Cheating The Welfare System

Known for her advice on maximising benefits, 31-year-old Whitney Ainscough earned enough money to purchase a Range Rover and treat herself to a gastric sleeve.

A self-described bad mum who claims to make nearly £500,000 a year by showing social media followers how to manipulate the benefits system says she’ll never get a job.

Whitney Ainscough claims she is unconcerned with the criticism she receives online for demonstrating how she took use of the benefits system to her fullest advantage.

She now says she earns hundreds of thousands of pounds from Facebook advertisements that appear before her videos and from commissions on TikTok purchases made by her admirers.

The rebellious 31-year-old teaches her 954,000-strong fan base how to take advantage of the Department of Work and Pensions to maximise their benefits, claim Motability cars, and even receive free phones.

She now uses her social media proceeds to purchase top-flight cars, treat herself to gastric sleeve surgery and Botox injections, and take her children out of school for luxury term-time holidays.

And she does it all while living in a reduced-rent council house – for which there is no upper limit to income once you’re in the door. 

Ainscough even likens herself to finance guru Martin Lewis – and says it’s not her fault the benefits system is set up the way it is.

Instead, she candidly confesses she tries to ‘deliberately wind up’ people who don’t like the way she operates – so they maximise her profits online.

She told The Sun: ‘I was shameless about bragging about my benefits. I knew the more I bragged about getting Universal Credit, the more trolls and followers I’d attract. If you want to label me a scrounger that is fine – it means I get more cash in the bank.’

After leaving her pharmacy work, Ainscough, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, went on benefits—but only after taking advantage of paid maternity leave.

The mother of three decided in 2022 that she could not afford nursery costs and childcare expenses – and quit her job to join the dole queue.

She started researching how to succeed on social media while she was at home taking care of her 12-year-old Cora, her 7-year-old Addison, and her 3-year-old Adley.

She added: ‘I had no option but to stay at home, care for the three kids and claim benefits. I couldn’t afford to return to work. And why should I trudge to job interviews?’

Starting in 2023, Ainscough began sharing videos on how to live cheap – before turning to videos showing her children in designer gear after saving up her benefits.

One of her most contentious wind-up videos saw her packing her child’s lunchbox with a vape.

In one video, she claims the JobCentre supplies job searchers with mobile phones – before appearing to quip they can then be taken to a pawnbrokers for cash.

‘Seriously: if you apply for jobs and you’ve lost your phone or broken it – just break it anyway – you can get a free phone to do your job searches.

‘It’s yours – you can take it down Cash’s. That might be worth £80, £100.’

The video then cuts to her sitting in her car, speaking in a more serious tone as she says: ‘On a serious note, this is actually true. The JobCentre will and can provide you with a brand new phone from Argos.’

Her weekly DWP payment peaked at £1,151 a week across housing benefits, child and adult allowances and additional child benefits. 

In one foul-mouthed post, she showcased her £1,151.90 weekly entitlement as she said: ‘Why would I get a job? I get your monthly wage in a week – so why would I put myself out and get a job? I mean I’m living my f****** best life, f****** hell.’ 

‘My new mobility car pending, how nice… best bit it costs me nothing,’ she said in one TikTok, showing her face over a new Kia Sportage SUV.

‘I’m absolutely buzzing… I do have to put a bit of a down payment on it, but then my mobility side pays for the rest. I get it all… it’s brand new, absolutely buzzing. Me and girls will be driving in style,’ she boasted.

‘While everyone else is working today and slaving away, I am on my way to the train station to go to London, because I don’t work and I can just travel,’ she said in a July 2023 video, laughing.

She stopped receiving Universal Credit in November 2023 because her social media earnings became too high for her to continue receiving the benefit.

She currently uses TikTok to sell items like inexpensive pyjamas, vlogging equipment, cosmetics, portable fans, and cleaning supplies in exchange for a commission.

She told the Sun that she earned £60,000 in November of last year and has since averaged £50,000 a month.

She engaged an accountant since her profits were so high, and she now uses a private business called It’s Me Bad Mum Ltd. to funnel her earnings and reduce her tax liability.

She concluded: ‘It’s not illegal. Benefits are offered for a reason. People need to stop moaning about people getting benefits they deserve — and other people helping them do that.’

Earlier this year, she was threatened with a criminal record after taking her children on holiday during the school term – splashing out £5,000 on a Cyprus trip and £8,000 on a gallivant to Zante. 

And a year ago, she told MailOnline she racked up £30,000 of debt to ‘feel better’ after escaping domestic violence.

She claims that the reason she lives in a council home is that she was unable to obtain a mortgage because an individual voluntary arrangement (IVA) to settle the debt badly damaged her credit rating.

She told us in March 2024: ‘I have no idea how I became so good at TikTok. It stemmed from my first viral video on TikTok and once you start getting viral videos you just start getting more popular.’

She added that ‘joke’ videos of her packing vapes in packed lunches were ‘just for TikTok and for bants. It is just content.’

However, the majority of people are worse off working, and our government just doesn’t give a damn about us, but the younger generation is not stupid – our government believe that they are but they’re not, far from it! After all, why should they work till they drop? They will never see their pensions, which they paid into and our government is stealing.

Working in the UK is a meaningless exercise these days – you’re just working to pay the bills – no indulgences, but if you’re coming in from a foreign country you get everything you want – even driving lessons and a hotel et cetera.

Good for her! People might call it scrounging, but if the Royal Family can do it, why can’t we?

Immigration Has Driven Population Growth

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Since 2001, immigration has contributed directly and indirectly to a population increase of almost 7 million, which has had detrimental effects on the goal of an integrated society.

In 20 years, the percentage of ethnic minorities quadrupled to almost 20 percent.

Net foreign migration has been running at about 300,000 per year for the past 20 years and has caused the non-UK-born population to double to nine million.

Over the previous 20 years, net foreign migration has averaged around 300,000 annually, which has led to the non-UK-born population doubling to nine million.

In the meanwhile, the number of ethnic minorities, whether or not they were born in the UK, has more than doubled to thirteen million, and in only twenty years, their percentage of the population has gone from ten to just over twenty percent. People who identify as ‘Other White’ (mostly from the EU) are included in this number.

Between 2017 and 2019, foreign immigrants and their offspring born in the UK were responsible for around 90 percent of the population growth.

The difficulties raised by these incredibly fast shifts extend far beyond the earlier discussion of net migration.

The actions of succeeding administrations have granted the right to be here to immigrants and their families. They are now a recognised aspect of our culture and economy.

The magnitude and rate of change, together with the inability to attain the degree of integration necessary for a peaceful community, are the causes of concern.

Of course, we can’t be sure that immigration will resume at its previous levels once the COVID crisis has subsided, but the government’s major post-Brexit loosening of the global visa system makes this very likely.

It has sharply reduced both the salary and qualification requirements for a work visa, exposing some seven million UK jobs to new or increased international competition.

London has changed as a result of mass immigration. Turning Britain into a third-world country, but that suits the Mayor and Starmer, and our government and governments before have permitted this to happen on purpose, and it’s time to take back what is ours!

Unfortunately, our government continues to let them in.

It’s down to the politicians that have permitted this to happen, they probably believe that the migrants will vote for them in the next election. Our government also allows these people to live in our country how they live in their own countries.

If we import the third world, we become the third world.

The real blame is our government. Illegal immigration cannot be afforded by the UK. If they want to come here they have to have a job, funds, know the language and have good health, and if they don’t, then they simply don’t come in.

These illegals now truly feel at home in our country because our government have permitted this to happen by giving them what we the British people have worked so hard for. Everything is free for these migrants, and they have no intention of keeping English law.

The Muslim plan is for world domination. They never intended to integrate into British culture, they just wanted to enforce their third-world way of life onto us.

Ultimately, they will annihilate us and have millions in the bank, and our government has betrayed us!

If you import enough of it, eventually you will become it!

London now looks like New Delhi.

Lee Anderson Brutally Attacks Keir Starmer In “Migrant Crisis”

Reform UK’s Lee Anderson has criticised Labour’s failure to prevent small boat crossings as a “national crisis”, as the Prime Minister hosts a meeting in London to crack down on people smugglers.

Leaders from 40 countries are attending the PM’s meeting at Lancaster House in central London today and tomorrow as they attempt to address the international situation.

Sir Keir told attendees: “There has never been a bigger gathering of people on this issue, building a truly international effort to defeat organised immigration crime.” However, Reform UK’s chief whip condemned the Prime Minister and confirmed his party’s policy to deport anyone living in Britain illegally. He fumed: “Labour’s failure to control illegal migration is not just an issue of border security—it is a national crisis.”

“As the numbers show, we are not receiving the best and brightest in terms of illegal migrants.

“No country has benefited from this level of unbridled immigration. It has placed a massive strain on our public services, our safety, and the pockets of our hardworking taxpayers.

“Reform UK will freeze all non-essential immigration, deport foreign criminals, and deport anyone who has illegally entered the country.”

This morning Sir Keir argued that his government has deported 24,000 migrants since coming to office last July.

But rather than being coerced, the great majority of these moves were voluntary.

Amid mounting unease over the Government’s strategy to end the Channel crisis, the Prime Minister said he was introducing “tough” measures to deter crossings.

He pointed to a 21 percent increase in executed returns and a 16 percent growth in foreign national offenders being removed from the UK since July 5.

However, Reform has pointed out that over 30,000 small boat crossings have taken place during the same period, with more than 5,000 in the last three months alone.

The number of crossings during this period is a record high.

The cost of housing asylum seekers in 400 hotels up and down the country is now running at £14 billion a year, with £3,000 a day being spent on new clothes and shoes.

Sir Keir said: “Immigration crime funds the vile people-smuggling gangs that trade in human misery, breach our borders and threaten Britain’s economic security.

“This government is taking back control, doing the hard graft needed to deliver results, working with our international allies to smash these gangs and secure our borders.

“We’ve already removed more than 24,000 people with no right to be here and we’re finally shutting down exploitative illegal working, dismantling criminal networks, while forcing people-smuggling gangs out of business.

“For too long, the UK was a soft touch. That ends now. No more gimmicks, no empty promises, just serious action for British security.”

None of them should be allowed asylum – they have all entered the UK illegally. If they were genuine they would have had documents. It’s called the Labour Party, not the Pity Party, and we need to stop this madness.

Illegal Immigration is one of the major problems in the UK but that only scrapes the surface and it appears Labour and certainly other parties still are not joining all the dots.

Although the amount of illegal immigrants is a significant concern, the real issue is the sheer volume of both legal and illegal immigrants and how they are changing our way of life.

With the help of our politicians, we are being invaded via our borders, and our government is forcing the Indigenous people to be second and third-class citizens.

The money spent on immigration may spare handicapped people from brutal cutbacks to subsidies they depend on to live.

Why do handicapped people receive the barest minimum of benefits while migrants receive so many costly perks? It’s not equal.

The cosy hotel lifestyle would be the first step if Starmer was truly going to take action. Smashing the gangs is a gimmick!

Small Boats And Starmer’s Threat To Smuggling Gangs

Across Europe, shady criminal gangs are making millions from smuggling people into Britain.

To illegally cross the Channel, they take advantage of the weakest people by placing them in risky little boats. They reduce the safety of the British people. They also jeopardise international security and our economy.

Keir Starmer said that his Labour Government was determined to smash these gangs and stop this vile trade.

He said that when he was the country’s chief prosecutor, he smashed some of the world’s most dangerous gangs, including terrorists and put them behind bars.

He said that he knew how these gangs worked and that they didn’t care about borders. They don’t care about the people that they traffic and they don’t care about our country and our people.

They only care about one thing and that’s money and they make huge profits out of ruining people’s lives.

My pledge to Mail readers is this: We’re going to hit them where it hurts. Today, we are announcing a new sanctions regime, the first of its kind anywhere in the world.

We’re going to treat people smugglers like terrorists, cybercriminals and corrupt kleptocrats. We’ll freeze their assets, ban their travel and work with allies to put them behind bars.

The Tories like to talk about deterrents. Let me say this: Targeting the huge profits these gangs make will put them out of business. If there is no money, there is no incentive.

This new regime is a world first to tackle illegal migration and organised immigration crime. It will starve the kingpins of illicit finance fuelling their operations. And it will intercept black-market funds siphoned off to smuggling gang lords to smash their lucrative business model.

It’s another tool in our arsenal to take down the gangs. We’ve already established a Border Security Command. We’ve redeployed resources from the ridiculous Rwanda scheme that wasted billions of hard-earned taxpayer money and deported only four volunteers into ramping up the number of returns.

That cavalier attitude to wasting taxpayer cash boils my blood. Working people deserve better.

That’s why we’ve turned the page on Tory gimmicks. We’ve replaced empty rhetoric with action. And we’ve gotten results.

We’re bringing in new border security laws this year to give law enforcement the tools they need to dismantle the gangs.

We’re giving law enforcement bodies like the National Crime Agency new specialist kits, such as maritime drones, and using automatic number plate recognition cameras to track vehicles carrying smuggling equipment.

We’ve struck a world-first security agreement with Iraq to target people-smuggling gangs and return those working here illegally. This Government is on track to deliver the highest number of returns for five years. That includes the four biggest return flights ever.

And our work with agencies cross-border is bearing fruit. We are arresting serious and dangerous criminals.

In November, cross-border work led to the arrest of one of the UK’s most wanted people smugglers in Amsterdam, who supplied many of the boats being used to reach our shores, putting Britain’s border security at risk.

I know how central cross-border working is to smashing these vile gangs.

I’ve seen it up close as the country’s chief prosecutor, working with law enforcement, and international partners to foil terrorist plots and make huge drug busts.

That’s real action, not the gimmicks and empty rhetoric peddled by the Tories.

So let me be clear: We’re stopping people coming to this country illegally, and we’re deporting people with no right to be here.

My message to those criminals who still think they can breach our borders is this: There is nowhere to hide. We’re coming after you.

As director of public prosecutions, I locked up dangerous criminals to keep our country safe. As Prime Minister, I’m getting on with the job of delivering the change people voted for last year.

Cutting immigration. Boosting living standards. Making our streets safer. Producing clean British energy. Saving the NHS. Making sure every child has the opportunities they deserve. That’s my mission. Day and night.

This is our Plan for Change. This Government is smashing the gangs and securing our borders.

So, let me be transparent Keir Starmer, so far all you have spun us is all talk and hype.

Our country is out of control immigration and it’s not just the boats.

When you deliver a concrete proposal to facilitate that, and they’re seen to be working and drastically decreasing immigration, then I might believe it.

All I have seen so far is a soundbite politician who’s woefully out of his depth.

Keir Starmer has u-turned on all of his promises, so why should we believe this load of rubbish?

We should all watch this space because I very much doubt there will be any achievements with this cowardly clown in charge. Simply, he’s extremely weak and has no bravery to fix anything.

It’s all waffle. He doesn’t seem to be able to stop the drug dealers or knife crime, but our police seem to be able to bang up so-called right-wingers for using vocabulary they don’t agree with.

Some people out there might believe every word he has to say, but look out – a flying pig is coming your way.

Machete-Wielding Men Storm London Nightclub

Two people were injured during an incident at Tabu nightclub in Mayfair, around the corner from the celeb favourite Annabel’s.

Police arrested one man at the scene and detained another three men in Hertfordshire later that night.

Photographs from the scene show officers outside the venue, with their vehicles parked nearby.

A Met Police spokesperson said: ‘Police were called at 3.11 am on Sunday, 30 March to a venue on Dover Street, W1 following reports of a disturbance and three people in possession of weapons.

‘Officers attended, and one man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon.

‘Following initial enquiries, three men were arrested in Hertfordshire in the early hours of this morning in connection with this investigation. All four men remain in custody.

‘At this time, it’s believed that this was an isolated incident.

‘Two people sustained injuries which are not life-changing.’

Police urged anybody with information to come forward.

UK News and Pictures, whose photographer took photographs of officers responding last night, said that a nearby venue manager witnessed the moment the men attempted to force their way in.

The unnamed worker said: ‘It was pure chaos. The men tried to charge the door with large blades. How anyone wasn’t hurt was just pure luck.

‘Our customers come out for a good evening, and they don’t expect to see something like this.’

Praising the swift response from police, he said: ‘The officers dealt with it very quickly, and we saw a number of people being arrested. It’s not good for business to have this kind of trouble, but thankfully the situation was brought under control.’

Metro has contacted Tabu for comment on the incident.

The club’s website describes it as ‘the home of Tokyo Nightlife, located in the heart of Mayfair’.

It adds that ‘for the best experience and the easiest way to gain access into our Tokyo-inspired universe, a table reservation is highly encouraged.’

So, this is what London and the entirety of the UK have come to. The place is a cesspit, and we appear to be living in a lawless society. There are no words for these people, and they don’t seem to care about anyone or anything.

These days, most cities and towns are like this.

There is no deterrent, and these juvenile kids have no respect.

Rats Move In And Rubbish Piles Up, Causing An Emergency Cobra Meeting

Ministers are under pressure to call an emergency Cobra meeting and send in private waste firms to break a bin strike that has left rubbish piling up in Birmingham’s streets.

The Tories are demanding action from Communities Secretary Angela Rayner over the deepening industrial confrontation that has left extensive parts of England’s second city looking like bomb sites.

Rubbish has been stacking up in the streets of Birmingham after members of the Unite union started their all-out strike. 

But talks on Thursday aimed at resolving the long-running walkout this week failed to break the deadlocked wage dispute with the bankrupt formerly Labour-run city council.

The city is becoming more and more afflicted by big rats who eat the contents of bags, and tonnes of rubbish have gone uncollected.

The Conservatives have written to Ms Rayner, who is also the Deputy Prime Minister, calling on her to take action to resolve the walkout.

Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Alex Burghart and Shadow Communities Secretary Kevin Hollinrake urged the government to address the disagreement by holding a high-level Cobra meeting in their letter.

This would ‘ensure that there is a coordinated response between national and local government, and involving those professionals from across public health, civil contingencies and emergency services,’ they said.

The two senior Tories also called on the Government to ‘send in private sector rubbish collectors to bust the local authority refuse service strikes’.

‘Waste collection is a fundamental service that residents expect councils to deliver,’ they wrote.

‘While it is shocking for residents to witness rubbish accumulating in their streets, it comes as no surprise to those who have scrutinised Labour’s governance of Birmingham since 2012. 

‘Labour’s persistent failure to manage the city effectively has resulted in higher council tax, economic mismanagement, and now even the collapse of basic services, putting residents at risk.’

Almost 400 council bin employees in Birmingham started indefinite strike action last week as part of a row over jobs and pay.

The union has declared any possibility of a breakthrough was being ‘hobbled’ by commissioners who were drafted in to assist with the council’s finances. 

They were sent in by the Government after the local authority effectively declared bankruptcy.

The Conservatives said the commissioners should be ordered to ‘cut the pay of local councillors and redistribute the funding to local services such as contracting external refuse collection agencies’.

The Conservatives also accused Labour of not having intervened because of its association with Unite. 

Its general secretary Sharon Graham said: ‘The council’s public statements about wanting to end this dispute are directly at odds with its sluggish approach to negotiations.

‘The lack of clear answers during talks, and the long periods between meetings make it seem like the council can’t call its own shots.

‘Are the council’s decision-making abilities being hobbled by unelected commissioners?

‘If that’s the case, the council needs to be honest with its workers and the public and tell them exactly what decisions it can and cannot make without the commissioners’ permission.’

Speaking in the House of Commons last week, environment minister Mary Creagh said resolving the strikes is ‘a matter to the council’.

Both sides in the dispute ‘need to get round the table and sort this out for the benefit of the people of Birmingham’, the minister added.

It didn’t take long for Labour to turn the UK back into how it was in the 70s. For all those who missed it, welcome back to 1974.

But don’t fret folks, the brainiac Angela Rayner is on the case. Don’t worry, she’ll sort it all out!

That was sarcasm by the way because these days sarcasm is all we’ve got, but we haven’t seen nothing yet. This is just the beginning, and I do feel for my children and their children because they will inherit this mess.

The thing is if you invite the third world, you become the third world!

I am disgusted and astounded by what I see. It’s like living in New Delhi. It is appalling, there are vermin everywhere – next, there will be disease. Quite frankly, I could weep for this country, and Angela Rayner can just about work out how to put her own rubbish out, let alone fix any other problem.

Sack the lot of them, they don’t deserve employment, and Rayner can go as well. She’s completely out of depth to be an MP.

GOP Rep: NBC Hides Evidence Of Lee Harvey Oswald’s Assassination Of JFK

According to a Republican lawmaker, NBC is retaining a film that demonstrates that Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill President John F. Kennedy.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla, made the audacious declarations while appearing on Fox News alongside host Jesse Watters on Friday night. 

Luna had been talking about the recent release of over 80,000 pages of new material by the National Archive about JFK’s assassination. 

Luna had been asked by Watters if she thought all the documents related to Kennedy’s death had been circulated.

She replied: ‘We’re in the process of tracking down two specific documents. I would like to tell the American people, NBC has a video that has never been seen before.

‘It allegedly shows Oswald near the vehicle when the assassination took place, which means he couldn’t have been the shooter. We are tracking down all this information.’

Watters responded: ‘You’re saying that NBC has been keeping this tape of Oswald under wraps?’

Luna continued: ‘Correct. Director Stone told us that he was shown this tape, and he this could blow open the entire JFK investigation.’

She added: ‘He said that NBC has been very much so guarding this tape, I believe that that tape belongs to the American people.

‘I would encourage everyone to ask NBC to release that tape, it’s open that the American people know the truth as to what happened with John F. Kennedy.’

DailyMail.com has approached NBC for comment.

JFK was killed on November 22, 1963, on a visit to Dallas, when his motorcade was finishing its parade route downtown and bullets rang out.

The police arrested 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald, believing that he had placed himself from a sniper’s perch on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building.

Oswald was killed two days later by nightclub owner Jack Ruby during a jail transfer, sparking a conspiracy theory that he was offed to stop him from talking to investigators.

Ruby subsequently informed the FBI that he had his .38 Colt Cobra revolver in his right pocket during the press conference.

Newsreel footage from WFAA-TV (Dallas) and NBC shows that Ruby impersonated a newspaper reporter during a press conference held by District Attorney Henry Wade at Dallas Police Headquarters that night.

A year after the assassination, the Warren Commission, which President Johnson established to investigate, concluded that Oswald operated unaided.

The outcome hasn’t done anything to suppress an entire web of alternative theories over the decades.

The redactions that had baffled historians for years and fuelled conspiracy theories were removed from several of the freshly disclosed papers.

The US National Archives and Records Administration posted to its website approximately 2,200 files containing the documents. 

They contained typewritten reports and handwritten notes spanning decades, including details of a top CIA agent who declared the deep state was answerable,  Oswald being a ‘poor shot’ and that the Secret Service had been alerted Kennedy would be killed in August, three months before the murder.

The rollout of the files shocked Trump’s national security team, who spent 24 hours racing to assess security threats ahead of publication.

The vast preponderance of the National Archives’ collection of over 6 million pages of records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artefacts connected to the assassination have previously been released.

Before the latest release, researchers had estimated that 3,000 to 3,500 files were still unreleased, either completely or partially. 

Just last month the FBI said it had uncovered approximately 2,400 new records linked to the assassination.

One of the most prevalent theories asserts there was a second gunman who shot at JFK from a now-iconic ‘grassy knoll’ to the right of his car as it passed by.

There has never been any concrete evidence shown to support such an assertion.

The fact that Lee Harvey Oswald did not shoot JFK is obvious to anyone with half a brain.

I’ve always suspected that there was government involvement, but I do wonder how anybody or any media company could sit on this video for that long. As they say, ‘Loose lips sink ships.’

Hillary invented the Russian hoax – bought and paid for – manufactured dossier, so nothing shocks me about the JFK material being a bit off.

Lee Harvey Oswald also said he was a scapegoat. The look on his face when he heard he was being charged was genuine stupefaction.

Why did Jack Ruby kill Lee Harvey Oswald? What was his reason? Did he have a reason or was he paid to do so?

After the shooting, Ruby said that he did it to ‘prevent a further tragedy,’ and that ‘Somebody had to do it.’

However, does anybody care? They’re all dead now! And to be fair, if there was any such video, it would have long been destroyed, especially if there was any CIA involvement.

Videos weren’t invented in 1963, they would have been newsreel footage.

It appears that Lee Harvey Oswald was spotted at the Book Depository building’s entrance, and not where they said he was believed to have been. However, that was seriously investigated, and the gentleman in the doorway was Billy Nolan Lovelady, a fellow worker who resembled Oswald. It was from a distance and an extremely blurry picture.

It’s now been 61 years since JFK was assassinated and Lee Harvey Oswald was shot. Most who were involved in the case are most likely dead or extremely old. We should just let them both rest in peace.

However, was justice done? Well, after all this time, I suspect that we will never find out. If it were a set-up, those people would have escaped the law, and I hope they managed to sleep soundly in their beds at night.

Live Facial Recognition Cameras On Croydon Lampposts

London’s first fixed live facial recognition cameras will be set up in Croydon. Activist groups have criticised the move as a “dystopian nightmare.”

While the new cameras will mark the police’s first permanent fixtures, vans equipped with the same technology have previously been used in Croydon town centre. The move to introduce these for good has sparked objection from campaign group Big Brother Watch, who say they are “alarmed by the reports.”

The cameras are set to be installed across Croydon, in a pilot scheme, on existing lampposts and buildings. These will only be switched on when officers are using the technology in the area, say the Metropolitan Police Service. There are also presently no plans to expand to other parts of London.

To function, live facial recognition cameras scan faces and compare them to a database of criminals. Before determining if more action is required, an officer may approach someone who has been identified by the camera to confirm their identity and involvement in any offences.

According to authorities, a person’s biometric data will be instantly and permanently erased if they are not found to be a match. Even with this guarantee, individuals are still worried about their privacy as LFR technology is introduced.

Rebecca Vincent, Interim Director of Big Brother Watch said: “We are alarmed by reports that the Metropolitan Police Service is installing an unprecedented permanent network of fixed live facial recognition cameras across Croydon town centre, which marks a worrying escalation in the use of LFR with no oversight or legislative basis.

“This comes on the back of a failed trial in Cardiff, where anyone who entered the city centre was subjected to mass surveillance through a network of temporary LFR cameras, as police scanned more than 160,000 faces during a Six Nations game, but made zero arrests.

“It’s time to stop this steady slide into a dystopian nightmare, and halt all use of LFR technology across the UK until legislative safeguards are introduced”.

Police have assured that LFR has led to the arrest of people who would not typically be identified. Last year there were over 500 detentions made using the technology.

Mayor of Croydon, Jason Perry, previously reassured residents in the Croydon region that most people had no reason to be concerned about the LFR vans. He said: “If you’re a law-abiding citizen going about your day, you’ve got nothing to worry about. The reality is that the system is picking up people on wanted lists.”

A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police Service said: “The Met is committed to making London safer, using data and technology to identify offenders that pose a risk to our communities.

“Last year we made over 500 arrests using LFR – removing dangerous individuals who were suspected of serious offences, including strangulation, stalking, domestic abuse and rape.

“We continue to engage with our communities to build understanding about how this technology works, providing reassurances that there are rigorous checks and balances in place to protect people’s rights and privacy.”

And so it starts. People will ask, “What’s the problem if you have nothing to hide?” It will be one day, and by then it will be too late.

I read this stuff and all I can think about in the UK is ‘1984.’ Although some people might rather have the cameras than without.

What I would like to know is who surveils the ones that surveil you? What are the safeguards? Who will be authorised to access it? Who makes sure there’s no abuse of power? How do you find out if you’re part of a data base? How accurate is the tech? And why haven’t the public been asked it they want this?

Is this not discriminatory? As head coverings are worn by a lot of people, along with baseball caps et cetera, or will there be exceptions based on religious beliefs?

This is only the beginning of the disease that is destroying our freedoms and privacy, and it will spread.

Free School Meals Axed By Rachel Reeves

Parents could be charged additional lunch costs for their children as Rachel Reeves reportedly intends to axe universal free school meals for infants.

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is said to have suggested the change as part of a £500 million cut to education to be included in the Chancellor’s austerity plan on Wednesday when she will deliver a spring spending statement designed to save billions of pounds.

However, Department for Education officials angrily refuted the accusations, which were widely reported in Monday’s newspapers.

They suggest continuing divisions and rows within the Government with just days to go before the Chancellor’s announcement. The Treasury strives to impose cuts of up to 11 percent across Whitehall departments’ budgets.

Presently, approximately 1.8 million children in reception classes and Years 1 and 2 receive free school meals. These are available for all children to ensure every young child has a healthy start to the day.

The reported plan is to introduce means-testing for these age groups, as already exists for more senior children. For most children in these year groups, it would mean their parents now have to pay for their school lunch.

It has also been said that the Education Secretary offered to axe funding for free period products in schools, as well as dance, music and PE schemes.

In addition, schools will be told to give teachers pay raises – but will not be given the funding to pay for them, according to reports. Instead, they will be expected to find the cash by making “efficiencies”.

In actuality, this might imply that some are compelled to cut back on employees.

This week, criticism mounted on the Chancellor when she acknowledged taking complimentary tickets to watch Sabrina Carpenter perform live.

She admitted she and a family member went to a concert “a couple of weeks ago” with tickets that “weren’t tickets that you were able to buy”.

Speaking over the weekend, she claimed she had accepted the tickets for security reasons. Ms Reeves said: “I went with a member of my family to see a concert a couple of weeks ago.

“I do now have security, which means it’s not as easy as it would have been in the past to just sit in a concert, although that would probably be a lot easier for everyone concerned.

“So, look, I took those tickets to go with a member of my family. I thought that was the right thing to do from a security perspective.”

The Chancellor later added: “These weren’t tickets that you could pay for, so there wasn’t a price for those tickets.

“Obviously, I’ll declare the value of them but they weren’t tickets that you were able to buy.”

Facing questions about clothing donations last year, Ms Reeves told the BBC that while she accepted the gifts in opposition, it was not something she “planned to do as a government minister”.

Schools are often required to give staff pay increases, but not given the money to pay for these raises which then have to come out of existing budgets.

The problem is that schools negotiate their budgets with governors a year in advance, so it is not a good idea to expect them to find money in the middle of the year just because the central government says they must. Nor does it support effective child education policy.

It’s funny how pay raises for MPs can be afforded, but nothing else for anyone else. It just demonstrates the hatred they have for us common folk.

Maths Teacher Asked Muslim Student If She Had A Bomb Under Her Hijab

A maths teacher has not been excluded from the classroom after asking a Muslim student if she had a bomb under her hijab, a tribunal heard.

Mark Holland made a series of improper comments including calling a student a ‘dumb blonde’ and telling a female student she ‘could do better’ in reference to her boyfriend.

However, a Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) panel determined that banning Mr Holland from teaching would ‘not be proportionate or in the public interest.’ 

Between March and December 2022, the secondary school teacher made several improper remarks to students at Great Academy Ashton in Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside. 

Other comments include telling a teenager ‘Bet you have loads of boyfriends with your looks’ and dubbing another ‘The Liar.’ 

He worked at the school for nearly five years but in September 2023 was forced to leave after a disciplinary hearing.

The panel said his comments towards the Muslim student, who he called ‘The Nun’ were ‘not racially motivated but were likely to be religiously insensitive’.

They said his conduct ‘fell short of the standards of behaviour expected of a teacher, but ruled that it ‘did not meet the threshold for serious misconduct.’ 

He ‘willingly apologised’ for the allegations against him and said he would ‘adjust the manner in which he engaged pupils.’

Mr Holland claimed to have ‘misjudged the content of the conversations as an easy way to build a rapport with pupils’.

In a written ruling the TRA said Mr Holland’s conduct was ‘not consistent with behaving as an appropriate role model to students.’

Decision maker Sarah Buxcey wrote: ‘I have concluded that a prohibition order is not proportionate or in the public interest. 

‘I consider that the publication of the findings made would be sufficient to send an appropriate message to the teacher as to the standards of behaviour that were not acceptable and that the publication would meet the public interest requirement of declaring proper standards of the profession.’

The hijab is prohibited in many nations, but it is accepted in the UK, which explains why there are so many issues here.

I think all school-age children should wear the same uniform, but some of the people who have moved here think it’s okay to break the law. This has to stop before our nation devolves into chaos like the nations from which they have fled, otherwise, we are heading to become a third-world country in some respects, although we might already be there!

I always wonder why they come over to the UK but still insist on dressing and abiding by laws as they do in their oppressed countries. If it’s so good back home, then goodbye! Our government should start with the prohibition of full face coverings that make them look like walking Daleks. They are in England for goodness sake, not some godforsaken war-torn country.

It is completely inappropriate and not banter to tell a student that he bets she has a lot of boyfriends because of her appearance. This was a basic lack of respect and judgment. He should focus on being a grown-up and teacher because that’s what he’s supposed to be, not someone attempting to build a rapport by humiliating his students. He probably believed he was being humorous – being one of the lads.

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