According To Figures, A Third Of RAF Personnel Suffer From Physical Or Mental Issues, Which Makes Them Unfit For Duty

According to official statistics, three out of ten soldiers from all branches of the Armed Forces are not completely prepared for battle.

The largest issue with medically unfit soldiers is seen in the Royal Air Force, where 32.9 per cent of its 29,010 troops suffer from physical or mental health issues.

In the meantime, 28.2 per cent of the 74,110 troops in the British Army have medical issues that may prevent them from participating in front-line operations.

Just 25.9 per cent of the Royal Navy’s 29,220 personnel have reported health issues that mean they may not be fit for service.

According to the Sunday Telegraph, 38,033 out of the 132,340 total personnel in the Armed Forces—or 28.7 per cent—are not completely prepared for battle.

The crisis will put pressure on Defence Secretary Grant Shapps at a time when Britain is struggling to retain its global influence due to recruitment problems.

The total number of regular troops and voluntary reserves across all branches of the military in December was 184,865, which is 7,440 fewer than the previous year and the lowest since the 19th-century Napoleonic Wars.

Last year, Lord Dannatt, the former chief of staff of the United Kingdom, issued a warning that the country could no longer conduct concurrent operations, such as battles in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The £3 billion aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth was unable to support operations against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, who were sponsored by Iran, due to the fact that its support ship, RFA Fort Victoria, only had a skeleton crew. This revealed concerns over operational preparedness.

Former Army intelligence officer Colonel Phil Ingram said: ‘The Ministry of Defence has serious recruitment problems – they can’t recruit enough to replace those leaving and it seems a large percentage of those they keep in are not fit to fight.

‘This is a clear indication of a broken system and the MoD needs to realise this and come up with a plan to fix it quickly.

‘Otherwise, in a world growing more unstable by the day, our very national security could be compromised because we might find ourselves in a situation where we need a large number of troops very quickly and we haven’t got them.’

Out of those who were demoted from frontline operations, 13,727 had musculoskeletal ailments from battle or training.

Back in the day, you were let go if you weren’t medically fit. You were let go if your basic fitness test resulted in a failure and if you were found guilty of a crime.

The regulations of our military have drastically altered, recruiting is now open to everybody, and everything has gone to pot. Removing the standards demoralised the military and, to be honest, the recruiting process.

Regretfully, wokeism has permeated every aspect of life. It resembles an incurable sickness, or cancer if you will.

Our troops’ core has been shattered, and now nobody wants to enlist in the military. To battle for what? A country that despises you. No, it’s time to move aside and make room for variety.

The good old days are over; allowing the weak to join the military results in zero combat power.

Once, getting in was a challenge. The process of selection was exhaustive. A rigorous medical examination was conducted, and a 6-week recruit training schedule assessed fitness. You were denied entry if your test results were poor.

Recruiting is now simple. Our military is accepting everyone from wherever, and scores are low as well as medical standards.

As A Precaution, Electric Buses Are Taken Off The Roads After One Exploded On The School Run

Several electric buses have been removed from operation after last week’s school run in Wimbledon saw one catch fire.

Commuters were swiftly evacuated after a huge blast ripped off the back off an Optare Metrodecker 1050 bus travelling from Mitcham to Raynes Park in South West London at 7.20 am on Friday, January 12.

Consequently, buses operating on the 200 route have been pulled off the road as a “precaution” by Transport for London (TfL) until the cause of the Wimbledon Hill Road fire is investigated.

Fire expert Neil Pedersen stated that the reason was most likely an electrical malfunction and unrelated to lithium batteries. TfL is currently collaborating with the bus operator London General and the manufacturer Switch to look into the matter.

“As a precaution, the fleet of buses that normally operate on route 200 is being temporarily withdrawn from service by GoAhead while the investigation continues, with other vehicles being brought in to cover,” said Tom Cunnington, TfL’s head of bus business development, in an interview with the Guardian.

‘All buses made by the relevant manufacturer will be checked thoroughly as a matter of priority.

‘Other buses in the fleet remain in service and TfL and bus operators will not hesitate to take further action if required to ensure the network remains safe.’

Eight routes in and around London, numbered 23, 28, 134, 295, 317, 626, and N28, are served by almost 80 Metrodecker buses.

TfL, which operates over 1,000 electric buses throughout its network, declared after the incident on Friday that it would not be pulling out any Metrodeckers and that they were safe.

A TfL spokeswoman told MailOnline at the time: ‘London’s bus network remains safe to use and other buses in the fleet remain in service. TfL and bus operators will not hesitate to take action if required to ensure the network remains safe.’

A second London bus caught fire, destroying it entirely, less than twenty-four hours after the Wimbledon incident.

The hybrid vehicle caught fire in North Woolwich, East London, just before 7 a.m., with onlookers shouting ‘what the f***’ as they were urged to ‘move back, get back’. The bus involved in the blaze was an Alexander Dennis Enviro400 hybrid that runs on diesel and electricity, with about 900 in use across 78 routes in London.

Because of the possibility of the batteries exploding or catching fire, TfL has prohibited the public from taking e-bikes and e-scooters onto its trains and buses. However, it has since been discovered that their vehicles are just as prone to create issues.

Naturally, some of it is not zero at all because sources of energy are also needed to charge the batteries.

Each windmill required enormous amounts of carbon energy to ship and erect, even with solar power.

Every time energy is changed from oil, gas or coal to electricity, some energy is wasted. Some more energy is then wasted again going from electricity into batteries, there is so much wrong with this net zero rubbish con. Ten or more years from now they will be complaining that batteries are being dumped everywhere.

Electric vehicles don’t bother me, but the present battery technology is hazardous to the environment in both its production and its recycling process.

Aside from appearing unstable and prone to thermal runaway, they are also extremely difficult to put out since they supply both oxygen and fuel.

The infrastructure and generating capacity in the UK are insufficient to meet demand, and internal combustion engine cars cannot be replaced by electric vehicles due to their immaturity. It is not possible to run before you can walk, and this has not been well considered.

Finally, The Mystery Of Peru’s Tiny Aliens Is Solved

The mystery of the two so-called aliens, said to be proof of extraterrestrial life, that were seized by Peruvian customs agents in October has finally been solved by forensic scientists.

In October, the globe was captivated by two objects that were about a foot long and resembled miniature grey humanoids with three fingers on each hand. Many people believed that the items were the remains of two alien bodies.

They were seized by Peruvian border guards from a shipment heading to Mexico and were later sent to scientists for investigation by Peru’s prosecutor’s office.

However, forensic examination has since revealed that they are composed of metal, paper, glue, and animal and human bones.

Forensic archaeologist Flavio Estrada, who led the analysis, said the claims that the two objects came from other worlds are ‘totally false.’

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

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

Scientists told reporters that the three-fingered hands were ‘very poorly’ built and were created with human bones, while the rest of the dolls’ bodies were built with the bones of dogs, birds, and other animals.

The identity of the dolls’ owner has not yet been determined by Peru’s prosecutor’s office.

The dolls’ intended recipient was only mentioned by officials as being a Mexican citizen; they did not provide their identity.

Mexico’s Congress was the subject of ridicule last year after UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussen held court several times to prove that the mummified remains were of extraterrestrial origin.

With the arrival of a team of experts in November, Maussan said that the figurines were ‘genuine,’ consisting of a single skeleton, and revealed that thirty per cent of them were ‘not from any recognised species’ through DNA analysis.

‘This is the first time extraterrestrial life has been presented in this manner, Maussan said to Congress.

‘We have a clear example of non-human specimens unrelated to any known species on our planet.

‘The public has the right to know about non-human technology and beings. This reality unites humanity rather than dividing us. We are not alone in this vast universe; we should embrace this truth.’

Maussan further mentioned that the two bodies are toothless, have strong bones, and have implants consisting of the rare Earth metals osmium and cadmium, which are both soft, silvery-white, and bluish-white.

What an enormous waste of time and money!

Paper Mache aliens: what’s next?

Finding glue, paper, metal, and animal bones wouldn’t have required much forensic work. They must think that we, the public, will believe anything. Well, admittedly, some do!

To be honest, I was more shocked to learn that the Pope was a Catholic.

The Foreign Office Spends £200k On ‘Crisis Media Training’ In £4 Million Consultant Splurge

Last year, the Foreign Office paid consultants close to £4 million of taxpayer money, including £200,000 for “crisis media training days.”

It is more than twice as much as the department paid for outside consultants the year before. It comes as the department’s spending on temporary agency personnel has reached a record high of about £40 million, an increase of more than 850 per cent since 2018.

A contract worth £200,000 for “crisis media training” was negotiated a few days following David Cameron’s unexpected reappearance in the political spotlight as Foreign Secretary. Staff members will receive instruction on how to “present the public face” of the government to the media “during a crisis response” throughout the training days.

According to the contract, civil personnel would receive training in “managing the media in a crisis setting, roaming media, social media, and managing crisis-specific messaging.” After six foreign secretaries in five years, the Foreign Office has learned from a string of disasters, notably the disastrous evacuation of Afghans from Kabul in August 2021.

Additionally, in April of this year, the Foreign Office faced new accusations of deserting British nationals following delays in the civilian evacuation of the war-torn capital of Sudan, Khartoum. The Sunday Mirror reported in 2021 that the Home Office, led by Priti Patel, had hired a private crisis management firm using public money to assist them in handling “incidents” in 2020.

In March 2020, Black Dog Crisis Management was engaged at a cost of £16,000 to conduct a “debriefing exercise” with department employees. In November 2020, they were invited in for a second time to “deliver impartial debriefing exercise and follow-up work following a complex critical incident”. The value of this second deal was £19,200.

The Home Office refused to identify which crises the firm was brought in to deal with.

To be honest, any other party in power would most likely spend the same amount, but we wouldn’t likely hear about it. Of course, wasting taxpayers’ money is not okay.

Why do they compensate advisors? Government employees are employed because they are expected to be well-versed in such matters and what is necessary. What would be the use of belonging to a government entity if you just hired someone else to tell you what to do?

Perhaps the Tories are just trying to spend as much money as possible so that if Labour wins the General Election, they have nothing to start with when they get into power. It’s only taxpayers’ money after all.

They don’t have any concept, concerns or cares about spending money like it’s gone out of fashion, simply because it’s not theirs, and it’s the taxpayers’ who are having two fingers stuck up at them.

It also demonstrates the extent to which our government controls the media and how they are now concealing the truth in a variety of ways, anything that has a ‘Con’ in it is a con.

Leaders Of The Warped Jihadi Terror Cell Who Planned To Rival 7/7 And Transform Birmingham Into A ‘Little War Zone’ Could Be Free To Walk The Streets In WEEKS

Leaders of a jihadi terror cell who planned an attack to rival 7/7 and transform Birmingham into a ‘little war zone’ could be free to walk the streets in weeks.

In 2013, Ashik Ali and Irfan Khalid received life sentences with a minimum of 18 years served.

However, both have been given hearings before the Parole Board in the upcoming weeks, which means they may be allowed to leave prison.

The pair were leaders of the gang, along with Irfan Naseer, which was smashed by Britain’s biggest-ever anti-terrorism probe.

They intended to use timers to blow up to eight explosives that were concealed in rucksacks.

When undercover police busted the group in September 2011, fearing an impending terrorist strike, the plan was thwarted.

Detectives said it was the most significant to be foiled since a 2006 conspiracy to blow up transatlantic airliners using bombs disguised as soft drinks.

Their trial judge, Mr Justice Henriques, said the plot ‘had the blessing of al-Qaeda’ and with the intention to ‘further the aims of al-Qaeda’.

He told the defendants when sentencing them: ‘You were seeking to recruit a team of somewhere between six and eight suicide bombers to carry out a spectacular bombing campaign, one that would create an anniversary along the lines of 7/7 or 9/11.

‘It’s clear that you were planning a terrorist outrage in Birmingham.’

Ali told police he would have put on a suicide vest and shot troops, while Khalid had boasted that the attack would be “another 9/11.”

Naseer, who is still incarcerated, was identified as the key conspirator at the sentence.

The judge added: ‘Many deaths were planned by a determined team of individuals who were fully radicalised.

‘No lack of assets, skill or manpower was going to stop you.’

Tory MP Nigel Mills has now said: ‘It is a terrifying prospect to think that these two individuals could be freed in the coming weeks.

‘I sincerely hope the Parole Board takes into account the danger they posed and what death and destruction they were planning.’

On the streets of Birmingham, the group pretended to be reputable charity workers and took hundreds of pounds from gullible bystanders.

They collected £12,000 for themselves by posing as street vendors for Muslim Aid, but after losing more than £9,000 of the money they won in currency trading, they had to seek loans totalling tens of thousands of pounds.

Why are they being allowed parole when they were both given minimum sentences of eighteen years? The legal system in our nation is just flawed.

These are insane zealots, and after serving out the entirety of their term, they need to be immediately flown back to their original location.

There are plenty of foolish politicians and leaders who are too preoccupied with padding their salaries and savouring their positions of power to give a damn about the real nations they represent.

Some people should never be permitted to lead countries or stay in the United Kingdom because their sole goal is to harm us. After all, attacking us isn’t a crime in their law.

With their ‘lock them up’ strategy for every little infraction, the Tories have completely failed to handle the prison system. As a result, our prisons are overcrowded, dilapidated, and underfunded, and serve as havens for radicalization.

And why were they even in the United Kingdom in the first place? Because we take all the crap nobody else wants.

Experts Claim The Area Is Littered With Roman Artefacts, Holding Up Corden’s Plans For An £8 Million Mansion On The Thames

James Corden’s plans to build a megahome next to the Thames River may be delayed because, according to experts, the surrounding land is rich in ancient and Roman artefacts.

It will now be necessary to conduct archaeological research to see whether the location of Corden’s Templecombe House is home to any ancient communities.

He applied to destroy the existing 1960s pad and construct a new mega house inside its footprint.

The 45-year-old TV celebrity moved back home with his wife Julia and their three kids last year after residing in the US for eight years.

He had a long run on one of American TV’s most influential programmes, The Late Late Show.

When speaking about leaving his LA home in 2022, he said, ‘I love being in Los Angeles. I love it but we always knew it would be an adventure and not a final destination.’

Corden has now swapped sunny California for the quintessentially English surrounds of Henley-on-Thames.

The Gavin and Stacey actor bought the £8 million 1960s modernist home, on the banks of the Thames back in 2020, but it had deteriorated to such an extent that he now wants to raze it to the ground and replace it with a state-of-the-art mansion.

However, he has already faced several planning setbacks and is now embroiled in a fresh conservation controversy.

If anything worthwhile is discovered, the effort might cause the construction to be delayed by many months.

It comes after a report submitted to Wokingham Borough Council just a few weeks ago showed there were significant sites of interest within a few hundred metres of Corden’s proposed home.

A report that examined a 1-kilometre area surrounding the comedian’s property was written by James Meek of HCUK Group on behalf of the Atlantic Swiss Agency (ASA).

A few nearby sites of interest were described in the report, including two Neolithic flint blade flakes discovered in a Roman ditch during excavation on the northern edge of the site, additional early Neolithic flints from Park Place and Aspect Park Golf Course located 440 metres north, and seventeen early Mesolithic flint fragments discovered on a haulage site 385 metres northeast of the northern boundary.

Middle to Late Iron Age features dating around 500 BC, including postholes, two storage and trash pits, and lines probably indicating field borders, were uncovered during archaeological studies at multiple places roughly 350 to 400m east and southeast of the eastern boundary.

Meanwhile, in 1995, an excavation on Remenham Hill, a little under 1km north, revealed a place occupied by early Iron Age people.

I just don’t see how a man with such a bad attitude and no talent has ever managed to have a good career. Perhaps it’s because there are so many of them out there, and he’s clearly doing something right to someone.

Yes, you guessed it. I don’t like the bloke very much at all.

I would be more concerned by the calamitous news that he’s back in the United Kingdom and could appear on our screens again, which isn’t good news.

The idea that every Roman item is far more fascinating than he could ever be is probably upsetting him, but then again his bank balance is probably way more than I even get in a year, so I suppose if you don’t like him like I don’t like him, we don’t have to watch it because, of course, I wouldn’t want to be watching a Muppet.

A Mother Who Battered Her 18-Month-Old Son To Death Lies, ‘I Haven’t Done Anything’

Evil mother Sian Hedges can be seen lying in police footage that she had not touched her murdered son Alfie as she was jailed with her boyfriend for life today.

In the back of a patrol cruiser, Hedges is seen holding a Coca-Cola bottle while being questioned by a police officer over her son’s injuries.

Hedges responds: ‘What do you mean?’ before declaring ‘you’re joking’.

The appalling mother can then be seen lying through crocodile tears as she says, ‘I haven’t done anything to him’.

Hedges and her ex-partner were sentenced to life in prison today for the “wicked and torturous” killing of the helpless child.

Less than two months had passed since she and her ex-partner Jack Benham brutally murdered 18-month-old Alfie Phillips in their trailer home in Kent during a “frenzied” attack in 2020.

During lockdown, Alfie was beaten to death and suffocated by the nasty duo, resulting in over 70 injuries to his small body.

Fueled by cocaine, whisky, and cannabis until the early hours of the morning, Hedges, 27, and Benham, 35, carried out a night of ‘violent discipline’ after calling Alfie ‘whingey and upset’.

The toddler was brutally attacked at Benham’s caravan in Hernhill, near Faversham, Kent, and died with a “myriad of bruises,” fractured ribs, arms, and legs, as well as signs of cocaine and alcohol in his system.

A court today sentenced the vile pair to life in prison, with Benham serving 23 years and Hedges serving 19 years.

Hedges met her former soldier lover Benham in September 2020 at a mutual friend’s house, where the pair would buy drugs. She was still dating Alfie’s father, Sam Phillips, at the time.

Evil Hedges would get high with her new lover in drug binges. But she would return to Mr Phillips, adding: ‘It was like he held me under a spell.’

In a victim impact statement read in court, a heartbroken Mr Phillips said: ‘After the trial, we still feel we deserve answers. I will never know the truth about what happened to my son.

‘I never got to hear him say his first proper words, I never got to have a conversation with him, I was robbed of the opportunity to see him grow up.’

Reacting to the sentencing, a heartbroken Mr Phillips said his son’s killers had ‘finally got what they deserved’.

It took the jury over 10 hours to find the two guilty after a nine-week trial at Maidstone Crown Court in the previous year.

The sentence that they both got was not long enough, they should have both got life without parole, but then the law is not fit for purpose and must be changed.

A life sentence should mean a life sentence, meaning it should be until one takes their last breath, and why did the mother receive a lesser sentence? She was the mother, surely it was her job to protect her child first and foremost, so why such leniency? What, a woman is a protected species where the courts are concerned?

Although I find it horrifying that any person could be that wicked, I’m not surprised, and nineteen years and twenty-three years is not life. They should never see the light of day again because this little boy can’t, and they’re just pure evil.

It seems that more children are killed by their parents than by dogs these days, and you would think it would be the opposite. People like this should never be allowed to have children again.

Brazilian Hikers Capture Footage Of 10-Foot-Tall Aliens

In Brazil, family-friendly hikers captured a video of what they believed to be extraterrestrial beings.

Witness Sara Dalete of Brasília was visiting Ilha do Mel with her family when she saw the strange figures.

The stretched, 10-foot-tall creatures have become the subject of popular videos on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). 

The figures of mystery were positioned on a hill that, according to Dalete, “wasn’t possible to reach the top.” 

Both of them were waving their arms swiftly, but they stayed standing on the hilltop for the whole video. 

Brazil has seen reports of probable extraterrestrial encounters in the past; the Varginha UFO event in 1996 was one of the more notable ones.

But in Brazil’s history, this is the first reported encounter with extraterrestrials at Ilha do Mel.

Though Dalete appears to be certain she saw aliens, she hasn’t persuaded UFO specialist Nick Pope of that.

‘This story—and the reaction to it—is truly bizarre,’ he told Metro on January 9.

‘There’s no credible evidence that anything UFO- or alien-related happened or that this was anything other than the police responding to reports of youths fighting.’ 

Additionally, X individuals on social media disagree that the entities in the video are aliens and believe they are something else. 

Users of X believe the creatures to be ‘inflatable objects’ from car washes or ‘hikers with walking sticks.’

‘When will anyone get close-up, high-def footage of aliens?? Probably a scarecrow,’ wrote Cameron Poole.

Other people who were watching recordings of a potential extraterrestrial sighting complained about the “blurry” footage.

‘Why whenever these videos get put out they look like they were filmed on a blackberry,’ wrote another X user. 

It’s funny how cameras on phones improve every year but the pictures of ‘aliens’ seem to get worse.

Maybe we shouldn’t refer to them as aliens as then they’ll want free housing and healthcare. How did they determine that these so-called aliens were ten feet tall? What object of known size was there so that they could compare? Perhaps they were aliens that came from Uranus.

Additionally, it appears that individuals have become complete idiots as a result of social media, and the world has devolved into a mush. Although we can’t prove it, I’m not claiming that there aren’t any extraterrestrial living forms in the universe.

Presumably, the aliens travelled across the galaxy with their technology that we couldn’t possibly comprehend, only to then proceed to stand around in plain sight using their binoculars!

So, these aliens are clever enough to navigate the solar system but stupid enough to get caught on camera, maybe Big Foot can teach them about camouflage, or maybe people who originate from the South of the border are more superstitious and their brains bypass logic.

The unfortunate person on the hill being called a 10-foot alien is a bit offensive, and you would be devastated if you saw your name printed as an alien in a newspaper the next day, but I suppose they had their fifteen minutes of fame.

“If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck” In this case an alien, but we human beings will believe just about anything.

In my words, there really isn’t any hope for some people. IQs reach negative figures in Brazil, and while I do believe we are not alone, that’s not alien, and what does an alien look like?

Perhaps they were trying to survey the local town to see if they could see a car park for their spacecraft. What the charges were, and whether they had the right currency.

Ageist Attitudes Among Children As Young As Four Are Contributing To Negative Stereotypes About The Elderly, MPs Are Told

It was said yesterday that youngsters as young as four contribute to unfavourable preconceptions and that older individuals suffer greatly from ageist views.

Parliamentarians on the Women and Equalities Committee were informed that over half of those over 50 had experienced age discrimination in the previous year.

Caroline Abrahams, the director of Age UK, used early children’s artwork as an illustration of deeply ingrained ageist beliefs.

‘What demonstrates how pervasive ageist attitudes are, people have asked young children to draw what they think an older person looks like,’ she told the committee.

‘You get little drawings of an old lady with a stick, actually, you have grandparents in their forties. It goes to show children are picking it up.’

Ms Abrahams’ observation that ageist views were shared by all generations was confirmed by Carole Easton, CEO of the lobbying group Centre for Ageing Better.

She said: ‘Every person in this room is ageist because we have grown up in this country—there’s evidence to show four-year-olds hold very stereotypical views about older people.

You feel under pressure to fit in if you think there is a stereotype. It is known that in the past year, up to 50 per cent of those over 50 had encountered age prejudice.

‘One-third of people hold ageist beliefs. We have a responsibility not to pit one generation against another.’

They made their comments yesterday as a part of the cross-party committee’s investigation of senior citizens’ rights.

The purpose of the investigation was to determine if ageist stereotypes and prejudice, such as portraying the elderly as affluent or defenceless “boomers,” hinder them from completely engaging in society. The investigation was started last year.

It will determine if England requires a commissioner to assist people and stop prejudice. In 2008, Wales established an office for the Commissioner for Older People.

Ms Abrahams warned that ageism was culturally acceptable in a way that other forms of discrimination are not, adding: ‘Those who view themselves as educated, progressive, in touch, quite openly will say something derogatory about older people in a way that would be totally unacceptable for them to say in terms of race, gender or sexual orientation.’

More than 11 million Britons were 65 years of age or older in 2021, according to the census, making up 18.6% of the population, up from 16.4 per cent a decade earlier.

Naturally, four-year-olds are not ageist; that being said, they may find an older person quite frightening and/or extremely old. However, I bet these four-year-olds go on to vote Labour over Lib Dems and telly tubbies running the country.

The one thing I find insulting and annoying is medical people. When they said they can’t diagnose or can’t be bothered to diagnose after examining you and then they say that we should suck it up and that we’re old. Now, that’s discrimination.

It all depends on your point of view; even a twenty-year-old appears elderly to a four-year-old. My children seriously believed that my life had only begun when they were born!

There are three age groups: young, middle-aged, and elderly, and everything in between.

Older folks will always be considered elderly by younger generations. It’s not ageist, but it’s natural.

My son is thirty-three but he considers himself old. I am 61 years old. I tell my children that I’m just a fossil.

Four-year-olds are just being truthful. They report what they observe. It’s not malevolent.

A lot of feeling old is in the mind. I am disabled. My body feels about 90 but my brain says twenty-five because I think young. I keep as busy as I can and I’m not a bitter and twisted woman. This has taught me to enjoy my life as best I can and to stay active and inquisitive.

‘Nanny State’ Tactics By Labour

Keir Starmer is vowing to make children brush their teeth and get taller today as he embraces the nanny state.

The leader of Labour has unveiled a proposal to improve the health of children, which includes toothbrushing under supervision for kids in breakfast clubs who are three to five years old.

As part of initiatives to reduce obesity, there would also be a complete prohibition on the promotion of junk food before the watershed. The fact that British youngsters were shorter than their counterparts was seen as ’embarrassing’ by the Allies, who believed it to be a sign of inadequate nutrition.

The proposals open Labour to accusations of meddling in the personal choices of parents on how to bring up their children. But Sir Keir dismissed the criticism, insisting the state must get involved if children’s health is suffering.

Sir Keir said, ‘I have to say when I first read the statistic that for six- to ten-year-olds, the biggest cause of admissions to hospital is decayed teeth, I was really struck.

‘I don’t think you can simply say ‘that’s none of our business’; it is our business because it’s the health of a child. But also, once you’ve got a child admitted into hospital, it’s costing the taxpayer a fortune. So I’m not saying it’s the state and not parents; it’s got to be both.’

And he said he was ‘up for that fight; if people want to say to me, I don’t think we should be doing that’.

Labour’s child health action plan also calls for the introduction of a 9 p.m. watershed for junk food advertisements, the outlawing of youth-targeted vape advertisements, improved access to mental health services, a reduction in the length of hospital wait times for children, increased dental appointments, and the establishment of child health as a cross-government priority.

Speaking before a visit to a leading children’s hospital today, Sir Keir said: ‘Tooth decay, stunted growth, and stalling life expectancy should be consigned to the history books, but instead they’re the reality of Tory Britain.

‘The biggest casualty of the short-term, sticking-plaster politics of the last 14 years are our nation’s children. My Labour government will turn this around.

‘Healthy, happy children is not a nice thing to have; it’s a basic right, with economic urgency. We want the next generation to be chasing their dreams, not a dentist appointment. They should be aspiring to reach their potential, not reach a doctor.

‘Labour will end the scandal of children being held back by poor health and regional inequalities by slashing waits for mental health treatment and hospital appointments, putting prevention first, and fixing NHS dentistry.

‘That’s the future our children and young people deserve, and that’s the future a Labour Government will deliver.’

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said Brits were ‘slipping down’ the international rankings for children’s height.

Are British children shorter? That’s rubbish, but many do have a poor diet because of the cost of living crisis, and before you know it, Ricket’s will be prevalent in England again.

The general public are not going to be happy about the government taking over their parental duties, so why not go the whole hog and include potty training in that?

The last time Labour meddled in the education of young people, the result was a toned-down Tony Blairian education that let rural idiots into university. These days, they want kids to become fully committed communists before they become eight years old. We’ll develop into a nation of Starmers.

This is bordering on communism; do as we demand, not as we do!

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