LIVING HELL

MAN: I’m 65 years old, homeless, and doing a dead-end job. I’m told I have to work until the day I die.

In October 2023, Gary Evans left his private rental apartment of 13 years to take a new position as a live-in caretaker.

However, his intentions were derailed when the woman he was supposed to look after passed away just before he was scheduled to start employment, and he is currently homeless.

In a couple of weeks, he blew through his meagre £500 in savings by sleeping in hotels while he looked for other places to live.

Depending on the season, he makes between £200 and £700 a month from his work at an amusement park, with lesser months earning up to £393 in universal credit.

This simply isn’t enough to rent a new place to live, he says.

He further claims Thanet District Council informed him they are unable to assist him in obtaining housing.

So for the last six weeks, Gary has been sleeping at the seafront at Ramsgate, Kent.

In between employment, he spends his days drinking free refill coffee at a Wetherspoon’s bar and looking for jobs at the library.

He said: “I’m still shocked at how quickly things fell apart for me and I ended up homeless.

“It’s true what they say about everyone only being two paycheques away from poverty.

“You think it will never happen to you but it can so easily happen to any one of us.

“I’ve always worked hard and paid my taxes and national insurance. I thought I’d always be safe and secure.

“Suddenly I had no place to live, no money and no help.

“There’s only so long you can stay with friends or borrow money.

“Sleeping rough is very scary. I’ve been woken by a hand on my shoulder and someone telling me ‘You’re on my patch’.

“It’s cold and frightening, and I rarely sleep. I doze off a bit then wake up suddenly and very alert – it’s horrible.

“When I see the lights on in people’s houses it reminds me that once that was me, and now I’m on the other side.

“It’s heartbreaking. I put on a happy face at work, but I know at the end of the day I have to leave and have no safe place to sleep.”

Gary stopped working full-time as a cook in a care home after he struggled to recover fully from Long Covid – which he had for a year from November 2021, he said.

He had pneumonia in both lungs and was in hospital for a week, he said, so couldn’t go back to working 200-hour months.

He took a part-time position in the ticket office and shop at an amusement park, where he still works between 8 and 25 hours a month.

Because of the seasonal nature of his work, he also gets universal credit.

Gary left his rented flat in October because he took a live-in cooking and cleaning job, but his plans fell through when the lady he was due to work for died, he said.

He asked Thanet District Council for help getting a new home, in January, but was told they couldn’t, he said.

Four bags that contain some of his stuff are kept at friends’ homes.

Gary takes one suitcase of essentials around with him.

He said: “I still can’t really understand how this has happened to me.

“I know it has but somewhere in my mind, I can’t quite accept it.

“I know it’s temporary. I’m going to get another job and a home and get myself out of this situation – I’m not giving up.

“It’s just very hard.

“Everywhere is so expensive.

“Everyone needs a deposit. I got the deposit back when I left my flat but I needed that to live.

“There’s just nothing available at the moment and lots don’t take people who are on benefits.

“I guess I feel a bit sad and resentful that the council can’t help me. I feel like they should be there for everyone.”

Gary said he’s met some very kind people and had some fascinating experiences – including spotting wildlife like beavers and foxes.

“I’ve seen the most beautiful sunrises and sunsets,” he said.

“You see the best and worst of human nature.

“Some people give you all the change they have to get some food, even though I don’t ask, and some cafes ask you to leave as soon as you’re done with your tea even though they’re not busy.

“The saddest thing is the friends that don’t speak to me anymore when I phone for a chat.

“When people ask I say I’m not homeless, I say ‘I’m waiting for a lift.”

A spokesperson for Thanet District Council said: “Thanet District Council works hard to prevent households from becoming homeless.

“We cannot comment on individual circumstances, but will always support people who require assistance, and liaise with other services and agencies to ensure anyone who is vulnerable gets the help they need.”

The council claims that on February 16, 2024, Gary was given a bed in a shared facility by the council’s specialised rough sleeping support team, but he turned it down.

It also said that affordable housing is now in low supply.

Earlier this month, a mum-of-three who was made homeless two years ago has told of how she and her kids are still living out of suitcases.

A couple disclosed in April of this year that they had resorted to sleeping on a bus shelter because they were so in need of a place to call home.

An NHS ambulance worker has been forced to live in his tiny car after being made homeless.

It is absurd that although our government readily homes foreign nationals in hotels, our own nation fails to assist those who are homeless. Where is the fairness in this structure? This regime has to be exposed and shamed until it falls!

Any time of year is not a nice place to be on the streets. That lifestyle is abhorrent. Everybody is entitled to basic human needs, a roof over their head, food and heating, and it’s a disgrace that we have homeless people out on our streets.

There also needs to be a cap on the prices of rentals because people are charging way over the odds.

As they get off the boats, foreign nationals are given the keys to a house or flat upon request. Today, the majority of these individuals are contentedly living in spacious homes in upscale neighbourhoods, enjoying their benefits and subsisting without employment.

It’s all wrong. All this queue jumping. Our government should be looking after its own, not people who have come over and have been here five minutes. British nationals should come first!

What is wrong with our nation and this shitshow of a government? The impoverished men who were born in this nation, paid taxes and made contributions to society all of their lives receive nothing while we accept hundreds of asylum seekers every day and place them in hotels or temporary accommodation.

What hope is there for the people of Britain? For what purpose do we work throughout our lives? As you age, you become less and less of a valued member of society, receiving nothing but a pitiful state pension.

This man was offered temporary accommodation and turned it down, but why should he live in temporary accommodation like all the immigrants that come over? This man was born in the UK. HE COMES FIRST!

The Metropolitan Police Arrests And Suspends Rishi Sunak’s Bodyguard

A bodyguard of Rishi Sunak has been arrested in an investigation over alleged election date bets, it has been revealed. 

An officer working as part of the Prime Minister’s close protection crew was suspended and later arrested by the Metropolitan Police.

The Gambling Commission contacted the Met last Friday, stating that it was looking into claims made by a police constable from its royal and specialised protection command, as the BBC initially revealed.

The Met said the matter was ‘immediately referred to officers in the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards, who opened an investigation, and the officer was also removed from operational duties’. 

On Monday, the officer was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

The individual was taken into custody and later bailed, with further inquiries pending. 

A Met Police spokesperson said: ‘We can confirm that on Friday, 14 June, the Met was contacted by the Gambling Commission, who informed us that they were investigating alleged bets made by a Police Constable from the Met’s Royalty and Specialist Protection Command, which were related to the timing of the General Election.

‘The matter was immediately referred to officers in the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards, who opened an investigation, and the officer was also removed from operational duties.

‘The officer was subsequently arrested on Monday 17, June on suspicion of misconduct in public office. He was taken into custody and bailed, pending further inquiries. The matter has also been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.

‘The Gambling Commission continues to lead the investigation into the alleged betting offences, and our investigation is running in parallel to that.’

The Gambling Commission has said it is investigating ‘the possibility of offences concerning the date of the election’.

A spokesperson said, ‘The Gambling Commission regulates gambling in the interests of consumers and the wider public.

‘Currently, the commission is investigating the possibility of offences concerning the date of the election.

‘This is an ongoing investigation, and the commission cannot provide any further details at this time.’

Responding to Rishi Sunak’s protection officer being arrested over alleged election date bets, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper said: ‘Rishi Sunak must call a Cabinet Office inquiry into what is shaping up to be yet another scandal at the heart of Government.

‘This stinks of yet more sleaze and answers are needed.

‘An inquiry is needed to understand who knew what and when.’

It just goes to show how thick this officer must have been. He was in a position of authority, yet he’s putting bets on, and if he isn’t sacked, he will probably later become commissioner.

If Gilbert and Sullivan were still alive today, they’d have a field day writing an operetta about our current state of British politics, and it’s about to get a whole lot more ridiculous with Nigel Farage if he gets into power. If you thought the markets reacted badly to Liz Truss, you haven’t seen anything yet!

The fact that this country is incapable of functioning is hardly shocking. It is a disgrace that there doesn’t seem to be a single honest MP or public servant.

It’s the end of your term as prime minister, Rishi Sunak. I have a better chance of signing a five-year deal with Manchester City than Sunak getting re-elected by the British public.

Bent from top to bottom, Sunak represents the snake’s head, but yet it’s another day, another disaster!

Teenager Who Stabbed Boy, 17, To Death On A Crowded Dancefloor   

A teenage killer who fatally stabbed another boy on a crowded dance floor can be named for the first time today after applications from reporters lifted the order protecting his identity.

The son of Ukrainian parents, Yura Varybrus, knifed Charlie Cosser, a teenager from Surrey, last summer after he was asked to leave an end-of-term party held on the grounds of a £1.5 million rural home.

Before the celebration at Balmohano Farmhouse, which is close to Warnham, West Sussex, Varybrus, who turns 18 in November, had never met Charlie.

Judge Christine Henson granted press applications, allowing him to be identified for the first time since a photo of him when he was 14 was made public.

Varybrus had been drinking heavily throughout the night and claimed he could not remember anything about the killing.

Despite going to the same school as some of the other guests, Charlie and his killer had never met.

Charlie’s father, Martin Cosser, said: ‘He’s well known and I know people are scared of him.

‘The DCI told me when he told him Charlie had died, he didn’t even flinch.

‘He’s known to carry a knife and so is his friend, who I think gave the knife to him.’

Ihor Varybrus, the killer’s father, resides in West Sussex, while Julia, the killer’s mother, resides in Surrey with her new spouse.

Days after Charlie’s death, Varybrus entered a murder plea; this was never disclosed to the trial jury.

Then 16, he replied ‘Guilty’ in a clear voice when the charge of murder was put to him in July last year.

He exchanged a raised fist salute with his father as he was taken down from the dock at Lewes.

Speaking after the hearing, his father said: ‘It’s not just him; we are all guilty.

‘He is a child; we are all responsible and should have been making sure they were not drinking. I never saw him drinking before.

‘I haven’t been able to see him for five days and he is only 16—he is a child.

‘We need him to know we love him and we will stay with him all his life.’

Varybrus was scheduled to be sentenced at Brighton Crown Court.

She said, ‘This is a case that is a particularly grave crime and has attracted substantial national and local interest.

‘The level of youth crime in this case is likely to be of significant public interest at a private party attended by many young people.

‘Charlie Cosser’s death has shocked a community and the family have set up a charity to fight against knife crime. Disclosure may aid the local community in coming to terms with this incident.”

She added that the potential deterrent nature for others in identifying Varybrus, in this case, is crucial for the public interest and public protection in homicide cases.

Statistics show that most of us now don’t bring up our children to respect the lives of other people, and what other children do does impact the lives of others, and the fact that my children respect life and people isn’t a protection from others who don’t. We are responsible as parents!

For the simple reason that he stole another person’s life, this person—regardless of age—deserves to be imprisoned for life, and life should mean life, not a few years and then being let out because some do-gooder says the offender is rehabilitated. This kid took the life of another, so why should he continue with his?

This is a very sad story, and a life has been lost. Crime in this country has the biggest growth area and that is not something we should be proud of.

When Tony Blair opened our borders, we knew this was going to happen. We voiced our concerns for our children, but we were shut down. Our politicians have a lot to answer for.

This kid will now go to prison for a very long time. According to Sir Keir Starmer, he’s an adult, and now all sixteen-year-olds should vote. Sir Keir Starmer seems to be very fond of 16-year-olds, which makes you wonder what his agenda is.

Sweden Gang Horror

The terrible mistaken identity incident that captured the startling level of gangland criminality in Sweden also left the mother critically injured and the two-year-old child shot in the stomach through her teddy bear. Her father was also dead.

The terrifying incident occurred in October of last year when the 16-year-old suspect entered the family’s house in Stockholm’s Vastberga neighbourhood after dusk. One attorney called it the most horrific case she had ever worked on.

A Swedish court heard testimony about how the adolescent gunman shot and killed the father at close range before aiming the automatic weapon at the mother, who was holding her two-year-old daughter.

He sprayed a volley of bullets in their direction, one of which hit the mother in the liver and another of which tore through the toddler’s Winnie the Pooh cuddly toy and embedded itself in her stomach. 

The pair miraculously survived the attack, as did the young girl’s five-year-old sister who avoided the onslaught by hiding in her bedroom. 

However, it was later revealed that the murderer had broken into the incorrect house since his victims had the same last name as his initial target. The killer then went on to murder two additional women at a different location the following day before being apprehended.

Academics from Sweden, a politician, and a senior police official shared details of the terrifying attack with MailOnline, stating that the country is currently in a crisis due to escalating gangland violence.

As the trial began, the horrifying details of the brutal shooting were read aloud to the Sodertorn District Court in Sweden.

The 17-year-old murder defendant, according to the prosecution, has some mental handicap and was instructed by a gang member to sneak into the home of a rival gang member to conduct executions.

It is said that he received an offer of SEK 150,000 (£11,235) for each person slain.

But the teenager had mistakenly attacked the family of four—two adults and two children with no connections to crime—simply because they shared the same surname as the original target.

Having broken a window to get inside the home, he discovered the 40-year-old father asleep on the couch and blasted him from mere feet away with his automatic weapon.

The mother and the two-year-old girl woke up to the sound of gunshots and the father yelling in shock and pain. 

Hearing their terrified screams, the killer stalked upstairs and saw the mother fleeing into the corridor, trying to shield her young child from harm. 

The gunman, according to the prosecution, gave the victim the command to turn around before icily shooting her in the back.

The bullet hit her in the liver and caused horrific injuries, while another round hit the two-year-old in the stomach.

Unsettling photos taken at the crime scene showed how the bullet tore a hole through her Winnie the Pooh teddy as investigators were seen holding up the bloodstained nightie the toddler was wearing when she was mercilessly shot in her own home. 

Rebecka Lewis, a lawyer working on the case, told the Swedish press: ‘(The mother) was millimetres from dying or being paralysed throughout her body if the bullet had hit her spine.

 ‘She was incredibly lucky, and so was the baby. She has just started processing the incident through trauma treatment and so on. She is a very strong person but it has been an incredibly tough situation.’

Lewis also explained how the two children have been affected by the incident. 

‘Both children have changed fundamentally. They are afraid, and they have lost their father. They are working to take care of this trauma, but there is a long way to go,’ she told Expressen.se. 

‘I have worked at a law firm for 17 years and I have never seen anything so brutal, against completely innocent people,’ she concluded.

The stricken mother and daughter only survived after the mother managed to call emergency services. 

But the gunman had already made his getaway in a cab and was on his way to the neighbouring Tullinge district when police finally made it to the Vastberga residence.

He murdered two more people there, ages 20 and 60, before being discovered and taken into custody by the authorities along with two other minors.

Prosecutors said that the 16-year-old girl gave the weapon and the addresses of the targets, while the 15-year-old boy is thought to have assisted in planning the killings.

According to Swedish law, the gunman faces charges of murder and attempted murder and might spend up to ten years in a closed juvenile centre; however, the court is expected to consider the shooter’s mental impairments.

The 15-year-old boy, meanwhile, was charged with inciting the murders and attempted murders. The girl was charged with aiding and abetting murder.

All three are also charged with aggravated weapons offences for jointly possessing the automatic weapon used in the fatal shootings.

Investigators also learned that the murder suspect’s cab fares to and from the sites of his shootings were covered by a 22-year-old guy who had ties to a local criminal group.

In the UK, this is likewise taking place, but MPs are doing nothing about it until it’s too late. Even though the police are aware of the gang members, they are free to roam our neighbourhoods.

There are no words for this. Poor souls. I can’t imagine how much pain the father felt, unable to save his family in his last moments. May his soul rest in peace.

Lawn And Order

A landscape gardener was handed a jail sentence after charging a frail pensioner a staggering £42,000 for a piece of Astroturf.

Michael Gorman attempted to collect more than £40,000 in earnings from the artificial grass, according to police probing his activities.

Over several months, Gorman won the trust of the elderly Roy Wilcox, who he convinced to have gardening chores done at his house—a service for which the landscaper would later overcharge by as much as tens of thousands of pounds.

The 47-year-old charged his elderly client an eye-watering £42,000 for the installation of artificial grass in his garden – when the work was worth less than £2,000.

A judge was informed that Gorman had approached the defendant in November 2021 and that the retiree had been defrauded over many months, from November 2021 to April 2022.

The judge was informed by prosecutor Amber Athill that Mr Wilcox was charged £12,500 by Gorman, of Star Hill, Hook, Hampshire, for the concrete paving of his garden at Caversham, which is close to Reading.

An expert later calculated Gorman’s work was worth £4,068 – meaning he had overcharged the pensioner by over £8,000.

On April 8, 2022, Mr Wilcox wrote the defendant a cheque for £500 which was the deposit for the installation of artificial grass.

The judge was informed that Gorman had put down a £2,300 price for the project in his notebook, but that quote had never been shared with Mr Wilcox.

Gorman installed the artificial grass in Mr Wilcox’s garden on April 19, 2022 – and told the elderly man he was owed £42,000 for his work.

Ms Athill, prosecuting on behalf of Reading Borough Council, said: ‘Although Mr Wilcox thought the price was steep, he trusted the defendant and wrote out a cheque for the full amount.’

An expert later calculated the installation of the artificial grass was only worth £1,880.70 – meaning Gorman had knowingly overcharged the elderly pensioner by some £40,000.

Gorman never offered the victim a receipt or any indication as to what the cost would be.

A statement from the since-deceased Mr Wilcox was read out in court.

He said: ‘I wanted it done and thought I was dealing with a reputable builder.

‘I trusted he would give me a fair price as I did not know the going rate for the work.

‘I did not know or have any way to check whether the cost was reasonable or not, so I trusted him and paid it.’

The intended loss reached over £49,000 whilst the actual loss to the victim was £8,932 after Mr Wilcox’s bank intervened and stopped the payment.

This evil person was ready to give his victim a horrific few years of life, which had to have given him excessive tension and anxiety.

This man did not receive enough jail time which allows people to take advantage of the vulnerable and an automatic minimum of 5 years in prison without parole. Unfortunately, our prisons are full up to the brim, and we seriously need a breakdown of who needs to be in them and who could be paroled early. No room now for the bad ones and they know it! But then there’s always a lawyer on hand to turn a blind eye to conscience and to twist the truth for a fee.

People who take advantage of the goodwill of others are especially unpleasant, and this case is made much worse by the fact that the evil man carefully selected his victim over time, demonstrating his cold-bloodedness and lack of concern for the psychological and financial toll that his actions would exact on his gullible target.

‘Blade Runner’ Cuts Down ULEZ Cameras And Traffic Lights

In the most recent attack against Sadiq Khan’s contentious plan, an anti-ULEZ protester used a power tool to destroy a camera and traffic light.

The group, known as ‘Blade Runners’, opted for their own version of justice this weekend by felling another ULEZ camera using power tools, including a saw. 

The scenes took place during a protest in Southwark, South London, with the group taking out a set of lights at a four-way junction.

As the group filmed their actions, loud horns could be heard in celebration as protestors stood on an island in the middle of the road carrying placards.

Video footage shows the moment that the group fell the lights with a power saw easily cutting through the tubing.

Moments later, the lights come crashing to the ground as the man filming the chaos narrates the ongoing celebrations.

He sarcastically says: ‘The lights have fallen over here, folks, the lights have fallen over, oh dear, oh deary me.

‘What has happened here, oh no, oh no – the lights have fallen over here.’

Whilst the man narrates over the latest felling of traffic lights by the group, traffic begins to spew into the middle of the four lanes as there is no longer a traffic light to instruct motorists.

This excites the man who exclaims: ‘Oh look, the lights have gone out and all the traffic is flowing through here again. We’ve got the traffic running freely here.’

The guy talks about how his organisation has once again blocked ULEZ, the £12.50 fee that Londoners pay to drive their vehicles into specified areas of the city, as several cars zoom by.

He gleefully continues: ‘Oh no ULEZ, no lights, no nothing, have some of that.’

The man then bursts into exaggerated laughter before adding: ‘Carnage at the circus, come on the lights are down, they’ve just fallen over here.’

The scenes were shared to social media in a post with the caption: ‘What do you think – a worthy case in the face of tyranny or just a bunch of vandals?’

Social media users expressed varying opinions about the incident in thousands of comments and over 37,000 likes on the post.

One said: ‘Fair play to them, it’s a complete scam that does nothing.’

Another added: ‘When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.’

A third replied: ‘They are common criminals.’

Another commented: ‘Modern-day Robin Hood with a band of merry men.’

Following Sadiq Khan’s historic victory last month, The Blade Runners went on an enraged rampage throughout the city, spray painting cameras, chopping poles in two, and setting them on fire in one village.

Spy cameras were toppled from Ickenham and Northwood in Hillingdon and Feltham and Hounslow in west London, to the suburban village Yiewsley on the outskirts of London.

People already pay through the nose just to own a car as it is, let alone drive them. They shouldn’t be expected to pay more.

ULEZ was not wanted by the people, but Sadiq Khan enforced it upon them, so there is no way I will condemn these people.

Sadiq Khan has driven white working-class people out of London. Now they have to drive into London for work while Sadiq Khan and his ilk work from home and when they do go into the office they seem to be charging the cost to us taxpayers’.

Some may argue that these individuals can go by rail to London, but do we really think that an electrician, plumber, or other tradesperson can travel by bus, train, or tube to London?

If we don’t oppose it, we doze it!

Sir Ian McKellen, 85, Falls ‘Head First’ Into West End Audience

Sir Ian McKellen lost his balance and went ‘head first’ into an audience before letting out a ‘blood-curdling scream’ during a West End performance last night.

At the London Noël Coward theatre, the 85-year-old actor fell from the front of the stage right before Player Kings’ intermission. He was rushed to the hospital.

Around eight o’clock at night, the audience was cleared out of the theatre while paramedics were dispatched, and patrons were informed that the evening performance had been cancelled.

Show bosses said that Sir Ian ‘will make a speedy and full recovery’ and is in ‘good spirits’ – but tonight’s performance has also been cancelled so he can rest.

While circling a fight scene featuring Henry Percy and the Prince of Wales, Sir Ian, who plays John Falstaff in the play, stumbled and fell off the stage.

As the house lights came up, the actor known for Lord Of The Rings and X-Men cried out in pain as ushers and two medics in the audience rushed to help him.

Charlie Johnson, a journalist for the Kingston Courier who was in the audience, told ITV: ‘As we approached the interval of the play, there was a fight scene going on.

‘There were strobe lights and then it all went dark, at which point you could see the silhouette of Sir Ian come out from the wings. And the way the stage works at the Noel Coward is there’s sort of a step down just as the stage meets the audience.

‘I think what happened was he put his foot too far, sort of went off that initial step, at which point he lost his balance and pretty much just went head first into the audience.

‘And within seconds a blood-curdling scream arose from the actor. He was clearly in a lot of pain, he was screaming ‘Help me’.

Kol Baker, who was watching the show from the second tier, told MailOnline that Sir Ian had been ‘berating the villain and moving around’ during the scene when he ‘tripped over’ some props and fell off the stage ‘in almost a belly flop fashion’.

‘Instantly he screamed and honestly the noises were bone-chilling,’ the 23-year-old added – as he recalled Sir Ian yelling ‘help me, help me’ followed by ‘my arms, my arms’ and ‘help me, help me’ again.

‘The lights were on so quickly the curtains drawn and within seconds they asked to evacuate the whole auditorium. Whilst leaving the theatre within 10 minutes he was in the back of an ambulance speeding down Trafalgar Square.’

Describing what caused the actor to fall, he explained: ‘The scene in question was a warzone so there was broken up bricks and daggers from the battle and the set which was all torn up for that scene.’

He said there was ‘so much concern and shock for Sir Ian’, adding: ‘Everyone I think is just such huge fans of his work and with his age just really empathetic and almost terrified that it could be life-threatening because of his age.’

Mr Baker said that Sir Ian had been ‘performing amazingly with great vigour’ before he fell. 

When asked how the audience reacted, the theatregoer added: ‘Instantly people were standing up, the first two rows completely went to rush to go help Sir Ian and everyone was explaining ‘oh my god’ and ‘that poor man’.

‘It was very sincere and so much concern for his well-being,’ he added. ‘He had made everyone laugh so much this evening.’

A spokesperson for Player Kings told MailOnline: ‘Thank you to our audience and the general public for their well wishes following Ian’s fall during this evening’s performance of Player Kings.

‘Following a scan, the brilliant NHS team have assured us that he will make a speedy and full recovery and Ian is in good spirits.

‘The production has made the decision to cancel the performance on Tuesday 18 June so Ian can rest. Those affected will be contacted by their point of purchase as soon as possible tomorrow.

‘Thank you to doctors Rachel and Lee who were on hand in the audience and to all the venue staff for their support.’

Photographs taken outside the venue showed at least three London ambulances.

I hope that Sir Ian McKellen has a speedy recovery. He is one of the best actors of all time, and he’s an incredible performer. To still be getting up on stage at his age and delivering hours of razor-sharp dialogue night after night is amazing.

That would be a horrifying event for anyone, but considering the potential outcomes at 85 years old, it is not something to consider. What a strong man he is, and I’m delighted he’s on the path to recovery and in good spirits. He should now take his time getting better, making sure to take as much time as necessary. People will gladly wait for his next performance, I’m sure.

Some people might say that he should retire. The man had an accident, it could have happened to anyone. Why should he give up something that he’s very passionate about and very good at? Sir Ian McKellen is iconic and a legend!

Ageism in this country is thriving, and the elderly are told to retire, but then accused of scrounging and that they’re a burden on society, but we should have more respect for these people.

His showmanship is probably what keeps him going, as he’s done this all his life.

Keir Starmer Plans To Use Satellites To Raise Council Tax On Those With Gardens

If Labour is elected, it has been accused of having intentions to employ satellites to spy on the size of homes with larger gardens to increase council taxation on those homes.

Sir Keir Starmer’s party has dismissed the claims as ‘fantasy’, but Housing Secretary Michael Gove is standing firm that Labour will ‘hammer’ families if the party wins the General Election. 

Mr Gove recently accused Labour of ‘using Big Brother tactics’ after it emerged that the Labour-run Welsh Government was using satellites to spy on homeowners living in properties with large gardens or that have undergone renovations and extensions.

As well as aerial and street view photography, data from planning applications, information about energy efficiency, statistics on school performance and crime rates are also being assessed as part of an overhaul of council tax bands being drawn up by the Senedd.

This implies that households may pay more in council taxes if they reside in larger, better-insulated homes, in neighbourhoods with excellent schools, or places with lower crime rates.

Although Sir Keir Starmer has insisted that a Labour government will not raise taxes, he has also described the Welsh Government as a ‘blueprint’ for ‘what Labour can do across the UK’. 

Mr Gove said he believes Labour is looking with interest at the Welsh initiative, which has been postponed until 2028, to ‘road test’ a similar system in England. 

The financial impact of moving a property up even one band can be significant for homeowners.

Bumping a Band D home in England, for example, which currently pays £2,171 a year council tax, into the next Band E would amount to nearly £500 more a year. 

He said: ‘Straight from the same old Labour playbook, these Big Brother tactics will punish families with higher bills simply for having good schools or lower crime.’

In May, it was reported in the Sunday Telegraph that the Valuation Office, an agency of HMRC, has been commissioned to build an ‘automated valuation model’ to update the value of the 1.5 million homes in Wales.

The Welsh Government say higher council tax bands are needed to address ‘property wealth’ and ‘rebalance’ the current system.

Jim McMahon, Sir Keir’s shadow local government minister, has also spoken previously about the need to modernise council tax, describing the current valuation system as ‘unfair.’

However, since millions of homeowners would have to pay more, any attempt to alter council tax bands in Scotland and England—where assessments haven’t been changed in 33 years—would be extremely divisive.

Hard labour is being discriminated against this way, and paying a greater council tax does not equate to better service. Regretfully, taxing the wealthy these days would penalise the working citizen who saves and works.

Income Tax, National Insurance, Council Tax, Fuel Duty, Insurance Tax, Road Tax, Stamp Duty, Inheritance Tax, Savings Tax, Flight Tax, Alcohol Duty, Non-Alcoholic Duty, and Tobacco Tax, et cetera. We are being taxed to the bone by our greedy government.

We’re talking about socialism here, not, in the distant future, Communism.

All that our government does is tax the average working guy, yet we continue to support them! Instead, sack them!

More people living in social housing would be impacted by a levy on larger gardens since homes constructed after World War II typically have larger gardens than those constructed during the 1980s.

It tends to be assumed that larger homes accommodate more people and that higher population densities translate into higher service consumption, and the government will try to overtax anything nailed down or not nailed down, whichever is the case.

‘Inhumane Is All I Can Say!’

A witness said he was ‘disgusted’ at seeing the police ram a terrified calf with their squad car as people called for the officers to be sacked.

Kai Bennetts, 22, said the young cow was left with an ‘open gash’ and ‘loads of grazes where the skin had come off’ after it was hit by the police car and thrown several metres down the road.

He said that on the first strike, the cow ‘tried to get back up, and then they (the police) pushed it back over and blocked it by its neck and top half of his body and so it couldn’t get up.’ Mr Bennetts added: ‘Inhumane is all I can say.’

Calls are growing for the ‘monsters’ who rammed the calf to be sacked after a new video showed the bovine calmly wandering down the street before officers swooped in and said they had to knock the animal down to keep the public safe.

Shocking footage shows police brutally smashing into the calf twice after it escaped from its enclosure as a nearby member of the public in Staines-upon-Thames, west London, shouts: ‘What are you doing that for?’.

Wildlife TV presenter Chris Packham, Home Secretary James Cleverly and Deborah Meaden were among those condemning the ‘brutal’ actions of the police force. 

Mr Packham wrote on X: ‘I don’t know where to start with this. But it’s surely illegal and must be investigated and prosecuted. What sort of monster rams a calf? Twice?’

Home Secretary James Cleverly also asked for a ‘full, urgent explanation’ as to why officers appeared to use a police car to hit an escaped cow. He said the police action seemed ‘unnecessarily heavy-handed’.

The RSPCA described the footage as ‘upsetting and distressing’ and said the police ‘action appears disproportionate to the situation’. 

Deborah Meaden also took to X to voice her shock over the incident, writing: ‘Jeez….that is a scared, living, breathing creature and @SurreyPolice show such little compassion they decide ramming it with a vehicle is their only option….come on!!

‘I know it’s not all Police but seriously….this really must have serious consequences.’

Actor James Dreyfus decided not to share the toe-curling footage but expressed his anger at how the officers had treated the ‘terrified cow’.

He posted: I’m not reposting the utterly horrific video taken of these b* running over an escaped terrified cow. Not once. Not twice. But THREE times.

At first, I assumed the police had accidentally run over the calf, but the b**** did it on purpose. The public wasn’t in danger because the calf wasn’t charging at anyone; it could have easily been returned to the farm.

Police who can do this would be the same people who would set off red flags with a psychiatrist. Unfortunately, many appear to get into the police force and clearly have sociopathic traits.

Although many of these characteristics are regrettably prevalent in today’s society as a whole, it is unsettling to see them in someone in a position of perceived power. Fortunately, not all of them are this way.

The police are not being held responsible for their acts; if a member of the public had done this, they would have been arrested.

It’s not complicated; all the police needed to do was summon a veterinarian to tranquillize the animal. It was a calf, not a knife-wielding terrorist, a mad-kicking horse, or even a bull. If the big brave boys in blue can’t usher a calf into a place of safety, then we really are in a vulnerable place.

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