THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

Jeremy Hunt Vows To Trigger No Deal Brexit

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Jeremy Hunt on Monday promised to trigger a No Deal Brexit on September 30 if the EU does not budge on talks.

He exchanged taunts with leadership opponent Boris Johnson after stepping up his bid to win over Tory members, and that a cliff edge departure would be one we would regret for generations.

And, in a cruel taunt at Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt stated that it wasn’t enough to rely on slogans, belief and positive thinking to get Brexit done, and on Monday night he won the backing of former Tory leader William Hague.

On Monday night he gained the support of former Tory leader William Hague, and he stated that Jeremy Hunt was one of the most talented ministers with whom he had shared a Cabinet table, and unveiling a ten-point plan in London, Jeremy Hunt said that as a Prime Minister he would begin talks in August about changes to Theresa May’s Brexit deal.

But that if by the end of September, it seemed there was a stalemate, negotiations would end and the country would be given final preparations for a No Deal on October 31, and that there would be £6 billion of relief for fishermen and farmers, and corporation tax would drop £13 billion to 12.5 per cent.

And in another thinly veiled dig, he added that people running their own company didn’t want a showman, they wanted a Prime Minister who would lead them out of a crisis, and that all holiday for civil servants would be cancelled in August except if Whitehall mandarins said their departments were ready.

The Prospect Union branded it a fundamental lack of appreciation and understanding of how arduously civil servants had been working, but Jeremy Hunt said that they had implemented the referendum, and it was the duty of a Prime Minister to do so in a way that would decrease the impact and maximise opportunities.

Later the Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said that Germany’s Angela Merkel had already told him that they would look at any recommendations made by the new UK Prime Minister because she wanted to resolve the problem, providing they were reasonable.

Boris Johnson and his team were caught on the back foot, but in a counterattack, he maintained that Jeremy Hunt was not earnest about delivering a No Deal as he had repeatedly declined to commit to leaving by October 31.

Jeremy Hunt can’t keep saying that they’re going to have a deadline of October 31 and then say it’s really not actually a deadline at all. Nevertheless, some supporters fear Boris Johnson is being outmanoeuvred, and a senior MP said: “Jeremy’s only a born-again Brexiteer and what he’s saying won’t wash with members. But we should be coming out with detail like this.”

Jeremy Hunt can do and say whatever he likes at the moment because at the moment it’s not been determined who will succeed and become Prime Minister, but I’m sure there are many of you out there that don’t believe there’s a chance Jeremy Hunt will beat Boris Johnson, and that there never was.

But then they all tell us what we want to hear to get the job, and then they shaft us when they’re in power, and they’re both promising that they will trigger a No Deal Brexit but will parliament let them do it?

And Jeremy Hunt calling Boris Johnson a coward shouldn’t surprise anyone, and it reminds me of when the Theresa May’s party was named the “nasty party”, and Boris Johnson has clean hands as regards the mess that Theresa May and her colleagues created, whereas Jeremy Hunt was with her all the way.

We need a competent Prime Minister, not a comedian or someone who only wants to speak to the foolish masses, who tells them what they want to hear, and each day that goes by it’s looking more like Boris Johnson will be Prime Minister, and some people want him to be Prime Minister, so the sooner Jeremy Hunt gets used to the idea the better. Boris might even get a little job for you, Jeremy, if you’re lucky… and we certainly don’t want a male version of Theresa May.

We want someone with character, charm and leadership skills, not Continuity May, and I bet even Jeremy Hunt doesn’t believe his own chatter, but then again, he’s only acting and saying what his masters want, just like traitorous Theresa May did, so perhaps it doesn’t matter to him, and even if he doesn’t become Prime Minister he’ll still get himself onto a few nice boards.

Esther McVey Trousered £17,000

Tory welfare chief Esther McVey trousered a £17,000 payoff when she resigned from the Cabinet, after only 10 months in the job.

The MP took the £16,876 golden goodbye for resigning as Work and Pensions Secretary over Brexit last November, and at the time the hard Brexiteer claimed she could not look constituents in the eye if she supported Theresa May’s deal.

Now she must face them over her bumper payout which came months after she admitted some Universal Credit claimants would be worse off under her watch.

Esther McVey made the equivalent of £67,505 as welfare chief on top of her MP’s salary, now worth £79,468, and her severance pay was nearly as much as the Tories £20,000 cap on household benefits for an entire year.

It comes despite new figures revealing the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) underpaid £1.9 billion of benefits in 2018/19, the highest since records commenced in 2005.

The DWP also overpaid a record £4 billion of benefits due to mistakes or fraud, 4.6 per cent of all benefit spending, the National Audit Office announced.

Auditor General Gareth Davies said he was concerned and warned overpayments were expected to increase even more due to mistakes with people reporting income in Universal Credit, and this is a bit of a kick in the teeth because Esther McVey did nothing in her job, and she lied to the Commons about what she was doing and still succeeded walking away with multiples of the annual benefit for some of our most disadvantaged citizens.

In fact, she shouldn’t have taken a penny, and it’s the latest kick in the teeth for those who support a genuine social security system in this country, and it further questions whether Cabinet ministers who quit should be entitled to anything, after all, it’s their decision to go, they’re not claiming constructive dismissal.

A Cabinet minister getting such a huge pay-out, particularly after quitting of their own accord, is completely unacceptable, and this news is a real setback to the 14 million people, including four million children living in poverty in the United Kingdom as a consequence of brutal cuts to social security, low pay and soaring housing costs.

Esther McVey was given her severance pay which is worth three months wages. DWP minister, pro-EU Sarah Newton, got a more modest £7,920 payoff when she quit in a bid to block a No Deal Brexit in March, and Universal Credit chiefs took home bumper gratuities despite a litany of grievances about the benefit.

Universal Credit then Director General Neil Couling got at least £5,000 while another top Universal Credit director, John Paul Marks, got at least £10,000.

Imperfections in the Universal Credit rollout has driven people into rent arrears, forced them to food banks and even driven them to survival sex, yet the DWP claims that it’s reduced waiting times, increased advances and started run on payments for housing.

In the meantime, auditors have complained the DWP is overpaying Universal Credit by 8.6 per cent, the highest of any benefit, and the National Audit Office has stated that both causes are both intentional fraud and unintended error by claimants and the DWP, but that the largest problem was claimants failing to report their income and earnings correctly under Universal Credit.

The system has been hit by reiterated criticisms that it’s confusing to use, and following 2010 there’s been no rise in the percentage of fraud or error overall.

Esther McVey was knocked out of the Tory leadership race in last place earlier this month with only nine MPs’ support, and she was Employment Minister under welfare-slashing Tory Iain Duncan Smith before losing her seat in 2015.

The MP was vilified for supporting the unpopular Bedroom Tax and then returned as Work and Pensions Secretary in January 2018 having won George Osborne’s safe seat of Tatton, and as welfare chief, she acknowledged that some people would be worse off under the six in one benefit Universal Credit.

She recently acknowledged her failings in the policy but claimed she’d brought more money in and refused to apologise, and yet this despicable woman has the temerity to take this payout.

The most disturbing thing is that we have such a profound opinion and no confidence in any of our MPs because they’re all snouts in the trough and extremely self-serving, but it’s certainly not surprising what any MP pockets when they quit office.

But then respect is earned, and they earn far too much, talk too much and do precious little for the people of the United Kingdom, and I’m hoping that after tax and National Insurance deductions she’ll be making a really charitable contribution to her local food bank.

Isn’t it astonishing, she had a job, but she resigned from it because she was either incompetent or just didn’t like the position that she was in, yet she still got a three month salary and a golden handshake, but meanwhile in the real world people are still struggling with the Tories austerity programme.

After all, it appears that Esther McVey has no talent, no ability and no morality, and I’m actually not surprised that she managed to pocket payments she didn’t deserve, and she really needs to make sure she doesn’t get her snout stuck in the trough, but then not one of them is actually deserving of the money that they get, and most people who quit their jobs, they get doodley-squat, but the elite, the finest cream of the crop ends up getting enormous payouts.

Cabinet Minister’s Salary Not Enough

Boris Johnson has told friends his minister’s salary of £141,405 a year is not enough to live on.

The Foreign Secretary told friends his yearly earnings were inadequate because of his extensive family responsibilities.

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The Tory MP has four children with his second wife, Marina Wheeler. He also fathered a daughter during an affair with arts consultant Helen MacIntyre, failing to get an injunction to stop the reporting of her existence.

The report came as Boris Johnson mounted a renewed attack on Theresa May, setting out new red lines for Brexit in an interview with The Sun newspaper.

The MP for Ruislip called for an absolute two-year limit on any transition period, through which the United Kingdom should decline to accept the jurisdiction rulings from the EU or the European Court of Justice. He further stated the UK should decline to make payments for single market access following this period.

This further places the Foreign Secretary at odds with the Prime Minister, whose key speech in Florence implied the length and terms of the transition period could be more flexible, but despite his patent challenge, the Prime Minister stated that Boris Johnson was completely behind her leadership.

“What I have is a cabinet united in the mission of this government and that is what you will see this week and agreed on the approach we take in Florence,” she said.

A YouGov poll published found Boris Johnson is now favourite to be the party’s next leader among Conservative party members. Boris Johnson has the support of 23 per cent of activists, ahead of Ms Davidson on 19 per cent and Eurosceptic backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg on 17 per cent, but his repeated media interventions has lead to a backlash from some inside the Conservative Party, and ex-cabinet minister Nicky Morgan said she believed Boris Johnson had no position in a responsible government.

If Boris Johnson believes that he doesn’t get enough money, then he should reflect on what claimants on disability benefits get and not being able to work, and contrary to what the media tries to show us, the large preponderance of people on disability benefits are not scroungers, but Boris Johnson certainly is.

It can take claimants weeks and weeks to get their money, and as for disability benefits, it takes even longer with continual appointments to verify that they’re sick, and they’re always on a knife edge because they’re always fearful that they will lose their money.

So Boris Johnson gets all that money and it’s not enough to live on. He should go and live with some of his constituents that have to survive on Universal Credit and disability who have to live on less than a tenth of what he makes a year, this guy really needs to get a handle on life, after all, the man was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and he has no concept of what hunger is.

And to add insult to injury, the ordinary person has to put a limit on how many children they can claim Child Benefit for, unless they can verify that child was the result of a rape, yet Boris Johnson can pump out as many children as he likes, clearly we’re not all in this together, and if he can’t support the children that he does have, perhaps now he does have them he should get a second job to meet their needs!

He stated that £141,000 a year was not enough to survive on, knowing damn well that there are people in his constituency that would welcome £14K a year, but then he’s an out of touch, head in the clouds public schoolboy, and of course, we can all agree that he’s a total nincompoop, but he did get voted in, and of course, he’s just another entitled delusional old bottom burp.

I guess £141,000 a year isn’t an awful lot, particularly if you live in London, but then he should have considered that earlier on before he had children, and if he can’t afford London prices, perhaps he should move out of London like many of his other constituents have had to, but he clearly doesn’t only live on his salary, there’s an abundance of family money, investments et cetera, just look at the size of him, he’s hardly starving, and he certainly won’t be needing to visit food banks.

If he doesn’t like the kind of pay he gets, he could always resign and find a job that’s better paid, after all, there are plenty more qualified people looking to take his place in the leadership, or maybe he should lose weight, conserve money and stop talking.

Boo hoo for Boris Johnson, he simply needs to learn to budget and buy basic brand foods, you know the ones, where a kilo of rice is 52 pence because we’re all undergoing a pay cut in real terms, and Boris, we’re all in it together, remember?

I recommend he gets himself a calculator because it’s called living on a budget, but he doesn’t understand the meaning of the word, I mean budget, not living because some poor souls out there haven’t been as lucky as old Boris and have died waiting for their money from the DWP and PIP, or being sanctioned or told that they’re fit enough to work when they aren’t, and he should be grateful that he knows where his next meal is coming from.

Boris Johnson embodies everything that’s wrong with the United Kingdom, and he has an over-inflated sense of entitlement, but in fact, he’s accomplished nothing out of the ordinary, and he’s an egotist who believes he’s talented but in fact, he’s only slightly entertaining because of his own misconceptions.

And this Brexit thing is getting so tiresome now with Tory ministers swaggering around contradicting each other over it, arguing over it when they all know that it’s apparent to the dogs on the street that there won’t be any transition because there won’t be a trade deal, it’s now near on impossible, and despite all the Brexiter bravado, the new truth is that the small Leave majority has now transformed into a small Remain majority.

And clearly, Boris Johnson produced numerous pregnancies before he understood what a Durex was for – wrap up, Boris, you might end up getting something nasty! But maybe he couldn’t afford them on his meagre wages, he should have claimed them on expenses!

He obviously knows nothing about the hardship that our government inflicts on its people, maybe £141,000 could be the new minimum wage?

I wonder if Boris Johnson could sell some of his items in his home? Does he really need a telephone, or maybe he can’t really afford his home and is being reckless by continuing to live there. These are all the questions that are being asked of the needy and disadvantaged, disabled and sick, and out of touch doesn’t begin to cover this statement.

What manner of life does Boris Johnson believe he’s entitled to? And what the government call the underclasses are advised not to use heating, and to use food banks, and hike the 12-mile round trip to the aforementioned food bank, even with a disability.

Boris Johnson, have you eaten out this year, have you bought new shoes and clothing? Are your children wearing second-hand shoes, and do you even know anything about the country you purportedly serve?

Yet he’s the bookie’s favourite to be the next Prime Minister and is Britain’s most celebrated politician, and appears to be a somewhat powerful man, but with great power comes great responsibility, and in Boris Johnson’s case, with great power comes great sums of money, and once Boris Johnson told an LBC presenter that he didn’t feel inclined to discuss his salary, well he bloody well wants to address it now he feels he’s not getting enough of it.

And he now feels that what he earns is chicken feed compared to some top journalists who make a mountainous £274,999.92, and it’s people like him that say that the lower classes should handle their money properly and not have mobile phones, or TV’s or smoke, and all the rest, when he believes that £141,000 is not enough, perhaps he should heed his own advice? But then for large snouts in large troughs, there’s never such a thing as enough!

God forbid he should be living on zero hour contracts, yet he treats the populace like trash and expects them to live and pay mortgages, or uncontrolled inflated rents, and excessive utility bills out of a pittance, and then he has the temerity to say he can’t manage on £141,000, he’s just taking a Jimmy riddle, especially when they don’t even pay for their own breakfast, or much else for that matter.

And grasping at hypocrisy, MPs claim £200,000 a year for their energy bills.

Perhaps Boris should take his talents elsewhere. I’m certain there must be a country out there somewhere looking for a non-essential leader, but behind his artificial jovial tomfoolery hides a really clever man, a very self-serving, rather cunning man.

And unlike Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch, Boris Johnson is one of those neurotic liars who opens his mouth and says whatever it takes to get him what he wants, regardless of what the facts are, and if Boris Johnson doesn’t believe that he’s not getting enough money to live on, how much is enough to live on? And before he articulates he should be mindful that some people have to exist on £70 per week or less – Boris you’re a man of maths, add it up.

Wife Of Dog The Bounty Hunter Dies

Beth Chapman has died following a lengthy battle with cancer.

The wife of Dog The Bounty Hunter was put into a medically induced coma after encountering breathing problems but never woke up, and Dog, whose actual name is Duane Chapman was by his wife’s bedside urging supporters to keep her in their prayers.

But on Wednesday he took to Twitter to announce that Beth had sadly passed away as he gave a moving statement about his wife of 13 years.

Dog wrote: “It’s 5:32 in Hawaii, this is the time she would wake up to go hike Koko Head mountain. Only today, she hiked the stairway to heaven. We all love you, Beth. See you on the other side.”

Beth shot to fame alongside her husband in early 2000 and who almost appeared in Celebrity Big Brother UK, and had been sharing her journey with supporters, including trying CBD oil to help with her pain.

The proud great-grandma, whose real name is Alice Elizabeth, was diagnosed with stage II throat cancer in 2017 but was cancer free by December of that year, but the cancer resurfaced last year and Beth underwent vigorous chemotherapy to treat it.

In January Dog The Bounty Hunter shared the crushing news that Beth’s cancer was incurable, and talked of his sad news that the cancer had spread to Beth’s lungs but stated she was determined to fight every step of the way, and Dog said that he had to keep his faith because he was the leader of the family.

Over the last few months, Beth had posted regular photos of her spending time with her family, with the most recent and adorable image of her husband, their son, grandson and their first great-grandson celebrating Father’s Day.

Beth was placed in a medically-induced coma in Hawaii with sources claiming she was having trouble breathing. Her family raced to be by her bedside, and on Monday, Dog tweeted a snap of Beth’s hand from her hospital bed.

Beth and Dog first met in the 1990s and dated on and off for years before getting married in 2006.

They shot to fame in 2004 appearing on US reality series Dog The Bounty Hunter before landing spin-off show Dog and Beth: On the Hunt.

They share two children together Bonnie and Garry and Dog has several other children from past relationships.

Beth Chapman’s daughter Bonnie gave a heartfelt tribute to her mum after it was announced she has died at the age of 51.

Twenty-year-old Bonnie, who is understood to have been by Beth’s side in her last days, took to social media to share her loss along with her father Duane ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ Chapman.’ Retweeting her father’s earlier message, Bonnie wrote: “love you forever mom. You’ve got a halo now.”

Opening up in his first public appearance since Beth’s death, Dog, real name Duane Chapman, told reporters: “One of the last things she said [was] ‘It’s a test of my faith’. She had faith and that was it.

“There’s steps you go through when you’re dying. Well, the last step when you’re dying is to accept it, and she said to me the other day, ‘Honey, that last step, I ain’t taking it.’ So go Bethy.”

“She came out of it a few times – ‘I love you,’ and ‘Are you guys all OK? Don’t worry’,” he told the media before breaking down in tears.

“She never accepted it. This is totally unbelievable.”

“She was a control person – and so not from the grave but from heaven I’m sure, she’s still controlling me,” Duane continued. “I got notes in my pillowcase, on my sink, in my shaving things, you know – she’s still telling me what to wear! I love her so much.”

And pertaining to the Biblical story of Lazarus, Dog said: “Beth isn’t dead, she’s sleeping.”

He added: “It’s incredible when you walk alone into the bedroom and she was just there two days ago. I hope to god there’s a god. I have tried to be a godly [man] – I hope I’m not just talking to myself. If there is a god, I’m going to see my honey again. And that’s all we can do: hope.”

Beth Chapman, the former star of A&E’s Dog the Bounty Hunter and Duane “Dog” Chapman’s wife, endured her fair share of ups and downs during the years.

It all began when Beth met ex-convict Duane in 1988, while he was still married to his third wife, but after pursuing the notorious bounty hunter for years, the two eventually got together in 1995.

But their dramatic start as lovers hit a sad note when Duane’s 23-year-old daughter, Barbara Katie Chapman, died in a car accident the night before their May 20th, 2006 wedding, and even though the two did their best to pick up the pieces following Barbara’s passing, they faced even more sadness together, including an upsetting custody battle involving one of their grandchildren.

Beth’s painful story, however, took a life-threatening turn in September 2017 after she was diagnosed with stage II throat cancer. Sadly, that wouldn’t be the last hurdle she had to overcome.

Beth then made the decision in December 2018 to return to her home state of Colorado, a place near and dear to her heart. “They say the cancer follows the path of least resistance, so it goes downward.

Half of her lung was full of water, but after she was made more comfortable and she could breathe she really wanted to go back to Colorado, a place that she held dear, and supporters of Beth Chapman knew that describing her as tough was an understatement, so it wasn’t any wonder that she didn’t take her cancer diagnosis laying down. In fact, she tried to stay involved in their bounty hunting business, which included the filming of a new reality series, Beth also actively dictated the terms of her treatment.

Beth would not take anything the doctors wanted to give her, so she took over the counter pain meds, she would not take anything prescription.

The reality star allegedly also explored alternative cancer therapies, including cannabis-based CBD and THC treatments, which she promoted in a February 2019 Instagram post. “We need to all be far more open-minded to new treatments,” she wrote, adding, “We no longer need to poison patients to get them well. #cancersucks”

Despite her possible interest and/or pursuit of alternative cancer therapies, Beth Chapman apparently took her doctors’ advice to undergo a series of chemotherapy treatments.

The treatments were going well, but they unquestionably took their toll on her, and the outlook wasn’t great, even though Beth was a strong woman. However, by May 2019, Beth, apparently alluded to having ended chemotherapy treatments, saying that chemotherapy was not her bag.

Amid Beth’s cancer battle, she filmed a special for A&E titled, Dog & Beth: Fight of Their Lives, and at one point during the program, Beth asked Duane’s daughter, Lyssa, to spend time with her in Los Angeles while she recovered from a surgery to remove a tumour from her throat.

After Lyssa said she couldn’t make it, Beth confided to her eldest daughter, Cecily, “A family member was in need and some true colours came through.” Ouch.

What probably made things more stressful for Beth? Lyssa took to Instagram to vent about the family matter after getting some backlash from fans. Citing a “move” and “house and dog sitting” responsibilities.

Lyssa sounded off in the comments section of her November 2017 post. Duane’s daughter further complained that Duane and Beth apparently paid for Lyssa’s brother Leland to come and visit. “[Leland] only has to worry about his ‘wannabe wife’ I stand by my decision to stay with my family,” Lyssa added. “And not let the cancer eat away at my home as well.”

Beth also suffered a personal blow in March 2017, when she was robbed while staying at the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles, where Beth and Duane had put more than $5,000 in their hotel safe, only to find it missing when they returned.

Even though robberies do happen from time to time, this incident was especially upsetting because law enforcement said there was “no sign of forced entry,” which inspired the tabloids to speculate that authorities thought the heist “might be an inside job.”

The theory is particularly compelling when you consider that the couple’s jewellery and luggage weren’t stolen, a fact that appears to imply that the perpetrator was after something specific, and it’s unclear if the authorities ever identified any suspects in the case, or whether the couple had any notions about who carried out the burglary, either way, it must have been rather unnerving for them to have had their personal property taken.

Beth’s life took a particularly scary turn in May 2012, after she and her family received death threats through an email from an unknown perpetrator. The emails were extremely explicit in nature, discussing rape, torture, and murder against the Chapmans. “I’m going to murder you. I’m going to come to Hawaii and murder you and your family in cold blood,” one email to Duane read.

What was even more serious was that several messages alluded to the couple’s then young children. “Your children looked nice today,” one particularly sinister note read.

Another talked about “massacring” the Chapman family, with the author discussing his plan to “watch [their] children bleed.”

This was particularly disturbing, and Beth, who wasn’t typically frightened by threats given her bounty hunter background, revealed during an interview that it sent a chill down her spine.

Beth and Duane Chapman then handed over the terrifying emails to the FBI because the Chapman’s were taking the threats very seriously, and were very concerned about the safety of their family, and Duane Chapman said that when the person responsible was found, he would prosecute to the full extent of the law for the fulminations made against his family.

Beth also had a soft side, which is why she was heartbroken when hearing that one of Daune’s stepchildren, then 35-year-old Nicole Gillespie was detained for suspicion of second-degree robbery in 2015, and the couple’s grief was compounded by the fact that they heard about the news through Crime Stoppers, a programme that gives the public the chance to provide crime-solving support to law enforcement.

Following news of Gillespie’s arrest, Beth and Duane delivered a collective statement expressing their mutual disappointment. “It’s always difficult and disheartening when someone you knew as a child, grows up and chooses a life of crime.”

And although Beth wasn’t related to Gillespie, an arrest in your family tree is never a great situation.

Beth and Duane bounced around their feelings for one another long after their fateful encounter in 1988. Beth was the other woman through three wives, but once the two eventually got their act together in 1995, they enjoyed a period of happiness and the birth of their children, Bonnie and Garry.

Things were so good between the pair, and they got hitched at the Hilton hotel on Waikoloa Village in Hawaii, but one day before their May 20th, 2006 wedding, Duane’s daughter from a past relationship, 23-year-old Barbara Katie Chapman, died in a car accident.

Barbara and the car’s driver, Scott Standefer II, died when their stolen SUV smashed into an embankment near Fairbanks, Alaska.

There was no clue as to why they left the roadway, and there were certainly no skid marks on the road, they just went off the road, hit an embankment and launched, but Barbara had gotten herself into a terrible mess, yet she was working so arduously to put her life back together, and despite the unfortunate circumstances, Beth and Duane continued with the ceremony.

Imagine losing a loved one in a car accident, only to encounter another vehicular-related accident years later.

Sadly, this exact scenario happened to Beth when her step-daughter, Lyssa Chapman, was involved in a serious car accident in Honolulu, Hawaii. The accident happened in September 2014, only eight years after Duane lost his daughter, Barbara Katie Chapman, to a car accident in May 2006.

Beth confirmed the sad news, telling that Lyssa and all the kids were in the car. Lyssa was driving with Beth’s granddaughters, then 12-year-old Abbie and 5-year-old Madalynn.

A picture of the scene showed a deployed airbag and debris from the car spread across the road, a terrifying image considering small children were involved in the incident.

Beth further shared a video to Facebook of emergency crews arriving on the scene, while commenting: “Lucky they are walking away.”

After Barbara Katie Chapman’s unfortunate passing in May 2006, her young son went to live with his biological father, Travis Mimms, but Duane and Beth intervened in the boy’s life after hearing an October 2011 audio recording of Travis Mimms supposedly physically abusing the then 9-year-old.

In the recording made by a neighbour, Duane and Beth’s grandson is told to bend over, a request that was supposedly followed with 13 slaps, and a cry of “no more”.

Mimms’ attorney, Jason Lewis, denied any wrongdoing on his client’s behalf. “It wasn’t bare skin and it was through his clothing and it was 3 to 5 hits on his rear,” he explained, but Beth and Duane, nevertheless, they saw the situation differently, and to hear an audiotape of their grandson being abused, they believed that was torture.

Following a tense custody battle, the couple was given interim custody of the boy, and although Beth wasn’t the biological grandmother of Barbara’s son, it must have been a difficult situation that pulled on her heartstrings.

Before Beth found love with Duane, she was married to a man named Keith A. Barmore. The exes shared a daughter together named Cecily, who was born in June 1993, two years following their 1991 wedding, and even though Beth never really said much about Barmore throughout the years, she might have exposed a troubling accusation about his life via Twitter in August 2015.

“Sorry my first husband was a heroin addict & I know all about it!” she tweeted to a fan. “It’s not a disease it’s an addiction! #ilivedit”

While Beth didn’t mention Barmore specifically, there was no other “first husband” that we know of, and making matters even more compelling, Duane was childhood friends with Barmore, and spoke about his pal’s addiction in his book, “You Can Run But You Can’t Hide.”

“He was a thief with a heroin habit,” Duane wrote. “He would drink a beer just to even out from the drugs. It just about broke my heart when I heard Beth was dating him. When I heard they got married, I got physically sick. … Friends told me he was abusing her something awful.”

Losing a parent is never easy, particularly if you’re especially close to them, and someone who knew this all too well was Beth, who lost her beloved dad, Garry Smith, in March 2006 at age 68.

Garry Smith’s death happened only two months before Beth and Duane’s wedding in Hawaii, so her dad didn’t have the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle.

As for how close the two were? In Garry Smith’s later years, he served as a bail bondsman beside Duane and Beth, sometimes making appearances on Dog the Bounty Hunter. Beth also named her youngest son after her father.

Beth used to do everything with her dad, giving him the title of “best friend”, and to her he was her garage sale buddy, her burger joint partner, ice cream eater, green chilli maker and her best friend, but mostly he was her father, and it was plain to see that she truly loved her dad, and profoundly loved her family.

Nigel Farage Should Face Highest Penalty

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Nigel Farage should face the highest penalty for a serious breach of European Parliament Code of Conduct, according to a leaked letter.

The European Parliament Advisory Committee on the Conduct of Members have called for the Brexit Party leader to face a penalty following an investigation, and the investigation alleged that Nigel Farage’s lifestyle was financed to the tune of £450,000 by Brexit benefactor Arron Banks’ companies in the year following the EU election.

The funds included rent payments, funding security, a driver as well as flights and parties to launch “Brand Farage” in America, and a letter that was leaked to Channel 4 News said that it considers that Nigel Farage committed a serious breach of the Code of Conduct and that it considers that the gravity of Nigel Farage’s conduct would merit the highest penalty foreseen by the Parliament’s Rules of Procedures.

It adds that the Advisory Committee is particularly concerned that the actions of Nigel Farage could cause damage to the integrity and reputation of the European Parliament, and the rules mean that Nigel Farage could be ejected from the European Parliament for up to 30-days, and he wouldn’t be able to accumulate a daily allowance in this time.

In exceptional circumstances, the President could further prevent an MEP from representing Parliament in certain circumstances for up to a year, and the committee’s letter further advised that the President refer Nigel Farage’s behaviour to the European Anti-Fraud Office.

It also states any inquiry should liaise and cooperate with the UK National Investigatory Authorities, including the National Crime Agency, the Electoral Commission and the Metropolitan Police, in order for the complete facts to be established.

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The letter concludes that The Advisory Committee strongly believes that the circumstances of the case merit extensive further investigation with continuous EU-level supervision and cross-Member State collaboration, including third countries when necessary, and when contacted by the Mirror, a Brexit Party spokesperson refused to comment, and a party source complained that the committee may have infringed protocol as the letter had been seen before it was given to Nigel Farage.

The highest punishment? Well, I didn’t know that the EU had capital punishment, and I didn’t know that the most pathetically run organisation knew what a sanction was, but it does now appear that this little fake is only interested in a cosy life on Easy Street, yet people have given him that opening for that pampered life.

Nigel Farage is nothing but a confidence trickster and most people have been taken in by him, and he’s been leading his party without any moral principle, and Nigel Farage should be investigated for committing a massive scam on the British people.

Nigel Farage couldn’t lie straight in bed, and it would take a string of psychiatrists a lifetime to comprehend out why some people believed what he said, and I wouldn’t trust him to be the Mayor of Trumpton.

Nigel Farage is a fake and he lacks honesty, and now has a pretty poor reputation, and he will find it extremely hard to come back from this, and we should be raging because that money that was donated and wasn’t used for the promotion of desired party or marketing purposes, and was used for leisure purposes, and, anyone that did donate should prosecute him.

But the EU thought their most formidable feasible punishment was a 30-day stay, but actually Nigel Farage should be booted out, but perhaps they’re a tad concerned that he may be tempted to scatter a few of his own beans about the inner workings of the government because clearly, you don’t spend that many years in an establishment without gathering a little juicy information.

It’s about time this slimy blighter got his just desserts, and we shouldn’t trust him as far as we can throw him because he’s wholly unpleasant, self-centred, and a professional politician that’s been caught out.

Dodgy Nigel, so when do we get to see your financial records?

PM Candidate Jeremy Hunt Arrives On Canvey

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The foreign secretary appeared outside the Haystack on Canvey two days ago to meet residents and Conservative voters as part of his campaign to be the next Prime Minister, saying that the country has more potential than anywhere else in the world, I wonder if it will ever get to Canvey?

He said that we have the greatest universities in Europe, tech startups, business people, fortitude and drive, but I’ve never seen a university on Canvey, and then he had the temerity to say that we can get on and expand that wealth to our NHS and our education system.

But then he’s got to say that if he wants to get more young people voting Conservative, and has he forgotten how screwed up the NHS is? And notice how he’s not wearing a jacket and tie, that’s because he wants to look more trendy and in tune with his potential young voters, and it’s not only pitiful but it’s also disturbing to watch, but then if they look like MPs, they end up being called out of touch.

The United Kingdom doesn’t have the best universities in Europe, we’re third in the top ten, and most European countries have tech startups with Germany and Holland, and every country has people with grit and determination.

And even if we did have the best universities in Europe, how many people from Canvey would get to study there?

There might be some people out there that like Jeremy Hunt, and want him to be the next Prime Minister, but we need a leader, not a manager.

Prince William: ‘I’d Support My Children If They Were Gay’

Prince William has stated he would fully support his children if they were gay, but revealed he would worry about the added pressures they would encounter, and that it was something he’d thought about since becoming a father, and that he wished that we existed in a society where it’s really normal and cool, but especially for his family, and the position that they’re, that was the bit he was apprehensive about.

The duke was speaking to young people at an LGBT youth charity in London. The Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT) helps LGBT young people who are at risk of homelessness.

The duke said that he supported whatever choices his children made, but added that it worried him from a parents point of view, and about all the difficulties, odious words, persecution, and the hatred that might come from that, and that was the bit that actually bothered him, and that was for all of us to try and help correct and make sure we can put that in the past and not come back to that kind of stuff.

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This is a tremendous moment for LGBT people around the globe, and for a member of the British Royal Family to give such a support to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, and their struggle for equality, is a huge deal, particularly in a time when the visibility of the LGBT people is being constantly challenged.

Nevertheless, with the Duke of Cambridge being a figurehead for the Royal Family as well as the Commonwealth, it’s also worth remembering that homosexual activity is still a criminal offence in 35 of the 53 Commonwealth nations and it is only permitted in 18.

And many will now be questioning whether Prince William’s words could have a decisive influence on these places, where people are still struggling for their lives because of who they love.

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Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have three children, five-year-old Prince George, Princess Charlotte, four, and one-year-old Prince Louis, and the duke said this wasn’t the first time he’d been asked his hypothetical question about his children.

The Queen’s cousin, Lord Ivar Mountbatten, and his partner James Coyle were the first royal same-sex couple to get married last year, and the duke said parents frequently questioned his views on the matter and that because of this, he and the Duchess of Cambridge have been doing a lot of talking to make sure their children are prepared.

He further displayed his shock at a recent attack on Melania Geymonat and her partner Chris on a London bus, saying that he was really appalled, and the duke’s comments will make a huge difference and conveyed a message of support that the LGBT people need.

And the idea that the future monarch is saying they would support their children if they came out as LGBT is a message to the entirety of society, a message of support that empowers the LGBT people because it truly is a real pressure to live under.

And if you look into the issues around suicide and the figures in the LGBT community we need fewer barriers and less stigma and more acceptance, and numerous people have praised the prince for his comments, especially when he said it would be absolutely fine by him if any of his three children came out as gay, and when a royal comes out (pardon the pun) and says things like this, it truly makes me feel proud to be British, and believe me, that doesn’t happen often.

He was so charming and victorious at the same time, so much like his late mother Princess Diana, she would have been so proud of him, and he actually does deserve to be the next King of England.

His mother was one of the first public figures to fully and openly embrace AIDS patients during the height of the epidemic and homophobia.

She was friends with gay figures such as Elton John and George Michael, and she was an LGBTQ ally before that was a mainstream thing, so it isn’t surprising that her son picked up the same sensitivities, but hopefully by the time his children are old enough to be speaking publicly about their sexual orientation, that the world is passed that sort of hate, but at the moment we are far from that, and in a progressing society we need to be more accepting of everyone.

Prince William is a great human being simply by setting an example, after all, you can be disappointed with the choices your children make, but why would you be disappointed with who they are? Let’s face it, everyone is beautiful in their own way.

But I worry about the fate of our children, not because of their sexual orientation but because life is difficult enough as it is, but as for sexual orientation, I wouldn’t worry if my children were left-handed, it might have more challenges that other children might not, but no matter what, all children favour challenges, so why would we do our utmost to change them? After all, good parents and good people accept, and support their children and bestow them, unconditional love.

And I’m happy that Prince William could come out openly because ordinarily the royal family isn’t allowed to make any comment that might be seen as partisan, and this is a really decisive move as far as society goes because some humans are shallow, and it’s good that we can gradually purvey to the masses, and we could say that he’s simply honouring his mother, but actually he seems like a really decent human being.

And wow, I’m not a huge enthusiast of the Royal Family but this is a huge deal for them, so it should fill people with delight!

Britain’s Shame

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NHS Hospital Charges £18k For Hip Op

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mum Banned From Every Asda Store

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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