Grooming Scandal Blamed On ‘Peasant Immigrants’

Kemi Badenoch has blamed ‘peasant’ immigrants from impoverished parts of foreign countries for the grooming gangs problem.

The Tory leader suggested problems came from ‘sub-communities’ within nations that were ‘very rural’.

In an interview with GB News, she said examining the cultural issues was one of the main reasons she backed a national inquiry.

‘One is on the perpetrators’ side: where do these abusers come from? There’s a lot of misinformation, there’s a lot of generalisation and many innocent people will end up being grouped in with them,’ she said.

‘But there is a systematic pattern of behaviour, not even just from one country, but from sub-communities within those countries.

‘People with a particular background, work background. People with a very poor background, a sort of peasant background, very, very rural, almost cut off from even the home origin countries that they might have been in.’

The comments were branded ‘shocking’ by the Greens, while Labour MP Diane Abbott said Ms Badenoch was showing ‘gross opportunism’. 

No 10 said PM Keir Starmer would not use the same language.

Sir Keir and Ms Badenoch have often disagreed over demands for a national investigation.

The Government has so far knocked back calls for a national review in favour of locally-led inquiries.

The PM has claimed that the emphasis should be on enforcing recommendations from Professor Alexis Jay’s 2022 report.

The problem reappeared at the beginning of the year after US entrepreneur Elon Musk issued a series of criticisms directed at the PM.

Mrs Badenoch said a national inquiry would shine a light on the truth and hold people to account.

‘This is about those victims who deserve justice,’ she said.

‘The survivors who deserve justice by making sure that every single perpetrator we can find is caught and brought to justice, and those who failed in their duty to protect their children are held to account and exposed.’

Ms Badenoch’s remarks followed the Rotherham Labour MP’s support for a nationwide investigation into gang grooming.

Sarah Champion called for a nationwide inquiry that would be led locally and probe the failings of authorities over grooming gangs.

She proposed a national ‘Telford-style’ inquiry rolled out by the Home Office to places that trigger the threshold for greater scrutiny.

After that, the results would be sent back to the Home Office for a nationwide reaction.

‘Child sexual abuse is endemic in the UK and needs to be recognised as a national priority,’ she said.

‘It is clear that the public distrusts governments and authorities when it comes to preventing and prosecuting child abuse, especially child sexual exploitation.’

This should have been resolved years ago, but it wasn’t because our leadership felt—and still feels—the need to appease some segments of our society.

They should have been packed up and shipped out.

And it wasn’t dealt with because certain people, and they know who they are were well-known groomers targeting vulnerable children.

Rape is one of the many things they did to these children. They also tortured and mutilated them. Some will never be able to have children of their own and some have killed themselves. Numerous more horror stories have not been revealed, yet Labour will not sanction a National Inquiry with powers of arrest. And we need to ask ourselves why.

Tony Blair should take part of the blame, but the truth is that the previous Conservative administration often discussed implementing a points-based system, but it never happened.

We did once in the UK have a flock of pristine sheep, but now we have wolves that roam among us.

The British public is being told that their views are racist if they make any remarks about someone else’s beliefs or culture, this is why some behaviours have gone unchallenged, and misogynistic cultures have been permitted to thrive.

My Wife Died In My Arms After Her GP Ignored Her Terminal Cancer In An Over-The-Phone Appointment

A mother-of-three was misdiagnosed in an over-the-phone GP appointment, four months before dying of cancer. 

Her grieving husband, who saw his wife die in his arms, is now demanding that phone consultations with a general practitioner be discontinued.

Laura Barlow, 33, was recently wed to her husband Michael when she started to feel unwell, experiencing abdominal pain and blood in her poo.

The couple have three children together Bella-Mia, Summer-Akye and Bonnie-Rae.

In October 2023, she was diagnosed with endometriosis on a telephone call with a GP at Stickney Surgery in Lincolnshire.

Her GP scheduled a gynaecological consultation at Pilgrim Hospital and prescribed medicines.

While at work two months later, she started to feel intense pain in her stomach. Michael tried to take her to the GP but was advised to instead visit the Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) at the hospital where she was given morphine to help manage the pain. 

After more than two hours stuck in a waiting room, Michael claims they were dismissed by doctors because Laura was already being treated for endometriosis.

Michael said: ‘We went to Urgent Care and she was assessed and they gave her morphine for the pain.

‘After two hours of waiting we saw a doctor who told us that because she was already seeing a doctor for endometriosis, there was no point him dealing with it as well.’

A week later on New Year’s Eve, Mrs Barlow was taken to hospital with pain in her abdomen and was told to come back on January 2 for an ultrasound scan.

The scan showed lesions on her liver and she was put on a two-week cancer pathway.

A few weeks later in mid-January, she was admitted to Pilgrim Hospital’s A&E department where she was finally diagnosed with cancer.

Micheal said: ‘It was a shock when we heard she had cancer, we thought if it was the liver, they could cut a bit out and you can live without it. We thought she would be ok.’

On February 2, Michael and Laura were supposed to be on holiday at CenterParcs with their children. While their children went ahead with Laura’s sister, the couple heard the devastating news about Laura’s cancer.

They were told that Laura had 95 per cent cancer in her liver and her bowel and that she was now terminal.

‘They told her to go home and spend time with our kids.’

Michael and Laura hooked up with their kids at CenterParcs where they enjoyed a final family holiday together.

Laura was wheelchair-bound and taking morphine for her pain during the short trip.

Laura’s health continued to worsen a few days following the holiday.

Sadly, she died on February 6.

Michael said: ‘I had phoned her dad to meet me at the house to help. The doctors had given her some stuff to make her relaxed.

‘We fell asleep together, she was in my arms. I woke up to the others telling me “Mike, she’s gone.’

Michael believes that blood tests should have been taken earlier.

‘It makes me angry because it is all about what if,’ he said, ‘could they have caught it earlier, could we have had longer?

‘I’m not saying she wouldn’t have died, but could we have got another six months together?’

Almost a year on, Michael is being supported by his family as he raises his three children as a single parent.

He said: ‘I have three kids aged two, three and ten. I have a fantastic family who support me every day as much as they can.

‘It is hard though. I have my three-year-old asking if mummy is coming home. I have to tell her she is with nanny now and they are both watching over us.’ 

After Laura passed away, Michael launched a petition urging the government to require in-person consultations for every doctor’s appointment.

The petition has already acquired more than 130,000 signatures.

He said: ‘A lot of people have told me it has pushed them to see a doctor instead of talking on the phone.

‘If a person says they would like to see a doctor, they should have that right. If someone had seen her things may have been different. My wife never got that right.’

A representative for United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Pilgrim Hospital, and Stickney Surgery, said: ”The NHS in Lincolnshire would like to again extend our deepest condolences to Laura’s family.

‘Patient confidentiality means we are unable to comment on individual cases, but we will continue to speak to Laura’s family about their concerns as appropriate.’

I feel very sad for this family and I do wonder how many people are now dying undiagnosed. I would guess the figures would astound most of us.

The NHS has long been unfit for purpose, with the most severe decline occurring in the last five years. Because the third world is flooding into our nation, we are now at the mercy of a third-world service, and I worry whether there is any hope for the future.

It’s time that monthly publishing of avoidable deaths was mandated for the NHS because this lady may have been saved by blood tests done on a first visit to the doctor’s surgery to rule out anything suspicious.

The NHS is now a lottery for life and death.

It is shameful how after 5 years on from the COVID pandemic GPs are still not seeing patients face to face. Every other occupation has gone back to work, but doctors still haven’t, yet they are still getting paid for it – extremely favourably paid for that matter!

England And Wales Arrest Foreign Nationals For Child Sexual Abuse

At least 1,860 foreign nationals were arrested last year over sexual crimes against children in England and Wales, the Mail on Sunday can reveal.

And campaigner Dame Jasvinder Sanghera – who has received death threats for speaking out – said she had ‘no doubt’ grooming gangs were continuing brazenly to target youngsters. She demanded a new public inquiry.

The Centre of Migration Control think tank last week published data showing foreign nationals were 3.5 times as likely to be arrested for sex crimes as British suspects.

Police made more than 9,000 arrests of foreign nationals for sexual crimes in the first ten months of last year in 41 of the 43 forces in England and Wales, more than 26 percent of the total estimated 35,000 sexual offences arrests, despite foreigners making up just nine percent of the population.

Now the Mail on Sunday can reveal that the think tank’s freedom of information requests – answered by 22 forces – allows the figures to be broken down for child sex offences by region.

Arrests for child sex crimes by foreign nationals were at 660 in London for the first ten months of last year, 309 in the West Midland, 187 in Greater Manchester, 162 in Kent and 105 in Essex.

At least 312 foreign nationals were arrested for sexual crimes on children under the age of 13, with 98 in London, 61 in the West Midlands, and 40 in Greater Manchester.

There were more than 265 foreign citizens arrested for creating, possessing or distributing indecent photos of children, with 95 taking place in the capital.

And at least 67 foreigners were arrested for prostitution-related crimes.

Those figures will understate the full scope of the scandal, as they are for just half of the forces, and are for just ten months of the year.

The disclosures come as the debate over grooming gangs of Pakistani origin targeting white girls offers little sign of abating with Sir Keir Starmer still attempting to end calls for a public inquiry.

Dame Jasvinder, who was shunned by her family at age 16 after refusing an arranged marriage to an older man, founded Karma Nirvana, a charity supporting victims of honour-based abuse in the UK, in 1993.

She told the Mail on Sunday: ‘I’ve lost count of the number of times victims have come to me saying they are not being taken seriously because people are worried about community tensions.

‘People are worried about being called a racist. People are worried about treading on cultural ties and then on the back of that, people have not acted in response to these victims.

‘I’ve spent nearly 30 years trying to get agencies to recognize that this issue has to be dealt with as a safeguarding issue and not an issue you can just tiptoe around because it’s from a different culture.

‘Cultural acceptance does not mean accepting the unacceptable.

‘I’ve sat opposite victims who were harmed by grooming gangs and they have said to me, ‘Jasvinder, these perpetrators will say to us go to the police, but they’re not going to believe you, because we will just say they’ve been racist.’

People fearing being branded racist gives perpetrators power, she added.

‘If perpetrators believe somehow they are untouchable because professionals may not take them as seriously, because they are fearing being called a racist or fearing treading on cultural ties, you’re giving the perpetrators more power.’

In the first ten months of last year, at least 131,000 foreign nationals were arrested in England and Wales, accounting for 16.1 percent of arrests. They also accounted for 26.1 percent of sexual crimes.

This is the first person from the Asian Community that I’ve heard publicly stand up and condemn what happens within their community. She is a brave woman to stand up for what she believes in.

Why are the leaders of these communities where these gangs are operating, why are they not condemning what these men are doing?

They should all be booted out – no legal aid for these people, which I might add is being paid by the taxpayer. Our government have no justifications for keeping them here in the UK, they need to go!

Although Dame Jasvinder Sanghera is a courageous woman, this just serves to highlight the system’s cowardice and complicity.

Any foreign national found guilty should be expelled back to their country of birth after serving their jail time, and never again permitted to enter the UK again.

People who come to this country should be on a probationary period and if they cannot fit in or understand the laws of the UK then they should be shipped home again. Violate the rules of the UK and indeed cannot acclimate to our way of life, removal without appeal.

Naturally, based on human rights, all of these offenders will be allowed to stay in the UK. As a result, we ought to enact legislation that declares that foreign nationals who commit any crimes in the UK forfeit their right to stay.

It has now been proved time and time again that Sir Keir is a liar. Labour needs to go!

An Illness Surge Hits Britain As Carrie Johnson Is Hospitalised

Carrie Johnson has revealed that she spent a week in hospital after suffering from flu and pneumonia, as England’s emergency services struggle with their ‘busiest winter ever’.

Sharing a picture of her in a hospital bed, the wife of ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that she spent the first few days of 2025 at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxfordshire after enduring a ‘nasty’ chest infection for nearly 18 days. 

‘It just got out and I was struggling to breathe properly’, she wrote in an Instagram caption. 

‘Hospital confirmed I had flu and pneumonia. I was there nearly a week and I’m still not recovered. It could take another few weeks until I feel like myself again.’

Carrie went on to praise the team of staff who supported her through her recovery, calling NHS doctors and nurses ‘the best people on earth’. 

‘I say it a lot but they have looked after me and my family when we’ve needed it most and I will never not be enormously grateful. They are the absolute best of us.’

‘I was at the John Radcliffe and I cannot thank them enough. When I was particularly low, one nurse even serenaded me by my bed’, she shared.

Carrie also urged people to get the flu jab, saying: ‘I really, really wish I had. It totally slipped my mind this year.’

‘No guarantee, but I very possibly wouldn’t have spent the last 3 weeks horribly, horribly ill had I got it’, she added.

The former PM’s wife also shared a second image of a green dinosaur and a heart-shaped princess key ring, which she said belonged to her young children Wilfred and Romy.

‘The second picture is Wilf’s favourite dinosaur toy “Greenie” and Romy’s princess key ring which they gave me to take to the hospital with me and lived by my bedside. Health and family are everything.’

It comes amid warnings that England’s emergency services are battling their ‘busiest winter ever’ as flu cases continue to soar.

More than 2.3 million patients visited A&E in December while ambulance teams tackled over 800,000 incidents—the highest number ever recorded in a single month.

Additionally, hospital admissions are up a fifth in a week and almost five times the amount recorded in early December, according to separate monitoring data that tracks England’s flu pandemic.

Twelve hospitals have already reported catastrophic occurrences as a result of the crisis, indicating that they are having difficulty offering patients safe care.

If general practitioners opened their offices over the weekend during this hectic period, it may be beneficial since these patients might be able to receive treatment at their office rather than having to visit A&E.

In order to relieve some of the pressure on A&E on weekends, it should be mandatory for them to open when assistance is needed, like right now with the flu and other infections. Mind you, it would help if you could get an appointment in the first place!

Many people have to call their GP surgery at 8.30 am and then have to join a gigantic phone queue or wait for a callback. For a face-to-face, you typically have to wait three weeks or more, and that’s for a doctor whose name you normally can’t pronounce.

But I don’t think Carrie Johnson had to wait for an appointment for hours, and I’m willing to wager that getting her a room wasn’t an issue! At least she had a bed, some people have to wait in hospital corridors for 18 hours, and some patients have to wait on a trolley in a corridor for 36 hours with a bowel obstruction – what has this country come to?

Stage 4 Colon Cancer Missed By Doctors

A mum-of-three who claimed her GP mistook signs of bowel cancer for a urinary infection three times has urged others to be mindful of the tell-tale signs of the disease. 

Last August, Zoe Gardner-Lawson, a resident of Bracknell, Berkshire, first called her family physician after experiencing a sudden, dull, and persistent discomfort in her lower back.

However, the 36-year-old was repeatedly prescribed antibiotics for over a month, despite the pain worsening. 

Then, in September, after complaining the pain had extended to her abdomen leaving her bedridden, she was advised by her GP to head straight to A&E. 

Initial tests indicated she may be suffering from kidney stones.

It was only after a full-body CT scan that doctors confirmed she had a 5cm tumour on her bowel and the HR manager was diagnosed with stage four cancer—the most serious kind that means it’s spread elsewhere in the body. 

Now undertaking her fifth round of chemotherapy Ms Gardner-Lawson is calling for the bowel cancer screening minimum age to be lowered to ‘at least’ 30.

Recalling her horrifying ordeal, she said: ‘My professor Jamie Murphy, told me that I could’ve been living with this tumour for up to four years before my diagnosis — that’s terrifying.

‘If all goes well, I still have a chance at achieving a “no evidence of disease” status, but it all depends on these next couple of years.

‘I’m young enough that they’re not considering it a terminal diagnosis just yet.’

‘The plan is, once I’ve had my sixth round of chemo, they’re hoping I’ll have responded well,’ she added.

‘All being well, I’ll need to be booked in for a second surgery—to remove remaining stomach lymph nodes and two tumours on my liver.’

There are about 44,000 cases of bowel cancer every year in the UK and 142,000 in the US, making it the fourth most common cancer in both countries.

But cases are increasing in young people, an alarming trend that professionals have connected to modern diets, chemical exposure and lifestyles.

Constant and fresh diarrhoea or constipation, the urge or sense of wanting to poop more or less regularly, and blood in the stool are all signs of colon cancer.

Stomach pain, a lump in the stomach, bloating, unexpected weight loss and fatigue are among other common signs. 

For guidance, anybody exhibiting these symptoms should speak with their general practitioner.

Having always felt ‘fit and healthy’ and seldom worried about her health, Ms Gardner-Lawson said she was shocked when she started experiencing lower back pain and booked a phone appointment with her GP.

‘There was just no change and by my third dose [of antibiotics], I’d really deteriorated,’ she said.

‘I was basically bedridden—I felt so unwell, and the back pain had spread to my abdomen.’

It was only after a fourth appointment with her GP on September 19 that she was advised to go to A&E.

‘My blood was checked for infection markers, called creatine reactive protein,’ she added.

‘They were rising, until they reached 364n/mol—a normal range for women is 52.9n/mol and 91.9n/mol.

‘A general surgeon came to see me, and he said it looked like I had fluid build-up on my abdomen.

‘I threw my toys out the pram then, I told them I wasn’t going to leave until I had a full-body CT.’

Results revealed she had a lime-sized tumour on her bowel that had spread to her liver, peritoneum—a membrane that surrounds the abdominal organs—and stomach lymph nodes. 

After being moved to the Cleveland Clinic in central London, she underwent a four-hour operation in October to remove as much of the tumour as possible and was told she’d need chemotherapy. 

‘I’ve tolerated it as well as anybody can, it’s pretty hardcore,’ Ms Gardner-Lawson said.

‘I’m on round five of eight in total—it’s three chemo drugs per round.

‘I’ve basically just taken the approach to throw the kitchen sink at it, improve my prognosis as much as possible.’

Earlier this month her sister Lisa also set up a GoFundMe page in an effort to raise funds for other potentially life-saving treatment and day-to-day help such as cash for extra child care, to lift the financial weight off Ms Gardner-Lawson’s shoulders.

To date, it has raised nearly £7,000. 

Ms Gardner-Lawson also believes if she had been offered a faecal immunochemical test [FIT] earlier, doctors may have caught her cancer years ago.

People aged 60 to 74 years who are registered with a GP practice and live in England are automatically mailed a FIT kit every two years.

But as part of plans to lower the age of people that receive the test to age 50 by 2025, the kits are also presently rolled out to those aged 54 and over. 

A tiny sample of faeces is taken from the toilet using a small stick that is given, and it is then sent back to an NHS lab in a plastic container.

Scientists then check for small amounts of blood in the poo—that would not be visible to the naked eye—as this could be an early indication something is amiss.

Now, Ms Gardner-Lawson believes the standard testing age should be lowered to at least 30 if not 25.

‘If my disease was caught earlier, it would’ve been easier to treat… I think the minimum age for testing needs to be reduced,’ she added.

Her ordeal comes as experts continue to warn of a troubling rise in bowel cancers in under 50s, which has puzzled doctors around the world.

The disease, the third most common cancer in the UK, is the same type that killed Dame Deborah James at age 40 in 2022. 

Although the vast majority of diagnoses affect those aged over 50, rates in older age groups have either declined or held steady while diagnoses in younger adults have increased by 50 percent over the last 30 years.

Cancer Research UK estimates that over half (54 percent) of bowel cancer cases in the UK are preventable.

Obesity, excessive use of antibiotics, radiation from cell phones, and even undetectable plastic particles in drinking water have all been proposed by doctors as possible causes.

But an increasing number of specialists are also blaming ultra-processed meals for the problem.

FIT tests may be purchased online. It might save someone’s life and isn’t costly.

Unfortunately, it’s a never-ending circle with these second-guessing GPs. They should not be guessing or playing Russian roulette with people’s lives. If they’re not confident that they diagnosed the patient correctly, then they should refer to a consultant.

Doctors will always guess the least serious option and treatment, rather than a referral to rule out the worst scenario because referrals cost money which in turn affects their profits, and primary care is not working. They were given more money for doing less. The caring aspect has long since gone.

Once the issue is recognised and addressed, the NHS is excellent. The issue is that scheduling an appointment with a general practitioner is very hard, and when you do, you are dismissed.

Swastikas Decorate The Southern Sydney Synagogue At Allawah

A Synagogue in Sydney has been spray-painted with at least a dozen Swastikas in the latest anti-semitic attack to plague the metropolis.

The Southern Sydney Synagogue in the suburb of Allawah was the latest target of anti-semitic defacers who smeared an enormous red Swastika symbol at the entrance to the place of worship alongside the words ‘Hitler on top’.

According to reports, two males wearing masks and black clothing were observed wandering around the synagogue early in the morning.

President of the Jewish Board of Deputies David Ossip told Daily Mail Australia ‘Enough is enough’.

‘It isn’t normal or acceptable that Australians are having to wake up every morning filled with apprehension about whether or not there’s been another antisemitic hate crime overnight,’ Mr Ossip said.

‘This illegal behaviour is reprehensible and undermines the social harmony and cohesion which we all treasure. 

‘We cannot allow ourselves to become desensitised to acts of Jew-hatred and allow illegal conduct such as this to become normalised. 

‘The alleged offenders must be swiftly identified and prosecuted and receive penalties sufficient to ensure that such conduct is deterred and not normalised.’ 

George Foster, President of the synagogue, said that he had received a call from police at 4.30 am that they had driven by and seen the place of worship had been attacked.

‘Looking at the CCTV it seems there were two men in black hoodies and masks who were spraying the walls of the synagogue,’ Mr Foster told The Daily Telegraph.

Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin called on the alleged offenders to ‘face the full force of the law’. 

‘As long as these people evade justice for trying to terrorise Australian citizens, it will continue,’ Mr Ryvchin added.

‘We’re also calling on our fellow Australians, particularly those in positions of influence across society, to end the silence and publicly denounce this behaviour as repugnant to our national values and a threat to us all.’

Dr Dvir Abramovich, Chair of the Anti-Defamation Commission, branded the alleged crime ‘unforgivable outrage that should make every Australian’s blood boil’. 

‘To defile a synagogue—a place of worship, hope, and sanctuary—with the ultimate emblem of genocide and evil is nothing short of an attack on the very heart of our nation,’ he said. 

‘It’s an assault on every value we hold dear, and it screams that antisemitism is no longer hiding in the shadows—it’s out in the open, brazen and unashamed.

‘These swastikas, painted in malice, are not just symbols—they are bullets aimed at the soul of the Jewish community.

He added: ‘Let’s be clear, this act is nothing less than an attempt to terrorise and dehumanise, a desecration meant to spread fear and intimidation.’

‘What kind of society are we becoming when Holocaust survivors who rebuilt their lives in this country now have to witness the symbols of their tormentors defacing their places of worship?

‘This isn’t just graffiti—it’s a gut-wrenching reminder that the same hatred that fuelled the extermination camps is still alive and kicking. 

‘And make no mistake: this isn’t just a Jewish issue. This is an Australian issue. Because an attack on one community is an attack on all of us.’

The Australian Jewish Association said that ‘social cohesion has been destroyed’.

‘Every day, we wake up to news of a new antisemitic attack,’ the organisation posted on X. 

‘Australia has changed significantly under the Albanese Government.’

A spokesperson for NSW Police said that officers were ‘investigating after offensive graffiti was spray painted on a synagogue in Sydney’s southwest’.

But from a weak administration that has brought in hate, what do you expect?

In addition to observing, the police have safeguarded and helped this type of activity, as well as promoted and encouraged it.

We now have governments that side with terrorists, and as crazy as that sounds, it’s reality. They have encouraged this kind of behaviour and transformed the culture of Australian society, but I’m not surprised – people are not known for their intelligence!

These criminals need to be locked up for a long time, and if they are not native to the country, they should be deported immediately.

Curried Pies

A woman was left shocked after ordering a £700 laptop from a high street retailer only to find she was the recipient of three mouldy pies instead. 

Gemma Worley, 39, from Cornwall, thought she had bagged a bargain after deciding to treat herself to a new Lenovo Yoga laptop bought online from Currys over the weekend, but her excitement soon waned after the sizeable package was delivered on Tuesday.

The charger cable, accessories, stylus and even instruction booklet were all there – but so were a trio of baked goodies from Yorkshire Handmade Pies stuffed into the space where her new computer should have been.

Despite reporting the incident to customer services straight away, Mrs Worley said she has been left waiting to hear whether she will receive a refund or a replacement laptop.

After MailOnline approached Currys, she was told this process could take up to 14 days.

The circumstances suggest that Mrs Worley could have fallen victim to a scam known as refund or return fraud.

In some cases, the fraudster will buy something, take it out of the box, and then swap it out for something of comparable weight but lower worth.

After that, they’ll try to return the item and get their money back.

The returned shipment may then inadvertently be shipped to a legitimate consumer while the lower-value products are still inside.

Speaking to MailOnline, Mrs Worley expressed her surprise at seeing the decomposing pies inside the box instead of the new laptop she had paid for.

‘When I opened it there was like a really weird sensation. I opened it and the charger cable was there and the accessories were there, including the stylus and the instructions. 

‘But in the space where the laptop should have been there was a box of pies. It was originally a selection box of six pies. They had taken out three and squished the box into the gap where the laptop was.’

Disturbed by the discovery, she said she contacted Currys customer services almost immediately after opening the box, but claims that she was not given a clear timeframe for how long it might take to resolve the situation. 

‘I’m not an unreasonable person. I know things like this happen, but they just seemed to fob me off. I was very surprised because I’ve used Currys a lot in my life buying various laptops and other electronic things and have never had a problem.

‘They said they have referred it to a back office and that I’ll receive an email, but they didn’t say when. I’ve called them every working day since, just to get an update. 

‘At the end of the day, £700 is a lot of money just to hear them say, “We’ve launched an investigation. You’ll hear at some undefined point in the future”.’

Mrs Worley said she has also not been told whether or not she should dispose of the unwanted pies which are meant to be kept frozen.

She claims the pies are ‘beginning to smell’ as well as ‘sweat and weep’ as they slowly decompose in the box.

‘I’m £700 out of pocket, no laptop and no idea of the resolution,’ she said, adding that she felt ‘sick’ at the thought of having been impacted by scammers.

‘I’ve been looking up the slang definition of “pied” and I do feel abandoned. Like, I say, £700 is a lot of money just to say, “Oh, we’ll be in touch”.

‘I do feel aggrieved by being a victim of the scam in the first place and by the service they have provided.

‘I am a reasonable person, I just want my laptop or a refund – but I’d prefer to have a laptop. I spent a long time choosing the type of laptop, and I would just like that one.’

A Currys spokesperson said: ‘We are urgently investigating this case to get it resolved for the customer. 

‘We understand the customer’s frustration and apologise for the time it’s taken to reach a conclusion. 

‘Our teams have been in touch with the customer to provide the latest update. 

‘Rest assured, we hope to resolve the case as quickly as possible.’ 

We learn three things from this story:

  1. That Currys don’t check their returns. They simply shove them back into stock along with brand-new items yet to be sold.
  2. They sell returned items as new. This is dishonest. If I buy something as new I expect it to be new, not something that has been returned, and if I wanted to purchase graded products I’d expect it to be at a lower price, and also that the item has been thoroughly checked.
  3. Currys customer service is useless and does not communicate or act in the interest of the customer.

Companies like Currys are extremely quick to take your money, but very slow to return it.

Currys should just apologise and send out a new laptop. This is Currys fault, they should check all returning boxes.

The BBC SACKS The Man Who Wrote The Anti-Starmer Song Freezing This Christmas

A BBC freelance newsreader has been sacked by the broadcaster after creating an anti-Keir Starmer charity Christmas song. 

Chris Middleton, 33, unmasked himself as the brainchild behind Freezing This Christmas, which was released under the fake band name Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers.

The parody song of Mud’s 1974 hit Lonely This Christmas is about the government’s slashing of winter fuel payments for pensioners and the resulting ‘hardship’ and has raised more than £50,000 for Age UK. 

Mr Middleton, who was a freelance newsreader for BBC Newcastle, revealed that he had been ‘let go’ by the corporation because of a ‘conflict of interest’. 

He had intended to release the tune anonymously but said he had ‘no choice’ but to go public when it started gaining media attention.

Mr Middleton told GB News: ‘Do I stay anonymous and maybe the song won’t do as well? 

‘Or do I put my face out there, put my name out there, and try to push the song as much as possible and raise awareness, knowing that potentially it would cost me my freelance job with the BBC?’

He told bosses that he was going to appear on Martin Daubney’s GB News programme to chat about his song to which Mr Middleton said they replied: ‘OK, basically you can’t work here any more.’

‘I was told, because it was a conflict of interest, it would be against the BBC’s impartiality rules to allow me to continue my job as a newsreader while also putting out a song which of course was political, but the main goal of it was to raise money and raise awareness for pensioners,’ he said.

Mr Middleton had freelanced at the BBC for six years and said he ‘mulled over’ the decision as ‘it’s quite a big thing in my life’.

With the BBC income only being a small part of what he earns, he said he made the ‘right decision’ to go public knowing what would happen in order to raise as much cash as possible for Age UK. 

‘Had the BBC been my full income, as it is for a lot of freelancers, then I would have probably been in a position where I wouldn’t have been able to do it, because I wouldn’t have had money to pay rent or for food or for heating,’ he said. 

‘That goes to show the position that some people are in – if your whole livelihood is reliant upon your job, you’re not going to speak out.’

The BBC has been approached by MailOnline for comment.

The track, which reached number 37 in the Christmas charts, was sung by Frank Sinatra impersonator Dean Ager, 51, from Worthing, who recorded it in just 15 minutes. 

The song features the lyrics: ‘It’ll be freezing this Christmas, without fuel at home, it’ll be freezing this Christmas, while Keir Starmer is warm. It’ll be cold, so cold, without fuel at home, this Christmas.’

Mr Middleton said he was inspired by ‘something on Twitter a couple of months ago about trying to do a Christmas song for pensioners’ and that the hook of the chorus then ‘just came’ to him.

Speaking to the Telegraph in December, Ager said that Mr Middleton had stumbled across him online when he was looking for a singer for the record and offered just £50 for him to perform the track.

Ager explained: ‘Chris contacted me and said ”I’ve got this song – can you do it?” He paid me £50 and I recorded it in about 15 minutes. I already knew the tune, well-ish, and so I sent it and scurried off on my way. I thought that would be the end of it.

‘When Chris asked me if I wanted recognition I looked at the lyrics again and thought ”Wow, that’s something”, but when he told me we were number one on the iTunes download charts, I was jumping around in excitement like a little kid.’

Mr Middleton was raised by his grandparents for several years and says he has seen first-hand how damaging Labour’s fuel payment policy had been.

He said: ‘Older people do feel the cold more.

‘My gran had a heart attack and her medication makes her blood vessels constrict so she is always freezing. Even in summer, she’s bundled up by the fire. 

‘After 14 years of the Tories we were all fed up, and we thought things would be different under Labour, but it’s way worse than anyone thought.’

This guy should get a knighthood ‘for services to the elderly’ as he did this off his own back. He has helped others and has sacrificed his income as a consequence, and clearly, the BBC are Labour supporters, and run by champagne socialists!

Comes to something when you’re sacked for telling the truth and raising money for a worthwhile charity. I’m surprised he’s not yet been arrested for some far-right lame reason, that’s what usually happens – watch this space!

Elderly people are freezing this winter, but I bet it’s been lovely and warm in the Commons.

I was really hoping that the song would reach number one, and it appears that if you show any conflict in Starmer’s Britain you will be cancelled. Commit a crime or worse, then you’ll be okay.

We believed that things would be different under Labour, but they’re far more sinister than anyone thought, and they will continue to get worse.

An Escalating Crisis In Britain’s A&E Departments

Britain’s intensifying winter flu situation is crippling hospitals with patients encountering 50-hour waits as more trusts could declare critical incidents over the coming days.

At least 11 hospitals including in Birmingham, Liverpool, Hampshire and Cornwall have already raised the alarm amid unbearable pressure on their services as the flu outbreak deteriorates and health chiefs warn the NHS is facing ‘exceptionally high demand’.

Patients have been advised to attend A&E alone while some hospitals have restricted visitors amid calls for people to wear surgical masks to limit the spread of viruses amid the ‘quad-demic’ of flu, norovirus, respiratory illness and Covid affecting Brits.

The number of cases is already around double last year’s peak with about 5,000 beds a day taken up by patients contaminated with the virus – and officials expect the situation to worsen as children return to school after the Christmas break.

Patients have endured lengthy waits in A&E before eventually being admitted to wards, while lines of ambulances up to 18 deep have formed outside hospitals as they wait hours to drop off arrivals, leaving them unable to respond to other 999 calls.

Critical incidents have been reported due to ‘exceptionally high demands’ in A&E units, with about 5,000 hospital beds in England occupied by patients with flu.

People have shared stories of long waits, with one woman tweeting a photo of beds at Royal Blackburn Hospital, saying: ‘Patients left out in cold corridors to be gawped at like exhibits in a zoo. No patient dignity and poor patient care. Shameful at best.’ 

Another wrote: ‘Currently in West Mid. Horrible place to be. My sister went into A&E last week and is now staying on a ward awaiting surgery. Took seven hours to get a bed whilst she was in severe agony. The noise on the ward, even at night, people playing music etc. Pure lack of consideration.’

And a third tweeted: ‘I spent 12 hours at Barnet UTC yesterday to not get any results, kept being pushed to the back of the queue…. can’t get into my doctor’s to get a prescription so I’ll just let my pneumonia get worse and worse until I need to take up a bed in a hospital shall I?

A father called Derek told how his ill daughter had to endure a ‘horrible 30-hour wait in a chair’ in A&E at Warrington Hospital in Cheshire. She arrived at 9 pm last Friday and finally got a bed at about 3 am on Sunday.

It appears that Britain and all of its citizens are at the bottom of the list of priorities our government has set for expenditure. Our administration doesn’t seem to care that the absence of heating payments would undoubtedly lead to more people becoming sick.

The focus of our prime minister and members of parliament is on themselves, not Britain.

Starmer might have taken over from the Tories, but he has lied to the people. Perhaps he thought it was better to be thought a fool, and now he has opened his mouth and removed any doubt!

Japan Is On Course For ‘Extinction’

A Japanese professor has predicted the year Japan will become extinct if the country doesn’t grapple with its rapidly ageing population.

The year is 2720 and away from science-fiction fantasies of flying cars, robots and intergalactic travel to far-away stars one Tokyo visionary has made a damning projection.

Hiroshi Yoshida, a professor at Tohoku University’s Research Centre for Aged Economy and Society, claims that after centuries of population decline Japan will be left with just one child under the age of 14 by 2720.

Mr Yoshida has conducted demographic simulations since 2012 and his latest finding is that, according to his current projection, his home will probably cease to exist 695 years from now, according to The Times.

Incredible data, released by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, prompted Mr Yoshida to bring his estimate forward by 100 years after it revealed a steep decline of 2.3 per cent in the number of children.

The number of births in Japan has steadily decreased since the 1970s until in 2005 the number of deaths surpassed births.

In 2022 there were nearly one million more deaths than births in Japan and the percentage of people over 65 now stands at 29.9 per cent of the population – that is an increase of 24.1 per cent since 1960.

Mr Yoshida told Japanese media the country’s long-term slump means that young people cannot get married or have children due to low earnings.

He said: ‘Unless the decline in the number of births stops, the hand of the “clock” will go back.

‘Japan may become the first country to become extinct due to a low birthrate. We should create an environment where women and the elderly can work, and aim for a society where everyone is actively involved.’ 

Japanese politicians have been trying to find answers to the country’s demographic problem with some policymakers warning it only has until 2030 to reverse the trend.

The problems that arise from having more old people to care for but fewer younger people in the workforce pose a greater threat to Japan than extinction.

To tackle this Newsweek said that Japan is planning to relax its tough immigration policies to allow more foreign workers to enter the country.

The government hopes to triple the number of workers from abroad by 2040.

It is even planning to hand out more cash incentives with 5.3 trillion yen (or £27 billion) dedicated to helping couples start families. 

Officials believe that couples may be more inclined to have children if they see more money in their pockets.

The Japanese people are extremely happy and extremely well-mannered. Of course, they have no foreign religion to contend with.

A lot can happen in a century, and I’m sure that the people of Japan will have sorted it out by then. At the moment they might have a population problem and it is extremely distressing for them, but not as disturbing as the issues we have here in the UK. Too many people and the population is increasing at an unsettling pace.

Visit Japan and you will probably discover that it is still Japan. The people are still Japanese and they are enjoying Japanese culture. Visit Britain and you will find much of it unrecognisable, and that its people are being replaced, and there is disquiet stemming from mutually conflicting cultural expectations. One could easily be excused for thinking that it’s the British and not the Japanese who are facing looming extinction.

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