THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

They’re Simply Saying No

It now appears that the EU is refusing to negotiate with the United Kingdom, but the Prime Minister’s been explicit that he wants to negotiate a good deal with the European Union, and he will utilise all the strength of the government to ensure that in the spirit of friendliness that we can negotiate a new deal.

But one thing is obvious, the old deal that was negotiated has failed to pass the House of Commons three times now. So, the government does need a new approach, and whatever happens, while they remain ready and willing to negotiate, the EU must understand that we’re leaving on October 31st, deal or no deal.

This government has been thoroughly explicit in that we need to change the Withdrawal Agreement because it couldn’t get through parliament, and we can’t have a deal, that doesn’t command the spirit of the Government, the Parliament and the country.

And that’s why this government has been clear with the European Union, that we need a new approach, and the government is ready, to engage with the European Union, to negotiate in good faith, to make sure that we can have a friendly relationship in the future, and that the government will put all their strength into making sure that they can obtain that good deal.

But at the moment, it’s the EU that appears to be telling us that they’re not interested and they’re simply saying that they don’t want to talk, and that’s improper and disturbing, and it’s not in Europe’s interests.

This government is willing to negotiate, eager to talk, ready to ensure that we get the greatest possible deal from the European Union, but it’s also the case, that they’re sizing up preparations, so that we’re ready to leave on October 31st, with or without a deal.

And the EU needs to understand that the days of drift, that we’ve had in the past have ended. That’s it, it’s a firm deadline, and the British people expect us to leave, we will be ready to leave, come what may.

I’ve actually got to say that this guy Michael Gove sounds great, he looked the camera in the eye and exaggerated so positively to the British people, it’s extraordinary, but then he was groomed for years at the finest establishments, but that’s why they’re called politicians.

But when did we last meet an honest non-self interested politician? But then Michael Gove is fulfilling the role of an obedient, grateful poodle, and he does it so well.

This is simply classic blame-shifting and it’s outrageous and shameful.

The EU negotiated for the best part of three years in good faith, so no surprise they won’t talk to us anymore, so now the balls in our court, but then when will the ministry of silly walks realise they’ve already made other plans and the United Kingdom will suffer because our government has concluded that hara-kiri is their best choice.

But then they’re a wicked conspiracy of deceiving rogues and collaborators, and they’re driving this country to a repeat of the 1640s, and they’re either really dumb or fundamentally wicked, and it was made quite clear back in March, the United Kingdom was given a 6-month continuation which has been misused.

But it seems that if they tell a lie big enough, and keep repeating it, people will ultimately come to accept it, and if the government create enough chaos, companies start to panic buy which produces a false boost to the economy.

But then it’s tragic that the Tory government have put the whole country in danger by having the stupid, ill-conceived, utterly chaotic referendum in the first place, with no damn speck of a clue what they were doing, and they certainly didn’t think that they would actually lose the referendum.

And now this a taste of how the Tory party will justify the consequences of a no-deal, just blame it on the EU using semi-correct soundbites and half-truths, so of course, the EU is refusing to give massive concessions to a clearly unstable government at the last moment.

And because of this car plants could perhaps shut down, lorries will be backed up across the South East. There will be food and medicine deficits amongst numerous other things, and the blame game has well and truly started.

It’s called moronic politics assuming that negotiations will work the same as if they were purchasing a second-hand car, and Michael Gove has more faces than Everest, and Gove is highly recognisable because we all had a Gove at school, you know, the boy with a pocket full of pens and no friends. The one that was a really good milk monitor, and it looks like Gove has finally found his niche.

Should we be utterly offended that the EU is no longer willing to entertain our circus and testy behaviour? No, I don’t believe so, and I think they’d be delighted if we atoned for the inconvenience and negotiated to remain.

And it’s a disgrace that these Tory ministers can’t grasp the simple reality that there were precepts to joining the EU club and that when we entered we knew there were rules to departing the club, and the EU out referendum campaigners made it appear all so easy whilst knowing it wouldn’t be.

And this is simply another Tory spin at its best from Michael Gove, blaming it on everyone else, except the reality of the fact is that a no-deal Brexit will see the United Kingdom become an even more vulnerable country with no control globally to establish trade or international relationships.

We will be carrying a begging bowl to the world and accepting rubbish trade agreements in desperation, and these are really dark and disturbing times, and the impact of the no-deal will last for generations, and does Michael Gove also sell dodgy investment packages? He has that sort of sound that says I’m a nice boy trying to do my best for you, whilst lying through his fangs, attempting to persuade you that black is white and that it wasn’t him that killed your kitty. Honestly, you can believe him, he’s a politician.

And let’s not forget that three years have been bladdered away on the same old worn out, deflated flatulence.

Perhaps we should give the people another vote, Revoke Article 50 or just leave? But whatever happens, the government needs to be certain of what the people of the United Kingdom want, particularly following all the debacle that David Cameron created.

But one thing is clear, the Conservatives are becoming endangered, and now the EU is telling Britain: “Thank you, next!” And now the government needs to have the guts to revoke the referendum because there’s nothing in the EU Referendum Act that results in it being legally binding.

The European Union Referendum Act 2015 was the law that enabled the referendum to take place, it didn’t stipulate what would happen in the event of a vote to leave, and it didn’t include any specific statement to make clear that the result would be legally binding.

Because of the sovereignty of Parliament, referendums can’t be legally binding in the United Kingdom and are therefore advisory. In other words, unless Parliament actively agrees to bind itself to the result of a future referendum, it is not legally compelled to determine the outcome.

But of course, the political truth is much different, and in the same House of Lords report it said referenda were not legally binding, and the committee decided that “it would be difficult for Parliament to ignore a decisive expression of public opinion”.

And even though legally the referendum was non-binding, the government of that time had agreed to execute the result, and it initiated the official EU withdrawal process on 29 March 2017, meaning that the United Kingdom was due to leave the EU before 11 PM on 29 March 2019, UK time.

Referendums are not legally binding, so legally the Government can disregard the results, for instance, even if the result of a pre-legislative referendum were a majority of “No” for proposed legislation, Parliament could pass it anyway, because parliament is sovereign.

The EU referendum was an advisory referendum, and it wasn’t legally binding, and there’s no one source that can verify that statement true. In other countries, referendums are usually legally binding, for instance, because the vote is on whether to amend the constitution, but the United Kindom famously doesn’t have a codified constitution.

A UK referendum will only have the force of law if the Act setting it up says so. In practical terms, this would mean someone would be able to go to court to make the government implement the result, but a referendum on any issue can only be advisory for the lawmakers in Parliament.

At the end of the day, the argument comes down to many visions for democracy in the United Kingdom. The general view is that ultimate political power rests with Parliament, and the High Court came to its conclusion that the referendum was not legally binding guided by the basic representative parliamentary democracy.

The people are not sovereign!

But then we really don’t want to see any constitutional changes to make referendums binding, and if you’re here reading this, you presumably care about honesty, and you’d like to see our politicians get their facts right, and back up what they say with evidence and to fix their blunders.

Because, of course, reliable information matters!

Man Goes Into Hospital For Botox

A pensioner went into hospital to have a botox procedure and got circumcised by mistake, but has now been awarded £20,000 compensation by the NHS.

Terry Brazier was given the procedure after medics at Leicester Royal Infirmary jumbled up his notes, and he maintains he was so preoccupied chatting to the nurses that he didn’t realise he was getting a different procedure until it was too late.

And they didn’t know what to say to Terry when they discovered they’d done it, and they said they couldn’t send him back to the ward and that they needed to talk to him, and the nurse was at the side of him and they were talking so he didn’t know what was going on, and it was a real shock.

The hospital has said that they remain profoundly and genuinely sorry that the blunder happened, and that they would like to take the chance to once again apologise to Mr Brazier, and that they take events like this very seriously and they carried out a thorough investigation at the time to ensure that they learn from the incident and do all they can to avoid it happening again.

Although it could have been much worse, they could have taken off his leg, at least it’s a foreskin which he can live without, whereas a leg would have made it much more complicated, and whilst money can never undo what occurred, hopefully, the payment can provide some compensation because the hospital definitely made a right cock up there, and you couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried.

And if I was him, I certainly wouldn’t be leaving the surgeon a tip.

McDonald’s New Paper Straws Can’t Be Recycled

McDonald’s new “eco-friendly” paper straws can’t be recycled and must be binned and burned instead.

Plastic straws were banned in all UK branches as part of a green drive, even though the fast-food colossus said they were “100 per cent recyclable”, and now an internal memo reveals the paper versions which were shunned by customers must be binned and burned.

But when McDonald’s introduced paper straws they were getting a pat on the back for being environmentally efficient, but it appears like it was an act to satisfy green campaigners because the things go straight in the rubbish.

The paper straws have angered thousands of McDonald’s customers who maintain they make milkshakes difficult to drink and dissolve in cola, and the firm has admitted that its plastic straws were “100 per cent recyclable” but said it changed to paper because “more can be done”.

It appears that everyone is switched on environmental discussions but the large firms need time to understand what they’re doing.

McDonald’s removed its plastic straws in September and promised to use paper ones in all its 1,361 branches across UK and Ireland, but an internal memo admits: “Paper straws are not yet recyclable and should be disposed of in general waste until further notice.”

And even though they strengthened their paper straws, and their materials are recyclable, their thickness makes it difficult for them to be processed by their waste solution providers, but McDonald’s have said that their working to obtain a solution, so putting paper straws in general waste is therefore temporary.

But Friends of the Earth’s Julian Kirby called on McDonald’s to axe all straws.

McDonald’s rolled out the new straws to all 1,361 branches in the United Kingdom to try and reduce pollution to the environment, but the paper straws had a rocky start with many claiming they ruin drinks and break when they use them to drink milkshakes.

One foodie was so outraged they started a petition to bring back the plastic ones, and in the months since its creation, more than 50,000 people have added their signature.

There are numerous people who dislike the paper straws, and are still managing to obtain bulk plastic straws through the internet, but are dreading when plastic is no longer available, and in Asda, you can purchase metal reusable straws, but they can be extremely deadly.

A 60-year-old English woman died last year after falling on a metal straw in a glass, which caused the utensil to go through her left eye and into her brain. Elena Struthers-Gardner was in her Broadstone home with a mason jar drinking glass in her hand when she fell on Nov. 22.

The 10-inch metal straw was in the jar’s screw-top lid and stabbed Elena’s left eye socket, causing a traumatic brain injury. These are extremely dangerous and should be banned.

I guess she could have done this with a knife or fork, should these be banned too? But then how often do you see a knife or fork sticking out of a cup?

However, there is light at the end of the tunnel because you can purchase reusable rubber straws, and they’re made out of silicone. Silicone is not biodegradable, but it can be recycled efficiently, where facilities exist.

I’m not an enthusiast of paper straws, far from it, but the McPoint is that paper straws naturally brake down McQuicker than McPlastic straws, and they’ve usually begun the process before you’ve even finished your drink, or you could simply drink from the cup, but perish the thought!

And now we can’t even get straws right, what is the world coming to?

Tip for everyone out there, my parents actually taught me to drink from a cup without using a straw, I know, it’s great, isn’t it? It’s very simple, you just pick up the cup, and bring it to your lips, and gently pour the contents into your mouth, I know, insane, isn’t it?

Years ago newspapers would scare us with threats of the communist threats, four-minute warnings and impending nuclear disaster, now it’s paper straws in our milkshake – I’m hiding under the bed hoping it will all go away.

Of course, straws do have a purpose because there are many people out there with disabilities who have to use straws, and straws need to be made for the needs of the disabled person, but not everyone needs to use a straw.

So, let me get this right. In an age when we’re told the trees are all being cut down, McDonald’s are using millions of straws a week made of paper. How long until the eco ‘warriors’ start complaining about that too?

Hemp is probably the answer. The stuff is amazingly versatile and useful. Bottles made from hemp are biodegradable and disappear in a matter of weeks. Hemp grows prolifically, making it an extremely efficient crop for those sustainable plastics know as “bioplastics”, and they’re lightweight, biodegradable and can replace numerous petrochemical plastics (oil-based plastics).

Smoking To Be Wiped Out In England

Leaked reports have revealed a government drive to wipe out smoking altogether in England by 2030.

Tory ministers are poised to reveal the bombshell target in a Green Paper outlining new incentives to kick the habit, with tobacco giants facing a levy to pay for the public health costs of helping people to stop or change to e-cigarettes.

The identical or a comparable tax could further fund the cost of a Trading Standards crackdown on black market goods. In the meantime, pamphlets giving information on how to quit could have to be included in every cigarette packet.

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Boris Johnson had already pledged to halt all new “sin taxes”, and his campaign ties to the tobacco industry have come under huge scrutiny, but he promised a review of existing “sin taxes”, and rather than merely taxing people more, Boris Johnson said that we should look at how efficient the so-called sin taxes really are, and if they really alter behaviour.

And it’s understood that, as one possibility, officials are looking at plans for a levy that was proposed last year, and the tobacco transition fund would work like the sugar tax, forcing both consumers and the industry to change behaviour.

It was claimed that the fund could raise £1 billion over a decade, funded by tobacco firms, to pay for public health “stop smoking” services, but smoking continues to be the UK’s most prominent preventable cause of cancer, despite rates of Britons lighting up halving in the last 35 years.

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The gains in tobacco control have been hard-won, and there’s still much to do, and for the 15 per cent of adults who are not yet smoke-free, smoking is the principal author of ill health and untimely demise, and a significant cause of inequalities.

Nevertheless, people have a right to light up if they want without being harried to quit, and it’s not up to the government to dictate people’s lifestyles.

But a vision for prevention would aim to add five years to a healthy life expectancy in the United Kingdom, and there are now 1.8 million fewer adult smokers in England than seven years ago.

Meanwhile, e-cigarette use proceeds to rise, with 6.3 per cent of adults vaping in 2018, up from 5.5 per cent the previous year, and just over half 51.5 per cent of those vaping said it was helping them quit smoking.

But it appears that this government is whittling away our freedom of choice, and in 30 years time or less people won’t be allowed this and that, and police will be overstretched striving to deal with illegal smoking. Hopefully, within this time, we would have discovered a way of Government that doesn’t need MPs, and we won’t have to fight their ego.

But the more useful approach would be to end politicians expenses and having second homes which they rent out for enormous amounts of money, and their travel expenses and get rid of the House of Lords who get around £1,500 a week for sitting around all day doing nothing apart from sleeping, and the Victorian way has really got to end because it’s a disgrace to our elderly, sick and disabled who are regularly getting cuts made by our treasonable Tory government.

We need to stop all these backhanders from healthcare companies, particularly hedge fund baron Andrew Law, a major investor in healthcare firms and private investors who paid Jeremy Hunt £32,950 for information about the NHS.

And it does make you question what tax will replace the enormous amount the government profit from tobacco if everyone gave up smoking, and next up after the smokers will be the drinkers, the eaters, the drivers and the extreme sportspeople or anyone who puts their lives in jeopardy or risks injury just for the enjoyment because of course that would be another strain on the emergency services and NHS.

Now, we’d daren’t enjoy anything and expect the NHS to pick up the pieces – newsflash, we’re all going to die, I promise you, but we’d also like to enjoy it while we’re here, we won’t of course, but we can dream!

The smoking ban should also include those foul-smelling cigars that all those pompous dipsticks in government smoke, but of course, its all bunk because now their encouraging people to use vapes which are just as harmful to a persons health because according to the American Lung Association, using electronic cigarettes or vaping, especially the flavoured types, can cause popcorn lung.

Once the risks associated with diacetyl were found in the early 2000s, the preponderance of popcorn producers quit using the chemical. However, e-cigarette vapour has been proven to include diacetyl, and in a 2015 study of flavoured e-cigarettes discovered that 39 out of 51 tested brands contained diacetyl.

The same study concluded that most of these brands also contained toxic chemicals acetoin and 2,3 pentanedione.

Manufacturers add diacetyl to the “e-juice” that is vaporized by e-cigarettes, most usually to the strongly-flavoured varieties, and diacetyl occurs in an extensive variety of different flavoured e-cigarette products, ranging from vanilla to caramel and coconut.

A diagnosis of popcorn lung normally happens after a person has presented with the symptoms but has no other respiratory conditions, and there is lung tissue scarring caused by popcorn lung which is irreversible, also there is no cure for the condition once it’s developed and starts tightening the airways.

Of course, the best way to stop popcorn lung is to avoid lung damage, and not to use e-cigarettes or vaping products, particularly those with flavoured products. I’m not saying that vaping is less dangerous than smoking or that smoking is less dangerous than vaping, both are equally as dangerous, and e-cigarettes will ultimately put a strain on the NHS.

And even though the government has made changes to prevent people smoking, they will never put an embargo on smoking because smoking makes the government far too much money from taxes, but the government like smokescreens and they will make it look like they’re attempting to stop it but actually they enjoy the money they get from people smoking.

And do we really believe that the government gives two hoots about our health? And of course, we don’t live in a dictatorship at all, do we?

One In Three GPs Admit They Miss Symptoms

More than one in three GPs acknowledge they’ve neglected to properly diagnose patients because short appointment times have meant symptoms have been missed.

Misdiagnoses meant sick patients are forced to return for repeat appointments and further medical treatment as 10-minute consultation windows didn’t give enough time for doctors to assess them correctly, and a monstrous 94 per cent of NHS doctors said short appointment times put patients in danger, with GPs reporting that they thought the minimum “safe” timeframe would be 16 to 20 minutes.

Four in five stated they don’t always have time to properly diagnose patients, with 55 per cent worrying they have missed severe health problems and 37 per cent thinking they have prescribed the wrong course of treatment.

The survey of 200 GPs, by law firm Slater and Gordon, follows a new report from the Royal College of GPs which called the standard 10-minute appointment “unfit for purpose”. The average consultation is 9.2 minutes in the United Kingdom, but the college said increasing it would enable doctors more time to help people with complex health needs.

It also believes more extended and shorter appointments should be available to cater to people’s various conditions, and half of the GPs in the latest survey said they’re expected to keep appointment times to less than 10 minutes, while others were compelled to reduce this further depending on patient demand for attention.

We should be able to trust our family doctor to listen to our concerns and to recognise any problems, without them worrying about hurrying us through to meet hazardous deadlines, which is of course not the most suitable practice, and these doctors need to have enough time to do their jobs correctly and robustly for the health of the UK.

Individual doctors decide on the length of appointments and if a patient requires a longer consultation, they should be given it, and the recent GP Patient Survey revealed that more than nine in 10 patients trusted their GP, and more than eight in 10 people reported their experience at their GP practise as good or better.

Total health spending in England was around £129 billion in 2018/19 and is supposed to climb to approximately £134 billion by 2019/20, taking inflation into account, and it makes you question where all that money goes to because when most people go into consult with their doctor, there are long waiting lists, then longer waiting lists, and if you need to see a specialist, unless you can afford to go private, then you’re going to wait a pretty long time.

And now the expansion of the dubious ‘GP by Skype’ service is to be extended to every patient by 2021, and the GP at hand app is now well established in London and set to be rolled out, but there are concerns it will take money away from conventional practices.

And plans to replace traditional GP appointments with virtual online doctors could fatally undermine care for elderly patients, and Health Secretary Matt Hancock has promised to roll out the controversial scheme across the NHS, and there are concerns it could cream off young patients and increase the digital divide in healthcare.

The GP at Hand smartphone app uses an algorithm to assess symptoms through a ‘chatbot’ and gives ten-minute video appointments with a doctor. It’s now accessible to millions of patients in London and Birmingham, and Matt Hancock is amongst the 55,000 people to have deregistered from their GP to use the service.

But most of those who have signed up are young and rich and only 0.1 per cent suffers from chronic conditions, and this could affect traditional GP practices because they get a set amount of money for each patient on their books, suggesting they will lose money when patients leave to join the online scheme.

And since it’s essentially the young and fit who sign up, operations are left with a greater proportion of costly patients, such as the elderly, weak and chronically sick, and the app risks creaming off young patients and does not address the broader requirements of the population.

And some will worry that the new service will fatally threaten traditional general practice, leaving GPs with sick and complex patients to look after as fit young patients move, and it’s basically taking money away from practices.

It comes as Britain faces a spiralling GP crisis, as a recorded 138 surgeries shut down last year and millions struggled to secure appointments with a doctor, but Mr Hancock thinks technology could offer a solution, and he said that GP at Hand, works brilliantly for so many patients and goes with the grain of how people access modern services.

But GP leaders are concerned virtual consultations could miss less obvious symptoms that doctors pick up through their gut instincts, and they’re concerned the app will threaten the doctor-patient relationship and antagonise those without smartphones.

The Hand app risks destabilising traditional NHS general practice services and it’s really not suitable for those with complicated health needs and patients who value continuity of care, and there hasn’t been a completely independent evaluation of how safe the service is for patients.

And those who don’t have access to a suitable smartphone are not able to start using the new models on offer, therefore extending the digital divide in healthcare, but an NHS spokesman said that GP funding arrangements had been changed to account for new digital services.

An NHS spokesman said GP funding arrangements had been changed to account for new digital services, and added: ‘The NHS is committed to supporting GPs to increase the use of digital technology, with every patient in England having access to online and video consultation by 2021.’

Babylon, the firm behind the app, said the NHS had to decide whether to protect ‘old-school GP practices or to do the right thing by patients and taxpayers’.

Patients get a ten-minute appointment with their doctor, but during that appointment sometimes symptoms are missed, and the Royal College of GPs wants a more extended 15-minute appointment, and one in three NHS GPs admitted that appointment times are restricted to ten minutes that has led them to miss symptoms.

Incorrect diagnoses mean patients have to return for extra appointments and may become more severely unwell, indicating greater use of NHS time than a longer consultation in the first place, and the 200 doctors that were surveyed about their work pressure, 94 per cent said that appointments should be between 16 and 20 minutes at least.

Four in five said they don’t always have the opportunity to properly diagnose patients, with 55 per cent worrying that they’ve missed serious health problems, and usually don’t have enough time to spend with one patient to make a proper diagnosis, and one doctor said that

‘Recently it took three weeks and repeat appointments to get to the bottom of a patient’s medical condition and offer the correct solution’.

And if these doctors had more time in the first place it would enable them to get to the root of their patient’s complaint right away, and doctors are treated like expendable robots under relenting demand.

Most GPs want to do their very best for their patients, but the system will not let them, and because of this doctors usually burn out, experience significant mental health problems, or simply leave the job.

People put faith in their family doctors to listen to their concerns and to recognise any problems, without having to fret about them racing us through to reach hazardous deadlines which are not the best practice.

They need to have enough time to do their jobs correctly and robustly for the well-being of the United Kingdom, but then it’s characteristic of this government to bring in this kind of system because they don’t care for the sick and vulnerable, and we should all be concerned about this if we value our NHS.

These online companies only dispense with the most salubrious of patients, leaving NHS practices to deal with the sicker amongst us.

The problem is that each gets the equivalent volume of per capita funding. This means that the online companies are rolling in profits as they’re dealing with the healthiest and most affordable patients whilst conventional surgeries have a funding shortfall as they’re dealing with the sickest, and most costly patients.

And now people are going to pay to Skype a random locum doctor at home who can’t examine you whilst bankrupting GP surgeries, so it’s no surprise they’re all closing down, and those who don’t have Skype or don’t wish to use it for such a personal or private matter won’t stand a chance of ever seeing a doctor in person because all their time will be taken up with telephone and Skype consultations.

And what happens when you’re in the midst of a Skype consultation and your connection drops or get cut off? Will that person have to go through all the formalities of getting another appointment?

British Boy Given Detention

Last year on the Nick Ferrari programme, someone called in to say that their teenage son had been given detention, along with classmates for saying they’d vote UKIP during an election. The teacher reacted to the pupils by saying “All UKIP voters were racists” and then handed out detention for their remarks.

The boy’s father couldn’t believe this had happened at his son’s school, and Nick Ferrari described the episode as outrageous and absurd, and politics should be kept out of the classroom, and it doesn’t matter what party this teenager supports because like adults, children have diverse views too which they’re entitled to have, and this singular teacher needs to do the detention himself for being such an idiot.

Telling people who they can and can’t support is similar to a dictatorship, and the teacher should have been dismissed and the head should have been punished, this is the United Kingdom, not North Korea.

Children should be free to explore their own political interests as they grow into adults, and it’s no different from a student in a class idolising Donald Trump, bet they wouldn’t get detention for that, and like the USA, hysterics appears to have infiltrated our education system.

Perhaps we should award these boys with MBE medals for displaying courage for their fair and honest beliefs, it’s called free speech, and teachers should be encouraging open and free discussion, not closing it down.

So, a couple of children have a discussion, and then when one person objects to their beliefs, the teacher, in this case, the kids are excluded. This is was a discussion, but then it became authoritarian when the teacher didn’t agree. “At the end of the day, you can believe whatever you want, as long as I believe it!” Of course, the teacher didn’t say this, but he may as well have.

The problem is, our education system has become an indoctrination platform, and it’s a national disgrace that teachers are persecuting their students for their political beliefs.

At the end of the day, teachers should be doing what they’re paid for, teaching, and they shouldn’t be getting involved in politics, the same as celebrities meddling in politics, and if these teachers can’t teach without intervening, then they shouldn’t teach at all.

On the other hand, if these children want to get politically involved, then they have to understand that sometimes this is the consequence of their beliefs and that not everyone is going to agree.

The problem with numerous schools, kids appear to be taught what to think, rather than how to think, but schools should be supportive of debate and respect democratic freedom of expression to their students, along with their political beliefs.

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And if these boys are getting detention for defending UKIP, then those who promote Labour, should they be publicly whipped?

Once teaching was seen as a vocation, now they’ve turned it into a profession, and they don’t teach children these days, they instruct them, without any freedom of speech, and teachers shouldn’t be telling these children what to believe, they should be teaching them how to think for themselves, it’s not only freedom of speech, but it’s problem-solving as well.

And if the teacher wasn’t at fault, why did the school apologise?

Basildon Hospital Neglect

A one-day-old baby who died in Basildon Hospital was neglected. Ennis Pecaku died in the hospital at 2 am on September 28 last year, having been born at 7.39pm the previous day.

He had been born in the breech position, meaning his legs came out first, and the cause of death was confirmed to be asphyxiation during a vaginal breech birth, and the inquest, held at Essex Coroner’s Court in Chelmsford, learned that Ennis Pecaku had also sustained asphyxiation for at least 25 minutes before his delivery.

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Senior coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray entered a narrative conclusion to Ennis Pecaku’s death.

In the later stages of pregnancy, baby Ennis was in the breech position, and on September 17 an attempted external cephalic version to move him was unsuccessful.

On September 26 baby Ennis’ mother attended Basildon Hospital for a caesarean section, but this was postponed until October 2, and his mother was sent home.

On September 27, Ennis’s mother attended the hospital following a spontaneous rupture of membranes.

Baby Ennis was delivered by breech delivery at 7.39pm but he died at 2 am the following morning.

There were grave shortcomings in the care given to baby Ennis and his mother by Basildon Hospital, and a more timely intervention would seemingly have ended in a more favourable outcome.

Baby Ennis would have seemingly have survived had he been born before 7.16pm, and his death was contributed to by negligence by Basildon Hospital.

The case is really bad, but a hospital spokesperson said that measures had been taken to improve their care in the future, but it’s a tad too late for Baby Ennis because care should have been given, it’s no good saying you’re sorry after the barn door is shut and the horse has bolted!

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But in a statement issued following the conclusion, the parents of Ennis, Edmir Pecaku and Emma-Louise Davies, from Grays, welcomed the verdict, and they said they were satisfied over the conclusion that the coroner gave, and the list of shortcomings identified of administering basic medical care to Louise and baby Ennis amounted to neglect.

But even though the hospital may have made adjustments, nothing will ever alter the outcome for this family, and the overwhelming loss of their son Ennis.

Yet, even though Basildon Hospital, Essex were guilty of negligence, it’s no wonder… it’s the those governing the country that is truly at fault by not tapping enough money into the NHS, instead, they pump into their own pockets.

Of course, mistakes happen all the time, because people are only human and not perfect, and countless people slip through the system, and not only that, doctors and nurses are in short supply, with agency nurses being brought in to cover.

Doctors and nurses aren’t dumb, they will go abroad where there are fewer hours and more money, and over the years we’ve lost many skilled doctors and nurses because of this, but that doesn’t mean we should privatise our NHS, positively not!

And I’m sure the parents of baby Ennis don’t feel comforted that some manager at the hospital said “That lessons have been learnt”, this unfortunate family have to live with this for the rest of their lives, and it’s an outright disgrace.

No Deal Preparations

Boris Johnson said, “We’ll be ready”. He said, “The ports will be ready”. No, they won’t, and Europe thinks that Britain is considerably behind in its no-deal preparations, and if you look at what the French have done in Calais, they’ve built a lorry park, and the number-plate recognition software is all up there.

If you look at what’s been done at Rotterdam and Antwerp, the difficulty we have now is simply a bottleneck constraint. Half the traffic that goes through the tunnel is small traffic, and if you talk to the Road Haulage Association, they’re not ready. The small business has not prepared.

So, then, it’s a little like doing your tax return, if you’re a small business, let’s say, doing a US tax return without an accountant, if you don’t know your way around, you’re lost, you need a customs clearance agent, who tells you what you’ve got on your rig, this and this, and this is how your going to fill out the paperwork, these are the numbers you require, these are the certificates you need.

Oh, you’ve got animal merchandise there, you need a… and it’s got beef in it, or its got hormone in it, so what you need is a… fill out that, and it’s not something that Bloggs Transport can do, so where you going to get the customs trainers from?

“We’ll be ready,” says Boris. “The ports will be ready” No they won’t. It’s not like training up a host of security guards for Glastonbury, it’s fairly technical, and you need to train those people up, and there’s going to be a mountain of we told you so along the way, and sadly that means nothing compared to the difficulties Brexit will cause and will continue to inflict on us all.

The stupidity of Brexit is staggering, infuriating and terrorising.

Three years have gone by and we’re still no closer to a deal than we were on day one. The EU doesn’t want us to leave and will never offer a fair deal. Theresa May didn’t want us to leave and as such didn’t even try to get a good deal, so either we leave without a deal or we disregard democracy and stay.

But then there’s Boris Johnson with his “We’ll fight them on the beaches, on the terraces, in Brussels, we’ll never surrender” speech. He’s not Winston Churchill, and he’ll never be, and if that’s what he’s intending on doing, portraying himself as Winston, then we’re in big trouble.

And I’m not convinced that Boris Johnson even wants a deal. The elements have now put him in power and now we’ll be compelled to take whatever the US offers us or more worryingly demands, and I don’t believe our new Prime Minister or a single member of his cabinet is capable of handling the security arrangements at a complex event like Glastonbury, or even directing traffic in a car park, and that’s the problem.

They’re individually and collectively no more able of delivering a managed Brexit than they are of organising a manned flight to Mars, and inadequate Boris couldn’t even sell a bus to Hong Kong.

And does anyone really believe anything Boris Johnson says, given all the lies that he’s told, and more surprising, he appears to believe his own fabrications. He has no idea where the money is coming from for more police, but he said that he’ll do it, and it’s not what he says that counts, it’s what he does that counts.

Of course, this is a political tactic. He wants to make the country feel great and to accept he can do what he says before he calls a general election, and the months that he is in office he’s hoping people will overlook his failures and vote for him, but the people need to be reminded on a daily basis of the shortcomings of this government.

I honestly can’t see this getting any better any time soon, and it feels like half the nation is in a self-destructive spiral and they can’t see it, and the ironic thing is they’ve had three years to get this mess organised, so it’s pretty apparent there wasn’t any endeavour to prepare for a no-deal at all because they never thought we would actually leave.

Talk about misusing taxpayers money. The government seem to be doing a great job of loafing away our funds to a wind of time wasters, but then no Tory ministry has a sweeping record of planning, and they actually don’t give a wriggle, as none of them will suffer from a no-deal, but the remainder of the population will.

Boris Johnson: I campaigned To Leave The EU

Boris Johnson said it’s about taking back control, and that it doesn’t just apply to Westminster retrieving independence from the EU. It simply means that our cities, counties and towns can become more self-governing.

It means people taking more accountability for their own neighbourhoods, and that London and Manchester have expanded partly because they’ve had mayors. Some better than others, but all with vital power, the vital power, to speak for their cities, and to bang their heads together and to get things done.

Boris Johnson stated that over the last three years they’ve treated Brexit like some impending, adverse weather situation.

Of course, Boris Johnson fought to leave the EU because he thought that it was an opportunity to change the direction of the United Kingdom and to make us the greatest country in the world to live, and he said that we should remind ourselves that leaving the EU is a huge economic opportunity to do things we’ve not been permitted to do for decades.

To relieve ourselves of bureaucratic red tape, to generate jobs, to disentangle the creativity and innovation for which Britain is renowned, and of course, we don’t have to wait now to begin planning to embrace the advantages of that project.

But whether or not Brexit is a great idea, most realise that the reason Boris Johnson fought for it was for his own personal advancement, and at the end of the day, people do things for themselves and not for the interest of others, and if it means them getting a promotion for their own personal advancement, then so be it, it doesn’t matter, screw everyone else, as long as I’m okay Jack.

And it’s a huge opportunity for him to stuff his pockets with lots and lots of pounds. Oh, I forgot Boris was born was a gilded spoon in his mouth, he essentially came out of his mother’s womb with money and a job, he didn’t have anyone breathing down his neck to get a job, and he’s been living a charmed life ever since – no Universal Credit for him!

This man isn’t a politician, but he has a pretty good mouthpiece and could be very dangerous, and we’re going to require some really good luck here, and who’s pulling his strings? That’s the troubling thing.

He stated that he fought for Brexit and to leave because he thought it was our best chance, no it was his best opportunity to get into Number 10… there, I fixed it for you, Boris, and please acquaint us to the advantages of leaving the EU, after all, you would be the first person to actually do so.

And if people actually believe that leaving the EU will result in less red tape, well, of course, it won’t, and could Boris Johnson please name one thing we could do that we’ve not been permitted to do before that would be more beneficial than being part of the EU?

Boris Johnson fought to leave the EU because he believed it’s a chance to make us the best country in the world to live, provided you’re wealthy, and the only thing Brexit will be a great opportunity for is the oligarchs and disaster entrepreneurs, some of whom he is really close to.

It is, however, an opportunity to do a trade deal with the USA and to privatise the NHS with American companies, just so that we can become a mini USA. Just watch him dismiss it until it’s a done deal, then he’ll waffle on about how much better off we are.

How can an honest man make a speech such as this when just three years ago the same ‘honest man’ wrote a major article for the Telegraph apparently saying that Brexit and leaving the EU would be an economic and social disaster for our nation?

That’s because he’s nothing better than a rattlesnake oil salesperson who will promise whatever satisfies his whim to get his way and come the day of the delivery he will probably be absent, but no doubt he will have an excellent defence.

Remember the recent vote on the third runway at Heathrow? When he said he would lay down in front of the bulldozers to stop it, but come the day of the vote he was conveniently absent from the House of Commons, and nowhere near the runway.

And when Boris Johnson said about getting rid of bureaucratic red tape to create jobs, that appears to interpret getting rid of workers rights… because to them, we’re amongst the worst idlers in the world, but let’s face it, the preponderance of those in the House of Commons are slothful excretions, merely scamming the taxpayers of this country.

And if Boris Johnson doesn’t deliver Brexit in a rational fashion, and the British people do suffer from a calamitous departure, I honestly don’t see the Conservatives recovering from that, so welcome Jeremy Corbyn, as Prime Minister.

Self-governing cities, well, we already have those. Mayors, we already have those as well. Best country in the world, I’m still deliberating that topic, although, if you consider some other country’s, it’s not too bad, although it could be better, and selling off the NHS to the American corporations isn’t the solution.

At the end of the day the taxpayers finance the NHS, so it’s not the governments to sell off, but then they would sell your grandmother if they thought she was worth something to them, but of course, they don’t see her as a commodity, so they’d rather that she passed on as soon as possible.

Boris Johnson might be able to talk the talk, but can he walk the walk? I just think he likes the sound of his own voice, and he might talk, but really he never actually says anything, and anytime he’s forced to prove anything, it’s immediately shown to be untrue.

And he did give a fairly admirable address, but I question who actually penned it for him? And the best country in the world to live, for who specifically? The rich…

Indeed, their all freeloaders in boats, and the enormous nobility that freeload from us as well, but then Nigel Farage does have a lovely boat and the use of a private aircraft.

Boris Johnson wants England to become like America, and look at how much mess their in. Ninety-nine per cent of the country lives in poverty, and their healthcare system is the worst in the world. Food standards are a scandal, and if that’s what we want for this country, then that’s your choice, but there’s a preponderance of people that don’t.

Boris, in what will coming out of the EU benefit us? In a lot of ways the EU has helped our young and allowed them loads of opportunities that they would not ordinarily have had, including the ability to go and study overseas for free.

And if you believe that Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage are going to do a great deal for the United Kingdom, you’re mistaken. They’re only in it for the money, nothing else, and why did Nigel Farage get a German passport if he dislikes the EU so much, it’s all about tax dodging, clear and simple, and when Boris Johnson said that leaving the EU will allow us to do things we couldn’t do before, what he actually means is tax evasion, no NHS, no food laws, no environmental laws and no human rights.

There are many people out there that believe we should give him a chance… yes, we should… give him enough rope to hang himself!

Boris Johnson Confirmed As New Prime Minister

Boris Johnson has been announced as the leader of the Conservative party and the next Prime Minister of Britain, with many believing he will do a lousy job and some believing he will do a great job, he might startle us yet!

He might not be liked very much, but if you consider who was against him, then he might not be so bad after all, so long as he does the right thing on Brexit, and by popular demand, Great Britain will now be known as Great Boris.

Boris Johnson has been elected to be the 77th Prime Minister of the UK after defeating opponents to be crowned the victor of the Conservative leadership contest.

Boris Johnson gained a sweeping victory in a ballot of Tory members against the opponent, current foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt, after gaining more than 90,000 votes, and he was backed by 66.4 per cent of the vote, almost double the percentage obtained by rival Jeremy Hunt.

Boris Johnson took to the platform in the presence of cheering MPs and members and thanked both rival Jeremy Hunt and Theresa May.

He stated that he knew there would be some who questioned the wisdom of what the party has done in choosing him as a leader but that it was an extraordinary honour and privilege to have been chosen.

The contest to find the next party leader started on 10 June, with 10 Tory MPs joining the race to take over from outgoing prime minister Theresa May.
Six weeks later, the two surviving candidates, Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson sat in the front of the audience to hear the results as the deciding votes were read out by returning officers Dame Cheryl Gillan and Charles Walker.

Boris Johnson’s mandate of a “do or die” Brexit on the 31 October, regardless of whether the United Kingdom has a deal or not was enough to win him the support of his party, with a winning margin of approximately 45,000 votes, and he addressed the party for the first time as leader on Tuesday afternoon, before officially taking office on Wednesday.

Theresa May congratulated her replacement only minutes after the decision was announced, tweeting: “We now need to work together to deliver a Brexit that works for the whole UK and to keep Jeremy Corbyn out of government. You will have my full support from the backbenches.”

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She will take to the House of Commons despatch box in her last assembly of Prime Minister’s Questions before visiting the Queen to hand in her official resignation, and Boris Johnson will visit the palace shortly after, before travelling to Downing Street, and entering Number 10 for the first time as Prime Minister.

But before Tuesday’s decision Boris Johnson was hold up with close advisers putting the last touches to his new cabinet and the team who will guide him on the Brexit strategy throughout his premiership.

Despite being a frequently divisive personality who polarises public opinion of himself, he is expected to appeal for his party to unite behind him as a leader, and he is expected to spend the next few weeks of his premiership, while parliament is in recess, travelling overseas visiting allies in Washington, Paris and Berlin.

Of course, some joker had already pointed out that “Deliver, Unite and Defeat” was not the perfect acronym for an election campaign since unfortunately, it spells DUD, but Boris Johnson said that they forgot the “E”, “E” for energise, and to all the sceptics, “DUDE”, that the Tories are now going to energise the country, and that they’re going to get Brexit done on October 31st.

Boris Johnson is the new Prime Minister, this is a guy that’s spent the whole leadership election carelessly talking up a no-deal Brexit, no matter the cost. If he takes us through a no-deal Brexit, like he said he would, it could be a catastrophe for our jobs and the NHS.

He stated that we’re going to take advantage of all the opportunities and that it will bring a no spirit of ‘can do’ and that they’re once again going to believe in themselves and what they can deliver, and like the slumbering monster, they’re going to rise and ping-off the guy ropes of self-doubt and negativity with greater education, better infrastructure, more police, and fantastic full-fibre broadband sprouting in every home.

He said that he’s going to unite this marvellous nation and that they’re going to take it forward, and that he’s going to work flat out from now on with his team, and that he will build to repay our faith in the Tory party.

There, of course, will be people around who will challenge the stability of the Tory parties decision, and there may even be some people in government who still question what they’ve done, but of course, nobody, no one party, no one person has a monopoly of wisdom.

He said that no one understands more fully than he did about the advantages of migration to the country, but that he’s clear that the immigration system in this country must change, and that for years politicians have promised the people an Australian style points-based system, and that he will actually promise to surrender on those promises.

And that he will ask the Migration Advisory Committee to conduct a review of that policy as the first step to a thorough rewriting of our immigration policy, and that he’s convinced that the Tories can design a policy that the British people can have faith in.

Over the past few years, too many people in this country feel they have been told frequently and relentlessly what we cannot do, and that since he was a boy, he can remember respectable authorities saying that our time as a nation has passed and that we should be satisfied with mediocrity and manage decline.

And time and again, these are the sceptics and doubters. Time and again by their powers to innovate and to adapt, the British people have shown doubters wrong, but Jeremy Corbyn stated that Boris Johnson has hurriedly tossed together a hard right cabinet, and that given his first assignment as the first Home Secretary for a generation to support the death penalty, can the Prime Minister assure the house now that his government has no intentions to seek and bring back capital punishment to this country?

And before electing the new Education Secretary was the Prime Minister given sight of the Huawei leak inquiry by the Cabinet Secretary?

The challenge to end austerity, tackle inequality, fix Brexit and tackle the climate emergency is what will define the new Prime Minister, but instead, we have a hard-right cabinet staking everything on tax cuts for the few and wild race to the bottom Brexit.

Boris Johnson says he has courage, spirit and passion, but our country doesn’t need arm-waving bluster, but there’s nothing wrong with a points system like Australia’s, and I don’t see why anyone would have a problem with it.

And it’s not because he’s prejudiced, in fact, he should be the least likely person to be discriminatory, concerning his heritage, and an Australian Points Based System or a comparable beast is the way forward, but whatever he does, he’s taking a huge risk, and if it doesn’t pay off, he will weaken the Conservatives and effectively end the political careers of himself and his selected cabinet.

Can we believe what he says? He’s believed greatly in a number of things before and then changed his mind.

Sadly, I don’t believe Boris will be any different to any other Tory Prime Minister that has been, because at the end of the day Boris doesn’t give a poop about the British people, their jobs or their children.

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