I’ve never actually been a lover of Katie Hopkins, up until now! However, after seeing this video today, I became a great admirer, and I now believe that we need more people like Katie running our country because she says it how it is.
The situation in the UK is alarming, yet the migrants will undoubtedly continue to arrive and soon outnumber us.
We wake up each day and hope that our government will wake up, but the thing is, they’re already awake – folks it’s all part of the agenda.
At the moment the UK is the most horrible, cruel and hostile place to be!
So, this is where the taxpayers’ 6.6 billion is going and this is where the ‘black hole’ is, and these migrants are coming over to our country illegally, violating our laws and then being rewarded for doing so.
However, I have a solution to this! Why don’t we all leave the country, then we can come back as illegals or asylum seekers and get all the benefits they get.
Keep up the good work Katie – you’re one of the few left who’s not scared to speak their mind, and the reality of the situation the UK is now in.
They shouldn’t be permitted to set foot in England by our government. It’s as simple as that.
We appear to have newly built houses and flats. We thought they were for us, but no they are being used for refugees – unimaginable, but it’s happening in a street near you! And here in the UK, we have the disabled and ageing communities that are counting every penny, wondering if they can afford to turn the heating on if it gets cold – not forgetting that the elderly feel the cold more!
Now the British people of the UK have to work until they drop and they will never see their pension. Getting your pension now is a thing of the past because by the time you reach 70 years old, you’ll probably be dead and buried and our government will be rubbing their sweaty grubby palms and licking their lips, and if natural selection has anything to do with it, probably their balls as well.
If you’re a working-class person who has scrimped and saved to buy their own house, please don’t think it was ever yours. First of all, you got the bank to loan you the money, which you paid for over 25 years, by that time all your children have left home and you’re still working like a slave. Then you have to sell the house because you’re now elderly and need to go into a care home, which then pays for your food and lodgings in that care home. Folks, you never owned your home, it was just rented to you from the bank, and then it was sold to pay for more rent – it’s an illusion!
What I’m trying to say is that even if we pay throughout our lives, there are migrants who haven’t paid at all, and that’s wrong!
After emailing a general practitioner’s office asking patients not to call, a woman whose brother passed away has warned that more deaths could occur if immediate adjustments are not made.
Allan Hamilton, 51, struggled to breathe when he emailed The Pike Practice on November 14. He had been told not to call his GP on previous visits.
But staff at surgery took three days to respond to the teacher, who was found dead at his home in Mossley, Greater Manchester, two days later on November 19.
A post-mortem found he had died of acute pneumonia and ischemic heart disease. Senior coroner Alison Mutch said that if Mr Hamilton’s email had been answered, he would not have died.
The practice said it was ‘deeply saddened’ by Mr Hamilton’s death and has opened an ‘internal review to understand the exact circumstance’ of how his email was missed.
Mr Hamilton’s sister Vicki Doyle, 56, is calling for more robust systems to be put in place across GP surgeries. She said: ‘We are not talking about a missed appointment here, we are talking about someone’s life’.
In the subject of his email, Mr Hamilton warned he was suffering from ‘Breathlessness and shallow breathing,’ which Vicki, believes should have raised red flags and led to his case being triaged.
Ms Doyle continued: ‘It is just so difficult to get an appointment with the doctors now it is almost as if you have to fight for a doctor’s appointment and that to me is not right.
‘It is like the power is being taken away from the ordinary individual. A lot of people won’t fight especially a different generation who will just say: ‘It is alright, I will ring back later.’
Coroner Mutch added in a stark warning: ‘The inquest heard evidence that there was a risk of a similar situation arising if GP practices do not have clear and robust triage and audit processes in place.’
Andy Scaife, chief executive of SP Health which runs The Pike Practice said: ‘We are currently conducting a thorough internal review to understand the exact circumstance, which will include a review of the factual accuracy of certain aspects of the report.’
According to the inquest, Mr Hamilton passed away from lobar pneumonia, an acute form of pneumonia.
During his postmortem doctors also discovered, he was suffering from ischaemic heart disease.
According to his sister, Mr Hamilton would not have passed away if he had been seen in person so that his underlying cardiac issue could have been identified and eventually addressed.
During COVID, online doctor appointments, or “e-consultations,” gained popularity. However, there are worries that the technologies used to schedule these sessions may not function properly.
And many fear the elderly will struggle to use the technology needed to book.
Ms Doyle who works for the Duke of Edinburgh scheme and previously worked in sales at the Daily Mail added: ‘More and more people are moving to the online side of things.
‘I am fine with online but if the system keeps breaking and someone is not well, or it is an older person who cannot use it, that is going to cause problems.’
Mr Hamilton had a varied life, first serving as a policy advisor for the government, then going into teaching, and then landing a job providing care for people who had just left the hospital.
Paying tribute, Ms Doyle said: ‘He was a hugely intelligent person, the most intelligent person I have ever met. He was massive on his culture, he loved going to different countries and visiting different cities.
‘He loved his job absolutely loved it. He was a really strong individual and I am pretty sure he would have fought through the illnesses.
‘Allan and I travelled our lives side by side for most of it, even when we were miles apart, he was never far away from me in thought.
‘He relished adventure and simply observing everyday activities with a large mug of black filtered coffee.
‘He had a high moral compass, probably the highest moral compass I have ever come across and he would talk passionately about the ‘unjust’ in this world.
‘We shared a special bond and he introduced me to golf and we enjoyed going to various Opens and the Ryder Cup or local competitions to watch the experts.’
For a week, Mr. Hamilton experienced flu-like symptoms, which began to subside until they reappeared and made breathing difficult.
When the online consultation method failed, he decided to email his doctors.
Nevertheless, despite his succinct summary of his symptoms, he did not obtain a reply until 2.10 pm on Friday.
After not hearing from her brother for a few days, Ms Doyle became concerned after learning via Facebook that he had missed an evening gathering with friends on Friday.
‘I went across to his house but could not raise him and spoke to the neighbour who thought his car had moved,’ Vicki said.
‘I left my number with the neighbour just in case, and they contacted me and said they realised the car had not moved and it was a mistake.
‘So, I contacted the police on the Sunday, and he was deceased when they found him.’
Both their parents were originally from Scotland, and Ms Doyle said her brother was very proud of his ancestry, wearing a kilt at any given opportunity.
Although Mr. Hamilton was unmarried at the time of his passing, his friends and family held him in high regard.
Mr Scaife, added: ‘We are deeply saddened at the death of one of our patients. Our thoughts and heartfelt condolences are with Mr Hamilton’s family and loved ones during this difficult time.
‘We understand that, due to the Coroner’s report, there are concerns regarding the circumstances surrounding this unfortunate case. We are currently conducting a thorough internal review to understand the exact circumstance, which will include a review of the factual accuracy of certain aspects of the report.
‘We are in the process of preparing a full report which will detail our own findings and correct any factual inaccuracies. This will be shared with the Coroner in due course.’
It’s difficult to communicate with GPs since COVID and these surgeries must be held accountable.
I’m not sure why this gentleman did not call for an ambulance, although I’m guessing by the time the ambulance would have got there he would have been dead anyway – pneumonia can take hold extremely quickly.
E-consultations were good during COVID and they’re okay for minor illnesses like a boil on your bum, but when it comes to more severe issues and you are elderly. You put in the consultation and then have to remain by the phone, and heaven forbid you were to miss the call!
If you’re elderly and live alone and have to wait for a call, you can’t even go to the loo during the call window. If you have an elderly parent who is feeling genuinely unwell, they just won’t have the energy to fight for the appointment and will fall through the cracks.
This is all extremely sad and I feel sorry for families that have to go through this misery. I also feel that with GP surgeries you are made to feel like you’re an annoyance, along with all this online booking and triage because they’re just not that interested in you at all.
It’s also amazing how often GP surgeries and hospital staff still don’t communicate properly with each other.
The frequency of improper communication between hospital workers and general practitioner offices is likewise astounding.
After seeing a consultant, the GP doesn’t appear to notice the letter that the consultant sent. No one gets in touch with you despite your blood test. In Health Surgeries, there is also no systems process chasing to ensure that everything is operating as planned.
This man’s email, which outlined his symptoms in detail, took the surgery three days to respond to. Since when is email a suitable method for a general practitioner’s office to handle urgent cases?
Men are notoriously bad at going to the doctors and making a fuss about their symptoms, and this man was obviously reaching out for help. If this was the only form of contact his surgery had after they told their patients not to call the surgery, then they should have been continuously monitoring their emails, but of course, we wouldn’t want to inconvenience them, would we?
To be honest, navigating an automated phone system to schedule an appointment or even obtain test results is like attempting to speak with the dead.
If you do manage to get through they tell you to call the next day, but by the time you do get through all the appointments have gone, but you called at 8.30 am and they’re all gone – the fairies must have come and taken them in the night, or better still, you try to get through and after twenty minutes the line goes dead – surely in this day of technology, you would think that they would have more satisfactory methods.
The government is urging landlords to take in asylum seekers, and private contractors are assisting them by offering five-year rent guarantees.
Private contractor Serco—one of three working for the Home Office —offers five-year guaranteed rent deals to landlords, with the taxpayer footing the bill.
Their website states that the company is responsible for housing over 30,000 asylum seekers and has an ‘ever-growing portfolio’ of over 7,000 homes.
According to The Telegraph, the company plans to host an event at a four-star hotel in the Malvern Hills next month as part of their effort to accommodate more asylum seekers.
Serco is said to be ‘looking for’ landlords, investors and agents, with properties in the North West, the Midlands and the East of England to lease for more than five years.
The deal also reportedly includes promises of rent paid ‘on time every month with no arrears’, free property management, full repair and maintenance, utilities, and council tax bills paid by Serco.
Its promotional material claims to prospective clients that the offer is ‘an attractive and competitive proposition within the industry’.
It comes as the number of Channel migrants in small boats surpassed 9,500 this year so far – a third up from the last all-time high.
During the same period in the record-breaking year of 2022, this figure stood at 6,691, while last year it reached 5,916 during the same time frame.
It is understood that it has been the Government’s statutory duty to house destitute asylum seekers since 2005.
A Home Office spokesperson said: ‘These arrangements with the private rented sector have been in place for years, including under the previous government.
‘We have a statutory duty to support destitute asylum seekers who will not be able to pay for fees such as utilities and council tax.
‘We are restoring order to the asylum system and cutting costs to taxpayers by reducing the number of people we are required to accommodate through a rapid increase in asylum decision-making and the removal of more than 24,000 people with no right to be in the UK.’
It comes as 184 migrants crossing the Channel in three different boats were intercepted by Border Force on Monday.
This month’s total has been brought up to 2,918 migrants and 52 boats having made the dangerous journey.
That same day, French authorities rescued 42 migrants whose vessel had engine failure, later dropping them off in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.
Authorities also attempted to assist another struggling boat, however only four of the occupants accepted help.
The remaining passengers continued towards the English coast, according to French reports.
In March 4,586 people successfully made the deadly crossing in 80 boats thanks to unseasonably calm weather off the coast of Kent.
However, this month has seen the most heightened number of arrivals in a single day so far this year, with 705 migrants arriving from 12 dinghies on April 15.
A Home Office spokesman previously said: ‘We all want to end dangerous small boat crossings, which threaten lives and undermine our border security.
‘The people-smuggling gangs do not care if the vulnerable people they exploit live or die, as long as they pay and we will stop at nothing to dismantle their business models and bring them to justice.
‘That’s why this government is investing in border security, increasing returns to their highest levels for more than half a decade, and imposing a major crackdown on illegal working to end the false promise of jobs used by gangs to sell spaces on boats.
‘We have already secured agreement from the French to deploy a new elite unit of officers at the coast, launch a specialist intelligence unit, increase police numbers and introduce new powers for the French authorities to intervene in shallow waters.
‘We are introducing tougher enforcement powers with new legislation and intensifying our collaboration with France and other countries who face the same challenges by exploring fresh and innovative measures to dismantle the business models of the criminal smuggling gangs.’
What about our homeless, though? Well, Keir Starmer doesn’t care and it’s despicable. He needs to go!
He continues to provide incentives for people to come here illegally. Free housing, benefits, and human rights laws that stops them from being deported, even though they are here illegally.
Starmer doesn’t care about our homeless or our homeless veterans. Our government has gone mad! However, people voted for him, so we let this happen, yet we do nothing about it and Starmer and his satanic followers know it.
At this rate, all Britons will be homeless. Soon, British citizens will have to begin applying for asylum, and it’s a heinous unrestricted war against us Brits. Starmer hates us and can’t wait until we’re a minority in our own country.
Charity begins at home, not with migrants who should be booted out immediately!
A woman who was announced dead at a hospital horrifyingly ‘came back to life’ en route to her own funeral.
After taking a turn for the worse, the woman was found to have died and was moved from the mortuary to the funeral parlour in preparation for her interment.
But staff were reportedly horrified when they found that the elderly woman had a pulse. Compounding their alarm, she is said to have moved her fingers.
After confirming her survival, paramedics at the Son Valenti funeral parlour in Palma, Majorca, hurried her back to Juan March de Bunyola Hospital in the city. Her condition is unknown at this time.
An internal inquiry is now underway to determine what led to the false declaration of her demise. The incident follows a similar case in February last year, when morgue employees were left spooked as a woman returned from the dead, moving inside a body bag.
The unidentified patient was pronounced dead after exhibiting symptoms of severe starvation and showing no signs of brain or respiratory function. But she abruptly started to stir after spending five hours in a body bag at Guatemala’s San Juan de Dios General Hospital.
Morgue workers were left in shock as they rushed to alert doctors after a woman was found alive, leading to her readmission to the emergency room. Despite their best efforts to resuscitate her, she showed no vital signs and was declared dead for the second time.
When a lady was discovered alive, mortuary staff were shocked and hurried to notify doctors, which resulted in her being readmitted to the emergency room. She failed to display any vital signs and was pronounced dead for the second time, despite their best attempts to revive her.
The hospital extended their support to her grieving family during this “difficult time they are facing”. It remained unclear whether authorities investigated the incident.
A hospital spokesperson said the young woman had first arrived in a “precarious condition.”
She had shown signs of “severe malnutrition” and had a medical history of seizures and cerebral palsy. The spokesman added: “After 30 minutes of medical efforts, she was declared deceased and her body was transferred to the morgue as part of established protocol.”
In a similar case last year, a Texas teenager named Sammy Berko, 16 suffered a cardiac arrest at a rock climbing gym and was pronounced dead. However, he was revived two hours later following continued CPR, leading one of his doctors to hail him as a “literal miracle”.
Sammy’s mum Jennifer said at the time: “He climbed to the top of the wall, rang the bell, as we were told, and then his body went limp, and it looked like he was either playing around or passed out. They weren’t quite sure and when they realised he was unresponsive, they lowered him slowly.”
The heartbroken parents were given a personal moment to say goodbye to their darling son – having already lost his sibling Frankie three years earlier.
Jennifer said: “I started talking to him, just telling him how much I love him and sorry that we didn’t know how to save him. Suddenly, as I started praying, my husband said, ‘Oh my gosh, he’s moving’.”
In another startling incident from June last year, Bella Montoya Castro, 76, was reported dead at a hospital in southwest Quito, Ecuador. However, she woke up during her funeral hours afterwards.
Her son Gilber Barberan said that friends setting flowers on the coffin heard noises coming from inside the casket, realising it was Bella making the sounds.
Perhaps we should start putting a bell in the coffin and get someone to sit at night to do the ‘graveyard shift.’
According to new laws in Wales and England, cyclists who murder pedestrians might potentially spend the rest of their lives in prison.
Under amendments tabled on Thursday, the Crime and Policing Bill would align death by dangerous cycling with existing motoring laws, according to the Department for Transport (DfT).
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander plans to close a loophole in the current ‘archaic’ and ‘inadequate’ Victorian legislation, also known as the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.
The legislation was created to address the dangers posed by the increasing use of horse-drawn carriages in the mid-19th century. Sentencing ranges from a fine to a maximum of two years in jail.
Campaigners have previously called for more stringent laws as the Victorian ruling was quite obviously not designed for the ‘superbikes’ of the 21st century but, instead, for primitive push bikes, horses and carriages.
But once the new law – led by the Transport Secretary – is ushered through Parliament cyclists who cause death or severe injury by unsafe cycling could face life or five years behind bars.
According to The Telegraph, riders who are found guilty of causing death or serious harm as a result of reckless or irresponsible riding might face up to five and two years in jail.
Grieving families of those killed by cyclists have welcomed the revisions to the legislation.
Matt Briggs who has led the campaign for over a decade after his wife Kim, 44, was killed by a careless teen rider in east London in 2016 as she crossed the road on her lunch break, said he was ‘delighted’ by the update.
Mr Briggs’ wife Kim was killed in east London in 2016 when she was hit by Charlie Alliston, who was imprisoned for 18 months in 2017.
The then 18-year-old was travelling at 18mph on an illegal Olympic-style bike with no front brakes when he crashed into 44-year-old Kim as she crossed the road on her lunch break.
Mr Briggs told The Telegraph: ‘I’m absolutely delighted that this Labour government has followed through with our calls for new legislation.
‘This isn’t just a victory for me and my family, it’s also a victory for all the families who have worked tirelessly through their unbearable tragedies to have these laws changed.’
Chris Boardman, a former Olympic cyclist and National Active Travel Commissioner, has countered that stricter regulations would discourage people from choosing bicycles over motor vehicles.
A Department for Transport spokesman told the publication: ‘Dangerous cycling is completely unacceptable, and the safety of our roads is a key priority for this Government.
‘The Government is proposing new offences and penalties for dangerous cycling, updating legislation that is over 160 years old, to ensure that the tiny minority who recklessly disregard others face the full force of the law.
‘These are being brought forward as part of the Crime and Policing Bill, and will be debated in due course.’
The Department for Transport has been contacted by MailOnline for comment.
It’s time to ensure that all cyclists are insured.
Cyclists have yielded injuries over the last couple of years, especially by electric-driven cycles that have become faster, but speed awareness and road sense have not.
Some of these cyclists are a law unto themselves and think they’re riding in the Tour de France.
Cyclists should never use the pavement because they come soaring past you and you don’t even know they’re there until they’re gone!
These cyclists believe they can get away with anything they like. The number of times I’ve almost been run over with these pests coming up behind me, and they’re so fast and silent, and I’m in a wheelchair.
They ride around like Gods on bikes with a ‘get out of my way’ mentality.
All bicycles and e-scooters should have liability insurance. I used to have a mobility scooter, but I also had liability insurance as well, but to be honest, if dangerous cycling is aligned with existing motoring laws then not a single cyclist is going to jail. Car drivers kill thousands and very few go to jail.
Following a startling string of unprovoked attacks on senior train passengers, a group of young females are being pursued by law enforcement.
British Transport Police have today released CCTV images of three teenage girls thought to be behind the attacks, which took place on Tuesday 18 March, on board Southeastern trains in South London.
The first incident unfolded at about 9.30 pm when an elderly man was travelling on a Southeastern service from London Bridge to Woolwich Arsenal.
Without warning, the pensioner was reportedly attacked by a group of three girls in what officers are describing as a ‘vicious and cowardly’ attack.
Just over an hour later, at about 11 pm, a second victim – this time an elderly woman – was targeted on a different train heading from London Bridge to Erith.
One of the girls is said to have approached the woman before launching an attack. When another female passenger courageously stepped in to assist, the assailant turned her attack on the Good Samaritan too.
Police are asking the public to assist in identifying the females they suspect were engaged in each of the horrible crimes.
Images released today reveal the suspects dressed in casual streetwear. One girl wore a pink top under a black parka with a fluffy hood.
Another was dressed in a black jacket with a red logo on the right sleeve, grey trousers, and black shoes. The third donned a black jacket over a grey tracksuit.
British Transport Police are now appealing to the public to help bring the assailants to justice.
A spokesperson said: ‘These were appalling attacks on vulnerable individuals who were simply going about their journeys. We will not tolerate this kind of behaviour on our rail network and urge anyone who recognises the girls in these images to come forward.’
These teenage girls clearly weren’t the brightest spark in the electrical circuit—there are pretty much more CCTV cameras on trains and buses than anywhere else. They need to be found and locked away before they do any more harm, which could be far more sinister.
These teens, however, don’t give a damn because they will most likely receive a slap on the hand and a trip to Disney World when they go before a court.
Now that these adolescents are aware of how lawless the UK is, they are fearless, and as people are growing weary of this, it is time for our laws to change.
Adult offences merit adult punishment. Those who attack or scam the elderly I find extremely offensive. If it were my daughters I would have marched them down to the police station myself.
However, this is what is happening in our country. There is no discipline because our government have taken a generation of children and destroyed the family unit and it’s all intentional.
I hear it all the time, people saying that parents are slothful and they can’t be bothered to punish their children. The fact is, and I have heard it numerous times from parents – they’re too afraid to punish their children. I even saw somewhere that a teenager caused some offence and was taken back to his parent and the parent gave his child a clip around the ear and then got arrested for doing so.
Sometimes just saying NO to a child is not good enough, sometimes it takes more than that. When I was a child, if I was defiant I would get a slap, sometimes a whack. Discipline equals love and boundaries need to be put in place from the beginning, but parents are not allowed to anymore and this is what children thrive on.
Sadly, once these teenagers know they’re being looked for, they won’t be shocked, scared or even worried, they will just see it as a validation of their actions.
Time for feral juveniles to be dealt with appropriately. This has nothing to do with their childhoods and other liberal horse manure, it’s all about being nasty and rude for the fun of it, and discipline being prohibited in schools and at home has a lot to answer for.
An 84-year-old immobile man who lived alone died after being sent home from the hospital unable to call for assistance as his phone was in the other room.
Samuel Brookes was transported to his bed where he could not reach his pendant alarm or the handheld device as he was left alone for two weeks.
It was only when his grandson went round with some frozen meals for his carer to cook that Mr Brookes was found unresponsive, wedged between his bed and the wall.
Paramedics confirmed the 84-year-old was dead but the senior coroner for Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin said it was not known when he passed away during that fortnight period.
An inquest concluded Mr Brookes passed away following negligence to provide him with his needed care.
A coroner said he was discharged from Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley on April 8th 2024 where he had been admitted after a fall and then died at his home in Netherton near Bridgnorth, Shrops.
The hospital arranged his transport home but failed to rearrange his required care of two carers coming in four times a day.
In a Prevention of Future Deaths report, the coroner has expressed his concerns to the hospital’s chief executive about the inadequate care provided, the fact that his phone was in a different room, and the fact that he was not wearing his alarm pendant around his neck.
The coroner said: ‘Accordingly when Mr Brookes got into difficulty he could not raise the alarm or call for help.’
The hospital has 56 days to reply to his report to contain details of what action is proposed to be taken.
In 2019, Russells Hall Hospital came under fire for its treatment of sepsis. Staff did not meet targets for screening and administering antibiotics within 60 minutes, an inspection found.
The disease can be deadly but the odds improve dramatically if treatment is started promptly.
The hospital in Dudley had already been investigated over 54 deaths occurring between December 2017 and June 2018 after the health watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC) discovered patients with sepsis were not being handled properly.
In March 2018, 33-year-old mother-of-six Natalie Billingham died after staff failed to recognise the condition. And in July 2018, Simon Smith, 51, died after he was not given antibiotics for five days.
The CQC previously raised certain concerns about the treatment of patients with sepsis, who were left for hours without testing or treatment. Inspectors said doctors had become ‘frustrated’ at a new NHS focus on sepsis and were failing to take the problem seriously as a result.
How could the ambulance transport crew have left this man in his bed with nothing to reach? Clearly, it was not on their inventory to do so! But even so, common sense would have told them to ensure he had his alarm pendant and phone close to hand, there was no excuse.
If there was going to be nobody at home to welcome him, the hospital should have liaised with his care team before sending him home. However, it appears that this hospital didn’t care and he was sent home in an ambulance. It was a dump and run.
The hospital’s failure to ensure that treatment was provided and the ambulance crew’s failure to make sure he could call for help when they put him in his bed demonstrate a total disregard for basic care requirements.
They will probably just dig out the old saying, ‘lessons have been learned.’ The trouble is that you can’t teach basic common sense.
Hospitals usually discuss the discharge of patients with a family member, and how come it took so long for a family member to take food around to him? Or did the family member simply believe that the carers would be coming in and thus the poor man would be safe? You cannot rely on carers alone – some can’t even boil an egg!
The treatment of elderly people is abhorrent. We should all be treated with respect and dignity which this man was not!
Sadly there is an attitude in some medical circles which influences how the elderly are treated, but you should always treat people how you would expect to be treated yourself because one day they might be in the same boat without a paddle.
Fifteen fire engines rushed to the inferno at about 5.45 pm, which had erupted out of the two flats in Aldgate, east of the city.
The recently constructed apartment building’s sixth-floor balcony is where the terrifying video captures the fire erupting.
An apartment on the seventh level of the same building had been the scene of another fire.
A spokesperson for the London Fire Brigade (LFB) told The Sun: “Fifteen fire engines and around 100 firefighters dealt with a flat fire on Leman Street in Aldgate.
“Two flats on the sixth and seventh floors of the building were alight.
“Firefighters led 11 people to safety. There are currently no reports of any injuries.”
Crews were mobilised from stations in Whitechapel, Shadwell, Shoreditch, Dowgate, and Bethnal Green, along with other nearby units.
LFB added that the fire was eventually brought under control by 7.33 pm.
Borough Commander Lucy Macleod, who was at the scene, said: “Crews acted swiftly to bring the fire under control, but will remain on site this evening to damp down remaining hotspots.
“Road closures are currently in place, and there is significant congestion in the surrounding area. We urge the public to avoid the vicinity where possible while we continue to work to make the scene safe.
“One of the Brigade’s 64-metre turntable ladders was used as an observation tower, providing a vantage point for incident commanders to assess the incident.
“We’re working closely with our partners to ensure support is available for residents affected by the incident.”
Investigations are underway to determine the cause of the fire.
A London Ambulance Service spokesperson told The Sun: “We were called at 6.28 pm today (Sunday 20 April) to reports of a fire in Leman Street, E1.
“We sent resources to the scene, including members of our Hazardous Area Response Team (HART), members of our Tactical Response Unit and an incident response officer.
“Our crews assisted our emergency services partners at the scene, but were later stood down when it was determined there were no patients for us to treat.”
Just last week, a massive fire tore through a block of apartments in the adjacent Bethnal Green, sending eleven people to the hospital.
The Grenfell tragedy seems to have taught us nothing – high rise buildings should not be built anymore, they’re unsafe!
This is not the first in a long line of fires in this concrete jungle eyesore that is being built across London.
Thank goodness that people have been accounted for and well done by the fire brigade and emergency services.
Blocks of flats are just death traps, it only takes one person’s common sense to go out the window and up it goes!
Sir Keir has spoken, a surprising sound, Of Corbyn’s potential, on hallowed ground. He thinks, in hindsight, a curious view, That Jeremy’s hand might have steered us anew.
Jeremy Corbyn would have been an excellent prime minister, and he’s a true socially minded person.
He is the first meaningful person to step up and say things are amiss in this country.
Things have changed. Now, we see that a greater portion of ‘privatisation’ did not work. It made life less secure and services worse off, and when Margaret Thatcher said, ‘There is no such thing as society,’ she wasn’t thinking that far forward, and this is the legacy she has left us with.
Do you feel safe?
Do you feel cared for?
Do you feel appreciated?
Britain has one of the lowest quality of life rankings in the developed world. We have debt, mortgages, job insecurity and failing services, and Britain does this as nowhere else does. Jobs nobody wants, with some people even falling over themselves not to have to work.
Life is different now, and those who ridicule Jeremy Corbyn, well…
People – forty years have passed since Margaret Thatcher resigned, but we still omit the downfall of British society.
Eventually, Jeremy Corbyn joins the stage – don’t believe all of the publicity that has been reported about him.
The most frugal MP is Jeremy Corbyn. He makes expense claims, yet he is extremely frugal with his spending. The lowest claimer was Mr Corbyn.
He said, “I am a parsimonious MP. I think we should claim what we need to run our offices and pay our staff but be careful because it’s obviously public money. In a year, rent for the office Durham Road, Finsbury Park, is about 12,000 to 14,000.”
The fact that people believe the lies about him without even looking at the facts never fails to crush me. He is one of the few people in Parliament who on the face of it appears to be there with the right vision – for the people to help the people.
Jeremy Corbyn has been an MP for a long time. He is steadfast in his convictions, especially those of justice and peace. He is known for being honest, direct, and a generally kind person.
Although he has been relegated to the political periphery and has been subjected to a great deal of mudslinging over the years, he has remained steadfast in his beliefs and never wavered from them. He is also known for being laid-back, approachable, and devoid of any hint of arrogance.
Jeremy has demonstrated that he has continuously and steadfastly supported common people over the powerful and peace over conflict.
That puts him on the right side of history and numerous other issues. Also, he frequently defied his own party, the mass media and at times public opinion as well. So, not only was he right, he was right before it was popular, and he spoke out when it was difficult to do so.
For me, that’s truly amazing and it makes him, at the very least, a good guy in my view.
If he were to become prime minister, it’s relatively unlikely that he would win big.
Although I think it’s improbable that Jeremy Corbyn would be a great prime minister, I do think he would be a good one. If he were to take office, he may prove me wrong.
According to what I can tell, Jeremy has never tampered with his expense account and opposes both bigotry and violence. Pundits always want something a little more risqué, like kinky sex sessions with vicars and tarts, so it may make him appear a little dull.
I think Jeremy would make a good prime minister so move over Keir Starmer!
A council-funded sex education PowerPoint shown to teenagers referenced asking for consent before choking a partner.
Students enrolled in PSHE classes at several secondary schools were presented with the resources, which were provided by the Bridgend County Borough Council in South Wales.
Delivered by the council’s domestic abuse service, Assia, the PowerPoint, which was seen by The Times, instructed youngsters that ‘consent (when it comes to choking during sex) should occur every time sexual choking is an option’.
‘It is never OK to start choking someone without asking them first and giving them space to say no,’ it continued.
Experts, however, have conveyed their profound concern at the sex education class which they say is illustrating the notion that ‘choking can be done safely’.
‘This is not sex education, this is just advocacy for the porn industry,’ Michael Conroy, the founder of Men at Work, told The Times.
‘Imagine you are a 14-year-old girl and you have told your boyfriend you don’t want to be choked but then an authority figure comes into school and tells you it is OK.
‘Choking cuts off oxygen to the brain and is incredibly harmful, it can even kill. Most schools will take it on trust that something endorsed by the local authority is OK. There is a rampant myth that choking can be done safely and is simply another option for a sexual act.’
Teenage guys’ demands for forceful sex, including choking, have, increased alarmingly in recent years.
A recent survey by Dr Debby Herbenick, known to be one of the foremost researchers on American sexual behaviour, questioned 5,000 women anonymously at a ‘major Midwestern university,’ the New York Times reported.
Almost two-thirds of women who responded said they had been choked by a partner during sex – but an even more worryingly statistic emerged: 40 percent were between the ages 12 and 17 the first time choking happened.
During a prior survey, the figure was far lower at 25 percent (or one in four).
Peggy Orenstein, a sexuality researcher and college professor, remembered having two students, 15 and 16, ask her about choking during sex.
One 15-year-old boy worryingly said: ‘Why do girls all want to be choked?’
Choking during sex has increased, and some have attributed this to popular culture.
Choking has been shown in a range of television shows, including the pilot of HBO’s Euphoria – where a high school was choked.
And a hit single last year by American rapper Jack Harlow titled ‘Lovin On Me’ begins with the vocals: ‘I’m vanilla baby, I’ll choke you, but I ain’t no killer, baby.’
Bridgend County Borough Council vehemently repudiated that they had financed education which ‘taught children to consent to damaging sexual behaviour’.
A council spokesman said: ‘The suggestion that children are being taught to consent to damaging sexual behaviour is simply not true.
‘All pastoral advice used by local schools is carefully designed to be age-appropriate and to encourage teenagers who are maturing into young adults to develop healthy, respectful relationships where there is no abuse of any kind.
‘Bridgend County Borough Council takes its safeguarding responsibilities very seriously, and anyone who approaches the Assia domestic abuse service regarding this issue will be informed that non-fatal strangulation remains an illegal, dangerous criminal act.’
In a reply on X to a now-deleted post about the sex education class, Bridgend County Borough Council wrote: ‘Your post regarding Bridgend County Borough Council’s Assia Domestic Abuse Service is factually incorrect and causing widespread misinformation.’
How in the world did this happen? This is simply physical brutality, and BDSM is not about love, it is about power and domination.
However, what grown-ups do in the confines of their homes is completely up to them, but this is not something that should be taught at school.
It’s inappropriate and not something that should ever be discussed with a youngster.
What should be taught is safe sex, contraceptives and consent, these are the things that are essential for 14-year-olds to learn during sex education, and they need to be taught accurately without room for interpretation.
However, it appears that our children are being groomed by deviants and perverts who have penetrated every aspect of our establishment, but now they’re doing it openly and we have to eliminate this.
Our schools and councils that encourage this, particularly for minors, are profoundly flawed.
Choking is dangerous in whatever way it’s performed, and these schools are putting thoughts into our children’s heads. They are essentially saying that it’s okay as long as there is consent, but who will be accountable if something goes wrong?
Women are now being abused, murdered, raped and treated like sex toys. Young girls are being raised to expect no respect, and that they’re worth nothing more than an outlet for assertive sex – this has to stop, and we should be teaching our teenagers self-respect, and these schools that are enabling this utter nonsense should be closed down.
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