Student Ordered To Leave Oxford Encampment For Refusing To Sign Radical Pro-Palestine Pledge 

A Jewish student at Oxford University has been denied admittance to the event after he refused to sign up for a radical pro-Palestine pledge in a sign that the Gaza university demonstrations sweeping the UK are becoming more authoritarian. 

Elsewhere, students from the University of Cambridge began shouting the genocidal ‘From the river to the sea’ chant and calling for an ‘intifada’ at their encampment outside King’s College.

In Cambridge, students have been seen marching through the city to the Old Schools University Offices while chanting ‘Israel is a terrorist state’  before tucking into batch-cooked pesto pasta and focaccia. 

Media covering the event in Oxford have been mobbed and abused by demonstrators whilst attendees to the encampment have been told they must be ‘committed to upholding the Thawabit’ in order to join in. 

Speaking to MailOnline, the Jewish student in his 30s said he was too concerned for his safety to give his name and that he wanted to bring an Israeli flag but thought better of it as he ‘didn’t want to end up in hospital’.

He said he would not sign a document condemning the ‘Zionist entity’ and backing Palestinian Thawabit.

‘The fact that they allowed in Press TV tells you everything you need to know about them. How many rockets did Iran send at Israel?’

The Jewish student added: ‘They haven’t gone as far as the Americans have done and hopefully it will not. But if it comes to this point, they start harassing, they start blocking entries to buildings then they will have to do something about it. I think it’s not a university job, it’s the police’s job.

‘If it starts getting out of control, they have to do something about it.’

The activists refused to let the student in, then went back to their planned programme, which included couscous for lunch, talks, poetry readings, and finally a film screening at nine o’clock at night.

Dozens of masked campaigners in Cambridge spent the night sleeping in tents outside the universities and have a packed day planned featuring marches, speeches and ‘apartheid workshops.’ 

Leading one of the workshops in Cambridge was serial activist Stella Swain, a student who has been at the university since 2018 and previously voted against the promotion of Remembrance Day and the Poppy Appeal. 

Receiving his letter from the mob in person was Mr Bhaskar Vira, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education at the University of Cambridge.

This was orchestrated chaos. The powers that could stop it immediately did not want to do so. They should have been removed immediately because they were disturbing real students who were getting ready for their exams.

Some of these could have been paid activists who’d been organising and planning these protests for months, if not longer.

Why don’t they demand that Hamas release the captives right away if they want a ceasefire? Their status as students explains why. They live in a simple environment where they struggle to overcome obstacles.

Those in charge of these universities need to be removed from their positions because for far too long our universities have been allowed to support and introduce left-wing politics to their students.

It’s time for our government to step in and show some mettle by closing down these establishments until they’ve put their house in order because freedom of speech and protest can’t be allowed to overrule the freedom of others.

Sadly, students protest about things they don’t understand, that’s not a shocker, it’s been going on since the 1960s with different issues. They find a bandwagon and jump on it before they know where it comes from and where it will go.

Which Punniest Name On The High Street Would You Choose? Tikka Chance On Me, Barber Streisand, Or Surelock Homes?

Ten tiny enterprises, including a pop-up curry stall, are vying for the title of greatest pun-filled company name.

There is a lot of competition, from unisex salons in Clerkenwell, London, to a locksmith company in Hastings, East Sussex.

The ten businesses have been selected by the self-labelled ‘punslinger’ comedian Darren Walsh, with a cash prize of £2,500 on offer from insurance firm Simply Business for the winner.

Up until Monday, May 13, users of the Simply Business website can cast their votes for the winner.

Explaining its decision behind the contest, the insurance company said: ‘From Spandau Valet to Wok This Way, there’s no shortage of creative names out there.’

Hastings-based locksmith Surelock Homes, Manchester-based Indian street food vendor Tikka Chance On Me, and Clerkenwell hair expert Barber Streisand are among the competitors.

They are joined by Elly Knott’s online retail store, Thready or Knott, and Prints Charming, a printing firm with its headquarters in Fife.

Other restaurants that did not make the shortlist were Get Stuffed in Shadwell, east London, and Pane in the Glass, a Norfolk Glazier.

Mr Walsh stated: ‘Puns and wordplay seem to have a special place in British culture, so it’s heartening to see that type of humour is central to the names of so many small businesses,’ according to The Sun.

‘It’s been a tough job to whittle down the thousands of entries to a shortlist of ten, but I’m sure these business names will trigger a few involuntary laughs from the public.

‘Whether you’re partial to an Easy Lay or Barber Streisand, it’s up to you to crown Britain’s Best Small Business Name 2024.’ 

Babbel, a language learning platform, conducted a social media search to uncover UK stores with creative or humorous names. Then, it placed 120 store names up for public voting to determine which one best captured the essence of British humour.

Overall, Southport-based removal business Jean Claude Van Man and Harlech-based apparel store Damsel In This Dress came in second and third, respectively.

The best of the East Midlands shop names was Ashbourne’s On a Wick and a Prayer- a sparky name for a candle shop.

Likewise, a burger restaurant named Burger In Law in Gravesend, Kent caused a comical divide over titles via marriage.

Aficionados of heavy metal who want to wash their laundry can visit Iron Maiden’s laundry service, while comedy aficionados in need of new spectacles would be enticed to visit London’s Specks In The City.

There are loads around that I’ve seen over the years, one being on the side of a van for a TV installation company, “Satisfaction with every erection”. A DIY shop called “Fork Handles”, and a restaurant called “Thai-tanic”, but “Surelock Homes” is my favourite.

A Reversing Car Knocks Over An Elderly Woman In London’s Little India

The shocking moment an elderly woman is knocked over by a reversing car on a leafy street in London’s ‘Little India’. 

On Sunday, May 5, at about 1:30 p.m., an incident occurred on Alexandra Avenue in Southall.

An old woman is seen strolling along the street in the video, which was captured by a neighbouring CCTV camera. It appears that she is not aware that a white car is reversing behind her.

The woman is thrown across the tarmac by the car, which is also blind to the fact that she is walking on the road.

The driver is seen stepping out of the car to assist as well. Caring bystanders respond to the woman on the ground right away.

There were no arrests or injuries, according to the Met Police.

The video, shared on X by the social media account UB1UB2 West London, caused a great deal of controversy among its fans as to who was at fault in the scene—the pedestrian or the driver?

One user wrote: ‘Her fault, what’s she doing walking in the middle of the road?’

Another said: ‘[That’s what] happens if you walk in the middle of a road.’ 

However, others disagreed: ‘People trying to say it’s the pedestrian’s fault makes me worry…Everyone has a duty of care for their own safety, but it isn’t ‘illegal’ to walk on a road.’

A fourth added: ‘The driver is at fault for neglecting to check the mirrors.’

A spokesperson for the Met Police said: ‘Police were called at 12:31hrs on Sunday, May 5, to a report of a collision at Alexandra Avenue, Southall.

‘At the scene, a car had been in collision with a female pedestrian. The driver of the car stopped at the scene. The pedestrian did not suffer any injuries.

‘There were no arrests and no offences disclosed.’

A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: ‘We were called at 12:34 pm on Sunday, May 5, to reports of an incident involving a car and a pedestrian on Alexandra Avenue, Southall, UB1.

‘We sent an ambulance crew to the scene.

‘Our crews were cancelled en route as we were informed the patient had left the scene.’

This lady was walking in the middle of the road. She was an elderly lady. Why would an elderly lady be walking in the middle of the road? Did she have some form of dementia? Did nobody wait to find out? Did the paramedics not wonder why this lady was walking in the middle of the road? Or the police.

Private Forces Tackle Crime Because Police Don’t

David McKelvey, the creator of TM Eye, was a Scotland Yard detective chief inspector in the past.

A former Scotland Yard detective who leads ‘Britain’s first private police force’ says locals in the communities it patrols ‘finally feel safe’ thanks to his staff investigating and prosecuting cases of burglary and shoplifting ditched by the Met.

A talented group of ex-detectives with backgrounds in terrorism, armed robbery, and other serious crimes make up TM Eye. Businesses and homes pay them to patrol the neighbourhood and look into offences.

The company has now successfully brought to justice ‘one-man crime wave’ David Hanson, 44, who is the first burglar to be jailed following a private prosecution. 

Today, founder David McKelvey insisted the case ‘wasn’t complex’ but an example of ‘community policing’ of the type British police forces used to be famed for. 

He told MailOnline: ‘We have teams of bobbies and detectives on patrol constantly so they know all the prolific offenders. It was just a case of a detective seeing the CCTV and identifying the person who had committed the burglaries. 

‘They then went out and found him very quickly and detained him. It’s all about community policing—having people on the streets who know their communities and keep those communities safe.

‘Across our beat, we’re seeing reductions in crimes like shoplifting. The feedback we’re getting from our communities is they finally feel safe. They know we’ll be there in two minutes. But outside of our areas, crime is booming.’ 

With 105 prior convictions, including 33 burglaries, Hanson entered into an M&S store in Streatham Hill, south London, stealing 20 bottles of prosecco and £500 worth of steak, sirloin, and T-bone.

But despite the serial offender being caught in the act on CCTV and the store manager offering to hand this to police, the Met refused to investigate.

TM Eye took over the case in its place. Although the organisation had successfully convicted over 280 shoplifters, this was the first burglary case it had handled.

Officers swiftly identified Hanson as a well-known shoplifter after seeing a video of him smashing through a glass window at M&S and taking expensive items.

They then headed to one of his local ‘haunts’ before performing a citizen’s arrest and getting him to admit the offence on their body-worn video, which was submitted to the court.

Hanson was sentenced to a year in prison for a total of five offences as a result. As The Telegraph has reported, they included four burglaries and one attack on M&S staff.

If every person in towns, cities, villages, and other localities were given the option to choose between using these for-profit companies and not paying taxes, I guarantee that there would be no police force left.

When a costly police force targets individuals for infractions on the road while ignoring large segments of the public that conduct violent crimes, theft, and disturbances, and they get away with it, it’s a harbinger of our impending doom because it will be a lot worse with private police—they will be just another crime gang.

These days, our police are little more than uniformed tax collectors, pursuing easy money by fining soft targets like drivers and free speech online, all the while ignoring trouble groups, thieves, muggers, rapists, and other criminal activity. It’s a complete waste of time and resources, and Sir Robert Peel must be rolling over in his grave because it’s all so pitifully sick.

The laws are the problem, not those breaking them. Theft is caused by poverty, but policing theft means policing poverty and being poor should not be a crime. We need to get rid of our idiotic government and most of our outdated laws. Just have a few sensible ones that don’t interfere with our freedoms because, without realising it, we have become a communist country, and we now need to fight for our freedoms.

Checkpoints At Northern Ireland’s Border Are Now Wanted By Half Of The Irish Population

As anti-immigration rallies erupt around Dublin, a recent survey reveals that half of the Irish people now want migrant roadblocks at the border with Northern Ireland to reduce the number of asylum seeker arrivals from Britain.

Eighty-two percent of respondents supported deportations back to the United Kingdom, while fifty percent of respondents told Ireland Thinks and the Sunday Independent that they would accept checkpoint measures to limit the number of asylum seekers entering from Britain.

With tented communities continuing to grow in Dublin, as many as 40 percent of poll respondents added that they would support Ireland having a policy similar to Britain’s Rwanda scheme, with 42 percent opposing the measures.

The rising immigration numbers have sparked significant reactions from the Irish population, as seen by the large-scale demonstration against sheltering asylum seekers that took place in Dublin.

Images from the scene show large crowds of people draped in the Irish flag and holding a variety of placards and banners that read ‘Irish Lives Matter’ and ‘We Want Our Country Back’ as they gathered at the Garden of Remembrance in the north inner city before marching down O’Connell Street and onto the Custom House, where speeches were made.

Footage and photographs from the mass demonstration show swathes of furious locals marching down the street chanting ‘Ole, Ole, Ole, Ole’, ‘out, out, out’, and ‘our streets’.

Other signs spotted amid the crowds were ‘Ireland belongs to the Irish’, ‘Irish Civil Rights’, ‘Stop the WHO pandemic treaty’, ‘Mass deportations’, and ‘Economic migrants are not refugees’, among others.

Local groups from Coolock and Newtownmountkennedy—where protests have been hosted recently against buildings used to house international protection applicants—were also represented.

Shocking photos from Monday’s protest showed some protesters wearing hoodies and balaclavas as they passed the GPO, where around 200 people staged a counter-protest ‘united against racism’.

Those attending the counter-protest waved Palestinian flags, which read, ‘No to far-right lies and racism’.

Others read: ‘Homes for people, homes for all,’ ‘War creates refugees,’ and ‘Welcome all refugees’.

A queue of gardai stood between them and those walking from the Garden of Remembrance.

In advance of the demonstration, there was a heavy presence of Gardaí, including members of the Public Order Unit.

The Irish Times said that it took the whole throng almost 45 minutes to get along O’Connell Street, severely disrupting traffic.

But as we all know, governments these days seldom listen to the opinions of the people who elected them, and I doubt that this is any different in Ireland.

We talk about it as if something can be done and that it’s not too late. I’m sorry, but the UK is finished unless we kick out all the scrounging chancers who broke into this country illegally, but no one has the backbone to do anything about it. Summer is on its way, so there will be loads more illegal immigrants trying to cross over by boat, and next year and the year after that—it’s never going to end.

There are also plenty of those who think that we should just accept change as it comes. Just because some individuals desire a free meal ticket at our expense doesn’t mean we have to accept change—come to where I live, it’s like the League of Nations.

Mass deportations are inevitable, and there will be those out there who will agree with it and some who will not, so expect massive civil unrest—prepare for it, because it will likely happen in the not-too-distant future.

After Brutal Losses In Council And Mayoral Elections, Rishi Sunak Admits Tories May Not Win General Election

Following the party’s crushing defeat in council and mayoral elections, Rishi Sunak has conceded that the Tories may not win the general election.

The Prime Minister claimed Britain is heading for a hung parliament when he sends the country to the polls, as he warned about the ‘disaster’ of a Labour-led coalition.

A new chapter in the Tory civil war has begun after a disastrous round of local elections saw the Conservatives lose over 500 seats and all but one elected mayor.

Additionally, Mr Sunak witnessed the Tories fall to Labour in the Blackpool South parliamentary by-election, with his party only just defeating Reform UK, which came in third.

The PM conceded it had been ‘bitterly disappointing’ for his party but seized on an analysis of council results that suggested Labour would miss out on a House of Commons majority.

‘These results suggest we are heading for a hung parliament with Labour as the largest party,’ he told The Times.

‘Keir Starmer propped up in Downing Street by the SNP, Liberal Democrats and the Greens would be a disaster for Britain.

‘The country doesn’t need more political horse-trading, but action. We are the only party that has a plan to deliver on the priorities of the people.’

Professor Michael Thrasher, a leading elections expert, said analysis of the results of Thursday’s council contest showed Labour as the largest party in Westminster but short of an overall majority.

These vote results were projected into a national estimate for Sky News based on an analysis of two million local wards, and Labour led the Tories by nine percentage points.

The analysis suggested Labour would be left 32 seats short of a majority at a general election.

But the study raised eyebrows as it flew in the face of the massive lead Labour has in almost all Westminster voting intention polls.

It was pointed out that people often vote differently in local and national elections, and there were no council contests in Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland on Thursday.

The PM’s assertion that a hung Parliament is likely in Britain was reiterated by Health Minister Maria Caulfield.

She also claimed Tory voters who stayed at home for last week’s local elections would back the government at the general election. 

‘It’s always difficult when you’ve been in government, and voters can send a message to a party in government that they’re unhappy about certain things with the safe knowledge that they still have a Conservative government in control,’ she told Sky News.

‘It’s very different come a general election, where they really do have to make a choice.

‘If you look at Blackpool South, for example, the vast majority of our voters that voted for us in 2019 stayed at home, they didn’t switch to Labour.

‘They didn’t switch to Reform. They stayed at home and that shows that they haven’t really been tempted by other parties.’

Labour sought to dispel suggestions it would consider a coalition with the SNP after the general election.

They’ve had thirteen years and a large majority to implement the Tory plan, but instead, they’ve wasted both time and taxpayers’ money.

The national debt in the UK is now forecast to rise to almost £2.8 trillion next year. The UK national debt grows at a rate of £5,170 million per second, and the Tories claim to be the party of economic responsibility!

I mention this to the younger generation and they have no idea what I’m talking about. It’s like their brains turn to mush and they look like they’re having a meltdown. The reason why, is because our government want our children to be mathematically illiterate, and they have taken a generation of children and made them into zombies, who have no idea what’s going on in the country, let alone the world! 

An Angry Road Rage Driver, 60, Who Screamed Foul-Mouth Abuse At A Terrified Female Motorist

A convicted road rage driver who was filmed screaming abuse at a woman motorist after she sounded her horn at him for cutting her up has been warned he faces jail.

Peter Abbott got out of his car and approached the frightened Samantha Isaacs’ vehicle following the minor incident outside a Tesco petrol station.

A terrified Mrs Isaacs, who runs a TV production company and has worked with Prince William and Alan Titchmarsh, locked her doors and began filming irate Abbott.

The 60-year-old banged on her windscreen with his fists before unleashing the foul-mouthed tirade.

He shouted at her, ‘Can you f***ing see me, you f***ing tart?’ He then called her a ‘s**g’ and a ‘wh***’ and put his head up against the windscreen.

A male motorist went to intervene and called Abbott a bully. The Good Samaritan told him, ‘What is wrong with you, it’s a woman on her own’ to which Abbott replied, ‘She’s a f***ing bloody annoying woman’.

At the Poole Magistrates’ Court in Dorset, where Abbott was on trial for using threatening words or actions to incite fear of violence, anxiety, or alarm, the video was played.

He denied the offence, saying ‘it’s not against the law to be angry’ but was found guilty of the offence.

Sentencing was adjourned for reports but a district judge warned Abbott that he may go to jail as it was the ‘most serious’ of this type of offence.

Afterwards, Mrs Isaacs, who is aged in her late 50s, said: ‘He’s a horrible man and a bully. I didn’t want it to go this far, I just don’t want him to do it to anyone else.’

The road rage incident happened on August 25 last year when Mrs Isaacs was leaving the petrol station at Tesco Extra in Bournemouth, Dorset, just before lunchtime.

Abbott, who had been shopping in the main store, pulled out in front of her, causing her to slam on her brakes.

The mother of three honked her horn, prompting Abbott to make rude gestures at her before stopping his Toyota car and getting out.

Mrs Isaacs told the court: ‘I had just pulled out and a car came out of the shopping area and completely cut me up to the point where I had to slam on my brakes so hard all my belongings came off the passenger seat onto the floor.

‘I beeped my horn as if to say “look out” type of thing. He turned around in the car and started gesticulating, then he got out of the car and started shouting at me.

‘He said what did I think I was doing and started hitting my car and calling me a lot of names like f***ing s**g and wh***.

‘He was banging with both his fists on the windscreen and my door. I was frightened so I started videoing it.

‘I wanted to show him I was recording everything to make him stop. I had locked my doors; I wasn’t getting out of my car.

‘I didn’t think he was going to kill me or anything but this was escalating and I wanted to have it on camera. I felt unsafe.

‘I would have thought after it being such a long time ago I would be okay, but it’s still not very nice to watch [the video].

‘He drove out into the road and stopped the car again. When we turned left at the traffic lights, he stopped the car again. I overtook him and then realised how stupid it was because I realised that meant he was following me. That’s when I phoned the police.’

District judge Orla Austin asked Mrs Isaacs what the long-term impact had been. She said: ‘Whenever I am in the car on my own I always keep the doors locked, I have made sure my dashcam works.

‘I work in television, predominantly in London, and my daughter has had to take on more of my work because I don’t want to drive.

‘Everyone seems to be so aggressive on the roads these days, I don’t want to be put in this position again.’

The court heard that Abbott was questioned by police in October after being recognised as the registered owner of the Toyota implicated in the outburst.

This man has shown no remorse, and still believes that his behaviour was justified; he deserves a jail sentence, even if it is for a short time, but he probably won’t get jailed for his offence, he will either get a suspended sentence or community service.

This man is just a bully, and while being angry isn’t unlawful, using anger to vent on a middle-aged woman is unlawful. He deserves everything he gets, including the notoriety that will follow him for the rest of his life.

This guy obviously likes to target female drivers because he probably wouldn’t confront a male driver in the same way, and he needs to be punished appropriately, not just to be sat on the naughty step, sucking his thumb because he’s an arrogant bully with a bad attitude.

God knows what he would have done if the woman hadn’t locked herself in her car; therefore, we should never minimise what he did!

Unknown Musician Saves The Day For Take That: Guitarist Rushes From Hotel Bar To Stand In For Olly Murs At Glasgow Gig With Just 30 Minutes’ Notice To Stun 14,000 Fans With An Amazing Set

An aspiring musician playing in a hotel bar has been cast into the limelight after he was asked to stand in for Olly Murs and perform in front of a 14,000-strong crowd opening for Take That.

Singer and guitarist Daniel Rooney found himself supporting the boy band, with frontman Gary Barlow later saying the lad had ‘saved the day’.

After Olly Murs, 39, who was supposed to open for Take That at the Hydro in Glasgow, was forced to cancel, the unidentified Scottish artist was given the job.

Mr Rooney was playing in a bar in the city when he was spotted by celebrity correspondent and TV presenter Ross King.

Mr Rooney, a Cambuslang resident, left King feeling so good that he suggested Take That hire him as a last-minute substitute, allowing the young vocalist thirty minutes to get to the Hydro.

And the gamble appeared to pay off, with the crowd at the sell-out gig giving the newcomer a raucous welcome.

As he sang renditions of beloved songs, such as Paolo Nutini’s 2009 song Candy and Stealers Wheel’s classic song from the 1970s, the audience enthusiastically joined in.

Gary Barlow thanked the artist, whose career is sure to blow up overnight, on Instagram, saying: ‘This young man saved the day. Thank you, @danielrooney_music.’

Murs had to wait eight and a half hours at Heathrow Airport before his BA flight was cancelled, so Danny had to step in. The 39-year-old claimed he had never missed a performance in his life, particularly when it was backing a worldwide ensemble.

New fans of Daniel’s also took to social media to heap praise on the newcomer, saying he ‘saved the day’ for everyone attending the concert.

One said: ‘Huge congrats to Daniel Rooney of Cambuslang. Filling in on 30 minutes notice for Olly Murs, who was stuck in London. What a fab intro to the big stage.’

Another fan wrote: ‘Daniel Rooney from Cambuslang smashed it in your absence! Loved his performance’.

Meanwhile, one fan told the Daily Record: ‘Daniel was great, I preferred him to Olly; I hope he makes it big.’ 

‘Daniel Rooney smashed it,’ Lorraine Cant wrote on X/Twitter. ‘He’s no Olly Murs, but gave an incredible performance with 30 minutes notice!’

A gobsmacked Daniel said after his Hydro performance, ‘It’s hard to take it in, it’s really surreal’.

Danny is quite optimistic that the chance will help him establish a stage on which to perform his own songs as a solo artist.

You would have thought that Olly Murs would have flown up the night before, considering this was a very big gig. It was not such a good idea to leave it till the last minute, and by the time he realised his flight was going to be cancelled, he couldn’t even drive up in time.

I’m not sure why you would leave something this important in the hands of British Airways, who are famed for cancelling their flights. They’re no longer an airline, which represents quality. Anyway, it gave this young lad some exposure, and what an experience for him.

Or perhaps this was just a stunt to showcase a new artist—Olly would do something like that, and this is a nice story for a change, rather than all the awful news we get these days.

This lad was really good, and it looked like everybody loved him. What a baptism of fire, from playing in a bar to a full house of people. Hats off to him. It couldn’t have been easy at such short notice.

Schools Are In A ‘Full-Blown Crisis’ As 99 Per Cent Of Headteachers Complain That Money For Special Needs Children Is Inadequate

Pupils with special educational needs are facing a ‘full-blown crisis’ due to funding cuts, headteachers have warned. 

In a survey of 1,000 school leaders, 99 percent said the funding they receive for such children is inadequate.

Many have been compelled to cut back on the number of teaching assistants or the number of hours they work, according to research by the education union NAHT.

This is despite TAs being vital for the care of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Nearly four in five—78 percent—said they needed to reduce spending on TAs in the last three years due to funding pressures.

Meanwhile, 84 percent anticipated they would be forced to do so in the next three years.

Certain school administrators expressed concerns to the union about their inability to maintain staff and student safety due to insufficient financing.

The union was also informed by school administrators of the extra strain schools face when trying to cover the gaps left by underfunded services, such as social and health care.

Ian Kendal, executive headteacher at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Multi Academy Trust in Essex, said the funding received for pupils with SEND is ‘not enough’.

He said, ‘There just isn’t capacity within special schools in our area, meaning we are supporting even more pupils with complex needs within our mainstream settings.

‘We believe in inclusion and are currently doing our best with the limited funds, but, put simply, it is not good enough for the children with the most complex needs—they deserve so much more than we can give them.’

On day two of the annual meeting of the NAHT in Newport, Wales, the findings were released.

General Secretary Paul Whiteman said all political parties should pledge the ‘system-wide investment’ needed to tackle the crisis head-on.

He added: ‘Schools face a perfect storm of growing demand to support more pupils with special educational needs at the same time as costs have increased massively and are still rising.

‘This is a full-blown crisis and bad news for children, families, schools and local authorities.’

A Department for Education spokesman said: ‘We are helping to ensure that all children have the chance to reach their potential by increasing funding for children and young people with complex needs to over £10.5 billion next year—up 60 per cent in the last five years.

‘We are also providing £2.6 billion to support the creation of places for children and young people with SEND, more than tripling the previous level of investment, so parents can be reassured that their child will receive the right support at the right time, close to home.

‘Combined with the special and AP (Alternative Provision) free schools’ programme, this is helping to increase capacity, creating over 60,000 specialist places across the country.’

The mistaken choice to eliminate special needs schools and transfer children with various issues to a “normal” school system, which could never provide the kind of services that a special needs school could, was the primary reason behind the reduction in the quality of education.

All students’ standards in the classroom have been decreased by integration.

There are around 30% SEND pupils in each class, and it might be challenging to satisfy the requirements of two to three of them. As a result, they fall behind because they are unable to access the information, which creates problems.

However, what’s more worrying is the lack of people referral units, so we have nowhere to send students who we should expel because they’re all being shut down, so you have 20–30 children on site who shouldn’t be there and their behaviour takes up 30 percent of everyone’s time. These issues mean that you can’t do much to help the remaining students. The system is broken.

However, bad behaviour isn’t always bad behaviour and is just a by-product of bad parenting or disability. Does this mean that we should just throw all these children onto the heap because there are not enough funds to help them? No, it does not!

The UK is supposed to be a civilised country, but apparently, we are far from it!

A Shameless Taxi Driver Boasted Of Getting Pulled Over For Speeding Before Mowing Down And Killing A Pedestrian 16 Minutes After Being Released By Police

A speeding taxi driver who killed a pedestrian just 16 minutes after being let off with a warning by police over his driving was jailed for almost seven years yesterday.

Shakoor Ahmed, 46, was told by a judge he had behaved with ‘gross arrogance’ on the roads on the night he crashed into 32-year-old landscape gardener Dan Beames.

Ahmed was pulled over by two policemen moments earlier while driving with a passenger, and they issued him a formal warning for speeding.

The officers had charitably decided not to charge him with the offence because of the impact a conviction might have on his sixteen-year taxi driving career.

In bodycam footage released after the sentencing, an officer let Ahmed off with a warning, after telling him: ‘Just don’t do it again. I don’t want you or anyone else to get hit or hurt.

‘I’ve seen far too many nasty accidents in my time, and that (his driving) was silly.’

But Gloucester Crown Court heard that Ahmed did not heed the warning—in fact, he boasted about it to his next two passengers when he picked them up at Gloucester Bus station and drove them to Cheltenham in his Toyota Prius taxi.

He struck Mr Beames, who was crossing the street with a freshly bought box of beer under his arm to drink with friends while driving at 100 mph along a bypass that connected the two places. The court heard that he was still travelling 53 mph on a 40 mph route in the town.

Ahmed could not avoid him and the pedestrian suffered catastrophic brain injuries.

Mr Beames’ mother, Yvette White and his partner Jessica Beames, a paramedic who has since changed her surname to his, both read emotional statements to the judge describing the devastation his loss had caused to them and the rest of his family.

Mrs White, a financial administrator, said the death of the youngest of her three children was the second tragedy to hit her because she had lost a daughter in 2020 – and she herself had then been diagnosed with cancer.

She said she has been on anxiety medications since the tragedy, she does not sleep properly any more, and she keeps thinking of her last image of him in hospital with his life ebbing away.

The perpetrator who caused this awful crash should surely receive a much longer sentence, bearing in mind, the fact that he had only just been ordered by the police to slow down and drive correctly.

This criminal should never be trusted to operate a vehicle again, and he should never be permitted to work as a cab driver again due to his willful disobedience of the law.

This man did not receive a meaningful sentence and the victim and family will never get proper justice. He took a life, and he should have been punished accordingly.

When will taking a life get appropriate punishment? What an insult to the grieving family—six years, and he’ll be out in three. This man should have got a minimum of ten years because this was a tragic loss of life. After all, the taxi driver thought he was a boy racer.

This was a very lenient sentence by the judge, especially for taking a life. Is that all someone’s life is worth now?

Anyone who operates a motor vehicle, especially professionally, ought to conduct themselves with the utmost integrity.

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