A Judge Rules Marshmallows Are Not Sweets After Finding The Treats Can Be Roasted And Eaten Off A Stick And Are Therefore VAT Exempt

A judge’s decision that marshmallows are not sweets because they may be roasted and consumed off of a stick has resulted in a confectionery company winning a significant tax dispute. 

It means one of Britain’s top confectionary firms, Innovative Bites Ltd., can dodge a £470,000 value-added tax bill.

The firm that imports American ‘sweets and treats’ including Twinkies and Reeses into the UK has successfully battled HMRC in a six-figure fight against paying tax on its Baking Buddy Mega Marshmallows.

The company is part of the Leicestershire-based World of Sweets group, which also owns cornershop bagged sweets line Bobby’s and the traditional confectionary brand Bond’s of London.

It beat the taxman in a tribunal in 2022 over a demand for a £472,928 VAT payment, successfully arguing that the giant marshmallows should be zero VAT rated because they are ‘ingredients’ for cooking on a barbecue, rather than sweets.

HMRC was not satisfied with that decision, however, and went on to challenge the ruling in the Upper Tribunal, arguing that the giant marshmallows are still ‘confectionery’ and liable for tax even if they are normally cooked because they are a sweet treat ‘eaten with the fingers’.

However, judges have now ruled in favour of the marshmallow importers a second time, maintaining the decision that the confections are free from taxes as they are frequently consumed roasted off a stick and more packets are sold during the summer grilling season.

Judge Phyllis Ramshaw said: ‘Confectionery is not generally used in cooking, or itself subject to cooking, in order to be enjoyed as intended.’

The Upper Tribunal heard that after being handed a massive tax bill for the period June 2015 to June 2019, the Loughborough-based firm went to a tax tribunal to argue the large marshmallows were in fact ‘ingredients,’ sometimes used for s’mores, an American treat where roasted marshmallows are sandwiched between chocolate biscuits.

Confectionery is subject to VAT, however, goods used for cooking, such as cooking chocolate, may qualify for a zero-rated tax.

The firm’s lawyers said Mega Marshmallows were 5cm in height, compared to 2.5cm for regular marshmallows and intended for roasting rather than eating out of the bag as snacks.

HMRC lawyers argued the Mega Marshmallows could still be eaten ‘on the go’ like a bag of sweets, so should incur VAT.

Mar Bars can also be deep-fried and eaten; therefore, they should be VAT-exempt as well, and Marshmallows are common at BBQs.

Since we already pay taxes on everything we purchase, everything we buy really shouldn’t be subject to further taxes, but our government wants to do so out of sheer avarice.

VAT has not disappeared and never will, so what is our government doing with all of the money that has been pilfered?

Isn’t it great to see the tax man getting beaten, especially when we see the way the governments of today waste our money once they get their hands on it, although I’m not suggesting any criminal acts here.)

The Moment Albanian People Traffickers Used WhatsApp To Organise 31 Small Boat Crossings For Migrants, Including Children

This is the moment a ‘prolific’ Albanian people trafficker, who used WhatsApp to organise 31 small boat crossings for migrants, including young children, is arrested.

Mustaf Cunaj was given a nine-year prison sentence for his role in the smuggling of migrants on inflatable boats for thousands of pounds each.

The 41-year-old was part of a trafficking network that brought almost 10,000 illegal immigrants into the United Kingdom.

Recently, surveillance footage of the smuggler’s arrest has surfaced, showing Cunaj being approached by nighttime plainclothes police.

The trafficker, wearing an orange hoodie, then speaks to the officers, who tell him that he ‘conspired to facilitate an immigration breach’.

The pair of officers then take Cunaj along the pavement, each holding one of his arms, before putting him into a black vehicle which is waiting down the road.

The trafficker’s phone was found after his arrest. Two videos that were saved on the device showed migrants wearing life jackets aboard a boat at sea and a boat being launched from a beach.

Several images sharing map locations in Calais and Dunkirk were also discovered on his phone, with one showing two users’ locations in the Channel and the North Sea.

Cunaj, who used the alias ‘John Brown’ in WhatsApp conversations with migrants and smugglers, arranged the crossings for five weeks between July and August 2022.

In one conversation with another smuggler, he arranged a crossing for a woman and two children, aged five and nine, for £7,500 each.

In another message, Cunaj talked about buying inflatable boats for between £4,000 and £4,500 per boat.

He also asked about lifejackets, telling his contact, ‘I have five people, they don’t know how [to wear a lifejacket] as they are small children’.

Cunaj was detained once previously in October 2022, released under investigation, and then arrested once more in September 2023 on suspicion of people-smuggling charges.

In the beginning, the trafficker denied any involvement in immigration crimes, saying he only connected family members with those who could be interested in visiting the UK.

He later admitted conspiring to facilitate illegal immigration at Kingston Crown Court and was jailed for nine years.

Cunaj’s smuggling network was connected to Hewa Rahimpur, a 30-year-old Iranian who managed the circle from his residence in Ilford, east London. Rahimpur sourced vessels in Turkey and sent them to Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

A sentence of nine years isn’t much of a deterrent. How about a minimum of one year for every person they illegally smuggled in and endangered their lives? He will be out of prison in about four and a half years. His money will be waiting for him and he will most likely carry on as before. He should have been sentenced to the full arm of the law, his money taken from him and immediate deportation on release is what should happen, but it won’t because the UK is beyond a joke.

Although his capture is a positive development, there will undoubtedly be successors.

British authorities’ token pre-election activities! And no matter which way this goes, it’s the good old British taxpayer that ends up paying. Enough is enough.

Pay-Per-Mile’ Scheme

Susan Hall blasted ‘untrustworthy’ Sadiq Khan as she doubled down on claims the London mayor is plotting a ‘pay-per-mile’ scheme for the capital’s drivers.

Ahead of next week’s London mayoral election, the Tory candidate said there was ‘no way’ Mr Khan won’t bring in a new road charging policy if he wins a new term.

Before doing so, Ms Hall drew attention to Mr Khan’s prior denials that he would expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to outer London.

But, in a fiery clash on LBC Radio, the Labour mayor insisted pay-per-mile ‘is not happening’ as he slammed his Tory rival for a campaign ‘based on disinformation’.

He also claimed Ms Hall was ‘the most dangerous candidate’ he has ever stood against in his political career, which she described as an ‘outrageous comment’.

If Mr Khan prevails in the London mayoral election on Thursday, May 2, he will take office for a record third term at City Hall.

However, Ms Hall’s allegations that he intends to punish London’s drivers once again after his ULEZ expansion are weighing heavily on him.

The Tory candidate used tonight’s London mayoral debate on LBC to grill Mr Khan over a £21million spend by Transport for London on ‘Project Detroit’.

This has been revealed to be a road charging platform that has ‘the capability to be extended… so that other forms of charging based on distance, vehicle type, etc., could be catered for’.

‘There’s no way he won’t bring in pay-per-mile,’ said Ms Hall, who has pledged to scrap the ULEZ expansion on ‘day one’ of becoming London mayor.

‘He expected us to trust him on the expansion of the ULEZ and that has brought so much hardship, it really has.

‘People trusted him and he let them down. Sixty per cent of people in the consultation said “we don’t want it”.

‘He ignored them, he put it in any way. He will bring in pay-per-mile, the evidence is there.

‘If he really didn’t want to, then they wouldn’t have still had people working on it this year.

‘£21 million of our money has gone into it. Why is he spending £21 million of taxpayers’ money, Londoners’ money, if he’s got no intention of bringing it in?

‘He cannot be trusted and we all know that, he goes back on what he promises.’

Mr Khan said he was ‘quite clear, pay-per-mile is not happening’, as he hit out at his Tory rival for a ‘campaign based on disinformation, misinformation and lies’.

Of course, he will bring it in. He’s spent millions on cameras under the ULEZ framework and another 25 million on pay-per-mile in its own right. He will probably apply it to all vehicles, fossil fuel, including electric cars and hybrids, and still, he will get voted in, why because it’s an election that runs like Pontins.

With his money-grabbing schemes, Sadiq Khan is ruining London, and the violent criminality he condones is bringing this once-great city to an end.

It would be like expecting a vegan dog to abstain from meat consumption to trust Sadiq Khan not to implement pay-per-mile.

Sadiq Khan sees motorists as his main source of revenue, and he will always be coming up with new methods to take advantage of you, and those looking forward to a greener and more eco-friendly London. The air quality never really improved after ULEZ was introduced, but that was never its intention, the intention was to make money off a money-making scheme.

Folks, think twice before you vote, the wrong vote will cost you dearly!

School Head Announces 12-Hour Day To Combat Phone Addiction

A head teacher has announced plans to introduce a 12-hour school day in a bid to reverse a ‘100 percent phone addiction’ among his pupils.

At All Saints Catholic College in Notting Hill, west London, kids are expected to attend at 7 am and remain until 7 pm. Instead of wasting time on electronics at home, they will participate in dodgeball, basketball, painting, theatre, and cooking lessons.

Andrew O’Neill, who masterminded the scheme, said that smartphones were creating an apathetic and anxious generation.

The 42-year-old told The Times that he had found ‘some of the most shocking things I have ever seen’ on confiscated phones, including pupils blackmailing strangers and even catfishing one another, which involves pretending to be someone else online to humiliate another person.

All Saints, which is rated ‘outstanding’, banned its 900 pupils, aged between 11 and 16, from carrying phones in 2016 but allows the devices to be kept in bags or lockers.

Mr O’Neill, who is a former head teacher of the year, said that a number of pupils were falling victim to online crime, including cyberbullying, sexting, and blackmail.

The teacher added that he was also worried about children’s increasing inability to make friends in real life, often choosing to play online games into the early hours of the morning with those in other countries.

He said that his pupils were growing worse at making eye contact and holding conversations. 

‘We have a long-term issue we need to solve,’ Mr O’Neill added. ‘If we don’t, we will have a generational problem with workplaces and society.

‘Some children are so apathetic. They don’t care about anything.

‘They are buried in their phones.’

The father-of-three said his children were only allowed ‘brick’ phones and smartphones, without any social media apps installed, for tracking their location.

Mr O’Neill added that he hoped pupils could experience a childhood like he had growing up in Barton, near Darlington, Durham, where children played outside rather than heading to their bedrooms to spend time on their phones.

The head teacher also said that parents had a responsibility to keep their children safe online and called for those who failed to do so to be reported to social services or prosecuted. 

This is in response to the John Wallis School in Ashford, Kent, which implemented unique pouches for securing gadgets throughout the school day.

Regarding mobile phones, what he says is accurate. The school should mandate that students keep their phones in their bags during the day, even if they are turned off and not using them. However, a lot of students are so dependent on their phones that they feel compelled to keep them on their desks at all times and become agitated if their phones are not in their bags.

It’s a huge disruption trying to get kids to put their phones away, even in exams. It’s almost likened to a drug addiction, with similar withdrawal symptoms, and it hurts every aspect of their lives, and of course, we can’t control what they do or see online.

The main concern with extended school days is safety, as it is unsafe for children to go home from school in the dark during the winter.

Phone zombies are not limited to kids; they are present everywhere.

When youngsters didn’t have mobile phones, they would knock on their friends’ doors before riding their bikes for hours. You couldn’t call your friends or text them to find out where they were; if they got separated, they would just ride around to find each other.

The ‘Spiralling’ Benefits Bill Is Unsustainable, Warns Rishi Sunak 

Rishi Sunak unveiled a ‘moral mission’ to get Brits off benefits today as he warned that numbers out of the workforce are ‘unsustainable’ and ‘tragic’.

In a major speech drawing dividing lines for the election, the PM pledged to crack down on the country’s ‘sick note culture’, insisting normal ‘life worries’ are not a reason to be signed off.

He highlighted that 850,000 more are long-term sick than before the pandemic, with the largest increase among young people.

According to Mr Sunak, in the future, expert teams should evaluate an individual’s capacity for employment rather than GPs, who could be less inclined to adopt a firm stance.

The Prime Minister unveiled a crucial promise for the Tory platform: in the future, benefits would be withheld from everyone found suitable for employment after a year, provided they didn’t follow the guidelines their work coach established.

Mr Sunak stressed that he did not want to make the system less generous for those who genuinely needed support but would not ‘let down’ Brits by refusing to tackle the issue for fear of ‘causing offence’.

‘The situation as it is is economically unsustainable,’ he said. ‘We can’t afford such a spiralling increase in the welfare bill.’

The intervention comes after figures released this week revealed that the number of people considered ‘economically inactive’ after being placed on long-term sickness benefits has jumped by a third since the start of the pandemic and now stands at a staggering 2.8 million.

Around half are signed off with depression, anxiety, and bad nerves.

Overall, 9.4 million people aged between 16 and 64 are economically inactive, meaning they are neither in work nor looking for work.

The PM highlighted figures showing that GPs issue so-called ‘fit notes’ to 94 percent of those who ask for them, with more than 11 million doled out last year.

He said it could be time to end the role of GPs in the system. 

Questions have been raised over whether surgeries need the added workload amid a long backlog of patients in the wake of the pandemic.

In the future, those looking to be signed off could be asked to discuss their health with teams of ‘specialist work and health professionals’ who will assess what work they can do and what help they need to ‘bounce back to the workplace’.

Mr Sunak said, ‘For me, it is a fundamental duty of government to make sure that hard work is always rewarded.

‘I know, and you know, that you don’t get anything in life without hard work.

‘It’s the only way to build a better life for ourselves and our family, and the only way to build a more prosperous country.’

He said that since the pandemic, ‘something has gone wrong’.

‘We now spend £69 billion on benefits for people of working age with a disability or health condition.

‘That’s more than our entire schools budget, more than our transport budget, more than our policing budget.

‘And spending on personal independence payments alone is forecast to increase by more than 50 per cent over the next four years…

‘That’s not right; it’s not sustainable, and it’s not fair on the taxpayers who fund it.’

‘So in the next parliament, a Conservative government will significantly reform and control welfare.’

Mr Sunak said: ‘This is not about making the welfare system less generous to people who face very real extra costs from mental health conditions.

‘For those with the greatest needs, we actually want to make it easier to access with fewer requirements.’

He added that the government’s ‘overall approach is about saying that people with less severe mental health conditions should be expected to engage in the world of work’.

The proposals are called into question over the suitability of those lacking medical training to determine a person’s capacity for employment.

There are, of course, genuine cases of those suffering from mental health, but it’s also now being banded around for anything that relates to life changes. There are indeed many people who need help and perhaps don’t get it, but equally, there are those who need to be told to ‘buck up buttercup’ and get on with it. As for people other than doctors being experts in what is wrong with us, that could become quite controversial.

Is The Great British Fry-Up Now Toast?

According to studies, Gen-Z is increasingly finding the morning staple too greasy or time-consuming to prepare, which might spell trouble for the great British fry-up.

Nearly 15% of respondents to a recent survey of people between the ages of 18 and 34 said they only eat cooked breakfast once or twice a year, and 10% said they never do.

Home appliance maker Breville, which commissioned the research, suggested youngsters were being turned off the cult classic by health influencers on social media.

The study found that almost four in ten worry that the meal is too fatty or greasy to tuck into any more than they usually do, while a similar number are concerned about the number of calories on the plate.

Almost a third of the 1,000 young Britons questioned said that making a fry-up takes too long, so for many, the sheer number of components may be off-putting. 

Some people expressed dissatisfaction over the difficulty of balancing so many elements at once, while others mentioned that cleanup seemed to be an issue as well.

The ingredients of a fry-up differ throughout the United Kingdom. National variations are common, even if staples like eggs, bacon, sausages, baked beans, and mushrooms are included in the meal. 

Cockles and laverbread are frequently added in Wales, while occasionally soda bread and potato bread make their way onto the plate in Northern Ireland.

Nonetheless, the survey offered some optimism for the fry-up, since 70% of young Britons stated that if these issues could be resolved, they would be more likely to consume the large breakfast item.

‘It’s perfectly possible to create a traditional fry-up that’s a little more guilt-free and less hassle,’ said Lydia Baker of Breville, which commissioned the research.

‘There’s still time to save the iconic dish. It’s a beloved institution for a reason.

‘Social media has spread an endless number of accounts giving advice on what’s ‘good’ and ‘bad’ to eat, with the humble fry-up often falling into the latter camp.’

Among young Britons, a staggering 89 per cent said that they had experienced ‘food guilt’ after wolfing down the breakfast, while almost one in four also said that they thought it was ‘outdated’.

However, several recent establishments are launching as proud greasy spoons in an attempt to update the classic English breakfast. Modern twists on classic dishes like fry-ups are available in London at Norman’s Cafe in Archway.

The great British breakfast is one of Britain’s greatest pleasures, and Gen-Z doesn’t know what they’re missing.

The classic fry-up was the working man’s cooked breakfast so that he could set himself up for a day’s graft. However, Gen-Z doesn’t have that mentality, so they no longer see the need to consume this British tradition—pass the brown sauce, please!

I do love a fry-up, but I would rather eat in a cafe because, to be honest, at my age, it’s just too much effort for me. When I was younger, I enjoyed making a fry up for the family, but all that washing up now, yeah, I’ll skip that, and I’m not even Gen-Z. You can also make a healthier version of the fry-up by grilling, poaching, and removing the fat from the bacon, but it just doesn’t taste the same, and the full monty isn’t compulsory.

Although a fry-up may not be the healthiest option, Gen-Z may want to reconsider spending their money on sugar-filled bubble tea, crepes, and waffles for ten pounds a pop if they think they will stay healthy by shunning the great British staple. 

Man Threatened With Arrest For Being ‘Quite Openly Jewish’ Near London Pro-Palestine March For ‘Breaching The Peace’

A Jewish man who was attempting to cross the street during a pro-Palestine march was threatened with arrest by an officer who said that his “presence was antagonising,” prompting criticism of the Metropolitan Police as “beyond appalling.”

The man, who said he was trying to walk around the capital after going to a synagogue, was pulled aside by a police officer who said he was ‘breaching the peace’ because he was ‘quite openly Jewish’.

In a video shared by Campaign Against Antisemitism from Saturday’s march, the man—who was wearing a kippah on his head—tells the officer: ‘I don’t want to stay here; I want to leave.’

The officer then replies: ‘In that case, sir, when the crowd is gone, I will happily escort you out.’

After the defiant man attempts to walk across the road in the Aldwych area, the officer blocks him and says: ‘I don’t want anybody antagonising anybody… and at the moment sir, you are quite openly Jewish. This is a pro-Palestinian march. 

‘I am not accusing you of anything but I am worried about the reaction to your presence.’

Later on, another officer says: ‘There’s a unit of people here now. You will be escorted out of this area so you can go about your business, go where you want freely or if you choose to remain here because you are causing a breach of peace, with all these other people, you will be arrested.’

He clarifies: ‘Your presence here is antagonising a large group of people that we can’t deal with all of them if they attack you… because your presence is antagonising them.’

The video has sparked another backlash for the Met, which has been accused of failing to make London safe for Jews. Robert Largan, the MP for High Peak, Derbyshire, shared the video and wrote: ‘This is beyond appalling’.

At another protest last month, an officer told a Jewish woman that swastikas ‘need to be taken into context’ when she reported seeing the Nazi logo on posters at a pro-Palestine march. 

At the time, Jocelin Weiss, 30, told MailOnline: ‘I think there’s a problem with a lack of basic education for this police force.’

Speaking about the latest incident, the Jewish man said he felt sympathetic towards frontline officers who are put in ‘impossible positions’ every week when they are asked to police huge protests ‘where there are all sorts of criminality on display’.

Another clip from the protest was also shared of a second officer telling the Jewish man: ‘I am trying to make sure you are safe and that no one attacks you, your group or anyone else, that’s all.

The Jewish man, who asks him why there is no one surrounding any of the pro-Palestine protesters, adds: ‘I’d like that too but your sergeant here has told me that because I’m Jewish, it’s antagonistic to the crowd and it’s dangerous for me.’

The officer replies: ‘I’m not saying that.’

But the man interrupts, saying: ‘But he’s just said that. Do you have any idea what it’s like being a Jew in London at the moment?’

When the officer says no, he adds: ‘Let me tell you, this goes on every Saturday, you probably know it, your colleagues know it. You guys are on the front line. The route changes every single week, you never have any idea where it’s going to be. 

‘Because you’re Jewish in London, you now have to cross these huge groups of people. It’s intimidating enough and now look at the number of police that are around her… I’m just a Jew in London, trying to cross the road.

‘I’ve been told repeatedly by the Met that these are completely safe for Jews, that I should have nothing to worry about and yet here I find myself in this bubble. This guy has just been shouting at me and shoving me because I want to cross the road.’

Campaign Against Antisemitism also shared shocking footage from the march of protesters shouting ‘scum’ at the Jewish man. Another pro-Palestine protester was heard shouting ‘Nazi’ in front of an officer. 

A third protester told the Jewish man: ‘I’m watching your movement. That’s right. We’re all going to watch your movements and record you. The police ain’t gonna help you in this scenario.’

The Jewish man said: ‘After months of being gaslit by the Met, it’s not safe for Jews to be walking in the presence of these protests. And was there anything so crazy about what we were trying to do? Just walking around our home city on a Saturday.’

He added: ‘Is this something that we are willing to accept? That now the police have to keep Jews away. We mustn’t accept it.’

Nine persons were taken into custody by the Met Police on Saturday for violating public order. It happened only hours before Iran launched an unprecedented assault on Israel, sparking concerns that the Middle East conflict may get worse.

Campaign groups have condemned the Met for the spike in anti-Semitism.

A poster of a baby kidnapped by Hamas was defaced with two swastikas in an incident in London at the end of last year, including a swastika drawn on the infant’s forehead.

And in October, the words “SS IDF”—which stands for the Israeli Defence Forces—were painted in red on a synagogue in Sussex. The initials “SS” stand for the Nazis’ homicidal special guard.

The Met has been approached by MailOnline for comment. 

Supposedly, our police are there to stop anybody from being attacked, but it seems that they’re only there to protect those who are allowed to operate a separate nation within our nation. Sadiq Khan controls the Met Police, and they do as he asks.

I’m so happy that there are folks out there who have the guts to confront this disaster. This has to be widely publicised, and the individual in question needs to file a formal complaint against the force that establishes these regulations as well as this particular officer. Bravo to the courageous man! 

It is a sad reality that a growing number of Jewish people are concealing their Jewish identity, and the Met has become selective and partial when considering people’s human rights and freedoms.

It should not be a crime to be openly Jewish or openly any other religion.

Sadly, far too many of our police officers make poor decisions on a regular basis. This is probably due to their egos getting in the way of serving the people and their lack of intellect and respect.

People fought in a war, and the people at home made huge sacrifices, and then some paid the ultimate price fighting the Nazis, and they would now be turning in their graves.

It seems that the Holocaust taught us nothing! 

Home Office Cops Broke Down The Door In A Dawn Raid

Home Office cops broke down doors across the country amid an ‘arms race’ against people smugglers.

As part of a statewide assault on a ring accused of smuggling migrants into Britain via land, sea, and air, immigration officers staged synchronised dawn raids across England.

Officers booted down doors at residences in Southampton, Huddersfield, Middlesbrough, and Stockport, apprehending four people.

The group is said to have operated across Europe, smuggling up to 50 illegal immigrants on commercial flights while hiding in cars and on boats. 

Additionally, they may have forged blank visas, national identity cards, and passports for a total of £1,000 apiece.

Home Office criminal and financial investigator Paul Harvey, who helped coordinate the operation, said officials were in an ‘arms race’ with organised crime rings.

Asked if it was frustrating that gangs are constantly changing their tactics, Mr Harvey said: ‘Absolutely, It’s basically an arms race as fast as we can go and detect these people.

‘They will move on to the next addresses as part of being an organised crime group. It is reasonable to expect that they will move around different areas.

‘Obviously, organised immigration crime is a UK-wide problem so these people are spreading across the country and that’s why this morning we’ve got officers working nationally to go and deal with a specific organised crime.’

‘They [the gang] were quite sophisticated; they used different methods. It’s not a normal boat-smuggling operation. These people use sophisticated methods.’

Officers in Southampton struck at first light, breaking down a door with a battering ram and crowbar before taking one guy into custody.

It coincides with the fact that over 6,000 individuals have entered this year in small boats, and lawmakers are about to allow Rwandan deportation flights.

Minister for Countering Illegal Migration, Michael Tomlinson, stated: ‘We’re working day and night to dismantle the criminal gangs who are trying to turn a profit by abusing our borders.

‘These arrests make clear if you are involved in this kind of criminality, you can expect our teams to find you and bring you to justice, wherever you are in the UK.’

In the first nine months of 2023, there were over 10,500 enforcement visits, a 53% increase over the same time in 2022.

Home Office Immigration Enforcement successfully prosecuted 141 traffickers in 2023 alone; 80 of them were found guilty of operating small boats.

However, it appears it’s all for show with TV cameras at the ready, et cetera, so that it looks like they’re doing something, but in fact, our government have no intention of controlling our borders.

It resembles a skillfully done public relations campaign.

Four people were apprehended. Wow, that will change things.

Nothing will happen to these four people; they will be treated as victims, and when they are brought to court, the judge will take pity on them and refuse to lock them up. This is the level of wokeness that is happening within the UK judiciary.

Warwick Davis’ Last Picture Of Wife Samantha As They Enjoy A Date Night Before Her Death, Aged 53, As He Pays Tribute To Her ‘Unique Character’ And Wicked Sense Of Humour

Just five months before Samantha passed away, Warwick Davis and his wife were pictured enjoying a date night. It is the last photo they will ever have together.

The Star Wars and Harry Potter actor, 54, heartbreakingly revealed yesterday that his life partner, whom he first met on the set of his 1988 film Willow, had died on March 24, aged 53.

His life partner, whom he met on the set of his 1988 film Willow, passed away on March 24 at the age of 53, as the 54-year-old Star Wars and Harry Potter star heartbreakingly disclosed yesterday.

In an emotional tribute put out on Wednesday, Davis said the death of his wife, who was also an actor, had left ‘a huge hole in our lives’ and that she made him feel like he had a ‘superpower’.

The loving couple were most recently seen together in a selfie posted on his Instagram page on October 5 last year, in which they were seen smiling at the camera during a ‘date night’. 

It was accompanied by the light-hearted and tender caption: ‘A long overdue date night with my beautiful wife. She felt a bit overdressed for McDonald’s!’

The picture delighted fans of the pair, with one remarking, ‘you two are just amazing’ and another calling them a ‘gorgeous couple’.

Following Davis’ devastating revelation that his wife of 33 years had passed away last month, the picture reappeared.

In an emotional tribute to his ‘favourite human’, Davis said: ‘Her passing has left a huge hole in our lives as a family. I miss her hugs.’

He described Sammy, as he called her, as his ‘most trusted confidant and an ardent supporter of everything I did in my career’. He said he felt like he could achieve anything with his wife by his side and that it felt like he had a ‘superpower’.

‘She was a unique character, always seeing the sunny side of life; she had a wicked sense of humour and always laughed at my bad jokes,’ Davis said in a statement given to the BBC.

Three years later, in 1991, the pair was married after they first met on the set of George Lucas’s film Willow. They had three children throughout their 33-year marriage, one of whom unfortunately passed away soon after birth.

This lovely family always seemed to radiate such genuine happiness, and Warwick’s wife was taken far too young. Whenever there were reports in the media about Warwick Davis and his family, they were always genuinely happy, and it was lovely to see.

They were a beautiful and funny family. Also decent, kind, and a true force of positivity. They found true happiness together, despite facing huge adversity. Life really is tragic and cruel.

When Warwick spoke about his wife and kids, he always had such a proud expression, and his wife always seemed to glow. I’m so glad that they found each other and fell in love.

Pensioners Should Be Taxed More: Rachel Reeves, Tax Tsar

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s new tax tsar previously called pensioners ‘codgers’ who had it ‘ridiculously good’.

Sir Edward Troup, a former Tory Treasury special adviser, also said it was ‘ridiculous’ that pensioners received free TV licences and argued for them to be taxed more.

His remarks became public earlier this month following his appointment by Labour to its new expert group on combating tax evasion.

In 2019, Sir Edward made a plea for increases in corporate tax, VAT, income tax, and National Insurance payments during a roundtable hosted by the Resolution Foundation.

Advising politicians to raise taxes by stealth, the former special adviser to then Tory chancellor Lord Clarke warned that today’s pensioners have ‘had it ridiculously good’.

He said that it is a ‘complete disgrace’ that pensioners are not paying NIC, adding: ‘I’m told I can’t use the word codgers but, as I’m officially a codger, I think I will.

‘We’ve benefited from low-interest rates, high inflation when we bought our houses, we’ve enjoyed good returns on whatever we’ve managed to put into our pension funds… and it’s a complete disgrace.’

Additionally, he made the case that younger working families need to receive free TV licences.

Sir Edward added: ‘If anybody deserves a free licence to relieve them from the ghastliness of small babies… they’re the ones who deserve it.’

Craig Tracey, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party and MP for North Warwickshire, said: ‘It should come as no surprise that Labour’s new tax tsar wants to slap working people with higher taxes.

‘They will try to deny it, but Labour’s billions in unfunded spending pledges can only mean one thing—taking us back to square one by hiking up taxes.

‘Meanwhile, this Conservative Government are sticking to the plan and delivering a £900 tax cut for working people.’

Does this dumbbell not realise that a pensioner has to be 75 years old and receive pension credit to qualify for a free TV licence?

People paid National Insurance contributions for 35 years to receive their State Pension. It’s not a benefit; it is something we paid for with our wages when we were working. However, if you get Pension Credit to top it up, then that becomes a benefit paid for by the DWP.

The House of Lords receives more than £300 each day, which makes their situation absurdly favourable. That’s hardly what most retirees receive in a week, and that’s just for sitting their bum on a seat and not doing anything!

No one, including pensioners, should be paying for a TV licence.

People have paid into a system, and the government happily took our money that they call National Insurance for our State Pension, a bit like a bank account so that we could withdraw that money once we reached Pension Age.

Paying money into that system until we were 60-65 years of age should have been more than enough, but now our government keep putting pension age up and up. They want us to work until we drop, that way they can keep our money because we can’t withdraw it, why because we’re dead! However, theft is a criminal activity that goes on within the government all the time, and our government always prey on the most vulnerable.

People who have lived their whole lives contributing to the system appear to be being penalised so that our government may provide something they never paid for to the fresh wave of foreign voters entering our nation, and pensioners have been bled dry through Income Tax and National Insurance all their lives, and every other tax going.

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