THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

Boris Johnson Plots Quickie Divorce

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Young People Are Being Ignored Over Brexit

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

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

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

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

They gave up power.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If Only She’d Shown Some Humanity!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never forget that disconnect.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Disabled Single Mum Is Left Trapped

Several years ago Julie McCaffrey, 36, was a young employed mum, balancing her position as an administrator with looking after her son, Lee. She enjoyed her position at the children’s centre she’d worked at since the age of 18 and had a comfortable life in the bungalow she shared with her partner and son.

All that changed however after she started experiencing inflammation and discomfort in her left arm following a flu vaccine. Her condition worsened until she was no longer able to use her arm at all and was in perpetual pain along the left side of her body.

Doctors diagnosed a neurological condition and eventually, unable to carry out simple duties, Julie, from County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, was dismissed from employment.

She managed fine on benefits until recently when the amount she got was cut by over £700 a month. Her mobility car was also taken away leaving Julie, who also has a five-year-old daughter, Rachel, practically housebound.

Julie lives in a pretty isolated area and there isn’t even a shop nearby, she has to send her son to the supermarket to get food when he comes home from school, otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to eat, but at the moment they’re living hand to mouth because her disability benefits have also been discontinued.

Julie was in excellent health until October 2009, when she had a vaccine against Swine flu. There was an eruption of the potentially deadly virus at the time, and because she has asthma, she wanted to take precautions. She didn’t think she’d have any problems as nobody had discussed the possibility of serious side effects, she simply thought she’d have the shot and that would be it.

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But within moments of being given the vaccine, Julie experienced inflammation and redness in her left arm. The next day, when her arm was still swollen and red, she went to see her GP who told her it was just a local response to the shot and would improve in time.

But it didn’t and the swelling didn’t go down and the pain proceeded to get worse and worse, and Julie started experiencing shooting pains along her arm, spreading from her shoulder and struggled to use it properly, and it hurt when she attempted to hold anything or pick it up or even to drive.

Over the next few months, she kept going back to her GP who prescribed painkillers and sent her for physiotherapy, but it did little to help long term, and she kept telling her GP that it must have been the vaccine that had caused it, and that she’d never had any difficulties with her arm before, but he maintained it was a pinched nerve and nothing to do with the vaccine.

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Julie was sent to see a neurologist who diagnosed her with the pain condition Fibromyalgia and Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), which causes weakness and abnormal patterns of movement in limbs as well as postural and gait issues, seizures and sensory difficulties.

She carried on at work for as long as she could because she enjoyed her job, but after having her daughter Rachel five years ago the pain in her arm spread all along the left side of her body and became intolerable. She required help bathing and dressing her daughter and could no longer carry out her responsibilities properly at work.

Julie had also split from her partner so was now a single mum and aware that she needed to provide for her kids. But in October 2015, she was fired from work after being declared unfit to continue in her position, although they did try everything they could to help her stay in her job, making adjustments to her work station and getting occupational health in to keep an eye on her, but in the end, she just couldn’t physically do the work any more.

Julie was deemed qualified for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) with an enhanced rate of mobility, which meant she could get a Motability car, and Employment Support Allowance (ESA), and Julie managed fine on the £559 in DLA she got a month and the £382.00 ESA she got fortnightly after becoming unemployed.

It was just enough for bills, travel and food for the three of them, but when she was notified that she was being shifted over to the new Personal Independence Payment benefit in July last year, everything changed. She had to attend an assessment and was told afterwards that her payments would be lowered to £229 in PIP and £314 a fortnight in ESA, which was much less.

The enhanced mobility component was also eliminated which meant her Motability car was taken away. She couldn’t drive an ordinary vehicle any more and depended on it to take her daughter Rachel to school and back, go to the shops and to see her family. She also needed it to attend medical appointments and physio too so she was totally stuck without it.

Julie had been using some of the money to finance holistic physiotherapy too, which isn’t accessible on the NHS and which she says was helping a lot with the pain. So, she appealed against the ruling by the Department for Communities (DfC), Northern Ireland’s equivalent of the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions, and had to endure a second assessment in February this year.

While at the assessment, she was asked if she could walk three kilometres once every three or four weeks and she said that she could, even though it’s excruciating, it’s part of her rehab because it encourages her to swing her arm to keep it active, but because of this she wasn’t given enough points to qualify for any PIP at all, which is totally wrong.

This was despite her neurologist writing a letter outlining Julie’s disabilities and confirming that her condition had a major and widespread impact on her functional ability, and her PIP was removed altogether in March and her ESA was reduced to £187 a fortnight, leaving her with just over £13 a day.

Clearly, neurologists and doctors have no rank as far as PIP is concerned, it’s their way or no way. And apparently, they consider that they’re more qualified than anyone else. After all, as an example guide, it takes approximately 10 years to qualify as a GP, including medical school and it typically takes around 12 years to become a neurologist.

Four years are spent as an undergraduate working towards a bachelor’s degree, and another 4 years are spent in medical school, but following medical school, graduates will then begin a one-year internship, followed by a 3-year residency programme.

Umm, who’s more equipped to make these kinds of decisions over a person’s health and what they need and don’t need, well, it certainly isn’t PIP.

So, what’re the typical qualifications that a PIP assessor needs. Well, they usually look for nurses, occupational therapists, paramedics and physiotherapists with at least 2 years post registration experience to join their team who have great observational abilities, in this case, definitely not.

An assessors average day at work is that they get up super early, log into their computer for ten minutes, and then drive around the country to assess people. Their first assessment is either 8 am or 9 am, which involves approximately 60-90 minutes of listening to really sad, negative stories about how people are affected by health conditions which the assessor needs to record with thunderbolt typing speed.

They do this about 4 times a day so will have completed assessments by approximately 3 pm or 4 pm depending on when they started and then back home by 4 pm or 5 pm. Then it takes approximately 60-120 minutes to write up each one and send them in.

These are then arbitrarily checked by audit who will ask them to make absurd random changes, and if they can’t work out how to do that, these guys with their constant shifting goalposts and rules will have fired you within a few months with little come back or compensation.

Training goes on for weeks, the worst thing about it is that the person can fail, and people do fail, and when that person realises what the job involves, it can be a tad demoralising with management being the worst part of the job because they use banking and business models and their workers are just numbers to them, and a number that doesn’t perform precisely how they want WILL be culled.

They care little about the public and even less about their staff, and they have regular culls of staff when there isn’t enough work, and they will not compensate you well. They give lip service to be caring but care nothing about that person’s career or feelings, all they care about is profits and hitting targets.

Workplace culture is poor, it’s fake and corporate, and the hardest part of the job is working all day on the same thing over and over again, something that can’t be done in an 8 hour day, and I would guess the most fun part of the job is being off at the weekend, even though they would still need to spend one and a half of those days off, planning for the week ahead.

Most people don’t even last 6 months, and all applicants must be fully registered without restriction or conditions with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and have a valid PIN, plus hold a full current driving licence with access to a vehicle.

They go on a 5-week intensive training course, fully paid, but following that, there’s an additional 6 weeks on the job training with close mentorship and development. They offer an opening salary of £34,000 per annum, increasing to £35,000 on DWP approved status and the potential to earn up to £3,000 per annum quality bonus.

And they call themselves an equal opportunities employer…

Julie was able to get a supplementary payment of £264.16 a month too, increasing her daily income to about £23, but that runs out shortly, and now she doesn’t know how she’s going to manage, and she’s extremely depressed because she can’t go anywhere and she’s not able to use public transportation due to her muscles spasms, plus the fact that she won’t have enough money to pay the bills.

Julie’s been using her credit cards to purchase food and she has to send her son Lee, who is now 17, to go and get it because she can’t carry any shopping even if she could get to the supermarket, and she’s isolated here as is her daughter Rachel, and it’s not fair on her daughter and it breaks Julie’s heart not being able to take her anywhere.

Julie has appealed once more to have her benefits restored and is waiting to hear back from the DfC.

A spokesperson for the DfC said: “The Department for Communities (DfC) is unable to comment on individual cases. Personal Independence Payment (PIP) entitlement depends on how a disability or long-term condition affects a person’s ability to carry out a range of everyday activities. It does not depend on any specific medical diagnosis. Each case is considered on an individual basis.

So, what they’re really saying is that you actually have to be brain dead and not be able to move an iota of your body to be able to get any money. No surprise people are committing suicide because they probably believe that they’d be better off dead.

But this is the tragic truth behind rising disabled employment cuts, deaths and zero-hour contracts.

Lawrence Bond suffered from a heart condition, shortness of breath and struggled with mobility. His GP had reportedly also made two referrals for mental health services. But, despite all that, the 56-year-old was declared “fit to work” at an assessment.

As a result, Lawrence Bond’s benefits were cut and he was told to get down to his local Jobcentre in Kentish Town to look for work. He started an appeal against the decision but had no other options while he waited, and his anxiety was getting worse because he couldn’t pay his bills and was too scared to leave home to go to the shops.

Then, in the January, as he walked back from the Jobcentre, he collapsed and died of a heart attack, and the case of Lawrence Bond is not unique because in 2016 figures revealed that more than half of disabled people who appealed their “fit to work” assessment eventually got the decision reversed but for some it was already too late, they were already dead.

There are many people out there that have various health issues, some physical and some mental health issues, and for those few that can manage to work there’s literally no support to help them stay in work, and it frightens the hell out of them because the system is broken, on purpose.

And Scope issued a survey that found that approximately 59 per cent of disabled people in work felt that their jobs were insecure because of their disability and around 53 per cent had encountered disability-related bullying or harassment at work, and some disabled people spend years battling to keep working while their employers make their life intolerable.

And until the Equality Act is actively implemented there will be no possibility of disabled people being safe in work, and the government need to ensure that small businesses are supported to make changes and employ disabled people and that disabled people are given educational opportunities to help create a portfolio of qualifications fitting for their circumstances and aspirations.

Sanctions and cutting money to people who have practically no possibility of getting work in this current climate is not going to support them, instead, it will just cause tremendous anxiety and worry to people who already have much higher costs than everyone else, and applying this to people who have serious health problems is just wicked.

The Equality Act was only framed to give the idea that we would be protected, instead, it’s got more holes in it than Swiss cheese, and you’ve got more chance of winning the lottery than the government giving a piffle about sick and disabled people.

And it appears odd that the government is supposedly trying to get disabled people into employment, and yet, by their own admission have cut funding for Motability, in fact they’ve cut the numbers available to the bone, resulting in many instances of disabled people to no longer be able to get to work, and have done absolutely nothing to help employers to take on disabled people, bar fiddling the figures on a scheme to confirm how many employers are “on board” with the governments drive to get the disabled working.

In fact, it’s just the reverse. It’s one of the many war and peace novels put out there by the government that disabled people are protected by Equal rights laws, they’re not, and as with every employment law, the only real way to implement it was until 2011, the free Employment Tribunal.

Now, it’s no longer free, and of course, applications have plummeted as the costs to someone now recently unemployed, or on minimum wage or on a zero contract, are prohibitive, but this isn’t the only problem, to make an Equal rights claim stick, you have to demonstrate you have been discriminated against.

But 90 per cent of the time that means your word against theirs, and it means you have to demonstrate they did make your life a misery, and here’s the cop-out for the employer, didn’t make change or adjustments that were reasonable for the business.

And if they do argue, they will just say that they didn’t hire you because the other applicant was better suited, so that’s the pre-employment case quashed, and if they claim you’re a poor performer, again, it’s just your word against theirs.

It’s they, not you, that have your performance markers, and they who determine if you’re meeting them, and goalposts can, and are constantly moved for disabled people, but try proving that to a tribunal.

Harassment is all too common, with disabled people seen as a pain, obstructive and too demanding, but then it shouldn’t need an Employment Tribunal to order a business to fit automatic opening doors for their disabled workers, but it does.

And the Tories are not actually interested in really helping anyone, bar themselves to taxpayers money. All they want is to get the disabled off the figures, off benefits, and if they die, as thousands have, oh dear, how sad, nevermind.

But of course, we shouldn’t condemn their ineptitude, although it’s a contemptible cop-out for them to salve their consciences in the evaluation to death, of course, the government aren’t making mistakes because they don’t put a value on people’s lives and certainly don’t put a value on their deaths.

School Dinner Lady Sacked

A dinner lady has reportedly been fired after she let a child have a lunch he didn’t have the money to pay for.

Bonnie Kimball said she didn’t believe it was a huge deal and had said to the pupil to pay the next day, convinced that he would, and sure enough, she said he gave her the $8 (£6.29) he owed the next day at the Mascoma Valley Regional High School in New Hampshire, US.

Bonnie states however that she was fired about a week later by the district manager of Café Services, the food services company that employed her.

The dinner lady, who had served at the school for four and a half years, maintains the food services company accused her of theft, and a spokesperson for the company stated that the pupil wouldn’t have gone without a meal as students who go to the lunch line without money can get a starter or sandwich plus side dishes or fresh fruit and milk.

But a letter seen by CNN told Bonnie that on March 28, a District Manager was on-site and saw a pupil coming through the line with various food items that she didn’t charge him for, but evidently this is a strict breach of their Cash Handling Procedures, the Schools Charge Policy and Federal Regulation governing free meals.

But a statement by Jaime Matheson of the Café Services states they would not let an employee go because they provided this lunch to a student.

A gofundme page titled ‘funds to help lunch lady’ has been set up, and according to reports, two other members of lunch staff have quit in protest.

This is shocking in Donald Trump’s America, perhaps they would have prefered that she be tasered, peppered and shot? This world gets sicker by the day with selfishness and greed that reign supreme. Well done to this lovely woman and shame on this company of leeches.

We should be sending this lady to the top of the class, and as for her employers, detention and they must write a million lines “I must not act like a sewer rat”. But then it’s profit before people and the United Kingdom is heading down the same road, and don’t get me wrong, the private sector has its strengths, however, it should never be allowed near health care, education or social housing because they have no compassion towards people.

Yes, let’s starve the children who have no money for food because I can remember when a school dinner was a good dinner. I can remember when dinner was at school with a plentiful meal, plus sponge pudding and custard, and a drink, definitely enough to satisfy a child’s belly for the rest of the day until they got home, now children scarcely have enough money for a sandwich and a drink.

What a savage nation we now live in, and the people who were in charge clearly didn’t have a clue, or simply didn’t care, they should have given her a warning, but to sack her was truly horrifying, and instead of dismissing this humble lady this could have had a surprisingly positive outcome, however, the parents and pupils should have protested themselves, and should have done all that they could to put this company under, and certainly not bought their food, but instead, they should have sent their children in with a packed lunch with a little extra for those other children that may not have had any, that’s how we all stand together to be strong and more professional and caring than this catering company.

School food should be free or at least subsidised because for some children it is their main meal of the day. These children are our future, and we should really be caring for our children, and if the student paid the next day there was no loss to the lady or the food service, and it appears like this company had a grudge against her and simply wanted to find some way of getting rid of her.

It’s not compulsory for your child to attend school, but it is compulsory to educate, this is why so many parents choose to educate their children at home now, but school meals should be free, and so should school uniform, and this company has fired this unfortunate lady for what? I would love to see how much food is wasted and thrown out at the end of the day, so one small dinner wouldn’t really make much of a difference.

However, this lady has since been given a job by celebrity chef and well-known foodie philanthropist Jose Andres which made headlines after he gave the recently fired lady a place at one of his businesses, and taking to Twitter, Jose Andres chose to draw attention to what many felt was a shocking miscarriage of justice, after Bonnie Kimball from New Hampshire was fired for providing a student with a free lunch.

Posting on the social media platform, Andres wrote, “New Hampshire school cafeteria worker fired for giving food to a student who couldn’t pay – WHBQ! The hero is Bonnie Kimball! If she needs a job we have openings at ⁦@thinkfoodgroup⁩ if you know her, let her know!” He also included a link to a website containing details of the original story.

And while it would be easy to dismiss the tweet as a chance to raise his public profile, there’s evidence that Andres was deadly earnest about the proposal, and in addition to reaching out over social media, it’s been alleged that Andres also got in touch with Bonnie Kimball by telephone.

Such an act of kindness would not be out of turn for the famously generous Andres. His non-profit organisation World Central Kitchen has been massively involved in a number of humanitarian endeavours around the world, including helping in the aftermath of the devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico, feeding Mexican migrants on the border with the United States and giving support to those affected by Californian wildfires in 2018, and given his track record, it’s unsurprising that the chef was tipped for a Nobel Peace Prize last year.

Bonnie Kimball’s story proved especially compelling as it seems to have come about as a consequence of her own small act of kindness, and if reports are to be believed, the lunch lady was discharged for letting a student skip out an $8 lunch fee, on the condition that he would give it back the next day, and even though the pupil did indeed pay for his meal in full less than 24 hours later, Bonnie Kimball was told that she would be dismissed from her position due to company policy.

Jose Andres is not alone in reaching out to the unfortunate lunch lady. In the aftermath of the incident, a GoFundMe was set up by concerned citizens and has received donations calculating $5,000, and even though the reality of being discharged from a job that she had held for over four and a half years was no doubt traumatic for Kimball, there can at least be some morsel of comfort that she has supporters in her corner.

New Law Could Mean Drivers Who Hit Cats Will Have To Report It To The Police

Under current legislation, felines are not covered by regulations which require motorists to report collisions with animals, but Rehman Chishti, MP for Gillingham and Rainham has begun a Private Member’s Bill to Parliament, with MPs scheduled to consider the bill in Parliament.

The Cats Bill summons for a modification to the Road Traffic Act (1988) making it a legal requirement that any motorist involved in an accident resulting in injury or death to a cat must stop and give information or report the accident to the police.

The Act currently pertains to dogs, horses, cattle, pigs, goats, sheep, donkeys and mules but cats, badgers, deer or foxes are not.

A description of the bill reads: “A Bill to require the driver of a mechanically propelled vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury or death to a cat to stop and give information or report the accident to the police; to require the keepers of certain cats to ensure they are microchipped; and for connected purposes.”

And even Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, and Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, are seriously considering the proposal.

The Labour Party are said to be supporting the plan and propose to incorporate the issue on their next manifesto.

The Cats Bill was scheduled in Parliament to be discussed in Parliament on Friday (March 22) but is currently on a lengthy listing of legislation to be heard in the House of Commons, and the push for a shift in the law is being driven by the campaign group Cats Matter, and their prime purpose is to make cat deaths on the road reportable, so the cat gets the chance for vet treatment as soon as possible.

Many pets that could have otherwise survived die “slowly and painfully” because no one stopped to help. Cats Matter further want local councils to scan animals discovered at the roadside for microchips so that the cat owners can be notified if their pet is hit by a vehicle.

Campaigners want owners to have their pets microchipped and for councils to routinely check any cats discovered at the roadside for identification because there is a predicted eight million pet cats in the United Kingdom and about 230,000 cats that are killed as a result of a road traffic accident each year.

There are about 11 million cats and they are part of people’s daily lives, and they bring tremendous happiness to many people, particularly the elderly, and if these felines tragically get killed on the road, their owners want closure, they want to know what’s happened to their loved one.

Drivers need to be made aware of their responsibilities and they should stop and report incidents, after all, it’s a perfectly reasonable thing to ask in a civilised and so-called animal-loving nation.

And usually, numerous cats are put down solely because there’s no way of contacting the owners, and as a nation of animal lovers, we should recognise the suffering that can be caused when a cat goes astray or becomes lost, which is why cats should be microchipped so that it gives the cat the best possibility of being reunited with their owner.

It would save an awful lot of heartache knowing what’s happened, if nothing else but to be kind, after all, an animal is an animal, whatever variety it is, and this is a law that not only protects the animal but further promotes civility.

Of course, cat owners should be allowed equal rights as dog owners, but they should also take the same legal responsibilities. However, there are numerous people out there that are really anti cats, but there are also numerous old people who live on their own who have a cat as a companion and friend, which makes them smile and not feel so alone, but yet there is very unyielding hatred of them.

Theresa May In Tears

Theresa May’s smiling face as she drove to a meeting with Tory MPs quickly turned to thunder after backbenchers demanded she finally quit amid the Brexit chaos, and the emotional confrontation left the Prime Minister visibly unsettled, but as she grappled with her emotions, up stepped pretentious Boris Johnson to announce he was ready to spring into her shoes, as the blundering Foreign Secretary was leading the race amongst Tory competitors to succeed her.

Boris Johnson, whose career has been peppered with a series of awkward blunders and misrepresentations, said: “I’m going to go for it, of course, I’m going to go for it.” But allies maintained the crass timing of his announcement was a fluke, and some Tories have stated that they will resign the party if Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister.

Theresa May’s impending exit has reverberations of Margaret Thatcher’s choice to stand down in 1990 following talks with the chairman of the 1922 committee convinced her that it was time to go. She was later pictured in tears being driven away from Downing Street for the last time, to the nation’s satisfaction, and one source following the 90 minute showdown portrayed Theresa May as very tearful. Although one source in the room rebuffed Theresa May cried or had a tear in her eye, instead insisting she was stoic.

She had been made to agree to set an exit day in her meeting, but she was given three weeks to again try to pass her doomed Withdrawal Agreement Bill in the week ending June 3 after they accepted a plea from her, and cabinet ministers and the Tory whip’s office think her Brexit proposals have essentially zero chance of passing.

It means failure would trigger her departure and a leadership contest before the summer recess, but allies think she wants to go before an embarrassing no-confidence vote amongst Tory members.

Will she go following the Withdrawal Bill falls and before the grassroots call for her too?

Labour has stated it will vote against the EU deal unless it changes dramatically while the hardline DUP and Tory Brexiteers are against it, and one number 10 insider predicted that Theresa May will still be at least 80 MPs short to pass the bill, and if the Bill falls, everyone knows what comes after that.

A Tory backbench announced that they’ve agreed to meet to determine the timetable for the election of a new leader of the party as soon as the second reading has transpired, and that will take place regardless of what the vote is on the second reading, whether it passes or whether it fails.

But one supporter of the Prime Minister explained how she warned MPs if the Bill was defeated there would be no Brexit, and before the meeting in the Prime Minister’s Commons office, MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown announced it would be much more dignified for Theresa May to select a date to resign, and her former chief-of-staff, Nick Timothy, announced it was “beyond time for the PM to accept that the game is up”.

And there was pressure for the contest to take place before the summer so the new Prime Minister could hit the ground running, but with such a broad field it could take months, with a leader announced at party conference this autumn.

More than a dozen MPs are expected to go for the job, with Esther McVey, Andrea Leadsom and Rory Stewart already in the running, with big hitters Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove and Sajid Javid who are also expected to compete.

Boris Johnson is understood to be pressing Tory MPs with small majorities in marginal seats to back him, and he thinks he’s the only one who can redeem seats vulnerable to Labour or Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party.

Home Secretary Mr Javid took a thinly-veiled swipe at Mr Johnson, who once said “f*** business” when told of companies’ concerns over a hard Brexit. He said: “It is right that we as the Conservative Party do more to reclaim our position as the party of business, but especially the party of small business.”

Theresa May’s Brexit vote is scheduled to take place when Donald Trump’s in Britain and the Peterborough by-election takes place and claims she could stay and enter more talks with the EU were rejected, and one source said that she doesn’t want to go to Brussels again, ever.

Don’t the Conservatives feel ashamed and embarrassed at the way their senior cabinet ministers are acting in respect to the leadership? And has moral ethics been swept away in the wave of selfishness and self-interest?

Every Tory leader learns at some point to never trust a Tory, but Boris Johnson has been undermining the Conservatives in every way he can, with his own self-interest, since he re-joined parliament, having been banned for life from ever being an MP again.

He truly is a lowlife falsehearted reprobate, so how can they reward his disruptive behaviour with the prime position of Prime Minister? Because in all fairness, he really is a damn annoyance. But then not feeling remorse is part of being a Tory.

Let’s face it, most MP’s are in it for themselves. Look at what a lousy, incompetent Home Secretary Theresa May was and yet they voted her in to be Prime Minister. She was never actually fit for purpose as Member of Parliament and to make her Prime Minister was a sham.

Most of those around her can’t be trusted, especially Michael Gove who keeps a knife nearby for stabbing his fellow ministers in the back whilst professing to support them.

They all know that Theresa May’s deal is not Brexit and yet most of the cabinet voted for it, so in fact, they’re no more honourable than she is. So, it’s quite amusing when they address each other as “my honourable friend” in parliament because they really don’t know the definition of the word.

Sadly Boris Johnson will do and say whatever he believes will get him what he wants at the time, and he simply says the best thing at the time, along with a lie here and there for good measure, but then he’s pretty good at manufacturing inaccuracies, after all, he did work for the Times, and was fired by the Times for manufacturing the truth, and it appears he’s particularly good at it.

But does no one care about the ease at which these deceptions pour out of his mouth? And if he can lie with this much expertise, how easy would it be for him to lie as Prime Minister? And if Theresa May was tearful, it was seemingly out of frustration with the bunch of nefarious and incompetent conservatives who encircle her.

Just look at them, Boris Johnson is a gaffe-prone bumbling so-called intelligent nincompoop. Then you have Liam Fox, the man who certainly shouldn’t have access to any state secrets given his performance in a former cabinet role, and who seemingly has done precious little in the last 3 years to earn his pay.

Gavin Williamson, who’s the grown-up kid, and David Davis, the lethargic inept fool. Dominic Raab, a man who doesn’t know the significance of Dover and who negotiates a deal even he didn’t vote for.

Stephen Barclay, another who recommends an amendment and then doesn’t vote for himself. Michael Gove, the man that no one trusts, and never turn your back, the list could go on, so should we feel sorry for Theresa May being encompassed by this lot? And if any one of these gets to be Prime Minister, heaven help us!

Theresa May might not be the most charismatic leader or speaker, but she has worked her backside off since she’s been Prime Minister, and as for a potential replacement, Boris Johnson, the horn-dog cheater, he will make Theresa May look like genius, and his work ethic works best when it involves lust, after all, his new love is 24 years younger than him, how on earth will he find time to make political choices whilst he lays exhausted between the erotic bedsheets and his lover next to him soliciting more?

There are many people out there who don’t like Theresa May, nor do they think that she’s a good Prime Minister because she’s not, but these backbenchers or gentlemen in grey suits performance is nothing short of bullying in the workplace.

Theresa May gained a vote of confidence back in December which was valid for 12 months under Conservative Rules, but if this was an independent company they would have been hauled up in front of an employment tribunal on all sorts of allegations.

But this lot believe they’re above the law and want to shift the goalposts to suit themselves, and they’re a bloody-minded disgrace. They had the opportunity to remove her through the appropriate channels in December but were too concerned about their own prospects and still are, and they’re certainly not doing what’s best for this country or acting within the laws of this country, and we shouldn’t trust any of these MP’s as far as we can throw them, and there certainly isn’t a lot of hope whilst this lot are in government.

And it’s truly incredible that this idiot, Boris Johnson is being taken as a serious competitor to lead our country, not that anyone else would be any better, but we can only pray that they will find a leader with some dedication and compassion towards their country, and you couldn’t possibly feel sorry for the Tories who are evidently madcap because they’ve caused so much misery and death upon the working people of this country, and it does make you question how another human being could be that heartless.

And there should be no sympathy about Theresa May crying because she’s made a lot of people cry or die, maybe now she knows some of how it feels, and I would never vote Tory, possibly when I receive my herd of unicorns and my pot of gold from the end of the rainbow I’ll vote Tory.

I would rather scoop my eyes out with a spoon than vote Tory because they embody everything I don’t believe in and that many people don’t believe in, especially when they offer lower tax for the wealthy and lower standards for the poor.

I mean, what’s the point of having a job if it only offers subsistence wages? And as for higher living standards, have you seen the street sleepers, food banks, and child poverty?

The Tories promised the British a unicorn and all we got was a donkey with an ice cream cone stuck on its head, they lied and they keep lying, anything for self-interest and nothing for anyone else, and just as you think things can’t get any worse Boris Johnson surfaces.

And in an incredible delivery for Britain’s prime political position, Boris Johnson opened his mouth yet again and unveiled an unlikely hero, the Mayor from Jaws.

In the 1975 movie, Amity Island mayor Larry Vaughn refuses to close the beaches despite the panic as a great white shark gorge on swimmers.

But Boris Johnson told the audience the character could provide motivation at a time when Britain needs ‘politicians who aren’t afraid of some short-term downside to their own political careers’.

‘The hero of Jaws is obviously the mayor,’ he declared.

Boris Johnson said he ‘saw the pressure and stress on the shops and businesses’ of Amity Island as the shark spread terror among beach-goers.

‘In real life, he would have been right,’ he continued.

Although he acknowledged the mayor’s judgment was ultimately questionable, and Boris Johnson said ‘sometimes we’ve also got to be bold and think for the long term’.

Of course, Boris Johnson screwed up again – the shark won. A titanic blunder by Boris Johnson, or was he alluding to him taking down the barriers which enabled the terrorists to attack London? His point was pretty hazy, he can’t even come up with any good comparisons, and he appears to like disaster movies, after all, his new bird is from a Stephen King novel (Carrie).

Theresa May reads like Margaret Thatcher, not a glimmer of emotion as they rip lives apart of thousands of families, but when they’ve outlived their usefulness they’re self-indulgent and blubbering.

Theresa May in tears and what about all those people in tears who’ve lost loved ones by having their benefits terminated, and what about all those elderly people in tears who can’t afford to feed themselves and heat their homes, and what about all those victims of stabbings in tears, did the despicable Tories shed any tears for them, of course not.

But Theresa May will lament for her own career because all she thinks about is herself, where are the tears for the suffering she’s put people through under her rule? Homelessness is at its highest ever, families with young children are in poverty like never before, relying on food banks to survive.

Even some nurses and other professionals have said that they’re relying on food banks, and it’s a disgrace.

Knife crime is the highest its ever been and then she cuts 41,000 police officers from our streets and gives tax breaks to millionaires while families are struggling to give their children their next meal.

This Prime Minister has created nothing but suffering to people, and she has blood on her hands, and her incompetents are off the charts, and people won’t miss this wicked woman from an immoral Tory party, and can Theresa May actually breathe with her head so far up her bottom?

Theresa May should call a general election and let the people determine who should be the leader of our country because honestly, do we want one more unelected Tory clown in power? And if we get a May to Johnson leadership, it would be like jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

This is Boris Johnson who will be the adult in a position of authority and opportunity, and he frequently lies, not fibs, blatant lies, I could use bigger words, but that wouldn’t be fit for small children, but given that he’s currently being prosecuted for lying in public office, is he actually allowed to stand while the case is going on?

Donald Trump’s 9/11 Bomb Theory

Donald Trump believes that the Twin Towers were demolished with explosives as well as aircraft on 9/11, and in a telephone conversation with a local New York news station only hours after the World Trade Centre Building collapsed in 2001, a real estate personage stated that he didn’t see how a plane could tear through steel on the sides of the buildings.

The interview was 15 years before he ran for President as he appeared on rolling news coverage for WWOR/UPN 9, and gave his expert judgment as a property developer, and he implied that the towers were demolished by “bombs that exploded almost simultaneously” when the planes crashed into the towers.

He said that it wasn’t an architectural deficit because the World Trade Centre was always known as a pretty sturdy structure, and he said that when he first looked at it he couldn’t understand it because there was a hole in the steel, and the width of the windows in the World Trade Centre, if you were up there, they were pretty narrow, and in between was this thick steel, and he thought, how can a plane, any plane, even a 767 or 747 or whatever it might have been, how could it possibly go through that steel?

And then he thought about it and guessed that perhaps it had not only been a plane but that they had bombs that detonated almost simultaneously because he couldn’t picture anything being able to go through that wall.

Most buildings are built with the steel on the interior around the lift shaft, this one was built from the outside, which is the strongest structure you can have, but on the day it was almost like a can of soup, and he just believed that it was a plane with more than just fuel.

Clearly, they were really big planes, and they were flying quite quickly, but it just seemed to do that sort of damage was even more than just a big plane because you’re talking about taking out steel, but Donald Trump’s allegations are comparable to a conspiracy theory, which implies that it wasn’t planes at all that destroyed the World Trade Centre, but that the buildings were instead intentionally destroyed by explosives, although his speculations have since been ridiculed by the official investigation into the 9/11 attacks, even though he’s not alone on when it comes to conspiracy theories!

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced its closing report on the Twin Towers in 2005 and concluded that it was the planes that brought down the towers, and in a FAQ issued in 2006, the investigators said that the extensive damage was caused by the large size of the aircraft, their high velocity and force, which severed the relatively light steel of the outer columns.

Fireproofing insulation was further weakened by the force, and the extensive amounts of blazing jet fuel weakened the supporting steel, which caused the structure on the impact floors to fail, causing the collapse of the building when it couldn’t sustain its own weight.

Donald Trump also bizarrely used the tragedy to gloat about the size of his own Trump Building in downtown Manhattan by stating that 40 Wall Street really was the second highest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually, before the World Trade Centre, the tallest, and then, when they built the World Trade Centre, it became known as the second tallest, and now it’s the tallest.

But the remark left a presenter anaesthetized, and that any opinion that Donald Trump had, in the middle of everything that was happening, was callous, and it was, and Donald Trump’s bombshell opinion isn’t the only conspiracy he’s brought himself into regarding 9/11, and during his presidential campaign he declared that he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey revelling soon after the attacks but gave no documentation or corroborating eyewitnesses.

It does, however, appear at times that Donald Trump isn’t playing with a full deck, but there are so many discrepancies in the official report that to accept that the towers were demolished by aircraft alone seems more far fetched than any conspiracy theory.

Did two planes bring down the twin towers? Well, we might never know, and there will always be conspiracy theorist out there, but it does look like the Americans were responsible for that day that made it look like a terror attack.

On 11 September 2001, four passenger planes were commandeered by extremist Islamist terrorists, and almost 3,000 people were killed as the aircraft was piloted into the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.

But just hours following the collapse of New York’s Twin Towers, a conspiracy theory surfaced online which continues more than 16 years later.

“Is it just me?” an internet user named David Rostcheck wrote, “or did anyone else recognise that it wasn’t the aeroplane impacts that blew up the World Trade Centre?

“I hope other people are actually catching this, but I haven’t seen anyone say it yet, so I guess I will. There’s no doubt that the planes hit the building and did a lot of damage. But look at the footage – those buildings were demolished,” he continued. “To demolish a building, you don’t need all that much explosive but it needs to be placed in the correct places… Someone had to have a lot of access to all of both towers and a lot of time to do this. This is pretty grim. The really dire part is – what were the planes for?”

Succeeding investigations made it clear that the tower structures were weakened by the inferno from the aircraft and felled by the weight of collapsing floors, however, even now some people refuse to accept this version of events.

On the day of the attacks, Matt Campbell was on vacation in Lanzarote with his wife and two young daughters. He watched the broadcast on television in a state of shock, as his brother Geoff, it transpired over the next few torturous hours, was in the World Trade Centre.

His mother had recently flown out the day before to join them for a week, and he remembers being on the beach and he believes his wife had gone up to one of the restaurants to get some food when she then came down saying that she thought something had happened in New York.

Following several calls here and there they managed to discover that Geoff was in the North Tower, and no one had heard from him.

Geoff had moved to Manhattan a few years earlier. He’d recently got engaged and worked for the Reuters news agency in Midtown. He was on the 106th floor of the North Tower for a conference, but Matt and his wife immediately assumed the worst.

But over the following few days, they tried to keep their hopes up, but they were stranded and no flights were leaving, and all they had was a kind of blurry image on the hotel’s cable TV with the news clips being repeated, showing the plane going into tower two.

The family got a flight back to the UK after a few days and then got onto a flight to New York, but they were clinging onto hope that maybe he’d been wounded and was unconscious, so they asked around several hospitals and it became apparent that there were surprisingly few people who were actually hurt.

Geoff was dead. He was 31, and an investigation into his death was not decided until 2013, though bits of his shoulder blade were identified among the rubble from the World Trade Centre in 2002, by that time, Matt was starting to question the official account of what happened.

He doesn’t subscribe to any one particular conspiracy theory, and online, there are several to choose from, but he’s convinced that there was a cover-up which was blocking him from getting answers about his brother’s death.

It started about the end of October 2001, and the more he started to look at stuff over the years, the more stuff didn’t add up.

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He submitted a freedom of information requests to the FBI and other bodies which investigated 9/11, but it was frustrating because sometimes they would say that they were protected from disclosure because they couldn’t reasonably be expected to meddle with enforcement proceedings.

Seventeen years on and he can’t even get basic evidence from the authorities, and he wasn’t alone in asking questions, and it was discovered that more than half of Americans thought the government was hiding information about the 9/11 attacks, and parts of the official US government report was redacted for years, and some information is still missing.

However, that doesn’t suggest there’s any evidence for the more bizarre online conspiracy theories about the attacks, but some claim the US government was complicit, and that officials intentionally let the attacks happen or were even implicated in the planning.

And experts say part of the reason for the continuation of such conspiracy theories is the discrepancy that occurs when people hear that a comparatively tiny group of men using low-tech weapons caused such cataclysmic carnage.

But that’s quite common when something major occurs because people want an explanation, and usually, the official explanation seems pretty mundane to people and not especially gratifying, and conspiracy theories frequently arise as a consequence of this demand for an answer that’s equal to the event itself, and the reinforcing creation of the online world means that the speculations have hung around for a decade and a half.

And the news doesn’t necessarily radiate indiscriminately the way people believe it does on the internet and social media because people tend to distribute it with people who sort of think the same way as they do about these issues in the first place.

And this uncertainty and confusion of 9/11 have further boosted the conspiracies to find an audience, to take one well-known case, third tower destruction in Manhattan on 9/11, and this tower became an important focus for people who challenged the official story of what transpired.

A 47-storey building about 100 metres from the twin towers, WTC7 was never hit by an aeroplane, and two planes plus three towers have equalled lots of questions, questions coalesced by the BBC’s own reporting of the destruction of WTC7, and in the frantic, unsettling aftermath of the terror attacks, the BBC announced that WTC7 had collapsed twenty minutes before the building actually came down, and in 2007, the BBC’s The Editors blog addressed the stories and outlined how an on-air commentary about an impending collapse turned into reporting about the building really falling, shortly before WTC7 did really fall.

And any possible miscalculation was evacuated by a 2008 report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) which determined that WTC7 fell following fires on multiple levels caused a critical support column to fail, starting a fire-induced progressive collapse that brought the building down, but that didn’t change the minds of the conspiracy theorists, and AE911 Truth board member Roland Angle alleges there are notable flaws in the NIST report.

His organisation has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to finance additional research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and they can say what didn’t happen that day, no matter what the government records and they conclude there’s a pressing problem there.

Matt Campbell’s also still looking for answers, and in 2016, he travelled to Guantanamo to attend a pre-trial hearing of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the man named by the 9/11 Commission Report as the principal architect of the 9/11 terror attacks.

He called the trial a bit of a farce but stated: It was the closest he was ever going to get to a trial into the murder of his brother.

There were four other families there, and one of the women there had signed a reinvestigate 9/11 petition back in 2003 or 2004. The other family members, from what he could gather, were pretty much in line with the official story, but he already expected this because some people have gone past wanting to know what transpired because they were still dealing with the never-ending consequences of losing a loved one.

But whatever it was, innocent lives were lost, and we should all remember that!

HAVENS FOR THE HOMELESS: They May Be Homeless, But They’re People Too

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These people are homeless, but you don’t need to be scared of them.

They’re not evil, not all of them are addicted to anything, some of them have never committed a crime. They’re not sociopaths or maniacal raging lunatics, but they’re homeless and attempting to make ends meet, and many that are homeless have not lost their faith in God, in fact, they’re strong survivors, and these people are more motivated than most to make things better for themselves.

Some of these people were once professionals and productive, some are army veterans, some have been diagnosed with bipolar, and some have messed themselves up but all they can do is try again, but we’re all humans, it doesn’t matter if you’re homeless or not, if you’re homosexual or you’re straight, if you’re black or you’re white, we’re all humans, they’re not garbage.

They strive to survive every day, and everyone out there is just one paycheck from being on the streets. Anybody can be homeless any moment of the time, through a natural catastrophe, through a breakup, through abuse, through anything that you can fundamentally think of, any situation that life brings us.

People don’t even have to give them money, just a friendly gesture will do, a “Hello, how are you?” That makes anyone’s day. If you pass them on the street simply show a little reverence and they will show you respect back, they don’t want to be unkind to anyone, but it really helps them to know that they’re still part of a community and that people care.

Money doesn’t define being a human being. They’re homeless but they’re still a human being, and to those who say that the homeless should just get a job, well, many homeless people only have a school education, so most positions that are open to them are only minimum wage jobs.

The minimum wage in the United Kingdom is:

Workers aged 21-24 to increase from £7.38 to £7.70 per hour
Workers aged 18-20 to increase from £5.90 to £6.15
Workers aged 16 and 17 to increase from £4.20 to £4.35
Apprentices aged under 19 or in the first year of their apprenticeship to increase from £3.70 to £3.90

Most apartments require at least the first month’s rent, plus substantial security, and most homeless people tend to be around towns, so the rent is probably going to be extremely costly, so saving up enough money for the first month’s rent, plus deposit is extremely hard.

And don’t forget homeless people don’t have good credit, don’t have chattels, don’t have clothes to wear for an interview, don’t have a vehicle, don’t have a place to shower, don’t have a place to clean their clothes, and don’t have a place to get a good nights sleep, so it’s not as easy as saying, “just get a job”, and some of the kindest human beings I’ve met are homeless.

These are human beings who’ve not been given the opportunity to rise up when they fall, and we all need to let the powers that be know that it’s not right. These people on the streets know the struggle and it’s real, and this is a genuinely important matter, and being without a home shouldn’t give others the license to be cruel or without empathy for these people.

These people that arbitrate should wander a mile in their shoes before they criticise or announce retribution upon the homeless.

Anyone can become homeless under difficult situations, but the government should be taking care of their homeless people because they’re just human beings with emotions and feelings just like everyone else, and instead of the government seeking to do something positive, they just force them out onto the streets, and there are very few shelters.

There are bundles of abandoned buildings out there waiting to be fixed, some never get fixed, so why waste all this space, why not make them into havens for the homeless so that they can at least try to get back on their feet again?

The problem is our society values money and status more than it values life, and our society promotes “dog eat dog, every man for himself”, and we’ve become really detached and unsupportive of one another, and empathy is discriminating in this classist culture.

The real disturbing part is that our government are more prepared to support people in other countries, rather than investing in our homeless, and we need more compassion and understanding, because no one wants to be homeless, it’s just that sometimes life leads us down the wrong path, a path that we don’t foresee, so even a smile can go a long way to making a homeless person’s day, and the sense that they belong, and homeless people all around us shows us the lack of peoples love and respect and understanding of sharing towards another human being, and England needs to take responsibility of its British first.

But a lot of people look down on the homeless as filthy, idle, insane and threatening et cetera, but it’s not about whether they’re criminal or not, it’s about how these people have to struggle, yet others see them as inferior human beings. You wouldn’t even treat your pet like this, so why the need to treat human beings like this?

Britain’s Invisible Kids

Education does not equal school and some parents don’t want the state dictating what their child should and shouldn’t learn, and some parents take their children out of school because they believe that they can do a better job.

Some children believe that school’s are a little mean because it was like they really wanted you to do more learning than fun, and a record amount of children are being homeschooled in the United Kingdom, and the amount has more than doubled in the last five years.

The entire aim of home education is that you can customise learning and strategies to your child, and most do that fairly well, but in England, there’s no obligation to register home educated children, which means that thousands are invisible to authorities.

In fact, Dispatches reported that 93 per cent of councils in the country state that they’re not really sure how many homeschooled children live in their region because councils have no statutory obligation to monitor what they’re learning and have no powers to impose checks at home.

Numerous parents don’t want their children going to school just because it’s a school, and it’s that whole school system that they’re opposed to, but not everyone turns to homeschooling out of choice, and some parents have huge reservations on their capacity to teach in a way that a school could.

And some parents homeschool their children for various reasons, one cause might be because the child has ADHD, and the school can’t cope, so the parent finally removes their child from school following a relationship breakdown with the school.

But some children find this challenging and want more help, and with some parents, reading and writing aren’t their strong points, especially if they’ve been diagnosed with dyslexia and it’s also difficult for them to read some of the big words, and then the child sees the parent struggle with it so it would be helpful if they got help.

Most councils do give home visits but the help massively varies, and Dispatches discovered that 87 per cent of councils in England say they don’t have enough to support all home educated families, and some families may get one visit from their home education team, but the most they will do is give the families a list of websites that they can use, and then they sort of reconfirm that this is no help out there, and that’s a pretty scary thought for some families, so they either have to reapply and put their children in school, or they have to homeschool them on their own, there’s no other option.

This government needs to finance the school system better and give support to children, especially children with special educational needs, rather than to stick them in isolation. This government further needs to bring back a broad and diverse curriculum with music and drama, so that they can develop creativity, functional skills, rather than box-ticking because it’s disgusting the limited curriculum these children get.

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It’s pretty much English, Maths and Science every day, a little history, no Geography, Spanish, RE or PE, while everything else is done as a six week taster, and then they make the music teacher redundant, and there are no words for how we should feel about this government screwing these kids over.

Our school system is massively antiquated and teaches children nothing about real life, and the impact that a testing regime has had on restricting what was once a great curriculum to teach from, and the fun engaging lessons we used to have, have now slowly been squeezed out of the school system.

Topic lessons are literacy lessons dressed up to cover grammar and punctuation elements and sessions on languages and the arts are no longer prioritised because they don’t need statutory results.

We used to have the best education system in the world, but sadly now due to political pressure and funding cuts, as well as unqualified staff in our classrooms, our world-class education is now, in many schools a mess, and homeschooling can definitely be a great alternative for some children, but their educators need to be OFSTED inspected.

Schools go through the grinder to demonstrate they’re giving a decent education and a safe learning environment, so there’s absolutely no reason why home educators shouldn’t have to do the same.

Sadly, academisation and cutbacks have made schools exam factories rather than places of education, and too many have forgotten their core purpose which is to teach children, but lots of schools are manipulating data by off rolling pupils they believe won’t get the exam results they want, and many schools now are not fit for purpose, there are far too many children to a classroom, too many tests, and not enough support for children who struggle, the list goes on.

Teachers are overworked and are required to do everything in line with what our bungling government tell them to do. Children need to be allowed to be children, and not every child will exceed in everything, and some parents struggle to obtain a safe educational environment for their child and are now homeschooling, but those are the children that are lost in the system, but in school sometime it’s abusive, and teachers are not always experts in providing a safe place for children with complex needs.

Education does not equal school and school does not equal education, but education should at least be enjoyable, otherwise, children are being taught to not like education, which is absolutely the opposite of the goal, but then school isn’t supposed to be enjoyable, it’s pretty boring, but if you spend time with children that are homeschooled, it’s quite a different picture, they learn joyfully and with a lot of enthusiasm.

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Children learn a lot through play, after all, they’re not robots, even though our government would like them to be, but we talk about homeschooled children being invisible, but there are numerous mainstream children being schooled and not educated and most of them are invisible.

We send our children to school at 5 years old, they’re educated from Infants to Juniors, then they go up to Senior school where they’re informed, whereby they’re just given the books that they have to read and they are tested, but there’s no real education, no wonder it’s boring for them.

But we don’t need the help of the state for our children to be educated and learn, but then the government want children to go to school, it’s an institution. At home, we educate our children to have their own views, but the government doesn’t want your child to have an opinion, heaven forbid! And in school our children are being trained to be little workers, there’s nothing there about being able to cope in the real world, they simply want good little workers and are being trained that happiness is in the bank balance.

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