pot Dictator

Boris Johnson has been branded a tinpot dictator over a promise to break the law rather than ask for an extension if Britain can’t agree on a deal to leave the EU and Boris Johnson stated that he would sooner die in a ditch than go cap in hand to Brussels, despite MPs passing a law demanding he do it if a no deal has been agreed by September 19.

But Shadow attorney general and Labour peer Baroness Chakrabarti branded the Government’s position extraordinary and said the PM was acting like every tinpot dictator on the planet if he thought he could oppose the law, and they appear to be in a very dangerous constitutional position.

And Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell stated: “We don’t believe that we can pin him down and I don’t trust him an inch, and I don’t think anyone does”.

It appears that we’ve got a Prime Minister who’s stated that he will not abide by the law, and it seems that we’re in a situation where no one can trust him, and it was a calamitous week for Boris Johnson in which he lost his majority, his first four Commons votes, his bid for a general election and the support of his brother and then senior Cabinet Minister Amber Rudd who dramatically resigned.

And then Boris Johnson suffered another embarrassing Commons setback as MPs again refused his request for a general election and the likelihood of yet more Tory civil war with more resignations from concerned Tory MPs who feared that Boris has no plans for a fresh Brexit agreement.

Baroness Chakrabarti said that she believed the situation was irresponsible and elitist with the view that there’s one law for Boris Johnson and his buddies and another law for everyone else and that it was appalling.

But then every tinpot dictator on the planet throughout antiquity has used the pretext of having the people on their side to breach the law to shut down Parliament and all the rest of it, and it’s utterly extraordinary and it’s really un-British, as was the removal of the 21 MPs.

The legislation is crystal clear, if Boris Johnson doesn’t have a deal in the next few weeks, then he should ask for an extension, or ask to stay in the European Union, and of course, the Prime Minister will try to agree on a new deal with Brussels at the summit on October 17 but should he fail he will then reportedly decline to comply with the so-called Benn Act passed by Parliament.

Nevertheless, Boris Johnson has repeatedly pledged to break the law in a move which Downing Street thinks would ensure a prompt judicial review in the Supreme Court with the future of Brexit which could be put in the hands of judges just days before the October 31 deadline, and the former Director of Public Prosecutions Lord MacDonald stated that it could see the Prime Minister arrested and imprisoned, and if he goes to prison will his cabinet and advisers be arrested for aiding and abetting?

What we should really do is have an election so that the people of this country can decide. No more petitions, no more courts, no more games in Parliament because it’s the only way to stop this nonsense from both sides.

And we all know that the only reason Boris Johnson has brought forward the shutting down of Parliament is that he doesn’t want any more humiliating disappointments and we shouldn’t believe what Boris Johnson has to say, he’s a known lier and even his own brother saw through him.

It’s all foolishness, and the referendum was sold on the basis of a stroll in the park, but it’s far from a stroll in the park. It was deemed to be the most straightforward deal in history and it has been far from it. The government and the people can’t have their cake and eat it, we’re either in or out, and the Government needs to make its mind up.

Theresa May said that a no-deal was better than a bad deal, I say, better the devil you do know than the devil you don’t!

Boris Johnson actually has no idea what he’s doing, and he’s wasting time and energy and our money planning on a no-deal when all that time, energy and money should be going on more essential things, and a no-deal means nothing, zilch, nada, walking away empty-handed, which of course is a recipe for disaster.

Boris Johnson was the man who penned two speeches, one to leave and one to remain, evidently, he couldn’t make his mind up or was he merely hedging his bets? And everyone said he was a clown, no clown there, and he clearly doesn’t need his head testing, he knows precisely what he’s doing.

But if you look at the entire picture, it looks pretty much like Sieg Heil to me with Boris Johnson and his fascist friends who are driving the Brexit sheep into a glorious fifth Reich. Nevermind parliamentary democracy, never mind the law, simply get rid of anything or anyone who opposes and then government tramples over the vote in parliament, and this dictator would do anything, even disregard the law to get his own way.

And so we’re now at a point where the only people who are certified normal are those who are agreeing with Leave and a no-deal and then people start using slanderous names against each other. So, there you go ladies and gentlemen and gender neutralists and Boris Johnson the bonehead is showing his real feelings with his once again inebriated brain, the only thing that’s missing is the occasional belch that comes out of his muzzle.

The bottom line is we can call Boris Johnson all the names under the sun but it won’t change anything and the country is a mess because of the Tories but I can’t see anything different happening under Jeremy Corbyn but one thing that has become glaringly apparent is that the political system in the United Kingdom is now out of touch with the current times and it’s beginning to disintegrate and self destruct before our very eyes.

And you can’t expect such an antiquated system to operate in the 21st century and the more you look into how parliament operates shows us that it has no place in the modern world and the Brexit shambles has only highlighted this for everyone to see and it’s now time to have a significant overhaul.

Boris Johnson wants it done and dusted, but even if he does get his way it won’t be over by a long chalk and the only way this country will come to its senses is when the effect of a no-deal kicks in and Jeremy Corbyn now realises that if he won an election he would be left holding that baby.

At the end of the day, Boris Johnson vowed to settle a deal when he became Prime Minister, but so far all he’s done is cause more of a mess but screaming ridiculous silly insults and playground namecalling at him will not make any difference, although people are entitled to a debate or they can simply observe from the sidelines while sucking their thumb.

At the end of the day, Parliament is on the verge of collapse and there should be a comprehensive overhaul of our Parliamentary system with MPs having their wings clipped and if we want things to be abolished, then MPs should be given no rights like people are being given no rights from the Government because this country should never be run on dictatorship!

Poo Found On Every McDonald’s Touchscreen Tested

Specimens were taken from the new machines that have been rolled out at restaurants across the country and every one of them had coliforms, and it was shocking on how much stomach and faecal bacteria there was on the touchscreen machines because this is the cause of the kind of infections people get and end up in the hospital with.

For example, Enterococcus Faecalis is part of the flora of gastrointestinal tracts of healthy humans and other mammals, and it’s notorious in hospitals for causing hospital-acquired infections.

Unsuspecting customers choose their food on the touchscreens then go to the server to pick up their burgers more often than not without cleaning their hands, and a screen at one branch was found to have staphylococcus, a bacteria that can cause blood poisoning and toxic shock syndrome.

And seeing Staphylococcus on the machines is disturbing because it’s so infectious. It starts around people’s noses, and if they touch their nose with their fingers, they can then transfer it to the touchscreen for someone else to get it, and if they have an open cut which it gets into, then it can be fatal.

And there’s a lot of worries at the moment that Stapycoccus is becoming resistant to antibiotics, and it’s still very dangerous in areas like Africa where it can cause toxic shock.

Metro.co.uk’s study with the university’s school of human sciences involved swabs taken from eight McDonald’s establishments. Six in London and two in Birmingham. Listeria bacteria was discovered in Oxford Street and Holloway Road branches.

It can cause Listeriosis which can lead to miscarriages and stillbirths in pregnant women, and Listeria was another rare bacterium that was discovered on the touchscreen machines and this can be extremely infectious and a problem for those with a weak immune system, and three-quarters of the screens swabbed showed evidence of the bacteria Proteus.

Proteus can be found in human and animal faeces. It’s also widely distributed in soil.

It can cause urinary tract infections and is also one of the hospital-acquired infections where it may responsible for septicaemia.

Klebsiella is also from the gut and the mouth, and they’re associated with urinary tract infections, septicemia and diarrhoea, and some species can infect the respiratory tract resulting in pneumonia, and as touchscreen technology is being used more and more in our daily lives, these results confirm that people should not consume their food straight after touching them, they’re unsanitary and can spread infection.

Someone can be extremely cautious about their own cleanliness throughout the day but it could all be destroyed by using a touchscreen machine just once and even though McDonald’s do wash their screens with disinfectant, it might not have been strong enough and this bacteria could have been on the touchscreen machine for days on end.

Of course, people should wash their hands before they eat, and I dread to think of what bacteria there is on money, and it’s not only down to McDonald’s cleaning their screens, it’s people who need to clean their hands as well.

But then they’ve done tests like these on all kinds of public centres, handrails in particular, and there’s poop all over the place, it’s not only McDonald’s.

But then what should we do, should we wash our hands before touching, wash after touching, wash before eating, wash our hands all day until they bleed. We could always wrap ourselves in cling film and never touch things.

And if you did a hit-swab test on the streets from people’s hands and smart screens of the public, you’d seemingly discover the same, but this shouldn’t come as any surprise. Try any surface in the public, trams, trains, buses, not neglecting surfaces in homes, work surfaces, phone screens and handles, it’s everywhere, but then shit happens!

Tories Will Stand Against Biased Commons Speaker John Bercow

Enraged Tories will crush convention and stand a candidate against Commons Speaker John Bercow at the next general election, Andrea Leadsom has announced, as the business Secretary unveiled the move, as she stepped up her dispute with John Bercow, accusing him of infringing the rules of Parliament by enabling MPs to take charge of Commons business.

And in a stinging assault, Andrea Leadsom said John Bercow had failed in his position and had allowed a flagrant abuse of the parliamentary rules, and before becoming Speaker ten years ago, John Bercow was the Tory MP for Buckingham with a majority of more than 18,000, so the move is almost guaranteed to lead to him losing his seat and the Election of a new Speaker and sources close to John Bercow have indicated that he could stand down at the next election rather than risk a Tory challenger.

Andrea Leadsom said the Conservative Party would field a candidate in John Bercow’s constituency of Buckingham at the next election as a result, but of course, the Speaker of the Commons is an MP who stands in general elections but is normally unhampered by the major political parties, but Andrea Leadsom wants an unbiased preacher, and her comments came days after MPs upheld a proposal to take charge of the Commons timetable to pass law to prevent a no-deal Brexit.

Andrea Leadsom said the Speaker’s role was supposed to be politically impartial, and that John Bercow was supposed to be an independent arbiter of the proceedings, who was in place to protect the constitution and manage the performance of the House, but sadly she thought that the current speaker had failed them.

Andrea Leadsom said that by allowing MPs to use Standing Order Number 24 which is a method used to trigger emergency debates as a means of taking over Parliament’s timetable, John Bercow had not only bent the rules, he had actually broken them, and that it was a blatant violation of the process, and that the standing order No 24 that the Opposition proposed wasn’t appropriate for a Motion, and that it was designed to ram through legislation for purely political reasons.

And she said that the use of the standing order in such a way would lead to the creation of bad laws and a total disregard to the will of the people, but then Andrea Leadsom has clashed with John Bercow in the past, and in May of last year the Speaker was alleged to have labelled Andrea Leadsom as a stupid woman, as well as calling her useless, and evidently there was a profanity included in that.

But in March, John Bercow scolded Andrea Leadsom for using her mobile phone during Commons business. Well, John, if you don’t want her to use her phone, ban all mobile phones when entering… really, a bit of respect all round you guys, children are better behaved!

But it’s way more fun watching the parties destroying themselves.

At the end of the day, John Bercow has one job to do, enforce the rules of the House and stay unbiased while he’s doing it, how difficult can it be? But then I do have to give him some credit… he treats MPs like children, but only because they behave like them.

Ooorrrddddeeeeerr, ordeeeeerrrrrr! I bet that makes him feel like a real grown-up!

But then parliament comes across as house clowns, with John Bercow being the biggest of them all, and these people are a disgrace to every hard-working person in the country, and it makes me question how anyone can have any reverence for them.

But like all Utopian insurgents they’ll end up attacking each other, and they’re doomed by history to fail, and it’s not a matter of if, only of when, and I actually would like to have a ringside seat.

Sadly, our government will do anything to turn this country into a hard right one-party state because they’re the most nefarious collection of slimeballs to have run this country in the past 200 years going all the way back to Lord Liverpool and the Tory Repression years, when we had the Peterloo Massacre, and it’s easy to see how Hitler stiffened his grip on power in Nazi Germany during 1933 to 1934, and we’re seeing a comparable attempt at such a power grab in this radical right-wing coup that’s unfolding here.

Of course, people aren’t bothered, just so long as they can go down the pub and have a few brews, then, of course, everything is okay, yet the Tories have spent 10 years picking on the most disadvantaged in society, even those near to death, and in some instances, actually dead, but as soon as it’s the governments own, or indeed 21 of their own, they throw in the victim card, stamp their feet and yell, “It’s not fair”.

Is Your Data Really Data Protected?

When companies or businesses use your data, it uses your personal information, but these companies must follow the dictates on data protection. This pertains to data kept on staff, customers and account holders, for instance when staff are hired, staff documents are executed, and when businesses sell their goods or services, this further includes the use of CCTV.

This could also include keeping customer’ addresses on file, recording personnel working hours, and giving delivery data to a delivery company. This data has to be kept safe, accurate and up to date, and not only that, when information is obtained, especially if it’s personal data, that company or business has to tell a person who that company is and how they’ll use that data, including if it’s being distributed to other parties.

Companies and businesses must tell the person or customer that they have the freedom to see any data that the company holds about them, and correct it if it’s wrong. They further have to right to have their data erased and/or request that their information is not used for specific objectives.

Data on staff that’s accumulated must be protected and safe, with paper documents secured in filing cabinets or set passwords for computer records, and this data should only be kept as long as it’s needed and then disposed of securely after, by shredding, for instance.

Companies must be able to justify monitoring their workers at work because all workers have rights at work and are entitled to be treated justly.

Businesses can’t monitor workers without their knowledge except if it’s to do with part of a particular investigation, and then it must end when the investigation is over and if a company uses CCTV, they must tell people they’re being recorded.

This is normally done by displaying signs, which must be distinctly visible and clear and anyone can request to see images that have been recorded of them, and they must be presented inside 40 days, although you can be charged up to £10.

But then there are the Apps on your phone so that people know where you were last night, and dozens of companies use smartphone location to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but…

There are millions of dots on the map which track highways, side street and bike trails, each one following the trail of an anonymous cellphone user.

One path tracks someone from a home outside of Neward to a nearby Planned Parenthood, remaining there for more than an hour, another represents somebody who travels with the mayor of New York throughout the day and returns to Long Island in the evening.

Yet another leaves a house in upstate New York at 7 am and travels to a middle school 14 miles away, staying until late afternoon each school day. Only one person makes the journey, a maths teacher and her smartphone goes with her.

The app on her device gathers her location information, which is then sold without her knowledge, and it’s recorded her location as frequently as every two seconds, and according to a database more than a million phones in the New York area collect location data, and even though the identities are not exposed in these records it was easy to connect them to that dot.

The app tracked her as she went to a Weight Watchers meeting and to her dermatologist’s office for a minor procedure. It followed her hiking with her canine and staying at her ex-boyfriend’s home, which is really disturbing.

Because it’s the thought of somebody obtaining those intimate details that you don’t want people to know, and even though numerous consumers know that apps like these can track people’s movements, smartphones have become ubiquitous and technology more accurate, and this is an enterprise that’s snooping on people’s everyday habits and is growing to be more intrusive.

And then we have the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal which was a major political disgrace in early 2018 when it was reported that Cambridge Analytica had collected the personal data of millions of people’s Facebook profiles without their permission and used it for political advertising purposes.

It’s been described as a watershed moment in the public perception of personal data and accelerated a huge decline in Facebook’s stock price and has called for tighter control of tech companies’ use of personal data.

The illegal harvesting of personal data by Cambridge Analytica was first reported in December 2015 by Harry Davies, a journalist for The Guardian, and he reported that Cambridge Analytica was working for the United States Senator Ted Cruz using data collected from millions of people’s Facebook accounts without their permission.

Of course, Facebook declined to comment on the story other than to say it was investigating, but the scandal ultimately exploded in March 2018 with the appearance of a whistle-blower, an ex-Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie.

More than $100 billion was knocked off Facebook’s market capitalisation in days and politicians in the US and the United Kingdom demanded explanations from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and the scandal ultimately steered him to agree to testify in front of the United States Congress.

The scandal was important enough for stimulating public debate on ethical standards for social media companies, political consulting organisations, and politicians, and consumer advocates called for more comprehensive consumer protection in online media and the right to privacy as well as misinformation and propaganda.

Aleksandr Kogan, a data scientist at Cambridge University, developed an app called “This Is Your Digital Life” sometimes stylised as “thisisyourdigitallife“.

He presented the app to Cambridge Analytica, Cambridge Analytica, in turn, established an informed consent process for research in which several hundred thousand Facebook users would agree to complete a survey only for educational use.

However, Facebook’s design enabled this app not only to accumulate the personal information of people who consented to take part in the survey, but also the personal data of all the people in those user’s Facebook social network, and in this way, Cambridge Analytica managed to collect data from millions of Facebook users.

And it was announced that dataset had included data on 50 million Facebook users, and Facebook later verified that it actually had data on up to 87 million users, with 70.6 million of those people from the United States.

Within the United States, Facebook estimates that California was the most affected US state, with 6.7 million impacted users, followed by Texas, with 5.6 million, and Florida, with 4.3 million, and while Cambridge Analytica stated that it only accumulated 30 million Facebook user profiles, Facebook determined that the number was about 87 million profiles.

Facebook posted a message to those users thought to be affected, stating that the data possibly included one’s public profile, page likes, birthday and city, but some of the app users gave the app authorisation to access their News Feed, timeline, and messages.

The information was detailed enough for Cambridge Analytica to build psychographic profiles of the subjects of the data. The information further included the locations of each person, and for a given political campaign, the information was accurate enough to build a profile which suggested what kind of advertisement would be most effective to influence a particular person in a particular location for some political event.

And in December 2015, The Guardian reported that Cambridge Analytica used the data at the behest of Ted Cruz. Cambridge Analytica further assisted with President Trump’s campaigns, and on March 17, 2018, The Observer, Guardian’s sister paper published online on theguardian.com and The New York Times disclosed the story concurrently.

The Observer worked with Christopher Wylie, a former employee of Cambridge Analytica, for more than a year before bringing in The New York Times to report the story in the United States, and the New York Times reported that as of March 17, 2018, the information was still accessible online.

Some, such as Meghan McCain has drawn an equivalence between the use of data by Cambridge Analytica and Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign, which, according to Investor’s Business Daily prompted followers to download an Obama 2012 Facebook app that, when activated let the campaign collect Facebook data both on users and their friends.

PolitiFact, a fact-checking organisation had rated this as Half true in Obama’s case, and direct users knew they were giving over their data to a political campaign, whereas with Cambridge Analytica users believed they were only taking part in a personality quiz for academic purposes, and while the Obama campaign used the data to have their followers contact their most persuadable friends, Cambridge Analytica targeted users, friends and lookalikes directly with digital ads.

Political events for which politicians paid Cambridge Analytica to use data from the data breach included the following 2015 and 2016 campaign of United States politician Ted Cruz.

Facebook director Mark Zuckerberg first atoned for the situation with Cambridge Analytica on CNN, describing it an issue, a mistake and a breach of trust, and in effect, he reminded them of their Right of access to personal data.

Other Facebook officials contended against calling it a data breach, disputing those who took the personality quiz basically agreed to give away their data.

Mark Zuckerberg promised to make adjustments and changes in Facebook policy to stop similar violations, and on March 25, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg published a personal letter in numerous newspapers apologising on behalf of Facebook, and in April they decided to implement the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation in all regions of operation and not only the EU.

Amazon said that they suspended Cambridge Analytica from using their Amazon Web Services when they discovered that their service was collecting personal data, and the Italian banking company UniCredit quit promoting and marketing on Facebook.

The governments of India and Brazil demanded that Cambridge Analytica report how anyone used data from the breach in political campaigning, and numerous regional government in the United States had suits in their court systems from citizens affected by the information breach.

On April 25, 2018, Facebook released its first earnings report since the scandal was announced. Revenue has dropped since the last quarter, but this is normal as it followed the holiday season quotes, and in early July 2018, the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office announced it intended to fine Facebook £500,000 ($663,000) over the information scandal, this being the highest penalty allowed at the time of the violation, stating that Facebook violated the law by failing to safeguard people’s data.

In March 2019, a court filing by the US Attorney General for the District of Columbia alleged that Facebook knew of Cambridge Analytica’s inappropriate data gathering practices months before they were first publicly reported in December 2015.

In July 2019, the Federal Trade Commission voted to approve fining Facebook about $5 billion to finally settle the investigation to the scandal, with a 3.2 vote.

During his testimony before Congress on April 10, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg stated it was his personal mistake that he didn’t do enough to prevent Facebook from being used for harm, but this guy isn’t a stupid guy unless he’s suddenly hidden his brains up his sleeve.

But it was his mistake, after all, he runs Facebook, and he’s accountable for what happens there.

He said in 2010 that the thing he really cares about is the mission, and making the world open, and when asked whether Facebook could earn more revenue from advertising as a result of its extraordinary growth, he said: “I guess we could”.

He further said: “We’re not like that. We make enough money” and that Facebook makes enough money and that they’re growing at the rate that they want, but in 2010, Steven Levy, who wrote the 1984 book Hackers” Heroes of the Computer Revolution wrote that Mark Zuckerberg clearly thought of himself as a hacker.

The Criticism of Facebook originates from the company’s prominence and has led to international media coverage and significant reporting of its legal problems and the outsize impact it has on the lives and health of its users and employees, as well as its influence on the way media, particularly news, is reported and shared.

Well-known issues include Internet privacy, such as its use of a widespread “like” button on third party websites tracking users, possible unlimited records of user data, automatic facial recognition software and its use in the workplace, including employer-employee account disclosure.

Not only that, the use of Facebook can have psychological consequences, including feelings of resentment, stress, and a lack of attention, as well as, social media addiction, in some cases akin to drug addiction.

Facebook’s operations have also received coverage on the company’s electricity usage, tax evasion, real-name user requirement policies, censorship policies, the handling of user data and its involvement in the United States PRISM surveillance programme have been highlighted by the media and critics.

Facebook has come under investigation for ignoring or avoiding its accountability for the content posted on its platform, including copyright and intellectual property infringement, hate speech, incitement of rape and terrorism, as well as fake news, Facebook murder, crimes and violet incidents live-streamed through its Facebook Live functionality, and there, have been some concerns expressed concerning the use of Facebook as a method of surveillance and information mining.

Two Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT) students were able to use an automated script to download the publicly posted information of over 70,000 Facebook profiles from four schools (MIT, NYU, and the University of Oklahoma, and Harvard University as part of a research project on Facebook privacy published on December 14, 2005.

Since then, Facebook has reinforced security protection for users, stating that they’ve built various defences to combat phishing and malware, including complex automated systems that work behind the scenes to identify and flag Facebook accounts that are likely to be compromised, based on abnormal activity like lots of messages sent in a short period of time, or messages with links that are perceived to be bad.

A second clause that brought criticism from some users allowed Facebook the right to sell users’ data to private companies, stating that they might share data with third parties, including responsible companies with which they had a relationship with.

This matter was addressed by spokesman Chris Hughes, who said, that they never provided users’ information to third party companies, nor did they intend to, and Facebook ultimately withdrew this clause from its privacy policy.

In the United Kingdom, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) had encouraged companies to allow their workers to access Facebook and other social-networking sites from work, provided they proceeded with care, but in September 2007, Facebook attracted criticism after it started allowing search engines to index profile pages, although Facebook’s privacy settings allow users to turn this off.

Concerns were further raised on the BBC’s Watchdog programme in October 2007 when Facebook was shown to be an easy way in which to collect an individual’s personal data in order to facilitate identity theft. However, there is hardly any personal data granted to non-friends because if users leave the privacy controls on their default settings, the only personal information visible to a non-friend is the user’s name, gender, profile, picture, networks and username.

But an editorial in The New York Times in February 2008 pointed out that Facebook didn’t actually provide a mechanism for users to close their accounts, and raised concerns that private user data remained indefinitely on Facebook’s servers.

As of 2013, Facebook gave users the option to deactivate or delete their accounts. Deactivating an account enables it to be restored later while deleting it removes the account permanently, although some data submitted by the account, like posting to a group or sending someone a message remained.

In 2013, Facebook acquired Onavo, a developer of mobile utility apps such as Onavo Protect VPN, which is used as part of an insights platform to calculate the use and market share of apps. This information has since been used to influence acquisitions and other business decisions concerning Facebook products.

Criticism of this practice emerged in 2018 when Facebook started to advertise the Onavo Protect VPN within its main app on iOS devices in the United States. Media outlets considered the app to effectively be spyware due to its performance, adding that the app’s listings did not readily disclaim Facebook’s ownership of the app and its data collection practices.

Facebook consequently removed the iOS version of the app, citing new iOS App Store policies preventing apps from performing analytics on the usage of other apps on a user’s device, and since 2016, Facebook has also run Project Atlas, publicly known as Facebook Research, a market research programme attracting teenagers and young adults between the ages of 13 and 35 to have data such as their app usage, web browsing history, web search history, location history, personal messages, photos, videos, emails, and Amazon order history, analysed by Facebook, and participants got up to $20 per month for engaging in the programme.

Facebook Research is administered by third-party beta testing services, including Applause, and requires users to install a Facebook root certificate on their phone, but in the wake of a January 2019 report by TechCrunch on Project Atlas it was alleged that Facebook circumvented the App Store by using an Apple enterprise programme for apps used internally by a company’s employees, Facebook denied the report but later announced its discontinuation of the programme on iOS.

On January 30, 2019, Apple briefly removed Facebook’s Enterprise Developer Programme certificates for one day, which caused all of the company’s internal iOS apps to become inoperable. Apple stated that Facebook had been using their membership to distribute a data-collecting app to consumers, which is a clear violation of their agreement with Apple, and that the certificates were removed to protect their users and their data.

US Senators Mark Warner, Richard Blumenthal, and Ed Markey separately criticised Facebook Research’s targeting of teenagers and pledged to sponsor legislation to regulate market research programmes.

Facebook had enabled users to deactivate their accounts but not actually eliminate account content from its servers, which meant that users had to clear their own accounts by manually deleting all of the content including wall posts, friends and groups.

The New York Times noted the issue and raised concerns that emails and other private user data remained indefinitely on Facebook’s servers. Facebook consequently started letting users permanently delete their accounts in 2010, and Facebook’s Privacy Policy now states that when a user deletes their account, it’s permanently deleted from Facebook.

In July 2007, Andrienne Felt, an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, identified a cross-site scripting (XSS) hole in the Facebook Platform that could insert JavaScript into profiles. She used the hole to import custom CSS and to demonstrate how the platform could be used to infringe rules or create a worm.

Quit Facebook Day was an online event which took place on May 31, 2010, corresponding with Memorial Day, in which Facebook users asserted that they would leave the social network due to privacy concerns.

It was determined that 2 per cent of Facebook users coming from the United States would delete their accounts, however, only 33,000 approximately 0.0066 per cent of its roughly 500 million members at the time left the site.

The number one reason for users to quit Facebook was privacy concerns, 48 per cent, being followed by a general dissatisfaction with Facebook 14 per cent, negative aspects concerning Facebook friends 13 per cent, and the feeling of getting addicted to Facebook 6 per cent.

Facebook deserters were found to be more concerned about privacy, more addicted to the Internet, and more conscientious.

In August 2011, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) began an inquiry after getting 22 complaints by europe-v-facebook.org, which was discovered by a group of Austrian students.

The DPC said in its first reactions that the Irish DPC was lawfully accountable for the privacy on Facebook for all users within the European Union and that he would review the complaints using his full legal powers if needed.

The complaints were filed in Ireland because all users who were not citizens of the United States or Canada had a contract with Facebook Ireland Ltd, located in Dublin, Ireland. Under European law, Facebook Ireland is the data controller for facebook.com, and hence, facebook.com is dictated by European data protection laws.

Facebook Ireland Ltd. was established by Facebook Inc. to evade US taxes (see Double Irish arrangement).

The group europe-v-facebook.org made access requests at Facebook Ireland and got up to 1,222 pages of data per person in 57 data categories that Facebook was holding about them, including information that was previously removed by users.

The group claimed that Facebook failed to provide some of the requested data, including likes, facial recognition data, data about third party websites that use social plugins visited by users, and information about uploaded videos, and the group alleged that Facebook held at least 84 data categories about every user.

The first 16 complaints targeted various problems, from undeleted old pokes, all the way to the question if sharing and new functions on Facebook should be opt-in or opt-out. The second wave of 6 more complaints was targeting more problems including one against the like button, and the most severe could have been a complaint that alleged that the privacy policy and the consent to the privacy policy was void under European laws.

In an interview with the Irish Independent, a spokesperson stated that the DPC would go and audit Facebook, go onto the premises and go through in grand detail every aspect of security, and the spokesperson said that it would be a really significant, comprehensive and intensive undertaking that would extend over four or five days.

And in December 2011 the DPC published its first report on Facebook. This report was not legally binding but recommended adjustments that Facebook should undertake until July 2012 where they then plan to do a review of Facebook’s progress in July 2012.

In spring 2012, Facebook had to undertake numerous modifications, for example, having an extended download tool that could enable users to utilise the European right to access to all collected data or an update of the worldwide privacy policy.

These changes were regarded as not sufficient to comply with European law by europ-v-facebook.org, and the download tool did not allow, for instance, access to all data, and the group launched our-policy.org to suggest improvement to the new policy, which they saw as a backdrop for privacy on Facebook.

Since the group managed to get more than 7,000 comments on Facebook’s pages, Facebook had to do a global vote on the proposed reforms, and such a vote would have only been binding if 30 per cent of all users would have taken part.

Facebook did not promote the vote, resulting in only 0.038 per cent support with about 87 per cent voting against Facebook’s new policy. The new privacy policy took effect on the same day.

An editorial written by USA Today in November 2011 alleged that Facebook generates records of pages visited both by its members and by non-members, relying on tracking cookies to keep track of pages visited, but at the beginning of November 2015, Facebook was ordered by the Belgian Privacy Commissioner to stop tracking non-users, quoting European laws, or they risked penalties of up to £250,000 per day.

As a result, instead of removing tracking cookies, Facebook banned non-users in Belgium from seeing any material on Facebook, including publicly posted content, unless they sign in, but Facebook reprimanded the decision, by saying that the cookies implemented better security.

In 2010, the Wall Street Journal found that several of Facebook’s top-rated apps were sending identifying data to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies. The apps used an HTTP referer that revealed the user’s identification and sometimes their friend’s identities, but Facebook said that while knowledge of user ID did not allow access to anyone’s private data on Facebook, it did intend to introduce new technical systems that would dramatically restrict the sharing of User ID’s.

And a blog posted by a member of Facebook’s team further asserted that press reports had elaborated the implications of sharing a user ID, although still acknowledging that some of the apps were passing the ID in a way that infringed Facebook’s policies.

And in 2018, Facebook acknowledged that an app made by Global Science Research and Alexandr Kogan, related to Cambridge Analytica, was able in 2014 to collect personal data of up to 87 million Facebook users without their permission, by utilising their friendship connection to the users who sold their data via the app.

Following the revelations of the breach, several public figures, including industrialist Elon Musk and Whatsapp cofounder Brian Acton, announced that they were deleting their Facebook accounts, using the hashtag#deletefacebook.

THERE’S A SPY IN YOUR MERCEDES

Mercedes has sparked a privacy dispute by admitting it spies on motorists with tracking devices covertly placed in its vehicles, and the secret sensors, fitted to all new and used motors sold by the firm’s dealers, pinpoint the vehicle’s exact location.

The firm sold more than 170,000 new cars in Britain alone last year, but Mercedes will not say how long it’s used the sensors and maintains they’re only activated in extreme circumstances when finance customers have defaulted on their payments.

However, it does admit to sharing car owner information and vehicle location details with third-party bailiffs and recovery firms who repossess the cars and ex-cabinet minister David Davis has asked for the Government to investigate.

But this is not the first time big business has behaved like Big Brother but it’s unusual to be quite as cunning as this, and is it even legal to pass on information to other people such as bailiffs? And the government should look really closely into the validity of this procedure.

And even though Mercedes’ actions is extremely disturbing, this appears to part of the staggering growth of surveillance and this seems to another troubling development in the way companies control what should be private and personal data and this modern technology means our ability to keep personal information private is under threat like never before.

Organisations that manage personal data need to be totally upfront about what they’re doing but Mercedes seems not to have been so in this case and its clients may start to worry about what other private data the company may be collecting and passing on.

Mercedes competitors including BMW, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volkswagen have all said they don’t carry out similar tracking, and previously the Sun investigated and revealed that Amazon staff can listen to Alexa recording British couples rowing, discussing private family matters and even having sex.

Mercedes customers who buy cars through the official financial arm give their consent when signing lengthy terms and conditions, which frequently go unread and Mercedes maintained the clause about “location sensors” are in bold print just above the customer’s signature on finance contracts.

If Mercedes wants to install this privacy-surrendering tech in their vehicles, that’s fine but surely they have a responsibility to explicitly tell their clients beforehand, and not hide it away in their terms and conditions.

So, what happened to the EU data protection rules? And having them means that companies and businesses should process data in a fair and lawful manner, for a specified and legitimate purpose and only process that data necessary to fulfil its purpose – but they don’t!

Meet The Ordinary Brits Stockpiling At Home

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Very Significant Birthday Gift

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Boris Johnson Accused Of Lying Over £1 Billion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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