Violent Thug Who Is On His ‘Final Chance’

A violent hooligan on a ‘last and final chance’ after leaving a student with brain damage in a vicious onslaught has been spared jail – again.

Michael Murray, 22, was three years ago given a last chance to change his ways after being part of a gang that savagely beat German exchange student Daniel Ezzedine in Canterbury, Kent, with a sack of bricks.

But he has dodged a prison term again despite being hauled before a crown court judge for glassing a man in a pub.

He was even given back his XL Bully dog at his sentencing hearing on Tuesday when his barrister successfully claimed that Murray was ‘a fit and proper person to own one.

The lenient punishment has enraged shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick who has urged Attorney General Richard Hermer to intervene as he declared: ‘Career criminals must be locked up.’ 

Murray, from Canterbury, was part of a gang of nine people who in June 2019 brutally beat then-17-year-old Mr Ezzedine. 

He requires round-the-clock care and had to have part of his brain removed and metal plates inserted into his skull. 

His brother said doctors initially gave him a 30 per cent chance of survival after he was beaten in the city centre. 

Murray appeared at Canterbury Crown Court just before Christmas for the pub attack, as well as threatening a neighbour and damaging the home he shared with his grandparents. 

Despite his 13 previous convictions and his own grandfather raising fears about what his grandson might do when high on drugs and carrying knives, a judge gave him another chance to become ‘a useful member of the community’. 

Prosecutor Lucy McGarr described how on April 6 last year, Murray had glassed a man at the Seven Stars bar in Canterbury, reported Kent Online.

His home was raided by police ten days for an unrelated matter where officers discovered he did not have an exemption certificate for his pet dog.

On April 19 Murray appeared before magistrates for six offences relating to drugs, violence and driving matters. He was given a suspended sentence order. 

But within a matter of weeks, the yob threatened to ‘smash in’ his neighbour’s face while wielding two knives and broke two doors and a window at his grandparents’ home in St Gregory’s Road. 

On May 29 he tossed a five-litre can of paint across his grandparents’ garden, damaging tiles, with his grandfather saying he appeared to be on drugs. 

Murray was arrested and pleaded guilty to two offences of affray, one of criminal damage, one of possessing a fighting dog and breach of an SSO.

In a victim impact statement, his grandfather, Michael Murray Snr, said: ‘We do not want him to live here. He needs to leave home. We don’t want to put up with his behaviour.’ 

But his barrister James Burke recommended for Murray to be given a community-based punishment, claiming that he had matured while on remand in jail serving what was the equivalent of a 14-month sentence.

Mr Burke said Murray was now drug-free, had ‘some understanding’ of his problems with ‘positive future goals’, and was in a stable two-year relationship.

Judge Sarah Counsell agreed to spare Murray jail saying there was a realistic chance of rehabilitation ‘if you reduce your drug use and acquire problem-thinking skills’.

Setting a 12-month jail term suspended for 18 months, Judge Counsell said: ‘It is perhaps a tougher sentence for you to suspend the sentence and give you the opportunity of developing into the young man you are capable of developing into.’ 

Former Tory leader candidate Mr Jenrick, though, didn’t agree and said Murray should have been jailed.

He told The Telegraph: ‘He had 13 prior convictions, including causing brain damage. Three years ago he was given a “last and final chance” by a judge. Yet he’s spared jail, again. Career criminals must be locked up.’

When the public acts on its own initiative, we shouldn’t be shocked or offended since this is what will happen if the police and courts are unable to safeguard the people.

This man should have been jailed for life with no parole. After all, people have been banged up for less!

UK law is anarchic and we have far too many kangaroo courts with jaded, irresponsible judges who just see it as a 9-5 office job. They need sacking and replacing with competent, diligent professionals who are invested in upholding the law and ensuring that crime is punished appropriately.

To be fair I am speechless. Leaving someone requiring around-the-clock care is the same or worse than killing them, and 24-hour care requires so much manpower and is expensive. This man should have been condemned to life in jail, and the dog should not have been returned to him because it will just be used to intimidate people, yet this person who is a criminal has been rewarded.

Wes Streeting Set To Unveil ‘Revolutionary’ NHS App

Patients will be able to choose where and when they get treatment using a ‘revolutionised’ NHS app as part of Labour’s plans to cut waiting lists.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting will publish proposals to change how people choose health providers – including in the private sector as an NHS patient – book appointments and receive test results. 

And he bragged that bringing the analogue NHS into the digital age would give ‘working-class patients’ the same treatment options as the wealthy.

Sir Keir Starmer and Mr Streeting will disclose the most recent announcement in the government’s NHS Elective Reform Plan.

As revealed by the Daily Mail, there will also be plans to tell GPs to refer patients directly for scans and treatment to speed up access to care.

There is mounting concern among senior Labour figures that they must start delivering improvements to the health service – including cutting waiting lists.

And last night Tory health spokesman Ed Argar said: ‘Labour promised reform, now patients are clear, it’s time they actually delivered it.’

The impact of winter viruses and the flu is also putting a lot of strain on the NHS. According to NHS officials, the app will provide patients more control over when and how they receive non-emergency care when combined with other innovations.

The NHS app upgrades will allow patients to:

  • View and manage appointments at a time and place that is convenient to them, reducing missed appointments. 
  • Choose from a wide range of providers, including in the independent sector. 
  • Book diagnostic tests at convenient locations, such as Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) in a local shopping centre. 
  • Receive test results quickly through the app before choosing the next step – whether that is a remote consultation or surgery – at a convenient time and location.

As a first step, in March, patients at more than 85 percent of acute trusts can view appointment details through the NHS app.

Government sources said that patients would be offered five treatment ‘providers’ or hospitals to choose from, including an independent sector provider where capacity allows.

Mr Streeting said last night: ‘If the wealthy can choose where and when they are treated, then working-class patients should be able to, and this Government will give them that choice.

‘Our plan will reform the NHS so patients are fully informed every step of the way through their care, are given a proper choice to go to a different provider for a shorter wait and put in control of their own healthcare.

‘This Government’s reform agenda will take the NHS from a one-size-fits-all, top-down, like-it-or-lump-it service, to a modern service that puts patients in the driving seat and treats them on time – delivering on our Plan for Change to drive a decade of national renewal.’

But last night, the Health Secretary was condemned by the Tories for his reference to giving ‘working-class patients’ the same treatment choices as well-off people.

Tory MP Greg Stafford, a member of the Commons health and social care committee, told the Mail on Sunday: ‘Wes Streeting should be improving the NHS for all those who need it rather than using class war rhetoric to sow division or put ideology at the heart of yet another Labour policy.’

Right now, people are lying in a hospital bed after spending 20 hours on a trolley in A&E waiting for a hospital bed to become available. The wards are completely full, and the weary staff are run off their feet because there are not enough beds to accommodate patients admitted from A&E, and also A&E is rammed because people cannot get a GP appointment.

And why is this? Could it be that the population has increased, and no new NHS app can hide the fact that the UK’s population is growing beyond its capacity and the NHS can’t cope? It’s not apps that we need, it’s sensible immigration control.

The Winter Of 1963

After many weeks of milder-than-normal weather, winter is finally arriving in Britain.

Across the nation, temperatures have dropped and snow has caused chaos.

But, whatever happens, it is doubtful that there will be a repeat of the Big Freeze of 1963 when Britons weathered the most brutal winter in living memory.

In what was the coldest winter for 200 years, even the Thames froze over in places – evoking memories of frost fairs that were held on the river in previous centuries.

During unusually cold weather that began on Boxing Day in 1962 and persisted until March, snow was non-stop in numerous areas, to the point where telephone wires were weighed down until they touched the ground.

Temperatures were an average of -2C (28F) for more than two months, whilst in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, they dropped as low as -22C (-7.6F).

Numerous schools were also closed. Power cuts hit thousands of homes, and football matches stopped for months.

The United States and the Soviet Union were on the verge of a full-scale nuclear conflict at the time, and Britain had just recovered from the horrific Cuban Missile Crisis.

At the time, the Beatles were a little-known Liverpool band that still made their living by touring northern ballrooms, but many were unable to attend their shows due to the persistent snowfall.

When two trains collided in a snowdrift on the first day of the Big Freeze, the dangers of winter were brought home to everyone.

The Mid-Day Scot crashed into the Liverpool to Birmingham Express on Boxing Day in 1962, leaving 18 people dead. 

Among those who perished were young children aged between two and 12.  

January of 1963 was the coldest month since 1814.

The following month, a massive snowstorm struck Northern Ireland, south-west England and Wales.

About 5ft of snow descended in Tredegar in Monmouthshire.

In Leigh-on-Sea, in Essex, the sea froze and dozens of lakes and rivers received a cover of ice. 

Mini icebergs even formed in the River Mersey, blocking vessels as they sailed towards the Irish Sea, and a few birds were stuck in the ice as the Solent iced over.

The Daily Mail sent a helicopter – after the RAF’s own aircraft had been beaten back by the bad weather – to drop food for 33 orphans living at a Church of England care home in the village of East Knoyle, Wiltshire.

It was also a terrible period for animals. Farmers were unable to reach their cattle in certain fields due to the heavy snow, causing the animals to starve to death.

People who encountered freezing winters back in the day, talk about small coal fires and ice on the inside of the windows. Most didn’t have warm garments that are available now and went to bed freezing. The milk that the milkman delivered was so cold the milk would expand and stick out above the glass bottles.

Winter garments were Wellington boots, trousers, cotton vests, a school shirt, a wool jumper and a duffle coat. No trendy apparel because it hadn’t been invented yet. Leather boots were out of most people’s price range and sash windows were extremely drafty so people would fill the gaps with newspaper. Most toilets were outdoors and freezing on the derriere.

The clothes were warm because the materials that they were made out of were mainly man-made and people wore layers and no one went out without a coat, hat and gloves just because it was fashionable!

People had layers of blankets on their beds because it was freezing, and children of larger families slept together to transfer the heat to each other.

Grooming Gangs: Elon Musk Ramps Up Attacks

Elon Musk has ramped up attacks on Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government as tension continues to build around calls for an inquiry into the Prime Minister’s handling of grooming gang cases during his time serving as the Director of Public Prosecutions.

The string of social media posts by the X owner criticising the PM came as Tory leader Kemi Badenoch demanded a public inquiry into Britain’s ‘rape gangs scandal’ after Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips was accused of obstructing an investigation.

Ms Badenoch said an inquiry into organised grooming gangs was ‘long overdue’.

Musk, owner of X, formerly Twitter, had singled out Ms Phillips over the problem – and shared more anti-Labour government posts on Thursday night, including describing as ‘good’ the resignation from the party of 20 Labour councillors in Hertfordshire.

Musk lashed out at the minister’s refusal of Oldham Council’s request to launch a Home Office-led public inquiry into child sex exploitation there – launched a rant of tweets, including sharing mocking memes of the PM and saying: ‘Britain needs Reform now’.

It came hours after he shared his support for far-right troublemaker Tommy Robinson who is presently locked up, condemned to 18 months in jail in October after admitting 10 breaches of a High Court injunction banning him from repeating libellous allegations against a Syrian refugee.

Musk wrote that Ms Phillips ‘deserves to be in prison’ after she denied requests from Oldham Council to lead a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in the town.

The Minister said it was for the council to hold an inquiry, rather than for government to intervene. Telford and Rotherham councils commissioned and funded their own inquiries into grooming gangs in their areas.

The X owner used the platform to allege that the Prime Minister allowed rape gangs to ‘exploit young girls without facing justice’ when he was England and Wales’ top prosecutor.

He also alleged that Ms Phillips was refusing to investigate the gangs because it would lead back to the PM’s time as director of public prosecutions between 2008 and 2013.

Musk wrote on X: ‘In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service’s approval for the police to charge suspects.

‘Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice? Keir Starmer, 2008-2013.’

He has encountered objection from numerous X users for allegedly ‘interfering’ in British politics and justice. Still, last night posted the words ‘The perfect question’ while sharing someone else’s message asking: ‘Why are some people more outraged by @elonmusk commenting on the state of the UK than they are by the mass rape of a quarter of a million British children?’ 

The Conservatives brought in millions of migrants over fourteen long years, despite their promises to safeguard our borders. No surprise there is a shortage of houses, and Keir Starmer is the most dangerous Prime Minister ever.

Elon Musk has completely destroyed Sir Keir Starmer’s credibility as a leader and made him appear much more pitiful than we already know him to be.

While our government despises, disparages, and deceives the indigenous people of our nation, it supports, promotes, and applauds the indigenous people of other nations.

It appears that not one of our politicians is fit to hold office. You could replace them with a plant pot and the country would still be better off!

Our vote has no value at all, but many of us hope that it does, and hope is all that we have got. One day there might be someone intelligent that is elected Prime Minister that might be lucid enough to do the job that they have been elected to do properly.

On Strike Day, A 55-Year-Old Woman Dies From Weight-Loss Surgery

A coroner’s court has heard that a lady passed away following problems during her weight-loss operation on the first day of a junior doctors’ strike.

Susan Evans, 55, returned to Queen Alexandra Hospital, in Portsmouth just two days after she underwent gastric bypass surgery – suffering from stomach pains.

The hospital has recently come under fire from a coroner who discovered that Ms Evans was not visited by a senior physician and that there was no dedicated weight-loss nurse on duty.

By the time Ms Evans returned, after first being discharged, she was ‘extremely unwell’ and her condition persisted to decline until she died the following month.

Now, an inquest into her demise has heard of several ‘failures’ by Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust which ‘contributed more than minimally to her death’.

Coroner Sally Olsen said Ms Evans underwent elective Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery on July 11 last year, which was the first day of industrial action by junior doctors.

The surgical procedure helps with weight loss by reducing the size of the stomach and rerouting the small intestine.

An inquest heard that the surgery ‘went to plan’ and steps were taken to avoid the possibility of an ‘anastomotic leak’, a recognised complication of gastric bypass surgery.

It was said that Ms Evans initially ‘recovered well’ but experienced stomach pain in the early hours of July 13, which was the first day of a junior doctors’ strike.

Ms Olsen, assistant coroner of Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton, added: ‘Unrelated to this, the hospital only had the equivalent of one full-time specialist bariatric nurse, who was not on duty.

‘Contrary to Queen Alexandra Hospital’s written policy for gastric bypass patients, Ms Evans was not seen by a member of the specialist bariatric team on [that day] and was not seen by a senior doctor after reporting pain in order to rule out the possibility of an anastomotic leak.’

It was heard that the night nursing team, who administered pain relief, were ‘unaware’ of the latter requirement.

Ms Evans was also not seen by a member of the bariatric team – a group of medical professionals who work together to treat patients with obesity – before her discharge.

The patient left the Portsmouth hospital ‘in a degree of pain’ and was readmitted two days later.

By this time, she was ‘extremely unwell’ with sepsis and had to undergo corrective surgery on July 15 before a further operation some ten days later.

The coroner said: ‘Despite appropriate medical care following her re-admission, her condition deteriorated, and she died at Queen Alexandra Hospital on 12 August 2023.

This preventable fatality was the result of self-centred doctors who were on a political mission to overthrow the government and neglected their patients.

Doctors shouldn’t be given a continued employment contract if they strike. They are among the best-paid graduates in the UK and they whinge like their mother is still milking them.

Although their income is quite substantial and they have access to a very generous NHS pension, they nevertheless feel that their pay is inadequate, and I question why the hospital released the lady so quickly. Typically, you are in the hospital for a while at least because you have to have a scan to check that all looks well, like no leakage, and then you are allowed something soft to eat like a yoghurt.

You have to re-learn how to eat after surgery because you just can’t go back to everyday meals. It’s like being a baby all over again, having soft mushy meals to begin with. There was something extremely wrong going on here.

Earthquake Shakes San Francisco

Northern California residents started the new year with a rumble, as a 4.7-magnitude earthquake hit the region Wednesday night.

The earthquake came at about 6.34 pm Pacific time, with an epicentre approximately 70 miles north of San Francisco, the United States Geological Survey said.

It struck a depth of just over one mile beneath the Earth’s surface and was felt across the Sacramento Valley, according to the Merced Sun-Star.

Residents reported feeling the earth tremor underfoot, but no injuries were reported.

‘I did feel it actually,’ one X user wrote. ‘It was a rolling earthquake, lasted a few seconds.

‘Usually, the earthquakes around here are jolts, not rolling, so it was kind of cool to feel the floor roll under my feet.’

Another X user added that it was ‘pretty intense for a 4.7.

‘It was a shallow earthquake too, so that makes [it[ feel stronger, but [is] usually more locally felt.’

The USGS considers earthquakes in the magnitude spectrum of 4.0 to 4.0 light to moderate, though their effects can differ based on depth, proximity to cities and local geology.

But the northern California region is used to earthquakes and has built up its infrastructure to withstand heavy earthquakes, so a mild one like this is unlikely to cause any significant damage.

It comes less than a month after a huge 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Mendocino County, triggering a tsunami warning.

Four days after that, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck a remote region of the Nevada desert and was widely felt across Sacramento. 

But a lot of individuals said it was fake news and they didn’t feel anything.

King’s Honour Makes Sadiq Khan’s Children Think He Sold Out

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said his children believe he has ‘sold out’ by accepting a Knighthood and becoming ‘part of the establishment’.

Sir Sadiq was awarded the gong in the New Year Honours list – but has come in for serious criticism from his political adversaries as a consequence.

And it appears like the backlash also extends to Khan’s own daughters Anisah and Ammarah, as well as some of his nieces and nephews. 

The three-term mayor said it was ‘a huge honour’ to receive the title but has joked his nomination received a mixed reaction.

While Sir Sadiq said his mum is ‘chuffed to bits’ at his knighting, the 54-year-old said his two children have accused him of becoming ‘part of the establishment’.

Speaking on the Comfort Eating podcast, he said: ‘I’m not going to pretend it’s not lovely; it’s a huge honour. My mum is chuffed to bits (but) my kids think it’s a joke.

‘They think I’ve sold out – that I’m part of the establishment – all that sort of stuff. My nephews and nieces think I’m elite.’

But the Tooting-born politician has encountered real criticism from fellow politicians with Conservatives branding his inclusion on the Honours List a ‘reward for failure’. 

Following the announcement of Khan’s knighthood, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said the nomination showed ‘once again that for Labour it is Party first, country second’.

He said: ‘Under Sadiq Khan, Londoners have faced a 61 percent increase in knife crime, a housing crisis and a 70 percent increase in council tax – they will rightly be furious his track record of failure is being rewarded.

‘By rewarding the failing Sadiq Khan, Keir Starmer has shown once again that for Labour it is Party first, country second.’

Meanwhile, Bob Blackman, the Tory MP for Harrow East and chairman of the 1922 Committee, said: ‘This is an absolute reward for failure.

‘He is a disaster in London. If you look at every single target he’s set himself – on housing, on crime – he’s missed them every time. He is a total failure, which is clearly a position he has in common with the Government.’

Earlier this month, suggestions that Sir Sadiq was set for a knighthood prompted a Change.org petition saying it should be blocked.

Tory London councillor Matthew Goodwin-Freeman started the petition, which drew more than 200,000 signatures.

He told the Mail: ‘To see Sadiq Khan be given a knighthood is a kick in the teeth for millions of Londoners.

‘He refuses to take responsibility for his failures and shows no remorse or accountability.

‘His track record of failure makes his knighthood even more confusing: crime is up, police in special measures, fire brigade in special measures, his share of council tax is up, the number of days of strikes is up, robberies are up… He’s a nightmare, not a knighted Mayor.’

This knighthood was so less deserved. This is an honoured failure!

The Mayor also said publicly that he didn’t feel safe in London – a metropolis where he is the Mayor, and which has seen a 50 percent increase in knife offences. This is a knighthood for failure, and it’s utterly despicable.

I am also certain that some British people also believe we’ve been ‘sold out’. This knighthood should never have been authorised, and if this gentleman had any integrity at all he should have refused it because I can’t think of one positive thing he’s done for London.

The only words this man does know are tax, congestion charges and ULEZ.

Council Plans ‘Cruel’ Tourist Tax

A council has been criticised for cruel plans to introduce a ‘tourist tax’ that could see expectant mothers charged when they have to journey to hospital from remote areas to give birth.

Patients in northern Scotland must travel hundreds of miles for hospital care.

Pregnant mothers living in Caithness, where local services have been drastically trimmed, have to travel to Inverness to give birth at Raigmore Hospital – more than 100 miles from the main Caithness towns of Wick and Thurso.

They will also be affected by the Highland Council’s proposal to introduce a levy on overnight visitors from autumn next year. 

The hope is that the plan will raise £10 million a year for the local authority, but health campaigners say it is common for heavily pregnant women to travel 100 miles south in the days leading up to their due date.

Hotel stays prior to hospital appointments will incur additional costs.

However, cruise ship passengers and those exploring the Highlands in motorhomes will be exempt.

The Caithness Health Action Team (CHAT) has sent a report on the breach of their right to healthcare to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) in Geneva.

Iain Gregory, of the Caithness Health Action Team, told The Telegraph it is an ‘incredible lack of humanity’ for pregnant mothers to face such a levy.

He said: ‘A woman who is forced to undergo this journey, and who wishes to stay in a hotel or B&B for a day or so before her confinement, will be taxed along with her unborn baby.

‘It will also apply to the thousands of other Caithness residents who require to travel south for medical treatment.’

The move comes after a report by the Scottish Human Rights Commission discovered that mothers in Caithness and Sutherland felt ‘unsafe’ and ‘terrified’ about going to Raigmore to have their babies.

CHAT says that other patients from Caithness are also denied their rights to ‘accessible and adequate facilities’.

Its proposal states that access to the NHS for people living in Caithness ‘has been substantially curtailed over recent years with maternity care suffering particularly badly’.

It adds: ‘Citizens face disenfranchisement, and are unable to enjoy their basic human rights in relation to medical care.’

The consultant-led maternity unit at Caithness General Hospital was downgraded in 2016 to a midwife-led facility and the vast preponderance of local women now give birth in Inverness.

CHAT vice-chairman Mr Gregory said: ‘CHAT has been convinced for some time that the present situation facing mums-to-be, and indeed many other patients who are required to undergo the 200-mile-plus round trip to Raigmore, at all times of the day and night, sometimes in seriously dangerous weather conditions, and often in pain and distress, simply had to amount to a breach of their human rights.’

The campaigners hope the CESCR will respond to its report and put pressure on the Scottish Government and NHS Highland to improve local services.

The changes it wants include having Caithness’ midwife maternity unit led by a consultant to allow more women to give birth there.

It is anticipated that the UN will take up the issue in the upcoming year.

The CESCR is a UN body that monitors how countries enforce human rights such as the right to the best standard of health.

Governments who are signed up to it, including those in the UK, are supposed to follow any recommendations it makes.

Mr Gregory added: ‘CHAT has been campaigning for many years now, yet we still await action.

‘We hope now that we may, at last, ensure that our case is recognised and upheld and that the state, who are ultimately responsible, will be called upon to act.’

A spokesman for NHS Highland said: ‘We appreciate the unique challenges that are faced by people in remote, rural and island areas and in providing safe and effective services as close to home as possible.

‘There are regular consultant clinics in Caithness and we have successfully increased the midwifery team there.

‘We are currently looking at developing some specialist nursing roles for Caithness to add resilience to the service.’

I can see why foreign tourists should be required to pay, but they should also get insurance to cover any medical expenses they may incur while travelling, but locals should not be required to do so!

Nobody from abroad should be allowed free treatment on the NHS, regardless of who they are and where they come from. That’s why it’s called insurance, not an assurance that they will get everything for free.

Yet thousands arrive on our shores and we give them free treatment, among other things.

Very few things in this life are free, and generally when it is offered for free, usually someone else is paying for it – in this case the taxpayer!

Tax his land, Tax his bed, Tax the table at which he’s fed. 
Tax his tractor, Tax his mule, Teach him taxes are the rule.
Tax his work, Tax his pay, He works for peanuts anyway!
Tax his cow, Tax his goat, Tax his pants, Tax his coat. Tax his ties, Tax his shirt, Tax his work, Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink, Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his cigars, Tax his beers, If he cries tax his tears.
Tax his car, Tax his fuel, Find other ways to tax his (censored).

Then tax his coffin, Tax his grave, Tax the soil in which he lays
Put these words Upon his tomb, ‘Taxes drove me to my doom…’
When he’s gone, Do not relax, It’s time to apply the inheritance tax.

The Rebuilding Year Is 2025, Says Keir Starmer

So, it was the season of good cheer, loving each other and just making merry. Everybody was happy and laughing and then Sir Keir Starmer came along with his New Year transmission with all his assurances that he would transform Britain for the better, despite the threat posed by his political rivals and an opportunity to capitalise on his dwindling popularity.

However, Sir Keir’s track record is arguably more troubled with the voters who view him as untrustworthy, dislikable, wimpy and indecisive.

Nevertheless, there is a tiny majority of Brits who believe he should remain as Prime Minister, but the opposition cautioned that voters should ‘watch this space’ because the Conservative Party could be re-energised.

Meanwhile, Nigel Farage lurks in the wings, hoping to use May’s council elections to flex Reform UK’s increasing strength after the party declared to have surpassed the Tories in terms of membership numbers.

Sir Keir’s message, shared on social media and filmed at Downing Street, said: ‘I know there is still so much more to do and that, for many people, it’s hard to think about the future when you spend all of your time fighting to get through the week.

‘So, I want to be clear: until you can look forward and believe in the promise and the prosperity of Britain again, then this Government will fight for you.

‘A fight for change that will define this year, next year and, indeed, every waking hour of this Government.’

He said the Government had a ‘clear plan for change’, including building 1.5 million new homes, cutting waiting lists and reducing immigration.

Sir Keir added: ‘That is what we will be focusing on. A year of rebuilding, but also rediscovering the great nation that we are.

‘A nation that gets things done. No matter how hard or tough the circumstances.’

Of course, our government only tell us what we want to hear. You know what they say, ‘Action speaks louder than words!’ And it’s almost as if he doesn’t comprehend what he’s done. He’s upset a lot of people, but he believes that doing so will allow the country to thrive, but the budget was anything but prosperous.

Our Prime Minister and his little helpers are completely tone-deaf, and the harm they are causing is inexcusable. Even if he does pick up the pace and does some good, people never forget what damage he is doing now.

I wonder how many people believe that Sir Keir will either quit or get the boot before 2026? I personally wouldn’t vote Labour if my life depended on them, but I also wouldn’t vote Conservative either.

Labour has no idea how to govern a nation. That’s what you call delusional—oh, I forgot they were deluded in the first place! It’s like assigning a cleaning service to a patient in critical care who insists they can perform the job when they obviously can’t!

We are slaves to our government (masters). Thousands of years ago our masters would beat us to make us work, now they just give us certain privileges, but they can take them away just as quickly if we do not do as we are told or perform as we should.

Once we realise that we are the slaves of this world and that we will always be slaves to our governments, then we might realise how our governments work in regard to its worker ants.

Imagine an animal being worked to the bone, the only difference is animals if they are beaten only sense pain or death in the moment. Humans have learnt to fight back, but by doing that our government have the power to take away our rights and they do!

A Woman Disappeared In 1972, Finally Solved

A woman who disappeared in 1972 has finally been discovered after it took police 52 years to release a photograph of her.

Sheila Fox mysteriously disappeared from Coventry city centre when she was only 16 amid suspicions she may have been in a relationship with an older man.

West Midlands Police said at the time that she had been living with her parents and kept an ‘open mind’ with respect to her whereabouts.

They had hoped for a long time that Ms Fox had just moved away and kept it a secret.

However, no evidence was discovered for decades, and the sole reason for the abrupt shift in circumstances was the filing of a re-appeal last week.

Ms Fox was ultimately located after all this time, thanks to a single photo that the police dredged out.

Officials confirmed that Ms Fox, now 68, had been found and spoken to in another part of the country. 

A West Midlands Police spokesman said: ‘We are delighted to announce the conclusion of one of West Midlands Police’s longest-running missing person investigations.

‘We recently published a renewed appeal to help find Sheila Fox, who went missing from Coventry in 1972.

‘A single photo of Sheila from around the time of her disappearance was found by officers investigating and published on our website and social media.

‘Within hours of the appeal, members of the public got in touch with information which led the team to her.

‘Sheila was confirmed to be safe and well and living in another part of the country, finally resolving one of the longest-running missing person cases we have investigated’.

Detective Sergeant Jenna Shaw, from the force’s Cold Case Investigation Team, added: ‘We’re absolutely delighted to have found Sheila after more than five decades.

‘We searched through every piece of evidence we could find and managed to locate a photo of Sheila.

‘We are a small team of officers and I’d like to recognise the work of DC Shaun Reeve, who managed to resolve this case with help from the public.

‘Every missing person has a story, and their families and friends deserve to know what happened to them and, hopefully, be reunited with them.’

Teenagers flee their homes for a variety of reasons, and this woman’s actions were one of them. People just didn’t talk about things like they do today, but it’s fantastic that she’s safe and I hope she’s had a happy life. There may have been a lot of reasons, but we can’t guess about something we don’t know.

Children and teenagers don’t just run away from a happy home. However, there was no indication of abuse or ill-treatment, so all of the public knowledge leads to the conclusion that she ran away with perhaps her boyfriend, but of course, this is again all speculation.

This lady had no contact with her family for 52 years. No contact indicates something wasn’t quite right. Either she had a reason or she was in a situation where she wasn’t able to go back – either way it doesn’t sound good.

It was either not good or not normal, whatever ‘normal’ is. Whatever the explanation I do hope that the gutter press leaves her alone.

Even though it does seem that this woman left of her own free will. Over the years of the police searching, did she not apply for a passport, need a birth certificate, get married, even open a bank account or anything else in this time?

Were government agencies not sharing data, and were the police exploring all this time, or did they not try that hard in the first place?

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