Next Month, Tube Workers Go On Strike

London commuters will suffer due to a series of strikes by London Underground employees, including drivers, next month in protest over wages.

On November 7 and Tuesday, November 12, trade union Aslef, representing thousands of Tube drivers who make at least £63,000 annually, has called for 24-hour walkouts.

In response to a “wholly inadequate” compensation offer, the RMT union has also announced that large portions of maintenance and emergency personnel will go on strike between November 1 and November 8.

Planned strikes will likely shut down the entire Tube network for at least two days, with other actions likely to limit the number of services that can run and could lead to stations being closed at short notice. 

Reps claim Transport for London (TfL) bosses are refusing to get around the table, but London’s transport boss says he has made a ‘fair’ offer that sees an average pay rise of 4.6 per cent across the board.

Shop stewards and TfL management are reportedly in the midst of crunch negotiations to put an end to the strikes.

After discussions over driver welfare, training, and working conditions, Aslef called off strikes in April. However, the union claims it is dissatisfied with the salary package that was offered.

It claims TfL is unwilling to equalise working conditions with drivers on the Overground or Elizabeth Line, which are run by external companies. 

Finn Brennan, Aslef organiser on the London Underground (LU), said: ‘We don’t want to go on strike. We don’t want to make travelling in and around the capital more difficult for passengers and we don’t want to lose a day’s pay.

‘But we have been forced into this position because LU management won’t sit down properly and negotiate with us.’

Industrial action extends in part to other Aslef-affiliated members of Underground staff within TfL. 

On November 7 and November 12, management employees will go on strike. Additionally, from November 3 to November 16, there will be no overtime allowed.

Along with a 24-hour strike from Friday, November 1 into Saturday, November 2, engineering drivers will also not be allowed to work overtime from November 1 through November 8.

According to a TfL freedom of information answer, the average wage of a Tube driver was £63,901 as of November of last year. However, hundreds of drivers make more than £70,000.

TfL said on average the pay rise offer for TfL workers was 4.6 percent, but Mr Brennan said the offer for Tube drivers was lower at 3.8 percent and did not include paid meal breaks enjoyed by drivers on the Elizabeth Line and Overground.

Surprise, surprise. Those poor underworked, overpaid tube drivers want yet another pay rise. Who would have thought? Maybe they would also like a slice of people’s state pension as well to help them out, and these pay rises just mean increased fares for those on a living wage.

This isn’t the winter of discontent; it’s more like a decade of discontent!

Now, every union will be lining up to demand enormous raises—so much for Labour putting an end to the strikes. This occurred in the 1970s, and it completely collapsed our nation.

The refugees won’t be impacted by any strikes, even though our nation is bankrupt and crippled. No, the refugees will be kept warm and fed!

In the brief period that Labour has been in power, it appears that they have outdone themselves, and now, just in time for winter, the striking brigade arrives.

I could never understand why strikes were allowed to happen, as they’re effectively a form of blackmail. If you don’t like what you get paid, then leave and get another job elsewhere.

It now appears that Labour will give in to the unions’ demands without seeking anything in return, such as increased production, and the unions know that Labour will give them what they want, no matter how outrageous the demand is. Both Starmer and Reeves claimed to have stopped the strikes—funny that, more are now starting!

In The Trial, The Jury Heard Sara Sharif Suffered 71 Injuries, Including Burn Marks And Broken Ribs

Sara Sharif suffered more than 70 injuries at the hands of her family before she died, a court heard.

The 10-year-old schoolgirl was allegedly beaten to death by her father Urfan, 42 before he fled to Pakistan and confessed in a 999 call: ‘I killed my daughter.’

The nature of her injuries, which included several fractured bones, bites, burns, and a portion of her finger being hacked out with a sharp object, was horrifyingly described before the Old Bailey.

She had 71 external injuries in all, including 10 fractures to her spine, two broken ribs, a fractured collar bone, shoulder blades, fractures in both arms, wrists, and three fingers.

A post-mortem revealed Sara had suffered ‘multiple and extensive injuries’ over a ‘sustained and extended’ period of time.

Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones told the jurors that she had too many bruises, grazes, puncture wounds, abrasions, and markings on her whole body.

Forensic pathologist Dr Nathaniel Cary said Sara had endured ‘significant and repetitive blunt trauma’ which may have rendered her unconscious or caused a fit.

She suffered ‘terminal’ head injuries which caused bleeding on her brain and her lungs were also bruised.

But Dr Cary said it was difficult to pinpoint which injury caused her death: ‘All I can say is she died after a number of injuries which included brain injury.’

The court heard that she may have been left ‘unconscious or unhelped’ after an older head injury two to five days before the murder.

In addition, she had other previous injuries, such as scars on her forearm, legs, and jawline.

She had been tied up, possibly to a hot pipe, her ankles were scalded with hot water, and she had burn marks on her buttock from an iron.

Dr Cary said just the burn injuries themselves could have proved fatal if it caused sepsis.

All over her head and face were grazes and bruises, with a significant graze on her nose and bruising on her right cheek and ear.

The pathologist also described a sharp puncture wound on Sara’s forehead which had been left ‘gaping’.

There were five bite marks on her lower left arm and one on the inner thigh, indicating that the teeth had been ‘dragged across the surface’.

Dental tests revealed her father or uncle Faisal Malk, 29, were not responsible for the marks, but her stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, refused to submit to testing.

The court has previously heard that police were later able to match some of the bruises to weapons found in her home including a plastic-coated metal pole and a belt buckle.

The youngster, who weighed just 27 kilograms when she died, had a collar of ‘intense’ purple bruising around her neck, which jurors have heard was the result of ‘blunt impact, solid pressure’ or strangulation.

There was further ‘tram track’ bruising on her abdomen and around the belly button.

The victim was reportedly bound, hooded, and assaulted with a rolling pin and a cricket bat, among other weapons, according to earlier testimony given to the jury.

The defendants allegedly buried her corpse under the pink blankets of her bunk bed after her death on August 8 of last year, arranging it to appear as though she was asleep.

The following day, her brother Faisal Malik, a worker at McDonald’s, her father Urfan Sharif, a cab driver, and his wife Beinash Batool escaped to Pakistan.

Sharif later rang 999 from Pakistan to tell police: ‘It wasn’t my intention to kill her, but I beat her up too much.’

When the trio arrived back at Gatwick Airport on September 13 of last year, they were all arrested one month later.

Sharif, Batool and Malik all deny murder and causing or allowing the death of a child.

The trial is still ongoing.

Everyone who contributed to her death has equal responsibility, and this is absolutely heartbreaking.

Their neighbours probably heard some sounds of what was going on but did not rationalise the sounds. Some people will overreact when there isn’t a reason to act, and some people won’t respond at all!

The neighbours, on the other hand, could have come from a similar background, heard everything, and accepted it as usual.

No one helped this little girl, though I’m sure they heard and saw things but did nothing. We all have a duty of care to children, and this kind of stuff makes me want to cry.

Why the child’s school did not intervene is what puzzles me, but then again her little body would have been covered from head to toe in clothing from her origin. On the other hand, how did she even attend school with this level of violence? But shame on anybody that could have helped, and perhaps did nothing, and how long would her little body have lain undiscovered if her torturer hadn’t phoned the police?

Liam Payne Dead

Liam Payne was acting erratically and had to be escorted back to his hotel room before plunging to his death, with staff making a panicked call to police.

The former One Direction star fell from the third floor into the courtyard of the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires yesterday before medics confirmed his death. He was 31.

Police in Argentina were contacted by a member of hotel staff who reported ‘an aggressive man who may have been under the effects of drugs and alcohol.’

Before the singer, who was born in Wolverhampton, was found dead shortly after five o’clock in the evening local time, staff heard a loud noise in the hotel courtyard shortly after.

The star was said to have been ‘acting erratically in the hotel lobby and smashed his laptop’ before he ‘had to be carried back to his room’, according to local media.

After establishing the boy band One Direction on The X Factor in 2010 with Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, and Harry Styles, Payne became well-known at sixteen.

After police blocked off the area and forensic investigators in blue gloves and white protective suits were spotted coming and going, shocked fans gathered outside.

In an unplanned vigil, they were observed burning candles and decorating the side of the road with flowers in honour of the adored musician.

According to audio linked to the case that was retrieved from the security ministry of Buenos Aires, police in Argentina had received a call from a hotel employee urgently asking for assistance with an intoxicated visitor.

The worker said: ‘When he is conscious, he is destroying the entire room and we need you to send someone.’

Emergency medical services director Alberto Crescenti said Payne had suffered ‘very serious injuries after falling from a third floor into an internal courtyard’.

‘We verified his identity using the passport he had,’ he added.

Mr Crescenti told Argentine newspaper Clarin that ‘the team saw that he apparently had a fracture at the base of the skull’.

His body was taken to a nearby mortuary so that a postmortem could be performed.

Mr Crescenti said Payne had fallen around 45 feet (14 meters) and suffered ‘severe injuries which were incompatible with life’.

He said, ‘The alarm was raised at 5.04 local time, saying a person was lying in an internal patio at Casa Sur. At 5.11 pm, an ambulance arrived and the man was certified dead.

‘Afterwards, we found out he had been a famous singer. Unfortunately, the injuries he had suffered as a result of the fall proved to be fatal. There was no possibility of resuscitating him.’

Since then, unconfirmed photos have surfaced online purporting to show Payne’s hotel room destroyed, with one photo even featuring a broken television screen.

Liam Payne appeared to be a terribly lost man. At the age of sixteen, he was renowned worldwide for both his wealth and notoriety. His career ended at age 22. Most people begin their professions at that age. Compared to the other members of the group, Liam might not have had a strong enough support system when One Direction dissolved. Hopefully, he has found peace from his demons.

Sadly, people believe that fame, adulation, relevance, and wealth will last forever with people constantly catering to their every whim which can create a distorted view of the world and those around them. Some celebrities manage to navigate their turmoil and emerge stronger, but sadly, others fall victim to their struggles.

Entertainment industry fame is the most intensely bipolar form of fame, and sadly, no one knows what goes on inside someone’s head, and it can be a lonely, tortured place to be!

After Being Left On A Trolley For 10 Hours In A&E, A 31-Year-Old Woman Died Of Sepsis

A woman who died after being left for 10 hours on a hospital trolley in a corridor in A&E was ‘abandoned in her most vulnerable moment,’ an inquest was told.

Tamara Davis, 31, died of sepsis after being left struggling to breathe and coughing up blood in a busy A&E department in December 2022.

She had been rushed to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton after complaining of breathing difficulties and collapsing at home.

Miss Davis had been diagnosed with a respiratory infection and placed in a resuscitation room and given oxygen.

But she was moved into the corridor when another patient needed the room and, although her condition became progressively worse, she was left on a trolley in the busy corridor.

At one stage, 20 patients were being treated in the hospital corridor.

She was eventually taken back to a resuscitation cubicle when her health worsened, and from there she was sent to critical care. She died the following day.

Joanne Andrews, West Sussex coroner, said she was going to write to the Department of Health and NHS England to voice her concerns over the use of corridors in the treatment of patients.

Recording a conclusion of death by natural causes, she said: ‘In relation to the use of corridors, this does to me create a substantial concern.’

However, she said: ‘There is no evidence of the patient having been placed in a corridor caused or contributed to her death in these circumstances.’

The inquest heard Miss Davis had been ‘abandoned’ by a healthcare system stretched to the limit.

In a statement, her sister, Miya, told the inquest: ‘In the few hours [she was in A&E], she was being made to fend for herself. She was abandoned in that corridor at her most vulnerable moments, coughing up blood and suffering from diarrhoea.’

Dr Andrew Leonard, the consultant who treated Tamara in the corridor, said that although Tamara was negative for sepsis on arrival on December 10, her deterioration would have meant she was ‘diagnosable’ at 4.30 pm the following day.

Her increasing health wasn’t reported to the medical staff until after 6 pm; thus, that’s why she wasn’t diagnosed until then.

He said he would have ‘liked to see a sepsis screening’ earlier rather than when she had deteriorated even further.

Dr Leonard said: ‘Anyone being looked after in a corridor is a concern because it is a failure of normal care processes.’

He said the statements from the family about how they felt Tamara had been failed were ‘heartbreaking’.

He said: ‘Unfortunately, we live in a world where more corridor care has become increasingly the norm in the last few years and that is a tragedy and not something any doctor or nurse would say is a good idea but is a result of pressures on the system.’

He said he was ‘unhappy’ Tamara was in a corridor but there ‘was nowhere else to put the patients’. 

Of the delay in the sepsis diagnosis, Dr Leonard said: ‘I’m not sure on the balance of probabilities would it have made a difference to the outcome.’

Alice Edmondson, a senior nurse on duty at the time, said, ‘We’d never move anyone to a corridor out of choice. Nobody should be nursed in a corridor.

‘I really want the family to know that I as a senior nurse feel upset every day that people are in the corridor when they shouldn’t be.’

Tamara had been suffering from cold-like symptoms and breathing difficulties and had collapsed at home on the evening of December 10, 2022.

The inquest was told her partner, Raphael Ifill, had desperately phoned emergency services five times to try and get an ambulance.

He arranged for a friend to transport Tamara the three miles to Royal Sussex County Hospital when they failed to arrive.

At 11:14 p.m., Tamara, a resident of Brighton, was admitted and transferred right away to an A&E resuscitation cubicle, where she was given oxygen.

IV fluids, paracetamol, and antibiotics were administered to her. She was moved out onto the trolley and into the corridor around 5:30 am when her vital signs improved and another patient needed the room.

The inquest heard Tamara spent the next 10 hours on the trolley with other sick patients all around her.

An inquest heard that doctors neglected to give her the second dosage of antibiotics that she was supposed to get.

Throughout the day, her condition worsened, and she started having diarrhoea and coughing up blood.

It was said at the hearing that her sister Miya had to assist her to the loo and change her soiled linens as no staff members were there to assist.

Tamara’s condition deteriorated further, according to the inquiry, and at 3:20 pm, she was returned to a resuscitation room.

A medical team was contacted, but it took three hours for her to have a full examination. She was then moved to an intensive care bed and placed on a mechanical ventilator.

Tamara had been afflicted with the severe H1N1 flu strain; it was discovered later.

The inquest was told that Tamara failed to respond to treatment and her condition continued to deteriorate in intensive care and she died at around 11.15 am on December 13.

Sepsis and multiple organ failure caused by influenza and bronchopneumonia were listed as the cause of death.

The UK is on its knees and more and more people are floating in. When will the gate shut?

Now it seems that if we want good, timely treatment, we’re going to have to pay for it ourselves. That doesn’t stop us from being bitter, though, considering most of us have paid for our NHS treatment all our lives, and if we have to go private, it means that we are effectively paying for our healthcare twice.

The problem is, even if we do go private, then everyone goes private and we will still wait as long because so many people will be doing the same thing.

There are a lot of individuals arriving on boats, which exacerbates the issue and contributes nothing to the system that we Britons fund.

But it would also be good if our GPs did the job that they were paid to do, and it might help if most of them could string a sentence together without a foreign accent so that we could understand them—that might alleviate some pressure.

The foreign employees at my surgery don’t even know how to spell, so I have to interpret their emails. Not very professional, and one employee wanders around in his socks without shoes when you visit the doctor. This is unhygienic and unprofessional, and if you mention anything, they become quite defensive. They might walk around like that in their country of origin, but they now live in the UK and ‘when in Rome!’

GPs need to improve because most GPs now look like they come from a third-world country—an outdated look and poorly qualified office staff, and the whole situation needs a kick up the nether regions because the basics are all wrong.

Since the COVID pandemic, most people haven’t seen their GP in years. Every time they go, they see a different doctor because their doctor is off sick or on leave.

Getting an appointment with your GP is like winning the lottery.

British people have been paying into a system that once worked but no longer works, but if we moan about it, our government will just privatise it, but will that be covered by the millions we have paid in national insurance over the years? It’s a bit like our pensions that most of us will never see because all our money was stolen from us by greedy politicians!

I’m not racist, I’m really not, but charity begins at home in the UK, and illegals should be sent back home because once they’re on UK soil, this becomes their home.

‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’ Halted

Brendan O’Carroll says he ‘deeply regrets clumsy line’ after making a ‘racist’ joke during rehearsals for the Christmas specials of Mrs Brown’s Boys.

The Irish comedian, 69, was in the role of Agnes Brown when he made the offensive remark that ‘backfired’ and ’caused offence.’

Bosses were alerted to the insult, and the BBC suspended the broadcast to begin an inquiry.

Last night, O’Carroll apologised as he told The Mirror: ‘At a read-through of the Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas specials, there was a clumsy attempt at a joke in the character of Agnes where a racial term was implied.

‘It backfired and caused offence, which I deeply regret and for which I have apologised.’ 

Since then, the broadcaster’s Pacific Quay studios in Glasgow have seen a resumption of rehearsals, and the shows are proceeding according to schedule.

A source told The Mirror that cast and crew were stood down while the corporation ‘tried to get to the bottom of it’.

In the Christmas Day and New Year’s Day specials, O’Carroll, the creator and star of Mrs. Brown’s Boys, will reprise his role as Agnes Brown, the naughty matriarch.

A BBC spokesperson said: ‘Whilst we don’t comment on individuals, the BBC is against all forms of racism, and we have robust processes in place should issues ever arise.’

Mrs. Brown’s Boys made a comeback for a four-part series last year.

Even though the episodes have been a staple of Christmas programming for over ten years, this was the first mini-series shown since 2013.

It comes after it was announced that O’Carroll will star in the new BBC sitcom Shedites which will touch on ‘men’s mental health’ and is due to hit screens by ‘the fall’.

The 86-year-old legendary comedian Tommy Cannon, who performed in The Cannon and Ball Show before, will play the title role in the new BBC show.

O’Carroll told The Sun: ‘It’s using comedy to touch on men’s mental health. The BBC loved the pilot. Hopefully, it will be out in the fall.’

It follows last month’s National Television Award for Best Comedy victory for Mrs Brown’s Boys.

And following the win O’Carroll revealed he has accepted that Mrs Brown’s Boys is ‘marmite’ television.

The comedian created the role as part of a radio play in the early 1990s, and she has been the title matriarch in the long-running BBC sitcom for over 14 years.

Mrs Brown’s Boys is like Marmite, you either love it or hate it. I love it and if I’m having a bad day, on goes Mrs Brown’s Boys and by the time I’ve finished watching it, I’m in hysterics.

It’s not to everyone’s taste, but where do you draw the line? This country is becoming dull and sterile, but I love edgy comedy, it appeals to my sick sense of humour, but if you don’t like it, then don’t watch it, it’s really that simple.

The thing is, what might be funny to one person might not be funny to another and that’s fine. If it’s not your poison then don’t drink it!

Trump Makes A Bizarre Joke To A Couple Whose Son Died In Combat

Donald Trump was at a town hall, which was full of odd moments when he told a joke about him getting shot to a couple whose son had died at war in Afghanistan.

After the former president was twice stopped by medical issues in the room, the conversation with South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem in Oaks, Pennsylvania, morphed into an unplanned performance.

At one point, Noem introduced Mary and Charles Strange, a Gold Star family whose son Michael was killed while serving in Afghanistan in 2011.

Trump and Noem encouraged the Strange family to come up on stage, but Trump then cracked a joke about getting up to meet them.

‘It’s a little harder to get up since I got shot. It made it more difficult. Perhaps that’s the way it’s supposed to be,’ he said. 

Noem forced a chuckle before reintroducing the Strange family: ‘They lost their son, Michael. Come on up here.’

Both Trump and the family moved past it, with Charles Strange asking the president to launch a Congressional investigation into his son’s death.

‘My son was killed August 6, 2011, with 29 other men. It was the biggest loss of life in the Iraq and Afghan war,’ Strange said.

’22 of them men were Navy Special Warfare. Til this day, we still haven’t gotten any answers. I was wondering, I’m begging you, we would like a congressional hearing.’

Trump replied, ‘So here’s what we’re going to do.

‘In the first week—not the first day because I made a lot of promises in the first day, we’re gonna drill baby drill, we’re gonna close up the border, we’re gonna do a lot in the first day. In the first week, we will set up a commission.’

Upon his election, he invited Charles and Mary Strange to visit him, completing his plan.

‘We’re gonna find out because so many people are in your same position. They want to know what happened, why did it happened to their son or daughter, and we’re gonna do that in the first week. So you get ready to come over to the White House, okay?’ 

The event on Monday evening was billed as a ‘town hall’ and a chance for Trump to answer questions on the economy from voters who could decide the outcome of the whole election.

Naturally, Donald Trump always makes it about himself! Because he’s an egotistical buffoon and should not be cracking jokes because he is the joke, but Trump will decline quickly because he has zero morals and integrity.

Vote for a rational president, America, please, not a relic from the past!

Donald Trump is all words and no action; therefore, if he wins the presidency again, it will be no assistance to the American people. As president, his primary responsibility will be to serve himself and the other billionaires.

Donald Trump talks faster than he thinks, but then empty vessels make the most noise, and idolising a politician is like believing a stripper will love you.

Markets Fear Rachel Reeves Will Change Rules In Budget

The expenses of servicing the UK’s £2.7 trillion debt pile are rising, and Rachel Reeves has been advised that she is “walking a tightrope” in the impending budget.

Following a stormy beginning to Labour’s term in office, the Chancellor is gearing up to present a significant first fiscal package on October 30.

However, because of market anxiety over Ms Reeves’ potential to scrap borrowing regulations, interest rates on UK government bonds have been rising recently.

Bank of England liabilities and other debt could be reclassified to give ministers another £30 billion of headroom—or perhaps even more—for infrastructure projects.

The yield on 10-year gilts is now running at around 4.2 percent, up from as low as 3.7 percent in mid-September, reflecting higher risk to the public finances and concerns about ‘sticky’ inflation. 

Mark Dowding, chief investment officer at RBC BlueBay Asset Management, told the Financial Times: ‘Financial markets won’t afford much room for additional borrowing. 

‘Rachel Reeves needs to walk a tightrope; otherwise, the gilt market will limit her ability to deliver much of Labour’s agenda.’

Ms Reeves is scrambling to find ways to raise revenue to help fill a claimed £22 billion hole in the books and fund Labour’s policy commitments.

There had been conjecture that the Chancellor would reduce the pension contribution relief granted to those whose earnings exceeded the higher rate.

But that prospect has apparently been dropped amid fears that it would cause chaos in the civil service and NHS – where pensions are far more generous.

There are also allegations that the administration may not be able to reap the full benefits of several of the Labour Party’s main objectives.

This may put more pressure on Ms. Reeves to bolster her finances by enforcing stricter inheritance taxes, which would include drawing down pension funds.

According to Savanta study, almost 75% of businesses anticipate an increase in their workload, and 2/3 are concerned that this would negatively impact their capacity to function.

In an early sign of how extra borrowing will be spent, Transport Secretary Louise Haigh effectively confirmed that HS2 will run to Euston.

Ms Haigh slipped out the news as she insisted it would not ‘make sense’ to end the rail link at Old Oak Common in the London suburbs.

The multi-billion dollar renovation of Euston to make it an HS2 hub has caused anxiety.

Reeves is completely out of her depth, along with the rest of the Labour cabinet. You can’t keep borrowing because at some point it needs to be paid back. Ten years from now or even sooner there will not be enough tax receipts to pay the public sector pensions which are out of control and state pensions, then what are they going to do then?

Senior citizens are already seen by our administration as a drain on society. How is Labour going to respond? Declare mandatory euthanasia for seniors above 70 years of age in order to save money and free up homes.

Maybe the super-wealthy might band together to cover the pensioner’s winter fuel costs? However, there’s very little likelihood of that occurring because they would vanish into thin air.

Mind you, I doubt that Labour will even be here because I doubt they will last for the duration. They will eventually implode to the point where they will be unable to govern, and some might say that’s happening already.

Unfortunately, each candidate that wins the election is passed on an empty pot from the previous government. It’s a bit like having to take on someone else’s debt that they have no way of paying back, so they have to borrow and borrow and borrow, and then they hike taxes up from the peasants or just leaves them with nothing.

Pylon wars!

The first salvo of the ‘pylon wars’ was fired today by villagers furious at being in the path of a massive new power line that will stretch hundreds of miles down England’s east coast.

Officials want to install a vast new network of overhead lines snaking from the port town of Grimsby down to Tilbury in Essex as part of a plan dubbed ‘The Great Grid Upgrade’.

The proposals are being opposed by the Lincolnshire County Council along with its counterparts in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex; nevertheless, labour is in favour of the construction of more pylons to link to offshore wind farms, with Sir Keir Starmer as a supporter.

Villagers whose beloved local landscapes are set to be despoiled told MailOnline they felt ‘absolutely devastated’ and are already fighting back.

Broad’s Green in Essex, which is sandwiched between the idyllic villages of Little Waltham and Great Waltham, is one of the places that will eventually be covered by pylons.

Across the area, people have pinned protest signs to garden gates and fences, with some reading, ‘180 km of giant pylons. Say No!’

The landlord of The Walnut Tree in Broad’s Green, 81-year-old Peter Stokes, said of the pylons, ‘I do not want them. One, it’s going to spoil the countryside. They’ve got alternatives that are less destructive. They may cost a little bit more [the alternatives] but at the end of the day, people have got to live.

‘They do not want to be looking out of the window and see bloody great pylons.

‘People are buying these houses because it’s in the countryside and there was nothing spoiling the view. Now you are going to get a lot of pylons with the electric magnetic field that comes with it and that’s going to spread across the area here.

‘The value of properties has been going down. There’s a new house up for sale down the lane here and it’s been on the market five times and each time it’s been reaching closure, the sale has fallen through. People do their searches and find out about the pylons.’

At his speech at the Labour conference last month, Sir Keir described the construction of pylons near homes as one of the ‘hard choices’ that his government would have to take.

He later described underground power lines as too expensive and said: ‘If you want lower energy bills, we’re going to have to have pylons above the ground.’

But Lisa Lawrence, 29, and her partner Oliver Booker, 35, who began renting their semi-detached house in Great Waltham two months ago, are opposed to the plans.

Ms Lawrence, a nurse, said of the pylons, ‘I’m not a big fan. With the traditional look of the houses here, to have to drive along and see these pylons will take away from the heritage and look of the village.

‘Once they put the pylons up, you won’t be able to go back.’

Oliver, a marketing manager, said, ‘It would be better without the pylons. Surely there’s the technology to do it differently. They’re going to look horrendous.

‘It will take away from the awesome British old-school village that it is.’

In Great Waltham, contemporary and Victorian cottages coexist alongside thatched and timber-framed buildings from the 1930s, as well as council houses with well-kept lawns.

In any case, these power lines should go underground rather than overground to provide extra energy requirements, but Labour wants to destroy this green, pleasant land. If the government were to stop the UK’s massive daily population increase, there would be less need to provide so much power, but I’m guessing it’s mostly cost-based.

The drive for sustainable energy has ruined Scotland’s highlands. Power firms and absentee landowners are making millions, while the general public is ignored and is forced to put up with the severe inconvenience of unsightly pylons, gigantic dams, and community disturbance while this is happening.

Green energy doesn’t exist. There is nothing environmentally friendly about the entire process, from raw materials to manufacturing, installation, and, of course, electricity transmission.

Although there isn’t enough proof to say that living close to electrical pylons is harmful to your health, some research points to a potential connection.

There may be a higher chance of childhood leukaemia for residents who live close to electricity lines, according to some research. All the data combined nevertheless points to no impact.

One study found a 29 percent increase in lung cancer rates in people living downwind of pylons in the southwest of England. However, the National Radiological Protection Board considered this theory implausible and highly speculative.

Power lines produce electromagnetic fields (EMFs), which are a mixture of electric and magnetic forces. According to some experts, there may be a higher risk of cancer in those who have extensive EMF exposure. As for low-level EMF exposure near power lines, most experts think it’s safe.

As the UK government has developed EMF exposure restrictions to prevent any known effects on the body, it appears that exposure to EMFs below these levels has no documented health risk, and if power lines are more than 300 feet away, there should be no cause for concern.

There needs to be more physical evidence, and it needs to be open to the public, not hidden away. If it is proven, then it should all be banned along with cigarettes, processed foods, and alcohol.

So, our government can waste millions on foreign aid, millions to keep uninvited newcomers to our shores, but they won’t spend to help save our once beautiful country.

The thing is, worrying about the earth’s destruction in the future seems to be causing the earth’s destruction in the present, but that’s incompetent politicians for you!

Near-Death Experience Revealed By Al Pacino

Al Pacino, a well-known actor, shared horrifying details of his COVID-19 near-death encounter, in which paramedics battled valiantly to resuscitate him after his pulse stopped.

Pacino, 84, recalled to The New York Times Magazine how he was ‘sitting there in my house and I was gone’ after falling unconscious while battling COVID-19 at an unknown time. 

‘I didn’t have a pulse,’ he told the magazine. ‘In a matter of minutes, they were there—the ambulance in front of my house. I had about six paramedics in that living room, and there were two doctors, and they had these outfits on that looked like they were from outer space or something.’ 

The Godfather actor had one of his employees get him a nurse after he began feeling ‘unusually not good,’ while he had a fever and was dehydrated when he suddenly lost consciousness. 

‘I didn’t see the white light or anything. There’s nothing there,’ he said. ‘I’d never thought about it in my life. But you know actors: It sounds good to say I died once. What is it when there’s no more?’ 

Despite the scary experience, the elderly actor is happy to have his children as ‘consolation’ and his extensive body of work to keep his legacy going. 

However, the 84-year-old doesn’t seem afraid of death, as he has grown to have a ‘different view of death as you get older.’ Simply brushing it off as ‘it’s just the way it is.’ 

‘I didn’t ask for it. Just comes, like a lot of things just come,’ he told the magazine, before saying he doesn’t find discussing death ‘morbid.’ 

As for the movie, he believes his youngest child, who was born in June 2023, should watch first. Jack and Jill with Adam Sandler as it’s ‘funny.’ 

‘It came at a time in my life that I needed it because it was after I found out I had no more money. My accountant was in prison, and I needed something quickly. So I took this,’ he said.

Pacino’s former financial advisor, Kenneth Starr, pleaded guilty in 2010 to taking $33 million from his clients to fund his lifestyle. His fraud caused the actor to owe $188,000 in back taxes to the IRS.

Starr was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for the ordeal. 

Although the Oscar winner has a long career and has been in several critically acclaimed films, like Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, the actor acknowledges that he enjoyed his work better when he was younger.

Did he have a near-death experience or did he pass out? Who knows, we weren’t there, but let’s face it, the man is 84 years old—every day is a near-death-experience.

In his day he was a superb actor. Hoo-hah!

Perhaps his near-death experience was a dress rehearsal for the full-death experience.

Sadly, to stay relevant, these Hollywood celebrities produce garbage, but then make-believe stories keep the peasants in obedience.

California Invaded By A 3-Foot Rat-Like Creature

The economic and public safety of California is in jeopardy due to an incursion of hazardous three-foot-tall, rat-like monsters with orange fangs.

Nearly 1,000 nutria—one of the largest rodent species—had already been hunted down in the Bay Area this year.

But the creatures have now made their way into Contra Costa County’s California Delta, which is one of the state’s most crucial water sources and ecological sites, the San Francisco Chronicle has reported.

The creatures, also called Coypu, are about 20 pounds in weight and are dangerous to people, animals, and pets. They also wreak havoc on wetlands.

They are known to harbour septicaemia and TB, two potentially fatal illnesses, in addition to being tapeworm carriers. According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, they also carry blood and liver flukes, which can cause illness when exposed to polluted water.

Nutria look similar to beavers, with the distinction of highly arched backs and ‘long, thin, round, sparsely haired tails rather than wide, flat tails like that of a beaver,’ according to the CFWD. 

The rodents have big, bright orange teeth, a white snout, and whiskers. They are typically found close to permanent water sources.

Since the first nutria, a pregnant female was discovered on a private wetland in March of 2017 in California, 5,042 of the species have been killed in the state. 

Officials are urging locals to ‘immediately’ report and photograph any sightings or potential signs of their presence to their state wildlife department. 

California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesman Peter Tira told SFGate: ‘We cannot have nutria reproducing in the delta. The threat to California’s economy is too great.’

The animal’s prodigious reproductive rate—females can give birth to as many as 27 pups annually—makes the spread especially concerning.

Additionally, they reproduce all year round, yielding two to three litters, each containing two to nine young.

Furthermore, there isn’t a single natural predator controlling the population.

The list of forbidden species in certain jurisdictions, including California, forbids the importation, ownership, trade, buying, selling, or transit of rodents.

It is legal to shoot the animal outside of city limits or wildlife control officers can kill them using humane euthanasia. 

The highly destructive species is known to cause significant losses in crops and weaken levees due to their burrowing. 

The unique and endangered plants and creatures that depend on the wetlands are also at risk due to their impact on ecosystems.

A rodent native to South America, the nutria, sometimes known as the coypu, is a member of the spiny rat family.

Originally native to subtropical and temperate South America, they were brought to North America, Europe, and Asia by fur farmers. They reside in burrows by bodies of water and eat the stems of river plants.

They’re still hunted and trapped for their fur in some regions, but their destructive burrowing and feeding habits often frustrate humans, and they consider them an invasive species in the United States. They can also transmit various diseases to humans and animals, mainly through water contamination.

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