The Disposable Vape Could Push 200,000 People Back To Smoking

The disposable vapes ban could push 200,000 people back to smoking when it comes into effect next month, a report warns.

The law is aimed at protecting the environment and tackling a surge in youth vaping rates, which have skyrocketed from 0.8 percent in 2013 to 7.2 percent last year.

But the Future Health Research Centre says the move risks undermining the Government’s progress towards a ‘smoke-free’ Britain if vapers are not supported to maintain their ‘quit journey’ and switch back to smoking.

An estimated 5 million single-use vapes, which are available to purchase at pocket money prices, are thrown away in the UK every week.

The research report ‘Endgame: managing the disposable vapes ban and the journey to a Smoke-free Future’ contains new polling showing 45 percent of vapers ‘always’, ‘often’ or ‘sometimes’ use a disposable device.

The highest rates of disposable vape use are among those aged 18 to 24, the survey of 4,393 British adults shows.

As a consequence of the ban, 12 percent of users say they will switch from vaping to smoking.

Some 54 percent plan to change to another vape, 15 percent plan to stop vaping completely, and 9 percent will try traditional nicotine replacement therapies, such as patches or gum.

Modelling scenarios based on the findings suggest that the disposable vape ban will result in between 175,000 and 378,000 people quitting vaping and between 630,000 and 1.36 million people changing to another vaping product.

But the smoking rate could rise by between 90,000 and 200,000, adding 0.2 percent to 0.4 percent to the overall population smoking rate.

Richard Sloggett, the report’s author and a former government advisor, said: ‘The Government has committed welcome and strong action to reduce smoking and tackle youth vaping.

‘However, these findings show that urgent work is needed to ensure that efforts to reduce youth vaping do not have the unintended consequence of increasing the numbers smoking – particularly amongst younger people.

‘The ban also feels like being a missed opportunity, with hundreds of thousands of people soon to be looking for alternatives to disposable vapes but over half saying they will simply switch to another product.

‘With the ban looming, the Government now needs to get on the front foot, commit to a national mass media anti-smoking campaign and set out more clearly how it will use its forthcoming regulatory powers through the Tobacco and Vapes Bill to help ensure that those using disposable vapes do not turn to smoking instead.’

The report, commissioned by Kenvue, the maker of Nicolette, calls for the government to use new regulatory powers to limit vape branding, packaging, and displays and restrict flavour descriptions of the products.

Additionally, it urges recommitting funds to a nationwide mass media anti-smoking campaign and setting new goals to track and prioritise decreases in teenage vaping rates.

Steve Brine, a former public health minister and previous chair of the Commons Health and Social Care Committee, who has contributed a foreword to the report, said: ‘Smoking remains the single leading preventable cause of illness and mortality in the UK.

‘The disposable vapes ban and the Government’s wider action in tackling smoking present a massive step in the right direction for England in achieving the original smoke-free ambition.

‘But we are not there yet and as this research from Future Health shows, any complacency will have serious ramifications.

‘The Government needs to make sure that those using disposable vapes are aware of the ban, the alternatives to switch to following its introduction and the dangers of taking up or returning to smoking.’

Vaping has now been taken up by people who have never smoked cigarettes before, particularly youngsters who are now hooked on them, and I’m sure that in the not-too-distant future, there will be studies that link vaping to cancer. After all, you are breathing in a cocktail of chemicals, and we have no idea what they are doing to our bodies.

People complained that smoking cigarettes was filthy and that they didn’t enjoy the smell. Then they introduced vapes, which also smell bad. It’s like an epidemic!

I don’t know why they display them in shops in bright colours, they’re not sweets, they have nicotine and other harmful chemicals in them just like cigarettes, so they should be treated the same.

Vapes have nicotine in them, although some don’t have any nicotine at all, but they also have propylene Glycol (PG) and vegetable Glycerin (VG). These are base liquids acting as solvents and flavour carriers.

A wide variety of chemicals are used to create various flavours. These can include diacetyl, which has been linked to lung disease. Then there are Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). These are organic chemicals that evaporate at room temperature.

Some vapes also have trace amounts of metals like lead, nickel, and tin, which can come from the heating coil. Vapes may also contain acrolein, formaldehyde, diethylene glycol, acetaldehyde, and benzene. These are known carcinogens or have been linked to various health issues.

It’s our government, they want to change things and then change the goalposts. The problem is people are like sheep. They brought out diesel cars and we all bought diesel cars. Then they brought out electric cars because evidently, they’re healthier for the environment.

However, if you buy off Amazon, your item arrives in a box big enough to bury your spouse and hide him under the patio with enough packaging to keep him in place.

The boxes are made out of paper which makes the cardboard, how many trees did we cut down for that? Saving the planet my arse!

‘Alien Mummies’ Found In Peru Prove They’re Real

Scientists investigating ‘alien mummies’ in Peru have shared new findings they claim prove the specimens are ‘100 percent real.’

Dozens of these bizarre, mummified bodies were found in the Nazca desert by journalist and ufologist Jaime Maussan, sparking years of research into their origins.

Nevertheless, other scientists who purported to examine them discovered that the items were only animal bone toys.

Now, the team has released a new study describing how two of the mummies, known as Maria and Montserrat, may have died more than 1,200 years ago.

The report stated that both are female. Maria was calculated to be between 35 and 45 years old at death, while Montserrat was between 16 and 25.

Maria was examined and found to have many claw-like lacerations, a deep cut, and evidence of a bite or bruising in her lower pelvis.

According to CT scans, Montserrat most likely died from a chest puncture wound, especially between the fifth and sixth ribs.

‘These are yet more pieces of clear and irrefutable evidence that these bodies are 100 percent genuine, real, and organic, having once been alive,’ said Dr José Zalce, lead expert on the investigation, in a statement to DailyMail.com.

Dr Zalce, former director of the Mexican Navy Medical Department, said he has analyzed 21 of the unusual bodies, noting features such as fingerprints, bone wear, dental structures, muscular anatomy and internal organs.

The most recent investigation provides fresh information on the reasons behind these purported mummies’ deaths. Independent specialists haven’t yet evaluated the work, though.

Both specimens were discovered with three fingers and toes, extended heads, and internal organs such as the liver, intestines, and heart.

One specimen, Maria, who is five feet six inches, had bite marks, fractures, blood clots in her tissue, and indications of internal trauma on her CT scan.

In addition to many minor puncture wounds and what looked to be bite marks or bruising, Dr Zalce and his colleagues discovered a large incision close to the lower pelvis.

These injuries extended from the tailbone to the hip. The skin and subcutaneous fat had been removed, and two small tailbone vertebrae were broken.

The team also described a zigzag-shaped injury with a discontinuous pattern, indicating that Maria may have descended from a cliff and hit rocks during the fall.

In Montserrat’s case, scientists postulated that severe trauma experienced over a prolonged period was the cause of death.

Multiple fractures, including rib and scapula breaks, were shown in the images.

They reported that she was probably upright at the time of death, with her back pressed against a hard surface.

The team believes that the lack of callus development suggests that the injuries happened either soon after death or potentially later.

The enigma over the mummies started in 2017 when Maussan and a group of self-proclaimed paranormal researchers said they found strange three-fingered ‘mummified humanoids’ with an elongated skull.

The body was found covered in white powder, which the team said was used to preserve the remains.

And five years later, the tiny beings were paraded through Mexico’s Congress where Maussan argued his case and did so on two occasions.

During the second meeting, he brought in a string of doctors who all said the bodies were those of real, once-living organisms – some experts claimed to have studied five comparable specimens over four years.

However, two mummies have also been researched by experts outside of this group, with differing findings.

Forensic archaeologist Flavio Estrada, who conducted the study, said the claims that the specimens coming from another world are ‘totally false.’

‘The conclusion is simple: they are dolls assembled with bones of animals from this planet, with modern synthetic glues, therefore they were not assembled during pre-Hispanic times,’ he said in January 2024.

‘They are not extraterrestrials; they are not aliens.’

Nevertheless, a former Colorado prosecutor and current defence attorney, who has examined one of the mummies, is also a true believer.

Joshua McDowell told DailyMail.com: ‘The bodies studied by Estrada were not related to any specimen that we have studied. 

‘They were folk dolls made to look like [mummies] confiscated at the airport.’

Surely a simple DNA test could solve this, or at least give an indication, and how does one become a connoisseur of alien mummies, unless they have been to call on us before?

I don’t believe that we are alone in the universe, but I’m also not sure if these are mummified aliens either. Whatever they are, they don’t seem very happy.

Since the mummies were carefully interred, they ought to be treated with the same respect as when they are found.

In my opinion, it is quite probable that these mummies were created from bone to resemble extraterrestrials and then buried so they might be discovered years later.

First-Ever NHS Rich List Scandal

Hundreds of NHS executives are earning more than the Prime Minister, according to a report.

Despite failing to reduce waiting lists, nearly 1,700 fat-cat bureaucrats at NHS trusts were each given more than £100,000 a year.

With record sums already being poured in by taxpayers, the first-ever NHS Rich List found that 512 managers banked salaries higher than Sir Keir Starmer (£172,153).

 

Almost 300 received packages of £200,000 or more.

East Cheshire NHS Trust paid eight managers £100,000 or more despite being the worst-performing trust in percentage terms for seeing A&E patients within four hours.

It saw just 50.6 percent within the target time, well below the 78 percent anticipated.

Among the managers was the trust’s ‘director of people and culture’ and deputy CEO Rachael Charlton, who received a £ 367,500 package.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust also gave eight bosses £100,000 or more despite having the worst referral-to-treatment median waiting times. Chief medical director Catherine Walsh banked £387,500 in pay and perks.

The figures, covering more than 200 trusts for the 2023-24 financial year, will enrage the millions of patients stuck on waiting lists.

Approximately 6.25 million patients, relating to 7.42 million cases, are languishing on them, with almost 3 million waiting for more than 18 weeks.

The study by the TaxPayers’ Alliance will also fuel fears that much of the money lavished on health services is not making it to the front line and is instead helping to fund ‘non-jobs’ such as diversity roles.

Referring to Labour’s plan to hand 10 percent bonuses to NHS bosses whose trusts perform well, Tory health spokesman Edward Argar said: ‘The Labour Government plans to hand generous bonuses to NHS managers for simply doing what they are already paid to do as part of their jobs.

‘Patients will rightly be shocked, and asking why Labour aren’t focusing instead on making sure those who are already very well paid are delivering the results taxpayers have a right to expect. Diverting public funds into executive bonus schemes, instead of investing that money in frontline care for patients, is simply wrong.’

Shimeon Lee, who compiled the report, said: ‘Taxpayers will be appalled that while NHS patients face prolonged waiting lists and dismal A&E performance, hundreds of senior managers are pocketing six-figure pay packets.

‘This rich list shows that there are sky-high salaries for senior bureaucrats… that are impossible to justify.

‘If ministers are serious about getting the NHS back on track, they need to ensure that managers of poor-performing trusts aren’t being rewarded for failure.’

The study discovered that 1,694 senior managers got £100,000 or more in total remuneration across 224 trusts. Of these, 1,557 included a salary over £100,000. 

A further 296 got £200,000 or more while 17 got more than £300,000.

Ann James, the former CEO of University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, was paid a £382,500 salary. 

Her trust was rated 95th out of 136 in England for A&E waiting times.

Jonathan Brotherton, chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, received a pay package of £427,500, including a £262,500 salary. 

His trust was rated 128th of 149 for referral-to-treatment waiting times and 119th of 136 for A&E waiting times in England.

George Findlay, the chief executive of University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, was given a £32,500 bonus – on top of his £222,500 salary – despite it ranking 143th of 149 and 105th of 136 for the same targets.

By contrast, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust had the best referral-to-treatment waiting times. 

Chief executive Joe Rafferty got a total pay package of £257,500.

Another eyebrow-raising salary was the £257,000 that North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust gave its ‘chief people officer’, Louise Tibbert.

Despite directives to reduce the number of diversity programs, it was revealed in January that the NHS was employing one diversity staff member per week.

A recent poll discovered that almost two-thirds of voters back the idea of a new US-style ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ to cut billions of pounds of wasteful spending on bureaucracy and ‘non-jobs’ such as diversity and inclusion officers.

The TaxPayers’ Alliance study related to managerial positions at NHS trusts and not NHS England, the quango which operates the health service but which is being discarded by the Government.

A Department of Health spokesman said: ‘This Government is introducing tough new measures in relation to senior managers’ pay, to drive progress on cutting waiting lists.

‘The NHS should pay to attract top talent, but there can be no more rewards to failure.’

Politicians and NHS bosses are frequently rewarded for failure when most of us are unable to get a decent monetary increase for actually fulfilling our roles – sack all of them, do we actually need them?

This is what happens when you have managers paid enormous sums of money but no account for profit or loss.

Who are these managers? They weren’t there before – get rid of them and use the money on patient care. They are greedy pigs with their snouts in the trough.

These are eye watering figures considering our NHS is continually saying it is underfunded, that’s why it’s underfunded!

It’s appalling, these people come out of University and get right into management, right at the top. They spend twenty-odd years doing absolutely nothing, then stroll away with a lucrative pension.

Like all businesses, these people should be paid a lesser basic sum of money with bonuses if they reach realistic targets.

The Race/Gender Gap Holds Back Over A Third Of White Men

More than a third of young white men in Britain worry they are losing out on promotions because of their race and gender, a new poll has shown.

The survey by JL Partners found 36 percent of white men held concerns about being held back at work.

It also found that two-fifths (41 percent) of white men feel worried that they can be sacked for doing or saying the wrong thing.

And almost half of white men (46 percent) now censor jokes or give honest, but respectful, feedback to coworkers because of a fear it could impact their jobs.

It was claimed the findings showed how ‘millions of men are walking around on eggshells at work too scared to speak freely’.

There were also signs that male despair about their futures was ‘pushing men towards populism’ and social media ‘influencers’ such as Andrew Tate.

JL Partners surveyed a nationally representative sampling of 823 white adult men across the UK.

The survey was commissioned as part of a new YouTube and podcast series called ‘White Men Can’t Work’.

It also revealed that almost a quarter (23 percent) of white men feel they are discriminated against because of their race or gender.

More than one in three (34 percent) of white men now believe that white men are the least valued employees in their workplace.

And nearly one in three white men (31 percent) said they believe their sons will have fewer opportunities because of their race or gender, the survey discovered.

Award-winning documentary-maker Tim Samuels, the former host of the BBC show Men’s Hour, has created the ‘White Men Can’t Work’ series.

He said: ‘Millions of men are walking around on eggshells at work too scared to speak freely – whilst knowing that being male can now be a disaster for your career. 

‘The scale of discrimination, self-censorship and anxiety is staggering.

‘White Men Can’t Work has spoken to guys who’ve been sacked literally just for being men, or pushed out over crazy micro-aggression such as talking about the male and female ends of cables.

‘Younger men are very despondent about their futures. All this is pushing men towards populism and the likes of Andrew Tate.

‘Of course racism and sexism have to be stamped out but our biggest companies and institutions have implemented a very divisive and ideological form of DEI that demonises white men, disregards free speech and, when you look at the data, doesn’t even help those it was meant to.

‘We need smarter ways to tackle discrimination that actually work.’

Tate, a self-described misogynist, has amassed millions of social media followers in recent years, often with expletive-laden tirades about women. 

Police chiefs have warned about the impact of male ‘influencers’ such as him.

The first episode of White Men Can’t Work will be released tomorrow on YouTube, Apple podcasts and Spotify.

I suppose it’s a valid concern in the workplace, and if any white man/woman suspects they have been discriminated against they should get themselves a lawyer as soon as possible.

Sadly the modern workplace is nowhere to be seen for the pale face, and it seems that particularly in the public sector white men and women are at the bottom of the ladder.

It’s time for all the indigenous people of the United Kingdom to take a stand. No other Western nation would tolerate that, I’m sure. Ladies and gentlemen, please take a stance against this racial and gender-based insanity.

With all this woke rubbish these days, a male employee would be labelled a sexist if he assisted a woman in the workplace.

Yes, because of numbskull politicians from both the Tory and Labour parties, we have surrendered our nation to foreign invaders.

Sad really, but true. White men are discriminated against. If this happened to a person of colour, there would be a major outcry. It shouldn’t matter what colour, religion or sex a person is, we should all have the same opportunity to be able to speak freely and without fear.

Now white people feel like foreigners in their own country because of what our governments have turned into. It’s now division, exclusion and indoctrination.

I speak my mind because if people want it sugar-coated, I’ll just throw you a doughnut, and of course, governments don’t like to be challenged.

Nowadays it’s not about being the most qualified or competent, it’s about how many boxes you tick, and there are numerous men and women whose careers concluded decades ago with no possibility of getting back to work – too white, too male, too old!

Unfortunately, the days where you succeeded on merit have gone and the days of mediocracy are now here.

People are judged more on their ability to fit into predefined categories rather than on their actual skills and accomplishments. This shift towards mediocracy means that talent and hard work are often overshadowed by superficial attributes. As a result, many capable individuals are left feeling undervalued and overlooked in the workforce.

One day, a whole generation will suddenly wake up and realise that not only did they let this happen, but they supported it!

Fourth Child For Boris Johnson

Carrie Johnson, the wife of Boris Johnson, has given birth to their fourth child.

Mrs Johnson said the couple is ‘smitten’ with their newborn baby daughter, named Poppy Eliza Josephine Johnson.

The former Prime Minister was pictured cradling Poppy in the hospital, after her birth on May 21.

Poppy is sister to Frank, Romy and Wilfred, who was born during the COVID lockdown in April 2020.

Romy was born in December 2021 and Frank in July 2023.

Announcing the birth on Instagram, Mrs Johnson said ‘I can’t believe how pretty and tiny you are. Feel so incredibly lucky. We are all totally smitten.

She added: ‘Not sure I’ve slept a minute since you were born as can’t stop looking at how completely lovely you are.’

Friends of the couple said they left the sex of the baby a surprise and had been expecting a boy.

Mrs Johnson wrote ‘Wilf, Romy and Frank are utterly delighted, particularly Romy who was desperate for a little sister. Bring on the matching dresses.’

In the main announcement image, the baby is sporting a yellow babygrow and knitted jumper, chosen because the couple did not know whether she would be a boy or a girl.

Mrs Johnson also kept the pregnancy mostly a secret. Carrie Johnson gave birth at UCLH and thanked the ‘amazing’ maternity team in her social media post.

Announcing the baby’s name, Mrs Johnson wrote her nicknames are ‘Pops, Pop Tart’. Her middle name Josephine was chosen after Carrie’s mother.

She also suggested the baby would be the final one for her family, writing: ‘A final gang member.’

She posted a sweet picture of Romy holding her baby sister, as well as a photograph of Wilfred stroking her head.

She shared an adorable picture of Romy cuddling her little sister and another of Wilfred stroking her head.

Mrs Johnson also posted images of a pepperoni pizza and a bottle of Pina Colada cocktail, made by the ‘Lockdown Liquor & Co’.

She wrote: ‘Back from hospital now and time for cocktails and pizza with my tiny baby snoozing on my lap. Life doesn’t get any better.’

Poppy’s birth comes after Mrs Johnson was hospitalised with pneumonia for almost a week in January this year.

Posting at the time Mrs Johnson wrote: ‘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.

‘I didn’t expect to spend the first week of 2025 in hospital. After having a nasty chest infection for nearly 18 days at home over Christmas, it just got out of hand and I was struggling to breathe properly.’

Mr and Mrs Johnson announced their engagement in February 2020 and welcomed their first child, Wilfred, on April 29 that year.

The following year Mrs Johnson gave birth to Romy on December 9, and their second son Frank was born on July 5, 2023.

Wilfred was named by the Johnsons in honour of Mr Johnson’s grandpa. He has two middle names: Nicholas, after a doctor who treated the former MP at St. Thomas’ hospital in London as he fought COVID, and Lawrie, after her own grandfather.

In honour of Mrs Johnson’s aunt Rosemary, their daughter Romy bears her name. In honour of Mr. Johnson’s late mother, she was given the third name Charlotte. Her middle name, Iris, is Greek for rainbow.

Mrs Johnson described Romy as their ‘rainbow baby’ following her miscarriage a year before she was born.

After giving birth to Frank, Mrs Johnson said: ‘Welcome to the world Frank Alfred Odysseus Johnson born 5th July at 9.15 am. (Can you guess which name my husband chose?!)’

Boris Johnson, the poor man probably lost count of how many children he had years ago. Some people would call him reckless, but he has the banknotes, so he doesn’t care how many he brings into the world.

Although it’s great that they shared photos of their new baby, I definitely wouldn’t post my child’s face on social media since there are some very odd people online.

The number of children they have doesn’t matter to me as long as they provide for them and don’t depend on handouts.

Boris Johnson has nine children – perhaps he doesn’t comprehend the term contraception. At least the Johnson family are helping to keep the English bloodline before we become extinct.

Boris Johnson’s third great-grandfather was H.İ.F. Kurucularından Yazar Ali Kemal Rıza, Bey who was born in Istanbul, Istanbul Province, Turkey. So, far from a British bloodline.

Ali Kemal Bey (1867 – 6 November 1922) was a liberal Turkish journalist, newspaper editor and poet who was briefly Minister of the Interior in the government of Damat Ferid Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.

He was killed during the Turkish War of Independence. He is the paternal grandfather of British politician Stanley Johnson, and great-grandfather of Boris Johnson, Rachel Johnson and Jo Johnson.

I’ve got to mention that it was nice that he included his children with Carrie Johnson, but he should have also mentioned his older children as well which is fault on Boris’s part because then he started to look like such an irresponsible creature.

Of course, I have criticisms of Boris, but he’s also 100 percent more likeable than Starmer.

Stanley Johnson, Boris’s father said in the Daily and Sunday Express: ‘We need to limit UK population growth to protect the environment.’ He obviously never spoke to his son about this.

The Labour Party Faces Growing Pressure To Scrap Winter Fuel Payments

Almost eight in ten voters believe Labour should ditch its winter fuel payments policy.

The party is under increasing pressure to reverse slashing the subsidy for 10 million pensioners amid a brewing backbench rebellion and a threat of ministerial resignations over more sweeping welfare cuts.

A YouGov poll discovered that less than one in ten (7 percent) of voters believe Labour should keep its policy unchanged.

A third said it should return to the previous system, where all pensioners receive Winter Fuel Payments regardless of their income.

Some 44 percent said it should stay means-tested but that eligibility should be widened to include more low-income households.

The results will pile pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to climb down over the cuts to the payments, worth up to £300 a year for vulnerable pensioners.

He said the Government will look at raising the income threshold (£11,800) to qualify for the payments.

However, he said this would be done at the earliest at the next ‘fiscal event’, which is the October Budget. 

It means any change may not come into force until the following year, meaning lower-income pensioners potentially face another winter of choosing between ‘heating or eating’.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said last July that stripping pensioners of the allowance was necessary to save £1.5 billion a year to help plug the £22 billion ‘black hole’ in the public finances she claims the Tories left behind.

But experts say it may save as little as two-thirds of this.

Every time see Starmer’s face I feel sick to the bone. Get this imbecile out. He’s decimating the country, and what a disgrace to believe that £11,800 is a living wage – Keir Starmer and his friends should be made to live on this amount for however long they have in office.

MPs should be on an average wage for the area that they represent, with no expenses, it’s the only way they will know how it feels to live on the breadline.

It’s also time for them to stop spending millions on illegal immigration, but millions upon millions are spent on illegal immigrants who have never given anything to this country, yet pensioners, most of whom have worked all their lives get screwed.

People on benefits get a £10 Christmas perk to help with the little extras at Christmas, which would go towards very little for Christmas extras.

These comedians (our government) had to plan what they would do once they got into power, and the first bright idea they had was to cut the Winter Fuel Allowance. Now after a year of being in power, with the peril of losing their seats, the nodding donkeys (Labour backbenchers) have discovered that it’s not a good idea.

However, Starmer won’t admit it was a mistake, and he will infer that partly because he cut Winter Fuel Allowance, the funds saved would have made the economy better, so he can now change it.

Stupid is as stupid does. Our government need to stop their excuses and just get on and do it – the Winter Fuel Allowance was eliminated instantaneously, so it can be reinstated in the same way and at the same pace, but spineless comrade Starmer is now playing for time, extending the ban by another winter, and let’s face it, Starmer lies, so if I was a pensioner I wouldn’t hold my breath until the money was actually in my bank account.

Of course, Starmer is the biggest liar on Earth and I don’t believe that he will reinstate the Winter Fuel Allowance. He will delay it as long as possible with his pitiful excuses.

He should quit caving into hotel visitors and stop sending money to other nations for no reason at all, along with his similarly inexperienced group of amateur MPs. Pensioners fear another chilly winter as a result of our government’s vile, cruel, and disgusting behaviour, while our government is throwing money away like confetti.

NHS Plan To Open ‘Calm And Welcoming’ Mental Health A&Es Across England

The NHS is planning to open a network of ‘calm and welcoming’ mental health A&Es across England to treat patients who are in crisis. 

The specialist units will be offered around-the-clock care to ease pressure on already overcrowded hospitals and emergency services.

About 250,000 people went to A&E last year due to a mental health crisis – with about a quarter facing a wait of 12 hours or longer. 

It comes as long waits and the so-called ‘corridor care’ crisis at major hospitals have been linked to thousands of avoidable deaths. 

Doctors and nurses at the new mental health A&Es will support patients who are either suicidal or experiencing symptoms such as psychosis or mania.

People will be able to ‘walk-in’ to the centres or be referred by either their GP or the police. 

The A&Es will be designed to provide a ‘calm and caring environment’, rather than the ‘noise and chaos’ of busy trauma centres, it has been reported. 

For example, one unit which has already opened in Ladbroke Grove, west London, has two ’emotional support dogs’ that cuddle up to patients.

Fresh fruit, biscuits, tea and coffee and other refreshments are also laid out for people who come in.

Sir Jim Mackey, the chief executive of NHS England, told The Times: ‘Crowded A&Es are not designed to treat people in mental health crisis.

‘We need to do better, which is why we are pioneering a new model of care where patients get the right support in the right setting.

Separate mental health A&Es have already been introduced by ten NHS trusts – with the scheme set to be expanded in the next decade by the Labour government.

It comes as UK public services have been struggling to cope with a rise in demand from people suffering from mental health problems.

Additionally, the Met Police said last year that they would no longer respond to emergency calls involving mental health issues unless there was a life-threatening situation.

The move is designed to free up officers to spend more time on their core roles, rather than dealing with patients in need of medical help from experts. 

However, significant questions were raised regarding the potential effects of the policy shift on those who are most at risk as well as its viability in practice.

A Met spokesperson said that the force needed to ‘redress the imbalance of responsibility’, noting the considerable amount of time taken up by such incidents.

Humberside Police introduced a similar policy, known as Right Care, Right Person (RCRP) in 2020, with mental health professionals dealing with calls.

It’s all very well planning to gain political points, but who and where will the staff magically materialise from, and who will they be?

Once upon a time, there were Mental Health Units across the country that could deal with the many and varied forms of mental health, then they were all closed down because the government deemed that care in the community would be more suitable – I guess that bright spark idea didn’t work!

Of course, mental illness is a serious thing, but with the day and age that we live in there are numerous people out there who are feeling depressed. So much so that they need medication to help them, but being stuck on Playstations and mobile phones does not help the situation.

Nobody visits each other anymore, nobody communicates unless it’s via a PC, mobile phone or other means of technology. There used to be youth clubs and sports for youngsters. Youth clubs are a thing of the past and sports for youngsters is almost non-existent.

Day hospitals need to be brought back, and they need to concentrate on children with mental health, also, years ago admissions to mental health hospitals were not just for crisis situations where they would go to get medication and the treatments right, and that all needs bringing back.

Care in the community was a cost-cutting exercise that went disastrously wrong. You also had Remploy for the disabled so that they had a place they could go and work with other disabled people, it was like a little working community where you could make friends as well as work, and Remploy needs to be brought back as well.

It’s time to open up lunatic asylums so that we can start with admitting our current government – I’m sure they hear voices all the time!

Machete Attack On London Bus

Two youths have confessed to killing a 14-year-old boy in a machete attack on a London bus while he was journeying home from school.

Aspiring rapper Kelyan Bokassa was stabbed 27 times as he travelled on a Route 472 bus in Woolwich, South East London, on the afternoon of January 7.

Emergency services were summoned to the scene at approximately 2.30 pm, but Kelyan died soon after medics arrived having suffered a severed femoral artery.

As part of an extraordinary public plea for information, Scotland Yard released CCTV footage and identified two lads.

They were arrested on January 15 after a manhunt by Metropolitan Police officers and charged the following day. 

The defendants, both aged 16, appeared at the Old Bailey for a plea hearing. 

The two admitted to possessing a knife on Woolwich Church Street and killing Kelyan.

Relatives of Kelyan gasped and appeared tearful as they sat metres away from the dock where the two boys sat flanked by officers. 

A minor delay in reporting the case resulted from one of the boys’ barristers requesting time to talk with his client due to what seemed to be an unexpected plea.

Afterwards, the youth returned to court and confirmed his guilty plea.

Judge Mark Lucraft KC ordered reports ahead of sentencing on July 25.

At an earlier hearing, prosecutor Tom Little KC said the victim was sitting on the back seat of the bus on the upper deck when he was attacked by two youths both armed with ‘lengthy machetes’.

The defendants knew in advance of the presence of Kelyan when they boarded the bus and walked directly towards him, the court was told.

Mr Little said: ‘It is clear this is not a form of spontaneous incident. The two defendants must have known the deceased was on the bus.

‘They approach him and almost instantaneously, the two of them pull out machetes and attacked the deceased.

‘He is stabbed or attempted to be stabbed on a total of 27 occasions before the defendants made their way off the bus.’

After being dumped into the Thames River, one of the machetes was eventually found.

Both defendants remained at large for a few days before being arrested. 

Both had prior convictions, one of which was for carrying a knife in public. When the murder occurred, one had a referral order in effect.

Due to their ages, the defendants cannot be identified.

However, Judge Lucraft indicated he would hear a media application to lift the reporting restriction at their sentencing hearing.

Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Lee from the specialist crime unit, who led the Metropolitan Police’s investigation, said: ‘Today I wish to express my team’s heartfelt sympathies to Kelyan’s family.

‘The brutal and senseless attack on Kelyan has deeply impacted his friends, the wider community and everyone that has worked tirelessly to identify, arrest and prosecute those responsible.

‘I hope Kelyan’s family can take some solace in this outcome but I know they remain deeply bereft at the waste of three young lives.’

An inquest in January heard members of the public attempted to help Kelyan after he was stabbed.

Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Lee said that police were called at around 2.28 pm on January 7 by a bus driver reporting a stabbing on the bus.

She said police understand that Kelyan boarded the bus at 2.06 pm at North Greenwich train station and then two male suspects boarded the vehicle at 2.26 pm.

DCI Lee continued: ‘They went up to the top deck where Kelyan was sitting and they immediately attacked him.

‘Members of the public who were boarded on the bus called for help and asked the driver to stop, which he did, on Woolwich Church Street, and the suspects fled the bus.

‘A number of passengers tried to help Kelyan. He came down the stairs and they placed him on a seat on the lower deck.’

She said the bus driver called for aid, and police and London Ambulance Service attended, but Kelyan could not be saved and he died at the scene.

At a vigil held in January at a church overlooking the bus stop where he was stabbed, one of Kelyan’s friends said the boy had a ‘pure heart’ and would ‘always be there for you’.

If these youths are old enough to kill someone in cold blood, they are old enough to be named, and if they were old enough to take a life, then a life sentence is what they deserve.

Unfortunately, there are no deterrents anymore, which is why we have an epidemic of criminality, and they should be sentenced as adults, age is no excuse where murder is concerned, particularly at their age.

This happens far too frequently these days and knife crime is out of control here in the UK. Stop and search needs to come back, with loads more police on the streets, and if you carry a blade, then it needs to be a minimum of 5 years in prison.

But our government is afraid of being sued for racism, so they won’t do it, but they should be searching all youths, male and female, because it’s another species we have spawned, and it will get worse now that they know all prisons are full to the brim and they believe they can get away with it!

Policing is all wrong, and they have got their priorities all wrong. All we have to do is post something someone doesn’t like and the police are booting our doors down for hurting someone’s precious little feelings. Oh, do behave everybody needs to get off their ‘woke horse.’ What if it was your son or daughter that had been killed, you wouldn’t be so ‘woke’ then!

Rayner Urges Rachel Reeves To Strip Middle-Class Child Benefits

Angela Rayner has encouraged Rachel Reeves to strip middle-class families of child benefits payments, it has been claimed. 

The Labour Deputy Prime Minister urged the treasury to ‘claw back’ the benefit from families where the highest earner’s annual earnings were between £50,000 and £80,000, The Telegraph first reported. 

If taken forward, the decision would undo an announcement by the Tories in March 2024 that was predicted to save 500,000 families around £1,300 per year. 

Ms Rayner’s suggestion was reportedly contained in the same leaked memo, in which the Deputy PM proposed eight tax rises. 

Ms Reeves encountered criticism this week after the memo’s details were revealed and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced an about-turn on her abolition of the universal winter fuel payment. 

The memo accepted that the change to child benefit rules would be ‘contentious’ but added Labour could argue that the Tories had never adequately funded the policy to begin with. 

Jeremy Hunt, the Conservative chancellor who announced the shift in 2024, urged Labour not to reverse it.

 ‘This may look like a relatively minor budget measure but was one of the most popular things we did because it helped striving middle-class families struggling with childcare costs.

 ‘Abandoning them would confirm that far from being a New Labour government, this is a traditional anti-aspiration Old Labour government.’ 

It comes as Ms Rayner called for migrant benefits to be cut and urged Ms Reeves to make changes, it was reported after the Deputy PM challenged the Chancellor’s economic approach.

The leaked letter also included bold recommendations that recommended making it more difficult for immigrants to obtain Universal credit.

Ms Rayner even said Labour should raise the fee migrants pay to use the NHS, in policies she and her team claimed were ‘contentious’ but still ‘worthy of consideration’.

Under existing policies, introduced under the Tories in 2015, foreigners on work visas pay to access healthcare – a fee presently set at £1,035.

The ‘radical’ policies also included restricting access to the state pension.

It comes amid rumours that Rayner is vying to succeed Keir Starmer, who was having difficulty yesterday controlling the disarray in his Cabinet.

As he surrendered to a rising dissent on his benches on Wednesday, the prime minister indicated an astonishing U-turn on cutbacks to winter heating allowance.

And the humiliating move could only be the beginning with signs Sir Keir is also contemplating giving ground on the two-child benefit cap, amid alarm at Labour’s poll decline.

The pressure amplified as it emerged Ms Rayner’s office wrote to embattled Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the Spring urging her to hike taxes again instead of cutting welfare.

Such talks are common in government, according to the Deputy PM’s advisers, who have denied leaking the document.

However, some Labour MPs believe that Ms Rayner is ‘on manoeuvres’ to ensure she does not have ‘blood on her hands’ from failed policies.

‘Angela has been loyal in public but she knows she needs to distance herself from some of the unpopular policies,’ one backbencher told The Times.

‘Starmer is not under any kind of threat now but if things have not improved closer to the next election that could change. Angela is ambitious and she needs to be credible if she is to present herself as the candidate of the left.’

Labour MP Cat Eccles admitted the government’s communications had been ‘really poor’, suggesting she blamed the PM’s advisers and Ms Reeves for not ‘listening’.

‘It’s annoying that we did raise these exact concerns at the time. And it’s only now or down the line after we’ve had those local election results, as you say, that all of a sudden, they’re all ears to their MPs,’ she told Times Radio.

‘Oh, what do you think the issues are? It’s like, well, actually, we told you months ago. So I think there’s a lot of us that are feeling slightly less buoyant than we did back in July last year.’

The winter fuel allowance move was seen as an embarrassment for Ms Reeves – who is at a G7 meeting in Canada.

Stripping around nine million pensioners of the payments was one of the first announcements the Chancellor made after Labour’s landslide election victory last year.

However, it has been generally held accountable for the party’s catastrophic decline in popularity.

Labour campaigners said it was toxic on doorsteps during May’s local elections, which saw the party lose councillors and the Runcorn and Helsby Parliamentary by-election.

Left-wing Labour MPs rallied behind Ms Rayner’s push on targeting taxes instead of welfare, prompting the Tories to argue that the Cabinet was in ‘open warfare’.

How about they remove all foreign criminals from our prisons and stop spending so much tax money on migrants? And then they go on about people claiming disability. I’m sick to the back teeth of seeing such things flung around.

They label everyone in the same category like they are freeloaders. What about those people who have Cancer and other life-debilitating diseases?

It’s infuriating that the government targets the most vulnerable in society while turning a blind eye to issues that truly need addressing. This scapegoating of disabled individuals and those in need reveals a cowardly approach to governance. Instead of addressing the root causes of economic challenges, they choose to pick on those who have no means to defend themselves.

Well, I’m among those individuals. I use a wheelchair but don’t worry about me or others who are similar to me. If I were a migrant, I would most likely be regarded as a king or queen, but we are just viewed as the remnants of civilisation.

It’s not like Angela Rayner doesn’t understand what it’s like to be poor since she was raised in poverty on a council estate.

She has an older brother and younger sister who could have been taken into care because their mother suffered from bipolar which affected the family.

Rayner said that when they were young they never had any books because her mother couldn’t read and write, and for the most part they were raised by their grandmother, so she should know how difficult is it for people living on the poverty line.

Her grandmother might have worked numerous jobs, which is extremely sad that she had to do that right up until she passed away, but jobs were easier to get then. Many were cash in hand and people weren’t falling over their feet to find employment, and although Angela Rayner should be proud of her far she has come, she should also remember where she came from because life could have taken a far less favourable turn!

I wonder how much Child Benefit Angela Rayner received—thousands of pounds? Recall that this woman got a council house by leaving school pregnant!

This government appear to despise the working class, they seem to hate everyone except asylum seekers, but not anyone that is British – they probably hate themselves for being British, but they want power of the state so that they can control every facet of our lives and to restrict all our freedoms.

We would save a lot of money if migrants were denied everything they receive while they are here since we shouldn’t be paying for them to have children that they cannot afford, but of course, we are the land of milk and honey, and our government seems to believe that money is no object as long as it’s not coming from their pocket, and so they shower every foreigner that rocks up.

If you go to the US you receive no benefits when you immigrate, and to be legally there you have to have a financial sponsor to ensure that you are not a hindrance to the taxpayer. I just can’t get my head around why illegal immigrants are given any government funds because then it gives those who want to come to the UK an even greater incentive.

Those who come into the UK and have applied for a genuine visa have to follow the rules, but it seems that when migrants cross over illegally on boats or by lorries the rules don’t seem to apply.

Rather than being a cabinet that serves the nation, our government functions more like a witches’ coven, and let’s face it, witches are far nicer.

Witches probably have more brains, morals and common sense than Robber Reeves and 3 Homes Rayner.

The working class and middle class are the backbone of our society, yet they get nothing for free, and what they do get is taken away – work hard, do well and end up with nothing.

Angela Rayner is attempting to present herself as the good guy, and that she’s being loyal to the masses. She is taking money from the needy because she’s become greedy, but she will cheerfully give it to migrants who are religion-obsessed and who reproduce and kill in the name of their God.

And she wants more of them here. She is on their side and she’s partying with them to keep their vote.

This isn’t Great Britain anymore, it’s Islamic UK, and she’s selling the UK to migrant benefit scroungers, Muslims and refugees, and she wants them to have the ideal conditions to produce as many children as they want.

Iraqi Asylum Seeker Avoids Deportation

The 32-year-old man, who judges have granted anonymity, illegally entered Britain on the back of a lorry in 2016.

He said he lost his Iraqi ID card and warned that sending him back to his home nation would violate his human rights.

When asked in a screening interview why he should be given asylum, he replied, “I don’t have a real reason to be here. Give me some time, and I will make up a reason.”

A senior immigration judge denied his asylum claim but has decided not to order his removal on humanitarian protection grounds after “undisputed” evidence revealed he would be subjected to ill-treatment in his homeland.

Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge Paul Lewis said in his ruling: “Absent good reason, we do draw adverse inferences against the appellant for his failure to give evidence on key matters in his appeal, other than in connection with the circumstances of his physical injuries.”

The Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber acknowledged throughout the hearing that the man had been abducted and tortured by ISIS extremists. At the same time, he was being kept as a prisoner and had also encountered conflict with other organisations.

Judge Lewis said: “It is clear and undisputed that the appellant has injuries and scarring which are consistent with ill-treatment.”

The man’s lawyers argued that there should not be much emphasis placed on the fact that he stated how he would “make up a reason” for seeking asylum, given the pressures he was under, Mailonline reports.

They argued the screening process was “oppressive” as he had only just arrived in the UK after being smuggled in.

This comes after a Kenyan migrant was permitted to stay in the UK after a judge discovered that a document dismissing her asylum claim was “riddled” with typos.

The married asylum seeker claimed she was forced to flee the country when it emerged she had been having an affair with a woman she met in 2013.

She feared she would be “killed” by her husband or the authorities if she returned to Kenya.

She appealed to the Immigration and Asylum Chamber’s First Tier Tribunal after the Home Office denied her original asylum petition.

The Upper Tier Tribunal later found a judgment dismissing her claims was “riddled” with multiple “careless” mistakes and “misstatements” of evidence, meaning she could remain in the UK.

This comes as Labour scrambles to cut the UK’s migration figures.

Addressing the country last week, Sir Keir Starmer said Britain risks “becoming an island of strangers” if net migration doesn’t fall.

Talking to LBC’s James O’Brien, Sir Sadiq said he “understands” why Labour is seeking to crack down on immigration but “wouldn’t have used” the same language as the PM.

When pressed on the PM’s comments, including his description of a recent period of high immigration as a “squalid chapter” in Britain’s history, Sir Sadiq said: “Those aren’t the words I would use.”

He added, “But if you listen to Keir’s speech, he also spoke about the strength of diversity.”

“I think what he’s referring to is the promise made by Brexiteers, I think he’s referring to that (high numbers of immigration).“What he’s not referring to is the contribution we make to British society.”

Greetings from a fractured Britain, and I do think that our government needs to analyse each law so that there are no loopholes. At the moment, immigration lawyers and foreign criminals are ridiculing us.

I keep saying this, but it always falls on deaf ears. We are a small country with the greatest numbers coming in because they know that they will get the care and attention that they wouldn’t get anywhere else, which plainly demonstrates that the Prime Minister is a betrayer to the British people.

European nations are not letting them in or to stay, so they’re all heading to the UK, and Starmer’s arms are wide open – roll up, roll up, get your benefits here and anything else you want!

Keir Starmer filed a lawsuit against the government over migrant benefits, particularly in the areas of human rights and asylum.

He was a barrister and later head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), and during that time, he was involved in cases challenging government policies related to immigration and benefits.

Labour wants mass migration, so if you want free movement of the third world landing on our shores, then Labour is the party for you.

With so many governments that don’t pay attention to what the people want, the nation is in ruins. A lack of spine is an understatement.

Since judges are now interpreting the law according to their political views rather than according to the statute, it is time for a complete revamp of the legal system.

We are now the laughing stock of the world with these people coming to our shores, and our government expect us to support them. We have no inkling about them or their former lives, et cetera, and nothing is being said or done about it, and it has to stop!

We, the people, must take action; simply complaining and pounding our feet won’t solve the problem, but anyone who opposes this madness will probably be condemned as a fascist or a member of the far right.

What about the human right of the British people? It’s time we started using the law to protect our country, oh I forgot, there are no laws to protect this country or its people.

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