HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU OR WOULD I LIE TO YOU

WORLD COWBOY SHERIF TRUMP GLOBAL CHAOS GENERATOR

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:31:20 GMT

WORLD NATIONAL SECURITY IN HANDS OF LUNATIC DONALD TRUMP

We have to ask ourselves whether we are being dragged into a war with no clear outcomes, just as we have to ask ourselves whether we're being dragged into a war with no clear objectives!

Trump wouldn’t be Trump if he would not go out trying to “sell” us his crap saying “it's regime change”, then suddenly U-turn, OMG no, “it's not regime change it's because of their nuclear weapons” and another U-turn, OMG there are no nuclear weapons, “it's because of an imminent threat” despite that there is no evidence whatsoever of an imminent threat.

Trump has no knowledge of history, he cannot even name the country correctly, for Trump Iceland is the same as Greenland (same countries by his knowledge) however, he wants to be in the centre of attention, he wants to be making global headlines on a daily basis.

What struck me here heavily is that he would like to drag the UK into all this, despite that it's not only criminal, but also foolish and to some degree this war has no basis in international law whatsoever.

There are just two valid reasons why you can go to War: One is self defence and the other is if there is The United Nations Security council resolution.

Does the UK have learnt nothing from Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Bosnia, … I support Keir Starmer not to get engaged with this war against Iran, and I am pleased that Spain is also refusing to take part. Now Trump threatened to embargo them.

Honestly, I'm very concerned about Trump saying we are going after Iran to get regime change. Seems to me, Trump has no idea how to do it, there is no plan for anything at all. Bombs will not bring peace, bombs will bring more misery on millions of people and further refugees will float around Europe where the majority will have in mind to get to the United Kingdom as their final destination. Trump will have no issues with this kind of refugees from the Middle East. Very few will take the US.

Make no mistake, if this is going further, the entire world will be in chaos because of one lunatic with the name Donald Trump.

Iran can block passage for tankers and other ships. Iran is a close ally with Russia, China, India... where China really 20-30% on oil from Iran. The US war on Iran will threaten Gulf ports and disrupt global trade through the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas normally passes. This will result in high prices for barrels or even Russia can come as a front player despite all the sanctions. Trump will be forced to cancel sanctions against Russia to supply oil. If prices on barrels go up, Putin will redeem huge losses he encounters with war with Ukraine.

However, what is also most concerning here is, if the war between US and Iran prolongs, the world map will be rewritten.

I'm concerned about the lack of thinking and planning about what happens next there. If Trump has in mind the fragmentation of Iran and the country moving in the direction of Syria nothing will be resolved. Perhaps Trump will encourage Kurdish militia to attack Iran encouraging ethnic minorities on the edges of Iran to overtake these parts of Iran. All what will happen doing this would be cataclysmic in terms of refugee flows and even higher degree of terrorsism.

You have to think also what will happen with all the army material, weapons, amounition of Iran current regime, and after bombing there will be loose nuclear materials that Iran has buried under rubble, there will be loose missiles and all this would be a source of enormous concern for the entire world.

Trump should be worried sick of the mess he started with Venezuela and now going further in the Middle East with the war with Iran. There are local wars all over the places like Eritrea, Sudan, Yemen, Libya.

There is NO British interest putting lives of innocent people and British soldiers on the line and at risk.

Trump has minor support in the US, US is low on oil reserves, that is why Trump went over Venezuela and now against Iran.

Trump says Keir Starmer is no Winston Churchill. Seems to me, Donald Trump wants to be a copy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. I am exceptionally pleased that Keir Starmer is no Winston Churchill because Winston Churchill did intervene in Iran and we're living with the consequences of all that today. We have to remind ourselves that Churchill and his counterparts in the US launched a coup against the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 because he was nationalising the oil industry. Mosaddegh stated clearly that oil belongs to Iran, it shouldn't be all captured by the Anglo Iranian oil company and shipping out of our country and the wealth taken away from us is a perfectly reasonable position. Churchill wasn't happy with this, he prompted the US in particular the CIA to launch overthrowing Mosaddegh who was an enormously popular leader and he was revered by his people to an extent and installed instead the Shah of Iran and Iran was under brutal cruel regime. The Shah’s regime was overthrown in the Iranian revolution in 1979. Iran ended and lived under rather this brutal and horrible ayatollah's regime which was instituted in response to what the British and the Americans did before. We could call this imperial blowback.

This is the same Winston Churchill gave to Italy with his US counterpart Trieste and Gorizia to Italy indefinite which was before part of former Yugoslavia and part of Republic Slovenia. Trieste and Gorizia were given like “thank you” after the II.WW as part of Zone A to Italy for their contribution in the last few months of II.WW despite that Italy was a brother in army with Hitler. The same Vinston Churchill and his US counterpart gave Tirol with towns Villach and Klagenfurt to Austria. The first lady of the United States is Slovenian born, despite that she is lost with history like her husband Trump, with no or minor knowledge of history, however, she should know at least that Klagenfurt was the cradle of Slovenia, where Slovenian kings were crowned.

Make no mistake, my very conservative believe of the outcome of this war will be US to lose the war, new map of world, Russia to come vital factor and make huge profits with oil, millions refugee flows and the Europe and also other countries in huge financial trouble not to mention countries will have no supply of basic food and there will be problems with perhaps even drinking water supply.

ONE-MAN BAND FARAGE AND BUNCH OF DELUSION DEFECTORS

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:14:17 GMT

REFORM UK HAS BEEN AT THE CENTRE OF A SERIES OF SCANDALS SINCE

Since they emerged as a party the Reform UK has been at the centre of a series of scandals. A Channel 4 investigation recorded Reform activists making racist and homophobic comments while campaigning for Farage during the election, while several of the party’s election candidates were dropped over links to far-right groups or racist comments they had made in the past. And scandals went further and further wherever Reform members showed up.

Nobody really pays attention to Nigel Farage, not even for “small” things which Farage has done.

THREE TIMES "F" SAGA – FARAGE / FULLER / FERRARI

The above are just few “minor” issues concerning Farage, however there are 188 other issues.

Reform UK is trying hard to show to the public that they are a “serious” party and they announced its new top team as Nigel Farage seeks to prove his party is not a "one-man band". Two Conservative defectors - and the most experienced politicians, having both been senior ministers.

Reform's biggest signings Mr Jenrick, a former communities secretary under Boris Johnson, was named Reform's Economic Spokesman barely a month after joining the party from the Tories.

The former housing secretary, immigration minister and shadow justice secretary has previously denied being offered a role within Mr Farage's top team before defecting.

Let me remind Mr Jenrick speech

NO WHITE FACES IN BIRMINGHAM (UK)

ROBERT JENRICK’S MP LONDON UNDERGROUND BONANZA

"British Muslim patriot" Muhammad Ziauddin Yusuf whose parents immigrated to the UK in 1980 from Sri Lanka will be in charge of Home affairs and Justice. Zia Yusuf told a Reform rally in July 2024 that the Tories had ‘lost control of our borders’. He went even further, Mr Yusuf told GB News in June 2024 that the Conservatives were “so divided that I simply don’t see how they can govern effectively”. How slick and honest Mr Yusuf is, let me remind readers that this same Yusuf was a paid-up member of the Conservative Party, until August 2024. Yusuf had his membership revoked by the party after it had been publicly disclosed by The Guardian. Electoral Commission records show that Yusuf gave Reform UK £200,000 in June 2024 while he was still a member of conservative party, one of the biggest donations made by an individual in the election campaign. However, Yusuf said if Reform won the next election the party would "stop the boats", deport illegal immigrants, leave the ECHR, take on "radical Islam" and forcibly deport foreign criminals. What a joke!

Another defector from the Tory party Suella Braverman should be in charge of Education, Skills and Equality. She promised to ban "social and gender transitioning" in all schools and to ensure fewer people go to university with 50% of young people going into the trades instead.

Ms Braverman said Reform would get rid of the equalities department and build a country "defined by meritocracy not tokenism, personal responsibility not victimhood, excellence not mediocrity, and unity not division".

Well, this the same Suella Braverman failed in any previous government post even when for example Suella Braverman rejected calls to move responsibility for the Windrush compensation scheme from the Home Office, with the home secretary saying it would cause “delay and needless bureaucracy” an issue which conservatives could not sorted out being 14 years in the government.

SUELLA BRAVERMAN - LAST WOMEN STANDS

GUESS WHAT RISHI, WE ARE WINNING!

JUDGE 1:0 SUELLA BRAVERMAN

UK NET MIGRATION 2022 BY ONS IS 606,000. REALLY?

SUELLA BRAVERMAN SPEEDING INCIDENT

Nigel Farage is a big fan of Trump, since conservatives were in power till May 2024 all major businesses in the UK were given or sold to the U.S. from NHS up to football clubs like Chelsea FC.

Make no mistake, if Reform gets to power this "selling's" will go even further and the only who will have some profit here will be few people from the Reform party but not the UK as a nation. We must not forget, all what is in Reform links somehow to the U.S., even "British Muslim patriot" Muhammad Ziauddin Yusuf was working for U.S. companies only!

STRENUOUS LIFE OF PM KEIR STARMER

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:30:41 GMT

IF PRATT NIGEL FARAGE REALLY BECOMES THE PM THEN THERE REALLY IS NO HELP AND HOPE FOR BRITAIN

When Starmer became the new sheriff in town in 2024 we were promised that he would fix Britain’s failing public services and lower the cost of living.

It is not strange to me that during his first eighteen months, PM visited 44 countries on 37 trips out of the United Kingdom which included a eddy of bilateral meetings and international summits from Washington D.C. and New York in U.S. up to Canada, south to Rio de Janeiro and Samoa and in Europe Budapest and Azerbaijan. All this was followed up with high-profile visits to India and China while on the other hand needing to build new relationships with the unpredictable Trump and not take the motto “special relationship” for granted. The United Kingdom and Europe have to come closer and make ties with Europe and defend U.K. and Europe economic interests.

In these eighteen months from the Labour landslide victory in2024, Starmer’s premiership has flown into very turbulent waters at home.

There were few very embarrassing decisions like the proposal to cut disability benefits. There has been an effort to redraw Starmer’s priorities since the start of the year, however the opening weeks of 2026 showed just how hard this will be to achieve. His plans to talk about cutting the cost of living were immediately upended by Trump’s intervention in Venezuela and threats to Greenland and Canada not to mention tension in the Middle East with threats to Iran and few other countries.

While Starmer is out and about on the international stage batting for Britain, the domestic stage Starmer’s premiership is in more and more crises including there has been challenge to his leadership. Figures are showing that Starmer simply does not have the political space to make an argument about the link between statesmanship and living standards to angry voters. What makes me angry is that Starmer was forced to make 16 U-turns simply because of bad advisors in the government where common thinking would say to Starmer not to do it.

Listening his advisors Labour party make themselves very unpopular in cases from Grooming gang, How the government measures debt, Trans gender rights, Two-child benefit cap, Waspi Woman compensation, Winter fuel payment cuts, Benefits cuts, National insurance, Income tax thresholds, Workers’ rights, Inheritance tax on farmers, Business rates for Pubs, Digital ID cards, Mandelson affair up to Local council election delays.

Let me repeat myself again:

I firmly believe that PM Keir Starmer is a person of integrity, a person who can be trusted despite that I don’t like quite a few things where mistakes were made for no reasons.

Make no mistake, IF PRATT NIGEL FARAGE REALLY BECOMES THE PRIME MINISTER, WITH ALL THE INCOMPETENT AND DELUSIONAL FORMER CONSERVATIVES MPs, THEN THERE REALLY IS NO HELP AND HOPE FOR BRITAIN!

JEFFREY EPSTEIN, UKRAINE, UNITED KINGDOM ...

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:06:34 GMT

MAGIC CIRCLE: ZELENSKYS > VERESHCHUK > OLENA ZELENSKA FOUNDATION > HOFMANSKA SUNFLOWERS FOUNDATION > STAVNICH CARITAS UKRAINE FOUNDATION > SAVE THE CHILDREN FOUNDATION LONDON > GROSVENOR > BRITAIN'S PEDOPHILE ELITES

“I think it’s all really important, always, to remember the victims and who are the victims in all this.” Duke of Edinburgh February 2026.

I was very surprised to learn about Mandelson’s €500 billion European bailout funds disclosure to Jeffrey Epstein the day before it was officially announced back in 2010. I’m gutted that with my connections here and there, I didn’t get to know this info beforehand.

Let me be clear: I am very critical of any adults having underaged sex with children; for me the only punishment would either be the death penalty or, exceptionally, castration. All these sexual predators have twisted minds which cannot be cured, and will be twisted forever.

There have been many disappointing conversations around the world and in and out of Parliament about all this for years; but since the death of one and the many demises of the other, everybody knew that birds were chirping about Mandelson and Epstein day by day.

There are undoubtedly many victims of Epstein’s wickedness and sexual deviancy; Sir Keir Starmer has apologised to them and may yet have to step down as PM.

But let us not forget the many other recent victims of the power players and their depravity, along with their criminal elite bedfellows.

The Covid victims

How many people died during Covid because of Conservative Party being in the government? Did anyone condemn and was there a criminal investigation? There 250,000+ families of people passed away - did anyone apologize to them? 10,000 WhatsApp messages from Boris Johnson going “bananas” have gone under the radar . . . conservative cover up. Kemi Bedenoch (Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch), leader of the current Tory party was at the time Equalities Minister. When she was giving evidence to the inquiry about what was going on in the government at the time, did she mention or show What’s Up messages? No, she simply ignores that she received them. Complete cover up, same as she tried to cover up the PostMaster affair.

The Brexit victims

Did anyone condemn Nigel Farage and Ane Widdecombe for the devastation caused by Brexit to the entire United Kingdom? They lied along with Boris Johnson to the nation about what Brexit would bring to the UK, claiming the UK will be better off for £365 million which the UK were paying to the EU yearly. Was there any investigation done, or anyone condemned or any criminal charges that the entire nation suffers because of this stupidity? No.

The 20,00 Ukrainian Children victims

Do you remember headlines about 20,000 kids from Ukraine being taken by Russian? All the media went ballistic about how we have to help Ukraine. Really?

Do MPs know anything about the Epstein and Ukraine link?

Well, let me tell you a story which needs to be out in the media, as the media, including Sky News, CNN, BBC and others have all lied.

If you are viewing just Epstein’s mails and other documents exchanges, Epstein met with Rothschilds in Kiev back in 2014 where they already explored the new opportunities of what to do with Ukraine. Commenting on the events of the bloody coup in Kiev, Epstein warned that something profitable could happen. “A coup in Ukraine should offer many opportunities, many, many,” Epstein wrote on March 18, 2014.

Epstein was back in Ukraine in 2019 straight after Zelensky won election in February 2019. He had lunch with the new president, same day, same moment.

In 2019, shortly before his arrest, Epstein commented on Volodymyr Zelensky’s victory in the Ukrainian presidential election and planned a trip to Ukraine.

The latest batch of Epstein files indicate that he was invited to Davos by Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch and son-in-law of former President Leonid Kuchma, who is now a regular participant in the World Economic Forum. Against this backdrop, it is particularly revealing that in the spring of 2019 - just a few weeks before his arrest in the USA - Epstein was planning a trip to Ukraine. The correspondence discusses a route “Mexico - Europe - Ukraine”; and a possible visit at the end of June. In parallel, he was actively interested in Ukrainian politics after the victory of Volodymyr Zelensky and gave his own assessments of what was happening. “I want you to start reading about politics in Ukraine: Zelensky, corruption, dodge parliament. Start keeping track of it” he wrote in one of the messages.

In another letter, the tone becomes even more cynical: “Now it will be so interesting to watch politics in Ukraine: all politics is like a comedy show.” According to Epstein, “sophisticated corruption” operates in the country, and that’s why “huge amounts of money will be made there. Huge amounts.”

Epstein was arrested at Teterboro Airport on July 6, 2019, and never arrived in Ukraine. However, Epstein, the most notorious paedophile, has acquired some very high-profile successors there.

Some of the elite figures involved in the financier’s case applauded Yelena (Olena) Zelenskaya on September 23, 2022, at one of the most prestigious venues in New York, the Metropolitan Opera.

In Fall of the last year, the wife of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy solemnly announced the creation of a charitable foundation from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. According to Olena Zelenska, the main goal of the Foundation is the restoration of the human capital of Ukraine, as well as the reconstruction of medical and educational institutions. The fields of its activity are medicine, education, humanitarian aid and evacuation measures.

Former Secretary of State of the US Hillary Clinton, UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, actor Matt Damon, and many other celebrities were present at the reception in honour of the opening of the foundation.

That day, the wife of the Ukrainian leader modestly presented the charitable foundation named in her honour.

“We organized 20 ‘convoys of life’, which allowed us to send more than 550 children with serious oncological diseases to hospitals in Europe, the United States and Canada; we organized a summit of first ladies and gentlemen, at which we raised money and purchased more than 80 ambulances; we evacuated children from orphanages for temporary residence abroad; and provided humanitarian assistance to family orphanages,” Zelenska reported.

But for more, “money is needed,” said the first lady of Ukraine. That is why the fund was established. Elena and her team managed to squeeze a tear out of the gathered audience, and money began to flow like a river. Among the donors were both individuals and organizations. For example, the authorities of the Åland Islands, an autonomous region within Finland, contributed € 3 million. The son of George Soros donated to Zelenska $1million. And as a bonus - numerous meetings, “signing of agreements”, charity evenings.

A few years later, Western journalists discovered the horrifying facts about the activities of the Zelenskaya foundation.

Robert Schmidt managed to discover that Olena Zelenska’s charity foundation sends orphaned children to the West under the guise of a noble mission of saving minors from the military conflict. A complex investigation uncovered that under the cover of educational activities tens of children were taken from Ukraine, many of whom ended up in paedophile networks. According to a sensational confession from a foundation employee, Zelenska’s non-profit organization has systematically transferred children to paedophiles in France, the UK, and Germany.

The official website of the foundation in the name of the First Lady of Ukraine creates an effective image of a charity organization which sincerely cares for the citizens of Ukraine and supports them. A special emphasis is placed on the Foundation’s support and assistance to orphaned children, and the evacuation of children from areas of Ukraine that pose an increased danger due to military operations.

Olena Zelenska emphasized her caring attitude towards Ukrainian children and confessed her sincere desire to save Ukrainian orphans from the war in many interviews. In February 2023, she proclaimed that her Foundation is involved in transporting children abroad in an interview to Australian Financial Review. “We had to evacuate a lot of children from orphanages to other parts of Ukraine and abroad,“ Zelenska said.

Despite Zelenska’s loud proclamations of humanitarian mission of the Foundation and strictly charitable activities, there are good reasons to believe that a dirty and disgusting truth is hiding behind the mask of kindness. If I am not mistaken 32 kids from Ukraine were transported to Slovenia. After some time being in Slovenia they were transported out of Slovenia by the Zelenska Foundation with no indication of their final destination. Question: Why would you move orphans from a safe country like Slovenia? Must be a specific reason!

There is a video of a confession of a French speaking employee of the Olena Zelenska Foundation. He says that he became a witness and an unwilling co-conspirator of disgusting crimes against children committed on behalf of the Foundation.

According to the employee, who introduced himself as a driver for the Zelenska Foundation and demonstrated his employee’s ID card, he was tasked with driving children from Western Ukraine to orphanages in France, Germany, and the UK. “I went to different cities, different neighbourhoods, sometimes I drove children to very wealthy neighbourhoods,“ recalls an alleged employee of Zelenska Foundation. “I went to different cities, different neighbourhoods in these cities. For example, some host families lived in rich neighbourhoods, like when I went to the Kreuzberg district in Berlin. Another host family, in London, they lived in Dolphin Square, in France, in Paris there was a family who was on Avenue Foch.“

The Foundation driver claims that he figured out the identity of the paedophile rapist by comparing his address to documents. He turned out to be Bernard Henri-Lévy, a famous journalist and writer. According to the official website of the Foundation, Henri-Lévy donated his royalties to help the Foundation, allegedly for purely charitable purposes. Henri-Lévy is widely known for his support of Ukraine and connections with people suspected and accused of paedophilia. Lévi became infamous thanks to the public defence of famous European paedophiles, Roman Polanski and Gabriel Matzneff.

As we know, on June 1st of this year, the Ukrainian - corrupt * and partially terrorist and criminal ** regime - handed over to the Russians in Istanbul a list of 339 names of allegedly deported children, who are missing out of the 20,000 children they claimed who were apparently taken to Russia by Russian soldiers. (More lies from CNN, Sky, BBC ...).

In Europe, the children are then handed over to “intermediaries”: these include various underground criminal structures and well-known organizations. As investigators have found, the Fund of the First Lady of Ukraine receives monetary rewards from British paedophiles, about £12,000 for each underage child.

Among these intermediaries is the Save the Children Fund, based in London, who has the right to decide on the further fate of the children at its own discretion.

The Anti-Repression Foundation was told about this by the parents of the abductees: Polina Gerasimenko from the city of Sumy, Oksana Golovachuk from Dnipro (Dnipropetrovsk) and Miroslava Nikoljuk from Vinnytsia.

Zelenska’s staff contacted them and offered to “treat the children in Europe”. According to the materials received, the Elena Zelenska Foundation has taken away as many as 1,800 minors from Ukraine in a relatively short period of its existence.

The name of the First Lady of Ukraine is an excellent cover for illegal activities. The atmosphere and structure of the organization resemble a cult: all processes are extremely closed to outside observers, and not all employees know what their colleagues are doing.

The First Lady of Ukraine became “famous” in 2023 when she demanded controlled internet access for her people from Google.

So, I am asking the British people and the UK MPs, how on earth is all this still happening and we are still transferring millions of pounds to Ukraine as “support”.

What about all the thousands and thousands of underage boys and girls who were trafficked from Ukraine to all around the EU and the world for sick paedophiles? Did anyone ask the Red Cross in London for their names? Were they seen and investigated by the police either here or in Europe. NO!

How many victims, with no voice, have there been . . . in plain sight . . . facilitated by power players, the criminal elite and Western philanthropy . . . ?

Therefore, you all have to ask yourself what have you done till now as MP or citizens about these issues I mentioned above, especially about Ukraine. If you would do something, Mandelson would not be given credentials to be part of the current government, he would be buried as a politician long before in which case Sir Keir Starmer and Labour party would have some peaceful time to deal with what 14 years of austerity under conservatives gave us.

I firmly believe that PM Keir Starmer is a person of integrity, a person who can be trusted despite that I don’t like quite a few things where mistakes are made for no reasons, but all this came from bad advice of government advisors.

Make no mistake, IF PRATT FARAGE REALLY BECOMES THE PRIME MINISTER, THEN THERE REALLY IS NO HELP AND HOPE FOR BRITAIN!

KEMI BADENOCH v the POST OFFICE (Henry Staunton) Part I

KEMI BADENOCH v the POST OFFICE (Henry Staunton) Part II

[1] You will be amazed to find how many villas in Spain, Portugal and France are owned directly or indirectly by Ukraine's.

[2] There has been quite a few assassination, quite a few robberies done by the people links with the government or their relatives

LIAM ROSENIOR WHO??? WHAT A 24 CARAT PLONKER

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:28:30 GMT

CANNOT BELIEVE PEOPLE WHO THINK LIAM ROSENIOR DESERVE CREDIT. HE DOESN'T!

For the WestHam game the new manager Liam Rosenior put together the team which could never ever be successful and win the game. He picked the starting eleven and the tactic, which were both more than just poor choices.

The two purchases Todd Boehly managed after spending £1 billion for players which were supposed to be part of "first team" - Garnacho and Delap and which Liam Rosenior put in the team against WestHam was completely lost. Even my grandma (if she would be still alive) would not put Garnacho against Wan-Bissaka as Garnacho is too slow and both WestHam goals come because of Garnacho and Badiashile mistakes. Badiashile is not the defender at all what he demonstrated yet again yesterday. Therefore, my grandma would not picked the starting eleven with these two CFC players against WestHam who needs points to stay in the league.

Same applies with Liam Delap, and we were very lucky that VAR did not punish us and disallowed Cucurrella's goal because of Delap's fault when he could not score a header 60cm away of open Hummer's goal. What a golden "striker" Todd Boehly bought! Cannot score, not even on home turf.

What was remarkable, even before the game started, I was hearing from my neighbours in the stadium why the manager made such a line-up. They were quite angry with such a selection, the same as my significant other, who has no knowledge of football but she understands few things. One of these things would be team selection, despite that on Tuesday we are facing Arsenal in a cup game where we are already a goal down. No excuse to put together the team which cannot perform against WestHam to salvage the game in Tuesday's semi-finals against Arsenal. We could easily be without 3 points against WestHam, if WestHam would be a bit more clinical, luckily for us, they were not. On top of which, fiddling with the team selection there is no guarantee that we will overturn the result on Tuesday against Arsenal, therefore there would be, could be, easily both losses.

What was most ridiculous was that after the game, which we managed to win, they all praised manager Liam Rosenior for success. What 24 carat plonkers you all really are!

If Liam Rosenior would have the brains, skills and football knowledge for being manager on top levels, he would never ever put such a team against WestHam in first place. Being a manager of elite players which Chelsea FC have several, you must be really stupid manager, or players don't want to perform for you, not to win the games.

Make no mistake, there is no mystery why Enzo Maresca got the boot, as he was not having a "second team" to play with, for which he was asking the board and the owners, and was angry with them, why they are buying players which Chelsea don't need.

All these points Maresca addressed to the owners, that there is no "second team" which can equally replace players of first team, moreover, that Garnacho and Delap who he was given as improvement of the first team are not the payers for the CFC first team.

Well, Maresca was right that Garnacho and Delap are not improvements of Chelsea first team, I fully agreed with Maresca from the day one when they joined Chelsea.

For me, both would be perhaps improvement for Braintree Town FC (owners and supporters of this team please don't be offended) and that we have blind goalkeeper, who need to go to Specsavers to see the ball coming (eg. first WestHam goal today), or having for defender slow, without skills and ideas defender like Badiashile (How many penalties Badiashile gives away?), or yet another Chalobah very very poor performance, so the lined-up Liam Rosenior offered for starting eleven was complete rubbish (read bullshit)!

We managed few wins because of the players performances and their believe and hearts and not because of the manager Liam Rosenior to whom you can give another 10 perfect players and he will still pickup the wrong team, like he chooses the left side of Chelsea including the defence against WestHam which was dire and playing out from the back and likes possession football. Like father - like son!

Boring, boring Chelsea.

I rest my case!

Added after the semi-final game Carabao Cup ARSENAL v CHELSEA FC played on 3rd February 2026

With this game Liam Rosenior just confirmed yet again that he does not have brains and managerial skills. He wasted the complete first 45 minutes and further 11 minutes in the second half before he made changes. He allowed Arsenal to keep the ball, doing nothing.

It did not come to Liam's Rosenior tick head that Arsenal did not need to do anything at all, as they were leading 2:3 from the first game. Therefore, why would they get exposed if not needed. Chelsea players were all over the place, without any tactics, without any plan and completely lost.

Liam Rosenior you belong to Hull or Derby or even not there. Your Delap was in a cup game against Arsenal "amazing" again, doing nothing apart from being number on a pitch to earn another yellow card. Fofana, Gusto, ... also lost and your substitution with Garnacho was just icing on a cake that you do not have a clue about managing a team like Chelsea FC. Same as the owner Todd Boehly still doesn't have a clue.

One simple geezer from Russia with no knowledge of football with name Roman Abramovich was clever enough to bring to Chelsea managers like Jose Mourinho, Gianluca Vialli, Roberto di Mateo, Carlo Angelotti, Antonio Conte, or Thomas Tuchel who all brought major honours to CFC, while Todd Boehly managed to bring rejects and losers like Graham Potter, Frank Lampard, Mauricio Pochettino and Liam Rosenior who managed to f*** all records.

Not to mention that Roman Abramovich has only ONE (1) sporting director > Marina Granovskaia (iron lady) who was simply the best in the west who brought to Chelsea crème de la crème footballers (apart from goalkeeper Arizabalaga).

How many Sporting Directors Todd Boehly have? 8 or 9? All of them cannot get proper players to Chelsea apart from a couple of rejects with names Garnacho and Delap or one failed manager of Hull, Derby and Strasbourg with name Liam Rosenior. Like father - like son.

With Abramovich I have had 5 season tickets for my family, with Todd Boehly none, as they managed to sell my tickets to other people while I was fighting my cancer treatment in hospital and because he gave(sold) my ticket to 5 others and because he cannot stand constructive opinions. Shame on you Todd Boehly and shame on you Liam Rosenior for the lost game against Arsenal. I believe this was one and perhaps the only opportunity for Chelsea to get some silverware this season. Will Chelsea be in the Championship next year? "Ha ha ha said the clown" was one old song from WHO.

I am resting my case for the second time.

Added after the game Chelsea v Leeds on 10th February 2026

The team under Liam Roseinor cannot beat not even promoted team Leeds. Even more, this manager said in his interview when came to Chelsea that he was brought to Chelsea to change Enzo Maresca Chelsea and that his Chelsea will be just winning. Roseinor praised himself that his managerial skills will lead Chelsea to winings terms.

However, I don’t blame Roseinor for this but his stupid employers who gave him this job on first place. However, it was Roseinor decision how to play against Arsenal in the cup game and yes, it was again Roseinor decision how will Chelsea playing against Leeds. Chelsea was 2:0 ahead and Leeds needs just 6 minutes to equalize and Chelsea was lucky not to lose the game. I bet all the money in this world that the same will happen in our next game against Burnley.

I am resting my case for the third time.

Added after the game Chelsea v Burnley on 21st February 2026

Ha ha ha said the clown! I stated clearly in my blogs that Fofana is not a defender, and seems like Roseinor trying to prove me wrong. You paid for your “amazing managerial skills” costing Chelsea yet another 2 points. 2 games 4 points lost, having behind ManU and Liverpool both with game less not to mention underperformed Newcastle, Brendford and Spurs.

When Todd Boehly will finally admit that he is wrong and I right? Never, because is an arrogant person, the same as our new manager Roseinor. Chelsea is in chaos. Players and supporters are asking themselves who is the leader because Roseinor simply is not as he is not manager for Chelsea FC as simply as that. His background is Strasburg and Hull are not sufficient credentials to convince not just me but Chelsea players although Chelsea fans.

A disappointing performance against Burnley, proved again that I was right about Liam Roseinor, Liam Delap and Fofana and Chelsea was really really lucky not to lose the game in the dying moments of the game. I am not surprised about the media towards Fofana as I can see the anger of Chelsea fans on our platform, they are disgusted with Chelsea's performance and non-intelligence of manager Roseinor and Todd Boehly.

Make no mistake, Fofana is not the player as he is slow, cannot defend and his thinking of what to do is too slow and costly for Chelsea. Remind ourselves how many penalties Chelsea got because of him? What was at the end Liam Delap’s shot on the Burnley goal? Miles away. Same as it was Fofana’s thinking during the game – miles away what and how to play.

I am resting my case for the fourth time.

Added after the game Everton v Chelsea on 21st March 2026

I added the last comment on 21st February 2026. So, one month further Chelsea received 15 goals in all competition however most devastating are the games Chelsea lost against PSG twice (8:2), against Newcastle (0:1) and lastly against Everton (0:3).

You, Liam Rosenior, you are what I said in all my blogs: A 24 carat plonker with no knowledge

in football and you cannot prove me being wrong.

You recently gave away 13 points as follows:

- Leeds > 2 points (disgrace)

- Burnley > 2 points (disgrace)

- Arsenal > 3 points (disgrace) not to mention you lost the Cup as well

- Newcastle > 3 points (humiliation)

- Everton > 3 points (humiliation)

So, in the last 6 games in the Premier League you manage to surrender with your extraordinary knowledge of football tactic 13 points.

With Abramovich you would long go. Seems Todd Boehly, who has no knowledge of football, tolerates you as manager, as it seems he is gambling in power betting places.

You should not be manager of Chelsea FC never ever! You are not good, not even for your old english clubs. Listen to your interview about why you are brought to Chelsea.

You managed to get Chelsea out of the Champions League last 16, and we will not see Chelsea in the next Champions League as we will not qualify.

Both Liam's, you and Delap you are perhaps good for the National League.g

Todd Boehly and you should apologize to all football fans, not to Chelsea supporters, for such a disgraceful display of football. You both are just laughing cows, and you should be ashamed. If you would be a man, you should resign yourself and not wait on Todd Boehly to sack you. But this just shows you have no pride even less you are a man.

Todd Boehly and you should be ashamed that supporters are chanting Abramovich's name during and after the games.

Shame on you both!

I am resting my case for the fifth time.

Enzo hummer Hummers with Cucurella's dive equalizer behind

Ipswich Town reject LIAM DELAP, now #1 striker of CFC cannot score not even few feet away from empty goal despite that he made fault on WestHam defender Mavropanos (on the grass right) and with both hands on other WestHam defender Kilman. We were lucky that seconds further Cucurella's equalizer goal stands after VAR review (see top image).

The angry WestHam defender Todibo finally got the red card in extra-time after he tried to choked Juan Pedro. I was amazed with referee Antony Taylor who normally was showing "yellow cards" to CFC players for joke, this time he was very calm not booking Traore and rest of the WestHam players and that finally he managed to get the red card to Todibo.

BOARD OF PEACE - WHAT A JOKE

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:48:04 GMT

BOARD OF JOKERS AND SMOKERS

What a joker and smoker Trump really is. A Board of Peace. Trump, you are the best to go on a TV audition for “Get me out of here, I am celebrity”.

Who has joined? Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Bulgaria, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Mongolia, Morocco, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.

What will the Board of Peace do? In Davos Trump was talking about how peaceful the Middle East is now. Really? Do you really believe in all bullshit that's coming out of your mouth?

Mind you, Israel is still bombing Gaza, you send the Navy to the Middle East to be prepared to attack Iran.

All what you are doing with this Board of Peace is to get some cover for your disgraced and unlawful attacks like Venezuela, going after Greenland and Canada not to mention others.

All your ambition is greed and about money, how to make people around you and yourself more reach. You don't give a shit about people around, even your countryman’s Americans, who suffer from austerity, having issues with flooding and other natural disasters not to mention that you don't give a monkey about net zero, as you are already old geezer 80 years of age and you don't give a monkey how the younger generation will leave and survive.

The same is what General Secretary of Nato Mark Rutte was saying about Greenland and making comments about Greenland. He has no authority and rights to suggest that the deal has been done with Trump about Greenland as this is up to Greenlanders and the Kingdom of Denmark only.

With the Board of Peace Trump reminded me of Josip Broz Tito who was Leader of the Third World known as Non-Aligned Movement which has nearly 140 countries as members. Back in 1976 I stated publicly that Tito is a dictator, I was captured and jailed. Nearly 30 years passed since Europe recognised that Tito was dictator. Same is now with Trump, bully and dictator. Even logo's are similar.

Make no mistake, Trump, you will die the same as I and all others doesn't matter how much money you have

Your Board of Peace is looking more like this

SHOULD I STAY, SHOULD I GO

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:24:38 GMT

A BIG QUESTION FOR PM STARMER AND ALSO ANDY BURNHAM

Here we go again. A parliamentary Labour Party is pretty grumpy with the way things are going in government and if handy-Andy would potentially rejoint the Commons in the weeks and months after those potentially very bruising local elections and elections in Wales and Scotland in May and make no mistake that Andy Burnham still potentially has leadership ambitions. I believe the first question now is does he still want to stand as an MP however, we haven't got an answer that as of this evening we haven't heard a thing really from Andy Burnham other than him saying that he didn't quite know what was going on with Andrew Gwynne and whether he was going to step down.

Of course he has stepped down now and now it's decision time I think for Andy Burnham the difficulty would be if he did become an MP, he wouldn't be able to be Manchester mayor they would have to be another election to elect a new Manchester mayor costly for the Greater Manchester authority potentially costly for Labour as well to fight that it would inject a huge amount of psychodrama into labour politics.

Just imagine months of chasing around Andy Burnham and Keir Starmer asking when he's going to stage a leadership challenge if he does become an MP, that's something the government really doesn't need.

The second big question is does the party allow him to stand even if he decides he wants to the nominations for the shortlist have to go through the party's national executive committee the governing body of Labour where Keir Starmer is very influential on that and if they wanted to block him they could probably find a way to do it.

It is well known that everybody calls Andy Burnham King of the Knowles if we up the King of the North will insist and I'm not sure he is but if we have the King of the North willing to stand?

There are arguments raging across the top of the Labour Party about what happens next there, are some more sympathetic to Andy Burnham and potentially more on the left of the party and even these are NEC members saying this that he should be a sensually allowed to stand if he wants to that it shouldn't be gerrymandered that the list shouldn't be stitched up to exclude him.

There are suggestions that maybe they could propose an “all women” shortlist which would obviously have the effect of excluding Andy Burnham.

Mind you, of course the big ultimate question is that even if he does decide to stand, he has also to actually win the thing and Reform and the Green Party both of whom pulled pretty well in the last election there. Both parties are saying they will throw everything at this so, there are risks, there are hurdles for Andy Burnham.

The thing is, if the Manchester Mayor does want to make it back to the Commons and potentially does want to even make it into Downing Street, he might not find a better opportunity in the coming months than this one.

There is no doubt that PM loyalists will make it difficult for Mr Burnham to be selected as Labour's byelection candidate and the source tells the times an anti-Burnham coalition is forming to the left and right of Labour's national executive committee. Sir Keir Starmer was very clear that he thinks Andy Burnham’s really good at running Manchester and he should stay that.

My personal opinion?

Make no mistake, this is a huge opportunity for Andy Burnham which was on radar way in advance back in the autumn. The leadership would be insane to allow Andy Burnham to stand this election and he himself would be perhaps better and wisely to go to give Reform and the Greens the opportunity to give the Labour Party sweetening. On the other hand it would be dreadful for the government to stop Andy Burnham and if they do PMQ will be again served on plate from Kemi Badenoch all about how "weak PM Starmer is"

There is no doubts that PM is scared losing leadership and PM is without any shadow of the doubt afraid of Andy Burnham and he will do everything in his power to make sure that he doesn't get to run and that doesn’t matter that Andy Burnham compared to British politicians his approval rating is literally 0 (zero, nil, zilch).

That has happened to me personally with the last election, when I wrote to Pat McFaden who was at the time Labour’s campaign coordinator, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves. I even relocated myself to get the one Tori snake Chris Philip (currently Shadow Home Secretary) out of commons as he would never ever win against me.

None replied, no reply from Pat McFaden, no reply from our PM even less from Rachel Reeves. Well I am not a lawyer or solicitors, perhaps I would have a chance to be on a ballot.

THE GREENLAND CRISIS IS ESCALATING

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:48:18 GMT

PETULANT CHILD DONALD TRUMP JUST CANNOT JUMP OUT OF HIS SKIN

The Greenland crisis is escalating, and Trump's appearance in Davos threatens a showdown with the Europeans. But while Italy appeases and the Eastern Europeans tend to stay out of it, Paris is belligerent.

I have had the opportunity to see and read that letter from President Trump's response to the PM of Norway but also the president of Finland who traditionally gets on really well with Donald Trump and the reply was not just about Greenland but also about the Nobel Prize. Seems extraordinary that Donald Trump don’t know much about the Nobel Prize Awards, it's not Norway that decides who wins the Nobel Prize where Donald Trump was not showing that he is the leader of the free world, the letter sounds like this is the moanings of a petulant child talking about “we had a boat that landed there too, we should have the rights as well”, really disturbing lines as Trump no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace, that's going to be hugely worrying.

Make no mistakes, don’t forget, just a couple of weeks ago various leaders of NATO countries were saying there's absolutely no way the US would think about invading Greenland. This letter makes them think twice and there is then another line which I think will have NATO leaders really feeling like they're banging their heads against a brick wool is this idea that Denmark can't protect Greenland.

If I am not mistaken, the EU foreign policy is that they're not asking Denmark to protect Greenland alone, they're saying this can be done as part of NATO. The US is obviously a key part they're not saying you can't play a role in it, they're saying, you should be playing a big role in this because you're a key member of NATO. It is a mystery all around Trump what he wants.

If Trump wants more bases, it's highly likely you can have them. But is Trump really serious about security? If you're so worried about security, why have your troops been reduced from thousands to a few 100. Not to mention if you want to have access to rare earth and other precious minerals which US needs desperately, you can apply for the permits.

So, the EU leaders are clearly saying you don't need to do this alone, it doesn't need to be US versus Russia and China, we can all do it under NATO and be safer together. The EU leaders they all agree that the Arctic does need more security that's why they sent this exploratory mission last week that antagonise Donald Trump and led him to announce these potential tariffs on the eight countries but the message to the Trump really aren't getting through it seems, this message that we're not against you, were trying to do this with you just.

However, Trump would not be Trump to start talking his little bit more about the sanctions against the EU with new Tariffs to be imposed like100% on French wines. Luckily the EU gave Trump a retaliation figure of €93 billion. Last year has been really tough at times for many EU leaders and they've had to bite their tongue when it comes to dealing with the US president particularly for example the way that he seems to have given Russia preferential treatment the way he's treated President Putin in comparison to the rough treatment that we see for president Zelensky time and again but I think what has happened now with these tariffs is just a bit too much.

Enough is enough, and EU leaders frankly in many corners are talking about bullying and they have to stand up to bullies. At a news conference from the German vice chancellor and he said that he has no interest in an escalation, we're ready to find solutions, we're offering our hand but we are not prepared to let ourselves be blackmailed. Similar messaging coming out from Sweden.

So what can the EU do? They don't want to pick a fight with the US. They have a huge trading interest with the US. They are key allies in NATO so the first thing they're going to be looking to do I assume is diplomacy and trying to send out some answers about what might happen through traditional Trump whisperers.

For example, the Germans are planning to have a meeting with Trump either on Wednesday or Thursday all of that behind the scenes. If whispering fails then there's an extraordinary meeting of EU leaders on Thursday, I assume they'll talk about next steps like unfreezing the €93 billion tariff package which has been frozen since July 2025 but could come back online against the US from the 6th of February 2026. Another option is the so-called “trade bazooka” this is something that Emmanuel Macron the French president's been talking about over the weekend this is the anti-coercion mechanism it's never been used before in the EU but if they unleashed this then essentially it would put restrictions on things like investments banking access to markets.

This would be really painful, these are serious measures and they would hit the EU as well. but I do think many now are feeling that they've hit their red lines but they have to stand up because frankly if they don't what lies in front of them, they are letting a key ally bully them. For Trump all are fools just he is superior with everything doesn’t matter if this are signs of “ new colonialism ”.

Trump blusters and threatens – even against his allies. In a post on his online platform, he published an edited image showing Canada and Greenland in the colours of the US flag.

CLEAR VIOLATION of ARTICLE 2 of the CHARTER OF THE UN

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:45:38 GMT

UNILATERALLY ATTACKING A SOVEREIGN NATION IS AN ACT OF WASAND VIOLATION OF FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

When the EU refused to give a blank cheque to President Trump from the €210 billion of frozen Russian assets - allegedly intended for weapons and ammunition for Ukraine - and with crude oil stocks running low in the United States, the simplest solution was to source oil from where it exists.

So, the US military’s captured the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, with plans for their imprisonment in federal custody in New York City.

Make no mistake: the largest reserves of crude oil are held by Venezuela, followed by Saudi Arabia, while the United States ranks fourteenth, possessing less than a tenth of what Saudi Arabia has. Such a blatant pursuit of regime change doesn’t just affect those in Venezuela but also has repercussions abroad, not least for the nearly one hundred thousand Venezuelans living in New York and its suburbs.

There are countries, such as China, which do not support or tolerate the actions taken by the United States.

China’s Foreign Minister stated that they were deeply shocked by the blatant use of force by the US against a sovereign state and its president, condemning it in the strongest possible terms. The Minister went further, stating that such hegemonic actions by the US seriously violate international law and Venezuela’s sovereignty, threatening peace and security in Latin America and the Caribbean. China, an ally of Venezuela alongside Russia and Iran, firmly rejects these actions and calls on the US to respect international law, as well as the

goals and principles of the UN Charter, and to cease violating the sovereignty and security of

other nations.

The Russian Foreign Minister stated clear that Russia called on the American leadership to reconsider its position and to release the “legitimately elected president of a sovereign country and his wife.” The US, which considers Maduro illegitimate, and Venezuela must resolve their differences through dialogue.

On the other hand, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky praised the US attack on Venezuela and the arrest of Maduro as ground-breaking in dealing with “dictators.” “If you can deal with dictators like that, then the United States of America knows what to do next,” Zelensky told journalists in Kyiv, according to Ukrainian media. The context of the statement suggested that Zelensky had Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin in mind, without mentioning him by name.

This illegitimate attack on Venezuela must serve as a warning to Europe that a person like Trump could easily spark a Third World War.

European leaders responded without taking sides, which is astonishing. They condemned Israeli aggression against Palestine which, in my opinion, was entirely legitimate and recognised Palestine as a country, which I believe should never have happened, not to mention other very serious issues.

Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz said: “The legal classification of the US mission is complex. We’ll take our time with that.” In principle, the principles of international law must apply in dealings between states. “Now there must be no political instability in Venezuela. It is important to ensure an orderly transition to a government legitimised by elections.” Merz went on to say that Nicolás Maduro had led his country to ruin. “The last election was rigged. Like many other countries in the world, we have therefore not recognised the presidency,” said the Chancellor. Maduro played a problematic role in the region, with unfortunate alliances worldwide and through Venezuela’s involvement in the drug trade.”

Italy’s Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, considered a sympathiser of US President Donald Trump, said that “external military action” was not the right way to “end totalitarian regimes.”

At the same time, she stressed that her government considers “intervention of a defensive nature” against hybrid attacks on its own security to be legitimate for example, when state actions promote or facilitate drug trafficking in another country.

Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, wrote on X that his country had not recognised the Maduro regime, nor would Spain recognise an intervention “that violates international law and drives the region into a time of insecurity and danger of war.” Sánchez called on all parties to consider the civilian population, respect the United Nations Charter, and work towards a just and negotiated transition.

France’s President, Emmanuel Macron, demanded that opposition politician Edmundo González Urrutia should now take responsibility in Venezuela. “The upcoming transition must be peaceful, democratic, and respectful of the will of the Venezuelan people,” Macron said. He stressed that the Venezuelan people could rejoice at having been liberated from Maduro’s dictatorship. He had seriously violated the dignity of his own people, Macron wrote on Platform X. US President Donald Trump shared Macron’s statement on his own platform,

Truth Social.

And what has happened in the United Kingdom?

The UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, said he needed more time to assess the situation. “I would like to clarify the facts first. I want to talk to President Trump. I want to talk to allies,” said the head of government. However, he assured that United Kingdom was not involved in the operation. He is “convinced that we should all comply with international law.”

I was stunned by the reaction of the UK Prime Minister, as his previous role was Director of Public Prosecutions specialising in human rights law; therefore, he should have been the first to clarify, clearly and straightforwardly, the illegitimacy of what Trump has done.

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said at a press conference that “the operation against Maduro was a warning to others in the world that America was to be taken seriously.”

Make no mistake: both China and Russia now have a “green light” for example, for China’s invasion of Taiwan, while Russia can go further with Ukraine, not to mention that the next stage of the US military could be concentrated on the invasion of Greenland, perhaps even Canada, as Trump is adamant that both belong as part of the United States. The same as he claims that the oil in Venezuela is American and not Venezuelan.

I wonder whether Trump will claim that the oil in Saudi Arabia also belongs to the US. Nothing has changed since the US, along with the UK, attacked Libya and Iraq in the past, despite there being no weapons of mass destruction.

Donald Trump, you are a danger, mad and very sick man!

TODD BOEHLY AND A NEW EARLY 2026 CHELSEA FC BONANZA

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:32:28 GMT

DUET LIAM APPOINTMENT SHOWING HOW SICK TODD BOEHLY REALLY IS

Well, if we are in any doubt, now we know for sure that Chelsea FC is going in a completely opposite direction than under Roman Abramovich and Marina Granovskaia.

Just look at the managers: Todd Boehly inherited Thomas Tuchel, a Champions League winning manager and currently manager of the England team; the manager who kept Chelsea FC together in the most extreme times after Abramovich lost his club because of the war between Russia and Ukraine.

And now, seems to be Liam Rosenior, previously manager of Derby, Hull, and Strasbourg. What a joke!

We land here after Todd’s Hall of Fame debacles - Frank Lampard (9% wins), Graham Potter (39% wins), Mauricio Pochettino (51% wins), and Enzo Maresca (60% wins) . . . Let’s just take a short trip down memory lane to remind ourselves of the best times - Jose Mourinho (67% wins) . . . .

(ps: I wrote to Todd Boehly on several occasions not to appoint Lampard, nor Poter nor Pochettino).

Chelsea FC is now (remain) a “money laundering machine” with distant memories of being one of the best football clubs in the world.

Todd Boehly, with no knowledge of football, along with his 8 or 9 directors is clearly showing where CFC is going: To have a puppet manager who will be the coach only, and “big Todd and his directors” dictating who will be playing and when, and for how many minutes.

Liam Rosenior will need the respect of his players to succeed as coach. The Chelsea squad has players who have won the World cup and other major titles. How will they respect the coach who managed Derby, Hull, and Strasbourg?

Todd Boehly indicated he was serious about winning silverware and then Chelsea bought Liam Delap and Alejandro Garnacho - and now he appoints Liam Rosenior.

Liam Delap was just another joke as he still believes that Chelsea FC is the same as Ipswich Town, the club he was bought from, showing nothing else than disrespect on the pitch, completely out of discipline and no respect to the game and other players. In 11 games for Chelsea FC bought as striker Liam Delap manage to score 0 (zero, nil, zilch) goals.

Chelsea has strikers like Jimmy Hasselbaink, Didier Drogba, Diego Costa, … and managers like José Mourinho, Antonio Conte, Carlo Ancelotti and Tomas Tuchel, ….

The Todd Boehly regime is doing what they want and how they want. These jokers even took my 5 season tickets without telling me and gave them to others. Despite requesting some answers on numerous occasions, no answer has yet been received.

Mind you, Todd Boehly, you and I will die the same, whether you are giving me or not back my 5 season tickets you took of me, however my 17.6m followers are simply seeing your vision and ego.

And where is the new 60,000+ seats CFC stadium? Nowhere. it is not on Todd Boehly cards, because for building the stadium you need £1.2bn.

I was not a big fan of Enzo Marescsa as a manager. However, he showed some resistance and knowledge. Personally, I would have given him more authority and not sacked him.

However, I could see the end coming once he started openly speaking out about who is in charge of what at CFC; the results started to deteriorate in the last few weeks . . . he didn’t turn up at a press conference . . . his departure was inevitable.

And so Maresca’s has gone. He will not be without a job for long, as Juventus and Manchester City want him, not to mention others.

Make no mistake, Chelsea Football Club and their supporters are not used to appointments like Liam Rosenior or Liam Delap for that matter. They are used to big-name managers coming to make a huge impact on their club.

Personally, I don’t see Rosenior doing that. If you do not have a leader in the dressing room and on the pitch, to give guidance and support to young players, then the club must have such a leader in the manager. Rosenior’s CV - Derby and Hull in the UK, Strasbourg in the French league - offers nothing to respect.

Having said that, his father was sacked as manager of Torquay United just 10 minutes after taking the job. They are already saying, like father - like son.

Todd Boehly has given him a 6-year contract. This will remind the players - if you do not perform and play for this manager, nothing will change for the next 6 years. What a joke.

Added on 16th January 2025

What a joker, what a smoker this Liam Rosenior is. I was listening to his Sky Sport Interview - he said that he came to Chelsea to entertain, and to teach players how to play.

Well, it seems Liam Rosenior is arrogant as Todd Boehly, if not even more, as Todd Boehly has achieved something in his life while Liam Rosenior has achieve noting at all.

How he did with Arsenal in the Cup game was quite clear. We lost. With his predecessor Enzo Moresca we drew against Arsenal with 10 players.

Since Liam Rosenior came to Chelsea there are not only Arsenal, ManCity, Aston Villa and Liverpool in front, but also Brentford, Newcastle, ManU therefore we are 8th on the table.

Instead that supporters at Strasbourg intend to strike against BlueCo, they should celebrate to get rid of him, and Chelsea FC supporters should have strikes, marches and boycott the games against Todd Boehly.

Just a reminder what Roman Abramovich wanted to build:

Projects 429 / 2013

Plan during Roman Abramovich’s era upon Power Station was not accepted to be the new Chelsea FC stadium. Architects M & dM made for Roman Abramovich plan for the stadium on the same current location – Stamford Bridge, capacity 60,000+

Stamford Bridge London, UK

A New Stadium For Chelsea F.C

The Polygonal Shape

The exterior mass of the building is a faceted polygonal shape. The polygonal form maximizes the building footprint and responds in section and plan to the rights of lights requirements from the adjacent properties and from the context of the surrounding residential neighbourhood.

US WANT TO GET 300 BILLION EUROS FROM EUROPE

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:23:32 GMT

THERE IS LEGAL AND FINANCIAL RISK DOING THIS NOT TO MENTION POSSIBLE RUSSIAN RETALIATION

The US wants to use the frozen Russian state funds for a Ukraine deal. What a joke!

The European Union is discussing how Russian assets in the EU can be used for Ukraine aid.

Here are two scenarios: On one hand the “US Scenario” where they want to get from EU 300 billion euros which US need to restructure their own industry. They said that they will give Ukraine long distance missiles that they can target Russia. Oops, how the long distance missiles will redevelop Ukraine? Perhaps Trump will offload some “old equipment” to Ukraine and that is it. However, Trump have a huge problem, whether this is even possible without consultation with the EU. On the other hand, Von der Leyen presents plan for the use of Russian assets.

Belgium reacts frustrated, Chancellor Merz exerts pressure. The European Union is discussing how Russian assets in the EU can be used for Ukraine aid. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has now presented a concrete proposal, a two-year plan to finance Ukraine.

The concept presented in Brussels provides for the use of central bank funds set in the EU for loans of up to 210 billion euros to Ukraine. Their financial requirements were recently estimated at 135.7 billion euros for the next two years alone. According to the Commission, up to 90 billion euros could come from the so-called reparations loan by the end of 2027. "Since pressure is the only language to which the Kremlin reacts, we can also increase it," von der Leyen said. She had presented the plan to US Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, who had "received it positively". Who wouldn't?!

Make no mistake, citing EU officials, in addition to France, Sweden and Cyprus, Germany is also a possible donor of Russian state assets. However, most of the money is said to be in France. The Russian central bank assets managed by the Belgian financial institution Euroclear are valued at around 185 billion euros.

What are the alternatives? As an alternative to the plan, von der Leyen also presented a concrete proposal for taking on new EU debt for Ukraine. However, numerous countries such as Germany reject this and are counting on breaking Belgium's resistance to the use of Russian funds.

The Belgian government has so far justified its rejection with legal and financial risks, and from my point of view, they are perfectly correct having in mind the danger that Russia could retaliate and expropriate European private individuals and companies in Russia. In order to alleviate the Belgian government's concerns, von der Leyen has now also presented proposals for protective mechanisms. However, the details are to be announced only after consultations with the member states.

Belgium, however, expressed its rejection. "We have the frustrating feeling that we have not been heard. Our concerns are being downplayed," Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said on the sidelines of a NATO meeting. Belgium is demanding legal and financial guarantees from EU partners in the event of lawsuits or court-ordered repayment to Russia. In addition, other countries holding Russian assets would also have to participate.

We have to stand on our own legs. 300 billion euros is a lot of money. I would never ever surrender this money to Trump. It is time to reject Trump policies and go further with own vision how to protect Europe from all invaders: The silly Trump US, or perhaps Russia and even all other countries from where the immigrants are coming from. They must not exercise any further generosity of Europe and United Kingdom as they were doing till now.

Europe and the United Kingdom are not playground of any kind for "invaders" like US who want not to have just Venezuela (the second larger producer of crud fossil fuel - only Russia is larger) but also Greenland and even less escape for invasion of immigrants. You have your lands wherever it is, stay there and sort out your political issues in your country and stop demonstrating in our countries in Europe and in the United Kingdom.

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:59:32 GMT

PROSPEROUS CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS

BUDGET GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE, GOING THIRD TIME, SOLD

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:29:22 GMT

DISGRACEFUL SPEECH IN HOUSE OF COMMON UPON CHANCELLOR PRESENTED HER BUDGET

So, the euphoria over the budget finally ended. I think that we have to actually step back to November, it's November the 4th when we had that statement from Rachel Reeves quite early in the morning and people were wondering why the news reporters were being called the Downing Street to listen to Rachel Reeves and it was all very downbeat about where the economy was at.

Then the OBR chief actually took a very different step he actually wrote to the treasury Select Committee and said well actually we do have headroom here and sort of contradicted her (Rachel Reeves) and then we have the situation of this leak happening and the OBR chief for all intents and purposes has fallen on his sword because of the lake.

However, there are other interpretations of that and if you look at the “I” paper, let's say that he was forced out after he contradicted the chancellor.

So there's different takes on this and I have to schools what happens in the next couple of weeks, has he been silenced or are we going to hear from him that I'm just picked up on stomach and back, and yes, it is really untenable position, he's done the right thing otherwise it would have been a lame duck. Was it fair? Well, we're certainly fair on the leak, I thought, like you run a small organisation that's a really really terrible mistake somebody got to take exceptionally kisses someone no. It's given away but you to run that organisation you could say politicians maybe should do that a bit more of their cabinet secretaries and there are mistakes in their department and they don't take what response are responsibility in the same way.

The question here is, where majority are talking about is whether Rachel Reeves misled or lied. It is known over the decades of chancellors covering up and hiding misleading us about bad news but this was good news, Rachel Reeves would be permit if she could actually have said “oh we got 4 billion in the white, I need a bit more headroom. So she can most of these tax rises come in later in the parliament and off for a few years so when we get to the general election which is going to be held by August 2029 all of a sudden she's got some money to spend so, we turned it right and if you see the economy is doing well.

What Rachel Reeves did with the budget was increasing welfare spending by a significant amount and despite what the chancellor or Prime Minister was repeating daily saying about dealing with welfare and getting young people back to work which I absolutely agree with in actual fact they're increasing the amount of money are standing on welfare overall though taking half a million kids out of poverty is very sore. I agree families and actually not talking about that another welfare spending will still be smaller part the economy GDP than it was in 2013.

Make no mistake, actually Ed Conway the Sky presenter for economics did not put his data correctly as he presented the figures incorrectly. Therefore, I can also ask a question, did Ed Conway misled or lied.

OBR chair quits after inquiry into early release of budget document but let's talk about the Prime Minister who was at the Guildhall with the lady mayor now the lady most banquet and he was talking about European Union. He said that the Brexit vote was fair and democratic. Not really! It was mis sold and it was misleading, however PM cannot acted exactly as he has shifting politics, he's given up on those people who voted Labour who will vote Reform the next election and he's going for the Greens and the Liberal Democrats votes therefore, he's pivoting towards the European Union for political reasons. There will be new talk there about the border in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Even Rachel Reeves should be focused on trying to deal with instead of what she's focusing on closer links with the EU if he could tell the EU to sort that border out and stop 1.8 million people being disenfranchised that would be really really good. At the end the PM speech was mainly about China right, he knows Brexit is not working, it's a popular, however it's not working and PM already come up with set of revisions to the relationship.

However, what strikes me most was not the mistake OBR did with earlier releases of The Budget over the internet but was speech of shadow leader Kemi Bedinock after chancellor presented the budget.

I was speechless seeing such vulgar attack in live TV debate without any intention of Madam Deputy Speaker Nusrat Ghani who chaired the Budget in the House of Commons to stop such disgraceful language toward our Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Ms Ghani, who also goes by Nus, kicked off proceedings with a fiery statement criticising the string of leaks in the led up to the Chancellor’s midday statement.

By my personal opinion this should not be allowed by Ms Ghani, she should stopped Kemi Badenoch and ask her to apologise to chancellor. However, taking in consideration that she is from conservative party and that she is under the Ozempic style weight loss drugs were recently linked to many symptoms including increased risk of hearing loss. Ms Ghani seems celebrate such speech of shadow leader. Still complete disgrace.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS BLACKMAILING EU AND THE UK

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:02:13 GMT

CHANGE THE DIGITAL MARKETS ACT (DMA) AND DIGITAL SERVICE ACT (DSA) OR WE'LL IMPOSE 50 PERCENT TARRIFS ON STEEL AND ALLUMINIUM

The strict digital rules in the EU are a thorn in the side of the USA. The dispute continues to escalate. The Europeans want to defend themselves against the blackmail attempts of US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.

US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick will be traveling to Brussels end of November, but he already made a bold offer to the Europeans. If the EU could find a "balanced approach to its digital policy, (...) then we will tackle the steel and aluminium problem together with them and find a solution," said the US Secretary of Commerce.

Make no mistake, Lutnick, an ancient friend of United State President Donald Trump, is considered a tough businessman. To this day, the story of how he almost died in one of the towers of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001 is still told. As early as September 15, he had immediately removed all his deceased employees from the payroll, against which the family members at the time protested.

His message in Brussels will be similarly nefarious: either the Europeans change their digital laws or the USA continues to impose 50 percent tariffs on European steel and aluminium. EU Commission Vice-President Teresa Ribera speaks openly of "blackmail" and ruled out any changes in digital policy.

The background to Lütnick's threat are two laws passed by the EU: the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA). The DMA is intended to regulate large digital platforms and ensure fair competition. Among other things, this is about the fact that companies such as Apple have secured monopoly positions in certain areas - for example with their App Store. However, up to date the UK did not consider doing the same as EU did. Why is that?

The DSA, in turn, is intended to strengthen the security and rights of users. For example, he takes action against the spread of fake news. The short message service X, for example, could be hit hard by this. Billionaire Elon Musk's company is threatened with fines.

US Vice President JD Vance had already railed against the EU rules in the past. He hinted that the US could review its support for NATO if the Europeans regulated Elon Musk's platform. Now Trade Minister Lutnick has publicly linked the customs dispute with EU digital policy. A new quality.

How delicate the conflict over the US digital companies is could also be seen in Berlin. French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz were star guests at the Franco-German "Summit for European Digital Sovereignty". What was meant by this was independence from the USA. Europeans feel threatened by the dominance of US companies in the European market.

Make no mistake, Donald Trump makes a fortune, but not United States. Why is that?

Customs duties, tax cuts, purchasing power... A year after Trump election, the American president has implemented his program. If his decisions did not lead to the predicted disaster, the results are disappointing, including in his camp.

"A new American golden age has arrived," Donald Trump promised on the evening of his presidential victory, November 5, 2024. One year later, where do we stand? For the moment, the president of the United States can be proud of a success: he has managed to ridicule the economists, the vast majority of whom had predicted a catastrophe when he announced his "Liberation Day", the implementation of customs duties on imports into America, on April 2. The stock market took a hit, but it quickly recovered: the S&P 500 index has jumped 16.6% since the beginning of the year. Traders, who were anticipating a rate cut, found that the tariff war did not happen: with the (notable) exception of China, the whole world negotiated and bowed to Trump's diktats. Starting with the European Union, which has accepted a humiliating 15% tariff on its exports to America.

The stock market has mainly benefited from the artificial intelligence boom, as Jensen Huang, the co-founder of the microprocessor giant Nvidia, recalled this week. This American multinational was unknown a few years ago. On October 29, it became the first company in the world to surpass the $5 trillion mark in market capitalization (the stock is up 50% year-to-date). Jensen Huang, whose fortune amounts to $179 billion, swears that prices are at their fair level. But many today fear the spectre of a speculative bubble. Bill Gates is convinced that AI is the "most profound technological revolution I have ever experienced in my lifetime", but he also believes that much of the huge investments in this sector "will come to nothing". As in the early 2000s, during the dot-com bubble, a correction seems inevitable. "Trump has been lucky: he has been saved for the moment by artificial intelligence," says Desmond Lachman, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute [AEI], a centre-right think tank. "

While all are talking about prosperity in the future, my very conservative prediction after I "played" with the figures of all kind along with politics strategies around the world and if my calculations hold water, than there is a brutal crash to be expected in 2026.

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:00:02 GMT

WHERE WILL BENJAMIN NETANYAHU GET HIS HUMANITARIAN VISA

Day by day I am asking myself where the Israeli PM will go having in mind that there is International Criminal Court Arrest Warrant issued following investigation back on 21 November 2024. I doubt that the warrant will be executed, but in black scenario he will be "accommodated" in the U.S. or three South American countries.

It is very obviously when power countries leaders like U.S. and UK don't want someone, the dice will be rolled, and normally the "bad" guy will be "eliminated" like Ghadaffy or Saddam Hussein not to mention others. However, there are some who go on a run and escape execution (for some time in exile) like for example Bashar al-Assad.

Once at the head of Syria, Bashar al-Assad now lives far from Damascus with his wife Asma and their three children. Between political exile in Russia and a very serious illness, what does their life look like today?

Well, is a far cry from the grand presidential palace in Damascus. Today, Bashar al-Assad, his wife Asma (British citizen) and their three children live under protection, watched closely by their Russian hosts, while the former first lady battles life-threatening cancer. How did this powerful family end up in a Moscow suburb, and how fragile is their future there?

For years, Bashar al-Assad symbolised absolute power in Syria. That era is over. After the fall of his regime, brought down by the Organisation of the Liberation of the Levant, an ultra-radical Islamist rebel group, he and his family were forced to flee their country. With no possibility of returning home and wanted by the new authorities in Damascus, they accepted a humanitarian visa granted by Russia, one of the few states still ready to host them.

The couple did not leave alone. Their three children followed them into exile: Hafez Bachar, born in 2001, Zain, born in 2003, and their youngest, Karim, born in 2004. The entire family now lives in the Russian capital, well away from the Syrian streets that once carried their father’s portraits.

Make no mistake, the family does not live in an ordinary flat. They are said to have been housed in a private compound made up of luxurious dachas and high-end shops, cut off from the outside world by tall metal fences. The location of this enclave is described as the Odintsovo district, in the suburbs of Moscow, an area known for its wealth and tight security.

In this same part of the region, other fallen leaders or their relatives would also have found refuge. Among them, the family of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic and former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, removed from office in 2014. Ex-leaders from Kyrgyzstan and Georgia are also believed to live there, forming a sort of discreet community of former heads of state who have lost both office and homeland.

This comfortable set-up does not mean that Bashar al-Assad is free to do as he wishes. The Kremlin reportedly set very clear rules for its Syrian guest. According to reports, Russian authorities have asked him to “keep a low profile” for the entire duration of his stay. No question of public displays or political manoeuvres that could irritate either Moscow’s partners or its new interlocutors in Damascus.

Russia has major strategic interests in Syria. It operates several military bases there and intends to keep a foothold in the region. With the new rulers in Damascus now in charge, Vladimir Putin is said to be working on building cordial relations with them. These leaders have, however, made one key demand: the extradition of Bashar al-Assad, whom they still want to see held to account. In this context, the former Syrian president finds himself in a very delicate position. He is dependent on his Russian protectors for his personal safety and that of his family, while being a potential bargaining chip in the larger diplomatic game between Moscow and Damascus. His room for manoeuvre appears extremely limited, and his public visibility has shrunk accordingly.

We must not skip Asma al-Assad and a brutal fight against aggressive leukaemia. The former first lady’s medical situation has become extremely worrying in recent weeks. Asma al-Assad is reportedly suffering from an aggressive cancer affecting both her bone marrow and her blood. According to info I was able to obtain, doctors estimate she has only around less than fifty per cent chance of recovering. The diagnosis is acute myeloid leukaemia, a serious and fast-progressing blood cancer, basically she is “dying”, a chilling word that says a lot about the gravity of the situation. Her fragile immune system means she has to be kept under strict isolation. She is being treated in a Moscow facility where every contact is tightly controlled to prevent infection. One source explains that she “cannot be in the same room”, underlining how vulnerable she now is to the slightest germ. Her chances of survival have been put less than fifty percent per recent weeks, illustrating the enormous uncertainty surrounding her condition. This is not her first battle with cancer. Back in 2018, Asma al-Assad was already treated for breast cancer, which she had appeared to overcome. But this time, the diagnosis is far more severe and involves intensive, long-term care.

For the couple’s three children, this means living not only in political exile, but also with an absent mother, confined to a medical unit and cut off from physical contact. For Bashar al-Assad himself, it adds personal anguish to his already precarious political status. With his wife gravely ill and hospitalised, any idea of leaving Russia seems more unrealistic than ever.

Therefore, with one phrase, a family trapped between illness and politics. The current situation of the al-Assad family is therefore one of forced immobility. On one side, there is a man whose former allies in Syria now demand his extradition, and whose Kremlin hosts only tolerate him on condition that he stays out of sight. On the other, there is a woman undergoing heavy treatment for acute leukaemia, with survival odds no better than a coin toss, isolated to protect her from infection.

In Moscow, behind high fences and guarded entrances, the couple’s three children are growing up far from their birthplace, surrounded by the ghosts of other fallen regimes. While Russia maintains an interest in preserving this fragile balance, the family’s dependence on their host country has never been greater. Their story is no longer written in the corridors of power in Damascus, but in a closed compound on the edge of Moscow and in the quiet rooms of a Russian hospital.

Can this strange, suspended life really last forever?

Ps: Have to mention that the UK is doing same as Russia. While Putin accommodated at the time Slobodan Milosević the UK accommodate former Army General Nikola Ljubičić.

GAMBLING WITH SUN VEGAS IS NOT HEALTHY FOR YOU

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:41:55 GMT

THINGS ARE GETTING AROUND AND CAME BACK AROUND

Quite some time ago I wrote about the cheat, manipulation, not paid winnings and that normally all the casinos employees are talking rubbish where they are saying it is "legit" despite that majority of their answers or explanations doesn't hold water and they are trying to defend undefendable.

We all know that gambling industry is a territory where there is no clear legislation. Providers gain unbelievable access to people’s private lives. To sign up and to make a deposit is a very simple and in majority very straight forward however, in some cases some online providers are going even further like Sun Vegas owed by News Group Newspapers Limited which is also the parent company of the tabloid paper The Sun.

On my previous blog about the gambling, I received in total 167,205 emails and 11 big post bags of letters.

I have to say, they all without exception agreed with points I was making and they shared views and pointed out the issues they were came across with.

What strikes me this time is very very serious mater about players privacy. I asked my significant other who is top class journalist and broadcaster at Sky News to check few things about the letters where people are writing that Sun Vegas interfering with their privacy. I noticed instantly that there are some interferences straight after logging with Sun Vegas. When I tried to log to Sun Vegas, I received attack of 143 trackers which are “connected” to the Sun Vegas. That means that your data are “sold/transferred/shared” with 143 others of which you have not asked or agree to share your data with.

According to the material we received to date (28 October 2025) it is clearly seen that Sun Vegas are doing directly/indirectly check-ups with Credit Reference Agencies about every player what according to the current legislation is not required not to mention that is not allowed to do it without player(s) previous consent.

According to checks carried out by their verification providers, as listed in their Privacy Notice and in line with their Terms and Conditions (sections Verification Checks and Source of Funds Requests, points 6 and 7) they will verifying you through Credit Reference Agencies and they will know all about you – how many credit/debit cards you have, how much is you overdraft with your cards provider, what is still outstanding on your mortgage not to mention that they will get engaged with your outstanding debts in the form of a County Court Judgment (CCJ) if you have any. They are doing this purely to know how much money you can spend with them and not to prevent whatever.

In their emails Sun Vegas required documentation with which you have to confirm your source of income and surprise – surprise > debt clearance if you have any which has to include:

BANK STATEMENTS - Copies of your most recent bank statements dated within the last three months.

SAVINGS - If you support your deposits through savings / inheritance / property sales / winnings from other sites, or other instances when a lump sum has been used, please provide the relevant documentation.

DEBT CLEARANCE – Documentation to support the clearance of debt.

A certificate of cancellation or completion

A letter from the creditor confirming settlement or debt is satisfied in full

All payment receipts or bank statements showing all payments made.

They are also saying “if the debt is not yet paid in full, but regular payments are made in accordance with a repayment plan, we can also receive that, along with the bank statements showing said payments made so far”. At the end of their emails, they are saying “Please be assured that we will treat the provided information in the strictest confidence in line with our privacy policy. It is totally safe to share this information with us and it will not be used for any other purpose than to fulfil our regulatory and legal obligations”.

Amazing!

Regulatory and legal obligations? Who are you kidding guys?

My partner passed this further to one of Magic Circle law firm we are working with to comment on these issues and they categorically stated that Sun Vegas has no legal rights to do this doesn’t matter what is written in their Terms & Condition, it is against legislation and privacy act. They will refer all this further to one of their firm they are working with to prepare all for legal procedure against Sun Vegas and do all what is necessary to go after their licence.

Make no mistake, these should not be happening that one newspaper group who is well known of hacking and other non-legal interferences against Royalty (I don't mind if you still do this to Megan and Harry), politicians, VIP people or even ordinary people.

If you have the issues with Sun Vegas, we will be happy to share your concerns with us or alternatively with solicitors who are engaged now with these issues concerned Sun Vegas.

HALLOWEEN CAME EARLIER TO #10 THIS WEEK

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 17:43:33 GMT

DELUSIONAL NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE SAYING THIS IS EVIDENCE THAT BRITAIN IS BROKEN

Halloween came earlier to #10 this week but this was all tricks and no treats pretty much. Everything that you could imagine going wrong for the Prime Minister. He'd like us to be talking about his leadership on the international stage this weekend but what the nation's actually thinking about is a sense that nothing discovered touches seems to work, people who should be locked up walking free, smuggling guns that were supposed to be smashed remain resolutely un-smashed, inquiries that should be busy inquiring can't agree what it is they should be inquiring into, inflation should be falling and growth that should be rising up as flat, not to mention even the once mighty Labour Party machine couldn't deliver the leaders preferred candidate for party deputy leader. Indeed, all this is happening while our PM Sir Keir Starmer is dealing with long missile with Vladimir Zelensky for Ukraine, how to attack more efficiently Russia not concentrating on domestic issues.

Instead, Labour party was blowen away in Welsh by-election where the Welsh nationalists seized 47% of the ballots and clearly defeat Nigel Farage’s party with 36%. This was a major blow for the PM, Labour was able to claim just 11% of the Welsh Parliament ballot and that has happened in the constituency which had backed Labour since devolution began in 1999, and Caerphilly has always sent a Labour MP to Westminster since 1918.

Release of migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu from prison when he should be deported to Ethiopia and why this manhunt happen at all and who to blame: Prison authorities, police, Home Office or … I'm not saying that it didn't happen, but the police weren't supposed to release him into a Home Office patience and welcome off centre ready to verify deportation. People are extremely upset and angry about it because not only does it make the Epping hotel riots look much more you salient it also makes the public services look completely shambolic, difficult to comprehend. The father of the victim in this case being outside Chelmsford Crown Court and Chelmsford prison very angry about the situation and you can imagine it will not just be him, it'll be lots of other people asking for answers from the authorities how this could happen.

Make no mistake, how he was not apprehended instantly, it is really low point that the convicted sex offender walking around in prisoners clothes due for deportation walked through the gates of Chelmsford prison, he got on a train to the capital and in the city with the most CCTV cameras anywhere in the western world he simply seemed to disappear.

I have to defend here a bit PM because this has nothing really to do with the Prime Minister but it reflects very badly on the government because of course everything else that's happening at the moment, it is a very embarrassing for the government. Furthermore, he was seen boarding a train for London at 12:41 it's quite hard to completely disappear when the whole country is looking for you but what it could it really it makes a kind of atmospheric nightmare for the government because they are saying on all attacks from Reform and the Tories, if people are criminals then they are deported.

The government entire migration policy “one in-one out” is another headache for the government when story was launched upon one of the 40 odd individuals who have been sent to France under the terms of that deal has been found to have come back therefore it's entirely possible that other people might come back in as well so it's a sort of a perfect storm over the government.

All this things are not something you want to convince the public that you're taking these things seriously and I don't doubt actually the people like Shabana Mahmood MP are taking this very seriously and they're going to be just as irritated as anybody having come into office and being having to deal and make up for the failures of people lower down the line while public had a very thin amount of patience given what had gone under the conservatives before labour came and said we are the one, we're going to take this a lot more seriously, however blunder after blunder that took the place and it shows ultimately that whatever reforms need to be made, perhaps, or whatever new schemes need to be brought in, what we currently have is perhaps a system itself which is not quite able to handle whatever any government says we're going to do to tackle these things seems the key element here is actually “human elements”.

Make no mistake it was not just this one prisoner who was released from prison by mistake an isolated human error, there were 87 prisoners before of which public don’t know at all. Therefore, was not isolated “human error”. Happened 88 times so far for all sorts of reasons like have been arrested then not being detained, or they delivered prisoners to the wrong prisons for sentence, not to mention delivered detained to the wrong courts. Because these 87 were not so prolific prisoners like migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu simply were not really in the public eye so nobody knows about it so there's not a great deal of pressure to do anything about it.

Delusional Nigel Farage will be saying that this is now evidence that Britain is broken, while Kemi Badenoch will be again full of mouth on PMQ on Wednesday hove labour had lost control of law and order.

Make no mistake, icing on a cake for PM Starmer was election his “right hand” where yet again very good drilled labour party machine failed to deliver to PM his favourite candidate, how ironic, was elected person who he sacked month ago instead. Just wonder how many U-turns we will be seeing in months to come with nothing delivered, nothing working properly, just words, words, words…

“Words” was a very nice song by Bee Gees, recorded 3rd October 1967.

THE UK DIGITAL IDs

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:06:04 GMT

EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE CASES ARE SO BIZARRE

Every once in a while, cases are so bizarre that it shows once again the truth is stranger than fiction. And one of such cases is DIGITAL ID.

The fiction:

We are living in a quite controlled environment where the current government wants even more control over us with quite outrageous explanations that digital IDs are needed because of immigration and illegal employment.

Immigration is well out of control and one digital ID will not make any significant changes. It will be again up to the businesses whether they will report the person being employed by them or not. If there will be inspection they still say, this is “his/her first day with us, not yet employed and still not our employee.

Therefore this is pure fiction to divert home problems to one thing which has more "no" then "yes".

Make no mistake, we have to do something with Digital IDs despite the UK government's rollout of mandatory digital identity verification.

The truth:

There is no doubt that some would like to have digital ID, however, people must not be blind about “digital IDs”. Modern IDs, credit cards, and even passports now contain RFID chips that wirelessly transmit data to simplify payments and access. Unfortunately, that also means that your

- Credit & debit cards

- Digital driver’s license or ID

- RFID-enabled passport

- Transit or work access cards and many others

are constantly “broadcasting” your sensitive information.

It only takes one hacker walking past you with a hidden scanner to steal it all. A study from Oxford University found that 73% of RFID-enabled cards can be skimmed in under 3 seconds — even through clothing or a closed bag!

The challenge is all about preventing the "BritCard" initiative, announced by Prime Minister Keir Starmer on September 25 2025, which provides every UK citizen and legal resident with a free digital ID by the end of the Parliament.

There are quite a few glaring problems with “digital ID”:

- Integrated with GOV.UK One Login, the system does not mandate physical cards but requires digital verification for right-to-work checks, employment, and key public services, with consultations considering extensions to 13- to 16-year-olds.

- Because of RFID the data can be stolen easily by hackers and entered instead “John Smith” the name “Sadhu Patel” and illegal immigrants would in less than three (3) minutes become citizens of the United Kingdom and all what the person “John Smith” and others was entitled to.

- There are 11 million people currently without passports or driving licences who are on other hand entitled to have one or the other ID. Imagine, how “good business” it will be for the hackers to get to over 2 million illegal immigrants “dodge digital ID” and the government would be even in a bigger mess to check all where even AI would not be of any help.

The European Court of Human Rights' 2008 S and Marper v United Kingdom ruling, which struck down indiscriminate data retention as violating Article 8 privacy rights without explicit statutory authority, purpose limits, and proportionality. The problem and concern on one hand is not with digital identity systems, but with compulsion without statutory authority or individual consent.

Once digital verification becomes the universal key to employment or services, privacy ceases to be a choice.

The government inverts constitutional norms by prioritising policy over legislation, bypassing required Equality Impact Assessments and Data Protection Impact Assessments under the Equality Act 2010 (Section 149) and UK GDPR where I have to highlight risks of indirect discrimination against the elderly and disabled, who may face "digital exclusion" from app-based systems because many elderly or disabled citizens cannot reasonably be required to manage such systems.

A mandatory digital-only approach would amount to indirect discrimination. The lawsuit demands courts enforce these duties pre-rollout, invoking precedents like R (Bridges) v South Wales Police (2020) on facial recognition overreach.

Make no mistake, this isn't about politics - it's about making sure the Government follows the law and protects everyone's rights before anything is made mandatory.

We already have growing alarm all sorts of the direction of some recent government policies and the lack of proper legal safeguards.

Victory could secure a declaration of unlawfulness, requiring statutory backing for rights-affecting systems and blocking "soft compulsion" via policy nudges. It would mandate assessment disclosures, curbing reintroduction as "voluntary." Judicial review exists to ensure the government acts within the law at the point of decision, not after the damage is done. What is being tested here is the process of lawful government, not technology itself.

The scheme has polarised views. TechUK praises its innovation potential, but LSE experts have warned it repeats EU Digital Identity Wallet errors, such over-centralisation.

Public support for Labour dipped post-announcement, per polls. Sir Keir said: "Digital ID is an enormous opportunity for the UK. It will make it tougher to work illegally in this country, making our borders more secure and the scheme would offer "countless benefits" to citizens by streamlining bureaucracy and curbing unauthorised work.

For example, Switzerland did say “yes” to digital IDs a couple of months ago which is still not 100% clear whether the counts are correct because of slim victory for the IDs. This might be happening because native Swiss were not bothered to go to pools. On other hand, they will not be introduced in the next 5-10 years.

As I stated above: Every once in a while, cases are so bizarre that it shows once again the truth is stranger than fiction.

THREE TIMES "F" SAGA – FARAGE / FULLER / FERRARI

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 04:15:22 GMT

IF PRATT FARAGE REALLY BECOMES THE PRIME MINISTER THEN THERE REALLY IS NO HELP AND HOPE FOR BRITAIN

The Farage Saga Cast List:

Nigel Farage MP , formerly MEP, Currently Leader of Reform

Ms Laure Ferrari French politician; previously head of the Institute for Direct Democracy in Europe (IDDE), partner of MP Nigel Farage; owns a house in Clacton, aged 46.

Ms Annabelle Fuller - Farage's ex-mistress and his former speechwriter.

Do you remember how Farage went on to appoint Ms Ferrari as a parliamentary assistant in charge of environmental issues in the UK while he was still “in flagrante delicto” with Ms Fuller?

That was Ferrari’s first-ever job in politics. Without any shame, he moved her into his three-bedroom West London home (Chelsea) as “a lodger”, claiming she had nowhere else to live. It was around this same time that she led a Eurosceptic think tank accused of illegally diverting £400,000 of public funds to UKIP, ahead of the UK general election and Brexit referendum.

On November 5 ^th , Ferrari will be in court following investigations for financial crime and inappropriate use of hundreds of thousands of euros funded from the European Commission.

If this were any other politician or the leader of any other party, and given that the polls are showing Farage as the “next” Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, this would be an enormous story.

There have been questions raised about Nigel Farage’s house in his constituency because it was under her name. Questions have also been raised about Ms Ferrari’s private wealth (Farage’s words) and her ability to buy a property without a mortgage for £880,000.

Further probing raises more queries:

1. Initial investigations show she was not from a wealthy family.

2. How can you buy a house having not earnt a vast amount as an executive director of a Think Tank, which is no longer running?

3. How and from where could she find £880,000 to buy this house.

There are quite a lot of questions here.

Nigel Farage is very good at PR and will be wriggling out of knotty problems, but I do think there will be question marks hanging over him.

Ferrari has stated that the investigation was the result of a politically biased part of the European Parliament and fake accusations leaked by a hostile MEP.

These allegations are deemed not serious at all and strenuously denied by Ferrari; she narrates that this is really nothing to do with Nigel Farage, that they are not married and that they are obviously together in a romantic sense only.

I think there are questions to be answered about the living arrangements in Clacton, but Nigel Farage has an answer for that whenever he is interviewed, he states that he doesn’t want his name to be on the documents for the property because of the very obvious security risks.

Nigel Farage rightly or wrongly manages to explain himself out of these difficult situations in a way which other politicians might find impossible.

I was listening to a recording from their conference. There were quite a lot of Reform supporters at their conference who appear very committed to Nigel Farage. It is almost like a Nigel Farage fan club, a bit like “Maga” in U.S.

But I’m not sure that this tribe is ultimately going to impact on Nigel Farage’s success at the polls.

One has to observe that Angela Rayner, deputy PM and deputy leader of the Labour party, resigned for a tax miscalculation of about £40,000. Others have not felt the same pressure doesn’t matter whether went for “big money” or “spare change”, for example: Tory Baroness Mone(y) stealing £122 million, former Tory MP and chancellor Nadhim Zahawi forgetting to pay £5 million of tax, former Environment Secretary Tory MP Theresa Villiers failing to declare £70,000 of Shell shares . . . .

I guess £880,000 between friends is OK, then?

NO WHITE FACES IN BIRMINGHAM (UK)

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 21:22:56 GMT

I SAW DESPERATION AT THE TORY CONFERENCE - THE FEELING OF CRISIS

The main character at the recent Conservative Party (Tory) conference was without a shadow of doubt Robert Jenrick, who continues to justify what he said in March 2025 recorded at a so-called private event.

“I went to Handsworth in Birmingham the other day . . . in the hour and a half I was filming news there I didn’t see another white face. That’s not the kind of country I want to live in” said Robert Jenrick MP – plotting to be Conservative Party Leader, aspiring Prime Minister and consequential representative of UK Plc on the world stage.

Mr Jenrick states these comments are nothing to do with race, but when you talk about not seeing another white face and state that it’s do with integration, how can you tell that you don't share values with someone on the basis of the colour of their skin. As we know, you can't tell where people are born from looking at them.

These sort of comments a few years ago would have been scandalous, but Mr Jenrick did not even try to distance himself from these remarks. Indeed, Mr Jenrick was completely unapologetic. Well, if it's got nothing to do with race or skin colour, why on earth did he state clearly “ WHITE face.”

He was indeed talking about a part of Birmingham which is very diverse; 12% white, 25% Afro Caribbean with Hindus, Muslims and Christians living side by side. Mr Jenrick states that this is part of the of the world that he wouldn't want to live in because it's not integrated. . .

Many people in the Birmingham area are deeply upset by these comments, suggesting Birmingham is proud of its diversity built by generations from every background.

Politically the most interesting comments came from people like Andy Street the conservative former mayor of the West Midlands who was highly critical of Robert Jenrick for making these remarks. Mel Stride, the Shadow Chancellor, said that they were not words that he would suggest belong to the conservative party, but the words of one or two individuals inside the party. There is obviously a split, but I think part of the problem for Robert Jenrick is that he does this sort of double speak afterwards where he has to clarify

his comments.

Nigel Farage, of course, wouldn't need to clarify any comments, he would just double down. Part of the problem that the conservatives have at present, is they want to copy Nigel Farage and the Reform party rhetoric to get people on their side.

Make no mistake, the conservative party has been in dire straits since March last year, and such comments from Mr Jenrick have a reason - it's obviously to appeal to a certain section of the party.

Many hope that Reform will not be seen as a serious party; their incompetence can be seen on every comment they are making, but the opinion polls have Nigel Farage winning a landslide at the next general election.

Meanwhile you have Robert Jenrick, who is a greatly loved by the Tory faithful, leaning into his “MAGA” [Reform] speak. At the Tory conference he was almost trying to avoid explanation while on the other hand allowing himself to say, “I completely stand by” [my comments].

Mr Jenrick does not look like a confident person who is comfortable in a leadership position. The conservative party does not want anyone inside or outside the party to be talking about such issues; they are focussed on wrestling back the narrative that they are the party of good economic governance. They think Labour don't have the stomach to cut spending, so they're going to put themselves forward as the party that can do that.

They really don't want to talk about immigration because they know they can't. For the 14 years they were in government, they did nothing apart from increasing immigration numbers close to a million.

They want to be the party to be trusted on the economy, but no-one is listening because everyone's talking about Robert Jenrick and Nigel Farage . . . and there are no other candidates who have the kind of leadership presence necessary to take charge of the narrative in that way.

I saw the interview with Kemi Badenoch and the political reporter Beth Rigby. She asked Ms Badenoch a question about whether she admires Nigel Farage. Obviously, she can't truthfully answer that question, albeit quite an easy question; she could perhaps have said, “yes I admire Nigel Farage but I don't think he's the right man to be Prime Minister” or “no I don't like Nigel Farage and I don't admire him because he's done this and this and I don't even feel that is right and correct”.

Even more bizarre at the Tory conference was Kemi Badenoch leader’s speech. She stated that she would deport 150,000 illegal immigrants per year. Well, Nigel Farage has stated the same number, but no-one is telling how and where. In 14 years, the Tory party managed to deport one (1) illegal immigrant to Rwanda; the individual received £3000, and they paid well over £760 million to Rwanda’s government.

Ms Badenoch’s conference speech, however, came with the “ icing on the cake” that she will abolish Stamp Duty on all property purchases. This is not just” icing on the cake” but Christmas coming early for rich and wealthy people in the UK, as most properties bought in England and Wales do not qualify for such a U-turn.

The Tory’s are still in denial and utterly delusional – but perhaps there is a small bit of good news as this is “not the kind of country I want to live in,” so presumably Mr Jenrick will soon be off.

That the same distinction applies for Reform party - party in denial and even more delusional, one man band, where the party leader Nigel Farage stabbed every Brits in the back with the wrong slogans and motives about Brexit and prosperity which the UK will exercise once Brexit is done.

The UK has still not recovered from what David Cameron, Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and the Tory party during 14 years of governance have done to the UK and British people. The UK will need decades to recover slightly this insane chapter of madness of people who voted for Brexit upon such controversial propaganda planted by the above named people and party.

The new election is in March - May 2026. Do not be blind again, vote for the Labour Party only. Despite the fact that the Labour Party launched a war against me for no reason, I will support them as much as I can, so help me God!

ISRAEL MARKS 2nd ANNIVERSARY OF OCTOBER THE 7th

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 22:13:55 GMT

SHOULD ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS CELEBRATE? NO, NOT AT ALL!

Israel marks the 2nd anniversary of October the 7th and we all awaits hostage news those who still held after two years in Gaza and the point is that now the Qatari Prime Minister Steve Witkoff, U.S. special envoy Jerry Kushner Trump's previous Middle East envoy, the Turkish head of intelligence flying into Egypt so is there momentum and it is really the gun in all of this the fact that we're expecting the Nobel Peace Prize to be announced imminently and that really is what Trump is driving.

We all know the critical factor in all of this is Donald Trump who is very desperate to get the Nobel Peace Prize and has put pressure on Netanyahu as well as saying that he's you know he's prepared to obliterate Hamas that's why these talks in Egypt are happening this 2040 plan of his is quite vague it's up to the negotiators to actually decide what all of those terms mean lots of things like there's 250 Palestinian lifers who are going to be exchanged for these 20 live hostages and 28 dead Israeli hostages. All of this needs to be worked out, the suggestion some might have been involved in October attack, this will be difficult for Israel. On other hand the Palestinians want guarantees that if the hostages are returned Israel isn't going to immediately invade and who's going to be the guarantor of those guarantees. I don't think the Palestinians feel comfortable with-it, being Donald Trump and Tony Blair be peace makers.

The main problem for me and very difficult to swallow is still that U.S. and UK and others are giving “land and recognise a country” to terrorists.

I was completely stand and speechless seeing protestors clash on the 7th anniversary at Kings College London, protester facing off with the Palestinian supporter. Many people like I find this offensive that in UK are still people who are taking marches doesn’t matter the time and day and whether they are right or wrong.

Despite that the Prime Minister ask people not to do it suggesting it was on British and yet some protests did go ahead and not just here in the UK but also across Europe, even Sydney Australia.

Mind you, for me this was complete disgrace and the fact that some people feel they still need to protest on October symbolise that they even don’t know what their real motivations are.

Make me sick all of this, that there are obviously people who are generally concerned about events in the Middle East rather in the country. I think there are also people who will only be satisfied when there is no longer a sovereign country, and they have no sensitivity in.

In every human compassion should be a spark to recognise that today is a day when we mark what happened on October the 7th which was a terrorist attack which left 100 people dead another 250 taken hostage.

The Prime Minister I guess was right, who has appealed for people to use common sense to be compassionate and not to go out and protest, but I think there's a core within the those who are taking part in this process who don't care. Nobody will convince me, that Palestine people did not know what is going on under their houses, in the underground. Nobody will convince me that Palestine people were not aware of all the weapons and ammunition under their houses.

To recognise the Palestine is wrong as Hamas just give now confirmation to other terrorist organisations what and how to do it to get recognised as “recognise country”. And all this is going under the watch of president of the U.S. who has always saying that there is no negotiations with terrorists. So, Donald Trump and others, Hamas are not terrorist organisation, or still is???

No justice for Israelis at all!

CANNES CAN-CAN, YES OR NO THE PLACE FOR RETIREMENT

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 02:28:01 GMT

CHOICES: CANNES, LONDON, ZURICH, LJUBLJANA, SINGAPORE OR L.A.

Contemplating retirement provokes the need for a decision about where best to be based. I am fortunate to have spend my years between London, Paris, Venice, Zurich, Ljubljana, Singapore and LA.

So, of course, it is obviously logical that my significant other and I are considering Cannes – that well know central hub of Europe.

There are a few people around me who are very curious about how this has made my shortlist. To be precise, one person particular was completely baffled, she attacked my choice, having doubts about Cannes, who tried to encourage me to compare and contrast these four locations Cannes/London/Zurich/Ljubljana excluding Singapore and LA.

There is no secret that I am quite fed-up and tired of negativity about the dreadful state of the UK, the lack of control over immigration, the rise of minority groups, the increasing social unrest and rising crime.

But my mood at the moment is to walk away to somewhere calmer and more peaceful.

On other hand the person who tried to encourage me to compare and contrast at least four location Cannes/Zurich/Ljubljana/London has some doubts about Cannes being the "Paradiso" that I imagine and I know. She believes France has equally the same challenges, if not more, than the UK. She considers it an interesting debate (her words); while I don’t, I see it as an argument.

I am not the type of person who wants to be engage with whatever arguments. I much prefer to be surrounded by sycophants who has no desire to challenge my thinking and ideas where about I should or not retire and why.

She presented even the table (below) to make her point:

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/government-debt-to-gdp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/unemployment-rate

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/percentage-of-illegal-immigrants-by-country

https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDP_RPCH@WEO/OEMDC/ADVEC/WEOWORLD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_European_Union

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1268504/homicide-rate-europe-country/?srsltid=AfmBOoqoD9pDy1T8iycXr8Ydv4xIwg4Wgv1mvkUVDEMEML939t96cT9p

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/personal-income-tax-rate?continent=europe

Well, the data above, taken from Wikipedia is not entirely accurate.

My significant other is a top-class journalist and broadcaster working for the Sky News; she is standing firmly next to me that Cannes is not bad idea despite any controversies. I asked her to get me the accurate and up to date figures to comparison to the data above. This was not a difficult hob as all the data is available to her. The revised version of the table follows (all data 2024):

All data by SKY News

One very important measurement for everyone is, without any doubt, the safety. Crime statistic for Cannes are not favourable. There has been a significant increase in crime, with 7,224 crimes and delicts reported in 2024, resulting in a 97.6% rate per 1,000 inhabitants. This places Cannes at the rank among the most dangerous cities in France. The city's crime statistics are based on perceptions of visitors and residents, with a score of 72 out of 100 for safety in 2025. While daytime safety is generally high, caution is advised at night due to the risk of scams and other crime.

Comparing the above figures with the those obtained from Europol and Interpol's data for Cannes produces an even more unfavourable picture, as there are a significant number of non-reported or not documented crimes which came to light from criminals arrested and apprehended for other crimes elsewhere around the Europe and worldwide.

The table below about Crime rates in Cannes France which is available on the internet not to be used and compared for realistic view of crimes and safety in Cannes which based on "10 entries".

Data above by Nombus.

Interesting is also a view on prisons and prisoners comparison between these 4 countries (open link). This is significant from the prospective how many law breaking people are around and where the prisons are located. All this from the prospective of safety only.

Mind you, it was not a huge brain strain for my significant other and me where to choose, where to be based - indeed apart from the weather, the water sports, tennis court, swimming pool and enough bedrooms not much else was considered apart still to be in contact with the other people or others things which matter to us. In my lens is that I am about to retire from all my activities and if I am needed, it will not be a problem to get here or go there in a reasonable timely manner.

I am still enjoying sailing, windsurfing, tennis, ... and all this is on my doorsteps in Cannes. I can be on a sailboat in a marine harbour or jump on a helicopter in a private airport in less than half an hour. The tennis court and swimming pool are included with the property I am after for my family and myself. There is nothing else I need for my retirement then to have around me my family, my friends (time to time - not too often) and my loyal dog.

We were looking for proper property for over 8 months - we rolled the dice which place (town) to be: Number 1 London or Paris, number 2 Singapore or LA, number 3 Zurich, number 4 Venice, number 5 Ljubljana and finally number 6 Cannes.

The wining number was my lucky number 6 therefore, Cannes it is.

We were both overjoyed that the winning number was number 6, because, there is a property in Cannes which is the one and only we would like to have and really the rest doesn't matter.

We were fortunate to get in touch with a nice gentleman from the property agency there, who also made introductions for us with the notary office he trusts. What can go wrong? Not much, he is professional, he knows his job, he appreciates the notary office otherwise he would not do the introductions for us, all requested from our end supplied, so everybody Happy Christmas!

Ps:

Once we get this deal done and dusted I will name below the agency and the notary office about our good experience and treatment we received.

MICHELLE MONE(Y) CONSERVATIVE PEER PAYBACK TIME

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:17:53 GMT

BARONESS MONE - UNDERWEAR QUEEN NEEDS TO PAY BACK £143 MILLION

Despite that Baroness Mone denied any wrongdoing and said she “never received a penny” from PPE Medpro, on Wednesday, the company was ordered to pay back £122m + interest to the government after it was found to have breached a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The judge concluded that PPE Medpro had not complied with the legal and regulatory requirements to ensure the gowns, manufactured in China, were certified and validated to be sterile.

In a statement, the company, which was ultimately owned by Mone’s husband, Doug Barrowman, claimed the couple had been made “scapegoats” for the then Conservative government’s overspending on PPE during the pandemic. Mone and Barrowman for years publicly denied through their lawyers that they were involved in PPE Medpro, until in December 2023 they confirmed their involvement and Barrowman said he was the company’s ultimate beneficial owner. Several senior politicians have called for Mone to relinquish her peerage following the high court judgment, including Badenoch and Rachel Reeves, the chancellor.

Well, good luck with all this. Despite that Medpro needs to pay back £122 + interest million that is just a drop in the ocean. During the covid staggering £4 billion was spent for such “dodge businesses” like the deal with Medpro. Therefore, this £143 million is drop in the ocean even more, as the same company Medpro on today’s date has just £700,000 on their accounts.

How the government and Rachel Reeves will tackle this issue is a million $ question. Perhaps the government will dissolve Medpro as they dissolved five companies: Automarket Europe Limited, Integra Group Limited, Maxell Limited, Montana & Montana Limited, and Supermarket Plus Ltd which in comparison to Medpro did nothing wrong and are still being dissolved by the government.

Completely different issue is the Baroness Michelle Mone title. She was given peerage by David Cameron when he was Prime Minister. I am surprised that Kemi Badenoch is so eager to strip her of the title, but Kemi Badenoch has no guts to do this with the David Cameron title “lord” which was given to him by former PM Rishi Sunak.

“Lord” David Cameron should be stripping his title much before Michelle Mone as David Cameron was involved in one of the UK biggest financial frauds - Greensill scandal, not to mention deals with China and rest. Make no mistake, Michelle Mone(y) is just a drop in the ocean which will be forgotten quickly.

Just another gimmicks from both parties - the Labour and the Conservative.

Mone(y), Mone(y), Mone(y), must be funny, was song by Bee Gees, recorded 15 May 1976....

IS CHELSEA FC A SINKING SHIP?

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:03:15 GMT

INEXPERIENCE, NEEDLES PLAYERS MISTAKES & THEIR STUPIDIDNES

While Todd Bohley is proud of his business on sold players which bring him over £300 million, the Chelsea FC boat is sinking. From the first 6 easy fixtures games, Chelsea FC managed to bank 8 points out of 18 possible. Two wins, two draws and two diffits. Disgrace.

The last transfer window should be all about strengthening at the back, a proper centre-back and a goalkeeper. The other position which should be dealt with was the striker. Chelsea still not having a forward. This Saturday we are playing Liverpool. The expected result without Colwill and red-carded Chalobah, with no striker it will be "crying" time again for Chelsea supporters as they can not expect miracles. Liverpool lost two games on the trot as well therefore they will be even more eager to produce the best game and I would not be surprised with Chelsea goalkeeper like "Swiss Emmentaler cheese" to be 1:4.

When will arrogant Todd Bohley realise that he messed up last transfer window completely.

There was Gianluigi Donnarumma, the Champions League goalkeeper winner available, having an Italian coach would be easy to get him. With no proper approach, Gianluigi is now Man City's main goalkeeper instead. Due to his experience he would also be the voice in the changing room where Chelsea does not have a leader and there is no leader on the pitch.

Make no mistake, in the last four games Chelsea players were shown 3 red cards all received by the players stupidity. The lack of quality players and leadership showing results.

Have I need to mention that arrogant Todd Bohley has not a single one in his customer service team or on tickets team to deal with my 5 (five) season tickets who were taken out of my family while I was in hospital without our knowledge. I am still waiting for Chelsea's reply for years. They don't care about supporters as they can fill a small capacity stadium easily.

Others are building on strengthening their squads, building new stadiums while Chelsea owner is just all about him, how much money he will bank. He sacked Tuchel and appointed Potter, then Lampard, both huge mistakes. Even West Ham realised that Potter is not the coach and they gave him a boot sooner than later and not waiting like Todd Bohley did. You made the same mistake as the owner of Nottingham Forest did lately, from horse to donkey, you were both riding a horse now you are both riding a donkey.

Have you asked yourself what will be your legacy at Chelsea FC? I would highly recommend you do so.

I don't like majority comments of pundit Carragher however I fully agree with his comment that with the squad Chelsea has at present will not win a premiership title in 100 years. Yes, Carra, I agree with this statement of yours, however this doesn't bother Todd Bohley laundering money through sales of players via Stuttgart FC and other ways.

UK CABINET RESHUFFLE

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:01:09 GMT

CRISIS, WHAT CRISIS?

The public might feel confirmed in their view is that they're not entirely sure that there's that much difference between this government and the previous one this point effectively being under the pivot as the Prime Minister would like to see it a reset and you don't see it that way.

There are clearly 2 significant strategic moves in this reshuffle the first is indeed it that Shabana Mahmood moved into the Home Office. It was completely clear that Yvette Cooper is not the person to deal with the immigration.

The second is Pat McFadden overtake a DWP together with the responsibility for dealing with skills and of course that's the other department that was in political trouble during the year therefore, Pat McFadden job will be to try to get people off welfare and into a labour market which overseas essential to the government's economic growth.

The question here probably going to be whether or not those two ministers in particular can do a better job in the eyes of the public than their predecessors and also in the eyes of labour MPs.

Was the appointment of the new deputy PM something to delivers fortunes in the polls? Well I'm not confident at all, for me personally was a very bad choice as David Lammy as new Deputy PM will not going to transform people's willingness to vote simply because he failed on his previous post being Foreign Minister.

Much better and for me more successful Deputy PM would be Shabana Mahmood.

There is also a question of loyalty as everyone seems must be PM Keir Starmer approved candidate. The left of the Labour party is without Angela Rayner is now completely exposed, not to mention that Jeremy Corbin formed new party which might be minor problem.

Angela Rayner of course is the one big loss for the Prime Minister because Angela Rayner was the Connection with labour activists and union in the way that she did. There is no doubt in my mind that Keir Starmer need Angela Rayner back as soon as possible.

HISTORIC SUMMIT INSIDE CHINA - MADE IN CHINA

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:36:50 GMT

TRULY MOMENTOUS WEEK IN CHINA WITH SPECTACULAR PARADE

This summit was on a card which I predicted long time ago that will happen due to Trump issues in Gaza, Ukraine not even to mention tariffs. It has been a truly momentous week in China power politics and paranoia too. The significant week for China started in Tianjin hosting a couple of major events with a raft of major world leaders from some of the most important some of the most disruptive countries around the world. Immediate things there's questions about China's role how it's going to position itself, could it be a global leader, could it rewrite the global order?

What disappointment for Donald Trump will be when the world leaders touchdown in China: Narendra Modi of India, Shahbaz Sharif of Pakistan, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, there were others of course, 26 countries was where all eyes will be on one key arrival the Russian President Vladimir Putin what he does and says.

The Chinese president had meeting after meeting with leaders face to face, of which one and of the most and was truly noteworthy meeting with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Meeting between two nations with a history of bitter conflict and rivalry but a souring of relations with Trump 50% tariffs on Indian goods has paved the way for Modi to be here. The warmth of the language given the scale of the historic animosity between the two countries was really quite remarkable. We must not forget conflict on the border five years ago that between them on their shared border the success of this meeting is testament to what she can pin is trying to achieve more broadly but typically at this summit an alternative and open arms to those who feel pushed away by Donald Trump.

It was amazing to see how China India and Russia holding hands sharing jokes a show of how well things are going.

Meetings and speeches were going on everywhere, however, all eyes were on Vladimir Putin because for him this is the backdrop his war in Ukraine barely two weeks ago, he was in Alaska with a different president. I was not surprised and was confirmation of what Vladimir Putin said in that speech the really interesting bit was that he said he will be discussing in one to one meetings with leaders here exactly what was said and discussed in that Alaska summit with Donald Trump.

Kim Jong Un of North Korea Beijing came with the delay on his highly armoured slow it's hard to say that this summit hasn't been successful, there was a whole range of images that will make for really uncomfortable viewing back in the US and more what's happened in the last few days doesn't necessarily mean that Trump's plan for peace in Ukraine is dead it does make his influence feel at least a little bit more flimsy and from China's perspective that at least.

There was no doubt over the messaging China is keeping Russia's war machine afloat and this is the relationship that matters time to film some analysis to chew it all over. It comes at a time where Donald Trump has been reaching out to Vladimir Putin, where Donald Trump has been trying to build those bridges.

The sun rose over Tiananmen Square the anticipation to see another China’s spectacle nothing short of utter perfection would have been acceptable here every flex, every gesture, even their height exactly matched 10s of thousands march to remember a World War where this country suffered so much. Under the eye of China's leading regime looking back is clearly not the key point from our vantage point it was quite the show but these are the images most likely to make history not just what's on show but who came to see it Vladimir Putin to his right Kim Jong Un to his left a clear signal of a trio completely synchronised.

Make no mistake, all these did not go unnoticed by the one man they probably hoped would be watching mid-morning opposed from President Trump who twitted: “Please give my warmest regards to Putin and Kim he said as you conspire against the United States of America”.

A homage to China's rise and the vision of President Xi being no doubt there is a clear message for the world too and it is a message about Chinese power

It really has been an enormous week for both China and Xi Jinping day after day of these images of him commanding the agenda presiding over these big events and frankly being pandered to by other countries who need him and that we shouldn't overstate this there are still lots of differences and divisions between China and the nations have been visiting this week and the US despite all of Donald Trump's turmoil still absolutely holds this huge power to convene and to influence.

I'm not sure I've ever seen a period with such levels of confidence and swagger it really does feel like something might have shifted China has made efforts over many years to persuade the world that the centre of global power does not necessarily have to be in the West.

TODD BOEHLY'S AND CHELSEA FC ISSUES

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:18:16 GMT

CHELSEA SMASH PL TRANSFER WINDOW RECORD WITH £314m SALES

Am I impressed? Not at all! The figure should be much higher as CFC still has a lot of players to off-load which is of no importance for the CFC at present. Just present the burden for the bookkeeping.

While Todd Boehly broke record in Premier League in Transfer Window 2025 with sales, other clubs like Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City and even Newcastle and Manchester United got significant players in, Chelsea still has problems with defence, goalkeeper, and proper number 9. Seems to me while others will be after titles in Premier League and Champions League because of upgrading their squads, our Todd Boehly will be given a golden medal for best sales in Premier League and Chelsea FC will be nothing else then laughing cow.

Others like Spurs and Everton with significantly less money than Chelsea build their new stadiums, which is not the case with Chelsea. This is an ongoing issue. When Teresa May (former PM) refused to grant the previous owner a CFC visa, Abramowich was not bothered to spend £1bn on a new stadium for over 60,000 seats capacity. If I am not mistaken, Todd Boehly gave Boris Johnson (previous PM) confirmation that if he will be the new owner, he will start to build a new stadium in the first two years.

Not moving in this direction, Todd Boehly showed that all he cares about is how much money he will earn and get from buying and selling players while Chelsea supporters are not of importance to him. With a new, bigger stadium there would be more revenue and more things on offer like time to time NFL or national football games, ...

I personally and my family have 5 (five season tickets) which were taken from me when I was in hospital fighting my cancer. In numerous letters and emails I sent to CFC in all these years, only two mails were received to buy VIP tickets of £9500 each cheaper therefore to replace my season tickets on West Upper of £1450 each I have to spend nearly £50,000 for my season tickets. On complaint, the CFC has not even replied. Not even to mention the membership card.

Spurs built a new stadium with 62,850 capacity despite that they have for 24 years chairman Daniel Levy who appointed in all these years 18 managers and collected just 1 trophy.

Similar situation is Everton's new stadium, officially named Hill Dickinson Stadium, is a state-of-the-art facility located at Bramley-Moore Dock in Liverpool, with a capacity of 52,888 and a construction cost of approximately £802 million.

Situated at Bramley-Moore Dock, the stadium replaces Goodison Park, which had been Everton's home since 1892. The new venue is designed to be a central part of a mixed-use development, enhancing the waterfront area.

The stadium has accommodation, making it the seventh largest in the Premier League. This is a significant increase from Goodison Park's capacity of 39,572, allowing for more fans to experience live matches. The stadium features a modern bowl design constructed primarily of steel and glass. It includes a notable 13,000-seat stand inspired by Borussia Dortmund's "Yellow Wall," and it is designed to be future-proof, allowing for potential capacity increases if regulations change.

Construction began in July 2021, with the stadium officially completed in early 2024. The project faced various challenges, including financial issues with subcontractors, but ultimately resulted in a modern facility that reflects Everton's heritage and aspirations.

Chelsea stadium for example can accommodate around 42,000 only last renovated in 1990's. Is this the stadium for the club which in the last 10 years collected 25 major trophies?

In comparison to Tottenham and David Levy 24 years absolutism as Chairman of Spurs, Chelsea Football Club collect in the last 24 years 35 major trophies, while Everton FC in the last 24 years has not managed not even a single one trophy.

All this clearly shown that Todd Boehly is interested on money for his pocket only, supporters and the rest are not of any importance for him at all.

THE UK INSOLVENCY SERVICE DECISIVE ACTION

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:15:40 GMT

OPEN LETTER TO THE INSOLVENCY SERVICE - OFFICIAL RECEIVER'S OFFICE

OPPEN LETTER TO:

THE INSOLVENCY SERVICE

OFFICIAL RECEIVER'S OFFICE

PO BOX 16664

BIRMINGHAM

B2 2JQ

Date: 21 August 2025

Dear Sir/ Madam

Re: REFUTING ALL ALLEGATIONS OF CORPORATE FRAUD

You wrote “The UK's Insolvency Service has taken decisive action, winding up five companies, Automarket Europe Limited, Integra Group Limited, Maxell Limited, Montana & Montana Limited, and Supermarket Plus Ltd, that were found to have filed false and forged accounts. This significant crack down by the government serves as a stark reminder of the sophisticated nature of corporate fraud and the urgent need for businesses to protect themselves.”

Well ladies and gentlemen, this really was decisive action against five companies who had offered huge financial help to the new UK government from private resources investors who did not want to deal directly with, or be linked to, the new UK government.

The Insolvency Service’s decisive action appears very strange to an average person like me; despite that I have a master’s degree, am working for the government nearly all my life and that I am also a senior judge in the highest court in my country. I struggle to understand how you have come to your conclusions and what these five companies have done. Just to be clear, I am (was) one of the directors. I have tried to figure it out on my own, but cannot get close to the conclusion of the Insolvency Services.

I simply asked myself four basic questions to start with, and came up with the following answers:

1. Do any of the named companies have any business bank account in the United Kingdom?

The answer is: NONE.

2. Has any of the named companies had any loans, or any financial packages like mortgages or other money gains in the United Kingdom or anywhere in Europe?

The answer is: NONE.

3. Has any of these companies applied for any government support in the United Kingdom or elsewhere in Europe including during the Covid?

The answer is: NOT EVEN FOR A SINGLE PENNY.

4. Do any British companies have any contract agreement with the above stated companies?

The answer is: NOT A SINGLE ONE.

You state there is an “urgent need for businesses to protect themselves.” Which businesses? The UK government business who made, for example, a £5bn deal with India where there will be little money for the United Kingdom but more obligations and contributions to India, who will benefit from this “remarkable” deal.

Why did Germany not make such a “strategic and amazing” deal with India?

Indeed my country, Germany, did sign an agreement with India (altogether thirty-four in the last 11 months) but none were like the deal the UK made. Germany will build a minimum of six (6) submarines, not to mention other ships for India. How many submarines will the United Kingdom build for India? None! Germany also agreed with India further free trade deals, and further close collaboration on security issues.

This really is an amazing “crack down” action against these five companies.

What charges has the Insolvency department come up with against these five companies, including the one where I am (was) a director? Fishing charges!?

If you were to investigate further and check who the “players” are, please do not be surprised to see that they all support the current labour government. Not me, as I have nothing to do with the United Kingdom.

Reviewing various documents, I note there was one case in the High Court of Justice Business and Property where a court order noted that there was something wrong with the accounts – apparently, they were not prepared by named auditors. I personally did not receive any court hearing documentation nor other director. *

Checking the court documentation, I note that none of the five companies were served with proper papers for the court hearings on time. I, like others, was therefore unaware that the hearings were going to happen. Even more bizarrely, the court (assumingly, along with the claimants’ knowledge) changed the date and time of the hearing without telling the defendants.

If the defendants had received the original notification, no court hearings would have taken place on that date, and no new date notification was served as required by law.

I could not check whether Companies House received any “invitations” for the court hearings. The court orders against these five companies were obtained by very dubious means. If I am not mistaken there are currently thirty-six charges out against the people who were paid to prepare the accounts for these five companies.

All these thirty-six charges apply to individuals who are currently part of the auditors’ firms directly or indirectly. Your claim about PWC that their audit report for Montana & Montana was never done is wholly inaccurate. The person in charge of the very first audits at that time, before he left PWC was one and only "Mr Archibald" himself.

I also find it astonishing that one of the defendants along the above five named companies in the case was also Companies House. What is amazing about all of this is that the Companies House passed confidential details to the insolvency department, which is a breach of law as no criminal offences had occurred; nor was any unlawful business carried out.

Therefore, correspondence between the first defendants and second defendants should be treated in complete confidence, even more so as it was about the response to the court case with a claim against previous claimants now defendants.

The Insolvency Service also commented on the poor language in the reports. The reports were written by personnel of the auditors’ firms in Europe. I am not at liberty to disclose the names of these individuals due to ongoing cases. Therefore, their first language was not English, as mine is also not.

These actions of the Insolvency Service feel like a slap in the face to all of us. Having started with these dubious claims, you have gone further and plan to dissolve the companies. What next? Perhaps you have plans for bankruptcy of the directors?

If there is further action, the Murdoch emporium and others will receive all the details through our solicitors in Switzerland for all what was going on in the United Kingdom and Europe. **

To date, these five companies have offered to The Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP and The Rt Hon Jonathan Reynolds MP the following:

1. €5.8 bn cash lump sum; with the stipulation that money needs to be spent for

a) Junior Doctors salaries to end with strikes

b) Carers minimum hourly rate to be £25 and for more complicated cases of care £35

c) For building six new hospitals.

In return, the government to secure these free funds by issuing government bonds payable on first demand equivalent to the money given for free. All to be monitored by an independent reviewer. Bonds may only be cashed if the money is not spent on its intended purposes.

2. Lump sum of £3.1 bn for automotive industry

a) injection to cover the balance of production of electric cars and motorbikes (approx. £465

b) we would fund and run a vehicle support scheme offering to supply every United Kingdom citizen an electric vehicle, with a £7,500 contribution funded by us but seen as a “public/ government subsidies/ incentives” to encourage switching from higher polluting vehicles and working towards a greener UK.

c) We have also made plans for what to do, where and how to store the batteries once replaced after their useful lifetime of approx. 8-10 years.

In return, the government is to arrange charging points for vehicles all around the UK; the import duties and taxes are to be reduced for the imported electric vehicles and bikes from our production.

3. Transport infrastructure with £52 bn injection – HS2 relaunch

Investment of £52 bn for the refinancing of HS2. The investors would be 30% from France (French native being original investor), 5% from Japan, 12% from India, 35% Saudi and Qatar; other investors to be from the United Kingdom or central UK government would need to cover the remaining 18%.

With this scheme, there are several stipulations from the investors which need to be either accepted or negotiated differently, but this project could go ahead instantly. In our previous correspondence we understand that the Mayor of Manchester possibly has investors able to contribute the remaining 18%.

4. New hospital construction £36 bn injection

There is a trio of investors willing to invest up to £36 billion for new hospitals - £12 billion each – plus all the equipment, subject to further negotiations.

This trio of investors is willing to invest in the construction of the infamous “40 hospitals”, under certain conditions. It is noted that out of the planned £20 bn expenditure under the Tories, the Treasury allocated at the time just £3.7 billion; £2.2 billion of this was then redirected by the Treasury elsewhere.

The trio-investors have asked for accurate figures and details of what, where and when is to be built. We could not obtain any correct details from the then health department and health secretary Matt Hancock MP, who even went to Australia for “one TV show.” The trio investors asked four times for specific data so that they could be aware of what problems might arise once the projects were under way. There were no details given from Jeremy Hunt MP either who was in charge for this sector for over 8 years; Mr Hunt did not even want to answer on any of our seven letters.

5. Building (separately) twelve new hospitals in the United Kingdom £2.8 bn injection

Funds were secured from investors for building 12 new hospitals. The budget secured for these twelve hospitals, with the capacity for 1044 beds each, was in region of £2.8 bn.

Therefore, nearly £100 billion of investments have been offered to the new UK government. Not to mention all the additional benefits to the economy including employment opportunities *** .

From my point of view and following the guidance’s of my solicitors, there is not much that will affect me personally or other director of other above named companies whatever you do, it will bounce back.

But - will I leave this as it is? No way!

We will get to the bottom of these allegations and these eccentric processes of liquidation, one way or the other. As the United Kingdom government is already under the signific pressure because of numerous issues including snap general election, we did not want to act instantly as we expected to go away. However your action went the other way around.

I have no doubt that my government will stand firmly with me as I and these five companies have done nothing wrong and if investors use our companies as a "middleman" because they don't want to deal with the new United Kingdom government, so be it.

However, your actions beg the questions:

1. Why are you spending public money to do something that was not needed at all

2. Who was the propagator that set off this chain of events? (Other parties’ supporters: Reform, Conservative?)

3. How do reach a timely and satisfactory resolution of this debacle? Or should we take it as conspiracy theory against us but also against the United Kingdom labour government?

Yours sincerely

Director (Ex) of Montana & Montana

and on behalf of

Automarket Europe Limited

Integra Group Limited

Maxell Limited

Montana & Montana Limited

and Supermarket Plus Ltd

Also, posted by Special Delivery to Attention of

Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer Prime Minister

Rt Hon Rachel Reeves Chanceler of Exchequer

Rt Hon Peter Kyle MP Business Secretary

Ms Kate Darden MP Business Department

Mr Blair McDougall MP Business Department

* None of directors received any court hearing documentation at all.

** Person who is working for our Switzerland lawyers replied to first allegations and it was our understanding that these allegations will stopped instantly what was not the case - Insolvency service proceed by dissolving the companies.

*** It is evident that director of Automarket Europe made clear to the to The Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP and The Rt Hon Jonathan Reynolds MP and The Insolvency directorate that just part/ex of diesel and petrol cars for electric and hybrid car will open instantly 1,620 new jobs.

LIONESSES DEFEND EUROPEAN TITLE 2025

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:53:27 GMT

THE MOST CHAOTIC TOURNAMENT BY ENGLAND BOSS SARINA WIEGMAN

England boss Sarina Wiegman: "I can't believe it. The word 'team' really described who we are - a team," she said.

"We said we can win by any means and that's what we have shown again today. I am so proud of the team and the staff. It is incredible.

"I just can't believe it, but I have a medal around my neck and we have a trophy. It has been the most chaotic tournament on the pitch - all the challenges we had on the pitch against our opponents.

"From the first game it was chaos. Losing your first game and becoming European Champions is incredible. Football is chaos."

Spain dominated the additional 30 minutes and should have won it when Salma Paralluelo tried to flick the ball goalwards. However, she could not get the right purchase as the ball ran away.

With neither side able to make the breakthrough, the game went to yet another England penalty shootout.

It began dramatically when Beth Mead had to retake the first kick after a double touch. She had scored initially, but the second was saved.

Patri Guijarro saw Spain ahead with their first try - but that would be the only penalty they would score. Hampton saved from Caldentey and Aitana Bonmati, while Paralluelo sent her effort wide of the post.

Despite a miss from Leah Williamson, Niamh Charles and Alex Greenwood scored theirs before Kelly stepped up again in the most pressurised of moments to see England to Euros glory once again.

Who was the England hero?

Make no mistake, the TEAM was the hero! Despite some downs in the middle of the game they played in Switzerland like Swiss clocks - never ever stops.

Congratulation, you beat the World champions Spain showing them who is the "boss" in Europe! Reigning the title is some achievement, especially after having very bad start however the finish is important and you showed this perfectly even Cloe Kelly with perfect penalty taken just after she missed in previous penalty shoutout.

BRITISH SPIES AND SAS NAMED IN AFGAN DATA BREACH

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:01:29 GMT

CONSERVATIVES MESS THEY HAVE TRIED TO BRUSH UNDER THE CARPET

In July 2025 it has been more than three years since a British official inadvertently leaked a dataset containing the names and contact details of thousands of people who were attempting to flee possible Taliban revenge attacks.

In April 2024, the government began relocating some of them to the UK - but we are only learning this now because extraordinary lengths were gone to in order to prevent the breach and subsequent response coming to light. As the full picture is finally disclosed to the public, these are the questions still facing Britain's security establishment.

What can be done about the danger of leaks?

It has happened before and it will doubtless happen again.

Think Wikileaks, Snowden and all the countless cyber-hacks and ransomware suffered by companies on an almost daily basis. Data leaks are not new but sometimes – and it is quite possible that this is one of those times – they can be life-threatening.

The revelations that have come to light will have sent a chill down the spine of hundreds, possibly thousands, of Afghans who fear retribution by the Taliban.

For those already spirited out to Britain, it means they can probably never go back home as long as the Taliban are in power.

For the over 600 former Afghan government soldiers and their estimated 2,200 dependants still in Afghanistan, the news will mean they are unlikely to breathe easily until the UK delivers on its promise to get them safely out. It's important to bear in mind that all this was not the result of some deliberate, sophisticated cyber attack by a state-backed hacking group.

It evolved from an unintentional mistake made by just one individual working for the Ministry of Defence.

What does this say about Britain's moral responsibility?

UK forces were deployed to Afghanistan, alongside US and NATO allies, over a period of almost 20 years, from October 2001 to August 2021.

During this time they worked closely with their Afghan government allies, relying heavily on their local knowledge and expertise.

The most sensitive area was in Special Forces (SF), for whom the Taliban reserved a particular hatred.

When Kabul and the rest of Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in the summer of 2021, there was a realisation that those now-former Afghan SF soldiers and their families were a priority for relocation to safety.

But thousands more Afghans also risked their lives to work with the British over those two decades.

Many did it out of patriotism, believing they were working to secure a better Afghanistan.

Some did it for the money, some did it because they trusted Britain to safeguard their lives and their personal details.

A data breach like this now threatens to undermine any future promises by a British official who says: "Trust us, your data is safe with us."

Was there a cover-up?

When this "unauthorised data breach" was finally discovered, a full 18 months after it occurred, the UK government obtained what is known as a super-injunction, preventing its publication by the media.

A super-injunction is so draconian that it means you cannot even report the fact that you cannot report it.

That measure has only just been lifted now, following an independent review.

There is a logical case to be made that this measure was necessary to protect the lives of those affected by the data breach.

However, questions are now being raised about whether the injunction - applied for by the previous, Conservative government - might also have been for political purposes.

The High Court judge who lifted the super-injunction, Mr Justice Chamberlain, said that it had "had the effect of completely shutting down the ordinary mechanisms of accountability which operate in a democracy".

CHELSEA FC FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP WINNERS 2025

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 08:53:47 GMT

PRESIDENT TRUMP PASSED THE THROPY TO CHELSEA PLAYERS

Chelsea are the inaugural winners of the expanded Club World Cup after a superb 3-0 win over Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday evening.

The Blues were the underdogs against the reigning Champions League winners but produced a remarkable display to stun Luis Enrique’s side.

Cole Palmer stole the show with two brilliant solo efforts before setting up Joao Pedro to score his third goal in just his second game since signing for the club midway through the tournament.

For landing the Club World Cup trophy, Chelsea will get to wear a special gold badge on their shirts for the next four years.

The badge is there to recognise the achievement of the winning team until the next edition of the Club World Cup takes place in 2029. The Blues also receives the FIFA Club World Cup trophy, of course, as well as a FIFA World Champions certificate.

A total of £774m ($1b) in prize money has been split across the 32 participating teams, and Chelsea will earn a large amount of that after their run to the final. And after they won in Sunday’s final, the Blues earned themselves an additional $10m in prize money.

Despite winning the inaugural 32-team version of the Club World Cup, Chelsea is not automatically guaranteed a spot when the tournament returns in 2029. Automatic spots into the next tournament are only given to those who their respective continental title (e.g. UEFA Champions League, CONMEBOL Libertadores, etc).

However, other spots can be earned by having a high coefficient ranking, and Chelsea’s Club World Cup victory should give them a massive boost in that regard.

With the tournament taking up the first half of the summer, the players are in need of a break before their Premier League campaign gets underway against Crystal Palace on August 17.

Chelsea’s squad are due to report back at the club on August 4, with their first pre-season friendly taking place against Bayer Leverkusen at Stamford Bridge on August 8.

Ps: And they are saying that the number "13" is unlucky. Yes, it was unluck for PSG!

IGA SWIATEK WON WIMBLEDON FINALE 2025

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 08:34:55 GMT

IGA SWIATEK (Pol, 8) v AMANDA ANISIMOVA (ZDA, 13) 6:0, 6:0

Polish Iga Swiatek won the famous Wimbledon tennis tournament for the first time in her career. In the final, she completely outplayed American Amanda Anisimova. The eighth seed needed less than an hour to win. After a great performance, she tied her opponent in both sets! The last time such a result was achieved in a women's final in London was 114 years ago.

On the centre court, the 8th and 13th seeds of the tournament competed. Both were chasing their first tournament victory at Wimbledon, the most prestigious tournament on the tennis tour, and in the end, Polish Iga Swiatek was the one to rejoice. Wimbledon has won a new winner for the eighth year in a row, and the Polish woman needed only 57 minutes to win the final. She won 6:0 and 6:0.

For Iga Swiatek, this was her sixth final at a Grand Slam tournament. She has maintained an exceptional unbeaten streak in major finals, having already won the French Open four times, and became the first Polish woman in history to win Wimbledon. This was her 23rd title in 28 finals.

The 24-year-old from Warsaw has never played so well on grass in her career. Before Wimbledon, she was in the final of the tournament in Bad Homburg and consequently came to the sacred grass with confidence. In the semi-finals, Swiatek also lost just two games against Swiss Belinda Bencic (6:2, 6:0), and she lost her only set at this year's Wimbledon in the 2nd round to American Caty McNally.

On the other hand, Amanda Anisimova lived a tennis fairy tale at Wimbledon this year, after playing in the qualifiers last year. This year, she fought for the prestigious title for the first time and thus broke into the top ten players in the world. The American, who was helpless in the final and did not win a single game, also has a special (tragic) family story behind her.

The two players met for the first time at the professional level in the Wimbledon final, and before that they met in the youth competition in 2016, when Swiatek won the youth version of the Billie Jean King Cup.

In addition to the prestigious title, the winner also received two thousand points for the WTA ranking and a prize of three million pounds (3.47 million euros). Swiatek climbed to third place in the world rankings.

Thank you Iga, your six time Grand Slam final - your six trophy! Your dream come for real and you get the trophy you dreamed about so much.

You were, you are, and you always be in our hearts, we are proud being one of your sponsors!

ANGELA RAYNER Deputy PM HEADACHES with UNITE

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:18:21 GMT

IS THE LABOUR PARTY STILL THE PARTY OF LABOUR? THE RAYNER v UNITE ROW

It’s hardly a throwback to the days when the General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union was one of the biggest beasts in the land, when the likes of Frank Cousins, Jack Jones and Ron Todd would speak and the Labour Party – and the country – would have to listen.

But the message on Friday from Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite, the successor to the TGWU, was intended as a shot across the bows of the Labour Party. First, and least significantly, it was suspending deputy prime minister Angela Rayner for “bringing the union into disrepute”, having had the audacity to support Labour-run Birmingham City Council in its seemingly never-ending dispute with bin men.

Of more consequence was the union’s vote at its annual conference to “discuss our relationship with Labour” – a discussion in the same fashion as when the Kray brothers would discuss their relationship with other gangland bosses. Destroy, in other words.

Severing the relationship between Labour and its union funders has been a perennial of politics for decades. Sometimes it’s used as a threat, as now, by a union which feels it’s not getting value for money from its creature. Other times, as in the heyday of New Labour, it comes from party thinkers as a demonstration of how Labour is no longer the creature of the unions.

Labour has itself changed its relationship with the unions, most importantly when it introduced One Member, One Vote (OMOV) in 1993 under John Smith, which removed the union block vote in leadership elections and candidate selections and then by Ed Miliband abolishing the old electoral college in 2014, handing the leadership to Jeremy Corbyn.

But while there has been no formal severing of the link between the unions and Labour, many individual unions have stopped affiliating to the party. Today there are just eleven which still affiliate: rail union ASLEF, general union Community, the Communication Workers Union, the Fire Brigades Union, general union the GMB, the Musicians Union, the National Union of Mineworkers, transport union TSSA, public sector union Unison, Unite and the shopworkers’ union USDAW.

For decades Labour was effectively bought and paid for by the unions, which were the party’s only significant source of funding. That led to the old tensions when the party didn’t act as its paymasters demanded. Things are very different today, with consequently different tensions.

Labour’s income in 2023 was £21.5 million, of which just £5.9 million came from unions. £14.5 million came from companies and individuals. That’s a pattern. In 2020 and 2021 unions gave £6.9 million, in 2022 it was £5.3 million, while funding from businesses and individual donations have risen from £2.3 million in 2020 to £3 million in 2021, £7.6 million in 2022 and nearly £14 million in 2023.

Of that £14m, £10m was from four individuals, Gary Lubner (£4.6 million), David Sainsbury (£3.1 million), Fran Perrin (£1 million – Perrin is David Sainsbury’s daughter) and eco-activist Dale Vince’ Ecotricity (£1m). In other words, two people gave Labour more money than all trade unions combined.

This tells its own political story about how Labour is no longer the party of labour. The 2019 Conservative red wall success was built on this, just as the current support for Reform is in part based on voters who would once have seen Labour as their natural party.

But instead of funding the party, unions have moved to individual MPs.

In 2023 212 Labour MPs and received more than £2m in donations and support. And of those unions, Unite provided by far the most money, totalling £553,900 given to 86 MPs. So Labour MPs still need their union funding – as does the party itself. It may now be a fraction of the levels of old, but £5.9 million is a huge sum the party will not have if unions take their money elsewhere.

Sharon Graham may not be Frank Cousins, but she has her own cards to play.

Unite The Union Has Cancelled Angela Rayner's Membership. The Only Snag Is She Did It First

Unite has voted to suspend Angela Rayner from the union – even though she gave up her membership months ago.

Members decided to take the extraordinary step in protest at the deputy prime minister’s stance on the long-running strike by bin collectors in Birmingham.

The move comes after Unite members debated a motion at their conference in Brighton, where they condemned the Labour-run council in Birmingham, and the government, for their approach to the bin workers.

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Unite is crystal clear it will call out bad employers regardless of the colour of their rosette.

“Angela Rayner has had every opportunity to intervene and resolve this dispute but has instead backed a rogue council that has peddled lies and smeared its workers fighting huge pay cuts.”

But HuffPost UK has learned that Rayner resigned her membership of the union earlier this year, making it impossible for her to be suspended.

A Downing Street spokesman said the government’s priority throughout the dispute had “always” been Birmingham’s residents.

“As you know, Unite’s industrial action caused disruption to waste collection,” the spokesman said.

We have worked intensively with the council to tackle the backlog and clean up the streets for the residents for public health.

“We remain in close contact with the council and continue to monitor the situation as we support its recovery and transformation

“I think it’s important to look back to the context of this dispute: Unite is in dispute against Birmingham City Council’s decision to reform unfair staff structures, which were a major cause of unequal pay claims and left the council liable to hundreds of millions of pounds in claims, and that was a key factor cited in the council section 114 notice in 2023, declaring bankruptcy.”

WELFARE REFORM BILL 2025

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:48:36 GMT

PM Starmer defended the bill despite being forced into a humiliating climbdown

Sir Keir Starmer defended his welfare reform plans despite being forced into a humiliating climbdown which leaves an almost £5 billion black hole in the Government’s spending plans. The Prime Minister was forced to scrap plans to restrict eligibility for the personal independence payment (PIP) to avoid a Labour rebellion which could have led to him losing a crunch Commons vote. The change could force Chancellor Rachel Reeves to raise taxes in order to balance the books without the expected savings in the welfare budget.

The government’s landmark bill on welfare reform passed by 335 to 260 votes on Tuesday evening, after staving off a major rebellion from Labour MPs (126 MPs). To win over backbench MPs who had opposed the bill, the government made a series of concessions, including a last-minute compromise agreeing that any changes to personal independence payment (PIP) will not be introduced until the outcome of a review.

Few months ago, the government introduced the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Bill. The aim was to create a sustainable welfare system in response to changing demographics and population health. Since the last 5 years the UK has seen an increase in people claiming benefits for long-term health conditions, where there was no scrutiny from medical staff whether the application is genuine or not. For me this is wrong! There must be some kind “filter” from professional whether the application hold the water.

Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

The bill initially proposed significant changes to PIP from November 2026. PIP is a working-age benefit to help people with the costs associated with a long-term health condition or disability. It has two elements, a daily living component and a mobility component.

A points-based system is used to assess eligibility for PIP. Eight to eleven points leads to qualification for the standard rate and over twelve points for the enhanced rate. On the current system, a claimant can score one or two points across a range of activities, it doesn’t matter how the points are made up.

In March, the government announced that from November 2026, claimants will need to score at least four points on at least one of the ten activities to qualify. Concerns were raised that this change could disproportionately affect people with mental health problems.

It is well known that previous changes to PIP have caused uncertainty and anxiety for many people with mental health problems. Make no mistake, there is no quick way or instrument from medical prospect to give people who are claiming mental health problem the correct assessment. We all are suffering some kind of uncertainty and anxiety therefore, we all can claim the PIP. Wrong!

Universal Credit

What remains in the bill are changes to universal credit, the UK’s main means-tested benefit, primarily for claimants who are unfit for work. Over 3 million claimants (out of a total of over 7 million) are not required to look for work as a result of a health condition. They receive an additional health-related payment of more than £400 per month.

The bill reduces the health element for new claims from £97 to £50 per week from April 2026 and restricts payment to claimants over the age of 22. Under original proposals, the higher health-related rate was to be frozen for existing claimants. This will now be increased every year for the rest of the parliament, at least in line with inflation.

Overall, the welfare reform was triggered to save up to £5bn. With all these changes made with the bill before voting that the bill pass in Parliament there basically will be no savings at all apart from new claimants whether they will pass or will be rejected.

Government also announces that in 2029 they will introduce a £1 billion back-to-work support package.

NATO SUMMIT 2025 - THE HAAG (LA HAYE) HOLLAND

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:53:03 GMT

IS 5% INCREAS OF SPENDING REALISTIC OR JUST MORE MONEY FOR U.S.

Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which includes several European countries, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, are gathering in town Hague, Netherlands, for a yearly summit amid Russia’s continued war on Ukraine and uncertainty about Washington’s future in the alliance.

The NATO summit, which lasts for two days, is the first to be attended by U.S. President Donald Trump since he took office in January for his second term. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, the former Dutch prime minister, will also chair the meeting for the first time.

The main point here was not war in Ukraine or Israel-Gaza or Israel-Iran or even U.S. attack on Iran. The main point here was NATO 5% spending hike which was triggered by Donald Trump.

Why is this significant for U.S.? Because majority weapons and ammunitions would be manufactured in United States. Therefore, poor countries in EU would make “donation of 5% GDP” to Donald Trump United States budget and that after his tariff announced.

It is OK that Sir Keir Starmer stated clearly that the UK is to go on 5% for modernisation and equipment of our army in case if this will be manufactured in the United Kingdom because of the jobs and money stays in the United Kingdom.

However, I am looking from prospective of small EU countries like Slovenia which cannot at present handle not even 1.5% of GDP. Current PM of Slovenia Mr Golob announced “Resolution on the General Long-Term Program and Equipping of the Slovenian Armed Forces until 2040 (Resolution 2025)” which was an imperative government document for the NATO summit in The Hague which is nothing else then cover up of his government's embarrassment regarding new NATO commitments. When PM Golob was asked from where the money will come, he was speechless, given no answers of any kind.

This is the same for all other small countries in EU and even the bigger like Spain where Spanish PM Sanchez make open remarks that this is not counterproductive.

On NATO Summit there was no words about Russia, no words about Ukraine and president Zelensky was more spectator than being in centre of attention and interest. Thank goodness.

U.S. - IRAN WAR OF CAT AND MOUSE: A BIT TOO LESS TOO LATE

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 13:43:09 GMT

AFTER ISRAEL & IRAN WAR GAME OF STRIKES, U.S. INTERVENED DIRECTLY

Following a week of air strikes between Israel and Iran, the Donald Trump directly intervened in the conflict, attacking three Iranian nuclear sites in Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz with bunker-buster bombs on 21st June 2025.

Make no mistake, Donald Trump is the first U.S. president to attack another country’s nuclear program and the first to explicitly join Israel in an attack on an adversary.

Iran retaliated on 23rd June 2025, launching a missile attack on U.S. forces stationed at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. however, apparently was declared beforehand therefore, there were no casualties were reported.

The current round of escalation began on 13th June 2025 when Israel launched a unilateral military strike against Iran, targeting nuclear facilities, missile factories, senior military officials, and nuclear scientists.

Israel described the operation as a last-resort effort to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Although the Trump administration had recently resumed nuclear negotiations with Iran, President Trump has increasingly voiced support for Israel’s objectives and signalled his openness to regime change in Tehran.

Tehran went even further, they are saying that Iran will block a resumption of talks with the U.S. on its nuclear program dependent on Washington's renunciation of further attacks. The U.S. must rule out further attacks on Iran if it wants to resume diplomatic talks.

Trump had announced new talks with Iran for at the NATO summit, but did not give any details. He had recently attacked Iran's extremely secure nuclear facilities. Asked whether he would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities again if there were concerns about Tehran's uranium enrichment again, Trump said on Friday: "Sure, without question, absolutely." Iran must not have nuclear weapons. The latest attacks have set back the nuclear program by years, Trump affirmed.

Make no mistake: Iran will insist on being allowed to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes, what is completely radicicolous. Yes, it is correct that enriched uranium is a critical component for civil nuclear power generation however also for military nuclear weapons.

Low-enriched uranium (below 20% 235U) is necessary to operate light water reactors, which make up almost 90% of nuclear electricity generation.

Highly enriched uranium (above 20% 235U) is used for the cores of many nuclear weapons, as well as compact reactors for naval propulsion and research, as well as breeder reactors. There are about 3,200 tonnes of highly enriched uranium in the world. Iran enriched to nearly 60%.

I cannot believe how U.S. missed transport of enriched Uranium from nuclear bases in Iran a week before the attack and missed even the last convoy which left the 3 nuclear plants on the night before attack.

ROBERT JENRICK’S MP LONDON UNDERGROUND BONANZA

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 15:46:16 GMT

IT IS ONE RULE for TORY & THEIR CRONIES and ANOTHER FOR EVERYONE ELSE.

The Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick tackled cheats at an East London Tube station. Mr Jenrick said he saw “dozens of freeloaders” slip through at Stratford in an hour. He is told to “f*** off” as he pursues them in footage seen more than 12 million times.

He blasts station staff for failing to intervene, and asks: “What is the point of them if they don’t bother doing their job? “It shouldn’t be left to the public to enforce the law.”

Well, well, well, Mr Jenrick seem have amnesia or already have first signs of Alzheimer or Dementia. He was in the government since 2014 therefore, he was in government when the government cut more than a billion pounds from their policing budget.

He was in government when the government removed Transport for London’s [TfL] operating grant, and now he’s criticising the consequences of the cuts in policing and TfL made by his government! How stupid and desperate is this.

Let me remind Mr Jenrick that the government cut their operating grant to Transport for London [TFL] back in 2015, and he was part of this government.

The Tory frontbencher Jenrick, currently the shadow justice secretary, filmed himself pursuing members of the public who snuck onto the tube without paying last week. Mr Jenrick claimed lawbreaking was “out of control” in London, that the capital’s mayor Khan was “driving a proud city into the ground” and that one in 25 Tube-users do not pay for their journeys.

That is like his wife who forgot to clap when Kemi Badenoch was “inaugurated” as new Tory leader and not her husband Mr Jenrick.

However, this is not the only Jenrick's lapsus. Seems that Mr Jenrick does cannot recall what he done back in 2020 when he was Housing Minister in the government when he admitted unlawfully signing off a 1,500-home development that saved Tory Party donors millions of pounds.

The £1bn project on the former Westferry Printworks site on London’s Isle of Dogs was approved in January 2020 by Jenrick despite that then the Independent Planning Inspectorate and Council declined and refused the project on basis lacked enough affordable housing and conflicted with local conservation policy.

But the housing secretary’s decision (at that time Mr Jenrick) came just a day before Tower Hamlets Council approved a new rate for its Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) – a move that would have increased the property owner’s financial liability to the local authority by between £30m and £50m.

That money would have been spent mitigating the impact of the development on the local area, and improving local services. Instead, thanks to Jenrick’s timing, it stayed in the pocket of the developer.

Make no mistake: The building used to be the Daily Express printworks on the Millwall waterfront. The land is owned by Northern & Shell, which is in turn owned by publishing magnate and former Tory donor Richard Desmond.

This whole debacle is further evidence that Tory government was always more interested in serving billionaires rather than local people, not to just one of many examples of Tory ministers showing it is one rule for them and their cronies, and another for everyone else.

When Mr Jenrick made this video about dozens freeloaders, he made his comment on video: "It is the same with bike theft, phone theft, tool theft, shoplifting, drugs in town centres, weird Turkish barber shops". Yes, I have to say Mr Jenrick who ever gave you that hear cut, fair enough, it is quite weird!

What was of great concerned of mine was that he was also asking people whether they are carrying knifes. Few said that they do carry a knife. Did Jenrick report that people who were apparently carrying the knifes to the police? Of course he didn't, because he don't care, as video on Underground about "freeloaders" was all about him and nothing about the "freeloaders" or other possible offenders, it was all about him: "Look at me, look at me, this is me, Robert Jenrick, the one and the only you should stand by and vote for"!

He did not care when he was in the government for 14 years, nothing solved, just others to be blamed for everything, despite that all was in his and his party hands for 14 years, including the "grooming gang" where Mr Jenrick along with his delusional leader OLUKEMI OLUFUNTO ADEGOKE BADENOCH (KEMI BADENOCH) are trying to unsettle the public and getting the public on their site.

If I am not mistaken, Mr Jenrick being using Ozempic. Ozempic results in rapid weight loss and does so very effectively. This, of course, will lead to rapid loss of subcutaneous (under the skin) facial fat. The overlying skin however will not be able to shrink at the same rate, resulting in a sagging, droopy and wrinkled appearance. However, Ozempic-style weight loss drugs were recently linked to symptoms of depression and suicidal ideation, as well as an increased risk of vision loss.

Mr Jenrick, are you depressed?

SUITS ME - AMBIGUOUS STATUS & NON-COMPLIANCE with FCA

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:49:46 GMT

OPEN LETTER to HM TREASURY and THE FINANCIAL OMBUDSMAN UK

Ms Emma Reynolds

Economic Secretary to the Treasury

HM Government UK

The Financial Ombudsman UK

Dear Sir/Madam

Suits Me – ambiguous status and non-compliance with FCA expectations and regulations.

I received over hundreds of letters and mails from people in the United Kingdom who applied for the above accounts and they stressed how they been “crossed”. I cannot talk, even less judge something what I did not come across with, therefore, I simply applied for the account myself: For the personal account and the business account which both would cover what people were telling me in their post and mails.

I write to express my deep concern about the operating behaviours of this company who I believe misrepresent their services and are non-compliant with financial services regulation. I have complained to them as my account was closed with no specific reason given for the closure .

The concerns I would particularly like to highlight include:

1. Service is not covered by UK Financial Ombudsman.

Having submitted my complaint to the organisation about closing my bank account with no specific reason given for the closure, I have been informed that if I want to take this matter further then I need to contact the card issuer: IDT financial services Ltd, PO Box 1374 1 Montarik Building, 3 Bedlam Court, Gibraltar.

If I have then exhausted my complaints process with IDT financial services and I remain unhappy I am advised to contact the Gibraltar financial services commission PO Box 940, Suite 3, ground floor, Atlantic suites, Europa Avenue, Gibraltar.

At no stage when I requested this bank account was I informed that I was dealing with an institution that was not covered by the UK financial ombudsman; I believe their website is misleading in this regard.

What the Suits Me are saying was:

Unfortunately, we are not at liberty to or required to provide any additional details regarding your account block, and we would only block/close an account if absolutely necessary. Please rest assured that we are committed to adhering to financial regulations, and our processes may differ from those of traditional banks as we operate as an online account solution. It is important to note that our terms and conditions at section 16 state that the suspension of account usage is permitted and may be necessary if we identify valid grounds for such action. This is in accordance with regulatory guidelines aimed at ensuring the safety of all parties involved, including our customers.

The section does not give ideas or even less any answer about valid grounds.

2. GDPR concerns.

Their correspondence advises me that Suits Me is registered with the Information Commissioners office within the UK under registration reference number ZA237140. Suits Me has collected a significant amount of my personal data in order to open a bank account.

I find it baffling that they could be compliant with the UK information Commissioners office, but at the same time they cannot take responsibility for their services within the UK as their supplier is seemingly based in Gibraltar.

I am now aware that my data has obviously been passed on to this Gibraltar organisation – but at no time did I knowingly give my permission for that .

3. Unusual working practice

With the correspondence, I am advised “we are not at liberty to or required to provide any additional details regarding your account block, and we would only block/close an account if absolutely necessary. Please rest assured that we are committed to adhering to financial regulations, and our processes may differ from those of traditional banks as we operate as an online account solution”.

This comes across as furiously unreasonable, weird and deceptive. We are all aware of the high-profile court case that Nigel Farage bought against Coutts bank, at which point they were forced to identify their reasons for closing his account and their chief executive lost her job. It seems very bizarre in 2025 that a financial institution does not have to account for its behaviours to its customers.

4. Misleading website

When is a bank not a bank?

Seemingly if you are “An award winning alternative to high street banks”.

Is it reasonable to make a statement in the small print that “Suits Me is not a bank” to then promote yourself as a bank, act like a bank, win awards from the British Bank Awards – including one for Best Current Account provider – and then sidestep all UK banking legislation and compliance requirements?

It is even more concerned issue because they advertise that they are replacement to all who can not have regular bank account for the reasons as bankruptcy, CCJ’s, Debt Relief Order, Debt Management and other such issues

not even to mention that they are collecting money from most vulnerable people and there is no guarantee for them to get whatever repayment in case if something goes wrong like the UK banks guarantee their customers £85,000 for such cases.

I assume that Suits Me speculate with money generated with brokers from currency up to properties and more therefore, all not really safe environment as you never know when one of that can collapse.

I feel very mislead by Suit Me and unhappy about the way they are dealing with all the accounts not to mention including with my personal and business account, which has caused significant distress to hundreds of applicants and even me.

I would welcome your investigation of these concerns.

Thank you.

Your Faithfully

ZDENKO KOS MSC MEc BScEcon(Hons) MBA

For and on behalf of over hundreds applicants including myself

Ps:

Up to 18th June 2025 a staggering 1,627 mails and letters being received from readers of our blog who has experienced same or similar issues with the Suits Me card provider either for personal or business account.

CHELSEA FC WINS THE CONFERENCE LEAGUE 2025

Wed, 28 May 2025 14:51:46 GMT

THE ONLY CLUB IN EU WHO WON ALL FOUR MAJOR EUFA COMPETITION

Chelsea wins the Conference League 2025. Was this surprise for me? Not really, was my prediction from start. The club which is undoubtedly the youngest not just in the UK but also in Europe showed that the spending over £1bn made some result at last.

Chelsea FC wins after falling behind in the final against Betis Sevilla. The first 45 minutes Chelsea was completely lost and without any inspiration not even mention other issues. They were lucky that Betis did not score one or two more. Sevilla had started strongly in their first European final and deservedly took an early lead through Abdessamad Ezzalzouli (9th minute). The Spaniards remained the better team in the aftermath, so that the 1-0 lead lasted until after the break.

The second half was completely different. The inspiration become from Cole Palmer who made all it happened for Chelsea. Two invaluable, priceless and precise Cole's passes into the Betis penalty area lead to two goals of Enzo Fernández (65') and Nicolas Jackson (70'). Real Betis Sevilla – FC Chelsea 1:2 (1:0). Despite being finally ahead, Chelsea footballers want more and Chelsea managed to scored another two goals, both superb specially of Jadon Sancho (83'), but also nice one from Moisés Caicedo (90+1').

In the final in Wroclaw, the final result was not surprising that Chelsea FC beat Betis Sevilla 4-1 (0-1) and celebrated their first title since being taken over by a US consortium led by Todd Boehly in 2022.

Could be more goals if Betis would have a bit of luck, also on Chelsea end if Nicolas Jackson would have some ideas and knowledge how to play football. After a nice run in 78 minutes instead to score, his touch on ball was too heavy and easy to deal for Betis goalkeeper.

With the title win, Chelsea completed the European quadruple: After successes in the Champions League, Europa League and the former European Cup Winners' Cup, the club has now also won the Conference League - as the first club in history.

Make no mistake: I am still confused why on earth is the Conference League? On one hand they all are saying too much games per season while on the other there is more money for UEFA and some spare change for the clubs involved! Mystery for me, but seems not a mystery for RB Leipzig who don't want to play Conference League and lost at home to Stuttgart on the last matchday. And this despite the fact that the final will take place next year in Leipzig.

Ps: Before the game, there had been clashes between supporters of both clubs in Wroclaw. According to the Polish Ministry of the Interior, 28 people were arrested. The police were deployed with several hundred forces.

TRUMP HAS SPOKEN OUT

Fri, 23 May 2025 22:51:35 GMT

50 PERCENT TARIFF for EU, NOT TO MENTION TARIFF ON CHINA

On January 20, the second term of Republican Donald Trump began.

Since then, the US president has initiated a radical restructuring of the state apparatus and issued an almost incalculable number of decrees.

Starting with the most recent ones, here are the most important announcements and decisions made by the new US administration. The chronicle reflects the status on the date mentioned. Trump himself has already reversed some of his decisions, and some others have been stopped by the courts.

Trump has spoken out in favour of a tariff rate of 50 percent on goods from the European Union.

The regulation is to apply from June 1, as he wrote on his online service Truth Social. As a reason for his decision, Trump cited sluggish progress in trade talks with the European Union

Decrees of the US President

In the USA, presidents have the option of issuing binding orders for authorities by decree and clarifying or further developing existing laws. The president can also declare a national emergency by means of a so-called executive order.

Many US presidents have been accused of ruling by decree. Since the so-called executive orders do not go through the legislative process, the president has the option of bypassing Congress by resorting to decrees. Congress can replace presidential decisions with new laws or withhold money to prevent the implementation of a presidential decree. However, the president can veto this. This can only be overruled by a two-thirds majority of Congress.

Decrees remain in force until the president himself or his successor repeals them. Courts can also declare decrees null and void if they classify them as a violation of the constitution. Donald Trump's decree to abolish the right to citizenship by birth in the USA, for example, has already been stopped by several courts.

Already in his first term in office, courts had overturned several of Trump's decrees.

For example, judges overturned essential provisions of the so-called Muslim Ban, with which Trump had issued entry bans for people from Muslim-majority countries a few days after taking office in 2017. Trump eventually rescinded the decree and replaced it with a new one, which also contained travel bans. His successor Joe Biden rescinded this decree on the day of his inauguration in 2021.

Does Trump really believe in all the crap he is talking and doing?

Lets remains ourselves what and how it was in 2019 (see graph bellow):

WHY WHY WHY is the UK GOVERNMENT UNDER THE PRESSURE

Thu, 22 May 2025 18:05:53 GMT

HOW MANY WEAPONS IS GERMANY SUPPLYING TO ISRAEL?

It is not strange that two biggest political parties at Westminster and Parliament itself are finding themselves buckled, bent and contorted by the furious arguments provoked by the Israel-Gaza war. PM Sir Keir Starmer does not have easy ride not even in his Labour party. From every corner they are shouting and screaming on him to end all supply to Israel.

Well, would this change anything at all? Did any of propagators of such idea ask him/her selves how many weapons is Germany currently supplying to Israel? No, they just shouting on our PM Starmer with no arguments in hands.

Yes, German chancellor Merz sharply criticizes Israel's government, where the coalition partner SPD is calling for a stop to arms exports. Chancellor Merz (CDU) has not yet names any concrete measures, while the coalition partner SPD require immediate ban of arms export to Israel. Who was hear in frontline for SPD?

Adis Ahmetović, the foreign policy spokesman of the SPD parliamentary group.

What a joke! Adis Ahmetović is from Bosnia and Herzegovina, from where his parents emigrated to Germany. He was given German citizenship in 2015 upon he become head of Mustafa Erkan's office age 22 years only, a former SPD member. For everyone who was working with whichever Agency is clearly known Ahmetović father and Mustafa Erkan who were contributor for Bosnia and Hercegovina independence against all other nationality in former Yugoslavia. Both were against the peace in former Yugoslavia. Adis Ahmetović despite his age he is a fanatic Muslim. Then it is not strange that Ahmetović want war to end and doesn't matter for him whether hostages being released or not. Izetbegovic (President of Bosnia and Herzegovina) was the one who brought to Europe (Balkan) all possible paratroopers from Afghanistan, Sudan, Yemen and few other countries and having for friends collaborators of Osama Bin Laden, like OBL right hand man, who was in Bosnia during the weapon imports to Bosnia.

Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (CDU) said with regard to future arms deliveries to Israel, of course there is a red line. He could not say where this would be at the moment, as no decision was currently being made on arms deliveries. However, where the German government sees a risk of a violation of international humanitarian law, "we will of course intervene against it and certainly not supply weapons," Wadephul said.

Merz and he had "pointed out that warfare, as it is taking place in the Gaza Strip, is viewed very critically by us and that we see the great danger of violation there," Wadephul said with a view to international law. If this becomes concrete, this will also be a point in future deliberations on arms deliveries in the Federal Security Council, which meets in secret.

But to what extent has Germany supplied weapons to Israel so far? How have exports developed recently? What weapons are supplied and how are they used in the Israel-Gaza war? The German government had already reduced arms deliveries to Israel step by step. While the Federal Security Council approved exports of more than 300 million euros in just a few months after Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel alone, much more than in the previous year, it became much more restrictive but not much.

Nearly the same is happening in the UK where the government is also very much critical towards Israel's massive military operation in the Gaza Strip and where Sir Keir is under fire even from members of the Labour party. I cannot believe that we have MP's, it doesn't matter to which party they belong, where their priorities are either party or their religion first then all the rest.

Make no mistake: Hostages MUST be released first till any ceasefire can take the place. If Sir Keir Starmer or even Merz will not supply weapons to Israel anymore, there are plenty out there around the world where weapons can be bought. For example, a lot of Russians are Judie's, why would not Netanyahu simply ask Putin for a nuclear weapon, or any other weapon Israel needs.

FINAL UEFA EUROPE LEAGUE DISGRACE

Wed, 21 May 2025 23:25:10 GMT

TOTTENHAM vs MANCHESTER UNITED (FT 1 - 0)

I am a Chelsea FC supporter and cannot stand either Manchester United, even less Tottenham. I believe everyone in football circus knows that Chelsea and Spurs are the biggest enemies.

But lets concentrate on the final.

Final of the UEFA Europe League. What a game!

This was the game like hardship against misery. Manchester couldn't and Tottenham didn't want to.

Tottenham wins thanks to a lucky own goal! I am stunted, even if the commentator constantly names Johnson as the scorer and then closes the Scots.

Tottenham did not have a single shot on goal, not even a try, in the second half. And they miserably messed up the 2 counter-attack opportunities. It was the worst European Cup final since the Champions League final in 2019.

At that time, coincidentally, it was also an all-English final and Tottenham was back in the game. Back then against Liverpool. Who can still remember it. It was really a super boring game, despite two goals.

I cannot believe that Aleksander Čeferin (President UEFA) still believe that Europa League must be. I feel sorry for him that he was obligated to be there! Europa League for me is more like the qualification for a Champions League place.

At least for the bigger clubs that missed the Champions League in the league. They see this as the last "chance saloon" to get into the Champions League after all.

Even the RTL commentator gives this impression when he asked shortly before the end "Will Spurs play in the Champion League next season?". How tick was this commentator!

Not a word about the fact that Tottenham is on the verge of winning its first international title in 41 years. The Champions League qualification is much more important. Not to mention that both clubs finished the Barclays Premier League in England on 16th and 17th place just above the three already relegated clubs, with 45 points adrift from Liverpool.
I was ashamed that world was watching such crap game, disgrace and disgusting having in mind what money they are paid weekly these players.

Make no mistake for me much better final would be a final Atletico Bilbao against FK Bodö, who would have been the first Norwegian club to be in a European final. They would work their socks off!

CHELSEA WOMEN CLINCH UNBEATEN DOMESTIC TREBLE 2025

Sun, 18 May 2025 21:55:57 GMT

CHELSEA WON WSL, WOMEN'S LEAGUE CUP and WOMEN'S FA CUP

Sonia Bompastor's side lifted their latest WSL title last weekend at Stamford Bridge and became the first side to not lose in a 22-game league campaign.

They rounded that incredible feat off on Sunday, beating last year's FA Cup winners and adding another trophy to the cabinet alongside the WSL and Women's League Cup.

It was always going to be a tight game given the two sides had the best defences in the WSL this season, and Chelsea took the lead just before the break.

Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor stated clearly:

"The feelings are great. Sometimes it is difficult to describe them with words, but yes, it feels really great. Again, this season has been tough.

When you are able to achieve a treble and domestically to be as much dominant as we have been, I think you really need to enjoy that.

Again, all the credit to my players, because again today they performed really well. We had a strong performance, we showed our mentality and our values in this game.

To be able to end the season in almost a perfect scenario, we won, we were playing in Wembley, the stadium was almost sold out, and we had a strong performance, a strong result, I think against a strong opponent”.

I was a bit disappointed on not the best performance of Beever-Jones, who I liked very much, was not the best performance from Bronze and Cuthbert while Hannah Hampton was business as usual, to keep clean sheet. Overal all Chelsea players were highly motivated and they were fighting for every ball.

My family day out watching live on Wembley was very enjoyable and per satisfaction! Thank you Chelsea team, thank you Sonia Bompastor & Co..

Ps: What missing only was being a Champion in Champions League. Let's do next season quadruple instead!

Congratulations to everyone at Chelsea Women invincible squad!

£5bn DEAL between GREAT BRITAIN and INDIA

Tue, 06 May 2025 11:05:31 GMT

IS THIS THE BEST AND BIGGEST DEAL AFTER BREXIT?

Labour leader Keir Starmer hailed the new free trade deal with India as a 'huge win' for Britain today as he over-rode criticism about its tax breaks for India workers and taunt the Tories, saying the £5bn agreement was the largest made by the UK since Brexit. There is one tricky situation: The agreement is giving Indian employees of Indian firms working in the UK a three-year exemption from national insurance payments which has been agreed on basis to avoids people being taxed twice at home and abroad. The Tories fight back and accused the government of creating a 'two-tier' system that gave Indian workers an advantage.

Make no mistake: With the previous Tory government handing a five-year exemption to Chile in 2012.

We have to remain ourselves that the National Insurance contributions for British firms were increased in last year's Budget.

Opening PMQs, Sir Keir said: 'The landmark deal we have done with India is a huge win for working people in this country. After years of negotiations this government has delivered in months, slashing tariffs, boosting wages, unleashing opportunities for UK businesses. It is the biggest trade deal the UK has delivered since we left the EU.'

Sir Keir revisited the deal when he clashed with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch over plans to make winter fuel payments means tested. After he asked if would admit he was 'wrong to remove the winter fuel payment from millions of pensioners', he said: 'The number one job of this Government was to put our finances back in order after the last government lost control...

Keir Starmer said further 'Because of the work that we have done, we are a country that countries like India want to do deals with, because of the messages and the work that we have done.'

However, there is another issue where Downing Street was unable to provide estimates of how the UK-India trade deal may impact immigration or tax-take in Britain. Asked whether there was an assessment on the impact on migration numbers of the agreement, the Prime Minister's official spokesman said: 'We don't do individual line-by-line assessments on free trade deals.

'We do an overall impact assessment on the impact of a trade deal on the economy obviously, and the ONS and others, the OBR… will continue to do their analysis as well and provide the usual updates on immigration figures.'

He said the national insurance exemption for some Indian workers applied to a 'specific, business mobility, intra-company transfer schemes' and not wider migration.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds this morning said critics of the deal were 'confused' and suggested unhappy Tories were jealous they had not managed to achieve a deal when they were in government.

Unsurprisingly, there was no mention of this own goal in any UK government announcement. But Narendra Modi proudly announced it himself and exposed what Keir Starmer tried to bury from the British public.

Labour tried to cover it up, but it was never going to work when the Indian government was so delighted with its negotiating victory. They've been caught in the act. It means India's biggest win is flooding the UK market with its people.

Bizarrely, under this deal, yoga teachers, buskers and takeaway chefs now qualify as skilled labour – meaning they will also be able to bring their dependents. Keir Starmer seems determined to make us the soft touch immigration capital of the world and never misses an opportunity to surrender.

Already, because of Labour's choices, business confidence is tanking, prices are up and growth is down, all while immigration and taxes are at record highs. In Labour's desperation to try and undo some of the damage they have levelled on British businesses, they risk making everything significantly worse.

DEATH of POPE FRANCIS: HE WANTED PEACE

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:38:00 GMT

POPE FRANCIS IS SAYING GOODBYE TO A WORLD

In times of war, it was a matter close to Francis' heart to bring about peace. He often failed to do so. But right now, the world needs someone like him.

If Pope Francis could learn that 170 heads of state and government are coming to his funeral, he would certainly be embarrassed. For he was a modest man who felt more comfortable with the outcasts than with the powerful. Nevertheless, he would certainly be a little happy at the sight – Donald Trump will be there, Ursula von der Leyen, Volodymyr Zelensky, Emmanuel Macron, from UK Prince William and Sir Keir Starmer and many other people who absolutely can't get along with each other and on whose amicable livelihood so much depends.

What a unique opportunity this would be for a pope who always wanted to solve conflicts. Only, he is no longer among the living. And what more would the world need than a man who wants to make peace in these times of war?

Yes, if it were that easy. Pope Francis has tried his hand at peacemaking on the world stage several times – and unfortunately that has gone terribly wrong.

A few months after the Russian army invaded Ukraine, Pope Francis said that NATO may have "barked too loudly at the gates of Russia". He has rightly been sharply criticized for this sentence. Because he insinuates that NATO provoked the war. In doing so, the Pope adopted the version of the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. He claims that his war is a reaction to a hostile encirclement by the West – and thus a justified preventive measure. That's outrageous. Neither NATO nor Ukraine have threatened or provoked Russia.

Pope Francis later tried to relativize the phrase "barking NATO," but he didn't really succeed. The unpleasant impression that the Pope justified Putin's war of aggression remained.

Two years later, in March 2024, the Pope again commented on the Ukraine war - and again he did so with a misleading sentence. "Don't be ashamed to negotiate before it gets worse," he told the Ukrainians. Then he spoke of the "courage to raise the white flag". This could not be understood in any other way than a call to Ukraine to surrender and submit to the will of the aggressor.

It is a bitter irony that Donald Trump will be among the mourners. The man who is demanding exactly that from the Ukrainians these days: to submit. Trump calls this a good deal. After all, Putin has made a big concession: He renounces the conquest of the whole of Ukraine! We can't know, but even Pope Francis would probably have laughed at such sentences if they hadn't had such tragic consequences.

Because it is clear what the Ukrainians would face under Russian rule: cruel oppression, multiple deaths and the extinction of their nation.

Could this have been what the Pope meant by his words about the "courage to raise the white flag"?

No, of course not.

In his autobiography, published a few weeks ago, he does not justify Russia's aggression with a single word – on the contrary, he condemns it.

Did the Pope perhaps simply have no idea what he was talking about?

This is also rather unlikely. One should trust the Catholic Church, with its 1.4 billion believers worldwide, to understand geopolitics. She also knows how to exercise power and deal with powerful people.

So how can such statements be explained?

Its origin lies in Pope Francis' conviction that it is one of the central tasks of the Church to promote dialogue always, everywhere and at all times. He himself tried to the best of his ability during his lifetime.

In the case of the Ukraine war, he did it with wrong, negligent words. Apparently, he has not grasped the nature of Vladimir Putin's dictatorial regime in all its cruel dimensions. He, who in his own words believed in the devil incarnate, did not recognize the diabolical nature of Putin's dictatorship.

Nevertheless, on this day, under the eyes of 170 heads of state and government, in the presence of hundreds of thousands of people lining Rome's streets, a man is buried who persistently stood up for peace – and was badly wrong a few times.

Pope Francis is saying goodbye to a world in which the law of the strongest prevails. In which there is no talking, but shooting, in which there is no negotiation, but bombing. Who will now persistently try to make peace?

ROWENNA DAVIS for 2026 CROYDON MAYOR

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 11:36:53 GMT

WHAT A JOKE THAT 82% LABOUR MEMBERS BACK DAVIS

“I am thrilled to be standing as Labour’s candidate for Mayor of Croydon and so grateful to Labour Party members for their support,”

“Croydon needs change. I love my home, but we’re being let down. Our borough is the ‘fly-tipping capital of England’, our streets and neighbourhoods feel neglected, and too many people feel unsafe, while our town centre is a depressing shadow of the delight it used to be. That changes with me – I’ll put people first.

I’m proud to have won the trust of members with such a clear mandate for change, and now I want to earn the trust of the public. Together, we’ll make Croydon a place to be proud of.”

This was the statement of Labour candidate for next Croydon Mayor election in 2026.

Davis has served as a councillor for the Waddon ward. Davis is an “experienced” political operator, despite having only been a councillor in Croydon for three years.

She was a councillor in Southwark and a (losing) parliamentary candidate in Southampton ten years prior. Tangled Up In Blue, which she wrote, is characterized as “an examination of the rise of the Blue Labour movement.”

Make no mistake, Davis for me is NOT the candidate for a Croydon Mayor.

According to Rowenna Davis the problems in Croydon are:

Social isolation is a contributing factor to poor health, particularly among senior citizens. High rates of mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression, affect about 47,978 adults at any one time.
Childhood obesity, with children aged 4-5 being especially at risk.
Homelessness is the intricate connection between housing, health, and social exclusion; a large number of people are homeless or lonely.
Over 2,000 households are in temporary housing, and the number of applications for homelessness has climbed by 46%.
The difficulty of offering vulnerable groups and rough sleepers suitable long-term housing options and assistance. Health and social care services that are disjointed and frequently challenging to use, and that are structured on individual illnesses rather than comprehensive requirements.

The above are problems in nearly every council around the United Kingdom and not just Croydon, and with such candidate like Rowenna Davis, the Labour party will be having very soon problems like John Cotton and Zafar Iqbal in Birmingham council (both Labour party) where they cannot even sort out the “bin issue” despite that “iron lady of Labour party” Angela Rayners MP was involved to settle the deal with Union.

All this started in 2023. Now, we are 2025 and still not solved. Overflowing bins, rat infestations, and public anger are escalating as Birmingham’s bitter bin strike drags into the summer with no resolution in sight.

Even talks between Birmingham City Council and Unite the Union have collapsed once again, with the council announcing it is done negotiating is yet another gimmicks.

Completely the same will happen in Croydon if Davis to win. We have to remind ourselves that Croydon was before in Labour hands however under Labour the Croydon council went bankrupt.

Make no mistake, the sole rival to Davis was Manju Shahul-Hameed, a councillor for Broad Green and a member of the council administration that so embarrassingly destroyed the borough’s finances in 2020.

In Croydon there are over 400,000 people where “several laws” applies on daily basis. Nothing is working as should, doesn’t matter what we touch and what measures we are taking in consideration.

I personally passed to council 48 suggestions of which NONE has been executed since 2022 apart 2 partially. And all were more or less important and emergency matters. Therefore, Rowenna Davis is not the person to solve the problems in Croydon, she doesn’t have a clue what is going on in Croydon despite that she is full mouth how she knows Croydon.

I asked Sir Keir Starmer on written why the candidate must be member of party, why the candidate cannot be non-party individual who to be appointed based on to solve the problems and who might be in his/her hard and mind more Labour party supporter then many real Labour party members.

No reply received from Keir Starmer PM, no reply from Labour party.

Make no mistake, Labour has changed the voting system for mayors after Reform UK swept to victory in two mayoral elections in May 2025.

As part of a “radical reset”, Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister and Local Government Secretary, ditch the UK’s first-past-the-post voting system, in which the candidate with the most ballots wins.

It has been replaced at mayoral level by a European-style system known as the ‘supplementary vote’, where candidates are ranked by preference.

The move is a return to the arrangement that was previously used to elect London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan, as well as his predecessors Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson

THE CASE of UEFA PRESIDENT ALEKSANDER ČEFERIN

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:07:33 GMT

IS THE SLOVENIAN BAR ASSOCOATION RIGHT or WRONG

There are rumours in Slovenia that the current president of UEFA and the Slovenian Bar Association are in breach of the Slovenian law on two issues.

The Slovenian rumour mill is chattering about the unusual circumstances by which Aleksander Čeferin, President of the European Football Association UEFA, still has a co-ownership stake in the Čeferin, Pogačnik, Novak, Koščak and partners Law Firm. In fact, he is the largest owner there with a 39 percent stake and his brother Rok Čeferin with a 19.5 percent stake.

As is known, Rok Čeferin is a constitutional judge and currently the president of the Constitutional Court. According to Article 37 of the Law on the Bar, only lawyers who practice law in a law firm can be partners in a law firm.

I have known Aleksander Čeferin as both my friend and as one of my lawyers for many years. His support for me and his role as part of my defence, with his expertise and knowledge of the law in my case against the State of Slovenia, was undeniably top-class. It helped ensure that the decision in the court in London was based on fact rather than innuendo.

I now willingly and proudly advocate for him.

Indeed, Aleksander Čeferin does remain a co-owner of the Čeferin Law Firm. He was also routinely suspended from the register of lawyers in 2016, when he took over the leadership of the European Football Association (UEFA).

Neither Rok nor Aleksander Čeferin have been practicing law for a long time. Aleksander Čeferin has been the head of UEFA since 2016, while Rok Čeferin has been a Constitutional Judge since 2019. Diligent readers will note the brothers are very much listed at the firm as founders, together with their father. They are not part of the management team and not listed among the available lawyers. So, are the founders actually partners? It would seem not. Are either currently practicing as lawyers? It would seem not.

When I was with one of my sources from Sky News, otherwise she is TV presenter and commentator, and not even to mention also my significant other, at her third tea break with croissant, and it wasn't even 11am yet, she asked me out of the blue "how is my comrade Aleksander Čeferin".

In the "Čeferin" case, as she sees it, there is quite a lot of things wrong.

The President of the Slovenian Bar Association, Janez Starman was asked for comment. He cited Article 22 of the Law Act, which regulates this very situation:

“If a lawyer is elected or appointed to a state position that requires professional performance, the practice of the legal profession is suspended during the period of holding this position. If a lawyer is sent or participates in an international mission to perform tasks in the economic, defence, cultural, scientific, informational and other areas within the scope of the competence of such a mission and this is not incompatible with the reputation of the legal profession or when he works for an international organization of which the Republic of Slovenia is a member, his legal profession is suspended while performing these tasks.

According to Starman, it follows from the law that the suspension of the legal profession is expressly foreseen and regulated by law, "which, given the fact that the aforementioned are entered in the register of lawyers, leads to the conclusion that there are no reservations regarding the preservation and exercise of rights in the law firm, and there should not be any."

Make no mistake: Everyone in Slovenia should be proud, as I am, that the president of the European Football Association (UEFA) is compatriot Slovenian, from a tiny country with just over 2.3m inhabitants.

You all should give him a break and shut up!

End of story.

21 APRIL 2025 and COUNTING ...

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:24:57 GMT

A VERY SPECIAL DAY ...

The above is my brother's card for my birthday.

I fully agree with your statement above bro!

For all the others if they are or not in my magic circle, I am taking the glass in my hand and toast as follows:

Cheers to all the people who love me,

Cheers the losers who lost me, and

Cheers the lucky bastards who get to meet me!

Thank you for good wishes bro, I will go windsurfing shortly, Tenerife and Barbados are waiting!

Many will know that the last 25 years of my life have been dominated by the impact of cancer. Hopefully I have now survived my cancers, due to the extraordinary work of the team at St Thomas’ Hospital and Guys Hospital in London along with treatment on which I was working with a team of nearly 400 scientists, doctors, consultants, researchers, lab specialist and others.

The treatments over the past years have been brutal - but I am still here.

The work of my cancer foundation, to help find cures and good treatments for cancer, is now very much the focus of my time. My inspiration for the foundation was the untimely loss of my wife to brain cancer. She lived with this disease for more than 10 years and was a true inspiration to both me and our children.

I truly hope the work of the foundation does justice to her memory and her brave fight with this horrible disease.

Reaching 70 seems a fitting time to reflect on what next. For many many months I did not even hope this could be possible. I look at my children and think about all they have seen watching both of their parents struggle to fight this horrendous disease. It has not been easy for them, not only to lose their mum at such a young age but also to live under the daily cloud of both parents living with a potentially life limiting disease.

I give thanks to my medical team, my family and to God for enabling me to be here today. But now I can glimpse my future – for goodness knows how long it may be – it’s time to prioritise.

There remain many fights to be had in all areas of my life. But I do recognise that some of these fights will kill me, due to the stress and irrational behaviour of those involved.

I’ve made the decision; they are all stopping. They can all be the winners. I’ve asked my team to work towards settlement or whatever it takes to resolve these long on-going disputes. Mr Trump says we need to stop the killing – this is only thing I do agree with him about – and I don’t want any of these disputes to kill me; so it stops.

Alongside some windsurfing, basketball, tennis and dog walking – my focus is now on the truly important work of my cancer foundation and all it holds dear to me, in commemoration of those that have lost their life too soon against this cruel disease.

Cheers to all those on the journey with me!

RE/MAX ESTATE AGENCY DUBIOUS TRANSACTIONS

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 06:05:14 GMT

NOT ALL THAT GLITTERS IS GOLD - SPECIALLY NOT ALL THEIR AGENTS

It has been a huge challenge to acquire the appropriate land in or around Ljubljana for the construction of a new state of the art hospital.

Instigated and funded by the Z Kos Foundation, their founder started with his request directly to the top and addressed it to the Slovenian government. There did not appear to be much enthusiasm to let Z Kos do something like this, as they still saw him as a Janez Janša supporter and not one of "them"; it didn’t matter that this was all about a project for the Slovenian people.

The Kos architects required a minimum 30,000m² of land for a 1000 bed hospital and in addition 10,000-20,000m² nearby for hospital staff accommodation. Z Kos asked the Slovenian government for this, either as a lease or as a freehold to buy. The team requested that the government allow the building and equipment for the hospital to be free of customs and taxes.

The Foundation also proposed to establish, with special government support, an education programme for a minimum of 6000 specialists, including doctors, surgeons, lab specialists and nurses which such a hospital would need to be operating 24/7/365.

When there was no concrete answer from the government, Z Kos approached the Mayor of Ljubljana Zoran Janković. Still there was no better luck.

Make no mistake, such a project is going to cost hundreds of millions of Euros not to mention the prices currently for the top CT, MRI and other scanners and equipment which would all be financed by Z Kos directly; must to mention, that such project will create over six thousands of new jobs.

Once there was no proper reply from the Government or the Mayor of Ljubljana’s office, the Kos team started to search for land through estate and property agencies in Slovenia.

The main negotiator here was Dr Ross, who engaged with the Re-Max (Re/Max) estate agency who he had come across before in France and Germany.

However, here a completely unforeseen outcome happened.

Dr Ross and Z Kos were promised and offered land which would apparently suit their needs. However, the land was not located in Ljubljana or around Ljubljana. Although this was not the ideal area, specially not from the logistic point of view (no main roads, no bus connections, no train line nearby, no airport close by) the Kos team accepted the offer.

To get the deal done and dusted, the estate agent Katja Zupanc recommended the purchase was dealt with through her mother’s dormant company. The company proposed would be Nepikum d.o.o. where the key principal is the same, Katja Zupanc. The buyers had no problem with this; they agreed that the agent should buy the property in her name via her mother's dormant company, or Nepikum d.o.o. or any other what suits her most, as she suggested. The Banker's draft, solicitor’s and notary letters were prepared.

The Banker's Draft for €1million named the agent directly; it was posted and delivered to the estate agent.

Once this had happened, Katja Zupanc the agent of Re-Max stopped all correspondence and blocked all further emails and calls. As there was no reply, even when Kos's solicitor tried to make contact, private detectives were engaged to check what was behind this "story" and why suddenly there was no reply whatsoever.

It emerged that this agent is apparently the daughter of an "ex-tycoon" how she describe herself, whose business collapsed years ago. They still have quite a bit of real estate in Slovenia and abroad, which the private detective could not confirm whether the Slovenian authority was aware of, or not.

Upon the revelation of this new circumstances, Kos's solicitor in Ljubljana assumed that that the estate agent had offered one of their family’s real estates which might not be on their names but on the name of relatives or friends.

The solicitor upon reviewing all the reports from two detective agencies also established that the entire family had various debts which have not yet been settled.

Make no mistake, despite all the promises, the Kos team realised quite quickly that not all that glitters is gold. Re/Max is an average real estate agency; I would never ever use them to buy my private home anywhere and I would not recommend them to my worst enemy, especially not this agent Ms Katja Zupanc, licence number 0296202934, who should be avoided by all means.

The person behind this "scam or uncertainty" whatever we name it with the land/property offer on "behalf" of Re/Max Premium Celje or whichever behalf was the one and the only Ms Katja Zupanc, licence number 0296202934, who like yoga as I do - she is good in joga, isn't she, but quite tricky person who failed completely with the property sale.

Dr Ross tried to post feedback for the stated agency Re/Max Premium Celje (Slovenia) however he realised quickly that they are not even listed for such occasions. However, was no surprise for either of us after seeing feedbacks of other Re/Max offices across Europe and US - all with just negative feedbacks.

Therefore, I was right with my statement that I would never ever use them to buy my private home anywhere and I would not recommend them to my worst enemy, especially not this agent Katja Zupanc, licence number 0296202934, who should be avoided by all means .

REWARDS GIVEN TO A TORI GOVERNMENT MEMBERS FOR THEIR FAILUIRES

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:24:11 GMT

RISHI SUNAK'S RESIGNATION HONOURS LIST

Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has named 36 people in his resignation honours list.

The list primarily is made up of former high-profile Conservative ministers, and a host of former advisers who worked for Sunak behind the scenes in No 10.

Peerages

Michael Gove - Held several cabinet roles under four prime ministers, including education, housing and justice. Now editor of the Spectator magazine.

Mark Harper - Former transport secretary and an ex-Tory chief whip.

Simon Hart - Served as Rishi Sunak's chief whip, and was previously Boris Johnson's Wales secretary.

Sir Alister William Jack - Served as Scotland secretary under three prime ministers.

Stephen Massey - Held the role of chief executive officer of the Conservative Party during Sunak's leadership.

Victoria Prentis - Served as attorney general and held other junior ministerial posts.

Eleanor Shawcross - Conservative adviser who ran Sunak's No 10 Policy Unit.

Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

Andrew Mitchell - Former international development secretary who went on to serve as David Cameron's number two in the Foreign Office in Sunak's government.

Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Theresa Villiers - Held the rural affairs and Northern Ireland posts under two prime ministers, and was a prominent early backer of the campaign to leave the EU.

Knighthood

James Anderson OBE - Cricketer who holds the all-time record for wickets taken for England. Sunak is a keen cricket fan.

James Cleverly - Former British Army soldier who served as foreign secretary and home secretary under Sunak.

Jeremy Hunt - Held several high-profile cabinet positions over 14 years, including foreign secretary and chancellor under Sunak.

Grant Shapps - Held ministerial or cabinet roles under four prime ministers, including as transport and defence Secretary.

Mel Stride - Served as Sunak's work and pensions secretary, and now holds the role of Tory shadow chancellor.

Matthew Vaughan - Film director known for the Kingsman series and X-Men reboots. A long-standing Conservative Party supporter.

Companion in the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (CB)

Elizabeth Perelman - Served as Sunak's principle private secretary, a senior civil service position working in Downing Street.

Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

John Bew - A foreign policy expert who advised three Conservative prime ministers, and continues to advise Sir Keir Starmer.

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Nerissa Chesterfield - Former director of communications at No 10.

Cassian Horowitz - Sunak's former special adviser.

Lisa Lovering - Ran operations in Downing Street during Sunak's premiership.

William Tanner - Sunak's former deputy chief of staff.

Rupert Yorke - Also a former deputy chief of staff.

Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Eden Barnes - Former head of events and visits at No 10.

Aidan Corley - A former special adviser who ran research and messaging in No 10 under Sunak.

Douglas McNeill - Served as Sunak's chief economic adviser.

James Nation - Was the deputy director of the No 10 policy unit.

Jamie Njoku-Goodwin - A former special adviser who worked for Sunak and other Tory ministers.

Lucy Noakes - Sunak's former press secretary.

Timothy Pitt - Former special adviser.

Robert Trotter - Sunak's ex-official speechwriter.

Henry de Zoete - Advised Sunak on artificial intelligence.

Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Ronald Kirk - A long-standing former Conservative councillor who served on Hambleton District Council.

Yvonne Peacock - A Conservative councillor who, like Mr Kirk, is based in North Yorkshire - where Sunak's Richmond seat is located.

George Livesey - Worked as Sunak's senior parliamentary assistant.

Medallists of the Order of the British Empire (BEM)

David McCormick - Collections manager at Chequers, the official country residence of the prime minister.

Emma Paterson - Head housekeeper at Chequers.

Well, well, well, say no more! If you lie and cheat nation you are rewarded as Rishi Sunak demonstrate with his honour list after he resigned from his duty as our Prime Minister.

Does my statement hold any water? Of course, hold a lot of water.

Rishi started fiddling with appointment of David Cameron as foreign minister, which gave him title “Lord”. Started and going further with Michael Gove is among several ex-Conservative ministers to be given a seat in the House of Lords. The former housing and education secretary served in the cabinets of four prime ministers but stood down as an MP before last July's general election. Reward to do all the lies and mess with Boris Johnson and then serving under Rishi Sunak, Micheal Gove gets peerage for which he is entitle to tax-free allowance of £131,765 plus travel expenses on tax payers expenses. A key ally of Sunak, Gove was appointed his secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities in October 2022, a role he also held under Boris Johnson. Other cabinet roles he has held include environment secretary, justice secretary and education secretary. A leading figure in the Brexit campaign alongside Johnson, the pair had a fraught relationship. In 2016 Gove derailed his friend's leadership hopes by running against him. Later, in the dying days of Johnson's premiership he was sacked after urging the PM to resign.

Meanwhile, former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and former Foreign Secretary James Cleverly have been awarded knighthoods. Sir Jeremy was brought in by Liz Truss as chancellor after she sacked Kwasi Kwarteng following her disastrous mini-Budget. His moves to scrap almost all the tax cuts his predecessor had promised helped to calm financial markets. He continued the role under Sunak but returned to the backbenches when Kemi Badenoch took over as Conservative leader. The MP for Godalming and Ash, who first joined the Commons in 2005, has also served as culture secretary in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics, foreign secretary and health secretary.

Cleverly held the role of foreign secretary under Truss and Sunak, before moving to home secretary. He ruled out serving in the shadow cabinet of Sunak's successor, after he was unexpectedly knocked out of the leadership contest before the final round. The other Conservative figures knighted are former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and former Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride, who currently serves as Badenoch's shadow chancellor.

Former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell, who was first elected in 1987, has been appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.

Others to be honoured include former Northern Ireland Secretary and Brexit campaigner Theresa Villiers, who is made a dame.

Former Chief Whip Simon Hart and former Scottish Secretary Sir Alister Jack, who stepped down as MPs ahead of last summer's general election, are among those to get peerages. Sir Alister served as Scottish secretary from 2019 until he stood down, later receiving a knighthood in Sunak's previous round of honours in July 2024. During the election campaign, he was the most senior politician to be caught up in the row over government insiders gambling on the date of the poll.

The former MP for Dumfries and Galloway admitted placing three bets but has previously said he did not breach any rules and has not been investigated by the Gambling Commission. Hart spent nearly two years as Sunak's chief whip, responsible for party discipline and ensuring MPs vote with the government.

The publication of his parliamentary diaries last month, which included stories of an MP being trapped in a brothel and politicians demanding knighthoods, caused a stir in Westminster and were criticised by some Tories for revealing the secrets of his time in government.

Also joining the House of Lords are former Transport Secretary Mark Harper, former Attorney General Victoria Prentis, former Conservative Party chief executive Stephen Massey and Eleanor Shawcross, who ran Sunak's policy unit in Downing Street.

Meanwhile, it was confirmed former Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman has been given a peerage, after being nominated by Badenoch.

Make no mistake: Rewards for the failure of a dreadful and disgraceful Conservative government under Rishi Sunak is slap in to our faces. The same was under Boris Johnson and previous therefore was rightly kicked out of office. Fingers crossed not to come back ever again.

Other my articles on Rishi Sunak includes:

WHAT IS TORIES LEGACY AFTER BEING 14 YEARS IN POWER

TORY DOOM AND GLOOM DEEPENS AFTER DOUBLE POLL BLOW

RISHI SUNAK- FOOLISHNESS OR COMPLETE MADNESS?

RISHI SUNAK AND THE HOUSE OF CARDS

CORRUPTION IN PLAIN SIGHT

THE RISHI SUNAK MUPPET SHOW

TAURUS MISSILE

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 02:54:29 GMT

Why Germany’s Taurus is Europe’s most-wanted long-range missile

Same as in the United Kingdom, Germany is on doorsteps of election. In Germany the SPD had gone into the election campaign with the no to the delivery of the cruise missile to Kiev. Friedrich Merz no longer wants to deny the Ukrainians the weapon - and thus gets the Social Democrats into trouble.

Anyone who has anything to do with Boris Pistorius these days encounters a man in two roles. The SPD politician is still acting Defence Minister of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz. With a probability bordering on certainty, however, he will soon serve as defence minister in the black-red coalition under Friedrich Merz (CDU). With his announcement that he wants to supply Ukraine, which has been invaded by Russia, the Taurus cruise missile, which Scholz refused, in coordination with partners, Merz has therefore put Pistorius in a delicate position.

Make no mistake, there are some good arguments for the delivery of Taurus, but there are also "huge numbers of arguments, a very very good argument against it". Only part of it can be discussed publicly. If Merz wants to coordinate with the European partners, one must also know that they do not have such a system.

The SPD's election program stated that Germany and NATO should not become a party to the war themselves however looking the numbers it is on the one hand – a matter of securing the majority of the approximately 358,000 voting SPD members for the coalition agreement with the CDU/CSU.

Especially in East Germany, the Taurus question is highly controversial.

And on the other hand, the SPD's election program for the Bundestag election stated that Germany and NATO should not become a party to the war themselves: "That is why we stand by Chancellor Olaf Scholz's decision not to supply the Taurus cruise missile from the Bundeswehr's stocks."

Have I come across in all my life that a single weapon system to appear so explicitly in the election program and could play major role? No way, it is very unusual and strange!

In the SPD parliamentary group, only very few had openly spoken out in favour of a delivery, most clearly the foreign policy expert Michael Roth, who has now left the Bundestag, and the defence and budget politician Andreas Schwarz. So, the black-red coalition-to-be, is asked to do finally what other partners have been doing for a long time.

The Taurus is not a miracle weapon, "but could saves Ukrainian lives". Schwarz, on the other hand, did not want to comment when asked. Am I surprised? Not at all. Taurus can have more deeper consequences not just for Germany but also for entire EU not to mention NATO.

Internally in SPD, there are efforts not to further fuel the debate so as not to make it even more difficult to campaign for the coalition after the NO of leading Jusos to the coalition agreement and different interpretations by the Union and SPD on the compromises on the minimum wage and relief for lower and middle incomes. Many SPD members are calling for more approaches to diplomatic solutions, even if Vladimir Putin has not yet shown any willingness to do so.

The question could become a test of endurance for the new coalition. Before Merz's latest statement, SPD leader Lars Klingbeil had stressed that all decisions would be made jointly "when it comes to strengthening Ukraine". In the traffic light coalition, Scholz had claimed the last word on arms deliveries. He pushed through the no to the delivery of Taurus against the FDP and the Greens.

Discussions about a blow to the bridge to Crimea.

Although the cruise missile is not seen as a "game changer" that would fundamentally change Ukraine's situation, it is seen as a means of destroying Russian supply routes. It had been discussed to use Taurus to destroy the Kerch Bridge to the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula in order to cut off supplies for Russian troops fighting in Ukraine. Merz also referred to this in the ARD program "Caren Miosga".

According to experts, this goal has currently lost importance. However, the Taurus, with its range of about 500 kilometres, would be of great value to hit airports and places from which Russian bombers or drones launch attacks on Ukraine.

Do Germans need a permission from the United Kingdom government? Not at all! Even less, we have our foreign secretary David Lummey MP who lost the plot on several issues completely, this would be just one more and I wonder why there is no cabinet reshuffle made by our PM Keir Starmer.

I don’t believe that the military capabilities of the Taurus are (still) needed. A ceasefire has to be secured and achieved with negotiations where neither site wants to accept the other.

MINSK AGREEMENT 12.02.2015 and 10 YEARS AFTER

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:34:31 GMT

2nd AGREEMENT SIGNED BETWEEN PRO-RUSSIAN REBELS AND KIEV

February 12, 2025 marks ten years since the second Minsk agreements were signed, which were supposed to stop the war in Ukraine’s Donbas region. On paper, it looked like a solid plan—halt the fighting, pull back the troops, and find a way for Donetsk and Luhansk to reintegrate into Ukraine. But in reality, it didn’t work out that way. Now, those agreements seem like a distant dream.

After the Euromaidan revolution in 2014, which led to the ousting of President Viktor Yanukvochy who had reneged on his promises of signing a trade association agreement with the European Union, unrest spread to eastern Ukraine, particularly in the Donbas region. As the new, pro-Western government took over in Kyiv, parts of Donbas, like Donetsk and Luhansk, tried to break away, with support from Russia. Moscow provided weapons, money, and even soldiers to back the separatists. Ukraine’s efforts to stop the rebellion through military force weren’t successful, and the conflict quickly escalated into full-scale fighting. By mid-2014, Russia had annexed Crimea, making it even harder to find a peaceful solution, which led to the push for the Minsk agreements.

The second Minsk deal, signed in February 2015, was meant to end the fighting that had already been tearing Eastern Ukraine apart for nearly a year. The plan had two main goals: first, a ceasefire and pulling back heavy weapons, and second, a political plan to give Donbas special status within Ukraine.

The ceasefire did calm things down for a while and prevented full-on fighting. But the political part—the part about Donbas becoming part of Ukraine again with a lot of autonomy—never happened. This failure was one of the key reasons Russia went ahead with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Looking back, the Minsk agreements weren’t meant to set up war; they were meant to prevent it. But Moscow’s argument that Russia should have invaded earlier doesn’t hold up when you look at the bigger picture. In 2014, Russia wasn’t ready for a full-blown war.

For one, their economy wasn’t in great shape. Oil prices were dropping, and the Russian economy was weaker than it seemed. Plus, Russia’s military wasn’t really prepared for a huge invasion of Ukraine at that time. While Ukraine’s army was small, Russia’s forces were stretched thin across the region, and a full invasion would have been a much bigger challenge. Even Russian military officials were hesitant about taking on a country as large as Ukraine.

So, Russia’s initial goal probably wasn’t to invade all of Ukraine—it was to help the separatists in Donbas fight for independence, and to take control of Crimea, where their forces were already stationed. The first Minsk agreement was supposed to stop the fighting, but it was never going to work because neither side was fully committed to it.

By 2015, after losing significant ground to the separatists, Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, signed the second Minsk deal. But even though the deal was signed, it didn’t bring peace. Russia still had big plans for Ukraine, and the political terms of the deal were too much for Kyiv to accept.

The Minsk agreements weren’t just about Ukraine and Russia—they had a lot to do with global politics. Moscow was using the agreements to avoid harsher international sanctions and to buy time. Ukraine, on the other hand, had to balance Western pressure with the need to protect its sovereignty. The West wanted peace, but Ukraine wasn’t about to give up control of Donbas.

Over time, Ukrainian leaders realized that even if they agreed to a deal, they couldn’t just let Russia keep its grip on the region. The West was pushing for a peaceful solution, but Kyiv knew that conceding to Moscow’s demands would set a dangerous precedent.

Looking ahead, peace seems harder than ever. Both sides are dug in, with Ukraine demanding stronger security guarantees from the West, and Russia insisting on a peace deal that includes recognition of their territorial gains. The war isn’t just a local conflict anymore—it’s become a broader struggle with global implications.

The big question now is whether there’s any chance for a lasting peace, or if the fighting will drag on until one side gives in completely. Only time will tell if peace is possible, but one thing is certain: the Minsk agreements are a reminder of how hard it is to find common ground when both sides are so far apart.

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OLD FRIENDS RUSSIA & SERBIA

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 03:08:08 GMT

LIKE FRENCH CONNECTION I & II - SERBIA AND RUSSIA CONNECTION

The Serbian government is said to have granted citizenship to nearly 800 Russian citizens, including 204 influential Russians.

Among them are former intelligence officers, war profiteers and oligarchs whose companies are under sanctions due to the war in Ukraine.

Over the past three and a half years, the Serbian government has granted citizenship to 204 influential Russians, bypassing regular procedures, because they are important to the national interest. Among them are former intelligence officers, war profiteers and oligarchs whose companies are under sanctions due to the war in Ukraine.

After reviewing extensive documentation on the investigation of crime and corruption, it is clear that from December 2021 to April 2025, Serbia granted citizenship to 766 Russian citizens, of whom 204 obtained Serbian passports under a special government resolution. In its decision, the Serbian government referred to a law that allows citizenship to be granted to foreigners regardless of the fulfilment of other conditions, if this is important for the interest of Serbia.

Among those who have obtained citizenship in this way, and thus the opportunity to circumvent restrictions imposed on Russian citizens by some EU countries due to the war in Ukraine, are several Russians with ties to the Kremlin’s political elite, the Russian security service (FSB) and the military industry. They also include individuals who have enriched themselves from the war in Ukraine, as well as other business magnates.

One of them is war profiteer Ivan Sibirev, whose company R-Stroy was hired by Russia, among other things, to carry out reconstruction in the war-torn Ukrainian city of Mariupol. The company was sanctioned by the EU last year for enriching itself at the expense of the war.

Following the same procedure, the Serbian government granted citizenship to Viktor Šendrik, a former member of the Russian security service (FSB). He is also a long-time associate of Russian oligarchs Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, who are financially supporting the neo-Nazi Espanyol fan battalion fighting in Ukraine as part of Russian forces.

According to a special procedure, Dmitry Sergeyev, a close friend of the son of the former secretary of the Russian National Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, also received citizenship.

It is not “secret” that Patrushev and Aleksandar Vulin, who was until recently the deputy prime minister of Serbia and before that the head of the BIA security and intelligence service, formed a "working group to combat colour revolutions". Its task is to prevent protests and organize surveillance of activists, journalists and human rights defenders.

Make no mistake, Serbia has maintained close relations with Moscow since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022, and, unlike the EU, which it wants to join, refuses to impose sanctions against Russia.

Neither the Serbian government nor the individuals mentioned in the research responded to detailed inquiries from Ali Fortescue, a Sky News journalist.

WORLD CANCER DATE - BORN ON 4th FEBRUARY 2000

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:19:05 GMT

25th ANNIVERSARY of WORLD CANCER DATE

Make no mistake: Cancer is one of the biggest health challenges worldwide.

Quick view on one of the cancer foundation:

Since they starting the research in 2011/12, the percentage of all deaths from cancer has risen from 9.6% in 2011 to 14.9% 10 years later; in the last 5 years this has risen again to where we now have 16.2% of all deaths recorded as cancer deaths.

Taking into consideration that in the period 2019-2024 the average European and the United Kingdom population was 760.3 million, an average 4,880,664 new cases were reported yearly during the same period. This is an ASR of 280, and a cumulative risk of 29.1%.

Breast, Colorectum, and Lung cancers were the most common cancers across both sexes. The male population in this period, some 370.2 million, recorded an average of 2,482,117 new cancer cases per year; an ASR of 321.4 per 100,000 and a cumulative risk of 33.1%.

The top 3 most common cancers among males were Prostate, Lung, and Colorectum cancer.

The female population in this period, some 390.1 million, recorded an average 2,398,547 new cancer cases per year; an ASR of 258.6 and a cumulative risk of 26.5%.

The top 3 most common cancers in females were Breast, Colorectum, and Lung cancer.

A significant point with cancer in the female population was the drop in lung cancer to 3rd place, with colorectum cancer overtaking to 2nd place.

Their mortality database is a collection of death registration data which includes cause of death information from member states; we use only the data which has been properly coded to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

What has also changed in recent years is the age of death rate. This had declined over time in several countries due to life improvements, early diagnoses, medical advances, and a general reduction in risk factors like smoking. However, there is a worrying emerging trend with rates of cancer in the population group aged up to 16.

This is rising well over expectations, especially in the United Kingdom, Spain and France.

Do we have answer: Not really, because there is no solution to end all these “cold wars” between the pharmaceutical giants and others researchers. They will never ever join the forces therefore in research and development so far the cancer is concern there is (and will be) impossible to join the forces, because they will never ever be able to draw the line between whose invention or development was more crucial for the final products.

UKRAINES MILITARY DRONES - NEVER ENDING STORY

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:45:01 GMT

BRITISH AND UKRAINE MEETING IN KYIV

Nearly straight after New Year our PM Keir Starmer met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. But this was not just a simple friendly meeting, our PM attended a presentation of Ukrainian military drones.

The pledge of our PM was to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position. This was also a trip to Kyiv where he signed a remarkable landmark, a 100-year pact with the war-stricken country.

There were reported loud blasts and air raid sirens where Ukraine claimed that they were hit by Russian drone attack, however was intercepted by Ukraine’s defence systems. No such confirmation has come from the Russian. Was this yet another perfect scenario prepared from previous comedian Zelensky for our PM?

After the end of its third year of war between Russia and Ukraine it is estimated one million people have been killed or wounded so far. As the invasion reaches the end of its third year, Ukraine is losing territory in the east.

There was never any shadow of the doubt that Zelensky praised the UK’s commitment, amid wider concerns that the US President-elect Donald Trump, who is set to take office on Monday, could potentially reduce aid. Zelensky is looking to firm up security guarantees from key allies as there are worries the US – which is Ukraine’s biggest financial backer – could start pushing Ukraine to make peace with Russia. Our PM went out with quite a bold statement: “We are with you not just today, for this year or the next – but for 100 years!"

He also said that the UK would work with all its allies to ensure that any deal ending the war would be strong enough to “guarantee Ukraine’s security” and “deter any future aggression.”

Make no mistakes, Zelensky has previously asked for the UK, as well as other European allies like France and Germany to send troops to Ukraine for a peacekeeping operation "after the war". Luckily for British soldiers, Starmer has not confirmed whether the UK would deploy troops.

We have to remind ourselves that nearly £13bn has already been given to Ukraine and not even mention that the UK pledged to support £3bn every year for as long as it takes. Excuse me, as long as it takes? However we must not forget further UK military support, including the delivery of a new mobile air defence system - designed by the UK and apparently funded by Denmark. However in this circus cat and mouse we must not forget economic aid, healthcare support, and the least but not last increased military collaboration on maritime security, drone technology and the UK will continue to train Ukrainian troops upon more that 50,000 have been already trained on British soil.

WHAT IS CENTRE OF GRAVITY OF A DEMOCRACY

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 02:23:12 GMT

What functions must a political institution have to perform its duties and guarantee survival?

The social contract is democracy’s centre of gravity. A cornerstone of Rousseau’s, Hobbes’, and Locke’s political philosophy on the state, the social contract relies on trust. Citizens abide by government-defined rules, which restrict certain freedoms in exchange for state protection of security and rights. For this to happen, citizens must trust in their governments and institutions.

Access to information is a crucial enabler of trust, allowing citizens to judge the efficacy of a government’s policies and to form an opinion to elect a democratic government. Verified information is a critical currency in democracies. Schools and professional media are also crucial guarantors of trustworthy information. Yet, these gatekeepers are increasingly overwhelmed with disinformation.

Disinformation Dramaturgy

Disinformation, defined as “the deliberate creation and dissemination of false and/or manipulated information with the intent to deceive and/or mislead”, is not a new phenomenon. It has been a feature of human communication for centuries at least since Roman times, yet with the development of communication technologies, information has become increasingly vulnerable to disinformation.

The invention of the Internet made information ubiquitous and accessible worldwide. Social media has allowed for the democratisation of free speech and the emergence of information bubbles and echo chambers, thus enabling the increasing weaponisation of narratives.

Now generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) heralds a new era for disinformation where subversion, the deliberate attempt to undermine a legitimate authority, is becoming a key feature of power politics and global influence.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) through machine learning, deep learning, and now generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) heralds a new era for disinformation where subversion, the deliberate attempt to undermine a legitimate authority, is becoming a key feature of power politics and global influence.

In August 2023, Wired reported that it was possible to generate propaganda at scale 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for less than $400. Since then, the cost has been divided by almost four. An American citizen, John Mark Dougan, used GenAI to produce content and created a “web of deception” by creating 167 Russian disinformation websites masquerading as independent local U.S. news sources as of May 2024. AI content farms are growing exponentially, from 49 AI-generated news and information websites identified in 2023 to 1090 in October 2024. The pink slime phenomenon, i.e., fake websites funded by partisan groups posing as neutral local news outlets, now outnumber actual local daily newspapers. In a survey published in April 2024, 31% of US adults report feeling uncertain most of the time, and 52% are unsure about the accuracy of information about the 2024 election. Citizens increasingly mistrust information, which contributes to the erosion of trust in democracies.

Democracy, Disrupted

In 2024, 50% of the world’s population was eligible to elect its government or parliament. Fears were high that AI would be disruptive in manipulating elections. Examples of AI-enabled manipulations were bountiful, such as robocalls impersonating President Biden’s voice during the Democratic primaries. Deepfakes were everywhere, such as the deepfake video of Bollywood actor Aamir Khan endorsing a specific political party during the Indian elections or Donald Trump’s deepfake images with Black Americans to shore up their political support. However, the impact of these manipulations on election results was marginal, leading some to argue that AI’s impact on elections was being overblown or, as the Washington Post stressed, it did not sway the election result.

Current AI-enabled disinformation can generate disinformation at scale, saturating and polluting the information space, and blurring the line between what is false and true.

Such an argument overlooks a vital point: The main impact of AI-enabled disinformation is less about the ability to sway someone’s political opinion specifically. Instead, it is about instilling doubts surrounding the legitimacy of the political institutions and the outcomes of democratic processes. Current AI-enabled disinformation can generate disinformation at scale, saturating and polluting the information space, blurring the line between what is false and true, and eventually supporting views that subjective interpretations and perceptions have the same value as objective facts. This culminates in a global epistemic crisis characterised by abandoning Enlightenment-era values based on rational analytic human reason.

The proliferation of augmented and virtual reality tools (such as Apple‘s Vision Pro headset released in February 2024) combined with emerging neurotech devices that monitor brain activity (such as Emotiv devices) to read someone’s emotional state offer dystopian prospects about the future of disinformation. These technologies could potentially enable targeted individual manipulations at scale. While this level of maturity has not yet been reached, the exponential advancement of these technologies means that the human brain will increasingly become a battlefield enabling cognitive warfare, seeking to control what people think in order to control how they act.

In the future, the malicious uses of immersive (metaverses) and invasive (and later non-invasive) neurotechnologies such as brain-computer interfaces (e.g. devices developed by Neuralink) combined with AI could become some of the weapons of this new type of warfare if these technologies are not appropriately regulated.

Disinformation Diplomacy - A Multilateral Response

International institutions are addressing disinformation, such as the UNGA Resolution 76/227, which invites states to counter disinformation through adequate measures, the UNESCO action plan, the EU Code of Practice on disinformation, and the OECD efforts to tackle disinformation. States are also taking action. In 2021, Chile established a national legislation to protect “mental integrity” and neurodata in its constitution, becoming the first Supreme Court to rule on a neuro-privacy case in 2023. Nevertheless, these different initiatives require multilateral coordination.

Birthplace of the World Wide Web, Geneva has played a pivotal role in global communication and digital governance through multilateral institutions like the International Telecommunication Union and the Internet Governance Forum, as well as UN-led initiatives such as the Open-Ended Working Group or the Group of Governmental Experts on Cyberspace.

Geneva is uniquely positioned to become the global governance hub on combating disinformation and creating an emerging regime on subversion control, mimicking those on arms control.

Geneva is uniquely positioned to become the global governance hub on combating disinformation and creating an emerging regime on subversion control, mimicking those on arms control. The exponential growth of AI-enabled disinformation has created a new class of WMD: Weapons of Mass Disinformation whose technology are mainly developed by the private sector. The imperative here is to prevent these technologies from becoming the new 21st century WMDs, which, although they are not lethal, could prove as disruptive as the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) of the 20th century, and for which Geneva had an equally important role to play.

GENEVA – 30th Anniversary of the World Trade Organization

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 01:58:25 GMT

A BLUEPRINT FOR SUSTAINABLE TRADE

As the WTO approaches its 30 ^th anniversary, it faces a stark choice: Evolve to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century or drift toward the periphery of global governance. The authors argue that WTO members should commit to regearing the global trade system for a sustainable future.

For many years, the World Trade Organization (WTO) occupied an enviable position as one of the world’s most effective and influential international economic organisations. Today, however, the organisation faces a legitimacy crisis as it navigates geopolitical circumstances defined by deep doubts about the neoliberal economic model that has underpinned the trade system since the 1980s, a virulent U.S.-China rivalry, and the unfulfilled development aims of the Global South. Compounding these issues, the WTO – or more precisely the 164 Members of the WTO – stand accused of failing to advance the global community’s commitment to climate change action and sustainable development. Thus, as the organisation approaches the 30th anniversary of its founding, the WTO Members face a stark choice: evolve to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century or drift toward the periphery of global governance.

Make no mistake: WTO is in crisis!

In one sense, the WTO’s current travails can be attributed to institutional design choices that have facilitated deadlock, stoked frustrations of both large and small economies, and left many believing that the global trade system is stacked against them. Above all, the WTO requirement that agreements be reached by consensus – which in the trading system tradition means that no Member objects – has hampered reform efforts. Indeed, until very recently, very little had been achieved through WTO negotiations since the body came into existence in 1995. The successful conclusion of talks on fisheries subsidies reform in 2022 stood out as a break with this disappointing track record and a welcome reminder that trade policy progress can be made multilaterally – albeit more slowly and incrementally than many of those clamouring for WTO reform would have liked.

In another sense, the global trade system is a victim of its own success. Designed as it was to increase economic integration and trade volumes, the WTO emerged so effective in its mission to clear away barriers to trade that it left an imbalance in the ability of the international system to regulate the resulting commerce. As a result, some members are now chafing against the very system they created. In the case of the US, this shift has been nothing less than a volte-face. Once the leading proponent of trade liberalisation, the world’s largest economy has since 2018 paralyzed the WTO’s much-vaunted dispute resolution system by blocking judges to its Appellate Body.

The headwinds facing the WTO have grown stronger over the past few years as a series of shocks and escalating geopolitical tensions have roiled global markets and snarled supply chains, leading major economies to speak of decoupling, nearshoring, and even deglobalization. In many nations, the notion that economic interdependence supports peace and security, a bedrock principle of the post-war economic order, seems to have been forgotten. In the words of WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iwaela, this principle is “under attack, and its achievements are in danger.”

Crisis brings opportunity as the saying goes. But opportunity alone will not save the WTO unless its Members can agree on an “underlying mission and ethos” that rebuilds belief in the trade system’s ability to address the great challenges of the moment.

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:16:11 GMT

PROSPEROUS CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS

THE WINNERS AND THE LOSERS

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 01:22:21 GMT

TRANSFORMATION CANCER TREATMENT - THE DREAM CONTINUES

Every day we see all sorts of counterfeit and replica products from songs, food, drinks.

Even our medications are not exempt from copycats.

On a few occasions, I (we) have been accused of being a dreamer and a fantasist. Indeed, for the last two days, I have been at the “general meeting” of my team of dreamers and fantasists - 27 medical scientists, 44 doctors, researchers and 71 practitioners and other staff; all of whom are well respected scientists and doctors from around the world. This dream team is working together to finalise our aim - to get to the bottom of the 6th cancer - the skin cancer.

We discussed several new strategies and techniques. In particular Dr F Demichelis, one of my close friends from the team, suggested something really revolutionary in all respects.

She was well surprised when I said, “you are a dreamer and a fantasist”. She was a bit confused about whether I was being serious or was just joking. Of course, it was a joke, and I shared what some people had said about me and us.

Make no mistake, every person with brains should know Dr Demichelis' part in oncology. Her contribution to research generally or to the particular issue in oncology is second-to-none, not to mention her part in our work to develop the best medications for the most common cancers. This applies to every scientist, doctor and practitioner on the team, who each have a background which we are so proud of.

But going back to our medications; we have realised that our medications have been partially copied. Our German pharmaceutical partner, who has been manufacturing the medications for our hospital/clinical trials, has also come to the same conclusion.

For example, AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (Registered as Durvalumab) basically is, according to our tests and those done by our German Pharmaceutical partner, a 32% close copy of our Marageandon (Registered under different name). Luckily for us, the main components are not even close to ours.

AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso (Registered as Osimertinib), is a partial copy of our Duranteridon (Registered under different name). Our German pharma partner suggests a similarity of 29% with the major 3 components missing.

Furthermore, we are using and testing our new medication Bogrezomb (Registered under a different name). Johnson & Jonson registered a drug similar to our Bogrezom, with a few modifications, as Velcade (registered name, however offered to the market under two different names).

The same is with our Goratouram (Registered under different name) which Johnson & Johnson is in process of registering in the EU as “their” medication Darzalex.

Bogrezomb and Goratouran are drugs which every oncology department would use as basic medication. They are like when you put “sugar” in a cup of coffee.

And the list goes on and on.

There is no solution to end all these “cold wars” between the pharmaceutical giants and others like us.

To join forces in research and development is impossible, because you cannot draw the line between whose invention or development was more crucial for the final products.

We have an offer on a table from our German pharmaceutical manufacturing partner, who for over five years has prepared the medication for our hospital/clinical trials. My dilemma here is, what will happen once all the licences and patents are passed to either one company or one government or simply to one individual?

All my (our) medications are temporarily registered and they have EMA approval, but not from the British MHRA due to the capriciousness of Boris Johnson (former PM) and all subsequent PM’s.

As both AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson are so close to the corridors of power in the United Kingdom, our lawyers advised against submitting charges of infringement against AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson in the UK court on 30 October 2024, but they will press the charges in the European Court instead during the second half of November 2024.

Why is all this happening to us and to our medications? Purely because I am waiting for the new British Government to reply to my solicitors so that we know where we stand. I have delayed offering these medications on the free market; where on a “first come – first serve basis” is excluded; our German partner is the frontrunner.

Therefore, the only offer on the free market will be on “highest bid wins”.

The Germans have offered me €5.8bn, one US pharmaceutical manufacturer offered through Italy (they were in hospital in Italy for 2 weeks on an “exchange” basis, where at the same time there were patients treated with our medications & technique). After 3 weeks on returning to the US they sent an offer to the doctors there to check with us whether we (I) would be willing to accept $7.1bn for all the licences and patents. Up to date I (we) have not approached the US corporation.

The only dream here is, the United Kingdom will decide to accept my and my solicitors offer and put the signatures on offer given to enable it to be available on the NHS.

The fantasists in this scenario are the one who believe that without their signatures my offer will be handed over to whoever they have in mind.

The bottom line here is that patients and their families need to be the winners and not the losers!

OLUKEMI OLUFUNTO ADEGOKE BADENOCH (KEMI BADENOCH) - ANOTHER DELUSIONAL TORY

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 12:15:30 GMT

SHE IS FULL MOUTH ABOUT HONESTY - A WORD WHICH IS NOT IN HER VOCABULARY and SHE DOES NOT KNOW THE MEANING OF THIS WORD! A NEW PM? HA-HA-HA SAID THE CLOWN!

Was I impressed with Kemi Badenoch’s inauguration” as the new conservative leader?

What a joke – it seems all of the conservative party have lost the plot. Mercifully, some of them have walked away and don’t want to be part of her cabinet. Pleasingly, that snake of Grant Shapps is not in the shadow cabinet. Lucky me! I cannot stand that liar.

Talking about lies, Kemi states “we have to be honest.” Maybe she is on Venus and I am on Pluto, but for sure, we are not on the same planet.

Make no mistake, this is the women who literally whenever she opens her mouth more lies came out. Shall we start? OK, here we go, but just a few as I have no time to write about her nonsenses.

Earlier this year, she said that she was engaged with trade talks with Canada. The FT reported in February 2024 that the Canadian high commissioner to the UK, Ralph Goodale, had written to the House of Commons business select committee to insist Badenoch’s claimed talks, which also cover cheesemakers, have not happened
Do you remember her maiden speech as an MP in July 2017? She described the referendum result for Brexit as "the greatest ever vote of confidence in the project of the United Kingdom"; and cited her personal heroes as Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher. Even after all these years since Brexit, she cannot see for herself what huge damage Brexit has caused to the United Kingdom; most obviously food prices have skyrocketed due to limited, and restricted, supplies to the UK.
The following year, Ms Badenoch variously voted against a referendum on the withdrawal agreement and the custom union with the EU; then in the October she voted for Johnson’s withdrawal agreement. Flip-flop? You must be joking! Badenoch never flip-flops, she stated this clearly to Key Burley on Sky News
What did Kemi achieve in the Johnson government? Nothing at all, apart from reputational damage for the United Kingdom. Do you recall her attack on the journalist Nadine White? Her two tweets were defended by PM Johnson’s press secretary who commented “all was a misunderstanding.” Lies! In Bojo’s reshuffle she was promoted - another joke. Despite this, she resigned from Bojo’s cabinet citing his lack of reproachment for Chris Pincher. This was not because of Pincher but to launch herself into the leadership contest, advocating “to tell the truth.” Lies. Of course, she was eliminated from the contest.
With Truss’s government, her role was Secretary of State for International Trade, which she didn’t understand the meaning of at all same as her boss not. After the lettuce lasted longer than Liz Truss, she switched her allegiance to Rishi Sunak.
Once at Rishi’s table, Kemi stated clearly what a “honest, serious leader will Rishi be”. Do I have to remind you that the government under Rishi Sunak was engulfed with sleaze, lies and cronyism, the same as with all previous Conservative PM’s.
Badenoch admitted that she hacked into the website of Harriet Harman who was at the time Deputy Leader of Labour Party. The matter was reported to Action Fraud, the UK’s cyber-crime reporting centre. Is this a person of integrity and honesty who hacked into another person computer or website?
She lied even on the day after being elected as the new Tory leader. Laura Kuenssberg asked her live on air on her “Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg” show, whether she was doing all this to become Prime Minister. Badenoch categorically denied this and that all she wants to happen is to “tell the truth.” Well, I need to go to “Specsavers Opticians” as her leadership bid logo was “Kemi for Prime Minister.” If this happens, I will emigrate from the United Kingdom and finally go to my beloved Switzerland or Slovenia.
What kind of colleagues has she appointed to the Shadow Cabinet? People who lied all the time as she did, like: Priti Patel, Chris Philp, Laura Trott, Helen Whately, Andrew Griffith, Claire Coutinho, Victoria Atkins, Andrew Bowie. I still cannot believe that Robert Jenrick is part of this Shadow Cabinet.
So, what has changed with new Tory party leader? Nothing much - same depressing and delusional members of Conservative party. Although we must acknowledge the diversity of their recent leaders, nothing has fundamentally changed with Tory leaders.

Ms Badenoch’s political career has been a disaster all the way:

In General Election 2010 she contested the Dulwich and West Norwood constituency. She was 3rd, winner Tessa Jowell (Labour).

In 2012 she stood for the London Assembly elections, where she finished 5 th , meaning she was not elected.

In the 2015 General Election, “luck” struck twice for Badenoch. Viki Borwich was elected to the House of Commons and Suella Fernandes (Braverman) was also elected as an MP, so two seats on the London Assembly were available. Kemi became an Assembly Member, however a year later she lost her seat.

In 2016 she supported Brexit.

For the 2017 General Election, she was a shortlisted conservative candidate for the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency. She was unsuccessful there but went on to be selected for the much safer seat of Saffron Walden, which she finally won.

In 2019, Badenoch was attacking Tulip Siddiq (Labour Party) making a point about scheduled Brexit voting. She was slapped by all parties, including her own Conservative party.

2019 also saw her support the campaign of Michael Gove in the new Conservative party leadership election.

And so on and on. There was literally no “job” or vacancy in the Tory government which Badenoch was not appointed to, apart from being Chancellor or Prime Minister.

Loser always has an excuse like Kemi "to be honest". Well, the winner always has a plan and program what this new Labour government has which was not the case with previous 14 years of Conservative government.

Is this really the best that the Conservative party has got? Is there not one honest, trustful and openminded Tory member? Shame on you all!

Read previous post on Kemi's tricks and lies:

KEMI BADENOCH v the POST OFFICE (Henry Staunton) Part I

KEMI BADENOCH v the POST OFFICE (Henry Staunton) Part II

RACHEL'S REEVES BUDGET 2024

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 01:16:16 GMT

THE 1st LABOUR'S BUDGET SINCE 2010 DELIVERED BY 1st FEMALE CHANCELLOR

Rachel’s Key Points in the Budget 2024

The first Labour’s Budget since 2010 after the party’s return to power in July’s 2024 General Election, delivered by the first female Chancellor Rachel Reeves

She started with hard point to many with announcing tax to rise approx. £40bn to fund the NHS and other public services like schools, transport, defence and few other departments.

What and where changes have been announced?

Personal Taxes

Basic rate capital gains tax on profits from selling shares to increase from 10% to 18%, with the higher rate rising from 20% to 24%
Exemptions when inheriting farmland remain the same but will change and will be less generous from 2026
Income tax band thresholds to rise in line with inflation but the earliest after 2028, preventing more people being dragged into higher bands as wages rise
Inheritance tax threshold freeze extended by further two years till 2030, with unspent pension pots also subject to the tax from 2027
Rates of Income Tax and National Insurance (NI) paid by employees, and of VAT, to remain unchanged
Rates on profits from selling additional property unchanged

Business Taxes

Companies to pay NI at 15% on salaries above £5,000 from April, up from 13.8% on salaries above £9,100, what eventually will be raising in addition £25bn a year
Employment allowance - which allows smaller companies to reduce their NI liability - to increase from £5,000 to £10,500
Main rate of corporation tax, paid by businesses on taxable profits over £250,000 will remain unchanged 25% until the next election
Tax paid by private equity managers on share of profits from successful deals to rise from up to 28% to up to 32% from April 2025

Wages, Benefits and Pensions

Basic and new state pension payments to go up by 4.1% next year due to the "Triple Lock", more than working age benefits
Eligibility widened for the allowance paid to full-time carers, by increasing the maximum earnings threshold from £151 to £195 a week
Legal minimum wage for over-21s to rise from £11.44 to £12.21 per hour from April 2025
Rate for 18 to 20-year-olds to go up from £8.60 to £10, as part of a long-term plan to move towards a "single adult rate"

Transport

£2 cap on single bus fares in England to rise to £3 from January 2025, outside London and Greater Manchester
5p cut in fuel duty on petrol and diesel brought in by the Conservatives, due to end in April 2025, kept for another year
Air Passenger Duty to go up in 2026, by £2 for short-haul economy flights and £12 for long-haul ones, with rates for private jets to go up by 50%
Commitment to fund tunnelling work to take HS2 high-speed rail line to Euston station in central London
Extra £500m next year to repair potholes in England
The TransPennine rail will be upgraded between York and Manchester, but not before ministers check and look where is possibility to cut costs
Vehicle Excise Duty paid by owners of all but the most efficient NEW petrol cars to double in their first year, to encourage shift to electric vehicles

Drinking and Smoking

Government to review thresholds for sugar tax on soft drinks, and consider extending it to "milk-based" beverages
New flat-rate tax of £2.20 per 10ml of vaping liquid introduced from October 2026, as ministers shelve Tory plans to link the levy to nicotine content
Tax on non-draught alcoholic drinks to increase by the higher RPI measure of inflation, but tax on draught drinks cut by 1.7%
Tax on tobacco to increase by 2% above inflation, and 10% above inflation for hand-rolling tobacco

Government Spending and Public Services

£1.3bn extra funding next year for local councils, which will also keep all cash from Right to Buy sales from next month
Day-to-day spending on NHS and education in England to rise by 4.7% in real terms this year, before smaller rises next year
Defence spending to rise by £2.9bn next year
Home Office budget to shrink by 3.1% this year and 3.3% next year in real terms, due to assumed savings from asylum system

Housing

Current affordable homes budget, which runs until 2026, boosted by £500m
Discounts for social housing tenants buying their property under the Right to Buy scheme to be reduced
Point at which house buyers start paying stamp duty on a main home to drop from £250,000 to £125,000 in April 2025, reversing a previous tax cut
Social housing providers to be allowed to increase rents above inflation under multi-year settlement
Stamp duty surcharge, paid on second home purchases in England and Northern Ireland, to go up from 3% to 5%
Threshold at which first-time buyers pay the tax will also drop back, from £425,000 to £300,000

UK Growth, Inflation and Debt

Budget policies will increase UK borrowing by £19.6bn this year and by an average of £32.3bn over the next five years, according to the OBR
Inflation predicted to average 2.5% this year, 2.6% next year, before falling to 2.3% in 2026
Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicts the UK economy will grow by 1.1% this year, 2% next year, and 1.8% in 2026
Official definition of UK government debt loosened by including a wider range of financial assets, such as future student loan repayments

Other Measures

£11.8bn allocated to compensate victims of the infected blood scandal, with £1.8bn set aside for wrongly prosecuted Post Office sub-postmasters
Government to stop receiving surplus cash from pension scheme for mineworkers
Extra spending in England:

£3.4bn more for Scotland

£1.7bn more for Wales and

£1.5bn more for Northern Ireland

All in devolution payments.

OPEN LETTER TO THE UK GOVERNMENT

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:50:10 GMT

TRANSFORMATIONAL CANCER TREATMENT, Sir CHRIS HOY & UK Gov Approval

Mrs Rachel Reeves MP, Chancellor of Exchequer

Mr Jonathan Reynolds MP, Business Secretary

Mr Wes Streeting MP, Health Secretary

Mrs Lisa Nandy MP, Sport Secretary

Date: 21 ^st October 2024

Dear Government officials

Re: Open Letter to the Government of United Kingdom

Transformational cancer treatment, Sir Chris Hoy and British Government approval

Since the announcement of Sir Chris Hoy’s terminal cancer, I have received in excess of 200 requests to help with my (our) medication/treatment. I recognise that Sir Chris, the six times Olympic Gold Winner, and his wife Sarra are in nearly every Brits heart; but all I can currently do is switch my phone off and pretend that I am not available.

You, as the government, have not been bothered to answer my and my solicitor’s recent letters. Therefore, I am currently unable to help Sir Chris Hoy and his wife Sarra, as well as thousands and thousands of cancer patients in the United Kingdom, as my hands are tied.

My (our) medications have been approved by the European Medical Association (EMA) but not by the British MHRA, which is the fault of Mr Boris Johnson all the subsequent Conservative Prime Ministers thereafter. The rest of the history you know.

I will not now be registering my medications for four (4) most common cancers in the United Kingdom as well not for the fifth - Prostate Cancer, because of all the bureaucratic issues and other issues which I have pointed out in my previous correspondence with Rachel Reeve, Jonathon Reynolds, Wes Streeting, Lisa Nandy and others.

We are in position to help the Hoys. However, to progress this our German pharmaceutical partner would need to co-ordinate everything and prepare all the necessary tablets/ cocktail/ infusion/ injections for administration either in a Swiss, German or Italian hospital.

My tablets/ cocktail/ infusion/ injection needs to be prepared, as you are already more than aware, based on the specific DNA - or for a group of similar DNAs - to have the proper effect on the patient(s).

So, as well as their consent, they would need to provide their DNA, weight, height, complete diagnose and dob data, etc, …

At the end of the day, for me the patients are always first and I would like to help at any time and any occasions whenever possible.

This, of course, include Sir Chris and his wife Sarra. As I stated, we can provide treatment in Germany or Switzerland or Italy, but not in the United Kingdom.

My children and I went through eleven distressing years supporting my wife’s battle with cancer. We realised she was being used as a guinea pig; on occasions she was given 17 different medications daily, including four which shouldn’t be used at the same time.

When I finally met with her GP, I was told that the medications were prescribed by three hospital consultants; each had prescribed different drugs.

When I made a written complaint, I didn’t receive a single answer from the hospital or from the Health Secretary.

My wife passed away in 2019 aged 46, after we were together for 28 years. I still can’t comprehend why she had to die so young. We started this research programme in 2011; it is a great regret to me that we didn’t start earlier as she might still be alive, or her life could have been prolonged.

As it stands, we now have the top medication for the five main cancers – brain, breast, colon/rectum, lung as well for the prostate cancer.

My wife’s death, my own cancers, the death of some of those close to me, and the death of a few doctors I knew – all from cancer - sparked me to go on this long journey.

I am willing to help anyone, anywhere as I know the pain and suffering endured by patients and their families.

However, as I said, in the United Kingdom my hands are tied because your Government are not interested.

Consequently, if the medications are not (pre)registered in the United Kingdom there can’t be any hospital trials, and they can’t then be used more generally in the UK.

As far as Sir Chris Hoy and his wife Sarra are concerned, they would need to join hospital trials in either Germany, Italy or Switzerland.

Based on their personal data, my (our) laboratory in Switzerland will suggest the type and strength of medication, together with the best treatment protocol.

Our German pharmaceutical partner, who has been manufacturing the medication for us for last 5 years, normally then requires 5-7 days in extreme cases they can prepare in the same day. For reference, it is this partner who wants to buy the European licence and all the patents from me.

You are aware that my medications are prepared, in layman’s terms, on the basis of repairing errors in the cellular DNA; proteins like FANC1 and FANCD2 are used along with another nine (9) which are not currently recognised and even less used in whichever combination with whatever cancer medication in the United Kingdom. With Sir Chris Hoy along with proteins there might be also use of seven (7) different hormones. Not seeing and having all the data of Sir Hoy illness I can only speculate what I will never ever when medications or treatments are concerned.

Treatment is a complex process and procedure where there is no place for cutting the corners or room for improvisation.

I have personally tested all my medications myself. In 1998 I was diagnosed with High Grade Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Cancer; St Thomas’ hospital gave me 3-4 months to live. I have subsequently had another 4 cancers. By going through standard treatment along with my medications, I have tested double combined treatment to the limits.

I have also tested on myself various combinations of chemotherapy/my medications and radiotherapy/my medications.

To date, there are literally no side effects of any kind in respect of my (our) medications.

We have been working with doctors in Australia, United States, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France and also in the United Kingdom. Our goal is, and always was, and always will be to serve patients and their families with proper medication and treatment for treating cancers and to go further and further with our research.

I would like to help Sir Chris Hoy and his family; I would also like to help the many thousands and thousands of individuals in the UK suffering with cancer. To do this, the Government needs to respond to our proposal before I give up and sell the patent to our current German Pharma partner.

Yours faithfully

Zdenko Kos MSc MEc BScEcon (Hons) MBA

OUR FIGURES ON PROSTATE CANCER

Prostate Cancer Data

Mortality in EU 2018/23: 37,922; Mortality in UK 2018/23: 19,885 (standard treatments)

Result by Staring using our New medication/Treatment

(Testing period 2018-2023 all age groups):

Tested patients in UK, Switzerland, Germany and Italy: 295,275

Fully recovered (all risk levels): 49%

Recovered (no further treatments needed for period of next couple of years): 19%

Partially recovered (further treatments needed as precaution after 6months passed): 23%

Unknown recovery/non-recovery: 8%

Deaths in total: less than 1% (mostly people age over 82)

REFERENCES TO THE DATA ABOVE:

Age Gap:

The youngest person was of 18 years of age

The oldest person was well over 88 years of age

Gender:

Female: Only 4 of 295,275 (Prostate cancer with female are very very rare)

Male: 295,271

% of male group 18-25 was 4.2%
% of male group 26-45 was 22.4%
% of male group 46-65 was 30.8%
% of male group 66-88 was 42.6%

Methods:

Old Methods meaning the standard methods used by hospital on daily basis for last minimum 5 years in EU and in the UK.

New Methods meaning our medication/treatment with which we came out after over 12 years of research and test.

New Methods combine meaning our medication/treatment combined in double parallel treatment > new medication and different way of treatment

Separate there are also results of our new medication/treatment combined with "old" methods however the final readings cannot be 100 percent accurate and cannot be as such used for whatever compares.

Mortality:

In the Europe 2018-2023 > 10.2%

In the United Kingdom 2018-2023 > 8.8%

With our new medication/treatment in Europe & United Kingdom 2018-2023 > Less than 1%.

SHOW MUST GO ON

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 03:17:53 GMT

IT IS INSANE, DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND POLITICIANS

Make no mistake, daily life goes on in the face of adversity which has become a familiar feature of Ukrainian society. Opera houses and theatres have remained open since the first weeks of the invasion, Kyiv’s restaurant and bar scene is vibrant at least until the midnight curfew approaches, and the Black Sea beaches are filled with holidaymakers in the hot summer months. On top of which President Zelensky even authorised the opening of Ukrainian fashion week.

War – what war is in Ukraine?

This is like a joke – a perfect scenario from the previous comedian and now the President of Ukraine. I wrote about this in previous articles. The Ukraine “war” was a perfect foil for leaders who had failed in their own countries - like Boris Johnson, or even Joe Biden, who both needed some distraction for their countries’ own problems, e.g. Brits did not concentrate on the failure of conservative party, and

everybody had a happy Christmas.

The question which I have repeatedly asked, even to the new government, is “How long will the United Kingdom support all of this?”

There were no answers from the conservative party previously. However, I am speechless that I have not received any answer from the NEW United Kingdom government.

Instead, what I received was a letter from the government informing me that if I do not disclose all the names of my supporters and investors, with all the names, bank accounts, phone numbers and email addresses, I will be in contempt of court and jailed.

This is the thank you from the new government who I wanted to be elected; the government where over 400 of my volunteers were knocking on doors during the 2024 General Election campaign and made a huge effort to ensure Steve Reed, Sara Jones, Ellie Reeves, Natasha Irons were elected.

This is also the “thank you” from the new Labour government, to whom I was about to donate a minimum of €5.8 billion from a pharmaceutical contract which I did not want to give to Boris Johnson when he was Prime Minister of United Kingdom. I have stipulated what this money should fund, and that I require a written and signed confirmation from Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of Exchequer and Johnathan Reynolds, Secretary of Business to my solicitors that €5.8bn and £3.1bn will be spent as per my request and on nothing else.

Perhaps because I was so eager against supporting Ukraine, I will now be accused of being a supporter of Putin.

When Blair followed George W Bush into the war with Iraq and then against Gadhafi, I was against this, as there were no weapons of mass destruction anywhere – just the full mouth of Saddam Hussein’s garbage which kept aside the enemies like Iran.

Make no mistake, when Saddam and Gadhafi were around there were no ISIS or Hamas or Iranian activities against others; there were also no migrant crossings of the Mediterranean Sea, as Gadhafi had made a deal with the Italian president at the time. Europe would still be without 10.8 million migrants, who subsequently entered EU soil after Gadhafi and Saddam were “taken to the cleaners” by the British and American armed forces.

The same mistake is being made again with Ukraine. What this war has highlighted is that Putin gets huge support from China, Korea, India and even Iran. This would not be happening if the West had not interfered in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Make no mistake, when it comes to using Western-made high-precision long-range weapons, it is a completely different story. It is not rocket science that the Ukrainian army is not capable on its own of making strikes with modern high-precision long-range systems of Western manufacture. They simply can’t do that. For long range missiles, data needs to be configured through computers using satellite data, which Ukraine does not have. Joe Biden and Keir Starmer should not give this the green light. It is as simple as that.

The satellites are currently in the hands of the EU and US and are de facto NATO satellites. China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, India, North Korea and a few others will not allow Ukraine to be given the green light to use these satellites to attack Russia. This system can only be operated by military professionals working as part of NATO. Ukrainian soldiers cannot do this. It is not a matter of allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons, or not. This is about deciding whether NATO countries are directly involved in a military conflict or not. If this decision is adopted, it will mean nothing less than the direct participation of NATO countries, the USA and European countries including the United Kingdom in the war in Ukraine. This is their direct involvement. And this, of course, radically changes the very essence and the very nature of the conflict. This will mean that the NATO countries, the USA and European countries including United Kingdom are at war with Russia.

Moscow has a legitimate right to announce that the West attacked Russia. The risk of retaliation against the EU and US using nuclear missiles becomes ever closer.

The West has already helped destroy the Russian warship The Moskva which sank in the Black Sea, which was the pride and joy of the Russian army. The Ukrainian army could not have sunk this ship without the one missile being satellite guided and I believe Putin is still a bit pisted-off because of this.

So, while fashion week in Kyiv goes on, the UK and US government are giving the green light to give Ukraine even more support with even more weapons - not just ordinary weapons, but long-range ballistic missiles. All of this in the name of “fighting the enemy (Russia)”, who is not even an enemy. The West are making Russia be the enemies, just like in the cold war during the 50’s.

It’s insane.

HERE WE GO AGAIN

Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:07:58 GMT

WHAT A 24 CARAT PLONKARS

I am not surprised that England failed yet again because we have in the FA people with no or limited brains.

Why cannot lessons be learned?

We started with Gaza in tiers, followed with Beckham red card, followed with missed penalties since 1996 (at the time defender and current manager Garratt Southgate missed the penalty back in 1996 when he was already 26 years of age), and going on and on.

Back in 2021 I wrote about Southgate who did not achieve anything as a player or even less as manager in his life ENGLAND OUT - AGAIN ...England 1-2 France - FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 (mercator.direct) and he was given again and again approval from the FA to be the manager - for what? Licking somebodies arses?

My grandma would win on the last 3 occasions if she would not be dead and be a manager of such talented squads.

The FA is the same as the arrogant new owner of my beloved club Chelsea Football Club. I offered him help to sort the managerial role and to buy players which CFC needs. Instead of getting a tiny thank you from Todd Boehly, Boehly rather named stupid managers, and splash millions buying players who cannot deliver. For me no brain teaser, but was and still is with the owner of CFC and his 9 directors.

When will FA finally have someone with the brains???

I can already see another conspiracy theory from FA. They will either go with Southgate further or they will consider one of two other losers who cannot get a proper one job. I am talking about Potter and Lampard. Either of them would be wrong.

Graham Potter has no knowledge of football while Frank Lampard is all about him - his ego and if England national squad once come to the top - all would be just about Lampard and very little or nothing about the players. That's how Lampard will garnish the media along with his partner.

Make no mistakes, FA, the England team and especially Gareth Soutgate you all should be ashamed! You let the country down again!

England was in group with no real opponent, and all that England had to do was to deliver on the only one game - in the final.

In the other group were nations like Germany, France, Italy, ..., Spain, while England's group was like walking into the park Slovenia (Slovenia has 59,344 registered players - all ages both men and women), not much better Slovakia, ..., Holland.

My neighbour was telling me how perfect the game against Holland was. As I was not watching the game, and don't want to comment if not seen, the next day I turned on Gary Neville's commentary. In his TV commentary, Neville stated that the penalty for England was not a penalty (very soft decision) and that the referee did not even bother himself to go to the monitor to check it despite being told and suggested to go by the VAR room. Even more, Neville claimed that Holland should have had a penalty when Stones dragged Holland attacker to the grass in a rugby manner.

Thank you to Cole Palmer for a goal, being on the pitch 3 minutes as he was not Garratt Southgate's choice. If he would be on the entire game on, he would deliver as he delivered for Chelsea FC nearly always. But it is better as it is, that he did not save Southgate's ass.

Having an FA without brains, the loser in a manager with no brain for tactics, England have a team of 26 carat plonkers. This team was nearly perfect, just a manager with the brains needed what was not expected to be delivered with Southgate who has limited or no knowledge about football. Southgate, if you would be a man and having just a tiny bit of pride, you would quit a long time ago. Quitting now would be a positive gesture of yours that you finally realise how bad of a coach you really are and how damaging your managerial role was. Shame on you!

Thank you all, to FA, to players and specially to the manager Southgate for nothing!

Ps: The only one FA should consider would be Thomas Tuchel , if he would be so kind to do it, after being unfairly sacked by the new owner of Chelsea Football Club Todd Boehly! This is the manager who has knowledge of football, who knows English football, who delivered European Championship title to Chelsea FC in first year, who kept Chelsea FC together during the government sanction's against Roman Abramovich, previous owner, this is the manager who has desire, ability, knowledge and can deal with the egos in the squad. Someone like Jurgen Klopp is dear to dream!

NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN

Sat, 06 Jul 2024 09:24:12 GMT

LABOUR PARTY WITH HEALTHY MAJORITY - 412 SEATS

Sir Keir Starmer is the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after his Labour Party took power with a landslide victory in the general election 2024.
The Conservative Party suffered a dramatic collapse after a tumultuous 14 years in power, during which five different prime ministers and 7 Chancellor of Exchequer led the country into complete chaos and disaster. It lost 250 seats in a devastating night.

Rishi Sunak - the outgoing prime minister - accepted responsibility for the result and apologized to his defeated colleagues during a brief statement outside a rainy 10 Downing Street. He said he would step down as party leader in the coming weeks, which will be quite difficult after all the lies, conspiracies, scandals, and bullshits they were feeding themselves and us for the last 14 years.

Once again congratulations to Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour party.

It would be very interesting if a writer could be found to write a story for a new TV drama "The Rise and Fall of the Conservative Party". It would probably be one of the most watched shows on TV, where the viewers could encounter again and again with all the lies, contradictory matters, squandering of state money, intrigues, sex and drug scandals in parliament, failed plans, all the way to comedy matters, interviews on TV or newspaper, where, for example, Dominic Raab stated on Sky News TV, that he could not return from his holiday in Turkey to evacuate the army from Afghanistan because the "sea was closed". All of this would make a better comedy than Del's and Rodney's Trotters Independent Traders.

I was 100% sure that I will never ever in my life say "thank you" to the person who destroyed Britain before Liz Truss, who does not deserve not even to be named. However, on this only occasion I have to do it: Thank you Farage for destroying the Conservative party within a few delusional people like yourself from the party you represent. Your reward was paid by being elected (finally) on the 8th attempt. Enjoy every minute.

I am also taking this opportunity to say to all morans who refused to vote for the Labour party on the merit of war between Israel and Hamas, how stupid they were. Typical example was not voting for eg. Jonathan Ashworth or Thangam Debbonaire who both I was expected to see as part of Keir Starmer's incoming cabinet. All these delusional people who voted for an independent member just shows that they have no brains. Question to all these people: How do you expect that a few independent MP's will change international policy and force the government to recognise Palestine as a country. Only a strong government can do that, with a huge majority, if such matters for some country/nation the independence and recognition should exist, and by no means cannot be done by a few independent MP's.

FINALLY - NEW GOVERNMENT

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 14:34:51 GMT

CONGRATULATION LABOUR PARTY - WE DID IT!

What a night! But after votes being counted the picture is amazing:

Labour had claimed victory in 412 constituencies, marking only the fifth time since the Second World War a party has won more than 60% of the seats up for grabs.

It is the largest return to the House of Commons since Tony Blair's re-election in 2001 and also gives the new prime minister a majority of 176, a figure only bettered twice in the past 100 years.

Sir Keir is now set to be the UK’s new Labour prime minister. At a victory rally in London, Sir Keir said the country can now “get its future back”. He told jubilant activists “We did it”, adding: “Change begins now.”

It marks a spectacular turnaround since 2019, when Boris Johnson won an 80-seat Conservative majority and Labour suffered its worst result since 1935. Outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he took responsibility for the electoral mauling inflicted on his party as it suffered its worst ever result.

THE COSTS OF LIVING - GIVE YOUR VOTE TO LABOUR PARTY

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 19:33:45 GMT

YOUR REWARD WILL BE 40% DISCOUNT on FOOD and BABY STUFF. ADDITIONAL 20% on NEW/USED ELECTRIC/HYBRID or ANY CARS.

There are 12 (twelve) of the 26 members of the cabinet who are running for re-election I personally would like to see losing their seats, because they don't deserve to keeps their seats after all the lies, sex and drugs scandals, profiteering for their own goals and pockets, and we have to finish with austerity after 14 years of Conservative government.

I am pleased that the same 12 people appeared on a YouGov poll commissioned by Sky News. Their survey suggests the United Kingdom is on the cusp of a major redrawing of the political landscape, with Labour on course to win. Delving deeper into the numbers, it appears several high profile Conservative MPs will lose their seats, if the election does indeed end up being the worst Tory route since 1906. They could all follow in the footsteps of Michael Portillo, the conservative minister who was famously unseated as Tony Blair swept to power in 1997.

Deputy political editor Sam Coates stated: "Every single one of these, right now, is projected on course to lose at the general election." He added: "Tory MPs are getting more and more nervous by the day."

Make no mistake: I really, really would like to see this happen!!

So, who was predicted by YouGov poll and Sam Coates:

Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, set to lose Godalming and Ash seat to the Liberal Democrats by 15 points
Grant Shapps, the defence secretary, set to lose Welwyn Hatfield to Labour by 18 points
Penny Mordaunt, the Commons leader, would lose Portsmouth North to Labour by five points
Mark Harper, transport secretary, would lose Forest of Dean to Labour by four points
Alex Chalk, the justice secretary, set to lose Cheltenham by 31 points to the Liberal Democrats
Mel Stride, work and pensions secretary, set to lose Central Devon to Labour by one point
Jonny Mercer, defence minister, set to lose Plymouth Moor View to Labour by 11 points
Esther McVey, minister without portfolio, would lose Tatton Labour by one point
Gillian Keegan, education secretary, would lose Chichester to the Liberal Democrats by five points
Simon Hart, chief whip, would lose Caerfyrddin to Labour by nine points
David T C Davies, the Welsh secretary, would lose Monmouthshire to Labour by 11 points
Victoria Prentis, the attorney general, may lose Banbury to Labour by six points

My 12 from the current government of 26 who I really don't want to see nowhere close to the Parliament benches are:

Rishi Sunak
Jeremy Hunt
Grant Shapps
Penny Mordaunt
Mark Harper
Gillian Keegan
Simon Hart
David T C Davies
Victoria Prentis
Liz Truss
Oliver Downden
Dominic Raab

also on my list MUST to go:

Bim Afolami
Caroline Nokes
Lucy Frazer
Steve Baker
James Cleverly
Stephen Hammond
Angela Richardson
Johnny Mercer
Tobias Ellwood
Ian Duncan Smith
Prity Patel
Suella Braverman

What is there for LABOUR voters?

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If you are voting in area where are my 20 conservative MP's (and Sam Coates 12 prediction names) and if you give your vote to Labour Part on 4th July 2024 General Election you will be eligible in additional 20% discount on all new or used electric/hybrids cars or any other car from our over 40,000 cars stock.

How to claim?

If you would like to benefit 40% on all food products including fruits and vegetables all you have to do is to take an image of your ballot sheet where it clearly shows your vote given to the Labour party along with an image of your ID on your ballot sheet and cross email to us.

In the next 2-3 weeks after the election, you will receive your logging details to our Mercator online shop with registration details along with a SPECIAL CODE which will give you an automatic discount on all your purchases for the next 365 days, for entire first year if Labour party in government.

Same apply for additional 20% discount on our stock of new and used electric/hybrids cars or any car up to your choice. If you vote for the Labour party then all what you have to do is, once General Election polls are closed, emailed image of your ballot sheet (your vote) along with your ID as seen on image below to tflltd55@gmail.com . As clearly seen, we put money where our mouths are!

This is simply our company offer and has nothing to do with/connected/approved with/by the Labour party. Our intention is purely to give a boost to Labour's claim that they have to finish 14 years of conservative austerity if elected. Whatever other parties are saying, especially the conservative, the fact is that food is still nearly 30 percent higher than it was a year ago .

IMPORTANT: YOU CAN TAKE IMAGE OF YOUR CARD AND BALLOT SHEET ONLY. Have in mind there will not be any issues if you are "postal voter" and doing this at your home however, if you going to the poll station be aware you are not allowed to take photos inside of a polling station of other voters because the Electoral Commission - which oversees UK elections - says it risks the secrecy of the ballot. The punishment for revealing how someone else voted - even accidentally - is a fine of up to £5,000, or six months in prison.

To prevent whatever "mishandling", upload an image of your ballot sheet with your ID (as seen on image above) once poll stations close.

Have in mind that Labour need huge majority that they can go on with their promises and get United Kingdom out of poverty we been drugged into by Conservatives.

THEREFORE, SNAPSHOT OF YOUR BALLOT SHEET & YOUR ID (and nothing else) and you will be eligible for the 40% + 20% discount for the entire year - from 01.08.2024 till 31.07.2025!

IFS PROBE - CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:16:34 GMT

WAS PAUL JOHNSON Director of IFS CORRECT? NOT REALLY!

Both Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives and Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party are maintaining a "conspiracy of silence" on the scale of budget challenges which will face Britain's next government, a leading Think Tank said on Monday.

The non-partisan Institute for Fiscal Studies, its director Paul Johnson said, neither party had made clear how they would implement the £10-20 billion pounds of spending cuts implied by March's annual budget, or if they would raise taxes instead.

Mistake №.1 in your speech Mr Paul Johnson :

I personally very much doubt that IFS is non-partisan, and is more or less connected with the government.

Mistake №.2 in your speech Mr Paul Johnson :

How much you want to put the Labour party in the same basket with Conservatives, you just can't do that. You should state clearly “That Conservatives have not made clear how they will implement £20bn spending cuts”. The only party who knows all the figures is the Conservative party! The Labour party and other parties are just guessing, or they are making assumptions on the basis of what the government (Conservatives) are willing to open and show to others. Therefore, you should state in your speech categorically that Conservative party was not honest and clear at all.

In your speech it was further said a £50bn surge in annual debt interest payments, rising health and defence spending, the cost of cutting greenhouse gas emissions and the effects of an ageing population would be big headwinds for whoever is in power after July 4's election.

Mistake №.3 in your speech Mr Paul Johnson :

You said, "These raw facts are largely ignored by the two main parties in their manifestos." Wrong, yes, they are ignored in the manifesto of Conservative party but not in the Labour’s manifesto for the same reason as written above, that the only party who knows all the figures is Conservative party only.

IFS and Mr Paul Johnson went further with “Unless growth turned out to be unexpectedly strong, the party that formed the next government would either have to raise taxes more than it had said in its manifesto, cut some areas of public spending or allow the national debt to keep rising.

Mistake №.4 in your speech Mr Paul Johnson :

With the support of private investments from UK and abroad growth could be significant what the Labour party clearly stated in the manifesto. There are also funds available from other sources of which nobody is talking about. Why not is a mystery for me that even the Labour party is not mentioning.

Example #1 payments for PIP equipment :

£1.4bn was not collected by Conservatives which was paid under their watch – PM Rishi Sunak (at the time he was Chancellor of Exchequer, and all these payments were given his blessing).

£1.4bn paid out for PIP which could not be used or was not delivered and all these deals went out by involvement of conservative party members and their supporters.

Example #2 payments out for Furlough Scheme :

Why the Treasury wrote off 4.3bn stolen (till now) from the public purse by fraudsters* during the pandemic.

The correct figure here would be close to £15bn which was given away by the Treasury during the covid when Chancellor of Exchequer was “one and only Rishi Sunak”.

One snap shot about “millions going bananas” – don’t forget Rishi Sunak gave nearly a “blank cheque” - £200m to David Cameron (currently Foreign Secretary) allegedly was £400m. Cameron at the time had lobbied former Chancellor of the Exchequer [currently prime minister] Rishi Sunak in 2020 to change rules in order to allow Greensill to join the Covid Corporate Financing Facility, a government loan scheme that was initiated to support companies during the pandemic-related economic recession, what Rishi did. Make no mistake! Greensill was at the time already in liquidation! Was money recovered? No!

How much David Cameron got out read here APPOINT A CLOWN - EXPECT A CIRCUS ... Part V (mercator.direct)

Did David Cameron return the money he was paid for this “lobbying job”? No!

Why is the government not chasing these fraudsters?

Why Rishi Sunak cannot answer how much was collected from dodge deals through the Furlough Scheme till today?

Further in the speech of IFS, director Paul Johnson goes on and on with "The 'conspiracy of silence' about all the costs and cuts has been maintained."

Mr Johnson stated that the next government's fiscal leeway was very sensitive to any revisions to the growth outlook by OBR (Britain's Office for Budget Responsibility). A 0.5% point upward revision to the OBR's growth forecast - taking average growth back to where it was before the 2008 financial crisis - would bring another £30 bn of revenue.

But an equivalent downward revision - which the IFS views as more likely as it would bring OBR forecasts more in line with those of other economists - would create a £30bn gap - equivalent to just over 1,000 pounds per household.

Both parties have ruled out raising the rate of all Britain's main taxes, including income tax and value-added tax.

"Taken at face value, Labour's promise of 'no tax increases on working people' rules out essentially all tax rises. There is no tax paid exclusively by those who don't work. Who knows what this pledge is really supposed to mean?" Johnson said.

Mistake №.5 in your speech Mr Paul Johnson :

Mr Johnson, before you are making assumptions and guessing, the answers are just around the corner.

How many Chancellor of Exchequer United Kingdom has in the last 14 years?

The answer is seven (7) >

- George Osborne (2010-2016)

- Philip Hammond (2016-2019)

- Sajid Javid (2019-2020)

- Rishi Sunak (2020-2022)

- Nadhim Zahawi (2022)

- Kwasi Kwarteng (2022)

- Jeremy Hunt (2022-current)

read more on the following link WHAT IS TORIES LEGACY AFTER BEING 14 YEARS IN POWER (mercator.direct)

Th government and our "top class" Chancellor of Exchequer's has not raised tax thresholds in line with inflation. Just telling you how “good” Rishi Sunak as Chancellor of Exchequer was, not spotting such an important point and to deal with it.

So far Labour's figures are concerned, they are more or less spot on having in mind what figures, data and resources from the government was available to them.

Make no mistake, I can go on and on with the facts to contradict Paul Johnson speech about "Conspiracy Silence" part by part with the facts despite that I have on offer even less data, figures and numbers available as IFS has.

The "Conspiracy Silence" I personally expect to be more "Conspiracy Theory" as I assume that our Chancellor of Exchequer and Treasury is very busy during the general election champagne with fiddling numbers as Rachel Reeves is expected to be next our Chancellor if Labour party win the General Election 2024 and I have no doubt that she will go through all the figures.

What I would also like to happen if Labour win with majority, to change the legislation in respect of lobbying, corruption, gaining profits from the position in the government or Parliament, that people who were and are responsible from eg. Blood affair, HS2,.... to the Post-Master scandal that would be accountable, prosecuted for criminal offences if find to be an criminal offence, given a one way ticket to jail and all their belongings to be confiscated and sold in the name and for the account of people of the United Kingdom!

With such approach the public would be assured that MP's and others involved with the government are people you can trust and believe in.

fraudsters* According to the data available to me, the majority have direct or indirect links to Conservative party, government (Conservatives) or being somehow connected with the members of the government.

G7 SUMMIT

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:18:57 GMT

WHAT A BUNCH OF LOSERS and JOKERS

Do you still remember - recall the movie The Magnificent Seven? If you think this G7 meeting was a meeting of the Magnificent Seven, you are very much mistaken.

It was more of a meeting of politically and morally failed leaders who are fighting to stay in power, except for the host, the Italian Prime Minister.

Our PM Rishi Sunak looks certain to lose power in a national vote next month after 14 years of austerity. 14 years of his personal enrichment and the enrichment of family members and friends. Lies after lies, scandal after scandal everything from sex to drugs. Fingers crossed for the Labour Party to win this election!
French president Emmanuel Macron is reeling from heavy defeats in recent European elections with huge swing and support to Marine Le Pen. If Labour wins in the UK, it will be better if France is under Le Pen because Le Pen will change law about immigration in France where under current law French police cannot do much about immigrants, even less stopping the boats with destination United Kingdom. In such circumstances, Emmanuel Macron was forced to call a snap election. Similar as UK PM Rishi Sunak did, to not be given a boot from his oven party.
German chancellor Olaf Scholz is losing ground with reality. His party was also heavily defeated in recent European elections, the same as the French. His party is on 4 ^th place now, and needs to form a coalition with other parties to stay in power.
The Canadian PM is also in huge trouble at home where opinion polls are very very bleak.
Same applies for Japan's PM where polls show rejection of his policy.
The last here is the U.S. President Joe Biden who faces a polarized electorate and dismal approval ratings ahead of a re-election bid in November.

The only person with nothing to worry about was the host leader – the Italian leader!

Now then, how on earth could such a bunch of politicians do anything good for the world if they cannot do anything good for their own countries?

This bunch of losers was joined by Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, where G7 leaders reaffirmed their unwavering support for Ukraine for as long as it takes – sending an unmistakable signal to Putin that he will not outlast our resolve. However, support will not be coming from their monies directly, they announced a plan to provide Ukraine with $50bn in new financing by bringing forward the interest earned on immobilized Russian sovereign assets held in the European Union and other jurisdictions.

By doing this – giving Russian money to fight against Russia is very tricky business. There was no evidence that money would be used for rebuilding Ukraine. The only clear evidence is that with this money will be paid to manufacturers in the US and UK and partially in Germany and 2 other countries for weapon and ammunition manufacturers, therefore, they intend to use Russian money for their own country's industry as not US not UK have in their budget any money for their own Defence Department.

Tory came out again full of lies about their Manifesto to predict 2.5% for Defence. Make no mistake, when Labour was still in the office in 2010 the Defence Department budget was 2.8%.

The Biden Administration this week issued a sweeping set of new sanctions and export control measures, to intensify the pressure on Russia for its war against Ukraine. Foreign banks now face increased sanctions risk when they deal with Russia’s war economy.

New sanctions on more than 300 individuals and entities in Russia, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and globally target Russia’s financial infrastructure; over a dozen international evasion and procurement networks; Russia’s future energy, metals, and mining revenues.

The Biden Administration also announced steps to restrict access to certain U.S. software and information technology services, to crack down on diversion of goods through shell companies, and to more extensively restrict exports to entities that supply Russia with U.S. branded items produced overseas.

What is also concerning is what Biden did with Zelensky – they signed the US – Ukraine Bilateral Security Agreement as a demonstration of enduring U.S. support for Ukraine, including through binding commitments to deepen our security and defence cooperation and to consult in the event of a future armed attack.

From my knowledge being a high ranked officer in the past and still a high ranking officer of two territorial armies this is a bit controversial. Why? The U.S. is part of NATO, therefore, none from NATO can sign such Bilateral agreement with the country which is not part of any wings.

We must not forget that the U.S. and UK “invented” weapons of must distraction in Libya and Iraq what all we are paying now heavily with huge immigration. When Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein were around there were no boats from Africa or the Middle East to Europe.

ISRAEL - HAMAS WAR Part II

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 14:33:12 GMT

RECOGNISING PALESTINE AT THIS MOMENT AS COUNTRY WOULD BE POLITICAL SUICIDE FOR ALL DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES

I am stunned and speechless. Why we have to argue over freedom of expression and extremism? We have racists on one side and antisemites on the other. Whenever it comes to whichever election in the UK there are accusations and apologies for antisemitism and racism from every party. Now the government wants to pillory legal but extremist organizations – and is reaping criticism from its own ranks.

What else is it allowed to say publicly in view of the virulent debates on identity politics?

The two most frequent questions currently being discussed more intensively which both have been for a long time – which is as much a consequence of the tensions surrounding the Gaza war as a harbinger of the upcoming general election on 4th July 2024:

When is a statement antisemitic, Islamophobic or racist?
Who decides what is acceptable and in line with British values?

Hardly a week goes by without a politician or weighty sympathizer of a party having to apologize for an untenable statement.

At the centre of the latest media whirlwind is Frank Hester, an entrepreneur and important donor to the Conservative Party. Hester had made defamatory remarks about the dark-skinned Labour MP Diane Abbott in a private conversation in 2019.

Abbott should be shot, Hester is said to have said, she tempts you to "hate all black women". The businessman did not deny the statements, but that they had been racist. Rishi Sunak's government also manoeuvred at first until the black trade minister and representative of the right wing of the party, Kemi Badenoch, spoke plainly. Then Sunak also brought himself to speak of a racist statement - rejecting the demand for the return of Hester's donations of £10m.

As unacceptable as the verbal attacks against Abbott are, the London MP and supporter of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has already made problematic statements herself.

For example, a guest article she wrote a year ago in the Observer recalls the anti-Semitic tendencies that the Labour opposition is still grappling with today. Abbott wrote at the time that Irish and Jews could not become victims of racism because they were white. The parliamentarian apologized. Nevertheless, Labour leader Keir Starmer suspended Abbott's parliamentary group membership because of antisemitism, which is why she has to sit in the House of Commons as a single mask.

The turbulence around Hester and Abbott is not an isolated case: Before the House of Commons by-election in the Rochdale constituency in February, Labour had to part ways with the official candidate Azhar Ali because he had spread antisemitic conspiracy theories. On an audio recording of an internal meeting, the candidate said that Israel had deliberately allowed Hamas' terror attack on October 7 to take tough action against the Palestinians afterwards. Starmer, who boasts of having eradicated antisemitism in the Labour Party, hesitated for days before dropping Azhar Ali.

A short time later, Lee Anderson, then a Conservative MP, claimed on camera that the Muslim Labour mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, was controlled by Islamists. Sunak shied away from calling the completely baseless statement Islamophobic for a long time but excluded Anderson from the parliamentary group. To Sunak's horror, he has now defected to the right-wing party Reform UK - and accuses the Conservatives of restricting freedom of expression.

The inquisitorial tone with which the Conservatives and Labour make accusations against the other side contrasts with the hesitation with which they react to problematic statements from their own ranks.

Albie Amankona, Tory politician and presenter at the right-wing broadcaster GB News, recommended a simple test to his party colleagues: A statement about a Muslim or dark-skinned person should be rejected as Islamophobic or racist if an analogous statement about a Jew is condemned.

In the midst of the heated atmosphere, Michael Gove MP (Conservative party), who was responsible for communal coexistence as minister, presented a new official definition of extremism.

With this extremism label, the government wants to brand right-wing radical and Islamist organizations in the future that operate within the limits of the rule of law, but whose ideology is based on "violence, hatred or intolerance" and that want to "negate the fundamental rights of others" or undermine parliamentary democracy.

A "centre of excellence" of the administration is now to take a close look at groups such as the British National Socialist Movement or the Muslim Association of Britain, which Gove described as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. The new definition of extremism is not a law, but merely an official directive. Therefore, the legal basis for the controversial pro-Palestinian demonstrations does not change. Those who end up on the blacklist of civil servants will not be banned, but they will be publicly pilloried and will no longer be allowed to cooperate with government agencies.

While Labour Vice President Angela Rayner said in the House of Commons that it would be necessary to wait and see how the blacklist would be handled in practice, a striking number of Conservatives from the right wing of the party expressed fundamental reservations. Mariam Cates explained that the definition of extremism is so vague that it could one day also cover gender-critical feminists or devout Christians.

Former Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick added that the measure did not go far enough to combat "real extremists". At the same time, citizens and organizations threatened to be targeted by the state and its officials, who merely expressed uncomfortable and contrary opinions as antisemitic.

People should and must understand a few major issues of which law, democracy and history should be in every people's mind. Watching these "marches" as Suella Bravement the Conservative MP (former Home Secretary) named the protest for Gaza-Palestine was not even badly categorized.

I am even more speechless now, where some politicians or country leaders to get some attention are going with the suggestion to recognise Palestine as an independent state.

How wrong some countries doing this were and how wrong the others who attempted to do the same would be.

Not solely that officially recognised Palestine as an independent state at present is incorrect, is also harmful!

I cannot agree more or deny a very tricky if not severe situation in Gaza, but to confirm and admit Palestine at a time when conditions under international law are not fulfilled (eg. release of hostages) is completely absurd.

Make no mistake, this is and would further encourage the Hamas terrorist organization and lend it legitimacy. This would be "green light to all other such or similar groups and terrorist around the world to do the same as Hamas did.

I checked all the countries whose intention is recognising Palestine. They are all far left and burdened with corruption. I cross checked several financial lines and I find a very intriguing connection between the countries who might in recent weeks recognise Palestine as well as countries who made and recognised Palestine already. Few are currently involved as "mediators".

The consequences of war propaganda produce results. No lessons being learned and we can see this in recognition eg. of Kosovo as an independent country on the soil of Serbia! There are still tensions and will soon or later escalate in another conflict.

How naive all this is, to recognise and give autonomy to whoever without considering all the facts?!

Why do none of these countries ever urge Hamas to release the hostages and surrender?

What are these “marches” and protest all about if not urging Hamas as well to release the hostages.

It is shameful that protesters are also students who should be the ones who know a bit about history and law. People who know neither history nor the actual relationship protest on the streets or who are having their personal opinions about whatever issue. Antisemitism is on the rise.

I am not "enthusiastic" that British, European, American and other countries universities declare their support with protest for Palestine (Read for Hamas). Giving legitimacy to people who kidnapped, tortured, killed more than 1400 innocent people - mostly girls, and caused a global security problem and risks in which countries such as Iran, China, Russia, US and many other countries have now become actively involved, is completely out of order. This mass conflict can now erupt at the end to something catastrophic.

These are tough and serious times, where serious people are needed to solve them on legal and democratic way as much as possible. What is needed is mutual understanding, helping each other and removing all threads that aspire and lead to extremism or antisemitism.

LAURA TROTT MP, HOW ABOUT CAREER CHANGE Part II

Wed, 29 May 2024 00:40:58 GMT

CONSERVATIVES CAMPAIGN PLEDGE ON PENSION from MOUTH OF PENSION MINISTER LAURA TROTT IS COMPLETE GIMMICK!

The latest Conservative campaign pledges in the words of pensions minister Laura Trott to make sure the state pension never crosses the income tax threshold - will this policy do that?

The income tax threshold changes over time. Currently you start paying tax on income over £12,500. The state pension is on track to rise beyond that, but by 2027 the proposed “new” threshold would ensure you don't pay income tax on your state pension.

However, it's important to point out this situation is the result of Conservative policies; this pledge just reverses a change brought in by the Tories when George Osborne scrapped the “old” higher tax threshold for pensioners in 2016, previously introduced by the Labour government.

Now according to the Treasury Secretary, again, by next year this is a tax cut of around £100 for eight million pensioners.

Don’t be surprised, but Laura Trott is telling porkies again and again!

Let's assume that there are over three million people receiving the new state pension and around nine million people on the old state pension, who receive considerably less.

Therefore, no one living on the old state pension alone will get anywhere near close to paying tax next year.

The immediate tax benefit only really applies to younger pensioners with additional income on top of their state pension - therefore poorer pensioners gain nothing.

Well, Laura Trott, you have not mentioned that under this pledge will cost £2.4 billion. Your boss, Rishi Sunak, and you are claiming that it will be funded by a clampdown on tax avoidance. What have you done about tax avoidance during the last 14 years you were in power? Nothing! You have not even collected money your government paid out to dodgy claimants during the covid pandemic.

However, Laura Trott, you went on to tell pensioners to choose the Conservatives - with a clear plan, taking bold action, to secure their future now.

We could argue £100 a year by the end of the next parliament is not exactly a life changing amounts of money. However, as Tesco’s supermarket would say "Every little help". But this is not Tesco’s!

Your statement ignores that such action is the colossal pension challenge facing whichever government is next elected.

You should know that the Pension spending exceeds the budget for Education, Home Office and Defence combined (if I am not mistaken £138bn is the pension burden) and it's only going to get more expensive and unaffordable, having in mind that in the coming years, the working age population shrinks and retirees continue to live longer. No solution is pleasant but increasing the pension age well beyond the current proposal of 67 has a feeling of inevitability.

Make no mistake, there will be some more short-term tweaks to pension policies on the campaign trail; the long-term fixes are probably far too politically toxic to get a mention in the run up to an election.

Laura Trott, I asked a few of your colleagues including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak whether they believe in all the crap coming out from their mouths.

Please forgive me, but I have to ask you as well: "Laura Trott, do you believe in all the crap which comes out from your mouth"?

https://www.gov.uk/state-pension/how-much-you-get

The full basic State Pension is £169.50 per week.
If you’re a man born on or after 6 April 1951 or a woman born on or after 6 April 1953, you’ll get the new State Pension instead. You get £221.20 a week (the full new State Pension).

Ps: See my previous blog about Laura Trott knowledge of economics - subject Inflation

https://www.mercator.direct/laura-trott-mp-you-should-seek-career-change

HERE WE GO AGAIN! GENERAL ELECTION on 4th JULY 2024

Wed, 22 May 2024 13:55:35 GMT

RISHI SUNAK'S SNAP GENERAL ELECTION WAS THE ONLY WAY OUT AND REPLY TO FIGHT AGAINST NOT GETTING "NO CONFIDENCE" VOTE by TORY MEMBERS.

Make no mistake, the polls continue to show the Conservatives are way behind Labour. But if Rishi had thought to call this snap election eight weeks earlier, the United Kingdom would be at least £33 million better off, as we already had the May local elections planned. . . but Andy Street lost his position as Mayor for the West Midlands, so I am happy.

You may recall Rishi Sunak was anointed Prime Minister by Conservative MPs, as their only candidate. Not one constituent anywhere in the UK had a vote . . . and during his year and a half in office, Rishi Sunak has had massive failures:

He did not just split his own party – the Conservatives - but he split the nation completely.
He made his family and friends wealthier at ordinary families’ expense.
He is a “smooth” talker trying to “sell” that he has a plan and that his plan is working, but

none of his plans have worked.

Yes, his personal plan to get richer worked perfectly for him and his friends; on the other hand, his public pledges did not work at all.

He is a man without a plan, he is a man without any sense of reality, integrity or accountability. To sum it up in one sentence - Rishi is a man who is delusional, as are 99% of Conservative party members.

There is no surprise that over 100 serving Conservative MP’s will not stand at the next election on 4th July. Why is that? Is it because they are so “confident” of Rishi plans, or because they realise that they cannot defend the indefensible as previously, when they were whipped to defend Boris Johnson and promulgated that there were no parties at No 10 during the covid.

Even his own wife has told Rishi that she and the kids are packing up; she booked both girls into new schools in California more than two months back, demonstrating to Rishi they are out of the UK.

All that is left to Rishi now is a few MP’s who are still hanging on to their privileges and the trappings of power, like the Home Secretary, Chancellor, Defence Secretary, and several others.

Has Rishi made a similar mistake as Teresa May, when she called a snap election and wiped out her parliamentary majority? I suspect there are quite a few grass roots Conservatives who would rather vote Reform than for their own party. Setting the election date to thwart the Rwanda flights was just Rishi admitting that plan was never going to work.

So - how did his election campaign launch? The Prime Minister got completely wet, wet, wet as rain was pouring down and not a single person from his cabinet or office thought to hold an umbrella for him during his speech.

Rishi was “going down under” even during his campaign in Belfast where he visited the Titanic Quarter, which generated unwelcomed “sinking ship” comparisons with his party’s fortunes, not to mention a brewery trip in Wales where Rishi made a footballing gaffe about the Euros.

Looking back, Rishi’s original appointment as Chancellor was ridiculous; Boris Johnson (former PM) just wanted to exercise “his” power when Sajid Javid (former Chancellor) did not agree with Bojo.

Rishi has made the same mistake with his appointment of a troop of “clowns” (not fit for the jobs) from day one of his tenure until recently, as described in a few previous blogs:

https://www.mercator.direct/elect-a-clown-expect-a-circus-part-i

https://www.mercator.direct/elect-a-clown-expect-a-circus-part-ii

https://www.mercator.direct/elect-clown-expect-a-circus-part-iii

https://www.mercator.direct/elect-a-clown-expect-a-circus-part-iv

https://www.mercator.direct/appoint-a-clown-expect-a-circus-part-v

And in Conservative governments, there are also snakes:

https://www.mercator.direct/snakes-in-the-city

And many others duplicitous colleagues - I can easily name 44 Conservative MP’s.

In the last 14 years we have had nothing from the Conservative party, apart from: their family members profiteering, scandal after scandal (sex & drugs scandals, or parties at No 10, …), splashing public money for nothing with no attempt to recover the damage (PIP, Boo’s airplane repainting, giving tender for shipping over the channel to the company who has not a single ship), broken pledges and promises about rebuilding the UK (e.g. HS2, or building 40 new hospitals, or levelling up, stop the boats), ...

Everything is on its knees, from the economy to the NHS, to transport, even the water is shitty.

How many scandals like the Hillsborough inquiry, Windrush inquiry, contaminated blood

inquiry, Grenfell Tower inquiry, covid inquiry, post office submasters inquiry, … are going on?

Inquiry after inquiry, deception after deception, intimidation after intimidation, fraud after

fraud, … and at the end of the day nobody, not a single person’ has been held accountable for whatever wrongdoing.

If one ordinary person did something like that (on a minor scale, not on the scale the Conservatives have done), they would be taken to the court, prosecuted and imprisoned (oops, can’t be imprisoned this week, because there are no places in UK prisons – the Conservatives are giving 70 days off to all prisoners to vacate prisons! Yet another Conservative blunder, who were not able to build prisons either.

Since the Conservatives came to power, we have had nearly 682,598 legal immigrants. The last Labour government figure was just around 100,000.

Make no mistake all former and current Conservative Prime Ministers (David Cameron, Teresa May, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak) categorically and clearly stated that immigration will fall from Labours’ 100,000 to maximum 10,000.

Well, as I said the number currently stands at 682,598.

The same is with illegal immigration. The Conservatives currently have 152,605 illegal immigrants on “waiting lists” to be processed – they were not able to do this in 14 years.

Their excuse is still Covid and the war in Ukraine. How pathetic!

Just this year, despite the bad weather, over 10,000 illegal immigrants have come over in small boats, which our PM

Rishi Sunak categorically stated he pledged to stop boats crossing.

It’s time . . .. it’s time for all Conservatives to pack their coffers (oh I forgot, they have already

filled them) and go back home with their delusional thinking.

It’s time for Labour to get back in power and to get things sorted one by one! It will be a long process, and I look forward to seeing Rachel Reeves as Chancellor of Exchequer - she will be the first female Chancellor in UK history.

It’s time for the Prime Minister - who tells us he has “the plan” and repeats this mantra along with all other Tory MPs 10-20 times in every speech, but no-one planned for the umbrella - it’s time for you, Rishi, to pack your bags and we’ll see you in California.

You can start there from scratch (well almost, apart from your penthouse and green card) – and live the “American dream”.

SLOVAK PM GUNNED DOWN IN POINT BLANK RANGE IN THE TOWN HANDLOVA

Wed, 15 May 2024 01:22:00 GMT

SHOCKING? NOT REALLY, AND "YES, IT IS SHOCKING" HAVING IN MIND SUSPECT NAMED as 71-year old WRITTER"!

A suspect detained for shooting Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico is a 71-year-old writer from the centre of the European nation, the interior minister Matus Sutaj Estok said Wednesday, after media identified the man.

A grey haired suspect was seen being handcuffed on the ground just after PM Fico was shot several times after a government meeting in Handlova.

Officials said late Wednesday that Fico, a populist prime minister, was fighting for his life.

Media reports said the suspect was a founder of the DUHA (Rainbow) Literary Club and was from the town of Levice.

The reports, which also named him, said he has written three poetry collections and is a member of the official Association of Slovak Writers.

The association confirmed on Facebook that the man had been a member since 2015, adding that if his identity as the suspected shooter was confirmed "the membership of this despicable person will be immediately cancelled".

The suspect's son told Slovak news site that he had "absolutely no idea what father was thinking, what he was planning, why it happened".

He said his father was a legally registered gun owner.

When asked if he felt any hatred toward Fico, the son said: "I'll tell you this: he didn't vote for him. That's all I can say about it."

Vlasta Kollarova, head of a local library in the man's hometown told to daily newspaper: "He was rebellious when he was young, but not aggressive".

Several political statements by the man, who AFP has chosen not to name, could be found on social media.

"The world is full of violence and weapons. People seem to be going crazy," he said in a video eight years ago posted online.

In the video, he also spoke about concern over immigration and "hatred and extremism" and said European governments "have no alternative to this chaos".

He also said in the video that he had founded a "Movement Against Violence" in Levice.

The movement, which also has its Facebook page, defines itself as "an emerging political party whose goal is to prevent the spread of violence in society. To prevent war in Europe and the spread of hatred."

30,000 RALLY IN GEORGIA AMID OF "FOREIGN INFLUENCE" LAW

Tue, 14 May 2024 01:49:35 GMT

30,000 Georgians took to the streets Wednesday in the latest round of a weeks-long mass protest against a "foreign influence" law.

Some 30,000 Georgians took to the streets Wednesday in the latest round of a weeks-long mass protest against a "foreign influence" law whose adoption by parliament has prompted a blizzard of international condemnation.

Ruling Georgian Dream party lawmakers voted through the legislation Tuesday in defiance of protesters, who are worried the ex-Soviet republic is shifting away from a pro-Western course back toward Russia.

The move has sparked a wave of protests unprecedented in the recent history of the Caucasus Black Sea nation, where according to opinion polls more than 80 percent of the population wants to join the European Union and NATO and is staunchly anti-Kremlin.

On Wednesday evening, demonstrators gathered outside Georgian parliament, according to an AFP reporter on the scene.

Visiting foreign ministers of Estonia, Iceland, and Lithuania joined the march towards the protest venue, before addressing the crowd in a show of solidarity with demonstrators.

"We are here supporting Georgian people's aspirations to be part of the European Union and NATO," Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis told AFP.

"We are standing with them, they are not alone, their worries are heard, they are supported", he said.

Georgia's national anthem and EU's Ode to Joy were performed at the rally.

Earlier on Wednesday, thousands of demonstrators blocked a major road intersection in Tbilisi, paralysing traffic in the capital's central districts.

"We've been hitting the streets day in and day out for over a month now, and we aren't backing down until this Russian law gets axed," 19-year-old student told.

"And then in autumn, we'll kick out this pro-Russian government," she added, referring to parliamentary elections scheduled for October.

Protests against the law -- which Brussels has warned is incompatible with Georgia's bid for EU membership -- were also held in the western Georgian cities of Batumi, Kutaisi and Tsalenjikha.

The adoption of the law has sparked a flurry of Western criticism.

The move "negatively impacts Georgia's progress on the EU path," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a joint statement with the European Commission.

"We urge the Georgian authorities to withdraw the law."

The EU statement reiterated condemnation for "intimidation, threats and physical assaults on civil society representatives, political leaders and journalists" during demonstrations against the law.

A spokeswoman for the NATO military alliance said the law was a "step in the wrong direction... away from European and Euro-Atlantic integration".

"We urge Georgia to change course and respect the right to peaceful protest," said NATO spokeswoman Farah Dakhlallah.

UN human rights chief Volker Turk said he "deeply regrets" the adoption of the law.

"Authorities and lawmakers have chosen to disregard the many warnings by human rights defenders and civil society organisations," Turk said in a statement.

"The impacts on the rights to freedom of expression and association in Georgia unfortunately now risk being significant."

The United States on Tuesday warned the "Kremlin-style" law would hit Washington's ties with Georgia if it was not withdrawn.

The foreign ministers of Estonia, Iceland, Latvia and Lithuania on Wednesday travelled to Georgia to express concerns over the law.

At a press conference alongside Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, Landsbergis said that "cosmetic changes" would not make the law compatible with European standards.

Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has signalled his party's readiness to consider Zurabishvili's proposed amendments to the law, should she lay them out in her veto document.

But Zurabishvili -- at loggerheads with the ruling party -- ruled out the prospect of entering "false, artificial, misleading negotiations" with Georgian Dream.

"No one should think that Georgia's president can be used for saving the face of this government," she told the news conference.

The bill requires NGOs and media outlets that receive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to register as bodies "pursuing the interests of a foreign power".

Critics say it mirrors Russian legislation used to silence dissent, in a sign of the ex-Soviet republic's drift closer to Russia's orbit in recent years.

In addition to the protests outside, scuffles have broken out inside parliament between opposition lawmakers and members of Georgian Dream.

Georgian Dream has sought to depict the protesters as mobs. It insists it is committed to joining the EU, and portrays the bill as aimed at increasing the transparency of NGO funding.

Will this marches in Georgia help to change government views and law?

In London we have according to police estimate more than 300,000 protesters marched through central London last Saturday to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Make no mistake, government has not even blink with an eye, even less review their view regarding the war between Israel and Hamas, not to mention government ignored completely disclosure of details about weapon sale to Israel, same view stand from the time since current Foreign Secretary David Cameron was a PM.

ELECTION RESULTS in UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 2024

Sun, 05 May 2024 21:39:23 GMT

LABOUR SECURE RECORD POLL LEAD OVER CONSERVATIVES

There were no doubts that Labor will secure another record poll lead over the Conservatives. Therefore, no secrets that some pools find Labor whopping 30 points ahead of Conservatives. If I am not mistaken new poll gives Labor party its biggest lead over the Conservatives since Liz Trust. What is the Tories support at present? Well, Tories stuck on just 18% support only while on other hands Labors was given 48%.

Make no mistake if this would be UK General Election the Tories would leave with just 13 MP’s.

So far the mayor’s position in 3 the biggest cities in UK, Labour retain London where was Sadiq Khan was elected for the 3 ^rd time consecutive (impressive, despite congesting charge, Ulez,…) with 43.8%, while Conservative Susan Hall manage 32.7% votes (PM Rishi Sunak did not vote for Conservative candidate). Manchester stays also in very safe hands for the 3 ^rd time as well of Andy Burnham who picked up 63.4% of the vote whilst his Conservative rival Laura Evans got just 10.4%. In Liverpool Labour Steve Rotheram said to Rishi Sunak and all Conservatives voters in his region have “hollered at the top of their voices” that “enough is enough”.

The big win Labour claim also in West Midland’s where “king” Andy Street (Conservative) was swiped by Steve Parker (Labour) for 1508 votes only. Conservatives requested re-counting but still Andy Street could not “buy” more votes.

What coming next? Well Prime Minster Rishi Sunak as usual as smooth talker gave to all media clear picture that Conservatives will win the General Election. Well, even Keir Starmer asked Rishi Sunak whether he is set for relocation to California with no reply from Rishi. How typical for Rishi, never ever can answer what he is asked directly.

Labour lost in West Midland’s over 90,000 votes because Labour was accused that they did not ask for ceasefire in war between Israel and Hamas while on other hands even Conservatives lost quite a few votes to Reform UK. So for Sunak the only place remain Tees Valey win.

Make no mistake, these numbers can in General Election go quite differently as Tories will fight to “the last man standing” to be given another 4 years. There is no doubts they will promise voters everything we could even think about.

NO IFS NO BUTS SAID OUR NON-ELECTED PM RISHI SUNAK

Wed, 01 May 2024 12:29:37 GMT

RISHI DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE IN ALL THE CRAP COMING OUT FROM YOUR MOUTH? HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT?

Rishi Sunak is a smooth talker without any shadows of the doubts who would "sell even his own mother" just to stay further unelected PM. I know you feel a bit down as in your family - your wife is the person with the pans and you are dancing as she whistles. Even your latest pledge that Rwanda will happen by July 2024 is nothing else apart to show your wife "you are in power".

Did you convince your wife?

You cannot convince me and many others because your statements are full of crap. Even more now just before the election! On PMQ you answer only on questions well pre orchestrated by your party to go after Labour.

You went even further. You showed on TV how police handcuffs an "illegal" immigrant on his address - sadly you did not show his face therefore that could be a recorded capture of the drug dealer and not an immigrant. On top of which police should not get involved in pre-election time with such recording and even less if they were at the address this "illegal" immigrant confirmed to be his address then there was no issue to handcuff the person.

You were saying along with your comrades from the Tory party how the first immigrant was already deported to Rwanda. However all (including your Murdock's newspaper Daily Mail) forget to say that that black guy did not even come over in the boat and he fly to Rwanda voluntary on commercial fly without any "security" personal being on the same fly and you paid him £3000 pocket money on top of which you gave him 5 free flights to his own destination.

You lied all the way about who is the guilty party that Rwanda is not happening.

Firstly were lawyers who defended the immigrants.

Then you said the European courts are the one who do not allow flys (that has happened in the high UK court and order was given to the government by UK judges).

When you failed on all, you went a different way - you simply implemented the law that "Rwanda is the safe place", sadly this again is just for the UK and not for the rest of the EU or even the world. Even the issue that the UK took in the past with quite a few immigrants from Rwanda did not stop you with your ludicrous idea, despite the fact that the immigrants from Rwanda were given asylum on the basis that Rwanda is not a safe country.

You spent £600 million so far and all who went to Rwanda were 3 Home Secretaries - unfortunately for the UK, they were allowed to get back to the United Kingdom and of course the black guy you paid - and he went voluntarily.

There was never ever ping-pong about Rwanda with the Labour party as your party has a majority in parliament and the House of Lords.

You threw down the gauntlet to peers in a surprise press conference on Monday, saying: “Parliament will sit there tonight and vote, no matter how late it goes; no ifs, no buts, these flights are going to Rwanda.”

Our PM Rishi Sunak even added that some 500 people had already been trained for the job of removing people, and there were 2,200 spaces ready for detention.

I am lost again and in the dark again. Rwanda can overtake 350 people. So, where the other 1850 immigrants will go in Rwanda - to private homes? Or perhaps you are after different location what up to date is still "undisclosed" location - Iraq? Even your MP's doesn't know about this. Who's idea and initiator for Iraq was? Perhaps Cameron? Will be there a problem as well? Of course similar to Rwanda's!

Just this year 7529 immigrants came by boats not to mention that summer and hot weather has not even started. Do you believe that Rwanda capacity of 350 immigrants can stop the boats? Even if you managed to sent to Rwanda 350 immigrants (that is about 2 boats), the gang and the immigrants will not hesitate to do it again and come over by boats again and again. If your prayers will be heard perhaps 350 immigrants will be "unlucky" however once they will get chance to get back to UK, they will do so and you can count on this.

Make no mistake, refugee charities are preparing to support any asylum seeker who is chosen to be on the first few planes to challenge their deportation. While the bill closes off options for legal challenges to the legislation, asylum seekers can bring individual claims based on their own personal circumstances.

Not to mention that you will have individual court challenges by civil servants who you are now forcing to act against the law just to satisfy your pledge not to mention that you want to show to British people and especially to your wife that you are the man, that you are the one who wears pants.

Rishi, let's be clear: The problem with you is not that you are not an honest man without any integrity, or your wife's and her family money.

It is because you are coward!

You've given up on us all, you've only done "things" for rich people and your friends to get richer with them and you've done nothing, absolutely nothing for ordinary people in the UK.

Make no mistake, you have to realise that is not your wife's job to make you feel you like a man - she can't make something you are not!

Question for PM: Do you really believe in all the crap coming out from your mouth and how do you sleep at night?

THE HOLOCAUST ...

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:34:32 GMT

WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND MEANING OF THE HOLOCAUST

Why is the 27th January an important date and why do we have to look at the Israel - Hamas war from the perspective of both parties?

The term "holocaust" originates from the ancient Greek and means "COMPLETELY BURNT".

Before the 2WW, the term was used to describe the extermination of entire ethnic groups. During the 2WW, and since 1945, much of the world has often used it synonymously with the murder of Jews in Europe during the period of "National Socialism" [Nazism]. In Hebrew, this is specifically referred to as the "Shoah”, meaning "catastrophe".

The systematic marginalisation and persecution of Jews and other groups began after the National Socialism party seized power in Germany in 1933. The Jews were vilified as an inferior race, were disenfranchised and deprived of their property; from 1941 onwards, they were forced to wear the Star of David on their clothing. Many Jews were deported and imprisoned in ghettos or murdered in concentration camps.

The systematic genocide of Jews, along with the murder of Sinti (2) and Roma, politically persecuted individuals, and other groups, resulted in the killing of nearly six million people just between 1933 and 1945 of which nearly three million of them perished in the extermination camps. The biggest extermination camp was Auschwitz.

The 27th January is now recognised internationally as Holocaust Remembrance day.

This day reflects:

- 27th January 1945, the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated;

- 27th January 1996, Germany Nation Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialist introduced by the then president Roman Herzog; - 27th January 2005, the United Nations declared this day as the International Day of Commemoration of the victims of holocaust.

The education of the young generation about the holocaust, or Germany’s Nazi past, is still not a compulsory element of the schools’ curriculum in Europe. It is in the German federal states, and particularly in countries like Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland, ... Consequently, many of the young generation do not understand what happened to these minority groups before, after and during the 2WW.

Make no mistake, when Hamas - without any provocation and out of the blue - attacked Israel on 7th November 2023, killed over 1400 Israeli civilians and took over 200 hostages, this was the new Israeli 21st century holocaust. How many more need to die to annihilate Israel as a nation and rob them of their promised land.

Israel has wanted to make peace for decades, but this was thwarted by the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. [But this is another story.]

Background information:

[1] The Nazi Holocaust

Holocaust victims were people targeted by the government of Nazi Germany based on their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, disability or sexual orientation.

Estimates of the number of Romani victims range from 250,000 to 500,000.

The European Jewish population was reduced from 9,740,000 to 3,642,000; the world's Jewish population was reduced by one-third, from roughly 16.6 million in 1939 to about 11 million in 1946.

 In Poland – home of Europe's largest Jewish community before the war – the Nazis murdered 3.3 million Jews, or 90 percent of its Jewish population.

 Greece, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Lithuania, Bohemia, the Netherlands, Slovakia and Latvia lost over 70 percent of their Jewish populations; in Belgium, Romania, Luxembourg, Norway, and Estonia, the figure was about 50 percent. Over one-third of the Soviet Union's Jews were murdered; France lost about 25 percent of its Jewish population, Italy between 15% and 20%.

Its second goal was to eliminate Slavs from Central and Eastern Europe and to create a Lebensraum for Aryans. The Slavs were one of the most widely persecuted groups during the war, with many Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, Slovenes, Serbs and others killed by the Nazis.

Between 1941 and 1945, approximately three million Ukrainian and other gentiles were murdered as part of Nazi extermination policies in present-day Ukraine.

The Germans killed an estimated 2.8 million Soviet POWs by starvation, exposure, and execution over an eight-month period in 1941–42. [4]

In 1995, the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that civilian deaths in the occupied USSR, including Jews, at the hands of the Germans totalled 13.7 million dead (20% of the population of 68 million). [Source: Wikipedia]

[2] The Sinti are a subgroup of Romani people mostly found in Germany. They arrived in Austria and Germany in the Late Middle Ages as part of the Romani emigration from the Indian Subcontinent, eventually splitting into two groups: Eftavagarja ("the Seven Caravans") and Estraxarja ("from Austria"). [Source: Wikipedia]

21 APRIL 2024 and COUNTING ...

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:57:37 GMT

A VERY SPECIAL DAY ... or IS IT???

Time to time I ask myself, is this the real life or is this just fantasy ?

I started with Freddy Mercury, therefore let me go further with Freddie's words in song:

"Too late, my time has come

Send shivers down my spine, body aching all the time

Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go

Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth ..."

"Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go

Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth ..."

No further comments needed!

LAURA TROTT MP, HOW ABOUT CAREER CHANGE

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:39:52 GMT

WHERE HAVE YOU LEARN ABOUT THE INFLATION LAURA?

Dear Laura, I am a bit lost with you. It is well known that you got the job at the Treasury because of your father who was chief dealer of the Bank of England. Not only that, you are working at the Treasury even though your husband was studying economics and you were today claiming on TV how you, conservative party and Rishi Sunak PM manage to bring inflation down.

Well Laura, you don't need a masters degree to know the basics about inflation. For example, I learned about "inflation" well in the beginning of the second year of secondary school well before starting university. I believe you should go back to school or ask one in your family how inflation figures are calculated and from where they are coming from.

Let me tell you dear Laura, the issue that inflation dropped from 11% to 4.3% (core inflation) has nothing to do with the Treasury and even less with Rishi Sunak our PM. Make no mistake, I am well aware that Rishi Sunak seek to capitalise this fact in general election however, let me remind you (what I believe you know well), some prices are never ever likely to return to what they were simply because of your mishandling - in 14 years since your party is in power you brought United Kingdom on its knees. All what was our flagships in past go down the drain and you all still keep talking rubbish and lies on daily basis. Do you do not have any respect?

The inflation has to do with the government only when they raise the taxes on alcohol or tobacco or raise VAT. Therefore, don't make big speeches about how you "dropped" the inflation.

I know you tried hard to give whoever was watching you today an impression in front of the election on 2nd May 2024, but I believe this with all other antics and minxes conservatives are doing lately will be a bit too little too late.

On the other hand, even if inflation falls, why do you not mention interest rates? The food prices are still rising and you cannot denied. They are 29% higher then they were in eg. September 2021, energy prices 66% up on the same period, fuel prices still rising, and this are things which matters to people in United Kingdom. Having for Chancellor of Exchequer Jeremy Hunt who brought our NHS twice on their knees nothing surprises me. Fiddling with the numbers and "selling" lies after lies in newspapers, TV, ... .

I assume you are not bothered with these issues are you?

KAY BURLEY YOU ARE UTTERLY OUT OF TOUCH AND MIND

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:52:49 GMT

SKY TV PRESENTER TRYING HARD TO HELP TORY PARTY WITH DODGE QUESTIONS

I cannot take Kay Burley as an intelligent person, my opinion of her rated from 1-10 fell down to the lowest ever point of “2” after her performance today again with one of her slick and sick performances - this time about Angela Rayner MP of Labour Party.

Not just that Kay Burley shows how her IQ is low she is trying to make the case for Conservative Party and their friends about £3,000 which allegedly (not proved) by asking today everyone “How much trouble are Labour and Angela Rayner in”.

Well, let me tell you ****** botox women, I doubt it's very much trouble and there's a couple of problems with this story:

One of them is that it takes a very long time to explain the ins and outs of what's going on with the tax and what may have been done with the tax and many people lose interest.

The other one is that the number itself the 3000 pounds sterling is so modest when it comes to property taxation that I think a lot of people will look at it and sort of see it as proof of actually a pretty modest sort of background rather than the kind of mansion owning multiple flat renting approach that we see from others so, my very conservative answer this would probably won't do significant damage immediately however might causing a distraction for Labour when it comes to the local election campaign.

Since the police said they are investigating it has just naturally become a bit more serious because before Labour could say “Well this is just a Tory smear campaign and the police are not looking into this again despite the fact that it's so”.

I think as a result it is now more problematic for Keir Starmer, the question is what did the police find along with the HMRC investigation. However the Tories are pushing investigation on the capital gains point to keep going this for Kay Burley “Breaking News on Sky News” (disgrace and shame) for as long as possible because they are aware that Angela Rayner is one of the party's most effective communicators alongside with Wes Streeting and right now she's not able to perform that function because of this row and therefore I think that these Tory MP's that have much to be happy about at the moment and that is it.

Your second favourite question to everyone on the Sky News today was “Why did Angela not pass papers to her boss Sir Keir Starmer”. You even tried to make Catherine McKinnell MP Shadow Minister for Schools to say “Yes, I wonder why she did not ask Starmer”. But Kay Burley you failed on this one as well, once Catherine McKinnell MP said to you clearly that she is a lawyer as well and that she is not giving lawyers advice as such in her constituency. The same rules apply to Starmer. If he is the leader of the party he should concentrate on the party and not to be “legal advisor” for one individual from the labour party doesn’t matter who that person is.

Even more, I think if Starmer would get involved, people might be thinking that he wants something to hide under the carpet and once police get involved that was the correct approach.

Kay you were making your standard antics with the shadow minister Catherine McKinnell this morning trying with the optics saying when you see the former top lawyer in the land saying “I'm not looking at that legal paperwork I'm not looking at that legal paperwork it's nothing to do with me in other words Keir Starmer her boss saying don't show me the paperwork any party would respond” but you cannot distinguish between informal and formal investigation.

Once there is an investigation there that is formal we can almost say in 99.99% that we couldn't expect anyone including Angela Rayner to comment on the ongoing investigation.

Let me remind you again that your friend Dominic Raab (former deputy PM) stated clearly on TV that there was nothing wrong with a parties at No 10 and the police are not looking into things which are over one year old. Question for you Kay: Why and how on earth are police looking into the matter which has happened in 2010 – 14 years ago, when Angela Rayner was not even MP. Shame on Tories, you Kay Burley, BBC and all others who are taking crusade on this level for £3000 (if).

You want me to go further with you Kay Burley? Sky News is said to be an "Independent" News Channel.

I very much doubt this! I can instantly disclose a minimum of 9 (nine) very questionable and dodge issues about your "independence". I got information from the person working years with you therefore you will not be able to deny or oppose any of it. I am quiet so far purely because I don't want this person to lose the job and I don't want this to happen!

You were not bothered with Tory PPE scandals where money went in millions and not by 3000 as it is in Angela's case. Was difficult to get barones to your studio asking her where £25 million get lost or Annuziata Rees Mogg (sister of Jacob Rees-Mogg) where £20 million gone, or why you have not asked Nadhim Zahavi MP how he forgot to pay £5 million to HMRC or how many millions family of our Prime Minister benefits on non-dome status only not to mention other "family deals" including visas. But these are not the only things you should ask - why haven't you asked friend of yours Steve Barclay MP about the Tory pledge of 40 new hospitals? They are 14 years in power, how many new hospitals do we have? Or perhaps or how T Villers MP failed to declare £70,000 shares of energy giant Shell. Lists of names from the Tory party never ever ends. Will Rishi Sunak ask nation "to lent him a vote" as Boris Johnson did on his famous victory speech?

How many Tories MP were suspended, taken whip off or are under the investigation? Let me remind you on few names of conservatives former MP's (In A-Z order):

Andrew Bridgen
Bob Steward
Chris Pincher
Crispin Blunt
David Warburton
Imran Ahmad Khan
Julian Knight
Lee Anderson
Mark Menzies
Matt Hancock
Neil Parish
Peter Bone
Rob Roberts
Scot Benton and
William Wragg.

And where you are concentrated at present as your "Breaking News"? On Angela Rayner £3,000 which are still not officially confirmed either by police or even less by HMRC.

Do you Kay still remember how your Sky News commentated Matt Hancock when he lost his whip?

Tamara (from Sky) said: "So he joined a long list of those, some with mixed success". Your presenter on that particular day (who might that be?) answer to Tamara: OK, Tamara. You might have thought, he might be a gentleman who was kind slightly wary of hidden cameras."

That is the SKY News independence news broadcaster! Ha-ha-ha said the clown!

WHAT IS TORIES LEGACY AFTER BEING 14 YEARS IN POWER

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 12:54:10 GMT

TIME FOR TORIES TO PACK THEIR COFFERS AND GO HOME ...

Once upon a time, the Tory party were seen as the party of "law and order”. However, for the past 14 years of being in power, it has been the complete opposite. They are now the party of scandals, and they are gambling with taxpayers’ money as if it were their own.

They cover up for each other with lies and ridiculous explanations. For example, Dominic Raab stating clearly on TV that there was nothing wrong with a party at number 10 and the police are not looking into things which are over one year old.

I’ve been looking at the numbers and figures over the past 14 years. What will this Tory government’s legacy be?

Let me start with the number of appointments:

PRIME MINISTERS: 5

- David Cameron (2010-2016)

- Theresa May (2016-2019)

- Boris Johnson (2019-2022)

- Liz Truss (2022)

- Rishi Sunak (2022-current)

CHANCELLORS of EXCHEQUERS: 7

- George Osborne (2010-2016)

- Philip Hammond (2016-2019)

- Sajid Javid (2019-2020)

- Rishi Sunak (2020-2022)

- Nadhim Zahawi (2022)

- Kwasi Kwarteng (2022)

- Jeremy Hunt (2022-current)

HOME SECRETARY (SECRETARY of STATE): 8

- Theresa May (2010-2016)

- Amber Rudd (2016-2018)

- Sajid Javid (2018-2019)

- Priti Patel (2019-2022)

- Suella Braverman (2022)

- Grant Shapps (2022)

- Suella Braverman (2022-2023)

- James Cleverly (2023-Incumbent)

FOREIGN SECRETARIES: 8

- William Hague (2010-2014)

- Philip Hammond (2014-2016)

- Boris Johnson (2016-2018)

- Jermy Hunt (2018-2019)

- Dominic Raab (2019-2021)

- Elizabeth Truss (2021-2022)

- James Cleverly (2022-2023)

- David Cameron (2024-present

MINISTERS FOR HEALTH and SOCIAL CARE: 8+2

- Andrew Lansley (2010-2012)

- Jeremy Hunt (2012-2018)

- Matt Hancock (2018-2021)

- Sajid Javid (2021-2022)

- Steve Barclay (2022)

- Therese Coffey (2022)

- Steve Barclay (2022-2023)

- Victoria Atkins (2023-curent)

- + 2 ministers for Health & Secondary Care

Make no mistake, we are seeing the same faces doing different jobs - they just rotate from one ministerial position to another. So how can the same people do anything better, if they haven’t done so in the last 14 years since they came to power?

Rishi, do you still remember your first speech infront of No 10 and your first mega-brand video?

You said "I have been selected as a leader of my party and your primer minister and that work begin immediately".

What has happened after?

You walk in to the No 10 and music starts playing. But not any music, but music by Gary Glitter!

Seems you and your office is not aware about Gary Glitter. Gary Glitter was found guilty of child sex offences and he admitted 54 such offences.

Your spokesman stated clearly to the Times "The soundtrack for the Prime Minister's latest video is certainly not by Gary Glitter".

How long you and your office needed to do the U-turn?

You also stated that your government will ensure integrity, professionalism and accountability.

You failed here the very first day in the office as PM as well. But this was because you made a deal with "Leaky Sue" [Suella Braverman]. She made security risk as Home Secretary 6-times. After 6 days she change her "story" and she was appointed by you Rishi Sunak again as Home Secretary because you don't care about accountability and you appointed her into your government. Another U-turn on your big words about integrity, professionalism and accountability.

This was not the only case. What about Nadim Zahawi? You appointed him as Chancellor of Exchequer. You did not care that he "allegedly" forgot to pay over £8.2 million taxes and Zahawi finally made a deal with HRMC for £5 million only once this leak to media.

And you were doing this all the time up to the last of your appointment where you made former PM, the United Kingdom new Foreign Secretary and he was rewarded even title "Lord". Collapse of Greensill was one of your previous deals with David Cameron - you signed a cheque for £200 million for Greensill lobbied by David Cameron.

You were not bothered with Gary Glitter music in your video introduction same as you were not bothered to do something about allegation concerned your former MP Mark Menzies who lost his whip on Wednesday purely because he misused party funds.

In every government department in the last 14 years we cannot see anything apart of improper behaviour of PM and MP's, private interest, sex scandals, sleaze scandals, ...

But let me continue with figures:

The economic picture is a complete disaster. The Tory Government is full of excuses about our stagnating economy; the most common reasons given are the covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine and now the war in Gaza not to mention that they accused even leader of Labour Party to be guilty party for their disasters. I am lost and confused.

Does all of the above only affect the United Kingdom or are other countries affected as well (apart to worry about the Labour leader Keir Starmer)?

The figures also reveal:

1. The complete disaster of scraping the northern leg of HS2. In 2013, HS2 was estimated to cost £37.5 billion in 2009 prices, but the costs have continued to spiral.

A budget of £55.7 billion for the whole of HS2 was set in 2015. Some reports now suggest costs have surpassed £105 billion, having been driven up by recent inflation rises. Mr Sunak announced in October 2023 that the HS2 high-speed rail line would stop at Birmingham, after at least £1.4 billion had been spent on the northern leg that was due to run to Crewe and then onto Manchester. ( HS2 - ONE WAY TICKET TO NOWHERE (mercator.direct) )

2. Small boats debacle: Asylum claimants’ hotel bills cost nearly £1.3 billion last year. The Tory immigration chaos has also led to the Home Office seeking an emergency cash payment of £2.6billion, after unforeseen expenditure on hotels for asylum seekers.

If the Rwanda plan was implemented (luckily it is not) the bill would be an additional £1.8 million per asylum seeker: not to mention that the UK will take 200-300 asylum seekers from Rwanda in exchange for each UK emigration flight which lands.

3. Covid Corruption: Over £80 billion was paid out by the government. From £80 billion, £17.4 billion was obtained by fraudsters – the government was able to retract less then £1.1 billion. The government wrote off a further £10.2 billion just for unusable and faulty PPE.

4. Steel Industry - Bail out with Benefits: The cash subsidy paid to Tata in Wales was £0.5bn; PM Rishi Sunak signed a cheque to one of his fathers in law’s best friends. His father-in-law is part of Tata Group. In addition, £200 million has been paid in the name of “keeping jobs and not to give a boot to workers”. TATA STEEL CONSPIRACY THEORY (mercator.direct)

Was this the only such generous contribution of Rishi Sunak to India’s business elite? No! Let me remind you of the Greensill Capital affair, where the previous PM and current Foreign Minister David Cameron lobbied on their behalf; Rishi Sunak (at the time Chancellor of the Exchequer) signed and gave David Cameron a cheque for £200 million for Greensill. David Cameron made about £3.2m from shares in the collapsed finance company not to mention his consultancy work; as a part time executive David Cameron made over £8.8 million before the company’s collapse.

Independent sources suggest that David Cameron’s remuneration figure was £2.6 million while other sources stated it was nearly double this figure.

5. EPIC – the NHS electronic patient records software: How many billions have various NHS Trusts spent on this? Better not to know, as some may get a coronary instantly by reading the amount paid. Allegedly, the middleman was the company where the wife of PM Rishi Sunak is working – they were given a “reward” of £288 million.

I am baffled. Every day the politicians are saying how clever the British are, and how world class the universities in the UK are. So why did a Tory Government sign with a US supplier for this old out of date “package”? Even more bizarrely, EPIC is going through Palantir Technologies who have links to the CIA and sell private data to different interested parties.

Make no mistake, patients have no privacy anymore – their data will be sold, if it hasn’t already happened.

Why did the Tories introduce EPIC? To drop the figures on “waiting” lists. Currently, from my well informed and first-hand source, I am told that 2.8 million recent patients on waiting lists simply disappear (magic has happened – lost data - data not entered - or erased - or renamed – appointments not renewed …). Boris Johnson would say “there was a glitch” as he said for his magic “Track and Save”.

6. Elections bill: It is well known that in the Tory party there are currently a minimum of 5 factions who are not happy with the current PM, Rishi Sunak. They even suggested holding the general election concurrently with the various Mayoral, Police, Crime commissioners and local elections taking place on 2nd May 2024.

As our PM enjoys free transport including free flights and can still broker a few more deals to make him and his family and friends richer, his decision was to not to call a general election. This decision will cost taxpayers an extra £140 million to again set up all the polling stations and election infrastructure.

And the statistics can go further and further. On my spreadsheet, currently there are 207 cases which I’ve taken into consideration: starting with HS2 as the most expensive failure and finishing with by-elections at a cost of £250,000 each.

Rishi Sunak has presided over a Conservative Party in chaos and has saddled the taxpayer with the bill. These shocking costs are the result of a party out of ideas, more interested in looking inwards than outwards than delivering for the country. The country needs change and it is a Labour government that will deliver it.

Over 1.4million homeowners are due to come to the end of fixed mortgage deals in this financial year, with families typically seeing their repayments increase by £240 a month. According to several analysis, this will leave them paying a total of around £4.1 billion extra next year.

Eight by-elections have been called so far in previously Tory-held seats since Mr Sunak became PM, and there will be more.

MPs forced to stand down over scandal and sleaze include former Deputy Chief Whip Chris Pincher, who was accused of assaulting guests at a Tory club, and Peter Bone, who was accused of flashing his researcher.

Even a very conservative estimate of the cost of the “rubbish” appointments and Tory chaos runs into billions of pounds. Trust me, it won’t stop and if the Tories win again, it will all just carry on and on. There is nothing to suggest they have learned their lesson, that there won’t be future leadership contests, or that the infighting won’t just start up again the day after polling day.

The candidates to replace Rishi Sunak are already on manoeuvres. Stability is underpriced in politics… And the only way to liberate the country from the pattern of recent years, and to put an end to the cost of Tory chaos, is to end their period in power!

VLADIMIR PUTIN REMAINS RUSSIAN PRESIDENT

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 02:19:58 GMT

PUTIN IS ENTERING HIST 5th TERM AS PRESIDENT WITH 87% APPROVAL

After a presidential election accompanied by allegations of manipulation, Russian state media have predicted a record result of at least 87 percent of the vote for Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin. Russian state television declared the 71-year-old the winner on the basis of voter surveys conducted by several pro-Kremlin institutes. In the vote on Putin's fifth term in office, which was accompanied by numerous protest actions, no real opposition candidates were allowed.

Voter turnout was 73.33 percent at 8 p.m. Moscow time, according to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, Russia's state-run Tass news agency reported. This would be the highest figure ever in a Russian presidential election. The first meaningful results are expected to be available this Monday. As a rule, the forecasts are in line with the result announced at the end. It would be a record for Putin, who won 76.7 percent of the vote in 2018.

The result had already been determined before the election, and there was no significant opponent. Serious members of the opposition have either had to flee abroad, are in prison camps or have died under unclear circumstances. Observers criticized the election as unfree and unfair. Opposition and independent Russian media reported on manipulation and intimidation attempts in the context of the election. The civil rights portal OWD-Info has so far counted 77 arrests in connection with the election. Voting was also held in the territories occupied in Ukraine in violation of international law, and the elections there are not recognised under international law.

Although Putin's confirmation in office was only a formality, the election is nevertheless important for the Kremlin. The high approval ratings give him legitimacy for the drastic action in Ukraine as well as against opponents of the regime in his own country.

Putin is now likely to present the result as a confirmation of his anti-Western and authoritarian course. Observers expect that with this backing, he will once again significantly step up his war of aggression against Ukraine for the next six years in office. Many Russians also fear a new mobilization of hundreds of thousands of reservists. Domestically, too, the thumbscrews in the country could be tightened much more in order to stifle the protest of Putin's opponents, which was visible on the three election days. Tax increases have also been announced to finance the high expenditure on the war and social policy projects.

The election was accompanied by protests. Despite threats from the Kremlin, thousands of Russian citizens heeded the call of the team of the late opposition activist Alexei Navalny and arrived at the polling stations around noon, where long beatings subsequently formed. Independent observers pointed to systematic fraud in the election. Since the first day of voting on Friday, for example, there have been numerous documented cases in which, for example, employees of state-owned companies were pressured to cast their votes and in some cases even had to take photos of their completed ballot papers. Critics also complained that the online procedure in particular could be easily manipulated. Observers also documented the mass stuffing of pre-filled ballot papers into the ballot boxes.

Make no mistake, this was expected to happen. In the end of the day for the war in Ukraine all what Putin has to do would be to apologize, similar as Rishi Sunak stated clearly that the conservative donor of £15m apologise and that all is OK despite that the Tory donor Frank Hester stated clearly publicly that Diane Abbott (Labour MP) should be shot because her ugly black skin which make him sick!

BUDGET - WHAT A BUDGET? DON'T BE SILLY!

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:08:20 GMT

HAS CHANCELLOR of EXCHEQUER POOL A RABBIT FROM A HAT?

Everyone apart of me and few others not to mention all conservatives party MP’s and PM was expecting our Chancellor of Exchequer to pool a rabbit from a hat. However, this just hasn’t happened. The “magician” Jeremy Hunt had not only did he not have a rabbit, he didn’t have a hat, but only a very flat cap.

It was really appalling how he tried to play us with National Insurance and Income Tax. Listening to him and few other Tories about scraping the National Insurance all together just showed how government fielding with the numbers again and again just to make every possible for conservative party to stay in the government and to control our lives as long as possible.

If they would be honest with us (honest is a big word which conservative party don’t understand) they should tell us that this is a big project for years to come for what they don’t have money to cover on the first place. This was yet just another bone for us to nibble. Yes, we can argue about “double tax payment” however if they are actually moving to scrap it, that is an enormous policy which opened utter confusion even between conservative MP’s. They cannot figure it out, who is drinking and who will be paying the bill!

We have one line from the Prime Minister and then going further and further we can see straight that there are 4-5 further different lines, everyone have their line, probably also there is the Jeremy Hunt line. The problem they have is they can't agree between themselves therefore how can something that actually the public believe what they are saying that will be done. Of course, they do not forget to mention that for something like that minimum 5-10 years in power needed. This was yet another desperate trick of magician and his party. However, if they would be honest and told us that simple, they clearly don't have align to go on and something that cuts through all the percentages that percentage down everything else then perhaps public would listening.

The honest would be also explaining different things right and in the end there's two options either they mean it, and they want to scrap it in which case there's £168 billion of lost revenue. Then they've got to explain and set everything from A-Z.

However if they didn't mean it in which case it was a screw up and in either of those scenarios what the public are hearing right now is a vast unfunded tax cut which for the public reminds them of that Liz Truss budget and the thing that really strikes me is why on earth are they doing this? Why are they getting themselves into this mess? The only reason that I can think of is the conservative backbenchers, what they're doing is throwing red meat to the backbenchers because Rishi Sunak is in office but not in power and that's bad for the country!

Let's remind ourselves this is a party that has been in power for 14 years. If they've been motivated why they leaving it until the 11th hour to actually talk about it? Why they did put one cut in at the last autumn statement if they talk about merging National Insurance and Income Tax.

There is an argument that would be good simplification of tax system right if you're going to even talk in public about something like that and if you are the government you've got to explain how you're going to pay for it, the timescale over which you're going to do it, why you want to do it and how you want to do it and they've done none of those things and I think without any of those things it either ends up looking like a **** up mind pledge that they've not really thought about and set out at the end of the budget.

Again in either of those scenarios people who are really feeling the pinch, whose household incomes have been going down over the course of this parliament who can't afford to do their annual family holiday they're going to be listening to this and thinking do these people really have a plan for my economy to put money in my pockets?

I don't think so and they have been covering the Budget over the last few days. The Budged and its presentation was flat, it was not what you'd expect from a party that's trailing 20 plus points behind Labour party.

Having said that I don't think Rishi Sunak or magician Jeremy Hunt can add much to play with. We must not forget that it was Jeremy Hunt who was Secretary for Health for 8 years and a half and brought the NHS down. How unorganized they are was seen also with Jeremy Hunt U-turn on non-dome tax. In the morning on the interview there was not even mention at all non-dome tax scraped, and was not even originally written in the Budget, however when Budget presented in the parliament suddenly magic U-turn appears out. Don’t forget this was original idea of Labour party which conservative party refused till this last moment to accept and that they overtook the idea just showed how desperate they are.

If I have to rate the Budget from 1-10 would not pass even 5. However, how was presented and what was in the Budget I am 100% sure that the general election will not come in May but in November if not even January 2025.

KEMI BADENOCH v the POST OFFICE (Henry Staunton) Part II

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 01:43:35 GMT

CONSERVATIVES' DRAMA QUEEN №. II

Conservative Ministers just showed again that they will sweep everything under the carpet.

Is this a surprise to you? Not for me as the last 14 years being in the government nothing has changed: Austerity, Brexit, Partygate, Cronyism, the Truss debacle and the individual failings of ministers who behave as if the rules don’t apply to them and going on and on.

Kemi Badenoch v the Post Office become a great political soap opera just to distracts nation from reality. The business secretary fired Henry Staunton, the former chair of the Post Office, in January 2024. A month later, Staunton told the Sunday Times that Sarah Munby, a senior civil servant, instructed him to slow compensation payments to victims of the Horizon scandal.

Kimi Badenoch has not stopped there, she launched an extraordinary character assassination from the dispatch box in the House of Commons instead, claiming Staunton had been fired after accusations of bullying (her originally explanation to the public was, that Staunton left by “mutual consent”). If this would be true, I assume PM would confirm as he was asked 7 times, but Rishi as Rishi – he refused to repeat Badenoch’s claims.

All of this is ultimately a perfect distraction from Staunton’s real revelations: the Post Office is rotten at its core and the government is unwilling to do much about it. The Horizon compensation schemes, whether by design or good old-fashioned incompetence, seem likely to frustrate victims’ claims. The “overturned convictions” scheme, which is supposed to provide compensation to those who were wrongly convicted, didn’t open until three years after the court of appeal exposed the “most widespread miscarriage of justice in British history”. Most victims are yet to receive a penny. Payouts from the other programmes are as low as £15.75.

The schemes themselves are Kafkaesque. The forms are almost impossible to understand without a specialist lawyer. Until recently, the Post Office refused to fund such assistance. Victims are told they must keep the details of their claim secret.

However, there’s no law that stops victims telling their friends, family, or advisers about settlement claims (or, crucially, comparing notes with each other).

Staunton was right to say a “toxic culture” still persists at the Post Office. The origins of the Horizon scandal lie in a years-long, institution-wide deception, the details of which are now infamous. Rather than admit its flagship IT project didn’t work, the Post Office foisted the blame on innocent post office operators, ruining hundreds of lives.

The Post Office’s cooperation with the inquiry has been equal to zilch, zero, nil, nada. They even failed to disclose on time or completely more than 400,000 documents, and caused repeated delays.

Nick Read, the Post Office’s CEO, told the business and trade select committee he was “delivering great things for the Post Office”, but victims reported the opposite. Last year Read and other senior staff were paid bonuses for cooperating with the inquiry (Reid agreed to return his bonus after news of it became public).

In January this year he wrote to the secretary of state for justice, saying that the Post Office would be “bound to oppose” overturning convictions of 369 out of the 900 victims of the scandal.

This sounds like Staunton’s description of an institution that continues to insist on the guilt of the victims. Before the select committee, Read changed his tune, claiming that only “one or two” of the 900 are guilty.

Yes, we are going same way as all other inquiries. I wonder whether I will live enough long to see closure of any recent and previous enquiries, or I will die before, as quite a few victims of Post Office scandal already passed away.

UNDERFIRE CHELSEA TEAM MANAGED TO WIN IN 90th MINUTE

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:22:26 GMT

"BLUE BILLION-POUND BOTTLE JOBS"

CHELSEA FC £ 1bn Team v LEEDS Team (Championship League)

FA Cup 2024

Just after 72h being bitten by Liverpool in AET in Carabao Cup, CFC find themselves in clash with Championship club Leeds United in FA Cup.

The commentators were united that was heartbroken experience for CFC however I haven’t seen anyone from Chelsea squad to fight for ball apart Gusto and time to time Gallagher and perhaps one more but definitely not Jackson, Sterling, Palmer, Colwill, … Petrovic was very unlucky and despite two goals conceded was spot on. Both goals in Chelsea side received because of the mess in defence, completely unorganized and lost.

Result was up to the end 2:2 and luckily for CFC in 90’s minute of the game Gallagher managed to score, how the game ended.

I was stunned that commentators after the games praise the game and that this was “redemption” for lost game against Liverpool 72h before. How on earth they are saying for the victory to be “redemption”. This was FA cup game was not the final game like in Carabao Cup and it is still long - long way to the final. Firstly, to beat Leicester in the quarter final, then semi and only then will be final, while game with Liverpool was already the Final of Carabao Cup.

Will CFC come to the final? My prediction would be – certainly not, we have no chance with the manager with no ideas and plans for the game and top of which we have unmotivated players.

Will be difficult against Leicester? Chelsea will host Leicester City in the quarter finals, a rerun of the 2021 final. Luckily perhaps for Chelsea, Leicester lost last 3 league games and they are looking to straight promotion back to Premier League therefore, we cannot expect the best Leicester team to play.

Leeds played well and ran them close, but it wasn’t quite enough. They’ll concentrate on winning promotion back to the Premier League rather than fairing on all cylinders in FA Cup game.

The only correct comment I heard recently about Chelsea was from Gary Neville after CFC v Liverpool game who called Chelsea "BLUE BILLION-POUND BOTTLE JOBS". You were spot-on this time!"

SURREAL CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB SAGA

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 22:24:17 GMT

CHELSEA £1bn Team v LIVERPOOL “C” Team 0:1 (AET)

CHELSEA £1bn v LIVERPOOL “C” Team 0:1 (AET) - Carabao Cup Final 2024

Make no mistake – since Todd Bohley overtake the CFC and give a boot to Marina Granovskaia (former CFC Sporting Director) and to Thomas Tuchel (former Manager), despite spending £1 billion on players and make childish and unprofessional (stupid) decision about new managers (Potter, Lampard, Pochettino) the pride of London - Chelsea Football Club is going down the drain.

Chelsea the most silverware UK club under Abramovich era become club of disarray. Club without the board leader, club without proper sporting director, club without proper manager and bunch of £1 bn players without willingness, loyalty and heart to play and fight for Chelsea crest.

This was simply exercised yesterday in Carabao Cup 2024. Both clubs being playing with young squads however, Liverpool team showed composer, creativity and willingness to get the cup while Chelsea team was all over the place, without creativity, without strategy and players on a peach with no intention to lift the trophy.

Do not forget that Liverpool suffers of depleted by injuries squad and they have had played on Wednesday against Lutton Town in Premier League and won 4:1, while Chelsea players have no game and plenty of time to prepare for the cup final.

Player CFC used like Enzo Fernandes (over £100m), Moises Caicedo (over £100m) in the centre of CFC midfield, than Raheem Sterling (£50m), Mykhailo Mudryk (£88m), Christopher Nkuku (£52m), Cole Palmer (£40m) up to “some spare change” money players like Nickolas Jackson (£34m), Noni Madeuke (£29m), and so on showed no motivation, no creativities, no flayers.

I stated clearly before Todd Bohley made Pochettino for manager that Pochettino is not type of manager for CFC. Pochettino was and still is manager without any silverware and being sucked by every club he was manager of. I just hope that Todd Bohley will make correct decision and give a boot and a good one to Pochettino as soon as possible.

Read few previous articles:

SURREAL APPOINTMENT CFC MADE II (mercator.direct)

THOMAS TUCHEL 2:0 TODD BOEHLY (mercator.direct)

THE WINNERS and THE LOSERS (mercator.direct)

ARROGANT TODD BOEHLY STILL HASN'T LEARN THE LESSON (mercator.direct)

PENNY MORDAUNT SPEECH IN PARLIAMENT AFTER GAZA VOTE

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:43:33 GMT

CONSERVATIVES' DRAMA QUEEN №.3

There was really incredible day in Parliament. What a drama. On Wednesday night the MPs should debate on the UK's response to the war between Israel and Hamas however, instead of democratic debate and vote the Conservative party walk out pretending that they are supporting SNP. What a joke!

Make no mistake parliamentary procedure has no space for multiple choice answers and what the Commons Speaker tried, and spectacularly failed. There were three suggestions: One from Tories – the government amendment, there was Labour motion to vote for a ceasefire and finally there was also SNP motion.

What has happened was that pulling the plug on proceedings and allowing the Labour amendment to pass, the Conservatives scuppered the chance for the SNP to have a vote.

They also brought down the Speaker's plan to give each of the three biggest parties their chance to make clear exactly where they stand on a hugely divisive issue, in a context of growing concern about MPs' safety.

In recent weeks, the Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green Mike Freer has announced he will be standing down from Parliament after receiving death threats. A fellow Conservative MP, Tobias Ellwood, has spoken about protests outside his home over the situation in Gaza.

Shadow Leader of the Commons Lucy Powell was reflecting these situations and more when she said in the Commons that MPs are working under a "long shadow of threats, intimidation and security concerns".

What happened next was again unforeseen. The Speaker apologizes to walk out. In his apology to MPs, the Speaker said "the details of the things that have been brought to me are absolutely frightening".

There are no doubt Speaker Hoyle takes MPs' safety seriously but by no means he should apologise as he did. His word in parliament should be first and last! His predecessor John Bercow would never ever do something like this even if he would be aware that mistake being made like this one that Speaker Hoyle giving option to all three motions. Speaker Hoyle previously suggested that the possibility of another violent attack on an MP keeps him awake at night.

Conservative MP Sir Charles Walker described it as an "obsession" that had "clouded" the Speaker's judgement when he chose to depart from normal procedure.

But those Conservative backbenchers now calling for the Speaker to go believe that changing the rules amounts to a concession to what they see as intimidating behaviour from some pro-Palestinian protesters.

The former attorney general, Tory MP Sir Geoffrey Cox, described it as "abject surrender to intolerance and tyranny", which "offers up the House of Commons as able to be influenced by external threats".

Lord Walney, the government's Independent Adviser on Political Violence and Disruption, told to the BBC: "It is extraordinarily serious to have a position where the events of our seat of democracy can be influenced by a sense of threat coming from outside. From the angry crowd that was gathered around while the vote was taking place last night, or the increasing levels of intimidation that MPs are facing at their homes, outside their offices, going about their business.”

The leader of the Commons Penny Mordaunt has her “moment” to stand and made speech about the drama in parliament as her endorsement for the next PM accusing Labour party that they made pressure on Speaker Hoyle with suggestion that Labour threaten him that he will be out of the job when Labour comes to power if their motion about Gaza will not be accepted and voted on. What a drama queen!

For me this Penny Mordaunt tried to impress with her speech to give her fellow conservatives first sign that she will be contender for the next PM like Liz Truss or Kemi Badenock.

KEMI BADENOCH v the POST OFFICE (Henry Staunton) Part I

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:27:59 GMT

CONSERVATIVES' DRAMA QUEEN №. II

There are few undisputed facts in the row between Kemi Badenoch, the business and trade secretary, and Henry Staunton, former chairman of the Post Office, over delayed compensation for post office operators. The central allegation is that the government wanted payment deferred so the cost would not have to be met this side of a general election. In rejecting that assertion, Ms Badenoch impugned Mr Staunton’s motives and character. She told parliament on Monday that the charges were “baseless” and vengeful. The business secretary explained that her accuser was embittered after being sacked last month, adding also that he had been under investigation for bullying.

On other side, Mr Staunton says he was unaware of any such investigation. He has countered with a memo, dating back to January 2023, summarising a conversation with a senior civil servant, in which he was told to avoid painful long-term financial decisions. It would be better, Mr Staunton’s note of the meeting records, if the government were allowed to “hobble” into an election with such issues unaddressed.

The government questions the accuracy of Mr Staunton’s account and asserts that financial issues under discussion did not include Horizon compensation. The same rebuttal was issued on Wednesday by Sarah Munby, the senior civil servant at the business department who is alleged to have requested the delay in payments. It is unclear why Mr Staunton would have mis-recorded a conversation a year before he knew he would be sacked.

The government’s defence is weaker in the assertion of urgency in wanting to compensate victims of the Horizon scandal before ITV broadcast its dramatised account of events last month. No such haste was communicated to the sub-postmasters themselves.

Lack of prior interest was an aggravating factor in public outrage. Decades elapsed between the emergence of problems with Horizon – the IT fault that effectively caused innocent people to be treated as fraudsters – and government acknowledgment that there had been a most colossal miscarriage of justice.

Mr Staunton says he was told, when sacked, that the decision was necessary because someone had to “carry the can”. This is also denied by Ms Badenoch. For the business secretary, the row is about the future as well as the past. She is often cited as the frontrunner to succeed Rishi Sunak, following a Tory defeat at the next election. Her pugilistic approach to criticism was previously seen as a strength. Now, with the veracity of some of her statements to the Commons openly challenged, it looks reckless.

For me this Kimi Badenock tried to impress with her speech to give her fellow conservatives first sign that she will be contender for the next PM.

OOPS! ... I DID IT AGAIN!

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 21:03:53 GMT

RETAINS QUATAR TOTAL ENERGIES OPEN CROWN 2024

Make no mistake games to the final was for Iga just like walking into the park. However, she have opponent in the final in Rybankina who was on a mood to spoil the party for Iga. But luckily just in first set! Second set was just a routine for Iga.

Let us remind us about Iga:

Age > 22

Seeded > 1

Ranking > 1

Plays > Right-Handed

Highest Rank > 1

Titles > 17

Tournament Best > Champion - 2022 & 2023

Prize Money > $25,285,642

Career W/L > 291/67

Price money in Quatar 2024 she won > $523,483.

What was her Route to Final:

Semi-Final

w/o > Pliskova

Quater Final

6-4, 6-0 > bt Azarenka

Round 3

6-1, 6-4 > bt Alexandrova

Round 2

6-1, 6-1 > bt Cirstea

Round 1

BYE.

The final was 7-6, 6-2.

Thank you Iga, you did it again! You retain your favourite trophy you like so much. You were, you are, and you always be in our hearts, we are proud being one of your sponsors!

TORY DOOM AND GLOOM DEEPENS AFTER DOUBLE POLL BLOW

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:54:30 GMT

RISHI INSISTS "OUR PLAN IS WORKING" - MAYBE ON MARS BUT NOT IN UK!

Feeling a pressure? Another two by-election, another two hammer blows for the conservatives and Rishi Sunak. But not just being hammered by the Labours. Was devastating for the Tories by Reform UK seizing its biggest ever chunk of the vote. In a nightmare end to the week for the Prime Minister, the Tories were ousted by Labour in Kingswood, south Gloucestershire, and Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, the day after Britain was confirmed to have plunged into recession.

Sir John Curtice, Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University, said it had been a “terrible” night for the Conservatives. He stated clearly to the press: “The results confirm they are still in deep electoral trouble and time to restore their fortunes is beginning to run out.”

Most worrying for the Conservatives will be Reform UK grabbing 13 per cent of the vote in Wellingborough and ten per cent in Kingswood and the prospect of the party being given rocket boosters if Nigel Farage takes over at its helm.

The results immediately sparked speculation that Mr Sunak could face fresh calls from Tory MPs to stand down as they showed the party failing to make progress to close the large gap behind Labour.

Hailing the two victories, Sir Keir Starmer told BBC Breakfast: “I think there is a message now from these by-elections... I think the country is crying out for change. Everybody knows that. “Things aren’t working. Their NHS isn’t working. They’ve got a cost of living crisis. I think they’ve concluded that the Tories have failed after 14 years.”

The Prime Minister said the specific circumstances surrounding the by-elections were “particularly challenging” and there were low turnouts. He stressed: “We’ve clearly been through a lot over the past couple of years as a country, but I genuinely believe at the start of this year we’re pointing in the right direction.”

On the threat from Reform, he responded: “A vote for anyone who isn’t the Conservative candidate, whether that’s Reform or anyone else, is just a vote to put Keir Starmer in power.”

But the by-election losses mean the Government has clocked up more by-election defeats in a single Parliament than any Government since the 1966 - 70 Labour administration of Harold Wilson, when there were 15.

They also show how quickly the political spotlight can shift, with Sir Keir having been under pressure at the start of the week over anti-Israel rants by two parliamentary candidates, including Azhar Ali in Rochdale, who were suspended from the party over their comments.

Former Newham councillor Gen Kitchen won in Wellingborough, overturning a Conservative majority of more than 18,500, and with a swing in the share of the vote of 28.5 percentage points which is the second largest swing from Tory to Labour at a by-election since the Second World War. She got 13,844 votes, or 46 per cent, with Tory Helen Harrison gaining 7,408, or 24.6 per cent.

Even more alarming for the Tories, Reform’s Ben Habib finished third with 13 per cent of the vote, or 3,919, its best ever by-election result. Mr Tice, the leader of Reform, said: “The Tories are terrified of us. We’re the party on the up and it seems like the Tories are a party on the down.”

He also ruled out any electoral pact with the Conservatives, saying this was a “cast-iron guarantee”.

The by-election was triggered after Conservative MP Peter Bone, 71, was forced out after a probe by Parliament’s behaviour watchdog which found he broke sexual misconduct rules and upheld five allegations of bullying against him.

The selection of Mr Bone’s partner, Ms Harrison, as the Conservative candidate in his former seat has been a source of controversy, with Mr Sunak last month declining to say whether he would be campaigning for her. The turnout at Wellingborough was 38.1 per cent.

In Kingswood, where the result was announced shortly before 2am, Labour’s Damien Egan, former Mayor of Lewisham, defeated Conservative Sam Bromiley, securing 11,176 votes and a majority of 2,501. He overturned a Tory majority of more than 11,000, with a swing of 16.4 percentage points.

Reform came third with 10 per cent of the vote, at least double the five per cent and four per cent the party achieved in the Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire by-elections respectively in October 2023.

The Kingswood by-election took place after the Government’s former net zero tsar Chris Skidmore quit over the watering down of action to tackle climate change. Turnout was 37.11 per cent.

Sir John Curtice stressed there was “no guarantee” for the Tories that previous Conservative voters who had stayed at home rather than vote would return to the fold. He added: “In this Parliament we have seen on average a record level of fall in turnout across the piece, in Labour seats and in Conservative seats. “The last time we saw declines of turnout on this scale was in the Parliament of 1997 to 2001 which ended up with a 59 per cent turnout in the general election. “I would suggest that there is a challenge to all of the parties as to how to persuade a discontented and pessimistic electorate that it’s worth going to the polls to vote for any of them.”

Therefore, what ever we are looking at or taking make no mistake: For quite some time the Tory party now becoming a punchline for a joke!

LIZ'S POPCON GROUP

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:18:41 GMT

FOUR MPs BILLED TO SPEAK ON THE EVENT, BUT IN REALITY THIS HAS NOT HAPPENED!

If you have not been part of this event which intended to mark the reinvigoration of right-wing conservatism, trust me, you have not missed anything at all. And when it was all about to start and go and the first speaker took to the stage on Tuesday morning, the Popular Conservatism group had splintered.

On the cards was the four MPs billed to speak, however, just two were present – Liz Truss and Jacob Rees-Mogg. The former cabinet minister Ranil Jayawardena, regarded by some as a rising star of the Tory right, pulled out on Monday with a swipe at his fellow panellists. And Simon Clarke, another “Trussite” former cabinet minister, was removed from the line-up by the organisers two weeks ago after calling for Rishi Sunak to be ousted.

What I was amazed was that none of the speakers openly questioned Sunak’s leadership, much of the rest of the event amounted to an evisceration of his policies. Even the director Mark Littlewood, who until recently led the Institute of Economic Affairs, told the room. “I’m personally immovable in my view that Rishi Sunak should lead the Conservatives into the next general election therefore, this isn’t about the leadership of Rishi Sunak.”

The former Conservative party vice-chair Lee Anderson attacked the government over its approach to net zero. He called for coal mines to be reopened in the north of England and for people to be able to choose whether to pay green levies on their energy bills. “We’re burning coal in our power stations but it’s foreign coal,” he said. “How is that contributing to net zero? It’s an absolute nonsense.” He also said his constituents weren’t “lying awake at night worrying about net zero”.

The parliamentary candidate Mhairi Fraser, who is standing in Chris Grayling’s safe Tory seat of Epsom and Ewell, launched an extended attack on Sunak’s smoking ban and the Covid lockdowns. She said the ban would create a “ludicrous two-tier system where in the years to come a 50-year-old man will be able to legally buy his cigarettes but his 49-year-old wife will not”.

Rees-Mogg declared that the “age of Davos man is over” and Truss urged her colleagues to stop worrying about getting a job in Sunak’s government and take the fight to “left-wing extremists” running UK institutions instead. Truss claimed these included “environmentalists” and those who are “in favour of supporting LGBT people or groups of ethnic minorities”.

Lord Gavin Barwell, former chief of staff to Theresa May, called for Truss to lose the Tory whip for those remarks. He said: “Liz Truss has done more than enough damage to the Conservative party already. She should apologise for this offensive nonsense or lose the whip.” This would force her to sit as an independent MP in the Commons.

The Popular Conservatism group also aims to pile pressure on the prime minister to cut taxes, to adopt hardline policies on immigration and to leave the European convention on human rights.

Many Tory MPs on the right of the party decided to stay away. “I’m not sure what space this is meant to fill,” one MP said privately. “The Conservative Growth Group already advocates libertarian economics. The Common Sense Conservatives talk about cultural issues.”

One person who was present was the former Brexit party leader Nigel Farage, in his capacity as a GB News presenter. A few years ago, Tories found to be associating with him risked suspension from the party – but on Tuesday attendees were lining up to take pictures with him.

Farage said he was not seeking to join the Conservatives, “given what they stand for”, but he did not rule out standing for parliament with Richard Tice’s party, Reform. “I suspect I would agree with a lot of what is said on the platform this morning, but none of it is going to be Conservative manifesto policy,” he said. “Whilst there were some big names like Liz Truss, Jacob Rees-Mogg – I saw Priti Patel coming into the audience earlier – they are a very small minority within the parliamentary Conservative party.”

Labour and the Liberal Democrats mocked the new Tory grouping. The shadow paymaster general, Jonathan Ashworth, wrote to the panellists on Monday night asking whether they still supported unfunded tax cuts and the use of offshore tax havens. The Lib Dems published a social media graphic of the Top of the Pop[Con]s “greatest hits”.

Unfazed, Truss insisted: “Britain is full of secret Conservatives – people who agree with us but don’t want to admit it because they think it’s not acceptable in their place of work, it’s not acceptable at their school.”

30 UNRWA EMPLOYEES INVOLVED IN MASSACRE

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:34:58 GMT

MORE THAN 30 EMPLOYEES OF THE UNRWA INVOLVED IN HAMAS MASSACRE October 7, 2024

According to different sources, more than 30 employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) were involved in the Hamas massacre on October 7. Israeli Defense Minister Joav Galant told journalists this with reference to intelligence information. Employees were involved in hostage-taking or looted Israeli communities. Galant revealed the identities of 12 UNRWA workers allegedly involved in the attack.

In addition, 1,468 of the 13,000 UNRWA workers in the Gaza Strip have ties to Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Galant said. This corresponds to twelve percent of the employees on site. According to him, 185 employees are active in Hamas' military-terrorist wing and 51 in the PIJ's military-terrorist wing. "UNRWA is deeply involved in terrorist activities," Galant said.

If this is correct then why on earth would UK, EU, USA and others help UNRWA? This would be very unwise, despite that there are c oncerns about funding for UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians.

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) could run out of money for its work as early as March. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said the decision of 15 countries to suspend their contributions to the agency had frozen a total of $450 million. If funding is not restored, it will definitely have an impact on UNRWA's ability to continue its work.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) building in northern Gaza City destroyed on February 10. According to Lazzarini, the suspended contributions include € 82 million from the European Commission. That amount is due at the beginning of March." It is of the utmost importance that this amount is released in time, because if it is not released, our work will be affected from March," he said.

Irish Deputy Prime Minister Micheál Martin said the Irish government would provide €20 million to UNRWA this year. He accused Israel of a disinformation campaign against UNRWA and called on the EU and the US to reverse their decision to suspend funding for UNRWA. The civilian population in the Gaza Strip is still not adequately aided. "This is completely unacceptable," Martin said.

The U.S., Britain and several other countries suspended funding for UNRWA after Israel accused several of its employees of involvement in the October 7 Hamas attack. Apparently the United Nations is currently investigating the allegations.

Does this surprise you? I don't think so! How the attack was executed and that hostages could not be find just showing and confirming daily that such conspiracy theory exists.

SIMON CLARK v RISHI SUNAK

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 04:52:52 GMT

CALL ON RISHI SUNAK TO QUIT OR RISK "MASSACRE" AT GENERAL ELECTION

I don't buy a single word of it! The Tories have been in power for nearly 14 years. If you just take two things: tax cuts Jeremy Hunt can probably give some "sweeties" on March 6 or maybe in an autumn statement but look at that we've still got strike action great large across the public sector, you've got junior doctors on strike with 35% pay demands, you've got rail workers on, immigration basically triple - we had 1.2 million people come in and the loss net migration in the last two years that's on the conservative party's watch I say this is a conservative party former candidate for heaven’s sake this party now is in the doldrums it's time for a change it's not working anymore!

At the end of the day they don't have the numbers these rap Tory rebels in order to trigger a conservative but I think everyone would be very surprised if that actually did happen and it just makes him look like a completely divided party and as we know there were party that's been in government for getting on for 14 years and there is no party discipline and one of the issues is that conservative MPs can read the polls, lots of them they're probably going to lose their seats at the next election.

Perhaps Clark is correct that conservatives are with non discipline. This is why this is a party without discipline where you've got people coming out and saying I wish you see that needs to go but I think the majority of conservative MP's know that to change it leader we've had two conservative leaders it's the last general election to impose another unelected Prime Minister in the country, it would just be it's inconceivable, I think that people be marching on parliament for a general election. I can't remember how many is exactly it's 50 something have to file letters with the conservative backbench committee in order to trigger a leadership election the idea that they'll get anything close to that is just for the birds so I mean this is just basically a party in disarray.

If I was a Tory MP right now in a seat where I'm going to lose my seat I would spend my weekends dusting off my CV and trying to think about my next career rather than engaging in this.

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2024

Sun, 24 Dec 2023 05:27:04 GMT

& PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2024

From drinks by the fire with the light all aglow,

To counting the number of sleeps left to go,

From family gathering where you sit on odd chairs,

To perfect roast potatoes to which no other compares,

Now we all come together

for Christmas and New Year celebrations,

Where we make traditions that will last generations!

Merry Christmas and Happy & Prosperous New Year 2024

APPOINT A CLOWN - EXPECT A CIRCUS ... Part V

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 09:57:41 GMT

DAVID CAMERON appointed as FOREIGN SECRETARY on 13 NOVEMBER 2023

Rishi Sunak’s Muppet Show goes on and on. Since he gave Suella Braverman a red card, he replaced the former Foreign Secretary as Home Office Secretary and guess what, as of Monday we have a new Foreign Secretary “one and only” David Cameron – apologies "Lord" Cameron.

There's been a lot of scrutiny of behaviour since being in government and now the focus is on China. You have to remember the last time David Cameron was really in the headlines in the UK was a couple of years ago with the Greensill scandal which is probably the biggest lobbying scandal we've seen in a couple of decades in the UK where he'd been lobbying former ministers over colleagues and friends.

Reports emerged that Cameron had lobbied former Chancellor of the Exchequer [currently prime minister] Rishi Sunak in 2020 to change rules in order to allow Greensill to join the Covid Corporate Financing Facility, a government loan scheme that was initiated to support companies during the pandemic-related economic recession, what Rishi did.

After Cameron left office Cameron engaged in a relationship with China to raise a billion dollars for his private equity firm. Moreover, the most important thing to mention about this is just last month it was being reported that David Cameron was talking up a significant port development in Sri Lanka and make no mistake, it's a Chinese owned business, it's completely wholly Chinese owned. Did David Cameron know about that at the time when he was making those statements about his involvement in all his old and new businesses? Of course, he knew!

David Cameron unfortunately has a history of being less than completely honest about his business interests since leaving office and I think this is one of the aspects that doesn't matter how much I would like to talk about this.

Make no mistake, David Cameron has been touting business around the world for the best part of a decade. There's a lot of these sort of stories and if I am not mistaken even both the FT and The Times are really trying to get deep under the skin of David Cameron's lobbying operation predicted as regards China and there's a lot of China hawks in the conservative party people like Ian Duncan Smith and others who would be very deeply uncomfortable about this and are already making noises and saying that he was wrong appointment because of all this.

So, what do we have now in the government for Foreign Secretary?

An Eton educated who even when he was a PM was never ever clear what he stood for. A person who was orchestrating one of the biggest lobbying scandals in the UK along with Rishi Sunak when he was Chancellor of Exchequer. A person who sold his soul to everyone just to gain money doesn't matter even if it is from communist China.

What did he share with Rishi Sunak apart from the Greensill scandal?

They are both smooth talkers and they both have a history not being honest at all.

Ps: Being the main brains for the biggest lobbying scandal in the UK - you get as reward the title "Lord" and you become Foreign Secretary - even easier to do the "private" business further but this time even on a bigger scale.

SUELLA BRAVERMAN - LAST WOMEN STANDS

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 09:39:51 GMT

BY SACKING SUELLA BRAVERMAN THE UK GOV FOR THE 1st TIME SINCE 2010 THE TOP FOUR GOV POSITIONS ARE IN THE MAN'S HANDS!

You were quite right with your personal opinions about majority what has happen recently in UK in respect of demonstration and I congratulate you that you have guts to say it. However you been sacked by the person you gave your support to become PM. I just hope that this will not ends here.

You were right to accuses Sunak of being "uncertain, weak and lacking in leadership" over threat posed by extremism. In your letter of resignation you stated clearly the same I have in my mind for decades that soon or later there will be demonstrations and marches in UK if the government do not tide racism, intimidation and terrorist glorification.

And you were right that Sunak's response was and still is uncertain, weak, and lacking the qualities of leadership that the country needs.

What I like most was ending of your letter where you were saying: " As on so many other issues, you sought to put off tough decisions in order to minimise political risk to yourself. In doing so you have increased the very real risk these marches present to everyone else".

I send you quite a few letters, now you know how right I was. I have no doubts that you will find your way out to deal with all what is now in conservative party.

GUESS WHAT RISHI, WE ARE WINNING!

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 15:46:54 GMT

WHAT SUELLA TOLD TO RISHI AFTER STORM CIARAN

Suella: "Rishi, we just won our case!"

Rishi: "How, what case, what is going on?"

Suella: "Imagine, there were no small boats with f****** immigrants over the channel!

“Can you imagine Rishi, no new f****** immigrants in the last few days since Ciaran visited us!"

Rishi: “Ye-ye-ye, but now people are not interested in immigrants. They want to repair their homes and I am Prime Minister and they need money.”

Suella: “Who cares, you and I, we are safe!”

“By the way, you never ever care about ordinary folks anyway and the point I am trying to make Rishi is, one of your pledges is coming realistic, thanks to Ciaran!”

“Imagine, you can even go back to the parliament and attend your PMQ. There will be no questions about immigrants and boats on PMQ therefore, you don’t need to orchestrated another summit or to go out of the country like you went to Israel or to find whichever excuse just to avoid the PMQ.”

The defence rests!

RISHI SUNAK- FOOLISHNESS OR COMPLETE MADNESS?

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 15:27:34 GMT

WE HAVE A PRIME MINISTER WHO WAS SELLING BRITAIN TO MUSK...

Few days ago Sam Cotes of Sky news said: "It was all just mad in many ways because what you didn’t have at this event was any sense that Elon Musk, through his business activities, actually is a huge political actor."

“He owns satellites, he owns internet services along with social media sites. He is increasingly one of the most powerful figures in the world".

It is up to him whether or not to restore internet connectivity to Gaza if Israel turns it off, he has the ability to intervene in the war in Ukraine by either helping or not Ukrainian forces challenge Russia.

He’s got political views on migration.

“But we didn’t get any sense from Rishi Sunak that he was challenging him, that he was dealing with somebody else who is a big political force, some of which might be a force for good, some of which might not be a force for good.

“Instead you had a prime minister who was selling Britain to this guy who is already the richest man in the world.

“So it was an event in which Rishi Sunak hoped that some of the celebrity, the ambition and the entrepreneurism of Elon Musk might even rub off on him, but you didn’t get the sense of a prime minister going toe-to-toe with a political figure who sometimes can do challenging stuff that Britain might oppose.

“It was a very, very weird event indeed.”

I fully agree with Cotes, this should never ever happen.

KEIR STARMER'S POSITION OVER CEASFIRE IS THE CORRECT ONE

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 11:36:49 GMT

WHY ARE PEOPLE AFTER KEIR STARMER?

I cannot wrap my head around attacks on Keir Starmer leader of Labour party why he has not publicly demanded for a ceasefire over the conflict in Gaza.

From my point of view and knowledge Hamas was and still is a terrorist organisation trained and armed by the Iranian government. It was Hamas who attacked and made a massacre on Israeli citizens out of the blue without any provocation from Israel.

For any civilian casualty between Palestinians the only guilty party is Hamas who is hiding behind civilians.

All who are asking and calling for ceasefire should know:

Ceasefire would not help Palestinians but just to Hamas to regroup.
There should be no ceasefire until Hamas don’t release the hostages.
Palestinian people in Gaza were well aware all the time what was going on under their homes that Hamas was building a labyrinth of rows and that was going decades.
Hamas headquarters is under the main hospital in Gaza. Director of the hospital stands firm that they will not relocate the hospital south. The relocation was demanded by the Israeli government so that they can extend the fight against Hamas under the main hospital to prevent any civilian casualties.
Keir Starmer has the same view as Rishi Sunak, our unelected PM. So, why did not even a single journalist or commentator ask Rishi Sunak why he, as leader of Great Britain, did not call for a ceasefire? This clearly shows that BBC, Sky News and majority newspapers support conservative party (majority in hands of Rupert Murdoch) and they just try to unsettle the Labour party who is in a good mood to be back in the government, which would not be good for conservative party and their supporters like Rupert Murdock.

6. Keir Starmer stated clearly that support for Palestinian people should be arranged and given more smoothly.

Starmer made significant progress to overturn the bad position of the Labour party under the previous leadership Jeremy Corbyn.

All labour members should be proud to have a leader like Starmer and stand firmly next to him and keep their views about “ceasefire” for themselves and not going out and publicly attacking Starmer with what they are just showing that they are just emotional but with no brains.

Britain and all in Britain are on their knees - from NHS to the transport. People should concentrate on how to change these day-to-day issues at home – in the UK and rather support Keir Starmer to make some differences in British lives where conservatives made such disasters being in the government for the last 13 years.

Finally, US, Germany, France and many other leaders did not call for ceasefire and make no mistake US and Germany are the main supporters of Israel.

It would be ludicrous that one leader of a not even governing party has to call for a ceasefire just to make some people in the UK happy.

How stupid would this be?

HOLOCAUST AND TRAGEDY - ISRAELI'S 9/11

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 19:45:12 GMT

HOW FESTIVAL MASSACRE UNFOLDED

On 7 October 2023, Hamas attacked Israel completely out of the blue. I could not believe it when I heard the news. Israel’s security service and intelligence is one of the best, if not the best, in the world. For me, it was an outrage that the attack by Hamas was not detected and anticipated; I have no doubt that behind Hamas is Iran, and this has been in preparation for at least a year.

More than 200 Israeli and other nationalities, mainly women and children, have been taken as hostages by Hamas into Gaza. Amid shocking images of terrified Israeli civilians and soldiers – some bloodied, others hooded and with their hands tied – being dragged away by Hamas militants, the whereabouts and fate of the captives has become one of the most pressing issues for military planners.

A spokesperson for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), Lt Col Jonathan Conricus, has confirmed that a “significant number” are being held hostage. Officials in the US and UK were urgently investigating claims that several Americans and one British citizen are among the captured. According to reports, while most hostages were taken by Palestinian armed factions, some Palestinian civilians who also entered Israel may have been taken captives too.

Lt Conricus stated that some hostages were alive while others were presumed dead, in line with the practice of Gaza’s militant factions of taking human remains to exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Make no mistake, Hamas has taken the hostages both as a human shield against Israel’s counterattack, as well as an insurance policy and bargaining material as the conflict evolves.

My heart and support is with Israel to do what should have been done decades ago! Israel was the one who wanted to make the peace in that area but were thwarted by the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Subsequently, the US and UK foreign policy stance with Libya, Iraq and then the war in Kuwait de-railed further negotiations.

You have to have in mind that Hamas is no match in its fight against the Israeli army, even when orchestrating simultaneous attacks with their Hezbollah comrades from Lebanon and Syria. Behind both militia stands Iran, who remain “pissed off” because the US killed Osama Bin Laden and still have “unfinished business” after 9/11.

Iran has a few, but significant, “friends” in Russia, China and North Korea. The war between Israel and Hamas is a perfect distraction to move the World’s eyes from Europe to the Middle East, away from the Russia Ukraine war. Concurrently, China is contemplating its appetite to go after Taiwan; not to mention North Korea’s desire for a chunk of South Korea.

From my point of view, the US made a big mistake not so long ago when they offloaded” $6 billion of frozen assets back to Iran in exchange for 5 hostages. If we put 1+1 together, my assumption would be that Iran paid Putin half of this money in exchange. Putin’s economy gets the financial injection and ammunition for its war with Ukraine, while Iran gets the nuclear weapon. Similarly, with North Korea.

It is tragic that Hamas killed over 1200 Israeli’s, which is yet another holocaust for Israel. The entire population of Israel (9.7 million) is similar to the population of London; to understand the scale of this atrocity, comparing the killing of 1200 Israelis to the UK population equates to over 8,000 British people massacred in one day. And all this has happened without any provocation from Israel.

What will happen next?

Make no mistake, there will be a war, a long one and perhaps even a fatal one. Hamas and their supporters will be hiding again, as usual behind the innocent people.

The blame here has to be shared with all the Palestinian people living there. They have known for years that Hamas made an entire labyrinth under their houses in Gaza, where their major command centres are under the hospitals, schools and mosques. Why is that? Simply because Hamas believe that Israel will not attack hospitals…

So, why did the Palestinian people allow this underground city and not say to Hamas to go and dig somewhere else and not in “their” land?

LUDICROUS VAR AND OFFICIAL'S DECISION

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 13:26:45 GMT

SHAMEFUL BRITISH FOOTBALL CAUSED BY INEPT VAR OFFICIALS

The decision to disallow Liverpool Diaz’s goal for offside during Saturday's 2-1 defeat to Tottenham was wrong. Even the PGMOL acknowledged a significant human error occurred during the first half of Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool.

It was a completely ludicrous decision from the VAR and officials during the Tottenham Liverpool game.

This was disgrace. A disgrace which happened here, where the British proudly decree that the game - we all adore so much - will be refereed accurately, with the help of VAR.

However, every week we come across absurd decisions and baffling excuses. The major problem for Howard Webb [Technical director of the Professional Game Match Officials Board] is very clear and obvious: Referees are making too many errors on his watch, and consequently clubs are losing points and games. Webb must get a grip of this. Webb must prove he has not only the will but the ability to do it. Otherwise, he becomes part of the problem.

When Mike Riley was in charge of the PGMOL, he was forced out as the Premier League clubs were making too many complaints about what was happening under his watch. He must be laughing now, and I assume he is curious about how Webb will recover from this issue.

Make no mistake, it is unacceptable for the credibility and image of the match officials to be eroded as much as this. Their integrity is now in question, and when that happens the game is in danger of collapsing. The Premier League simply does not have enough officials who can be regarded as part of the elite. From my opinion there is just one – Michael Oliver.

Some say that another elite referee is Antony Taylor. Not for me! He was always on a mission that Chelsea FC drew or lost their games – he was determined that Chelsea didn’t get the correct decisions at all.

Without enough top class referees, we are stumbling on with second class (sub-standard) officials who give the impression that it is the job for the boys; an impression which former referee Mike Dean failed to dispel when he recently admitted he avoided making a VAR call at the climax of Chelsea’s 2:2 draw with Tottenham last August - because he did not want to cause his friend Antony Taylor any grief.

The Tottenham Liverpool game also saw The Reds compromised by two controversial red cards. The first was given to Curtis Jones for a foul on Yves Bissouma after just 26 minutes following a VAR intervention, before half-time substitute Diogo Jota followed him down the tunnel with more than 20 minutes remaining after picking up a quickfire double booking.

The Premier League’s Independent adjudicators believe that Diogo Jota should not have been sent off. The panel consists of three ex-players or coaches and a Premier League and PGMOL representative.

However, the major issue on this game was the unique situation regarding the failure to award Luis Diaz’s 34th minute goal. The PGMOL commented, “The goal by Luiz Diaz was disallowed for offside by the on-field team of match officials. This was a clear and obvious factual error and should have resulted in the goal being awarded through VAR intervention, however, the VAR failed to intervene.” PGMOL will conduct a full review into the circumstances which led to the error.

I was watching the game on Sky Sports live and I was stunned that Mike Dean (former referee and former VAR referee), now a guest-pundit giving his view on live games referees decision, said that no mistake was made – the referee and VAR just followed the law.

What law?

What are you talking about Dean?

Your mouth was full of rubbish and stupid excuses!

Seems to me you want to forget your “outstanding” refereeing decisions! You were the main referee for the Fulham v Chelsea game, in the Mourinho era. Didier Drogba’s goal was disallowed. If you recall, your comment at the time live on Sky Sports was, that “big decision” was wrong – so, we disallowed the Chelsea goal and the game restarted.

So, Mike Dean, a question to you and all the referees at the Tottenham Liverpool game and also to all at the PGMOL:

Why when the mistake was made by the VAR officials was the game not stopped, Diaz’s goal reinstated and then the game continued - as it had done in the Fulham v Chelsea match, where the goal was disallowed and then the game restarted?

With that goal, Liverpool could have won the game. They would be top of the table. Your poor decisions in this game meant the wrong club profited with three points instead.

If such decisions were made among the bottom six clubs, they could be relegated!

You say you are learning from game to game. It seems to me, you will never ever learn enough!

FROM POTHOLES TO STABBING IN CROYDON

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 12:59:56 GMT

RICHARD HOLDEN MP - PRAM POLITICS

Mr Holden - the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport - said there had been “some distractions” in recent months, namely the mayor’s “flip-flopping” over the expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone. An issue blamed by many in Labour for their loss in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election, and touted as the inspiration for Rishi Sunak’s watering down of net zero policies.

He said: “I think what we should be focusing on is things which really affect people in the city - and the Mayor of London is essentially the Police and Crime Commissioner for neighbourhood crime in London, he should really be focused on that”.

“I think if it was me, one of my main sole focuses at the moment would be very much on crime.

We’ve seen some real issues in London, particularly with violent crime, particularly amongst young people. I don’t want to see that getting out of control. I want to see those numbers coming down.

“And I think if I was the mayor of London that would be my sole focus at the moment, on what we can do to reduce crime in our city.”

Well Mr Holden, 7.5 million followers of our blogs are more than happy that you are not Mayor of London, despite that 6.9 million followers are not from London. In their commentaries to your speech today, concerning the stabbing in Croydon, they comment that only you - the Conservatives - are flip-flopping on all issues; the damage you have done in the last 13 years will be with us for the next 2-3 generations.

If you ask me, “You cannot focus even on sorting out the potholes as Transport Minister”.

Just to remind you what your duties are; you are responsible for:

- HS2 – Phase Two

- Rail – funding and futures (including RIS, SOFA, ORR, stations policy)

- Cities and urban renewal (including growth deals and Heseltine Review)

- Localism and devolution

- Local connectivity (including smart ticketing, buses, taxis, light rail and trams)

- Accessibility and equalities

- Future transport (including OLEV)

- Natural environment (including biofuels)

- SMEs

- International.

Which of the above have you done?

None!

Rather, you say that your government will focus on potholes than HS2.

Mr Holden, you show your own flip-flopping by not knowing what and which jobs are yours. The Government has nothing to do with potholes – they are the responsibility of local councils. With this, you are just showing that you are not eager for the important jobs; you would rather use a shovel and bucket of asphalt to cover potholes around the country.

Well done, there is one job you can do – be a manual worker (muscles from Blackburn)! You are doing well: from being a waiter and bartender, to your political career launching a Bill in Parliament to see “Virginity testing banned” to becoming Transport Minister!

Your comment about the stabbing in Croydon, which you used for your “big” speech this morning, is out of all proportion! You are using the stabbing for your political laundry, to make new headlines to

distract from your Government and the Conservative Party failures.

If we are taking in consideration just the Mayor of London position: Following the financial hole created by the previous Mayor of London (Boris Johnson) of £1.2bn, the current Mayor Sadiq Khan

has to deal not just with a shortage of funds, but also a shortage of police officers - your government cut 20,000 police officers.

It seems Mr Holden forgot about Boris Johnson’s deception as Mayor of London and his comments about the Grenfell Tower disaster. Johnson stated clearly that the 72 who died were ignored. He further stated that these 72 people who died in Grenfell Tower were overlooked for years before the blaze.

Boris Johnson was Mayor of London from 03 May 2008 for eight years. In his eight years as Mayor of London, Mr Johnson closed 20 fire stations, cut 27 fire engines, and got rid of 500 firefighters. Kensington & Chelsea Borough was a Conservative council.

Under Boris Johnson’s watch, the police did not make much effort to tackle crime either. Most crimes reported were not taken any further. Therefore, Mr Holden, don’t jump out of your pram with this position you have in the government. Your brain and thinking along with the speeches you are making just shows your lack of education and knowledge - and you were not even that good in you first job as a waiter.

The reason “kids” have and use knives is all about their education – which starts at home from the day they are born. Children mirror how they have been raised by their mothers and fathers.

You Conservatives are trying to control individuals (and the whole nation); you use the police, the army, cameras, and all sorts of other surveillance gadgets. However, despite that you are using all these resources, you have failed on all fronts.

Because you have failed in all your pledges, you are diverting the media focus elsewhere – away from the government and the Conservative Party – and you all are blaming others for every mistake you made and continue to make.

Time for you all to go!

HS2 - ONE WAY TICKET TO NOWHERE

Sat, 16 Sep 2023 21:45:58 GMT

TORY'S MISMANAGEMENT - WHY CAN'T BRITAIN EVER GET THE BIG THINGS RIGHT

It is not a popular theme by conservative party, and it is one of regular problem and issue with this government – yet another failure.

Since 2010 since it was first proposed by Gordon Brown’s Labour government everything gone – complete disaster with costs spiralling, delivery dates slipping and routes changing.

It was originally envisaged as a Y-shaped network which would go from London Euston to Birmingham, with two spurs to Manchester and Leeds. Every prime minister since Brown (Labour Party) – David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss (Conservative Party) – supported HS2, though in 2021 under Johnson’s government the Leeds leg was axed. Rishi Sunak – whose North Yorkshire constituency will not benefit from the current plans – now has to decide whether to scrap the Manchester leg.

Let’s remind ourself with some numbers to help you understand how the project has changed, and what is at stake.

£30bn – The original estimated cost of Hs2, including spurs to Manchester and Leeds, when proposed by Brown’s government in March 2010

£44.6bn - The current projected cost of HS2 phase one (2019 prices) – London Euston to Birmingham

2033 - The date for HS2’s full completion, when first voted through parliament by MPs in 2013

140 miles of track - The only bit of Hs2 that is under construction and guaranteed to be finished, from Old Oak Common in west London to Birmingham

2029-2033 - When the London to Birmingham leg will actually open to passengers

6 miles – The distance from Old Oak Common to Euston, HS2’s original London terminus

£4.8bn – The estimated cost of building HS2 from Old Oak Common to Euston

15 minutes – The time it takes to walk from Birmingham Curzon Street HS2 stop to Birmingham New Street, the main rail interchange in the Midlands

30,000 – The number of jobs supported by the construction of HS2, including close to 1,300 apprenticeships

2,700 - The number of weekend closures over 15 years that would be needed in order to upgrade existing lines instead of building the first phase of HS2 – according to HS2.

£24,000 – The compensation offered to homeowners who live within 180 metres of the HS2 route

1 hour 11 minutes - New journey time between Manchester Piccadilly and London Euston if HS2 is built in full to the north-west. The current fastest journey time is 2 hours 5 minutes

41 minutes - New journey time between Manchester and Birmingham on HS2, down from 1 hour 27 minutes

225mph (362km/h) – The top speed of the new HS2 trains

200 metres - The length of each HS2 train, with the option to couple two units together to create a 400-metre long train

1,100 seats - The number of seats on a double HS2 train

Question for PM Rishi Sunak:

Only the conservative party was all along involved with the HS2 finances. Was there any investigation where £14.6bn gone (mishandled, overpaid, spent elsewhere,...)?

RISHI SUNAK AND THE HOUSE OF CARDS

Sat, 16 Sep 2023 12:19:09 GMT

WILL UNITED KINGDOM BECOME A COLONY OF INDIA / AN INDIAN COLONY

When I wrote the article Elect a clown - expect a circus ... Part III , I foresaw what was going to happen; now every day, it is happening in front of our eyes.

I was completely right that the government under his leadership will fail; indeed, he has failed on all his five (5) pledges.

Do not forget that Rishi holds the office of prime minister unelected; a prime minister without a single vote even from his own MP's; a prime minister without a mandate from the people. All that he touches does not, and will not, benefit the British people!

I pointed out a few things about this government’s shambles and how adrift they have become in my article The Rishi Sunak Muppet Show II , but these are all minor aberrations compared to now.

More and more comes out on daily basis.

How does he still survive? Because he keeps his friends close and "his enemies" even closer - by giving them lucrative jobs in the government, e.g.

- Suella Braverman, Home secretary (despite she twice breached the ministerial code)

- Penny Mordaunt, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons

- Jeremy Hunt, Chancellor of Exchequer

- Kemi Badenoch, Business and Trade Secretary a nd so on.

Do not forget that the above four named was conservative candidates' for PM position the same time as Rishi - and Rishi won because he made the "deal" with the above named and 4 other groups in the conservative party including with backbenchers'.

Why is the Home Office struggling and not working as it should? Because of Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak’s new policy about who may be employed here. Sooner or later civil servants get the boot if they object to certain immigrants entering the UK via the "visa deal” influenced by Rishi Sunak father-in-law.

I have to say, our PM Rishi Sunak is "smooth talker". However, I don't believe that he believes all the words which are coming out of his mouth - he knows it’s all about making headlines, without any intention of any action or impact.

If he was really looking out for the nation, he would not dump the net zero target, he would not make the deals he did; he would sort out his 5 pledges, ensure Northern Ireland has a government, resolve the food "embargo" from Europe from where we are now getting more and more immigrants and less and less pasta.

And if he really cared about the country, why on earth is he trying to avoid Prime Minister Questions?

You tell me why, as it seems to me, I am not clever enough. Or is it the same tactic as his predecessor, Boris Johnson? He took to flying in a military aircraft to miss a COBRA meeting, and then went to Ukraine to avoid questions about Partygate.

So far, the team has got Sunak out of four PMQs with a variety of feeble excuses. He needed to take his dog to the groomers. The nanny was ill. He already has the worst attendance record of any prime minister. Imagine being worse than Boris Johnson and Liz Truss? I bet any money that Rishi will avoid the PMQ coming Wednesday 20 September 2023. That will be his 5th time not taking his job seriously!

Parliament is currently in recess ahead of the various party conferences [1] – so we look forward to Wednesday 18 th October 2023. There’s a lot going on in the UK and abroad - will he turn up?

Rishi certainly knows how to win the next election!

TATA STEEL CONSPIRACY THEORY

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 11:41:13 GMT

ANOTHER RISHI SUNAK "FAMILY" BUSINESS ON UK TAXPAYERS' EXPENSE?

The British government and Tata Steel have announced a £1.25-billion package, to cut emissions and financial losses at Tata’s steel mill — the country’s largest — at Port Talbot in Wales, potentially putting many of the plant’s 4,000 jobs at risk.

The government said the package would help clean up a site that it said was Britain’s largest emitter, reducing the country’s overall carbon emissions by 1.5 percent, and would ultimately preserve thousands of jobs. It will provide £500 million, with Tata contributing £750 million.

Kemi Badenoch, the business and trade secretary, said the deal was “expected to save thousands of jobs in the long term.” The government’s statement refers to safeguarding only 5,000 jobs in Britain.

Tata Steel employs more than 8,000 people, about half of them at Port Talbot. It seems to me that Kemi Badenoch cannot count! If the business and trade secretary was able to count to "ten" then she would not have made such a comment about safeguarding British jobs when so many livelihoods are at risk.

A union that represents the bulk of steel production workers in Britain said the arrangement risked falling short of the stated goals. While Tata says the plan would “preserve significant employment,” it is not guaranteeing jobs and has been losing money on its British operations for years.

“This deal will have devastating consequences for jobs and workers,” the Community Union said in a statement on Friday. “It will rip the heart out of the Port Talbot community.”

Tata said it would soon begin talks with the unions, including on a “potential deep restructuring” at Port Talbot.

Tata and the government proposed to replace the giant blast furnaces at Port Talbot, which use coal to extract iron from ore, with an electric furnace that melts scrap metal to make steel, a less polluting process. The government said the plant was nearing the end of its life.

But the new plant, which may require years to build (and never ever will be like HS2), may not produce as much steel as the old facilities or employ as many people, which in layman's terms means half of the workers will be sacked!

Steel-making units like blast furnaces and coke ovens would close, the union said, and an electric furnace is not likely to produce the same quality steel as a blast furnace, leading to job cuts at related plants.

“We believe that with electric arc furnaces, there is no way they can keep the portfolio they have got,” said Alun Davies, a union official. “It is very concerning.”

Operations would be subject to the availability and price of electricity, which tends to be expensive in Britain, and to the fluctuations of the scrap metal market. The union said the steel produced by an electric furnace would not be suitable for some auto components and food and beverage containers, potentially leading to the closure of the plants that produce steel for those products and putting hundreds of jobs at risk.

Tata has been running large losses at its British operations and looking at solutions including mergers and, potentially, plant closings for years. In a recent filing, the company said the British steel unit lost £279 million in the latest financial year. I am not surprised that Natarajan Chandrasekaran, the chairman of Tata Group - the parent company, stated “It has been an absolute pleasure to work with” the British government (meaning Rishi Sunak)!

The announcement is the latest example of the British government’s being lobbied to put up substantial sums to "preserve" local jobs. What a joke!

On Monday, the government said it would provide support to help BMW produce electric versions of the popular Mini cars in Britain. Yet another joke!

The government also agreed this year to provide an undisclosed amount of aid to encourage the Tata Group to invest £4 billion in a factory that would produce batteries, likely to be used in electric vehicles made in Britain by Jaguar Land Rover which the Indian conglomerate owns.

Questions for Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak:

Would the UK government give financial support to non-Indian owed companies or companies which do not have links to Indian companies [1]? Make no mistake, BMW and similar are all in the same ‘game’: companies will be profiteering, all "the big promises will be ditched", people will lose their jobs, and UK taxpayer’s money will be "safely" out of reach of the UK government ever getting any reimbursement.
Is the PM not aware that Tata and Infosys are connected ( War and Peace between friends in India - Article Feb 2017 ), or are we talking here again about “ corruption in plain sight ”?
Who will protect the other over 4,000 workers from Tata plant?
Will the £750 million contribution by Tata Steel be from the £4 billion which the UK intends to give as aid to Tata Group?
Why do we still have this industry in UK anyway?
The government is also ‘investing’ in the BMW Mini car plant in Oxford. Can the PM honestly explain what that deal includes, e.g., in which countries BMW Mini cars can be bought?

[1] Jaguar Land Rover & BMW Group announce collaboration for next generation electrification technology. https://www.jaguarlandrover.com/news/2019/06/jaguar-land-rover-bmw-group-announce-collaboration-next-generation-electrification; June 2019

[2] [2] [Tata] The owner of Jaguar Land Rover has unveiled plans to build an electric car battery factory in the UK.

https://news.sky.com/story/tata-motors-to-build-electric-car-battery-factory-in-uk-12923165

NHS WAITING LIST RISES TO RECORD 7.7m

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:37:59 GMT

AFTER 13 YEARS UNDER CONSERVATIVE PARTY - ENGLAND HAVE RECORD NUMBER WAITING FOR HOSPITAL TREATMENT (millions)

A record 7.68 million people are on a hospital waiting list in England, figures show.

The total at the end of July represents nearly one in seven people and is a jump of more than 100,000 in a month.

The news prompted Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to say meeting his target to reduce the waiting list

would be "very hard" pinning the blame on strikes.

Walkouts by doctors were a "significant cause" of the rise, he said - and with no strikes, the target

would be met.

“The target would be met”? Who you are kidding, Rishi? In 2023 there has been 16 days of NHS strikes in total. Therefore, Rishi, are you saying that in those 16 days the NHS could deal with all 7.6 million patients waiting? This is just another “bedtime story” for naïve people who still believe that you will “save the UK”, creating news headlines with nothing else to offer.

The news comes as the government announced an extra £200m for the NHS this winter, following talks with health bosses on Wednesday. This is on top of a £250m boost already announced earlier in the summer, which is helping to pay for 5,000 extra hospital beds and 10,000 virtual beds, where patients are supported at home by doctors for conditions such as respiratory and heart problems which would normally lead to a hospital admission.

Rishi, all this about “extra beds” is just another trick by your government to keep you and the conservative party in Number 10 a bit longer. My assumption is that your government will soon come out with the next “New Covid”, which will again be named after the Greek alphabet. What will come after Delta? Covid Epsilon, or Covid Zeta or Covid Eta? Only you and your bunch of cronies know.

The Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, said he wanted to see "high impact" interventions to help the NHS get through this winter. Commenting on the waiting list, which covers people needing routine treatments such as knee and hip operations, he agreed the strikes were having a negative impact, driving up the numbers and "harming" patients. Close to a million appointments and treatments have had to be postponed since industrial action in the NHS began in December. But Mr Barclay pointed out progress had been made on the very long waits, with the numbers waiting more than 18 months close to being eliminated.

Are strikes to blame?

Not at all! As written above, it’s just another "bedtime story" from Rishi Sunak!

Rishi Sunak just cannot be honest with the nation about one single thing. The waiting list has been creeping up during the decade before the pandemic. So, who has been in charge of the Health Department for the last 13 years? Your party – the conservatives!

When Covid hit, the numbers rose by nearly three million in just over two years. Who should be blamed? Boris Johnson, who closed all the hospitals in the country to routine admissions!

But during last winter, that rise appeared to plateau. For six months from September, the total on the waiting list changed little. Modelling had suggested this was likely to last a year, before the total number started falling.

But the data in March showed the numbers rising again - and this has continued ever since.

March was the month doctors' strikes began - and they are hugely disruptive.

But there can be other reasons why the waiting list can go up - factors such as staffing shortages lead to cancelled treatments too.

Who is to be blamed for staff shortages [1]? Yet again, your party and you in the government!

Even taking into account the impact of the strikes, the NHS is still doing fewer operations than it was before the pandemic.

The NHS does not appear to be firing on all cylinders, even when there is no strike action. The numbers needing care and joining the waiting list are continuously going up.

So, Rishi Sunak, you are wrong! As much as you are trying to convince yourself that you are right and that nobody on this planet knows anything at all; whatever you come out with - we, the people must take it for granted! What a joke!

By the way, I have been waiting for my surgeries since December 2019, when your predecessor Boris Johnson closed the hospitals. I was given a new date: 25 May 2020. This was cancelled again, because of Boris Johnson. After that date, I was not contacted at all until February 2021, then yet again forgotten for a year. I still haven’t had my operation under the NHS, despite that I am now being treated for my 4th cancer.

Even today - despite that I was assured by the doctors in hospital in London 14 days ago that I needed emergency surgery to happen this week - no messages, no calls, no letters from the NHS about the date and time of my “emergency” surgery.

This is similar to when a year ago I was left in a hospital corridor for 3 days, with a huge wound.

There was no one to see me; even less there was no one to do the surgery. My next of kin was called, as they categorised me DOA. And it was not a strike day.

[1] For the total number of doctors and nurses, a rapid increase in recruitment from the rest of the world has compensated for the slowdown in EU workers. The number of nurses joining the UK register from the rest of the world has risen from 800 in 2012/13 to 18,000 in 2021/22. However, this is not sufficient to make up for ongoing shortages in nursing and cannot be a replacement for adequate workforce planning to recruit and retain staff domestically. (Nuffield Trust, Health and Brexit: six years on. 19/12/2022)

If we are playing a bit further with statistic than we have to be aware that more then 27,000 nurses and midwives quit the NHS in 2021, which was the highest number in four years.

Further report also showed that around 140,000 NHS staff left active service in the year to September 2021, which is equivalent to 1:9 (11%) of the total staff.

Most recent figures reveals that in the year to December 2022, 169,512 staff left NHS service in hospitals, community health services and other core health organizations, compared to 149,678 the previous year.

KIM JONG-UN GAVE PUTIN FULL SUPPORT

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 14:07:34 GMT

PUTIN 'ACCEPTS' KIM JONG-UN's INVITATION TO VISIT NORTH KOREA

For Kim Jong-un's visit to Russia, it is clear the red carpet was well and truly rolled out.

It is rare indeed for Russia to open the door to its military sites. But not only was North Korea's leader shown a leading space base, Mr Putin said they would also visit an aviation factory. This was to be followed by a preview of a military programme and a demonstration from Russia's pacific fleet, in the port city of Vladivostok.

We are still in dark if any deals were struck between Putin and Kim. It is highly unlikely we'll ever learn the specifics, but the symbolism and messaging has been stark: technological and military matters were absolutely the order of business.

It's not just the West which will be watching nervously. Asian countries, such as South Korea and Japan, would be on the front line of any escalation launched by an empowered and confident North Korea. Even China, an ally, doesn't really want to see its already unreliable partner become nuclear capable.

Russia would once have also been wary, but Mr Putin offered no hint during the visit that there would have to be limits to military cooperation.

This visit has made it abundantly clear that almost any concerns will now be set aside in pursuit of Putin’s central goal; no matter how much it costs, before winter comes, it must happen now - Victory in Ukraine.

FEARS 20,000+ PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN LIBYA FLOODS

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:47:34 GMT

BODIES ARE EVERYWHERE, INSIDE HOUSES, IN THE STREETS, IN THE SEA ...

The storm particularly affected Derna, where two dams collapsed, causing water to flood most of the city. Entire neighbourhoods disappeared.

The tumultuous Storm Daniel affected thousands of people in Libya when it hit land on Sunday and caused devastating flooding. According to both the internationally unrecognised government in the east of the country and the government in Tripoli, in the coastal city of Derna alone, the number of dead exceeds 11,000, and many thousands are still missing.

We must not forget that this is also the #1 spot from where the majority of people from Africa, and also the Middle East, board boats to cross the Mediterranean Sea – destination Italy or Greece, and from there to their final destination, the United Kingdom.

Make no mistake, we will never ever know the exact number of dead and missing people. The general fear is that more than 20,000, if not double this number, have died which could have been avoided if the governments in Libya had acted in time (since the US and UK eliminated Gaddafi, Libya has two governments, both ruling).

In addition to Derna, other cities in eastern and north-eastern Libya, including Benghazi, are also affected. Local authorities have closed schools and shops and imposed curfews; four oil ports have been shut down across the country.

Flooding also affected Misrata in the west, more than 200km east of the capital Tripoli, where an internationally renowned government led by Abdul Hamid Dbeiba is based. Both governments declared three days of national mourning after the storm.

Both "governments" also issued an international appeal for assistance in the east of the country. The UN Humanitarian Aid Coordinator for Libya, Georgette Gagnon, called on the international community to rapidly assist the country, which was affected by civil war between 2014 and 2020.

The EU, especially Italy and Turkey, have announced their assistance.

Before Libya, storm Daniel had hit Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria last week, where it claimed close to 100 lives.

Make no mistake, the reason we have two governments in Libya is because the US and the UK eliminated Gadhafi – with no evidence that Gadhafi was a threat for the US or the UK. On the contrary, it was other way around. The US "washed their hands” of Libya because they were and are not affected by immigration from Africa and the Middle East, while Europe is. Under Gadhafi’s leadership, there were just minor crossing over the Mediterranean Sea (as per the Gadhafi – Berlusconi Agreement).

I spent quite some time in Libya on "security" issues. I realised there and then the removal of Gadhafi would destabilise the whole area. But as usual the US and the UK are always getting into conflicts across the world, internationally promoting their adage “they are the guilty party and we have to restore the peace now".

Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have been affected, and our heartfelt thanks to all those helping with the relief effort.

WINTER IN MOROCCO WILL BE RELENTLESS

Sat, 09 Sep 2023 10:13:14 GMT

MORE THAN 3,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED AFTER A 6.8 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE

A battle against time . . . more than 2,800 people have been killed after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Morocco. The majority of the fatalities are thought to be in the hard-to-reach areas south of Marrakech.

Here we are again - fighting a battle against time. The army, police and medical personnel are trying to help thousands of people, who have been left without a roof over their heads, as best they can. In one of the affected towns, only 4 people survived the earthquake.

Rescue efforts are still ongoing, and the death toll is likely to rise. The epicentre of the quake was around 70 km southwest of Marrakech - a city popular with international visitors, including people who are on the “waiting lists” to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy, and then travel further to Germany and the United Kingdom. Sources close to one of the agencies said there was nearly 2,000 people, if not more, waiting to cross the sea at the time of the quake.

Experts have said that aftershocks from the earthquake are likely to continue in the region for the next couple of days. At least 25 have already happened since Friday, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre.

The earthquake's epicentre was high in the Atlas Mountains, meaning the worst affected areas are in central Morocco. The majority of the deaths, and rescue efforts, are focused in the remote mountain villages which are difficult to access.

The Moroccan Royal Police and army are trying to gather as many people as possible from the surrounding villages in Asni. Friends, relatives and others who want to help are being strictly advised against trying to reach places that are inaccessible. Access is only possible with off-road vehicles, particularly as the main roads are largely unpaved.

An emergency hospital was also set up in the town of Ouirgane, where 73 deaths were reported. In smaller villages there is no electricity, there is also a lack of drinking water and little information on further measures.

Everyone is aware that the Atlas winter is only a few months away and is an inexorable force.

Looking at the destroyed houses, it is clear to everyone that it will not be possible to rebuild them quickly enough.

I was fortunate to have spent an amazing time in Marrakech - friendly people, lively culture, delicious food - and an exceptional fish market with fresh catch every day whenever I was there.

Now, despite that the epicentre was not directly in Marrakesh, the damage has been done (image below) .

Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have been affected, and our heartfelt thanks to all those helping with the relief effort.

SURREAL APPOINTMENT CFC MADE II

Sun, 03 Sep 2023 09:46:58 GMT

"WINNETOU" LOST 8 POINTS OF 12 POSSIBLE IN THE FIRST 4 GAMES AFTER OVER £1billion SPEND ON NEW PLAYERS

On 15 May 2023 I wrote “ SURREAL APPOINTMENT AT CHELSEA FC ” with subtitle “ANOTHER DODGE AND CREASY DECISION OF THE CO-OWNER of CFC Todd Boehly” and here we are in new season.

Yesterday I went on the game with Nottingham Forest at Stamford Bridge. All this new signing and easy opponent by my son make me going. And my son was right, the last time Nottingham Forest won was back in 1995 - 28 years ago.

Co-owner and chairman Todd Boehly has since taking splurge over £1 billion on a new players.

He sacked Thomas Tuchel and appointed a new one in Mauricio Pochettino to try to piece together a team capable of wining some silverware what Chelsea FC were capable to do it in Abramovich era year by year and Chelsea was under the Abramovich with the most trophies of any British club.

Yesterday's game was nothing about the "football" but was the game of group of "players" who trashed around in disarray like it was under two previous manager CFC Graham Potter and Frank Lampard.

Thomas Tuchel was the only "lately" manager who kept Chelsea FC in the club most horrific time (covid, pandemic, government involvement to take the club from Abramovich) still in shape not to mention with Tuchel we won even Champion League title.

Abramovich was a big spender but results he achieved with big-spending result in winning major honours. While this is not the case with new Chelsea FC and Todd Boehly in charge.

Yes, Forest and Chelsea were the busiest club of the summer transfer window after Burnley - each bringing in 13 players while Burnley 14). Boehly and his cohorts focused on trawling a dragnet around the world to scoop up a raft of young players that brought the average age of the squad down to just 22 and a half.

I cannot believe that Boehly spend over £1 billion and not bring a single prolific striker. Chelsea did not have such striker since Diego Costa. Not creating chances and even not converting a few chances which was created, which just showed the same old story at Chelsea FC introduced by former manager Potter and also in Lampard era.

Make no mistake, Anthony Elanga (Forest) made Chelsea pay for it in the most painful sense by scoring his first goal for Forest since making a £15 million move from ManU in July even more, while Nicolas Jackson (Chelsea) missed more than just a sitter late on who Chelsea bought in June for over double of money (£32 million).

How I and the other Chelsea supporters felt yesterday after the game at Stamford Bridge?

Majority supporters was not on a good mood at all, Stamford Bridge was silenced, there were only few saying "Chelsea and Pochettino needs a time". They said this the same for Potter and Potter disgraced all Chelsea "records". Same as Lampard did.

I went to see the game purely because was not on a TV and I promised to my son that I will be still enthusiastic and passioned about "our" Chelsea. We all in my family are throughout Chelsea FC fans and supporters.

With Potter I know Chelsea FC owners lost a plot. Once they sacked Tuchel and appointed Pochettino you know my answer: Pochettino is not the manager who should be in charge of Chelsea FC as he cannot piece together a team capable of wining major honours.

I left Stamford Bridge very very disappointed and not even the dinner after the game in my beloved restaurant in Chelsea, where I was invited and taken after the game by my girlfriend make no difference - I have had no appetite, I just could not "woke up from coma" in which I am since Todd Boehly is in charge of my club I loved so much - Chelsea FC.

CRUMBLING SCHOOLS MAY HAVE TO SHUT

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:47:33 GMT

GOVERNMENT ADMITS - BUT REFUSES TO ISSUE LIST

This morning I was listening interview with Nick Gibb the education minister regarding the insane issues with our schools. There were questions that he didn't answer he left us with.

The first was he said, he don't actually know how many schools will have to close completely because of row he still doesn’t have this system speculation in the papers, but he couldn't confirm numbers.

The second question was, he says all schools were safe but yet we still know that not all of those schools have been surveyed tested checked and therefore we don't actually have the data really to know that 100% for sure.

The third was, he say, that we don't know about yet how many will be closed. He didn't really answer on this the third question. He speculated with was "OK they're going to publish that list" but when, he said in "due course" what it could be in the next 3 months however could be also next year or never, we don't know when that information is going to come to light and parents are going to want to know soon as possible if their children are safe.

The fourth question was, he said, that actually not all schools have yet been notified about this issues, the vast majority had but not which schools are still not been notified that potentially their buildings could collapse it's really really serious.

It is appalling to hear the news that more than 100 schools in England will have to close some buildings because of this concrete that looks like it could be liable to collapse.

It is shocking and if you think how angry furious parents are going to be to find out just days before the start of term that their child school has to close and they don't necessarily have a place to go and get an education. It is shocking that at the end of the summer holidays, where families will be exhausted after all the disruption those young people have experienced through the pandemic, through the strikes as well now here is yet another problem facing their children's education thanks to the incompetence and the neglect of tory government ministers.

The government say they're the only country there's actually proactively seeking information about buildings that have used rack and they say that it's only last minute information that's come to light that shows that some of these schools are vulnerable and they practise straight away. This is complete misleading. We all know and so the government ministers that five years ago in 2018 there was a school in Gravesend in north Kent that collapsed because it had this kind of concrete. Thank God it happened at the weekend and not when children were in.

Since then, the government had report from the National Audit Office, they had a report from the Department for Education itself just last December telling the situation was critical at that point now Nick Gibb either read that and is being disingenuous we didn't do his job under that report.

If I am not mistaken Bridget Phillipson MP who's the shadow secretary for education has raised this issue in questions and debates in parliament over 150 times, so if they're telling to all of us they didn't know this was a problem then not being truthful and they should have taken action at the beginning of the summer holidays so the measures were in place now to ensure those kids get an education whether it's remote or an alternative buildings not days before the start of term.

That is neglect and it is incompetent. The government is saying that they've already taken some action in around 50 schools as this work that's been going on and the latest information is only come to light in the last few days. In some cases, they say, they also have sent out questionnaires and surveys to schools and they're waiting for the results of those to come back some of them being slowed to come back they say they're doing all they can. They had five years how have they not been pursuing this issue when they knew that school collapse five years ago.

What we all would like to see and what Labour party calling on them to do is to publish a list of those schools that are affected. Parents don't know, students don't know, those like Labour party is concerned who are looking at the education system don't know.

Someone has to trigger we all need, that the government to publish a list of all of those schools that are affected in to see condition surveys on all of our schools because if we all don't understand the scale of the problem then we can't see what remedial action needs to be put in place to sort it out.

Make no mistakes, there is no way a competent government would have allowed a situation to develop where days before the start of term they're telling parents that there's no school for their kids to go to because they're not safe when they've had five years to take action and they should have started at the beginning of the school holidays not at the very end of it.

The schools minister Nick Gibb says they've been working on this in great detail there will be teams of people making sure that they minimise the disruption and reassured at all about the actions being taken. With all this Nick Gibb just confirmed and now we all know that Nick Gibb hasn't been doing his job otherwise they wouldn't be taking action days before the start of term that they should have taken all the beginning of the school holidays if not five years ago after that school in Gravesend collapse. In the end of the day, it was nick Gibb who was the education minister who took the decision when the conservatives came to power to cancel labels for rebuilding programme that would have dealt with these problems over a much longer period of time through proper planned maintenance work and he never put anything else in in place for it instead and the truth of it is so much of our public estate is crumbling after 13 years of conservative failure.

It will be difficult to deliver first rate education in secondary buildings and you can't deliver any education in a building that perhaps might collapse.

The same problems with public buildings we see in hospitals, courts, prisons but what we don't know is the scale of the problems because the government won't tell us! They don’t want to expose more “rubbish” before elections. I know that government at point blank refused to answer on majority questions and not give us the figures, the question remains: If the government won't be upfront and honest about what the problem is how on earth can any of us know what needs to happen to sort it out?

The government had that information, they should have taken early enough action so that we don't get left with this crisis.

This morning my heart goes out to those parents who will be wondering what is going to happen to their kids when school term starts. I just hope it's for a short period of time but we don't even know how many schools are affected or the extent to which they are affected and not even every school that is affected has been told even though the Department for Education and the education ministers have that information they should have been engaging months ago with head teachers and the people responsible for running those schools to put in alternative provision that is how could have minimise disruption. Having said that, the government hasn't acted for years when they knew this problem was coming that is how you could have minimised the disruption but for some reason they chose to sit on their hands and do nothing even though they had report, after report, after report telling them this was going to happen if they didn't act. They didn't act. This is a problem that has resulted because of the ineptitude and neglect of government ministers now.

Just quick reminder: Boris Johnson government promised 40 new hospitals. Where are they build? On Mars Definitely not on Earth, even less in United Kingdom as they cannot even take care of unnecessary repairs at some of the hospitals not to go further.

FROM EATING KANGAROO ANUSES TO THRU STATEMENT

Sun, 27 Aug 2023 08:39:46 GMT

SHE ASKED WHAT DOES RISHI SUNAK ACTUALLY STAND FOR AND WHAT DOES HE ACHIVED AND SHE'S RIGHT TO ASK THAT

Announcing she would resign with immediate effect some 78 days ago, Nadine Dorries has finally resigned as an MP.

What I like about this second coming of her “resignation with immediate effect” is her open attack on Rishi Sunak. Amazingly, I couldn’t agree more with her - and just once, for a change, she is not talking rubbish!

Why?

I am not getting into her accusation that the Prime Minister demeaned his office by refusing her a seat in the House of Lords. For me, it seems her resignation at this particular moment is designed to inflict maximum damage to the conservative party and especially to Rishi Sunak PM.

Nadine’s quitting interview states clearly:

“I’m actually shocked that the Prime Minister himself has kind of opened the door on free hits at me from anybody who wants to make them throughout the summer . . . it’s kind of whipped up a public frenzy and it’s resulted in the police having to visit my home . . . but this nonsense that my constituency and my constituents have been ignored, it is nonsense.”

She went even further:

“It is nonsense that he became Prime Minister without a single members’ vote or a vote from the public, no one has voted for him to be in that job.”

Not long ago Rishi Sunak openly stated in a live radio interview:

“I think people deserve to have an MP that represents them wherever they are and, you know, it’s just making sure that your MP is engaging with you, representing you - whether that’s speaking in parliament, or being present in their constituencies during surgeries, answering your letters – that’s a job of an MP and all MP’s should be held to that standard; so she’s failing in that isn’t she? . . . at the moment people aren’t being properly represented.”

We all know that all this began back in June, with a row about a peerage promised by Boris Johnson which she believed was blocked by Rishi Sunak. Since then, calls for her to go have been coming from all sides.

In one way, I’m just really relieved for the residents of mid Bedfordshire who have been caught up in the civil war which is raging at the heart of the conservative party.

Since her election in 2005, she’s presented herself as a working-class girl from Liverpool done good.

She is notoriously not a fan of posh boys, apart from one - Boris Johnson. And here we have the final act of loyalty, the long-awaited levelling off to inflict the by election. William Shakespeare would thrive on this stuff.

But - whatever your politics - you cannot deny Nadine’s version of the truth “You hold the office of Prime Minister unelected, without a single vote, not even from your own MPs. You have no mandate from the people, and the Government is adrift.”

CORRUPTION IN PLAIN SIGHT

Sun, 27 Aug 2023 08:06:07 GMT

RISHI SUNAK JUST CANNOT STOP WITH CONFLICTS

This is Rishi’s third conflict in as many weeks. Here we go again . . . so soon!

As we all know, Rishi Sunak’s wife is part of an incredibly wealthy family; her father's company, Infosys, announced that on 10th May 2023 they had done a massive billion dollar deal with BP “Infosys and bp deepen their relationship to Transform bp’s Digital Application Landscape”. And 82 days later, Rishi Sunak offers out 100 licences (31st July 2023) to oil and gas companies.

A conflict of interest?

Prior to this, we have Mr Sunak’s confirmed breach of the parliamentary code when he “inadvertently” failed to properly declare Mrs Sunak’s business investments in a child care company, which was set to benefit from his Government’s funding. Apparently, he confused the rules on registering and declaring interests.

Or a conflict of interest?

Now just before the G20 summit in in New Delhi, it looks as if a trade deal will be done with India. Who in the UK will benefit? Not necessarily the British people, i.e. not the people who Rishi Sunak should be working on behalf of as our Prime Minister, BUT Infosys. Indian IT companies, including Infosys, are already among the biggest users of the UK work visa system. Therefore when the deal is done, which will include increased migration to the UK, more money is made for Sunak’s portfolio.

How is this acceptable?

Are we really alright with this?

This is corruption in plain sight and it just begs the question who is Sunak working for?

Is he working for us, the British? I'm sure he'd say he's working for us! (Personally, I don’t think he's saying that, but that’s just my opinion.)

So, this is the third problem for our current Prime Minister, who seems to have only been in office for 5 minutes longer than Liz Truss - but surely the appearance of corruption is something which he should be avoiding.

We’ve seen this trend just growing and growing and growing. With the Conservatives, it appears their friends and their families tend to be the main beneficiaries of the trade deals, the legislation , the procurement . . . We know it was abundant during COVID, but we have now reached the point where we can clearly see they are actual unable to govern themselves!

If I were him and this was my family's business, I would be going above and beyond to be saying to them “No”; when you're in this position orchestrating the power dynamic, this conflict – perceived or actual - simply cannot happen. The way it looks, even if there is nothing untoward - it looks bad. It is all wrong.

If he wants us to think that he's trustworthy, he needs to be accountable; he needs to think about how this looks and it also begs the question, how much money is enough?

FRENCH KISS II

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 04:25:58 GMT

SPAIN FA ROW - CONTRAVERSIAL "YES" OR "NO"

I am regular supporter of women's football. Last year, I watched nearly every home game of the Women’s Chelsea FC team, because the men's Chelsea games were not worth watching at all - a complete disgrace!

Since the British lionesses won the EU Championship, Wembley has always been full when they are play. Similarly, as attitudes change around the EU, women’s football is filling the stadiums, attracting millions of viewers and finally getting the attention it deserves.

But it's not just bravura acting. Being a woman and playing football is, as the Colombian political scientist Sarah Castro Lizarazo wrote,” a political act”.

Therefore, when interpreting the triumph of the Spanish team at the recent World Cup, the social and cultural implications cannot be bypassed as is the case every time a woman conquers the fortresses which have long been male dominated.

The historicity of the moment would have been almost perfect, if the President of the Spanish Royal Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, had not spoilt it with his unacceptable macho behaviour- kissing the player, Jennifer Hermoso in the euphoria of the victory

This kiss on the mouth has completely overshadowed the historic moment in Spanish women's football- winning the title of world champions.

The international soccer body, FIFA, announced on Saturday that it had temporarily suspended Rubiales - for 90 days - pending the completion of their investigation.

But this is far from the end of the “Kiss affair”.

The UEFA president dr. Alexander Čeferin was very diplomatic; when the case was reported by the Spanish FA to UEFA, Čeferin passed the case to FIFA saying – “it is about your Vice President and the venue was for the World Women Championship, which was under FIFA and not UEFA".

Meanwhile, the Mother of Luis Rubiales has started a hunger strike – she’s refused to have any food and locked herself in a local church.

Rubiales has commented that he was about to propose marriage to Hermoso and that everyone has taken this kiss completely wrongly. He explains that firstly – it just happened in the euphoria of Spain winning; and secondly - he has been in love with her for quite some time.

The frenzy continues and five days later Jennifer Hermoso makes her statement.

“I want to make clear that not in any moment did the conversation occur that Mr Luis Rubiales references, and much less that his kiss was consensual.“

As far as I am aware, this is not the “first such kiss after the winning euphoria”. I have witnessed many similar situations at various world class sporting events including, football, skiing, windsurfing and surfing, tennis - and much of me felt initially it was NO BIG DEAL!

WAGNER BOSS PRIGOZHIN MADE A FATAL MISTAKE

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 03:51:44 GMT

WANT TO BE THE NUMBER ONE in RUSSIA COST HIM LIFE

Notorious street criminal, Yevgeny Prigozhin, personified Russia’s wild capitalism as the first paid subcontractor implementing Russian foreign policy. He was like the number 2 in Russia.

The problem he had, was his dream to become number 1.

What a mistake he made. It simply couldn’t happen, even in his dreams, with Putin still around.

So, who was Prigozhin? He began his "career" as a street criminal. As an eighteen-year-old, he was robbing the streets of St. Petersburg with his friends. During the harsh Soviet times under Leonid Brezhnev, he was sentenced to thirteen years in prison. During his nine years behind bars, he strengthened his network and created important connections for the future.

He was released just before the collapse of the Soviet Union and communism. On the streets of Russia he began to co-shape the wild, violent capitalism, with the ruling oligarchs, which soon became official Russian politics.

Prigozhin was untouchable on solid ground, but not in the air. In the air - that is completely different. I am amazed, the calibre of warrior he was, he did not predict that "something might happen".

He was a past and present danger to Putin, even more so since his “march" on Moscow. He made a huge mistake that cost him his life.

The owner and & "commander" of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, died in a private plane crash with 7 passengers and 3 pilots on board. Among them were some of his closest associates including Dmitry Utkin, who co-founded Wagner - the notorious private security company, with Prigozhin. Utkin allegedly made the ‘foreign policy’ service agreement with Vladimir Putin.

And so, the disloyal murderous mercenaries are beheaded. The question is whether their body will survive. In this chaotic world, the future of violence and security now belongs to private companies, which in many places in the world are more powerful than the state armies and police.

Just two days before he died, Prigozhin posted a video on Telegram Messenger (supposedly filmed somewhere in Africa) in which he announced that his mercenary paramilitary would continue to spread across Africa and do – a lot. Two weeks earlier, he had appeared at the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, where he was consolidating his bloody, Kremlin-linked dealings with a number of African countries.

But it wasn't just business. The Wagner Group's role in Libya, the Central African Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso, Sudan and, finally, Niger was far from just a business one. Prigozhin with his international band of mercenaries - as previously in Syria and for many years in Ukraine - was the first subcontractor of Russian foreign policy.

On the ground, he did the Kremlin’s bidding. He did the dirtiest jobs. He was destroying everything in front of him.

But, in his effort to be the number 1, he provoked Grandpa out of his bunker and unluckily “he stepped on a mine called Putin”.

Although the investigative committee confirmed the death of Prigozhin today, the circumstances of the plane crash are still not entirely clear. Yesterday, Russian investigators found the black boxes and all ten bodies. The authorities have rejected rumours that they had ordered the execution of Prigozhin and the Wagner board.

CHANDRAYAAN 3 LANDED NEAR THE SOUTH POLE

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 10:12:04 GMT

WHY INDIA STILL GET SUPPORT (as undeveloped country) WHILE THEY ARE SPENDING MONEY FOR MOON LANDING AND GOING NOW TO MARS?

Chandrayaan 3 landed near the south pole of the Moon. This is India's first successful moon landing and also the historic first landing of a probe near the South Pole.

At 1:30pm (London time), it ended with joy at the control centre of the Indian space agency Isro. The Indian Chandrajana 3 expedition has successfully landed on the South Pole of the Moon. This is the first successful landing on the Moon for this country and at the same time the first landing of any probe near the South Pole.

In India, the expedition generated much excitement and media attention. Millions of people watched the broadcast of the event today, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi also closely followed the expedition. “India's success is not just our success. This is the success of all mankind. Our expedition will also help other countries who want to go to the moon and beyond," Modi emphasized in a live broadcast and called on other countries to build space expeditions. "The sky is not the limit," he emphasized, adding that today showed that it is possible to learn from defeats and ultimately succeed.

Expedition leader P Viramuthuvel thanked all those who worked for this expedition in a joyful mood at the control centre. As he said, the landing brought him "deep satisfaction".

Director Isra S Somnath was also extremely grateful and enthusiastic, who also thanked the team of engineers and scientists. He added that "this is not just our work, this is the work of generations of scientists from our agency".

India achieved the historic feat just days after Russia's failed Luna 25 mission, when the probe also tried to land in a crater at the South Pole but had its engines on for too long during the de-orbit manoeuvre and flew too low, eventually crashing to the surface.

India is only the fourth country to make a soft landing on the moon - so far only the US, the former Soviet Union and China have managed to do so. All these countries used to land their vessels in the equatorial part of the Moon, then in early 2019, China became the first country to land on the side of the Moon, which is invisible to us, with the Chang'e 4 lander.

Indian expedition number three follows the successful Chandrayaan 1 expedition in 2008, when a satellite was launched into lunar orbit. This orbiter was equipped with a 29-kilogram probe that was deliberately smashed against the surface near the South Pole. In doing so, a cloud of dust and stones was released, in which water ice was detected. The Chandrayaan 2 expedition was only partially successful. The orbiter entered orbit in August 2019 and is still operating, while the lander with the rover crashed on September 6 of the same year due to a software error that improperly controlled the braking motors.

Chandrayaan, which translates as "lunar craft", was launched on July 14. It consists of the nearly two-ton lander Vikram, which was named after the founder of the Indian Space Agency (Isro), Vikram Sarabhai, at the same time the word means smart and brave, and in its "belly" it also has the 26-kilogram rover Pragjan, which translates as wisdom. After a successful landing, the Vikram lander will first wait for the dust raised by contact with the ground to settle, and only then will Pragjan also drive to the surface, which will then collect data on the rocks, take photographs and send the images to Earth for analysis.

Both was expected to operate on the surface for 14 days, or one lunar day. The day of the landing was carefully chosen to be the beginning of the day on the Moon, as the batteries are charged by sunlight. When the 14-day night begins, the batteries will die, so it is unclear whether the craft will be able to be revived when the lunar day begins again. During a lunar night, temperatures drop well below zero, which can further damage vessels.

The space community is looking forward to India's success. Among other things, the director of the European Space Agency, Josef Aschbacher, has already congratulated India. “What a good way to demonstrate new technology and the first landing for India on another celestial body. Great job, I'm impressed,” he wrote on the X network.

It is something “special” with successful historic first landing of a probe near the South Pole without any shadow of the doubt however the questions what I am trying to get the answers on are "mission impossible" to get from whoever from No.10.t Why I asked these questions?

Let me be clear, the figure that the UK provided to India since 2016 and 2021 is £2.4 billion in aid.

I could not get confirmation for the year 2022 - the No.10 Press Centre does not reply to letters - I believe that they simple don't want to make comments on since Rishi is the PM and not anymore Chief Secretary to the Treasury (2019) or later the Canceler of Exchequer (2020).

What is also very significant in the figures available which I checked - nearly £302 million as "investments" into Indian enterprises which are somehow connected with Rishi Sunak family (bilateral aid, development or multilateral exchange - investment).

If I am not mistaken – Boris Johnson, make quite some effort to persuade British Nation for Brexit on basis that UK cannot pay to Europe £320 million and that his government will invest rather into the infrastructure in the United Kingdom.

Boris Johnson won election because of these lies about how Brexit will benefit British people, but nobody mention that UK were paying to India nearly 3 times more at the same time.

Del Boy would say “Who gives a monkey”.

I do, because Brexit costs us much more than you can even imagine but this is something what No.10 don’t want you to know and they are fiddling with numbers further – trying to persuade the nation that they are doing all OK and that everything is going smoothly what is all conservative party talking shop!

Same as Suella Braverman this morning in the interview confirmed that the small boats are dealt with, that UK have 20,000 more police officer - what is complete misleading again (all together just 2992 because they sack 20,000 on first place) but that is another story you must not miss it!

SUPER 6 - NOT SO SUPER

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:04:11 GMT

IF SKY DON'T LIKE YOU - YOU ARE OUT (BUSINESS DECISION) SO THEY SAID ...

Last year week by week I was submitting my prediction on Super 6 against the Jeff (now retired). In many rounds my predictions was deleted with no answer from Super 6. When the new season started I tried to give it a go. However, surprise - surprise. When I tried to log into my Sky account I was denied.

I tried again on basis that maybe, just maybe I entered my credentials wrongly. But this was not the case. On my third attempt I received message to contact Customer Service instead. As the first round was just around the corner, I made straight contact with Sky Customer Service to get sorted my loggings and to submit my prediction at Super 6.

How wrong I was!

On the chat with representative (name available) she asked me a few security questions, and after 5 minutes she could not find why I cannot log into my account. She asked me to not go away that she will try to get to the bottom of this mystery with relevant department. I asked her to do so.

I mention her that I was with Sky for nearly 23 years and switch to Virgin on the basis of very bad services they provided. When it was raining I could not watch TV at all. However, I confirmed that I am still having with my Virgin (new provider) all Sky Sports and other Sky channels.

After quite some time, finally she is back with the answer.

"I am deeply sorry, but your account is blocked because of the Sky business decision - it was business decision you to be banned from Super 6 and Sky".

Business decision?

I could not believe what I am reading! What have I done? I was all my life with Sky, one way or the other.

On top of which, just for these particular free predictions at Super 6 for 6 of our Premier League games each week, I made to Jeff quite a few suggestions. Seems to me, they don't like my remarks.

So, what I mentioned (suggested) to Jeff in confidentiality?

That the betting against him is not rewarded properly. I stated clearly there should be at least 3-5 if not more rewards. What Super 6 still have in place is that they put all who were better than Sky pundits, in the draw for a single reward.

Wrong! For my opinion what I suggested to Jeff this was and still is wrong.

I have no objections that who get all 6 results correctly, win either £1m or £250k reward. However, completely differently is when there is no winner, then one reward of £500 is awarded to all who were better then Sky pundits.

For example, in this the last prediction - Round 3 the Sky pundits got just 4 points. So, by Sky's current system all who have 5 and over are eligible to be in that draw. What can happen here? The reward would be going to person who has just eg. 5 points (1 above the Sky pundits). How unfair is this! Friend of mine collected in this 3 ^rd round 14 points, what is quite remarkable. So, she and all the rest with such or higher scores walks with nothing and are mixed with all other who have 5 to 13 points.

My options suggested to Jeff was minimum 3 group:

a) Group of 1-10

b) Group of 11-20

c) Group of 21-30

or even better 5 groups:

d) Group of 1-10

e) Group of 11-15

f) Group of 16-20

g) Group of 21-30

What I suggested for rewards (if 3 groups):

If £500 is in question this should be managed as follows:

1 ^st gets £350 (21-30 points)

2 ^nd gets £100 (11-20 points)

3 ^rd gets £50 (1-10 points)

In case if the Sky pundits gets 14 points, then the rewards should be as follows:

1 ^st gets £350 (21-30 points)

2 ^nd and 3 ^rd get £75 each (15-20 points)

I also suggested even more lucrative rewards under the system they are having in the place at present:

The best one (with the highest score) get £500. If 2 or 3 with the same score – the £500 to be split equally.

All the rest who was better than Sky pundits will be in the draw for 4 football tickets. I believe that it would not be a “big deal” for Sky to get 4 tickets for 4 contributors at Super 6.

This was one of 18 suggestions in total I made to Sky Super 6 previous “chief” Jeff.

Due to the insider at Sky I was told that there is no “official way” how they are doing the draws and who are and who are not in the pot for a draw what I also mention to the Jeff with no reply of course. All my suggestions to Sky gone as “puff of smoke”.

Were my suggestions the right way to band me? No way! Specially as they are saying in their ads that everybody can contributed and be part of the predictions at Super 6.

I wrote to the Sky Complaints – no answer, what is not strange and new for me as they never ever replied in past either!

The insider told me also, that all data (when people register for free Super 6) are shared and also sold to other parties inside and outside the group for marketing and all sorts of other things from betting to insurance and further.

Make no mistake, nothing is for free! Your data are used and abused, and for what? £500 which is more difficult to get then the Jackpot on national lottery!

Ps: Copy of transcript available to Sky if of interest.

DEATH TOLL ON MAUI RISES TO 96

Sun, 13 Aug 2023 22:44:21 GMT

DID WARNINGS ON MAUI COME TOO LATE?

The death toll after the devastating bush and forest fires on the island of Maui in the US state of Hawaii has risen to 96. This was announced by the governor of the state, Josh Green, according to media reports at a press conference. According to Green, this is the deadliest bushfires in the U.S. in more than 100 years.

Most recently, the authorities had given the number of dead at 96. Green had previously announced that he expected more fatalities. It could take up to a week for the rescue workers to work their way through the rubble and ashes in all affected places.

THOMAS TUCHEL 2:0 TODD BOEHLY

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 19:44:38 GMT

AS DELL BOY WOULD SAY TO TODD BOEHLY:

WHAT A 42 CARAT PLONKER YOU REALLY ARE!

What’s happened since Todd Boehly sacked Thomas Tuchel?

Nothing much, apart from Thomas has scored twice.

1:0

- Thomas Tuchel was not only appointed the Bayern Munich Head Coach, but he also won the German Bundesliga title within weeks.

- Todd Boehly, meanwhile, appoints the dodgy Frank Lampard as Interim Head Coach, the team drop 7 places and finish 12th in UK Premier League, with no silverware of any kind. Todd just didn’t get that the Chelsea players didn’t want to play for Lampard . . . as simple as that.

All of the superb and shiny records which Chelsea had achieved under Abramovich were lost, due to Boehly's

sacking of Tuchel and the crazy appointments of Potterand latterly Lampard.

The new season is just around the corner and Tuchel scores again!

2:0

- Thomas Tuchell and Bayern have signed Harry Kane from Spurs, who scored 30 goals last season (2022/2023) and, perhaps best not to mention, the England Captain has gone to play in Germany for a German club.

- Todd Boehly, in comparison, last season (2022/23) had Kai Havertz as the top scorer with just 7 goals. Havertz has refused to play for Chelsea again and has gone to Arsenal instead. Happy days for Arsenal.

There was much optimism around Todd Boehly’s appointment of Pochettino as Chelsea’s (his third in nine month’s) Head Coach, which banked on Pochettino’s "good" relationship with Kane smoothing his way to Chelsea. If there was such a strong connection between the two, Kane would have stayed in UK. Even if Daniel Levy would not "bless" his transfer to Chelsea, Kane could have avoided playing for Spurs for a year and then signed a precontractual agreement with Chelsea in January’ transferring in the summer of 2024 as a free player.

This just tells all of us, apart from Boehly, that there is no such special relationship between the two. Kane has also clearly demonstrated that he doesn't want Pochettino to continue as his manager, as no trophies were won during his 4 years spell as Spurs manager.

With Tuchel, he knows everything will improve for him.

757 MIGRANTS CROSSED CHANNEL IN BOATS IN THE SPACE OF A DAY

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:05:03 GMT

SUELLA BRAVERMAN THREATHENS LAWYERS WITH LIFE IMPRISONMENT

In the space of a day, 757 migrants have attempted to cross the English Channel illegally to Britain in boats – more than ever before this year. In the UK, more than 757 "boat people" were registered on Thursday August 10, 2023 - the highest daily number since the beginning of the year.

According to the British Home Office, 757 people have been counted who have crossed the English Channel in a total of 14 small boats.

According to our records given by the whisleblower, the 100,000 mark has been exceeded: Since 2018, a total of 100,715 people have used the English Channel to enter the UK illegally.

Secretary of State for the Home Department Suella Braverman MP is taking tougher measures against illegal migration with "new approach" - since Rwanda, floating boat and many other failed or could not make any difference now Suella Bravermant MP wants to crack down on lawyers who help migrants falsify asylum applications (Seems to me Suella Braverman forgot on his "countryman" father of Sajid Javid (former Chancellor of Exchequer and Secretary for Health who by our data made over 10,000 such application and British passports was issued with no consequences of any king for Mr Javid father Abdul Ghani).

Legal lawyers who advise migrants on how to "fraudulently" stay in the country could be sentenced to life imprisonment for supporting illegal immigration, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry.

"Fraudulent immigration lawyers must be eradicated and brought to justice," Home Secretary Suella Braverman was saying. The vast majority act with integrity. "But we know that some lie to help illegal immigrants trick the system," the conservative hardliner said. Critics speak of populist activism. Earlier, the newspaper "Daily Mail" had reported that several lawyers had helped an undercover reporter to make a false asylum application for a fee of thousands of pounds. Critics accused the government of populist activism. The industry association Law Society emphasized that the necessary laws are already in force.

The government should focus on the "significant" backlog of asylum applications rather than focusing on "a tiny minority of lawyers."

TORY MP T VILLIERS FAILED TO DECLARE SHELL'S SHARES

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 07:12:40 GMT

FAILED TO DECLARE £70,000 SHARES SHE HELD IN ENERYG GIANT SHELL WHILE SHE WAS ENVIRONMENT SECRETARY

A Tory MP failed to declare that she held shares valued at more than £70,000 in Shell while she was environment secretary.

Theresa Villiers admitted her shareholding in the oil and gas company via her latest update to the register of members' financial interests.

Under the section 'other shareholdings, valued at more than £70,000', Ms Villiers' entry says: 'From 23 February 2018, Shell PLC; energy. (Registered 17 July 2023).'

Ms Villiers served in Boris Johnson's cabinet as environment secretary from July 2019 until February 2020.

MPs are required to register any change to their registrable interests within 28 days.

A list of ministers' interests from November 2019 did not include a mention of the shares for Ms Villiers.

The MP for Chipping Barnet's latest entry to the register also included newly declared shares above the same threshold in drinks manufacturer Diageo from February 23 2018 and Experian PLC from July 29 2019.

A spokesman for Ms Villiers deeply regrets her failure to monitor the value of shareholdings and has offered her sincere apologies.

These shares are part of portfolio which is professionally managed for Ms Villiers and for which she has never taken day-to-day investment decisions.

It did not occur to her that any single shareholding would reach the threshold for declaration, but a legacy received in 2018 caused that to happen.

As soon as she realised this, she alerted the registrar of members' interests and the standards commissioner. She takes full responsibility for the mistake.

'She accepts that it should never have happened, and that she should have kept track of the additions to her investment portfolio. She is taking steps to ensure that this never happens again.

'Nothing she has ever said or done as MP has been influenced by these shareholdings.'

The spokesman: 'When she was appointed as secretary of state, Ms Villiers disclosed to Defra (Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs) that she had a portfolio of shares which was professionally managed for her and over which she did not take investment decisions.

'She offered to place this in a blind trust. The prime minister's ethics adviser said that this step was unnecessary because the portfolio was managed for her and she did not take investment decisions. So ministerial code requirements were complied with.

'Nothing she did as Defra secretary was influenced by any of these shareholdings .'

CATASTROPHIC FLOODING IN SLOVENIA

Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:14:29 GMT

THE WORST NATURAL DISASTER IN THE HISTORY of SLOVENIA

SO FAR 6 PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN DEVASTATING FLOODING

Slovenia is struggling with the worst natural disaster in the history of the country, which has been independent since 1991. The damage quoted by the Slovenian government is estimated at more than €500 million, mainly affecting the road and energy infrastructure as well as hundreds of residential buildings. Many villages are cut off from the outside world by the water and debris. Helpers are providing thousands of necessities by helicopter. The high soil moisture makes landslides more likely, warned the Geological Survey of Slovenia. At least six towns in mountainous regions were still in acute danger on Sunday.

Folowing the severe flooding, Slovenia is facing extensive infrastructure repairs. The country is counting on international aid for this. There is still a threat of landslides, similar in Austria and Italy as well as Croatia where the flood alerts also applyies. In view of the devastating floods and landslides of the last three days, Slovenia has asked the EU and NATO for technical assistance to repair the damage as reported by the Slovenian news agency STA. Slovenia requested excavators of various capacities as well as special vehicles for regulating watercourses, as well as the dispatch of engineering teams for all this equipment. There was also request for over 20 prefabricated bridges of up to 40 meters in length. The country also requested military helicopters with a carrying capacity of at least five tons for transport.

Help is coming from many different sources - even from the countries which are also effected by the flooding like Austria and Germany.

Make no mistakes, I offered to Prime Minister of Slovenia and Mayor of Ljubljana full support to get all the necessary equipment and to cover the balance of the bill what they will not be getting from the EU despite that both, the prime minister and mayor of Ljubljana did not reacted on several issues I opened not so fare ago ( How pathetic, people are swearing being Slovenian, but when is needed to show and stand to be Slovenian and to do something or whatever for the nation they cannot stand to be Slovenian at all! ).

No official reply from the above named yet what is not surprise for me as they are working and dealing on the basis of the "party colours". Both above named prime minister R Golob and mayor Z Jankovic are part of ex communist party and they "switch to the new parties & colours" as the "wind blows" and to fools the nation despite that under the skin is still "one the same old party" with the leader in shadow, while I was and still I am with the same party).

The point I am trying to make is that in such situation we all should be working together and stand up as one, and not being divided because of political or other issues which might separate us.

Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have been affected, and our heartfelt thanks to all those helping with the relief effort.

NADINE DORRIES IT IS TIME TO GO

Sat, 05 Aug 2023 06:38:58 GMT

THE CONSTITUENTS WHO 'HAVEN'T SEEN THEIR MP IN YEARS'.

On 10 June 2023 I wrote as follows:

NADINE DORRIES QUITS AS TORY MP

therefore was Nadine Dorries that day that she standing down as MP with 'immediate effect' what would triggering by-election.

"She's an acquired taste," says a man with a grin and a snort as he trots off through Ampthill's weekly market.

The former culture secretary announced she was resigning "with immediate effect" in June after missing out on a peerage in her ally Boris Johnson's honours list. But she still hasn't formally quit - meaning a by-election can't take place.

"I've not seen her for years, but I sell her novels," said the owner of the Ampthill market bookstand - a nod to Ms Dorries' parallel career as a writer.

Another man says the MP used to be more present and had met her on a couple of occasions "usually when she was standing outside Waitrose".

This is not the first time Nadine Dorries has ruffled feathers in her patch.

Back in 2013, thousands of her constituents signed a petition calling for a by-election after she turned up in the Australian jungle as part of the TV show I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

That still grates for some locals.

"She can stay in the jungle because that's just how much good she is for us ... to be honest I've never seen the woman," says one lady back in Ampthill.

In nearby Flitwick, three homemade posters hung near the train station proclaim "dosser Dorries out" and "£86k a year, but she's never here!" - a reference to the salary paid to MPs.

There was no reply when two of addresses registered to Ms Dorries in Worcestershire and the Cotswolds was visited. Text messages have gone unanswered and a phone call rang out, with the dial tone suggesting the handset was abroad. Not to mention no one were also unable to locate her listed constituency office in Shefford.

The mayor of Flitwick has suggested the MP hasn't held a surgery in the area for more than three years and has called for her to stand down.

The independent council leader for Central Bedfordshire told Sky News her new TV show and upcoming book about Boris Johnson were relevant.

"I suspect people feel what she's doing is trying to orientate her personal life towards when she finally resigns ... that's really frustrating for people because it should be about the residents," said Cllr Adam Zerny.

We expect 2 by elections to be announced.

On the Parliamentary records show Nadine Dorries hasn't spoken in the Commons since last July and hasn't voted since April.

She is also still listed as employing her daughter as a paid assistant.

But despite local anger, there's little constituents can do to force a resignation. Recall petition - which could trigger a by-election - can only happen in very specific circumstances, such as a criminal conviction or lengthy Commons suspension.

Not surprisingly, there has been some criticism from Downing Street purely because Ms Dorries was close allies of Boris Johnson and to make some new headlines as all the rest what torries are doing is more then just bad.

Rishi Sunak has said voters in Bedfordshire are "not being properly represented".

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk echoed that this week, saying: "Constituents will want to have that proper representation at the earliest opportunity."

On the other hand the senior Labour MP Sir Chris Bryant has suggested an obscure Commons rule from 1801 could be revived to try and force out the Bedfordshire MP.

"We should say, listen, if you're drawing a salary as an MP and you're claiming expenses to employ staff and run your office and all the rest of it, the least you can do is turn up to Parliament".

Nadine Dorries has previously suggested she is waiting for more details around why she didn't receive a peerage before she formally steps down.

Others speculate she is trying to inflict political damage on the prime minister by attempting to trigger a by-election during conference season.

Back in Ampthill, she does still have her supporters though.

One man said she had been "treated really badly" by Rishi Sunak and had been an "excellent MP", before adding with a wry smile: "When she is in parliament".

THE UK & EU DRUGS CARTEL

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 12:54:42 GMT

DECEITFUL PROFITEERING FROM CANCER TREATMENT

THE PROBLEM

When we started our research to find the best drug combinations for the 4 most common cancers in 2011, we were staggered by the prices charged. Contacting wholesalers around the UK and the wider EU [UK was then still part of the EU], we come across pharmaceutical companies who manufacturing cancer drugs and charging more than a £1000 for a single infusion.

For over 11 years, as part of the research, we have been provided with the wholesaler’s internal lists, which are on average twenty to twenty five pages long. These price lists detail, in very meticulous small letters and codes, the price to be charged to the health insurer and the government; plus the real, usually considerably lower price, charged to the wholesaler.

The additional income that hospital/pharmacists can make at the expense of the purchasers is staggering.

All the prices were blatantly published in black & white.

We couldn’t believe what we were seeing! Rough estimates on several medications only suggest this could cost health insurance companies [eg. NHS] up to £½ bn per a year.

This deceitful profiteering applies to chemotherapies as well as other infusions against cancers.

For example, the monoclonal antibody bevacizumab, one of the currently most commonly used active ingredients for people suffering from cancer: Last year, the health insurance companies paid £1288 to the pharmacist per pack, who had bought the pack for £246 from the wholesalers.

In my case, my bespoke cancer drug cocktail was made by 3 different pharmaceutical manufacturers plus 14 individual pharmacies, and came with 17 different price points. All 17 variations used the same components; but with some adding an extra £1,000 on top - the deception by the pharmaceutical companies and individual pharmacies is enormous.

And this is not an isolated case!

Further examples: Pharmacists regularly earn an extra £694 - £811 on each pack of monoclonal antibody bevacizumab; Trastuzumab deruxtecan is a frequently prescribed drug - the health insurance companies paid £1392 per pack, while the wholesaler cost is just £316. Again more than £1000 of additional income for the pharmacist - with a single dose.

There are over 4200 pharmacies in Europe and the UK who have their own “clean room” and mix these cancer cocktails together. Each infusion bag is prepared individually because the dose is calculated according to the weight and height of the patient. The mixing itself takes only a few minutes, and the pharmacists receive a flat rate of £100 per bag from the health insurance companies for the production.

To be fair, reimbursement prices have fallen slightly. In September last year, health insurance companies lowered reimbursement prices for some cancer drugs. But the cancer pharmacists can still generate astonishing profits: They can buy a pack of Pemetrexed, a remedy for lung cancer, for less than £128 and settle it with the health insurance companies for £1290.

CONSPIRACY THEORY?

I have written year after year to the Department of Health - which has been in the hands of the conservative party for the past 13 years; to The Secretary of State’s for Health (2012-2018) Jeremy Hunt present Chancellor of Exchequer 11 letters, and to his successor Matt Hancock (2018-2021) 7 letters [ all 18 letters posted by Special Delivery ] I have not received a single answer about where these enormous profits for cancer therapies end up. Similar non-responses were received from the contacted health insurance companies, who suggested the query was a waste of time and money.

Make no mistake - prices are freely negotiable! Pharmacists make greats profits in a variety of ways. But - in contrast to almost all other drugs - cancer pharmaceutical companies are allowed to freely negotiate the price of these drugs with manufacturers and distributors. Consequently, the health insurance companies often do not know the real purchase prices and pay a predetermined price. The profits are sometimes gigantic! As printed in the “internal price lists” .. . .

We compared the price paid by the health insurance companies with the listed purchase price of the Wholesalers. In the case of the five top-selling active ingredients alone, whose patent protection has expired, the health insurance companies could have saved up to £½bn per year just on few cancer medication. What would be the figure if we would check all over 20,000 prescription drugs which are approved for marketing? Year after year, this “ additional expenditure” [obscene profits] ends up with the approximately 4200 cancer pharmacists or is there something more sinister?

The high profit margins are not consistent for all the drugs on the list. Why is that? Because cancer is the biggest/largest illness in majority of countries. And all this is happening "Like in a bazaar".

We also performed/commissioned some quality checks on the same medications supplied from different manufacturers. Not only are the prices wildly different, but also the generics of each component varies enormously; some were out of date and some were not the listed ingredient at all - were they counterfeited product(s), we had to ask ourselves: More significantly, how could such an untested drug/cocktail work on cancer at all? Is this the reason that cancers recur?

In the UK , the prices which pharmacists receive for their medicines are set by one of the government umbrella associations, usually the ABPI (Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry).

They are so concerned about this industry's profiteering that they are revamping the voluntary branded medicines scheme as te current one "has lead [to] escalating, unsustainable payment rates which have jeopardised the UK's position as a life sciences superpower". If these are the concerns they have about the price of all the known products, one can only imagine their deep disquiet about the cost of personalised cancer therapies.

The health insurance companies only ask the manufacturers for the prices - but the prices communicated by the pharmaceutical companies are apparently significantly higher than the actual purchasing possibilities of the pharmacists. If pharmacists and health insurance companies do not agree in their negotiations, an arbitration board must decide. According to the research, this arbitration board does not have any price lists either.

Why do the health insurance companies not determine the real prices - especially since I have been reporting my concerns since 2016 about these far too high profit margins for cancer drugs. Apparently, the health insurance companies rarely ask the pharmaceutical companies about the actual price of these important cancer drugs. Perhaps because they are not following what is coming out. For example, bevacizumab or rituximab prices were only queried in 2017 and 2021.

One of the major players with this deception is the German/ UK company ZytoService. The German’s acknowledged that there was something wrong, after hearing all the protests from different channels and levels, and the Hamburg public prosecutor's office acted instantly. What has happen in the United Kingdom? Nothing, brushed under the carpet! Who was PM? Boris Johnson (Conservative Party).

These high profits are "not a sustainable state of affairs". The chairman of the Drug Commission in one EU country finally considered the enormous earning potential of cytostatic pharmacists to be "absolutely unjustified". No action is being taken in the United Kingdom.

From my point of view as the NHS is already on its knees, this money could be invested in better palliative care for cancer patients, which we all know is often "not sufficiently available". Various corruption scandals in the cytostatic industry have come to light. This is one of the reasons why we have to stop these "omissions” to continue to enable these enormous profits in this area; we need crack down sharply on the offenders and prosecute all who profiteering from all this “bazaar business”.

My suggestion was and still is for the sale of the preparations to be put out to tender where the low-cost suppliers would be awarded the contract, which has long been the case with some other drugs without patent protection. From the figures available to me, I have readily identified a savings of £4.2bn per year inside the EU and United Kingdom. And all this saving just from several cancer medications and components for cancer drugs.

All this is going on and on and nobody in the United Kingdom blinks an eye. It doesn’t matter how many millions are being wasted on x-ray contracts; or what we revealed on a quick survey of 24 laboratories in one area only who were able to buy their Corona PCR tests at a fraction of the cost reimbursed by the health insurance companies.

Should there be a line between making a profit and profiteering?

Where all do all these billions of pounds end up? In whose pockets? Pockets of politicians and their families, relatives, families friends, ... who are in government? How much went into the pockets of all the shareholders of all this these companies, and who are the shareholders? How much went into the pockets of the pharmacies?

You want to know?

If you are struggling to know who or what to trust, it’s little wonder.

The consequences are real: Democracy is threatened, and in some cases, civil unrest erupt what we are seeing now with all kind of strikes while in some extreme cases even armed conflict might erupt.

To be continued …

FAMILY FIRM PROFITEERING FROM MIGRANTS MISERY

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 10:21:55 GMT

FAMILY FIRM DONATE OVER £70,000 (to UKIP) and they are CLOSE to RISHI SUNAK PM & OLIVER DOWDEN (Deputy PM)

Make no mistakes - all in the same "basket or should we say on a same boat". A family firm that donated more than £70,000 to UKIP is “profiteering from misery” by hosting the Government’s controversial migrant barge. Langham Industries owns Portland Port, where the Bibby Stockholm is docked in a deal reported to be worth some £2.5million. The Langham family owns luxurious properties and has links to high-profile politicians, including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden. And we can reveal that their business made 19 donations to pro-Brexit party UKIP between 2003 and 2016.

Late founder John Langham was described as an “avid supporter” of UKIP in an obituary in 2017. Now his children, John, Jill and Justin – all directors of the family firm – are set to profit from an 18-month contract with the Home Office to let the Bibby Stockholm berth at Portland, Dorset.

While Portland Port refuses to reveal how much the Home Office is paying, its website cites berthing fees for a ship the size of the Bibby Stockholm at more than £4,000 a day. In 2011, Portland Port chairman John, 71, invested £3.7million in Grade II* listed country pile Steeple Manor at Wareham, Dorset. Dating to around 1600, it has a pond, tennis court and extensive gardens designed by the landscape architect Brenda Colvin.

The arrangement to host the “prison-like” barge for housing migrants has led some locals to blast the Langhams, who have owned the port since 1997. Portland mayor Carralyn Parkes, 61, said: “I don’t know how John Langham will sleep at night in his luxurious home, with his tennis court and his fluffy bed, when asylum seekers are sleeping in tiny beds on the barge.

“I went on the boat and measured the rooms with a tape measure. On average they are about 10ft by 12ft. The bunk bed mattresses are about 6ft long. If you’re taller than 6ft you’re stuffed. The Langham family need to have more humanity. They are only interested in making money. It’s shocking.”

Phil Marfleet, 75, joint secretary of Stand Up To Racism Dorset, added: “They are profiteering from misery. The firm has decided to have several hundred refugees on a ship that’s designed for half of that in what amounts to prison-like conditions. Many refugees who end up on the ship will have fled war zones and been through dangerous journeys to get here. The contrast between the homes the Langhams own and the barge the refugees will be put in is very stark.”

John Langham’s sister Jill May , a former investment banker, is on a Bank of England committee. She was appointed to the Prudential Regulation Committee in 2018 and in 2021 Mr Sunak said he was “very happy” to reappoint her in the role.

Ms May was appointed to The Duchy Council in 2022 and reports to Mr Dowden, who is also Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Bibby Stockholm docked at Portland on July 17 and the first 50 men are due to arrive this week at the earliest.

Eventually, about 500 men are expected to live on board the three-storey barge, which has 222 bedrooms. It is the first time the UK has housed migrants on a berthed vessel.

The Government wants to reduce the cost of housing asylum seekers as there are currently about 51,000 in hotels, costing some £6million a day. The Home Office says migrants’ welfare is of the “utmost priority”. It has denied the barge is like a “floating prison” and said those on board would be “free to come and go as they want”.

Hundreds seeking refuge in the UK could be housed in “inhumane” Portakabin-style units at the Government’s asylum mega-camp. Campaigners fear prefabs, which have appeared in the past fortnight at RAF Wethersfield, will be used as “modular accommodation”, as cited in a Home Office equality impact statement.

The document says the main camp on the MoD site in Essex includes “six barrack blocks sufficient for around 800 beds” and two office blocks which could be used to accommodate 400 people. But it also states: “There is sufficient hard standing area on the camp to provide a further 500 bedspaces in modular accommodation allowing utilisation of the central catering and welfare facilities to a site total of 1700.”

Earlier this month, 46 asylum seekers were moved onto the site, despite ongoing legal challenges. Lesley Groves, 37, who is campaigning against the use of the old military base, said: “The Home Office have already said they will house asylum seekers in cabins. They just use the term ‘modular accommodation’. These people are fleeing war-torn countries for a better life and we are putting them in cabins. I think it’s inhumane.”

The Home Office said: “Delivering accommodation on surplus military sites will provide cheaper and more orderly, suitable accommodation for those arriving in small boats. Modular buildings will house asylum seekers as they await a decision on their claim, which will help us to reduce the use of hotels.”

LABOUR'S ENVIROMENTAL CLASH

Sat, 29 Jul 2023 13:43:59 GMT

KHAN WON BATTLE ON A COURT AGAINST 5 LONDON COUNCILS

The London Mayor won a “landmark” High Court victory on Friday over five councils who tried to block the planned Ulez extension, which allegedly cost Labour the Uxbridge by-election.

Sir Keir was also warned by Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, that he needs to “adjust to the reality” that devolution means city hall policies sometimes clash with the central party’s agenda.

In the wake of Mr Khan’s High Court victory, one of Sir Keir’s senior Shadow Cabinet allies, Wes Streeting, said the Labour leader would rather the mayor did not go ahead with Ulez at the moment due to the cost of living crisis.

Mr Streeting acknowledged that Mr Khan did not answer to the central party but the London mayor should “take the criticism on the chin and we’ll see what happens”.

Following the High Court judgement, the £12.50 a day charge for the highest polluting vehicles will be extended into outer London boroughs as planned on 29 August.

Mr Khan has insisted that only one in 10 vehicles will be eligible for the charge, which mainly applies to petrol cars made before 2006 and diesel cars made before 2016.

He said he would do “everything possible” to address “any concerns Londoners may have” about the ULEZ expansion.

He added: “The decision to expand the Ulez was very difficult and not something I took lightly.

“The Ulez has already reduced toxic nitrogen dioxide air pollution by nearly half in central London and a fifth in inner London".

HOTEL CALIFORNIA

Fri, 28 Jul 2023 17:31:10 GMT

RANDY MEISNER of EAGLES 1946 - 2023

Randy Meisner, a founding member of the Los Angeles rock band the Eagles, who co-wrote and sang lead on the group’s enduring hit “Take It to the Limit,” died on Wednesday at age 77 due to complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a statement released on the band’s website. “Randy was an integral part of the Eagles and instrumental in the early success of the band,” the Eagles said Thursday. “His vocal range was astonishing, as is evident on his signature ballad, ‘Take It to the Limit.’”

Blessed with a sweet, soulful voice and a flair for mellow melodies, Meisner helped shape the sound of country-rock in the early 1970s, first as a member of Poco, then as the bassist for the Eagles, which he co-founded in 1971 alongside Glenn Frey, Don Henley and Bernie Leadon. Meisner was a steady presence on the group’s classic ’70s albums, contributing at least one lead vocal and co-writing credit on each record through 1976’s blockbuster “Hotel California.”

“Take It to the Limit,” from the band’s breakthrough 1975 LP “One of These Nights,” reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Internal band tensions and ill health led Meisner to leave the Eagles upon the conclusion of the supporting tour for “Hotel California.”

Meisner launched a solo career in 1978, landing a soft-rock hit with “Hearts on Fire” two years later. After releasing a self-titled album in 1982, he spent the ensuing years cycling through projects with fellow country-rock survivors, including rejoining Poco for its 1989 reunion.

Apart from appearing with the band at its 1998 induction to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Meisner never reunited with the Eagles.

R.I.P.

HOTEL CALIFORNIA song

NOTHING COMPARE 2U

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 11:03:02 GMT

SINEAD O'CONNOR 1966-2023

It’s almost an understatement to say Nothing Compares 2 U is the most stunning performance of O’Connor’s career. But her interpretation of Prince’s song is a singular moment of emotional catharsis, a performance drawn from deep wells of sorrow, heartbreak and pain that brings listeners to their knees with its vulnerability. Although she keeps a stiff upper lip, noting she has the freedom to take meals at fancy restaurants and go where she pleases, a piece of her heart is still missing. O’Connor never overdoes the pathos or understates her sorrow. Nothing Compares 2 U is a perfect song

R.I.P.

NOTHING COMPARE 2U song

JUDGE 1:0 SUELLA BRAVERMAN

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 10:39:48 GMT

BRAVERMAN LOSES HIGH COURT FIGHT WITH TRACKING "VICTIMS"

HOME OFFICE ORDERED TO CHANGE RULES THAT RESTRICT HELP FOR TRAFFICKING VICTIMS

BRAVERMAN LOSES 1st ROUND of HIGH COURT FIGHT WITH TRACKING "VICTIMS"

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has lost the opening round of a High Court fight with two men believed to be victims of human trafficking. The men, both from eastern Europe, were disqualified from being given protection and support after a Home Office official learned that they had criminal records and had been given jail sentences, a judge heard.

They argued that disqualifying people, whom Home Office officials have reasonable grounds to believe are human trafficking victims, from getting protection and support because they have criminal convictions is unfair.

Mr Justice Swift on Wednesday gave the men the go-ahead to mount a legal challenge to their disqualification decisions after considering arguments at a preliminary High Court hearing, in Court Three at the Royal Courts of Justice complex in London.

The judge also barred the Home Office from making further disqualification decisions, without taking account of the outcome of initial assessments, pending the outcome of a trial.

He ruled that the two men – one has a burglary conviction and one a robbery conviction – could not be named in media reports of the case.

Ms Braverman is fighting the men’s claim and argued that they had “little prospect” of succeeding at a trial.

“There is a strong public interest in permitting the defendant to continue to apply her policy unless and until it is determined to be unlawful, particularly where (as here) the defendant is acting in the public interest,” Cathryn McGahey KC, who led Ms Braverman’s legal team, told Mr Justice Swift, in a written case outline.

Cathryn McGahey KC

“ Granting the relief sought would be wholly disproportionate. The balance of convenience, paying particular regard to the public interest, does not favour the grant of the blanket relief sought (or any interim relief).”

Lawyers representing the two men, who are from Romania and Poland, say protective measures, which include provision of safe accommodation and access to support workers, are needed to prevent victims being found by gangs and re-trafficked.

They say hundreds could be affected by the case – and called on Ms Braverman to review policy.

“Today’s decision will temporarily prevent victims of modern slavery from being driven back into the hands of the organised criminal gangs who exploited them,” solicitor Maria Thomas, who is based at Duncan Lewis Solicitors, said after Wednesday’s hearing.

Today’s decision will temporarily prevent victims of modern slavery from being driven back into the hands of the organised criminal gangs who exploited them

Solicitor Maria Thomas

“ This includes British youngsters exploited by county lines gangs and victims of forced prostitution.”

Ms Thomas added: “Now that permission to apply for judicial review has been granted we call on the Secretary of State for the Home Department to review policy to protect the British public from the scourge of criminal gangs.”

A trial is expected to take place later in the year.

HOME OFFICE ORDERED TO CHANGE RULES THAT RESTRICT HELP FOR TRAFFICKING VICTIMS

A high court judge has ordered the home secretary to change a key part of a trafficking policy introduced just months ago. In an urgent hearing on Wednesday, lawyers representing trafficking victims said they were at risk of human rights violations such as slavery, servitude and forced labour if the policy continued.

In January this year, the government introduced new rules restricting protection and support for victims of modern slavery.

One of the changes is that potential trafficking victims who have a criminal conviction are no longer automatically assessed for the support trafficking victims can access. This support may include accommodation, counselling and financial assistance.

Human rights and anti-trafficking campaigners argue that this exclusion could force some victims back into the hands of their traffickers. They include people forced to cultivate cannabis and convicted in connection with this, people forced into sex work and county lines victims.

The policy is known as public order disqualification (POD). Three potential trafficking victims who had received PODs due to criminal convictions challenged the policy in a case heard in court on Wednesday. One of the three cases was stayed.

In the course of the case, the Home Office disclosed that of 253 decisions made about this group of trafficking victims since the new policy came into force, 252 had been rejected for support. A further 131 people in this group are still awaiting a decision.

Chris Buttler KC representing the trafficking victims, argued that the new policy breached human rights laws including the prohibition against slavery. He sought a court order, which was granted by the judge, Mr Justice Swift, which stipulates that all potential trafficking victims must be assessed before any order disqualifying them from support is made. Granting the order, Swift said it would provide practical safeguards against potential human rights breaches.

A further hearing into the legality of the policy is due to be heard at the end of October.

Maria Thomas of Duncan Lewis solicitors, who represented the claimants, said the order granted on Wednesday would increase protection for trafficking victims.

“This includes British youngsters exploited by county lines gangs and victims of forced prostitution,” she said. She called on the home secretary to review the policy.

Wednesday’s high court order, which was opposed by the home secretary’s legal team, follows a previous high court challenge to another part of the new trafficking policy, during which the home secretary performed a U-turn on the type of evidence people are expected to provide to prove they have been trafficked.

The Home Office has made no comment.

THE "ULEZ" BY-ELECTION? AFTER 8 YEARS of BORIS JOHNSON BEING THEIR MP

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:48:12 GMT

WHO YOU ARE KIDDING? THIS IS SOUTH ASIAN POPULATION MAJORITY AREA, THEREFORE WHAT YOU EXPECTED TO HAPPEN...

I am completely speechless! Why on earth all are saying that Uxbridge by-election was defeat for Labour because of Ulez? Seem, people do not have good memory at all.

Ulez in London was introduced by former mayor Boris Johnson (conservative) who then become Prime Minister. When Boris Johnson’s parliamentary career ended in disgrace, the former prime minister needed replacing as an MP. The resulting Uxbridge by-election has seen more attention than usual, not just because of its departing MP, not just because of a possible momentous swing to Labour, but because it has become a battleground for a contentious clean-air policy: Ulez.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone, a £12 daily charge for driving certain polluting vehicles, is set to expand to outer London, including the constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, which sits at the end of the Metropolitan line in zone 6 of west London.

Both Conservative candidate Steve Tuckwell and Labour Danny Bealeshave come out against the move for Ulez. On top of both candidates, outside Uxbridge tube station there was also a conspiracy theorist Piers Corbyn (brother of Jeremy Corbyn) who also running in the election and who was handing out posters reading: “Vote Piers Corbyn / DEFEAT ULEZ.” Personal comment? Get a life Piers you and your brother!

People were saying that Ulez expansions will have a huge impact on businesses and may affect charities, small businesses, and disabled people. Charity leaders and service users who spoke out ahead of polling day yesterday acknowledged possible problems with the Ulez, but said they had bigger issues.

What a “slap in my face”, these the same people from Uxbridge had only a few things to say about eight (8) years with Boris Johnson as an MP for Uxbridge.

Vicky Lechuga is the centre manager of Hillingdon Women’s Centre, which offers a range of support and advice for women in the constituency stated clearly that the Ulez didn’t feature in the issues she thought were most important for the Uxbridge by-election.

“Ulez, for us, is not a priority. And the campaigns are using that a lot, because it is a big noise. It is more a campaign tool than an actual necessity,” she said.

“In most of the cases, because I’ve seen some of these parties who are talking about other issues, but the main focus is on Ulez.”

“Housing, the lack of housing is a real issue. I can tell you, most women coming to the centre are victims of domestic abuse. They are about to become homeless, and they don’t have money to feed their kids. That’s a profile that we have.”

Well, for all these issues and problems you should addressed to your 8 years MP – Boris Johnson, so why you did not?

Talking about Uxbridge by-election, let's don't forget - Uxbridge was never ever Labour place, on top of which, if Uxbridge voters showed yesterday that Ulez is not for them, then is something wrong with them and not with the Labour party. Who vote against Labour party yesterday because of Ulez, they vote against:

a) Climate change (you want and like pollution)

b) Better air and lover congestions

c) NHS – last year 4,000 people passed away because of pollution in London and NHS has to deal with the queues who has condition with breathing problems

d) Sadiq Khan, who want's a better air in London and UK.

On top of which

e) You don’t care about our kids journey to schools and back

f) You don’t mind that your 8 years MP Boris Johnson who introduced the Ulez in London done nothing for you, not even get you any money (conservatives paid to quite a number of conservative councils £30m and more as support).

Just please don’t blame Labour party and Sadiq Khan while you should be demonstrating against the government (conservatives) - why they are not given Sadiq Khan money to deal with pollution (scraping scheme).

NEXT GENERAL ELECTION NOT A DONE DEAL

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 08:37:11 GMT

WHAT A JOKE RISHI! DO YOU HAVE GUTS? CALL FOR ELECTION NOW!

The Labour party has won its biggest ever byelection victory by overturning a 20,000-vote Conservative majority in Selby and Ainsty, sending a 25-year-old to parliament. But Keir Starmer’s party failed to win Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Boris Johnson’s old constituency. The Conservatives held on to the outer London seat with a majority of 495, the only bit of good news in an otherwise miserable night for Rishi Sunak.

The Liberal Democrats romped to victory in Somerton and Frome, in a contest triggered by the resignation of scandal-hit David Warburton. Sarah Dyke, the cabinet member for the environment on South Somerset district council, won with a majority of 11,008 over the Conservatives.

The Green party came a distant third in all three byelections.

Greg Hands, the Conservative chair, said the party was disappointed by the Selby result, arguing this was “driven largely by Conservative voters – previous Conservative voters – staying home”.

Hands told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the results did not necessarily spell doom for his party, given the long history of incumbent governments being punished in byelections, pointing to the narrow win in Uxbridge.

“We’re obviously going to listen to people, we’re going to look at some of the reasons why,” he said. “But equally by elections are not always a good predictor of general elections.”

However, the polling expert Prof Sir John Curtice, speaking on the same programme, said Hands was being unrealistic, and that the results showed the Conservatives were “in as deep an electoral hole as polling suggests”.

Labour’s delight was tempered by its failure to take Uxbridge, with some in the party blaming the decision of the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, to extend the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) anti-pollution scheme to outer areas of the city, including Uxbridge, the key Tory campaign in the area.

Labour’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, hinted that the party thought Khan should rethink the policy. She told BBC Breakfast: “I think one of the things we have to reflect on today is not only the mood against the Tories, but also the decision in Uxbridge was related to Ulez.

“The Uxbridge result shows that when you don’t listen to the voters, you don’t win elections.”

Sir Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, said the party’s win in Somerton and Frome showed it was “firmly back in the West Country”.

Selby’s new MP is 25-year-old Keir Mather, a former researcher for the shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, who was named after the first leader of the Labour party, Keir Hardie. Mather won by 4,161 votes.

Mather will become the “baby of the house” as the youngest MP in the Commons. In his victory speech, he said that “thousands of votes were in Labour’s box for the first time” and declared: “In this campaign we have rewritten the rules on where Labour can win.”

Starmer said: “This is a historic result that shows that people are looking at Labour and seeing a changed party that is focused entirely on the priorities of working people with an ambitious, practical plan to deliver.

“Keir Mather will be a fantastic MP who will deliver the fresh start Selby and Ainsty deserves.”

Labour had been expected to comfortably win Uxbridge, where Johnson’s majority had dwindled to 7,210 in the 2019 general election – his first as prime minister.

There was sufficient disbelief in the Labour camp that they had not in fact won the byelection that party officials demanded a recount. The second round delivered the same result: a slim Conservative victory.

Former postman Steve Tuckwell, the local Conservative councillor who will take Johnson’s place in Westminster, had said the vote was a “referendum” on Ulez.

In his victory speech, Tuckwell referenced the mayor of London’s decision to expand the zone, where people have to pay a £12.50 daily fee to drive if their car does not meet emission standards. “Sadiq Khan has lost Labour this election,” said Tuckwell.

There was a 6.7-percentage point swing in the share of the vote from Conservative to Labour in Uxbridge and South Ruislip. Labour needed a 7.6-point swing to take the seat.

The byelection was triggered by Johnson’s shock resignation after the Commons privileges committee recommended a lengthy suspension from parliament for knowingly misleading parliament about lockdown parties in Downing Street.

In Selby, the Conservatives blamed the outgoing MP, Nigel Adams, for their defeat. People were “really disappointed” that Adams quit in a huff because he didn’t get a seat in the Lords, said Andrew Jones, the MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough, who has been overseeing much of the Tory campaigning in Selby. It was “the main talking point” on the doorstep, he claimed.

The Liberal Democrats have gained four seats from the Conservatives at byelections this parliament, after winning Chesham and Amersham and North Shropshire in 2021, and Tiverton and Honiton last year.

In her victory speech in Somerset, Dyke thanked lifelong Conservative voters for switching to the Lib Dems for the first time.

The Lib Dems won 21,187 votes with a 28-point swing, while the Tories achieved their worst result in the history of the seat with 10,179 votes and 26% of the vote. The Greens came third, with Reform UK fourth and Labour fifth.

Labour has gained two seats in byelections since the 2019 general election, after its 2022 win in Wakefield.

Labour’s win in Selby exceeds both the national 12-point swing the party needs for an overall majority at the next general election and the 16-point swing suggested by recent polls.

Gaining Selby sets a record for the size of majority overturned by Labour at a byelection, according to Dr Hannah Bunting and Prof Will Jennings, Sky election analysts. The highest majority the party has overturned at a byelection is 14,654 votes in Mid Staffordshire more than 30 years ago.

Of the three byelections, turnout was highest in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, with 46.11% of the electorate casting a ballot. It was 44.12% in Somerset and 44.77% in Selby.

Ps: PM Rishi Sunak showing his happiness in Uxbridge despite that they won by 495 majority only, saying that "the next election is not done deal" however he has no guts to call for election now, do you Rishi?

SUNDAY'S POLITIC with LAURA KUENSSBERG

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 11:46:59 GMT

INTERVIEW with Sir KEIR STARMER leader of Labour party

Today I was listening as usual to “Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg” - How Would Keir Starmer Govern?

This was “Part 2” of the big pitch to voters.

This was not just a message about economic responsibilities when it comes to any Labour government, but also messaging the party is ready for government and a credible choice for the electorate.

Three crucial byelections will test Labour’s support next week. They are keen to ensure that everyone knows that they are riding high in the polls; they want to keep the momentum going and taking these seats will be validatory.

We think we are about a year out from an election - so today’s interview was all about Sir Keir Starmer presenting himself.

There has been much criticism in recent days about how Labour would approach things differently compared to the current Conservative government. Starting with negotiations around public sector pay - Rishi Sunak announced this week that he was accepting the recommendations from the independent pay review body for a pay rise of up to 7% for these workers. This comes after a long running dispute.

Laura Kuenssberg asked Keir Starmer how Labour would approach those negotiations differently. Keir Starmer’s answer was to sort out this current Conservative mess and, “I would do this differently by growing the economy. We have to grow and grow and grow our economy upon which there will be money to spend”.

Laura Kuenssberg: “ . . . if you were Prime Minister right now it's exactly the kind of problem that might face you - a pay dispute with a big powerful union. The doctors say they will not accept it, while Rishi Sunak says no more negotiating.

What would you do: Do you back the junior doctors, or do you back the Prime Minister role”?

Keir Starmer: “We would be round the table negotiating and we would settle this dispute.”

Now of course the economic environment is incredibly difficult, and Labour has acknowledged that if they were to come into power at the next election they will be operating in very difficult circumstances. Of course, we hear a lot about inflation running high and interest rates set to potentially rise even further than in recent times.

So, the question around how we would fund public services was posed to the Labour leader and what exactly he would do with the finances. Keir replied that a Labour government would spend more money on public services.

Laura Kuenssberg: “Do you believe years of austerity has damaged the public sector; do you believe that part of the answer has to be more money? “

Keir Starmer: “A Labour government always wants to invest in its public services . . . [we need] to grow our economy; let me give you the example of the last labour government.

We've now had thirteen years of this government, more or less in fact 13 years since the last Labour government grew the economy and had 10s of billions of pounds more to spend on our public services. That's what I want to replicate - to grow our economy so we've got that yield to put into our public services.”

Now it's interesting watching this interview with the Labour leader. Criticism in recent days from some of the unions includes he isn't being bold and radical. He needed to get across to those who have been criticising him that, just because the economic climate is difficult, Labour won't stop committing to the reforms that they and many others are calling for, if they come into government.

BBC PRESENTER SCANDAL YET AGAIN

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 05:26:20 GMT

When will broadcaster name suspended star amid sex scandal as others are misidentified?

On Sunday, the BBC announced that they had suspended a male presenter and contacted the police over allegations that he had paid a vulnerable teenager to send him explicit photos over a period £35,000 of three years.

Today, the corporation is due to meet with the Met police to discuss the matter, which is the latest in a series of sex scandals to plague the media company in the more than 10 years since the Jimmy Savile allegations came to light.

The alleged victim has also not been named, though their mother said that their child used the money to pay for a crack cocaine addiction which ‘destroyed’ their life.

Yet, even as the rumour mill has begun to turn at warp speed, the BBC has refused to name the presenter who has been accused.

As social media erupts into a firestorm of mud-slinging, it’s time that the BBC named the presenter to put an end to wild speculation of the chronically online armchair detectives.

In not naming the presenter they have suspended, the BBC could be doing more damage than revealing their identity outright - as other presenters who are off sick, on annual leave, or not on air for any number of reasons today (10 July 2023) and later in the week could be misidentified as the accused man.

This has already happened at least once - Nicky Campbell, who hosts the BBC Radio 5 Live programme, told listeners today that he had contacted the police after being misidentified as the suspended presenter.

Other presenters, including Gary Lineker and Jeremy Vine, felt compelled to issue statements distancing themselves from the allegations.

It seems that the BBC is giving cover to a man accused of questionable behaviour - allegedly paying £35,000 to a vulnerable teenager over the course of three years for explicit photos - at the expense of other well-known broadcasters.

The Sun, which broke the story, has also, at the time of writing, not named the presenter who has been accused.

It is possible that both The Sun and the BBC are seeking to avoid a defamation suit in case the accused man has not done what has been alleged, but in the process they are putting the safety and welfare of others at the BBC at risk.

Ps: The presenter is HUW EDWARDS!

CASUMO - THE ONLINE CHEATING CASINO

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 05:40:52 GMT

THEY CHEAT, THEY MANIPULATE, THEY TALK RUBBISH AND THEY DO ANYTHING JUST TO NOT PAY OUT WINNINGS!

The Gambling industry is a territory where there is no clear legislation. Providers gain unbelievable access to people’s private lives. To sign up and to make a deposit is a very simple and in majority very straight forward however, once the player do the withdrawal, players are “forced” to upload enormous amounts of documentation, which are NOT required by law, and only two are “recommended” by the Gambling Commissioner (Passport or driving licence and confirmation of the address).

Unpaid Winnings

Despite submitting all these documents – for which there are no guarantees about their safe storage – players cannot claim the money which “by chance and pure luck” they’ve won playing a few spins.

We have looked at 217 players of CASUMO CASINO who have winnings which have not yet been paid, due to “verification” or other "unexplained" issues.

One player, Matt (name changed to protect his identity) is an elderly gentleman who won £8,000 on Casumo. On 26 June 2023 gentleman make the deposit of £400 and straight after he won £8,000. He was well over £8,000 in credit so he left £1,000 on account and made request for withdrawal of £7,100.00.

To claim his winnings, he submitted both documents which Gambling Commissioner suggested to be:

a) His ID (Full UK driving licence) and

b) Document to confirm his where about - address confirmation (Council Tax Bill).

However, after a day and a half he was asked for further documentation. The following documentation has been submitted:

1. Photocopy of driving licence (front and back) issued by the government (his picture on)

2. Photocopy of his Freedom pass (front) - issued by the government (his picture on)

3. Photo taken of himself with driving licence in hand

4. Photocopy of his disabled badge (front and back) - issued by the government (his picture on)

5. Photocopy of Council Tax Bill with his name and address on (valid for 2023/2024) issued recently.

6. Photocopy of his bank card he was making deposits with his name on, valid date, and first 3 and last 4 digits on.

7. Photocopy of the Bank Statement with his name and address on

8. Photocopy of card of this bank account

9. Confirmation from the Council that he is getting Housing Benefits on the document of Council Tax bill, along with a few other documents.

What did Casumo do? They confirmed that he was verified, however they still won’t pay him his winnings of £7,100 as there were NEW DOCUMENETATION REQUIREMENTS.

His solicitors have confirmed him that Casumo should acc ept and make the payment, they have more than enough documents. Since Casumo is asking for the document which are NOT mandatory, and Casumo is reluctant to pay, the gentleman has stated that he will be taking further action through his solicitors.

Unreasonable ID Checks for Verification

The Gambling Commissioner suggests the following documents are needed to verify the identity of online players:

• passports or

• driving licences and

• household bills.

What if person does not have a passport or driving licence? Casumo will get back to you with various suggestions, e.g.,

a) Citizen Card (will cost you in addition £30)

But be aware, when you provide the above, Casumo will still not verify your account if there are winnings to be paid out.

b) Bank Statements

Bank statements are NOT mandatory; however the Gambling Commissioner is open on the issue where gambling companies might use a variety of techniques to “profile” customers, also known as “understand how much money they can squeeze from each player”. The gambling companies may by go directly to customers or through a third party to obtain bank statements. They might also ask for information about

irregular income patterns in your bank account, such as a house sale or purchase. They justify this as looking for appropriate deposit or loss thresholds based on individual incomes.

c) Alternatives?

Casumo will suggest various alternatives e.g., copy of a benefits letter or similar documents. But be aware, you again will not be paid out your winnings! Why? The Casumo Casino will say that the letter is inappropriate, or the date is incorrect. In the United Kingdom we have such documents issued annually, e.g., in September statements about your pension, PIP, ESA, JSA, child benefits, or perhaps in April each year for housing benefits.

Therefore, you will fail in their requirements, as they stipulate the date must not be older than 3 months.

At present, we have a list of 217 names of Casumo players who are not satisfied and were “taken on a ride” by Casumo Casino in some way or another. We are encouraging every player who has in the past, or at present, an issue with the Casumo Casino to contact our Customer Service with the details of the issue

they’ve had.

What we'll do next?

Petition will be the next move where we have no worries to get 100,000 signatures for changes to be made within Gambling Act. We were given support of Sky News commentator as well of few other correspondents/journalists and they all agree that is the time to get expose the dark underbelly of British Gambling Industry.

This is also open invitation to all our followers who are involved with gambling of any kind to contact Customer Service with the details what all will helps to crack down on such businesses like Casumo Casino who want's to dive in lives of the players and their families.

Finally, we must not forget that gambling is a serious public health issue that is connected to a multitude of harms to individuals, communities, and societies. Suicide is among the most severe harmful consequences that have been connected to gambling (82 dead cases last year). The relationship between gambling and suicide has evoked ample research interests recently, with several reviews published on the topic. Two recent scoping reviews as well as earlier reviews have mapped the quantitative occurrence of suicide attempts, suicides, and other self-harm among gamblers.

It is not surprise if people who spend time and money for their gambling habits and at the end the online casino like Casumo does not paying out the winnings starts thinking on the most severe harmful end - the suicide!

By contacting Customer Service with relevant data and details about your experiences, specially about Casumo Casino you will be rewarded with £1,000 cash paid!

FIND LATEST UPDATES from CASUMO received from the above unnamed gentleman which case we introduced as sample:

Phoebe from Support <phoebe@support-4533ea0d8194.intercom-mail.com>

Wed, Jul 12, 10:18 AM (21 hours ago)

to XXXXX

Hello XXXXX,

Thank you for reaching out, hope this email finds you well.

Many apologies for the delay in responding to you, we have been exceptionally busy recently and have not been able to deliver the quick response we'd hoped to.

We do understand your hesitation and are very sorry to hear that you are not happy with our verification procedure.

However, as an online gambling operator, we do have a due diligence obligation and need to verify the source of wealth of our players as part of the licensing terms. In fact, all online gambling operators such as Casumo follow strict regulations set by several governing bodies, including the UKGC.

As you have stated that you do not wish to provide these documents, the relevant team is currently reviewing this case to see if we are able to send the funds without the source of wealth verification.

However, kindly note that, upon registering your account you agreed to our terms and conditions which state, amongst other things, the following:

9.7. As a gambling operator, we need to comply with our anti-money laundering obligations. This can mean we sometimes need to ask you for a lot of documentation and information related to the source of deposited funds. It is important you realise that if the requested information and/or documentation is not provided or is not considered by us (acting reasonably) as satisfactory, we may suspend/terminate your Account, withhold payment of any monies held in your Account, and pass on any necessary information to the relevant authorities.

We will contact you the moment we have any updates for you.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation.

If you need any further assistance feel free to contact us anytime via live chat or hey@casumo.com.

Best regards,

Phoebe

Casumo Ambassador

Phoebe

Support

Our comment:

What we stated above - Casumo talking complete rubbish, instead making the payment they threaten and intimidate the players: (It is important you realise that if the requested information and/or documentation is not provided or is not considered by us (acting reasonably) as satisfactory, we may suspend/terminate your Account, withhold payment of any monies held in your Account, and pass on any necessary information to the relevant authorities.) !

The gentleman concerned has pointed out with his bank statement the source from where the money came from therefore, Casumo should have no issues of holding the withdrawal:

- they have full identity of the player

- they have copy of his bank statement on black&white of the source of his money by identifying even from where the credits come onto his account,

Completely inappropriate Casumo action.

The gentleman replied and made the comment to the Ms Phoebe of Casumo support on 14 July 2023 email, what he received on half and hour later was more than expected:

No further comments needed how dodge Casumo Casino is!

They even upload their own webpage about them explaining that they are not "the dodge one casino" despite what people are saying about them, and then they present their own "description" of how good they are.

You need to be stupid and blind not to see constant software glitches, stops, interruptions with request for reloading said the above gentleman, what was the point more that public needs to do something about this. That was my experience, so he said.

Comparing what he had said with other players remarks, they all have nearly the same experiences with Casumo Casino.

Our comment:

Just in few days we managed to obtain 27,815 signatures' for our Petition (changes within gambling legislation).

15 July 2023

The company approach CASUMO to give an answer - no reply received! However another "Casumo ambassador" emailed to the gentleman:

Edward from Support <Edward@support-4533ea0d8194.intercom-mail.com>

Sat, Jul 15, 2:16 PM (3 days ago)

to XXXX

Dear XXXX,

Firstly, I hope this email finds you well, and thank you for reaching out to us!

Thank you very much for the documents you provided, I can see that they are currently pending approval from our relevant department.

You will be notified via e-mail once everything has been approved or if further actions are required!

If there is anything else that I could assist you with today, please do not hesitate to contact us!

Best regards,

Edward

Casumo Ambassador

Edward

Support

Our comment:

Casumo got more then enough documentation and proof of identity of the stated gentleman. They are just playing games how good and honest they are. If Casumo would be honest and stick with the legislation, they should paid out the withdrawal of £7,100.

Up to date we managed to obtain 32,818 signatures' for our Petition (changes within gambling legislation).

17 July 2023

CASUMO still have made no comments on our email, however they were eager to windup a bit more the gentleman which case we forward with new email:

Our comment:

Casumo still has not pay out the withdrawal request of £7,100 without, they are still "playing games" of more documents required! This is online fraud without any shadow of the doubt!

The unnamed gentleman is user of another Malta's online casino which are paying out without any problems. What docs they required? Just one ID and one document confirming his address and NOTHING ELSE. So, same law (UK), same place (Malta) and two completely opposite approaches.

When the gentleman approached the other Malta's club to explain to him what is what and how should be the comment of the other casino in few words was: Casumo just pulling your legs, they don't need by current legislation all the documents you pointed, that is simply for them for their PERSONAL use and interest that you know how much you "weight" and how much they can get money of you.

No further comments needed.

Up to date we managed to obtain 35,389 signatures' for our Petition (changes within gambling legislation). Another 64,611 to go! Plenty of time and plenty people out there who wants to get involved in this particular issue. Surprise, surprise, majority signatories' are female age group 30-45.

Our Petition has also a part to BLOCK all sponsorships of gambling companies at all events and all levels specially in all sports which have big audiences. Casumo was sponsor of Reading Football Club.

20 July 2023

Up to date obtained 41,208 signatures' for our Petition (changes within gambling legislation).

21 July 2023

Casumo completely blocked the player therefore the court action will be the next action we were told by the gentlemen and his case who was defrauded of £7,100 by Casumo.

One of the questions we asked Casumo was also:

If person goes to any casino in UK, Spain, Italy, Germany or wherever does the porter or reception request from potential player(s) to hand over their bank statements for past month or more to be able to play in the casino or simple just one verification document (passport or Driving Licence) is sufficient?

No reply from Casumo!

Don't take our word about how dodge Casumo Casino is

Do you trust reviews at TRUST PILOT?

Well, no surprises there either!

There are 1667 UK reviews and result - 2.6 > POOR

However, UK players was very generous to the Casumo with 2.6 points and rated them being just POOR.

Casumo players in Germany gave Casumo even less > just 1.8 rating well below UK players rated Casumo. Most of German players describe that Casumo does not deserve not even 1 star.

The most damaging for Casumo and perhaps the best rating was given to Casumo casino by players from Denmark rated Casumo casino with 1.6 points only which rating by Trust Pilot scale is as BAD.

Do we need to say any more? Not really, see it for yourselves at Trust Pilot web

https://uk.trustpilot.com/search?query=casumo

Noah from Support

Jul 22, 2023, 6:20 PM (17 hours ago)

to XXXX

Hi XXXX,

Thank you for getting back to us, and clarifying further.

We do not xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

In regard to the withdrawal - We would still need to allow some more time for our relevant department to review your account, and we'll of course get back to you via email as soon as we have an update on the case.

Thanks for your patience with us!

Hope you've found this information useful. Otherwise, you'll always be able to contact us again via Live Chat or e-mail.

Thanks again!

Kind regards,

Noah

Casumo

Noah

Support

Our comment:

The gentlemen gave request for withdrawal on 26 JUNE 2023 and in 3 days we will be 26 JULY 2023. Is really needed one (1) month to get someone verified upon all the docs has been submitted? No! Very bad, very bad.

In our case we are running in this Blog, Casumo stated clearly "NO DOCUMENT UPLOADED YET" what is complete lie. Gentleman uploaded five (5) times proof of all his ID documents including picture of himself with his driving licence in hand next to his face as asked by Casumo.

What game and cards Casumo is playing we all will see shortly.

We were told, solicitors has been instructed in the case we introduced - non-payment of £7100. Gentleman concluded that the case will not be submitted via Small Claims as there are quite few other issues including other non-payments behind his claim against Casumo.

22 July 2023

Up to date 44,317 signatures' for our Petition (changes within gambling legislation) collected.

27 July 2023

Casumo play new game: Communication silence - similar to German U-boats during the II.WW despite that they were contacted yesterday on 1(one) month anniversary of the withdrawal request.

Up to date 59,110 signatures' for our Petition (changes within gambling legislation) collected.

We thank you for all involved with Petition.

29 July 2023

Casumo still in communication silence. The journalist working on our behalf discover just more and more dodge things concerning Casumo Casino.

For example:

If you are logging to Casumo web page and you would like to submit the complaint against whatever with Casumo they will invite you to make the complain as follow:

"If you are not satisfied with the resolution of your complaint/claim and/or your complaint is not resolved to your satisfaction within eight weeks of receiving the complaint , you may report your complaint to the alternative dispute resolution organisation eCOGRA. eCOGRA is a third party organisation which offers independent adjudication in relation to betting and gaming disputes. You may file your complaint by clicking on this link and filling out the dispute form".

By clicking on that link the follow page will open (see below)

Few further things from the Casumo's text above what make no sense:

"If you are not satisfied with the resolution of your complaint/claim and/or your complaint is not resolved to your satisfaction within eight weeks of receiving the complaint"...

So what and why on earth Casumo needs 8 weeks (2 months) not to mention again after 2 weeks you can submit complain with eCOGRA which doesn't exists for UK players!!!

Up to date 66,203 signatures' for our Petition (changes within gambling legislation) collected.

We thank you for all involved with Petition.

30 July 2023

Despite that we wrote to Casumo to have their says about the case and about other cases we exposed (217+1) no comment from Casumo at all - complete communication silence. Is that how and should Customer Service operate? Not at all! This is disgrace for every company - especially for the casino company to have such Customer Support where customer support should be 1st class.

Above - one of the 3 letters posted to the Head Office of Casumo - NO REPLY WHATSOEVER!!

On today's day 30 July 2023 we manage to obtain more signatures for our Petition (changes within gambling legislation). Currently 68,402 signatures collected, 31,598 to go (100,000 signatures needed)!

We thank you for all involved with Petition.

03 August 2023

Finally, Casumo reply as follows:

Casumo Account

Inbox xxxxxxxxxxxxx.help@support-4533ea0d8194.intercom-mail.com>

Tue, Aug 1, 8:38 AM (2 days ago)

to XXXXXXXX

Hi xxxxxxxxx

Your Casumo account balance of £7,108.98 has been xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In accordance with section 6 of our terms and conditions we have taken the decision to close your account.

Kind regards,

Casumo Security team

email: XXXXXXXX@casumo.com

Up to date 03 August 2023 in total 71,042 signatures' for our Petition (changes within gambling legislation) of 100,000 needed collected.

We thank you for all involved with Petition.

ZIMBABWE OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:05:48 GMT

DICTATOR ED MNANGAGWA WILL FINALLY FACE JUSTICE

TRIBUTES PAID TO MEN KILLED IN "CATASTROPHIC IMPLOSION" OF TITAN SUB

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 10:51:28 GMT

Life-saving deep sea surveillance drones for Titanic sub search are being caught up in red tape by US Coast Guard.

Richard Garriott, president of the New York-based Explorers Club, said on Wednesday vital rescue equipment was being held up by US bureaucracy

Garriott said that working-class ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) from deep-water firm Magellan, which mapped the Titanic last year, are stuck in the UK

Dan Crenshaw, a Republican congressman from Texas, said Garriott's claim was 'deeply concerning' and 'disturbing'

The president of the New York-based Explorers Club has accused the U.S. government of delaying the delivery of vital equipment for the search for the missing Titanic tourist sub.

Richard Garriott told National Geographic he had complained to top officials about the bureaucracy hampering the race against the clock.

Two of the five on board - British billionaire Hamish Harding and French Titanic expert PH Nargeolet - are members of the Explorers Club.

Other members have worked to enable deep sea company Magellan, based in Guernsey in the British Isles, to ship its surveillance equipment to the site: Magellan has Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) which last year surveyed the Titanic site.

Magellan has not obtained the permits necessary to get to the site, Garriott said. On Wednesday night, a release from the Coast Guard indicated that an ROV from Magellan is en route.

He wrote on Wednesday afternoon to Vice Admiral William Galanis, commander of Naval Sea Systems Command; US Coast Guard Rear Admiral John W. Mauger, who is leading the recovery mission; Congressman Lloyd Doggett; and Representative Eric Swalwell, urging them to allow Magellan to the site.

'Magellan has received mixed signals, first hearing from US Gov to get ready, waiting for plans - then getting told to stand down,' wrote Garriott.

The US Coast Guard has not responded to DailyMail.com's request for comment.

Garriott told National Geographic that, even with only 24 hours of air left, it was vital to continue fighting to find the missing sub.

'Whatever the right thing is to do, we should still do it, even if it's now at the cusp of fatality,' he said.

The Magellan Argus-class ROVs are capable of deploying to 6,000 meters (19,700 feet) and are outfitted with external arms that can retrieve and raise Titan.

They could be delivered to the site within 16 hours. Instead of Magellan's ROVs, the U.S. Navy has sent its Flyaway Deep Ocean Salvage System, which was used to retrieve an F-35 from 12,400 feet of water in March.

But Garriott said there are fears the Navy's equipment will crush the capsule. 'The concern is that the big scooper will crush the hull, because it would be almost impossible to get down under it in the mud without applying pressure to the hull itself,' said Garriott. 'Instead, a 6,000-meter working-class ROV has the ability to attach directly to the point on the top of the sub. 'It's a traditional method and people like Magellan have done it over and over again. It's the way it's designed to happen.'

Garriott's concerns about the bureaucratic hurdles echo those aired on Monday by OceanGate advisor David Concannon. 'We need to move. We do not have minutes or hours. We need to move now,' he said.

'This equipment has been on the tarmac for hours.

'When I communicate with the U.S. government, I get 'out of office' replies - not from everyone, but from key people that have a sign-off on this.' He told News-Nation: 'That's unacceptable.'

Rescue crews are in a race against time and air to find the Titan five - the people trapped on a submersible at the site of the Titanic shipwreck. The Titan was launched Sunday morning and lost contact with the surface within two hours.

Billionaire Hamish Harding, French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and Shahzada Dawood, 48, a UK-based board member of the Prince's Trust charity, and his son Sulaiman Dawood, 19, are reported to be the people stuck in the sub.

A massive effort, involving several countries, was underway to try and rescue the crew however all too little too late - despite that US detected "something is going on" back in Sunday when they were doing their regular "secret eavesdropping" in that area as part of their homeland security.

THE RISHI SUNAK MUPPET SHOW

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 07:24:11 GMT

LIVE FROM WESTMINSTER

From the “mortgage catastrophe” to Jeremy Hunt’s revelations from the government’s pandemic preparedness, there’s been plenty going on in Westminster. Here are the key points:

Polling suggested that most people wrongly think Rishi Sunak’s pledge to halve inflation would either mean prices going down (32%) or staying the same (31%). Only 23% said that this still meant prices would go up. Later in the day, Downing Street claimed the government is still on course to meet its target of halving inflation by the end of the year.
At the Ukraine recovery conference this morning Sunak gave a speech saying “Russia must pay for the destruction that they’ve inflicted”.
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the DUP leader, wrote to Sunak urging him to scrap controversial legislation to address the legacy of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. Later in the day, Ireland said it would consider taking legal action against the UK if parliament passes the Northern Ireland Troubles (legacy and reconciliation) bill.
In PMQs, Keir Starmer said the cost of the Tory mortgage penalty is an extra £2,900 a year. Sunak replied that interest rates are at similar levels in Canada and the US and Australia and New Zealand, adding that the government has a plan to reduce inflation. The Guardian’s political correspondent, Andrew Sparrow, opined that Starmer won in the exchange, noting that he was “on very strong ground today because he devoted all his questions to what he called the Tory ‘mortgage catastrophe’”.
Jeremy Hunt appeared before the Covid-19 inquiry, where he dropped several bombshells, including that quarantining people sooner “might have avoided” the first coronavirus lockdown, the UK did not sufficiently learn from the experiences of Asian nations which had dealt with virus outbreaks, and that pandemic preparation exercises had “too narrow a focus”, only considered mitigation rather than prevention, and did not “ask the right questions”.
Mark Walport, David Cameron’s chief scientific adviser who also appeared before the Covid-19 inquiry, warned him in 2013 that the UK’s assessment of risks, including from pandemics, was not being used properly to prevent and mitigate dangers and was being kept too secret.
Labour insisted it still wants to abolish the House of Lords despite planning to swell its size with new peers in order to push through policy if it forms a government.
Suella Braverman rejected calls to move responsibility for the Windrush compensation scheme from the Home Office, with the home secretary saying it would cause “delay and needless bureaucracy”.
More than 1m households across Britain are expected to lose at least 20% of their disposable incomes thanks to the surge in mortgage costs expected before the next election.
Downing Street declined to say whether Shaun Bailey, the former London mayoral candidate for the Conservatives, should take up the peerage given to him in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours after a video emerged of him taking part in a mid-lockdown Christmas party.

KANGAROO COURT

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 21:48:02 GMT

PRIVILEGES SELECT COMMITTEE'S PARTIGATE REPORT IN NUMBERS

After months of investigation, a cross-party committee of MPs has found that Boris Johnson deliberately misled parliament. Here is the report in numbers: 50,000+ words, including its summary, findings in full, two annexes, two appendices and other contents.

106 pages of excoriating findings about the former prime minister.
90 days that the committee says Johnson should have been suspended for from the House of Commons if he were still an MP. (Johnson formally quit on Monday.)
53 times the word “misled” appears in the report.
30 The number of times Johnson spoke in the House of Commons about the question of Covid compliance at No 10.
10 times the word “disingenuous” appears in the report.
6 “gatherings” at No 10 that the committee initially focused on (20 May 2020, 19 June 2020, 13 and 27 November 2020, 18 December 2020 and 14 January 2021). Johnson attended five and was briefly in close proximity to the one in December 2020.
16 “other gatherings” [in the report’s words] at No 10 and Chequers of which the Cabinet Office supplied new evidence in May.
7 members of the House of Commons privileges committee who produced the report, including four Tory MPs, two Labour MPs and one SNP MP.
5 photographs of Johnson and others at No 10 in 2020 and 2021 that were reproduced in the report.

SNAKES IN THE CITY

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:28:36 GMT

GRANT SHAPPS MP – ONE OF MANY TORIES’ SNAKES

Politics has “moved on” from the “drama” of the Boris Johnson era, according to a Cabinet minister who played down speculation about the former Prime Minister making a swift return to Westminster.

Grant Shapps MP, who served in Mr Johnson’s cabinet, said he does not think the former Tory leader is in the “mindset” to fight the next general election.

It comes after Johnson ally Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said the ex-incumbent of No 10, who quit the Commons on Friday in protest against an MPs’ inquiry into Partygate, could contest the next election for the Conservative Party and would be in “pole position” during a future leadership contest.

Sir Jacob said, in an article for the Mail On Sunday, there could be a Tory “civil war” if the party tried to “block” him from standing.

I was watching BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme where Mr Shapps told the audience “There is no tiny chance of him coming back and saying, "Right, now I’m going to stand again’."

From what I understand, even he has said he doesn’t want to do that. So we are rather in the realms of the hypothetical.

Mr Shapps said Mr Johnson would have been “perfectly entitled to remain as an MP but decided to step down”.

Shapps told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme: “I think people around the country inside and outside the party recognise that Boris was somebody with many qualities."

“But we are now in a world where there are different challenges to face and we’ve got new management in No 10 getting on with the job and getting on with the priorities of this country.”

“I think the world has moved on from what was quite a dramatic period under Brexit and of course under the issues related to Covid, the vaccines and the rest of it.”

He said the UK is in a “calmer period” under the leadership of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who he said is “doing proper Conservative things” in a response to Mr Johnson accusing the Government of ditching 2019 manifesto pledges.

Mr Shapps also said he disagrees with Mr Johnson’s criticism of the Commons Privileges Committee’s investigation into whether he misled MPs when he said Covid rules were followed in Downing Street during the pandemic despite lockdown-busting parties taking place.

Mr Johnson attacked the seven-person panel on Friday as he resigned as an MP, accusing them of a “witch hunt” and likening the panel to a “kangaroo court”. But Mr Shapps said he has “no reason” to support the accusations, denying suggestions the investigation was motivated by a desire to reverse Brexit.

The former Tory chairman said, while Mr Johnson had successes as prime minister, he thinks “people both in the Conservative Party and outside don’t miss the drama” of his premiership.

Tobias Ellwood, Conservative chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, said Mr Johnson’s attack on the Partygate probe and the manner of his exit was “akin to mutiny”. “It is a grave moment for our party. Johnson quit not only kicking the milk bottles on the way out but rallying other MPs to follow in order to inflict maximum damage to the party he claims to support.”

It comes as Guto Harri, a former Johnson spin doctor, told Sky his former boss has been “hounded out of politics”.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for a snap general election after Mr Johnson, along with two of his close allies – Nadine Dorries and Nigel Adams – quit the Commons within 24 hours of each other, triggering by-elections in their seats.

Pat McFadden, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said the country will be “bedevilled by chaos and instability” if the Tory “chaos” is allowed to continue. He accused Mr Johnson of acting like a “baby-man” with the way he reacted to the yet-to-be-published Privileges Committee conclusion.

The probe, which was chaired by veteran Labour MP Harriet Harman but had a Tory majority, is thought to have ruled that Mr Johnson lied to Parliament over Partygate.

Reports suggest it was set to recommend at least a 10-day suspension, reaching the threshold for a by-election in his now-former Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency to be potentially triggered.

Mr McFadden said the committee’s report, which is expected to be published “promptly”, is not the “last word”. “It then goes to Parliament, where the Tories are sitting on a majority of around 66 seats — at least it was on Friday before they all started resigning,” he told Ridge.

“Even then, it just triggers a recall petition where he could face the voters.

“But the truth is he didn’t want to face any of the verdicts because he can never accept responsibility for his own actions.

“That’s true of all these right-wing populist leaders. They are like baby-men. Whenever anything goes wrong, it is everybody else’s fault.”

Meanwhile, Nigel Farage, the former Brexit Party leader turned broadcaster, said he sees the potential for an insurgent party to emerge after the fallout of Mr Johnson’s resignation. He suggested more than 10 Conservative MPs have been in touch in relation to potentially joining a new party.

“More than before, I think there are quite a lot of Conservative MPs right now who know they are going to lose their seats,” he told the BBC.

“The Red Wallers know they’re going to lose their seats as it is running as Conservatives, and if there was a coming together on the centre-right, which is where the gap is, I think quite a few would.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen, I don’t know what Boris Johnson’s going to do, but I see a bigger gap for insurgency today than I did before.”

Mr Farage later told GB News he had been in discussions with “people very close to” Mr Johnson about a “coming together” between the pair so they can defend their “Brexit legacy”.

Is Mr Shapps an honest person? Not for me and not for a single person I know! Why? Just recall Sky News interview with Kay Burley - Mr Shapps (at the time in Johnson’s cabinet) swore that there were NO PARTIES at Number10 and that Mr Johnson did not lie.

After Johnson's resignation as PM, Grant Shapps finds a way to be in Liz Truss' cabinet.

After Liz's resignation as PM, he sneaks into Rishi's cabinet. What Mr Shapps achieved in all his ministerial appointments he had till now? Nothing at all he was and he is just a puppet on a string with no integrity at all apart being a leader or contributor for plot against PM eg. Teresa May.

Real snake!

In the last 13 years under 5 Prime Ministers the Cabinet has not changed much: same faces, same drama, all pledges broken, highest inflation, highest taxes, no progress, same old party - The Tory party!

SILVIO BERLUSCONI, FORMER ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER DIES AGED 86

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 22:42:08 GMT

Health of flamboyant media tycoon who led three Italian governments had deteriorated in recent years

He died at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan. In April, he was treated for a lung infection linked to leukaemia. The longest-serving prime minister in post-war Italy. After taking political office in 1994, the billionaire media tycoon led four governments until 2011 - though not consecutively.

Last September, Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia party went into coalition under right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Berlusconi was without any shadow of the doubt one of the most influential men in the history of Italy.

R.I.P.

NOVAK DJOKOVIĆ'S 23rd GRAND SLAM

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 22:17:47 GMT

ЈОЛЕ, УВЕК ПОБЕЂУЈЕ ОНАЈ КО ДРУГОГ ТУРИ!

Finally, Novak Djoković has won his 23rd grand slam tennis tournament (and there is little prospect of Nadal equalling him), many people are saying Djoković is the greatest of all time. But many of these people also feel a certain reluctance in saying this. Federer seems at least as great.

If there is any meaningful sense in which we can ask who is the greatest of all time, the answer can not simply be given by crudely adding up slams. You’ve got to factor in other things, like who else was playing at the time, and physical advantages.

So, let’s do that. Since 2019, Djoković has won eight slams. But during this time, Federer was too old and injured to play his best, and the competition was generally pretty weak. It is not that these eight slams don’t count. But they are worth less.

Consider next physical advantages. Djoković isn’t 10 feet tall but he is extremely fast and flexible. He is, as they say, “the rubber man”. This is an immense physical advantage. It allows him to extend points and grind his opponents down. His abilities as a returner and defender, and indeed a strategist who runs his opponents around, are part of his greatness. But his physical advantages, at the same time, reduce the greatness of his achievements.

You might say Djokovic has a winning head-to-head record against Federer. But this is irrelevant, since they peaked at different times. Federer was in his prime from 2004 to 2009. Djoković peaked from 2011 to 2016.

You might say the greatest of all time is determined by a hypothetical, namely who would have beaten whom at their peaks. But people’s tennis games match up differently. It could be that Federer at his peak would beat Djoković at his peak, who in turn would beat Nadal at his peak, and yet also be true that Nadal would beat Federer! Actually, it could be that Kyrgios at his peak would beat any of these players at their peaks, yet this would not make Kyrgios the greatest of all time.

I think that the greatest tennis player of all time, if we can make sense of this notion, is some function of who, at their peak, would consistently beat the other candidate greats at their peaks, on a variety of different surfaces. A huge factor here is going to be mentality. A common characteristic of “the big three” (Federer, Djoković and Nadal) is their ability to play the important points well and to stay mentally tough. In the end, the greatest might come down just to this factor: mental toughness. It is unclear who is best in this regard.

If I am right, and the greatest player of all time is some function of this, it is of course futile to try to work out who is the greatest. But it is still meaningful and fun to argue about it!

Also, we can still ask who is the greatest returner of all time, who is the greatest server, who is the most talented, who has the most beautiful all-round game, who has the best drop shot, and so on. These are all still very interesting, and much more manageable, questions.

Puno hvala Jole za sve što si nama dao I pružao tokom 18 godina!

THIRD ROLAND GARROS WIN SETS IGA SWIATEK

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:41:57 GMT

ON THE PATH TO BE THE BEST AND THE GREATEST

After recovering from a break down in the deciding set to defeat Karolina Muchova 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 in the final on Saturday, Swiatek is now a three-time champion in Paris and a four-time grand slam title winner at 22 years old. There are no remaining doubts about her greatness. While there are no guarantees for the future, the early years indicate she is on the path to a generational career. Her 28-2 (93%) Roland Garros record alone is astounding. Her career win-loss record is 248-61 (80%). An 80% win rate is the marker of sustained excellence.

The manner of her win felt even more meaningful because of the fortitude required. Beyond Serena Williams, there have been few frontrunners as accomplished as Swiatek in recent years. She has mastered the art of tearing through draws and smothering opponents with her skills in attack and defence. Learning to become similarly effective when things turn against her and she finds herself in a dogfight has been a work in progress.

Thank you Iga, you are in our hearts, we are proud being one of your sponsors!

NADINE DORRIES QUITS AS TORY MP

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 01:09:49 GMT

TO BE OR NOT TO BE A TORY MP, THAT IS THE QUESTION

Nadine Dorries quits as Tory MP triggering by-election in revenge on Rishi Sunak

Top Tory Nadine Dorries has dramatically stepped down as an MP in an act of revenge against Rishi Sunak. Ms Dorries, a fanatical Boris Johnson backer and Sunak critic, announced in February that she would not contest the next election.

But today she said she would quit immediately, triggering a by-election in her Mid Bedfordshire seat.

Only hours earlier she'd insisted she wouldn't spark an early vote in her constituency. But tonight she hinted "something significant did happen to change my mind".

Rumours had been swirling in Westminster for months that Ms Dorries was in line for a peerage in Mr Johnson's long-awaited resignation honours - but she was not named on the list published today.

Ms Dorries and former Cabinet Minister Alok Sharma were said to have been originally in the mix - but were blocked by No10 to avoid two potentially damaging by-elections.

Ms Dorries, a fanatical supporter of Boris Johnson and major Rishi Sunak critic, decided to quit anyway, even without a peerage.

The former Culture Secretary, 66, told TalkTV: "I'm not altogether happy with the way the party has conducted itself over the last year.

"I'm not happy with the events that took place removing Boris Johnson. There are just things I'm unhappy with and I feel a sense of relief."

She also issued a veiled warning to Mr Sunak, whom many Johnson allies blame for his downfall.

Her rural Mid Bedfordshire constituency is viewed as a Tory safe seat, with Ms Dorries scooping a 24,664 majority at the December 2019 general election. She won the seat in 2005 and the Conservatives have held it since 1924.

However, Lib Dem insiders have talked up their chances of raiding Tory heartlands in recent months and could target the snap ballot. A Liberal Democrat spokesperson said: “This is a rural seat in the heart of the blue wall, we are in it to win it.”

Shabana Mahmood MP, Labour’s National Campaign Coordinator, said: “After 13 years of failed Tory government, it’s time for a change.

"The departure of Nadine Dorries shows Rishi Sunak is too weak to lead a Tory Party that has lost interest in the people of Mid Bedfordshire. It doesn’t need to be this way.

"Labour will be campaigning to win in this by-election by listening to the voters the Tories are ignoring.”

Ms Dorries said in February that she would step down as an MP and used her announcement to slam the "MPs who drank Kool-Aid and got rid of Boris Johnson".

She claimed the behaviour of her fellow Tories had pushed her to leave.

A one-time I'm a Celebrity... Get me out of Here' contestant, Ms Dorries may be best known to some Brits for failing a ‘Bug Burial’ trial by cockroaches before becoming the first to be voted off in 2012.

The 66-year-old was also one of the first MPs to get Covid in 2020.

Ps: On 12th June 2023 I received confidential message from the source close to Number 10 that Ms Nadine Dorries still has not handed her resignation. Apparently, Rishi Sunak PM will authorise her peerage if she does not resign now to prevent by-election in her constituency.

BORIS JOHNSON RESIGNED WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 00:35:03 GMT

ADIOS MUCHACHOS - HASTA LA VISTA AMIGOS

Boris Johnson has resigned as an MP with immediate effect, triggering a by-election in his Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency. The former Prime Minister said he was quitting parliament “at least for now” because he was “bewildered and appalled” at the Privileges Committee's investigation into him.

The Privileges Committee has been investigating whether Mr Johnson misled MPs when he assured them that Covid rules were followed in No 10 following allegations of lockdown-busting parties.

In a scathing attack, he accused the committee of producing a yet-to-be-published report “riddled with inaccuracies and reeking of prejudice” while providing him with “no formal ability to challenge anything they say”.

In a blistering statement on Friday evening Mr Johnson said he had received a letter from the committee, which is investigating whether he lied to MPs over Partygate, “making it clear, much to my amazement, that they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament”.

Mr Johnson said: "I have today written to my association in Uxbridge and South Ruislip to say that I am stepping down forthwith and triggering an immediate by-election.

What was Bojo's last assault?

Boris Johnson’s ‘sickening insult’ with honours list for ‘carousel of cronies’.

Former prime minister Boris Johnson has nominated close allies for knighthoods and damehoods in his resignation honours list.

Those put forward for a knighthood include former business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg, former housing secretary Simon Clarke and MPs Conor Burns and Michael Fabricant. Former co-chairman of the Conservative Party Ben Elliot and William Lewis, a political adviser to Mr Johnson, are also in line to become knights bachelors.

Former home secretary Priti Patel has been nominated for a damehood, along with former ministers Andrea Jenkyns and Amanda Milling.

The deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said: “Instead of tackling the cost-of-living crisis, the Tories are spending their time doling out rewards for those who tried to cover up rule-breaking and toadied to a disgraced former prime minister.”

“It’s a sickening insult that those who planned Covid parties and held boozy lockdown bashes while families were unable to mourn loved ones are now set to be handed gongs by Rishi Sunak,” she continued.

SUNAK GOVERNMENT TAKES COVID INQUIRY TO COURT

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 11:13:41 GMT

Sunak to protect Boris’s WhatsApps or to protect himself and the rest of the Cabinet of doing whatever "wrong" during the Covid and public should not to know any of it?

Ministers have launched an unprecedented high court attempt to avoid handing over Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages and diaries to the government-commissioned public inquiry into the handling of Covid.

This is extraordinary, there's no other way to describe it. The government taking an inquiry that they set up and gave powers to court because it's saying it's over state stepping those powers that it gave it and so it it's an extraordinary struggle, Number 10 and Cabinet Office were briefing that it was really they were trying to protect Boris Johnson.

Boris Johnson yesterday coming out and saying I'm perfectly happy for everything to be published in fact I will give it to the inquiry directly.

If you don't and that really set the “cat amongst the pigeons” so the Cabinet Office, then had only two options to either:

Comply with a deadline and or
To go to court and seek judicial review.

And here is a supreme irony - to invoking the Human Rights Act which up until really a couple of months ago it was this government policy to repeal that Act and not only are they invoking that acting breaking powers that flow from Article 8 of the European Convention of human rights which is the one they constantly says causing them huge amounts of trouble with lefty lawyers are using it to obstruct what the state wants to do and there they are now they have found their own “lefty lawyers” and their taking effectively another expression of the state that they created to court in order to avoid handing over this stuff.

I mean it is simply extraordinary, if there's nothing to hide why don't you want these messages really to put in the public domain?

I will never certainly angles to the story, it will be just another cower-up. If you got nothing to hide, publish them, and the fact that Boris Johnson saying something different from the government and he's saying he's happy to give these messages to the inquiry is yet to do so and some of his messages I am certain will disclose how pathetic and disorganized all was done during the Covid on top of which and how many people connected with the government or relatives profiteering from it splashing billions to their pockets.

I think we'll come on to that later (allegedly), it is because they have something to hide or is there precedent what I doubt.

There is now the problem for the government. If they allow these messages unredacted so the messages and they may have to do that if the judicial review is not successful, it sets a precedent for serving ministers including the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to do the same!

You can start to see how they would argue that these messages are not specifically related to the COVID inquiry so let's them wiped out.

I think you could enter a scenario where ultimately this current saga create suppressor and will not having to hand over all the messages for the inquiry and it will not be quite strange that we will come to the point where nobody will become a guilty party, nobody will go on a court despite over 250,000 people died and billions gone to someone's pockets.

THE WINNERS and THE LOSERS

Mon, 29 May 2023 13:50:36 GMT

THOMAS TUCHEL the clear WINNER while TODD BOEHLY co-owner of CHELSEA FC along with his stupid appointment LAMPARD the LOSER!

Finally, season 2022/2023 end with winners and losers.

The Winners:

Previous Chelsea FC manager Thomas Tuchel (image above) – win the Bundesliga. Just to recap: Thomas Tuchel replaced Frank Lampard at Stamford Bridge; the German guided Chelsea FC to triple silverware and sealed Chelsea's second Champions League success. Sacked by arrogant new owner Todd Boehly, Tuchel wins the German Bundesliga in his first season.

The Losers:

On other side is Todd Boehly who sacked Thomas Tuchel, replaced him with loser manager Potter and then replaced him with another loser Frank Lampard, who was previously sacked by Abramovich and replaced by Tuchel. Lampard was then appointed as Everton managed and managed them so "well" that nearly get relegated - luckily for Everton they sacked Lampard and survived this season with "Ginger Mourinho" in charge. Minwhile "Super Frank Lampard Manager - the loser" managed to bring Chelsea FC to the worse league place since 1995. On the last game of the season yesterday against Newcastle, Lampard nearly missed the bus because he took a nap before the game (perhaps he was dreaming where to go next; "to which club to damage after another failure as manager - perhaps Wrexham - but the owners there are not so stupid as at CFC). Fingers crossed Lampard to has a long-long nap before being in charge again. Perhaps better to never ever wake - not awake from his dreams, can't damage so many people's lives as he did as manager at Everton and Chelsea.

Lampard the Loser brought Chelsea FC to such a miserable position - he managed to win 1 game and draw 2. That is it.

Frank Lampard became the first manager in Chelsea's 118-year history to lose his first FOUR games in charge.

Not to mention that Lampard also lost all 10 matches he’s taken charge of in 2023 – four at Everton, six at Chelsea – which has brought his coaching ability under sharp scrutiny. After the last game against Newcastle where Trippier's own goal helped Chelsea to drawn the game (Finished 1:1), Lampard admitted he’s not a ‘very good manager’ amid damning Chelsea ‘standards and records’.

Lampard replaced Potter who was Chelsea manager for 31 matches, during which time he won 12, drew 8 and lost 11. Utter rubbish compared to Chelsea FC standards under Abramovich.

So, if the new manager of Chelsea FC Pochettino finishes the 2023/24 season in places 5-12 on a table, this will be a success, achieving first four places would be an "incredible" success. All still far far away from the normal Chelsea standards under the Abramovich era.

CHELSEA WOMEN CHAMPIONS AGAIN

Mon, 29 May 2023 11:57:09 GMT

4th TIME ON A ROLL - WITH INJURY AFFECTING DURING THE SEASON, THIS TRIUMPH HAS BEEN A REAL SQUAD EFFORT.

Chelsea Women have been crowned Women’s Super League champions for the fourth successive season – and become the first club to achieve that feat since the inception of the WSL in 2010. Today is all about our Women’s Super League triumph; the sixth in our increasingly illustrious history. Hayes and her players have navigated a hectic fixture schedule – intensified by a backlog of games due to our progression in the Champions League and the Conti Cup – and again come through as England’s best.

Since the shock opening-day defeat at Liverpool in September, Chelsea women have won 19 of 21 fixtures and dropped just five points. High standards have been maintained throughout and when the going has got tough, the Blues dug deep.

A late equaliser at Arsenal by Sam Kerr, one of the stars of the campaign, springs to mind. As does the gritty 1-0 home win over Manchester United, the side that emerged as Chelsea closest challengers for the title.

With injury afflicting several key figures during the season, this triumph has been a real squad effort, something Hayes has underlined at regular intervals throughout the campaign. Every player is worthy of this title win, which ensures an epic campaign will live long in the memory of supporters.

However there is a big work to be done for Hayes if she wants Chelsea women to do the same next season. Two key players end the season (Harder and captain Erikkson) therefore new investment into key players will be needed to win the Champions League as well but I do not believe that current owners with Todd Boehly in charge have a clue what to do and whether he will be willing to spend some money for buying players. What I would like to see in Chelsea women club would be support to Sam Kerr with player like Alessia Russo. Hayes will have difficult job to do with rebuild the squad even more as Man United, Man City, Arsenal and Aston Villa will be hard opponents and they all already announced to improve their squads for next season.

It was not a surprise that Sam Kerr has been picked by supporters as Chelsea Women Player of the Season for the second consecutive year, as well as receiving the Chelsea Women Players' Player of the Season award from her fellow Blues!

Congratulations to everyone at Chelsea Women!

ANOTHER BROKEN PLEDGE OVER 40 NEW HOSPITALS

Mon, 29 May 2023 00:49:29 GMT

STEVE BARCLAY FINALY ADMITS 40 NEW HOSPITALS WILL NOT BE BUILD BY 2030

The health secretary has admitted the government will not build 40 new hospitals by 2030, as long promised, but said the projects involved “a range of things” including new wings and refurbishments. Steve Barclay, who nonetheless insisted this did not break the Conservatives’ manifesto promise for 40 new hospitals, also argued that the public were not concerned about the distinction as long as the facilities they used were new.

The debate over the accuracy of the government’s hospital-building pledge was resurrected this week when Barclay told MPs that eight of the 40 “new hospitals” would be delayed into the next decade.

The change to the programme involved some of the 40 originally listed being replaced by schemes to refurbish or replace hospitals built with a type of concrete that is well past its expected 30-year lifespan, with roofs and ceilings at risk of falling down.

Despite the changes, the wider pledge remained, Barclay initially told BBC One’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme. “We’re committed to 40 new hospitals by 2030. That is the biggest capital investment the NHS will have seen, and we set out the details of that in the house on Thursday,” he said.

I was impresed watching Laura Kuenssberg on her LK Sunday BBC One's show where Kuenssberg pressed the health secretary on whether he was being “completely straight with viewers”, given some projects are for refurbishments, while others involve only new wings.

Her cherry on a cake was “If you save up and you get a new conservatory on the back of your house, you don’t have a new house,” she said.

Some hospitals will now have longer deadlines for work to be completed, including St Mary’s hospital in west London. Barclay replied: “Some of the schemes include, for example, a hospital being gutted and fully refurbished. If you look at Charing Cross [hospital in London], for example, that’s exactly what we will be doing. We’ll be starting work to decant some of the facilities and then refurbish. So there’s a range of things within the scheme.”

Asked to explicitly say it was not 40 new hospitals, Barclay said this was “a debate that was had in 2020”, and that patients would not mind either way. “Well, if it’s a new wing, a new facility, a women’s and children’s hospital, for example, as part of a wider campus … what matters to you as a patient is whether the facilities are state of the art, whether they’re new,” he said.

The change to the plan announced on Thursday added five hospitals with crumbling concrete and three mental health facilities to the list, in effect replacing eight that have been pushed back beyond the 2030 deadline.

Among those now with longer deadlines for work are St Mary’s hospital in Paddington, west London, parts of which date back to 1845. Over the last year, ceilings have collapsed in two wards, sewage has leaked into the pharmacy and parts of the Cambridge wing – the oldest part of the hospital – have had to be mothballed because the floor was no longer strong enough to support the clinical services there.

GIRO di ITALIA 2023

Sun, 28 May 2023 22:10:15 GMT

PRIMOŽ ROGLIČ (Slovenia) SECURES OVERAL VICTORY in ROME

Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) captured his first-ever overall victory in the Giro d’Italia on Sunday, while Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan), riding his last-ever Giro, soared to a remarkable triumph in the race's final bunch sprint. Cavendish powered past rival Fernando Gaviria (Movistar) for a comfortable win ahead of Alex Kirsch (Trek-Segafredo) at the end of the final, mostly ceremonial, 126-kilometre stage through the streets of Rome.

This is Roglič’s fourth Grand Tour outright victory after Slovenian won the Vuelta a España three times. He also took second overall in the 2020 Tour de France and third in the Giro d’Italia back in 2019.

Well done Primož! Congratulation!

ARROGANT TODD BOEHLY STILL HASN'T LEARN THE LESSON

Fri, 26 May 2023 10:14:40 GMT

HAVING A HEADACHE? FILLING A PAIN? YOU SHOULD! ALL JUST YOUR FAULT!

As an owner, that is one thing that you must never do: You can’t go into the dressing room and start shouting at players or criticising players. The only people that should be allowed to be critical of the players in the dressing room is the manager and perhaps the sporting director. You Boehly, you came into Chelsea with an arrogant approach. Maybe the owners in America do this; maybe they go into the dressing room and criticise the players. Todd, you’re not in America anymore. This is the UK; this is a different culture. This is not how owners behave in this country. English sport is completely different to the USA.

Todd Boehly you do all wrong in woeful first season you were in charge. You should be ashamed!

The owners didn’t know what they were doing, and they came into the season without a strategy, without a plan. I’ve said this throughout the season: Todd Boehly doesn’t have a clear strategy. I wrote him on several occasions however being arrogant as he is, he believes that he know everything about Premier League.

This season has been a big mess. Yes, you’ve bought many players and spent a lot of money, but some of these players don’t have the required quality to play for Chelsea.

Your arrogance dismiss and you forget that Chelsea over the last few years have been one of the best clubs in Europe. What we’ve seen this season has been so far from that level - playing to survive in a league - not to be relegated. Disgrace Boehly and only YOU made big mistakes.

You should come out and give the fans a mea culpa, hold your hands up and admit that you has made errors.

Him and the board have made so many mistakes. We judge them on their results, exactly the same as players and managers.

People will always judge you on your performance. The owner hasn’t performed at the required level for a big club like Chelsea.

American sports are not the same as English sports. Baseball is not football.

Your approach was disgraceful and arrogant. Your approach to running the club was arrogant and straight away you tried to change many things because he thought he knew what he was doing. No! That is not how you run a football, club in this country.

You could never accept that YOU are new in the country, and "greenhorn" in a new sport. You needed to look around and understand how football club’s work. You should take your time and think about how you will implement long-term changes. You didn’t do this.”

Chelsea have one more fixture to take in this season – at home to Newcastle on Sunday – with a new manager set to be at the helm for 2023-24 as former Tottenham and Paris Saint-Germain coach Mauricio Pochettino is lined up to succeed interim boss Frank Lampard.

Just another blow for Chelsea FC and I do understand why players like Mason Mount want to go away from Chelsea. NO FUTURE with the arrogant co-owner Todd Boehly and managers like Potter, Lampard and Pochettino. No future, no silverware, no respect, no nothing!

You gave a boot to Marina and Peter, you gave a boot to perfect manager Thomas and replaced him with looser Potter, then you get to replace him another looser and what's coming next is yet just another looser called Pochettino.

You should be ashamed to bring one of the best clubs in Europe and that the club has the lowest possible points and position in a league since 1993. Club in disarray, players not happy, so how on earth you intend to challenge for top 4 spots in a league next year? Don't forget clubs Newcastle, Liverpool, Brighton, Brentford, Fulham and Man United will strengthen the squads which all were well orchestrated already this season and they all have plan for the next season already. What you choose for preseason matches? A game with Wrexham!

The NEW table of your supper replacement - supper Lampard:

UK NET MIGRATION 2022 BY ONS IS 606,000. REALLY?

Thu, 25 May 2023 12:30:26 GMT

David Cameron pledge in 2010 was Tories will reduce net migration to 10,000 only. After 13 years of Tories in government today’s figure from ONS (The Office for National Statistics) is 606,000.

Immigration has long been a heated topic in the UK's political discourse, no more so perhaps than within the Conservative Party. And while there is much analysis of the pros and cons of people coming in and out of the country, the hard numbers have remained the benchmark that many Tories use to determine the performance of their leader on the issue.

Back to David Cameron era and his general election campaign of 2010 is the only place to start, as his remarks on immigration statistics became the albatross around both his neck and those of successive Tory leaders. Cameron’s pledge was that his government will reduce net migration to the 10,000 only to stop the UK population going over 70 million. According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS), the figure stood at 252,000 that year. In 2011, a year after winning office, Mr Cameron doubled down on the pledge, saying it would be achieved by the 2015 election, "no ifs, no buts". However, when that vote came around, the number was up to 379,000.

During this period, there was growing momentum behind the Brexit movement, with a particular focus on immigration. Nigel Farage became the leading figure among Eurosceptics, making his mark on the political stage by demanding stronger controls on migration, especially from the EU where, as a member state, free movement allowed us to live and work in the bloc and for EU citizens to live and work in the UK. Farage’s calls also coincided with the migrant crisis across Europe, with growing numbers of asylum seekers heading to the EU after a swathe of conflicts in the Middle East and the Arab Spring. By 2014, his UKIP party was hitting the mainstream and managed to secure the most votes in the UK's European Parliament elections. Nigel Farage was gaining momentum in the build up to the 2015 election. Come 2016, in an effort to quash the longstanding row over Europe within his own party, and now within the country, Mr Cameron announced a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU, set for 23 June.

He had pleaded with the bloc to seek a better deal for the UK as a member, and two of the main concessions he won centred on immigration - stopping EU migrants claiming benefits for seven years and restrictions on child benefit payments.

But he said it was now time for the country to make the decision - placing himself staunchly on the Remain side.

Immigration dominated the four months of campaigning, with both Vote Leave - headed by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove - and Farage's Leave. EU promising a future outside the bloc would see the UK being "in charge of our borders" and having stricter controls on immigration. The emotive campaign, which also included inaccurate warnings about an influx of Turkish migrants if the country joined the EU and controversial posters showing refugees queuing to get in, struck a chord with a large portion of the public.

And come the morning of 24 June, the UK had voted to leave by 52% to 48%, with most post-referendum analysis pointing to immigration as the issue that swung it.

Mr Cameron was now out and Theresa May was in, leading the Conservatives through one of the most fractious periods in the party's history.

She had long taken a tough stance on immigration, having been home secretary for six years and the architect of the so-called "hostile environment" policy - aimed at catching out illegal immigrants, but positioning her as strict on all forms of migration. Despite campaigning for Remain, she converted to the Brexit cause, entering into talks over a withdrawal agreement from the EU.

In 2017, net migration sat at 270,000, and in the snap election of the same year, she repeated Mr Cameron's pledge to get net migration down to the 10,000, again claiming Brexit was the answer as it would end free movement.

But in 2018, the figure was still at 258,000, and in 2019, where stalemate with her Brexit deal saw her ousted from Downing Street, the number had risen to 275,000.

After taking over as PM, Theresa May insisted net migration figures should be reduced to 10,000.

Next it was Boris Johnson's turn to take on the mantle, and immigration was still a hot topic within Conservative ranks. In his leadership campaign, he promised to introduce an Australian-style points system to bring down net migration, specifically reducing the number of unskilled workers coming into the country.

Unlike his two predecessors, he would not commit to the "tens of thousands" target, saying he would not "get into some numbers game". But he did put a pledge that "overall numbers would come down" in his party's 2019 manifesto.

In 2020, net migration now sat at 374,000, and the focus of Mr Johnson's government moved from the day-to-day policies to tackling the COVID pandemic. But after the country emerged from lockdowns in 2021 and began to return to a form of normality, the issue on the table instead was gaps in the supply chain. Boris Johnson said he would guarantee immigration numbers would fall!

The country was facing shortages of lorry drivers, fruit pickers and butchers, problems with getting petrol, and questions over whether rules should be adjusted to allow more people to come to work in the UK.

While some visa routes were opened up, Mr Johnson's emphasis was on British employers enticing more of home-grown talent into the roles with higher pay, saying: "What I won't do is go back to the old failed model of low wages, low skills supported by uncontrolled immigration."

The ONS changed the way it recorded net migration at this time, meaning it was not comparable to the previous decade's figures. But it stood at 239,000.

As the year came to a close, attentions had begun to turn to people crossing the Channel in small boats after more than 25,000 arrived in one year - three times the number for 2020. The then-home secretary Priti Patel promised to make the route "unviable".

Come 2022, net migration had jumped to 504,000. The ONS said factors such as the waning impact of COVID, the return of more international students, and new asylum routes from Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, Ukraine after the Russian invasion, and Hong Kong, were all contributing factors.

However, the government continued to hone in on the "illegal immigrants" - often asylum seekers - making the crossing in dinghies from France. A law was passed to make it illegal for anyone to enter the country in this way, and Mr Johnson announced his Rwanda scheme, which would see those arriving by boat sent to the country to have their asylum claims processed.

The policy drew large amounts of criticism, and concerns it could go against human rights law, and while ministers pushed ahead with the plan, the numbers kept rising - a total of 45,000 crossed the Channel in 2022 - and no flights to Rwanda ever took place due to court challenges.

In 2023, it was now Rishi Sunak's turn in Number 10, and he continued to focus on the crossings, making "stopping the boats" one of his five key pledges to the public. But while the row around illegal migration continued to rage in Westminster, behind closed doors there was growing concern around the continued rise in the net migration figure - a much larger statistic than those entering the country illegally.

Newspapers claimed it could hit one million when the ONS published its latest analysis, and reports pointed to a split in cabinet over what to do.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman is said to have put forward a number of proposals to reduce the numbers, including increasing minimum salaries for people to come and work in the UK and making it harder to bring a spouse or family members.

But Ms Braverman is reported to have faced pushback around the cabinet table from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, who are said to have been appealing for more visas for students and workers in certain sectors to boost economic growth and continue to plug the gaps left in the labour market. They appear to have been overruled by Ms Braverman, who earlier this week announced fresh curbs on international students bringing family members to the UK.

When asked about that 10,000-pledge missed so many times by his predecessors, Mr Sunak's spokesman refused to sign up to it and said the "priority" remained tackling small boats.

Today 25 May 2023, the ONS confirmed the latest net migration figure for 2022 was 606,000 - lower than had been predicted but still a record high - so the topic could still be the bigger vessel drawing the attention of his crew at a time when the party is already licking its wounds over poor local election results.

I am a bit lost and confused with the numbers:

1. The ONS and statements of few Tories’ MP including PM doesn’t mach. PM stated clearly that the net migration is higher for approx. 230,000 because of Afghanistan, Ukraine and Hong Kong issues. Well, if we add just this figure to the ONS official figure for 2021 of 488,000, we will have figure today well over 700,000 (I could not see what the figures was added for 2022 regarding Afghanistan, Ukraine and Hong Kong - I would not be surprised if the ONS simply not entered for 2022 but will do that next year for net migration 2023 instead). Not to mention, that there were two changes how the counts to be taken and implemented in the report. Something similar how Tories’ changes the statistics report who pass away from Covid – more suitable and convenient way was taken that the figures being brought down).

What is also very "strange" the most "students with the girlfriends/wife's and kids came from India of which 2/3 never ever go back and simply overstay"! Or is this just pure coincidence that this is happening mainly the last 4 years.

2. There are 173,000 backlogs on “illegal” immigrants. Where they fit?

3. There are 45,000 immigrants who crossed the Channel just in 2022 and 24,000 who crossed in 2023. Where the new arrivals fit, in which statistic group and when?

To reduce the net migration was one of Tori pledges!

Did they succeed?

No they failed!

Failed completely in all 13 years since they are in the government!

SIMPLY THE BEST

Thu, 25 May 2023 10:53:30 GMT

WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT ...

1939-2023

Your legacy will not be just 200m records you sold, or 12 Grammys awards you received, but will be as well about the lives you touch, the inspiration you give, altering women's plan - if even for a moment - and getting them to think, cry, laugh, argue and fight for their rights!

More than anything, you will not be remembered just for your songs and performances on stages but also for your smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it right then, and God put you there to deliver and you did!

R.I.P.

SUELLA BRAVERMAN SPEEDING INCIDENT

Sun, 21 May 2023 15:45:37 GMT

Home secretary allegedly asked civil servants for help after being caught speeding. Did she breach the ministerial code again?

What is Suella Braverman alleged to have done wrong?

The UK home secretary was caught speeding in a 50mph zone last summer – when she was attorney general – and given the option of accepting a fine and points on her licence or attending a speed awareness course.

She is alleged to have asked civil servants to help her to arrange a one-to-one course, apparently to avoid the embarrassment of being recognised by fellow participants.

When civil servants declined to do so, a political adviser is alleged to have stepped in to help, exploring options including her taking the course online without revealing her identity. Ultimately, Braverman opted to pay the fine.

Sources close to Braverman have rejected parts of this account, claiming she merely asked civil servants for advice about how to book the course, rather than instructing them to arrange it.

Why could asking civil servants to get involved be a breach of the ministerial code?

The ministerial code says “ministers must ensure that no conflict arises, or appears to arise, between their public duties and their private interests”.

Braverman may have breached that principle by asking civil servants to become involved in a personal matter. The clash between her public role and private life may appear all the greater, given that as home secretary she is in charge of law enforcement.

Also embedded within the ministerial code are the seven “Nolan Principles”, which include selflessness and integrity.

How are breaches of the ministerial code investigated?

Rishi Sunak suggested at the press conference concluding the G7 summit in Japan that he considered the matter closed, as Braverman had “expressed regret for speeding, accepted the penalty and paid the fine”.

But if the controversy continues, the prime minister could decide to refer the matter to his ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus (like his predecessors, Sunak has rejected calls for the adviser to be given the power to launch their own inquiries).

As in the case of Kwasi Karteng’s tax affairs, Magnus would then carry out an investigation – but the final decision about Braverman’s fate would rest with the prime minister.

Has Braverman got form when it comes to ethics breaches?

Yes: she resigned as home secretary in Liz Truss’s short-lived government last October after admitting that she had emailed a secret document from her personal email address to a fellow MP.

With Truss’s leadership under intense pressure at the time, Braverman left with a swipe against the prime minister, saying in her resignation letter, “pretending we haven’t made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can’t see that we have made them, and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious politics. I have made a mistake; I accept responsibility; I resign.”

Less than a week later, Braverman was reappointed to the same post by Sunak, in a move widely seen at the time as helping to shore up the support of rightwing Tories.

Since her reappointment she has made a series of highly controversial interventions on migration, including using the word “invasion” to describe the arrival of refugees across the Channel.

Which other ministers in Sunak’s administration have faced ethical questions?

The prime minister promised to govern with “integrity, professionalism and accountability,” after the chaotic regimes of his two predecessors, Truss and Boris Johnson.

But in his seven months in power he has already lost two cabinet ministers – Gavin Williamson and Dominic Raab – to bullying claims, and a third, Zahawi, to a tax scandal.

Have speeding fines got MPs in trouble in the past?

Yes. The then Labour MP for Peterborough Fiona Onasanya was ejected from parliament by a recall petition after being found guilty of perverting the course of justice in 2018, by lying to avoid a speeding fine.

The Lib Dem minister Chris Huhne resigned from the coalition cabinet in 2012 and ultimately served time in prison over an arrangement in which his wife, Vicky Pryce, had taken speeding points on his behalf 10 years earlier. Pryce also went to jail.

Do I have personal experiences in speeding fines?

Yes, of course I do have - who doesn't in UK? Was caught on handheld camera in the 40mph zone (everybody asking for years why that road is just 40mph zone). Allegedly, I was over for 11mph despite that I cannot know how? I was waiting on a red light for tram to pass in line with another car. Once the green light appeared we bought started however the driver next to me, she was already where the police was while I was the half of the distance. From where the traffic light is and where the police was is distance approx.40 yards if not less. Starting the engine once green light come on and do that distance I should drive Ferrari or Mercedes AMG what the women driver got and not my car. My car I was driving at the time could not get 55mls/h in 40 yards even if pushed from cliff ( I was told that 10% is discretion on reading therefore, I was driving 40+4+11=55 ). Have I seen the reading? No! Was I punished? Yes I was! Have fine to pay, got points on my spotless driving licence and I was 1 (one) year without the driving licence not even to mention that I was attending the courses on weekly basis. One law for the chosen one and one law for the others!

ENGLAND LOCAL ELECTION 2023

Mon, 15 May 2023 22:53:32 GMT

RISHI SUNAK'S TORIES LOST 1,063 COUNCIL SEATS ACROSS ENGLAND ON 5th MAY 2023, LABOUR THE LARGEST PARTY NOW

Rishi Sunak's Tories suffered a dire night at the polls last night, losing 1,063 council seats across England in the 2023 local elections. Grim results for the Conservatives began trickling in shortly after midnight in more than 230 councils across the country, with over 8,000 seats up for grabs.

By 5.30pm on the day of local election 2023, the Tories had lost control of 38 councils and over 800 councillors as Labour and the Liberal Democrats picked up seats.

Shortly before 7.30pm, it was confirmed the Conservatives had lost 1,000 seats.

A buoyant Keir Starmer said Labour "blew the doors off" in key battlegrounds, as the party seized Medway from the Tories and took control in Dover, Plymouth, Swindon and Stoke-on-Trent.

"Make no mistake, we are on course for a Labour majority at the next general election," he told jubilant activists the following day.

In the PM's first major electoral test, his party lost control of Hertsmere, where Deputy PM Oliver Dowden is an MP, while Labour and the Lib Dems picked up seats. Tamworth, Brentford, Welwyn Hatfield, Northwest Leicestershire and East Lindsey also fell from Tory administrations to no overall control in a bruising night.

Deluded Mr Sunak tried to downplay the losses, saying: "We are making progress in key election battlegrounds, like Peterborough, Bassetlaw, Sandwell but the message I am hearing from people is they want us to focus on their priorities and they want us to deliver for them."

Ahead of the King's Coronation, the Tories lost control in the Windsor and Maidenhead, with the Lib Dems claiming victory.

A Lib Dems spokesman said it is a "massive blow to Rishi Sunak" and "Conservative MPs across the blue wall will be looking over their shoulder at the Lib Dems this morning".

Upon counting complete, the country's major parties can reflect on a big night in British politics.

The Conservatives lose 1,063 seats in the local elections. In a disastrous set of election results for the sitting government, Rishi Sunak's party are now down 1,063 seats.

Meanwhile Labour have gained over 500 seats, and the Lib Dems over 400.

The elections are the first big test of Rishi Sunak's electoral power and popularity since he became prime minister and so far the Tories have lost control of 48 councils.

CHELSEA Women are the FA Cup CHAMPIONS 2022/2023

Mon, 15 May 2023 15:07:35 GMT

BRILLIANCE from PERNILLE HARDER and SAM KERR

Chelsea Women are FA Cup champions for the third successive season after a moment of sheer attacking brilliance from Pernille Harder and Sam Kerr was enough to see us bypass Manchester United.

A world record domestic crowd for women's football: Crowd 77,390

BIG THANK YOU to every single of you!

SURREAL APOINTMENT AT CHELSEA FC

Mon, 15 May 2023 10:52:29 GMT

Another dodge and creasy decision of the co-owner of CFC Todd Boehly

I am speechless! Despite that I wrote an open letter to Todd Boehly to not make another crazy decision with the appointment of new CFC head coach his foolishness has no ending.

Let me make just few points:

What is Pochettino's legacy?

None! He was sacked by every club he managed:

- Espanyol coach - sacked

- Tottenham coach - sacked

- PSG coach - sacked!

Boehly sacked very good coach Thomas Tuchel and replaced him with coaches who have no clues how to win titles and silverware: Starting with Potter, replace him with another disaster Lampard and now – Pochettino. In my open letter to Boehly, I offered Boehly to apologise to Tuchel on behalf of CFC (if he don't want to apologise personally) and get him back.

Potter has done nothing in his coaching career (apart in Sweden many years ago in division which has no comparison not even with our Championship league and not even League one. All he managed to do was to keep Brighton in the premier league not to be relegated – and that is it.

Who replaced him there? Roberto De Zerbi. The 43 years old Italian coach who has passion and knowledge about football got Brighton for the first time in Brighton history to the European league. He demonstrated the quality of his coaching by beating Arsenal yesterday 14 May 2023 in the stadium of Arsenal 0:3 and by this defeat Arsenal’s hope of winning the title this year are more than just slim. There was a huge celebration at Brighton to sell player Cucurella, the coaches and Potter to Chelsea. Happy days at Brighton to get rid of rubbish! Damage for Chelsea? On quick counting the damage with this appointment was £340m (perhaps a tiny bit less).

Lampard is yet another coach without knowledge of how to win titles and silverware. Sank the Everton, he received reward and was appointed as interim CFC head coach. Lessons have not been learned by Boehly!

How is Everton doing with new coach after Lampard – Sean Dyche? Superb! Last game they won against Brighton 1:5 at Brighton stadium. The same Brighton who beat Arsenal yesterday (14 May 2023) easily. This was Everton's biggest away win and left hopes for Everton to stay in the league.

And now – new era – Pochettino who won the only silverware in his life being “luckily” head coach of PSG.

All three coaches – losers! As Tottenham coach Pochettino lost all games against Chelsea.

Being out since last summer just tells everyone that he is NOT the elite coach, the elite coaches do not wait for calls for a new job a year! Simply, they don’t! How quick Tuchel got the job with Bayern Munich? Nearly instantly, would be there even earlier if Tuchel would not be waiting on Todd Boehly to apologize him and reinstate him as CFC head coach.

Boehly, you gave top managerial positions to two managers to redeem themselves, completely the same is with Pochettino. Sacked in every job (apart at Southampton).

I do not (as many of Chelsea supporters) agree with Gary Neville (Sky Sport pundit) that Pochettino is the right man to take charge on a permanent basis at Stamford Bridge on the basis of the profile of players Chelsea have signed. "Based on what Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly has said, Chelsea have done their spending for the next three years - apart from signing a centre-forward," Neville told Sky Sports recently. He was going further "If they appoint Zinedine Zidane, Luis Enrique or Diego Simeone, they're going to want to have another £300m as they won't like some of the players they've previously signed. They've got to appoint a manager who is going to inherit and like the squad that they've got - a lot of them are young - and I think that man is Mauricio Pochettino."

How wrong Gary Neville is! He same as Paul Merson (see previous blog) - both don't want Chelsea to get good even less very good manager! That would be killer for Man United and Arsenal! Paul Merson I believe you are aware now that this year was the ONLY year to be contender to win the league. Next year Arsenal and Man United must count on Liverpool, Newcastle and even Chelsea (if CFC land proper manager) to be in the line for Champion League places and with this comes as well battle for the title.

It is my assumption that Pochettino offered and gave a promise that he will land Harry Kane as new number 9 for CFC. This would not be a good scenario at all. Kane is already in years where all he is looking for is how to “retire” with as much money as possible and if any silverware comes along – would be handy. There are 4 existing strikers of which 2 have better results as Haaland (Man City). All 4 are 6-8 years younger.

It is clear that Chelsea have agreed a deal to appoint former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino as their next head coach. The 51-year-old Argentine, who is set to return to the Premier League after being sacked by Chelsea London rivals Spurs in November 2019, will take over from caretaker manager Frank Lampard at the end of this season and an announcement is expected later this week. Pochettino's trusted backroom staff of Jesus Perez, Toni Jimenez, Miguel D'Agostino and son Sebastiano Pochettino are all set to join him at Stamford Bridge. Pochettino will permanently succeed Graham Potter, who was dismissed at the start of April after less than seven months in charge.

Pochettino has been out of work since being sacked by Paris Saint-Germain last summer after 18 months in charge of the French side, having guided them to the Ligue 1 title in 2022 and the French Cup the year before. The ex-Espanyol boss managed Spurs for five years from May 2014 but failed to win a trophy at the north London club.

He led them to the 2019 Champions League final, which they lost to Liverpool, and also guided them to the 2015 League Cup final and a second-place finish in the 2016/17 Premier League season, with Chelsea winning both competitions.

"There is still the formal sign-off to come but that is expected to be a formality now that this agreement has been reached. And it is quite surreal, with it being a manager, certainly in English football, who is associated with Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea's rivals.

Mauricio Pochettino knows that he will have a big job on his hands at Chelsea with "rebuilding". The squad is huge, the numbers need to come well down. We also heard Harry Kane talk this week about the values that were created under Mauricio Pochettino, and that is something that he has, you would say, as his biggest strength. He knows how to bring a group of players together. He is very much a people person, somebody who can galvanise and work with what he has got. Completely the same was said for Potter.

Chelsea have spent a large amount of money, but he will have money to spend as well you would expect to tweak and add further strength in certain positions. But what has become clear over the last few weeks is that he will be the next Chelsea manager, and it appears now that Chelsea have got their man.

Todd Boehly, please don’t be foolish again, do NOT sign Pochettino!

The new table of "super" Lampard managerial performance upon manage to win 1 game of 10:

Which players I offered Todd Boehly to sell to balance the books (buyers ready to go):

*Not playing in Europe for next 2 years CFC do not need services of Kovacic and Kante what is the reason to sell it now. All the above players have possibility to be sold to the clubs which are not in any threats to CFC next season.

As per my previous open letter to Todd Boehly I have 2 special goalkeepers in my sleeve (price £10m each). Both miles better than Kepa and Mandy. Have also 4 special forwards of which 2 have better results as Haaland had.

Both keepers and both #9 I can sign without any problems. For forwards £30m and £32m on 5+1 year contract minimum.

Todd Boehly you get Declan Rice from Hammers, I will get you 2+2 as written above and to get rid of the payers from the table.

**From the rest of the squad (players on loans) I can sell 8 at present without any problems (so far).

HAS BREXIT and the TORIES PARTY WRECKED BRITAIN'S CAR INDUSTRY?

Fri, 12 May 2023 17:00:37 GMT

Carmakers warn the government must renegotiate its deal with Brussels

There is no hope for Britain’s car industry … or at least no hope of maintaining the scale and productive capacity that this bedrock of the UK manufacturing sector could boast before the Covid-19 pandemic.

It’s downhill from here.

Brexit is an issue – whatever the business secretary, Kemi Badenoch, says – because being inside the single market and sitting at the top table in discussions about the industry was always going to give the UK more heft when the inevitable Europe-wide carve-up over electric car factory locations happened.

Government policy – or, more accurately, the almost complete lack of it – is probably a much bigger factor when the survival of the entire sector is at stake, as it clearly has been since the Brexit referendum.

And the car industry itself is a problem, especially the dominant players in the UK, which have too often preferred to play chicken over subsidies with a government that lacks a plan and is incapable of making more than incremental, piecemeal decisions.

Things have come to a head after a row with Stellantis, the world’s fourth largest carmaker, which was created when the US-Italian combo Fiat Chrysler merged in 2021 with the PSA Group, better known as the owner of Peugeot and Citroen. The group, which also makes Vauxhall vehicles, employs more than 5,000 people in the UK, including 1,000 at its electric van factory in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, and 1,200 at its Luton plant.

The company has warned that a commitment to make electric vehicles in Britain is in jeopardy unless the government renegotiates its Brexit deal with the EU to maintain existing trade rules until 2027. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said much the same. So has Ford.

Like a billionaire shopping at Harrods, every car company wants lots of free stuff before they commit to expensive investments. Nissan secured an undisclosed government bung when it recommitted to north-east England before the UK left the EU at the end of 2019. JLR has since secured financial government support, as has Stellantis.

At the heart of the dispute, say the car firms, is the trade and cooperation agreement (TCA) between London and Brussels. It was signed in 2020 and includes “rules of origin” that require 40% of an electric vehicle’s parts by value to originate in the UK or EU in order for it to qualify for trade without tariffs. Most batteries come from China, so it’s a struggle to satisfy the rules. When the threshold rises to 45% next year and 55% in 2027 it will be impossible, carmakers say.

Brussels officials could reasonably blame the car companies and individual governments for a lack of readiness, or at least those that have so far failed to invest.

Have I made another point that the Brexit was the wrong decision?

RICHARD SHARP - BBC CHAIRMAN

Tue, 02 May 2023 23:36:19 GMT

WHO HELPED BORIS JOHNSON SECURE £800,000 LOAN

Years and years I was under the impression that the BBC represent the entire British nation and as such chairman’s elected are independent and does not link to any party. The chairman of the BBC's board is in charge of upholding and protecting the BBC's independence and ensuring the BBC fulfils its mission to inform, educate and entertain.

How wrong I was!

Just recently we have another investigation which was going on and on for months. The person under investigation was Mr Richard Sharp! BBC chairman who ‘helped Boris Johnson secure £800,000 loan.

Who is Mr Richard Sharp?

Mr Richard Sharp became chairman of the BBC in February 2021 but was finally forced to quit on 28 April after a report found he breached the rules governing public appointments twice. Despite that he resigned, he will remain in the post until a successor is appointed in June.

His appointment faced scrutiny after a Sunday Times report claimed that shortly before being given the job, Mr Sharp helped the then-prime minister, Boris Johnson, secure a loan guarantee agreement.

Mr Sharp's position as BBC chair has been the subject of two separate investigations:

- First one which has found that he breached the governance code for public appointments.

- Second one a BBC internal review over any potential conflicts of interest Mr Sharp may have had in his role. That review is ongoing.

Mr Sharp faced renewed calls to quit in March, in a row about the BBC's policy on impartiality that saw the corporation take Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker off air over a controversial tweet.

Labour urges watchdog to probe Johnson loan claims.

Mr Richard Sharp is a former banker, the 67-year-old earns £160,000 a year in the role, which he previously pledged to give to charity.

As a child, Mr Sharp spent part of his childhood in the US, where his father held senior positions at chemical giant Monsanto and telecoms company Cable & Wireless.

Mr Sharp read PPE at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a neighbour to the journalist Adam Boulton. His 40-year career in finance began with a job at JP Morgan, and then he had a long and very distinguished career at investment bank Goldman Sachs.

There, he was a senior figure when a young Mark Carney - the future Bank of England governor - also worked for the bank.

This connection had some poignancy when Mr Carney, as governor, warned about the potential economic risks of Brexit. Mr Sharp, who supported Brexit but not prominently, disagreed with some of Mr Carney's assessment, seeing more opportunities outside the European Union.

Mr Sharp ended up as chairman of Goldman's Principal Investment in Europe. That is, guiding partners with their investments, rather than on the trading side.

One of Mr Sharp's closest relationships at Goldman was with a young man called Rishi Sunak.

Mr Sharp - a major Tory party donor who was on the board of the conservative think tank, the Centre for Policy Studies - described Mr Sunak to a friend as the best young financial analyst he had seen.

Mr Sharp went on to work for his old mentee Mr Sunak when he was chancellor, helping the government with loans to business at the beginning of the pandemic. According to BBC journalist Amol Rajan, Mr Sunak was mildly miffed at losing such a close ally at a crucial time but was persuaded of the merits of Mr Sharp taking up his new role at the BBC.

Mr Sharp has also known Boris Johnson for almost 20 years, the former prime minister said in a statement issued after the Sunday Times published its story about his loan agreement.

Mr Sharp's heritage is Jewish, and he is considered by those who know him broadly pro-Israel. He has a twin sister, Victoria, who is a senior judge. Victoria was also the name of his first wife. Mr Sharp had another sister who died young from cancer. Deeply affected by this, Mr Sharp became a supporter of some of Maurice Saatchi's campaigns to improve cancer research, and care for those enduring cancer.

Mr Sharp has a strong pedigree in the arts, as a former chairman of the Royal Academy, and was for many years a member of the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee.

He has also served on the boards of public and private companies in the UK, Germany, Denmark and the United States.

Shortly after being appointed, Mr Sharp spoke about the licence fee, saying it was the "least worst" way of funding the BBC. But Mr Sharp told MPs he had an "open mind" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it "may be worth reassessing" the current system.

Mr Sharp said he was "considered to be a Brexiteer" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.

And when asked by MPs "what's in it for you?" Mr Sharp said: "We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great-grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny. "I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.

"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC."

During his tenure at the BBC, he defended the broadcaster on numerous occasions and used his platform to highlight the importance of journalism while lamenting the threat of disinformation.

LACK of CONFIDENCE?

Tue, 02 May 2023 12:13:54 GMT

Lamps, don’t use the words which meaning you don’t understand!

Lack of confidence?

Lampard, please don’t use the words which meaning you don’t understand! You reminding me on my "part time girlfriend", she quite often use the words which meanings unknown to her.

You are saying that the Chelsea team has no confidence?

The coach is the person who should be a motivator and not that player to motivate the coach.

All you are doing is to redeem yourself for a failure in your management career and to blame others for your own mistakes.

Are you saying that Everton players also have problems with lack of confidence? Did you watch them last night playing against Leicester?

Sean Dyche - “Ginger Mourinho” who overtook from you the sinking ship at Everton is the coach who gave inspiration and confidence into the same players where you failed.

Everton’s has an outstanding performance in their 2-2 draw with Leicester. This might cause concern among their relegation rivals. Leicester and other contenders for relegation (including mathematically Chelsea) has to thanks to Leicester goalkeeper Daniel Iversen for a string of 6-8 fine saves, otherwise Everton would walk away back home with 3 points.

This is all about you – your failure! You are one of very rare “managers” if not the "ONE and ONLY" who could lead two Premier Clubs to be relegated in the same season.

Your entire life was just about you.

You always think just about yourself.

You are “unfortunately” the higher scorer for CFC because of the game you played – selfish, you did not pass the ball to better positioning “comrades” and you were shooting from impossible positions.

Do you remember when you went to play for Manchester City? If you would be a legend of one club that you wanted to be (eg. CFC legend) you should not play against your club – apart from friendly games. John Terry would never ever do this like you did!

History with you never ever changes, does it?

You were a selfish, greedy, arrogant person all your life.

Do you remember 2004/2005? We bump together at John Lewis in Chelsea where I dropped you Range Rover. Not even thank you from your mouth!

You charged for rent from your future mother-in-law for the flat you owed despite that she was babysitting your own kids.

When you realise that you cannot be anymore in the TV spotlight you dump your fiancé at the time Elen Rivas and go with Christine Bleakley because, she was at the time popular on TV.

You just want to be something like “Beckham” which you will never ever be able to achieve.

I just wonder how thick the envelope to James Corden was suggesting to poor Todd Boehly you for a manager. Only an idiot would do something like that!

And if James Corden was the person, then he just proved how stupid he is with no knowledge in football at all - NONE whatsoever!.

I feel sorry for Todd Boehly to have bunch of idiots around himself.

Lack of confidence is in your life Lamps! How on earth you expect players to "work" for the manager like you? Potter was huge failure, should never ever be appointed as CFC manager, you after sinking Everton is even bigger failure of CFC owners and directors.

You have no strategy, no plan, no nothing! You are betting on one card, one card only which is miracle to happen tonight! Miracle, that Arsenal players will make a mistake tonight in a game against us and that we will score by an "accident, by mistake".

What will happen then?

You will be again on TV full of praise for yourself, how good you managed the game and so on and on where you are good only - talking "bulls****!"

I never ever like you, and I never ever will!

New table of super Lamps success as manager after the game with Arsenal:

BLUES’ FINAL SHORTLIST

Sun, 23 Apr 2023 12:33:30 GMT

Mauricio Pochettino is a 100% the wrong decision.

Mauricio Pochettino is edging closer to becoming the new Chelsea manager as a report reveals the ‘real reason’ Julian Nagelsmann won’t be getting the job. It's suggested Nagelsmann walked away from Chelsea as he grew impatient with the process, but it’s now been claimed it’s was the club which backed away from negotiations.

Nagelsmann was favourite for the vacancy at Stamford Bridge, along with Luis Enrique. Now, both of those candidates are thought to be out of the running.

Mauricio Pochettino now become the favourite candidate, as revealed on Friday after the Julian Nagelsmann situation changed.

“With Nagelsmann, the timing was not helping. Chelsea wanted to take more time and speak to other candidates; Nagelsmann was expecting faster talks. Also some crucial points on the vision and on future project were not agreed.

“So Nagelsmann decided to leave the negotiations, although it’s also fair to say that Chelsea's choice was never 100% made or completed.”

However, that version of events is at odds with reports from other sources, who claim that it was Chelsea who decided against Nagelsmann, due to concerns about his ability to handle big players.

The report states: ‘A well-placed source has revealed that Chelsea were left impressed by Nagelsmann’s technical quality, his ideas and his modern approach. But after speaking to respected footballing figures, the Londoners grew concerned about his struggles to connect with big names and egos in the dressing room.’

As is the case at Bayern, Chelsea’s squad is packed with star names. For that reason, the club hierarchy are more attracted to Pochettino, who is said to have had a good relationship with the top players in his time at Paris Saint-Germain.

I cannot understand how Todd does not understand the Chelsea v Tottenham position!

In one of my articles, I wrote: “Chelsea played against Spurs 69 times, and in all these games Tottenham managed to win just 7 times. If we just focus on Chelsea games at the new Tottenham stadium, Chelsea played 3 times – 3 wins and not a single goal conceded”. We never ever make deals with Spurs. Not even for managers.

What is Mauricio Pochettino legacy as a manager? Sacked by Spurs, by the Belgian national team, PSG, … because does not deliver - as simple as that.

NO PASSION, NO DESIRE, NO NOTHING in his management or the game.

I bet that CFC supporters will not like him. I don’t.

Come on Todd, get realistic and bring someone who suite Chelsea. Diego Simeone would be posible choice , even Antonio Conte would be 100% better then Pochettino, and Conte delivered title in first year with Chelsea!

CHELSEA NEED PASSION AND DESIRE from players to managers!

Ps: Claims in the newspapers suggest that players would like Pochettiono I am not surprised at all having been landed with managers like Potter and Lampard. Even my Grandma would be better that this two "amazing" managers, if she would be still alive!

DOMINIC RAAB TIME TO GO

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:25:13 GMT

THE MOST APATHETIC and AROGANT MINISTER IN A GOVERNMENT THAT DOES NOT CARE

TODAY IS THE DAY that after 5-months of investigation Report about Dominic Raab behaviour should be handed over to PM Rishi Sunak for his consideration whether or not to sack him because of the bridge of the Ministerial Codes.

Learning about Tori policy when its come to "close friends and supporters" like Dominic and Rishi are will be highly unlikely to see this happening. Why I am so sceptic about this?

Recall Priti Patel who as Home Secretary bridge the code and PM at the time Boris Johnson did not sack her. Same has happened with present Home Secretary Suella Braverman who was in the bridge of the code as well and jet again nothing happened. Did PM Rishi Sunak sack Suella Braverman? NO!

No lessons being learned in the Tori camp!

Do not forget about Dominic when he was Brexit minister and if you ever wanted proof of how apathetic a man can be, and still find "success" in the workplace, I would point you as few others towards Dominic Raab, except he's resigned over the very deal he was tasked with negotiating.

The former Brexit minister, with the smooth face and RP accent of a supporting character in a Richard Curtis movie, seems to exist purely to make us all despair further about the already ludicrous world of Brexit.

Exhibit 1: On 7th November 2018 Dominic Raab admitted that he “hadn’t quite understood the full extent” to which Britain is reliant on the Dover-Calais crossing for frictionless trade.

Exhibit 2: In 2016, Dominic Raab – an avid Brexiteer – said he was “jarred” by the news that leaving the customs union might require additional red tape. Do not forget, this man was a prominent voice in the Leave campaign!

Exhibit 3: BuzzFeed reported in November 2018, Dominic Raab – whose job is to secure a Brexit deal – was revealed to be part of a group of MPs arguing that NO DEAL was better than the EU’s proposed offer.

How have we got to this position? Well, it’s because the Conservative party is in the thrall of a two-pronged crisis:

Too many politicians are revealed to be fundamentally unsuited for office and have to resign.
We’re running out of people with any kind of competence to switch into the roles in their stead.

Point 1 is well documented at this stage:

Theresa May has lost twice the number of ministers compared to any of her predecessors. And every time, new people must be found to fill the gaps.

Point 2 has become clearer and clearer with each passing week.

In recent weeks, months and years you may have seen immigration minister Caroline Nokes’ nightmarish select committee appearance, in which she (incorrectly) said businesses would be responsible for distinguishing whether EU workers had arrived before or after Brexit if we crashed out without a deal. The same philosophy was carried further all her successors including present James Cleverly.

Maybe you noticed Northern Ireland secretary Karen Bradley at the time admit she didn’t realise the nation’s nationalists did not vote for unionist parties in elections during an interview with The House magazine.

Where we are standing today on 20th April 2023?

The fact will be - Dominic Raab ‘bullying’ report imminent as civil servants ‘could quit’ if he is cleared!

Senior officials at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) are preparing to quit if the PM chooses to keep Mr Raab in government because it would be “demoralising” for staff, according to The Guardian.

“If he stays in the department, senior people will want to walk,” one official told the newspaper, while another said some would get ready to “leave in the near future”.

One person involved in the process described the report by Adam Tolley KC as “devastating” while a senior government official said Mr Raab was “toast”, according to the Financial Times.

Mr Tolley is said to have been “thorough” in his handling of the investigation, having interviewed Mr Raab multiple times and spoken to or taken written evidence from a number of others.

Mr Raab has been under investigation for months over eight formal complaints about his behaviour as foreign secretary, Brexit secretary and during his first stint as justice secretary.

The deputy PM and justice secretary denies allegations. He has insisted he believes “heart and soul” that he is not a bully while defending his “forthright” approach to his work.

Unnamed civil servants have accused Mr Raab of causing staff to break down in tears or throw up before meetings. The minister was also accused of chucking Pret-A-Manger tomatoes across a room in a “fit of rage” – an episode he denied.

The Tolley report is not expected to offer a verdict and will leave Mr Sunak to assess whether Mr Raab’s behaviour amounts to bullying and merits punishment. But Mr Raab has said he will resign if a bullying claim is upheld.

It emerged earlier on Wednesday that the minister had forked out for his own legal team to defend himself against the allegations.

The declaration in the heavily delayed register of ministerial interests came despite the taxpayer footing an estimated £222,000 bill for Boris Johnson’s legal fees in the Partygate inquiry into whether he lied to MPs.

In the register, Mr Raab’s entry notes read: “The minister has engaged lawyers at his own expense in relation to the investigation being conducted by Adam Tolley KC.”

It remains unclear why he paid for his own lawyers when Mr Johnson – whose outside earnings since leaving office have made him the highest-paid MP over the past 12 months –received government support.

Former Conservative Party chairman Sir Jake Berry has hit out at the “outdated” system for dealing with complaints in Westminster which has allowed Mr Raab to continue in his job while under investigation.

Sir Jake told ITV’s Peston show yesterday 19th April 2023 it was “wrong” for Mr Raab to continue in his job while facing bullying allegations. “It’s a massively outdated system that isn’t what our constituents would expect of any of us.”

The senior Tory, who served in the cabinets of both Boris Johnson and Theresa May, said: “It does seem to me quite wrong that when people are under these kinds of investigations of this type that they continue in their job.”

He added: “Whatever the outcome is, and we’re going to find out tomorrow, I actually think there’s a fundamental rethink required about how we deal with these sorts of allegations, both in government made against ministers and made against members of parliament.”

Do not expect miracles to happen now. Will happen only if Rishi would like to exercise to public how serious is with his pledge about accountabilities!

Time to go!

OPEN LETTER to Co-owner of CHELSEA FC Mr Todd Boehly

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 19:21:36 GMT

Question - Are you fit to be the Chelsea FC President and Co-owner?

Open letter to co-owner of Chelsea FC

FAO: Mr Todd Boehly

Dear Mr Boehly

Re: YOU SAID “IT IS AN EMBARRASSMENT TO BE DEFEATED BY BRIGHTON”

Question - Are you fit to be the Chelsea FC President and Co-owner?

I cannot believe what you are doing!

I have been a proud supporter of Chelsea FC for over 30 years, despite that I was nearly bankrupted by the club - but that is another story.

With Roman Abramovich, we had exciting times; from time to time, we had thrilling times.

With you, it’s just frustration, shame and despair!

You bought a superb club, which over the last 10 years has won the most titles out of all UK clubs.

- You had the top-class Director, Marina Granvoskaia

- You had the top coach, Thomas Tuchel.

What do you have now?

- A club nearly in the relegation zone. Disgrace!

- A Director of Football who doesn’t have a clue what Chelsea needs. Disgrace!

- You appointed Graham Potter. Disgrace!

- You sacked Potter - shouldn’t have been appointed in the first place, but finally, something positive from you sacking Potter.

- You appointed Frank Lampard. Disgrace!

What on earth were you thinking to appoint this selfish geezer? I know he is rated in some supporters’ eyes as a good appointment and that he has support from the stands. Yes, but even I can get support from the stands - if I pay for a few “supporters” tickets and a couple of beers, give them banners “Great KOS” or “Super KOS” - just as they did for Lampard.

For me, and quite a few I know, he was always a selfish (non-team) player, only looking out for what was good for himself. That is why he become the best Chelsea scorer.

Only an idiot would appoint Lampard as Chelsea’s coach after sacking Potter – because his motivation has nothing to do with Chelsea as a club but is all about HIM – Super Frank! For his ego. If he was really pro Chelsea, he would never ever apply even less take this position.

What are his achievements as a manager?

He was sacked by Abramovich from Chelsea! Then he was sacked by Everton. He led Everton into the relegation zone; if Everton are relegated this season, it is all because of “Super Frank” and not the players

Does this not tell you everything you need to know?

Todd, you should go to Specsavers - you are blind about what is going on with "your" Chelsea.

- You bought a majority of players who are not good enough to be at Chelsea and not needed.

- With these purchases you made a huge mistake and have damage Chelsea Academy. This was Abramovich's "baby"; he personally invested nearly £2bn for CFC Academy. Talented young players were emerging constantly.

- You spent £600m on players who has no place at Chelsea but forgot to buy a really good goalkeeper for bargain price - goalkeeper Nick Pope (went for £10m to Newcastle).

Chelsea has always good goalkeepers: Cudicini - Čech, or Čech – Courtois.

What do we have now? Arizabalaga and Mendy. Kepa should not be in goal at all.

Previously we had top central defenders: John Terry, Ricardo Carvalho, Marcel Desailly, David Luiz, William Gallas, Frank Leboeuf, Alex.

What do we have now?

Superb and outstanding Thiago Silva (age 38), but none of the rest are the right fit for Chelsea FC.

Chelsea always had top Right-backs/Wingbacks: like Branislav Ivanovic, Cesar Azpilicueta (still at CFC age 33), or Dan Petrescu.

What do we have now?

Just one, Reece James (when he is in the right mood).

Chelsea has always had top left backs/Wingbacks: like Ashley Cole, Graeme Le Saux, Marcos Alonso.

What do we have now?

Again, just one good player: Ben Chilwell.

The midfield: Was also always top-class at Chelsea with Kante, Essien, Makelele, Robben, Fabregas and the cream de la crème Eden Hazard and Gianfranco Zola.

You have 14 (fourteen) midfielders. I am not aware of any club in Europe to have 14 midfielders.

Who should not be even in the squad? The first one Pulisic, next Loftus-Cheek and so on.

We now have Enzo, Kante (finally back) and Kovacic. Mount was OK with Tuchel, same as Ziyech because Tuchel has a plan not like Potter or now Lampard managers with NO plans and just fiddling with players. Apart of majority players you bought, you should go with Declan Rice (West Ham) instead. Not that he is the best friend with Mason Mount, both would be with Enzo, Kante and Kovacic rock.

Chelsea has always had at least one top striker: eg. Didier Drogba, Diego Costa, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Eidur Gudjohnsen, Nicolas Anelka, Hernan Crespo or Gianluca Vialli.

What we have now?

Aubameyang sitting on the bench, as he's not “cup of tea” of your superb choice of managers (Potter and Lampard).

So, what will happen today in 2nd leg game against Real Madrid?

Nothing much - as (not)super Frank Lampard has no idea how to run the game, and where to play each player. There is NO plan and NO strategy.

He perpetuates the previous mistakes by keeping Aubameyang out and starting with Pulisich.

How stupid is this!

But don’t be surprised by the not-super Frank’s tactic – a sycophant just like Potter, wanting to please you by not naming Aubameyang for the Chelsea champion team and playing Pulisich instead, to please the American/s (read what I wrote 22nd February 2023 > CHELSEA FC ISSUES ).

We’re all still waiting to see how you intend to balance the books [without being 1-4th place in our league and no UEFA income]– perhaps with a “sale of the players but with a 50% discount”?

If you are lost with running the club, I would be happy to buy it from you!

Name the price and just walk away for the club and supporters’ sake, before it’s too late.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely

Zdenko Kos MSc MEc BScEcon(Hons) MBA

Ps: John Terry would be better as p/t coach miles before Lampard! He was the "heart and soul" of the Chelsea FC and he would be with Thiago Silva support very good for Chelsea FC, would be nice duo.

New TABLE of "NOT-SUPER FRANK" after the game with Real Madrid at Stamford Bridge 18th April 2023 and going further (CFC v Brentford,...) :

LABOUR TWEET ABOUT ONE OF RISHI SUNAK'S PLEDGES

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 13:54:13 GMT

IS LABOUR WRONG OR ARE THEY RIGHT? THEY ARE 100% CORRECT!

An advert Labour tweeted claiming that Rishi Sunak doesn't believe adults convicted of sexually assaulting children should be jailed sparked quite astonishing backlash!

I am completely puzzled. On whichever programme (radio or TV or even on “independent” Sky News) I turned on, all commentators agreed: The Conservatives and Rishi Sunak as party leader and Prime Minister are doing more than just well and how “spotless” they are.

Well, all commentators are wrong!

Not long ago former PM Boris Johnson attacked opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer not prosecute Jimmy Savile. No newspapers, radio or TV accused former PM “Bojo” about the attack despite that Starmer was not even having a chance to start with prosecution as he was taken away from the case on first place.

If I am going back to the tweet about the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak well, where the Labour part clearly saying that they have found new figures through looking at the government's own figures about the levels of serious offences that have not resulted in custodial sentences. The fact is offences related to child abuse. Labour found that over recent years over 4600 adults have escaped custodial sentence despite they've been found guilty of child abuse, and they have also found that over 16,000 people been convicted of a producing or sharing child pornography material has have also escaped custodial sentence.

This is because of a real deep-rooted problem in our criminal justice system at the moment for which obviously the Prime Minister of the country is responsible doesn’t matter from which angle you are looking at. Quick overview of those figures, it is right to can say under the Tories approx. 4600 adults convicted of sexually assaulting children serve no prison time.

It is also very radicicolous claims from commentators that eg. 2010 Rishi Sunak wasn't even Prime Minister at that time.

If I am not mistaken Rishi Sunak is not in the government from “yesterday” – before being elected by Tories for PM, Sunak was Chancellor of Exchequer which is very “senior” job in the government. Not even to mention that Rishi appointed for Deputy PM position Dominic Raab who is responsible for Justice system anyway. Or perhaps Dominic Raab does not pay attention to sexual abusers because he has to defence 24 allegations he is investigated for.

The figures taken in consideration by the Labour are from the year Tories are in government, therefore applied for the period of 13 years doesn’t matter who the PM is/was!

With this tweet Labour just want to highlight to public that what Tories are saying is not what they promised, and it is completely correct that someone point to the Tories records when it comes to sentence and what is happening in our criminal justice system. I think it's really important that opposition (doesn’t matter from which party coming out) are using these figures today to highlight these structural and very profound problems in the criminal justice system which has:

Massive backlog in the courts which majority predates that the pandemic because the Conservative government chose to close down over 200 of our courts.
We got very high reoffending rates because the Conservative government chose to privatise information service and
Also, because the result of all of that we've got overflowing and full prisons.

So, what is happening is, judges and those in the criminal justice system are not able to give out custodial sentence, because the system is broken, there are no places in the prisons and these are very serious questions which Prime Minister should answer and act on.

Labour takes this as it’s a digital graphic, highlighting a particular story which the Prime Minister used himself many times in recent months.

The Labour tweet just highlight how one of his (Rishi Sunak) own policies even isn't working under his own watch not to mention that he's responsible - for the criminal justice. Rishi Sunak should doing instead of political campaigning (what he is doing last 10 days) to solve the problems we are currently in.

I am aware that Labour tweet won't be to everybody at taste but what's the important issue here is what lies beneath which I think will be of real important to readers and viewers which is that we do have serious criminals now almost routinely getting more lenient custodial sentences than they would otherwise do because the system is creaking at the knees.

What lies beneath is the sentence in guidelines about the capacity in the system to actually implement those guidelines so when you've huge backlog which is if I am not mistaken over 62,000+ cases currently not moved anywhere. If the system wants to deal with that backlog the government needs to sort of getting things through the system faster.

On the other hand, when you got judges faced with wanting to give custodial sentences knowing that prisons are completely full they are making judgements on that basis around the prison capacity and whether they can actually enforce those custodial sentences, what at present, they cannot.

So, if the system as a whole it's not a particular issue around sentence and guidelines that is meaning that the figures Labour tweet produced today and many other figures along with much more evidence that there is out at the moment that what we're finding is that that people are seemingly getting off lightly for what I think most people would regard as very serious offences (child abuse, child pornography) and I am, like Lucy Powell MP completely comfortable with it with no worries and in the end of the day the tweet gone out as Labour political campaign.

Commentators doesn’t matter whether with newspapers, radio or TV should be more transparent and with no appreciation of any party at all – they should be independent completely.

Nevertheless, I admired Lucy Powell MP coming on TV straight away (LIVE) after tweet posted and give her honest answer what could not be the case with majority Conservative MP’s including PM Rishi Sunak.

Just ask yourself how Tori MP's fight without any shame not to mention being completely disrespectful to the public about "PARTYGATE at #10" and whether or not PM Boris Johnson did lie or not to Parliament.

Even Dominic Raab tried to defend un-defendable saying on TV "That Boris Johnson was honest as much he could be anyway". What an comment from Deputy Prime Minister! [My personal understanding of his comment was, that he (Dominic Raab) knows that Prime Minister Boris Johnson lied and that he always lies. That was my understanding and the same of many others].

INCOMPETENT? INEPT? INSECURE?

Sat, 04 Mar 2023 14:43:59 GMT

100,000 TEXTS SENT from Mr HANCOCK WERE LEAKED

O dear, o dear, o dear Isabel what have you done? I just wonder what triggered you to do this? In one hand you have a bit of "blue" blood, you always (apart once that I can remember) you spoke in favour of Conservative party, you went with excuses on and on when Bojo (Boris Johnson, former PM) being accused of Partygate at No.10.

As soon as I found out that Isabela was going to help Matt Hancock write a book about what and how was happening in the time of the Covid and post Covid era, I knew that this was not going to end well. I didn't know exactly which direction it would take, but I immediately thought of:

a) Greed for money?

b) Greed to get data?

c) Elections and a new PM?

d) Preparing the ground for the Conservative Party to whitewash the party that the Government and as such the Conservative Party has done nothing wrong during the Covid and pandemic.

More and more similar questions was going through my mind.

I had no idea that there were over 100,000 texts in the background. And everything that has now been triggered by the texts in the newspaper can only be a premonition that an "independent" investigation will not be carried out as should on basis of "interference with the public opinion".

The Tories have now presented all this in recent interviews, that this was done on purpose against the Tory party and that all what they have done was wrong.

More or less it, majority what was done was very much wrong!

You manipulate with the facts of covid from start to end, you spend money for "nothing" in billions, you made Brexit propaganda same way as Hitler did how nice we all be better off if we go out of Europe.

All this is now clearly shown in our supermarkets where boxes with vegetables and fruits are empty. Why they are empty? Because of Brexit only! Just don't starts with war in Ukraine. In Ukraine there were no tomato's or pineapples plants, not even bananas or oranges, or potato's.

And completely the same is now with Northern Ireland where you are trying to convince public how great deal you done with Europe and that NI will be better than Hong Kong was during the British empire.

Only naïve and stupid people can conclude this Rishi Sunak glories speech about the great deal to be success. Sunak started how great will be trade with Europe. So, why on earth we went out of Europe on first place? Because Brits was thinking how "independent" will be if we go out of Europe. I was under the impression that despite UK was in the Europe, UK was independent country.

Same is with our economy generally not to mention the prices of electricity, gas, petrol, food and the lists can go on and on. UK economy lover then Russian, and Russia is in the war, and they were sanctioned by the West. With what the UK was sanctioned? With Tory government

so that the truth would not be known, how well the government was working in the time of Covid and the attack on their party, further confirming that it is the opposite side (Labor party) invited for Cabinet Secretary Sue Gray, who is known to have done a report on Partgate at number 10.

Already in this case, we realized that the police remained indolent, even their statement was that "they will not investigate, because the case is already a year old", which makes me think further, if someone intentionally/unintentionally kills someone and is responsible for it finds out after a year, the police will not investigate the case.

ONE YEAR LATER ON

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 23:37:50 GMT

Is Putin’s fate tied to Russia’s war in Ukraine?

It is one year since the war in Ukraine soil started.

What can we learn going one year further?

Putin's invasion of Ukraine has brought death and destruction to Russia's neighbour. It has resulted in huge military casualties for his own country: some estimates put the number of dead Russian soldiers in the tens of thousands (wrong).

Why has this happened?

Because West poring weapons of all kind to Ukraine since 2014!

The West wants Russia to disappear. Leaders like Biden (US) and now Sunak (UK) needs something to distract people in their own countries for failures they made. Don't be blind and don't forget Afghanistan, Iraqi, Libya, Balkan's war which all was disaster for Europe.

However, now the US and UK have another problem - China! That will be the biggest nightmare for United States and United Kingdom not to mention the rest of countries.

What will happen next with NATO and West coalition (including entire Europe)?

Think a little bit if Putin goes in “partnership” with China, North Korea, Iran and India?

What might happen then?

It's not even needed a war.

China can call the "shots" just to ask for the money owed to them. What inflation will be in US and UK and elsewhere than? Sunak will say that the prices of fusel fuel and food went up because Chine asked for money to be paid back?

If one war in Ukraine made such distruction in all countries and special in "rich" countries like US and UK, what distraction will happen if China ask for the money to be paid?

CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB ISSUES

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 21:46:39 GMT

PAUL MERSON ARE YOU ON BOOZE AGAIN?

I was shocked by the comments about CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB by Sky’s Sports Reporter ( former Arsenal player ), the "one and only" Paul Merson .

As soon I heard his commentary, I asked myself "Is Merson back on the booze"?

What was it he said that struck me so heavily? Well - Merson started as follows:

"It isn't good at Chelsea at the moment. Potter is not looking after himself, he is looking after the team - which I quite like. Let's be honest, it was a big football match on Saturday, Chelsea were playing bottom of the league. The best two players this season have been Reece James and Thiago Silva - he didn't play

either of those two players, he looked after them. He could have said "my job is on the line, I'm going to play you"; and worry about himself - but he hasn't".

Well Merson you must be back on your booze!

Let's be honest Merson - You don't want Chelsea to be the good team it was in the Abramovich era!

Why? Because you are well aware that Chelsea, with their previous manager Thomas Tuchel , would be at the top of the league if not "on the top one"!

Arsenal could and would be out of the Champions League. What Tuchel did for CFC during Covid and the sanctions against Abramovich, initiated by Boris Johnson during his time as Prime Minister, was stunning! To keep the club and players together and still manage good results was outstanding professionalism and leadership.

With the players we have now - Tuchel would challenge for the title and not be 23 points adrift of the top of the league, as with Potter. This squad under Tuchel would win the Champions League again. He won with Chelsea with much worse team.

Your comment that Reece and Thiago could save his (Potter's) managerial status is pathetic. It’s absurd that someone like you "who (should) knows the basic of football game" even says something like this.

The Chelsea squad has 27 to 36 first team players.

Let me ask you about a "bleak scenario", e.g. Reece and Thiago could not play against Southampton because they were suspended having been red carded two games previously? Who would then save Potter's position to remain the manager of CFC? You don't have an answer, do you?

Or you would still say "Potter lost against the bottom club in the league – Southampton - because Reece and Thiago could not played". Bull**** !

So, let's be honest: There is nowhere in the script that even Reece and Thiago would played their games would be the performing one. Chelsea has with Potter 9-10 players each game who are not performing at all doesn't matter that they are in the first 11.

Paul, I like your comments from time to time. However, this commentary about Potter and "how good he is and that you want Potter to be given more time"; is one where I am asking myself whether you believe in all the crap which is coming out of your mouth? I believe not- and if you do, you should seek help – a shrink would be my suggestion!

Potter is NOT the manager for a club like Chelsea. He has no pedigree of achieving anything special in football. Even his former club Brighton is doing better without him. They’re ahead of CFC - 7th in the table with 4 points more and with one game in hand.

You can see how pathetic Potter's strategy game plan is with Chelsea:

Played 14 games - won 2.

Chelsea did not even loose that number of games in the all Mourinho era. Tuchel had nothing like this despite the sanctions against Abramovich, Covid and the pandemic.

Potter comparing with Tuchel:

Club Chelsea Win %

Thomas Tuchel 50%

Graham Potter 29%

Potters "game plan" included the unthinkable decision, when he forwarded the list of 3 new players for the Chelsea Champions League 2022/2023 after the closure of January 2023 transfer market.

Potter kept Pulisic despite the “injury”, he wasn’t bothered entering the one perfect striker Chelsea have - Aubameyang.

Pulisic is a player who I would have sold many years ago. Potter is keeping him purely because Pulisic is the captain of the US football team – so a Yankee, like the new owners of Chelsea. Potter must be completely out of his mind keeping a player like Pulisic at the expense of securing Aubameyang.

Potter made the same mistake with his striker choice in the game with Southampton - the one I am referring to with your commentary on Sky TV. We (CFC) were again without the number 9, so who were all the crosses from left and right into the Southampton box for? Invisible striker 9 in Potter's apparition's mind?

Putting 20 year old striker David Fofana up there - saying, "he is our man who will be wining for us" is absurd. With Broja - perhaps, maybe, probably, you could get away with is ... because he was drilled within UK football for years.

If I was a player I would now think twice about signing and playing for CFC, simply because with having a manager like Potter - what could I learn from him? Nothing! Nil, zilch, zero!

What is Potter's football legacy? What did Potter actually achieve as a footballer?

He played for Macclesfield club (retired 2005).

Quick question, Mr Merson: In which league is Macclesfield? Answer: Third division. And he got one cup! That was 2016/17 with Östersunds FK in Sweden. The club in Swedish league where they were 8th. That single cup was just being lucky once in his life in the league which cannot be compared not even with our first division league not to mention our Premier Division.

Potter's pathetic comment on TV when Chelsea was not awarded penalties on two occasions just confirming what kind of geezer he is. Not animated for the club where he is manager! Why he would be? Well, don't be blind: He is paid £12m per year what is the money Potter could not earn in 20 years being manager at Brighton!

What is Aubameyang football achievement (pedigree) so far?

1x Footballer of the year (2015)

2x Top Goal Scorer (2016/17, 2018/19)

1x German Cup Winner (2016/17)

1x English FA Cup Winner (2020)

2x German Super Cup Winner (2013/14, 2014/15)

1x English Super Cup Winner (2021)

1x French League Cup Winner (2012/13)

Not to mention

1x African Footballer of the year (2015)

1x Olympics games (2012)

And lists can go further and further however.

Have to mention that he was playing in season 2022/2023 in Champions League for Chelsea where he scored 2 goals, till Potter made another his extraordinary decision to replaced – give position as striker rather to Pulisic than to superb goal scorer Aubameyang.

I know Potter is pissed, not having cups as Aubameyang - a part of one (1) cup in Swedish league - therefore nothing to show!

Chelsea played against Spurs 69 times, and in all this games Tottenham managed to win just 7 times.

If I am taking Chelsea games on the new Tottenham stadium, Chelsea played 3 times – 3 wins and not a single goal conceded.

This statistic will change this Sunday in favour of Spurs as my prediction is 2:0 for Tottenham minimum, with NO striker in Chelsea team and with CFC goalkeeper Arizabalaga who remind me on my favour Swiss cheese – Emmental!

Previously, I’ve written a few letters to Granovskaia, our former CFC Director, who I respect highly - real iron lady!

I did not want CFC to buy the keeper Arizabalaga. My suggestion to her was Jan Oblak (then sold to Athletico Madrid) instead and I made all the steps to enable this to happen. However, Granovskaia made the decision and bought Arizabalaga for £72m. What a waste of money.

CFC has always had a splendid tandem of goalkeepers:

Cudicini - Čech, or Čech - Courtois. What do we have now? Arizabalaga and-Mendy.

Going further, I wrote to her as well, not to buy Lukaku back into CFC. I gave her a solution (don't want to name the player), another £102m gone down the drain and CFC still without a recognisable #9.

If I was Todd, I would make a phone call and bring Tuchel back to where he belongs - CFC.

The CFC squad would be a dream team for Tuchel and CFC.

If we are not in the Champions League, CFC will miss out on about £140m - the minimum payoff for being in that competition. I don't know how Todd intends to balance the books. It is mystery for me at the moment.

Being 100% a CFC supporter, like other such Chelsea supporters, we don't like Spurs. They’ve always been and always will be our "enemies"! We never ever make a deal with Spurs! Chelsea is playing them this Sunday, 26th February 2023, away.

For the first time in my life, I would like Tottenham to beat Chelsea - I would not even mind 5:0. Why is that?

Perhaps, just perhaps, that would be the final nail in the Potter's coffin!

My prayers would be heard! Hallelujahs!

I rest my case!

Ps: Merson if you have guts, reply to my comments!

Z Kos

Paul Merson

NADHIM ZAHAWI SHOULD GO ...

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:15:32 GMT

WHEN ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ...

Nadhim Zahawi should go and not just stand aside as Conservative chairman during an inquiry into his taxes.

Rishi Sunak has asked his ethics adviser to investigate Mr Zahawi's financial affairs. It is appalling that previous Chancellor of Exchequer who was in command of HRMC (Tax Office) has to be investigated because of nearly £5mio unpaid of taxes.

There is no doubt that Mr Zahawi is facing opposition calls to resign after reaching a settlement with HMRC over previously unpaid tax while a fellow minister said he should be allowed to stay on during the probe.

Quite typical comment was made by Chris Philp, a minister at the Home Office, added it was "reasonable" for him to stay in post, and it wouldn't be fair to "jump to any conclusions".

He also defended the prime minister's handling of the controversy, after he initially told MPs last week Mr Zahawi had "addressed this matter in full".

Mr Philp added that Mr Sunak had launched the investigation after "extra facts came to light" over the weekend.

If you recall Mr Philip try to defend undefendable in raw with previous PM Boris Johnson.

Don’t be blind again: Same people, same party, same problems!

Mr Sunak had been told when appointing Mr Zahawi Conservative Party chairman in October that his taxes were "in order," Mr Philp added.

Mr Zahawi confirmed on Saturday that he had made a payment to settle a dispute with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), adding that the tax authority accepted the error was "careless and not deliberate".

We understands the dispute was resolved between July and September last year, when Mr Zahawi was chancellor under Boris Johnson, and that the total amount paid is in the region of about £5m, including a penalty.

On Monday, a spokesperson for Mr Sunak suggested he was not aware last week that Mr Zahawi had paid a penalty as part of his settlement.

The prime minister has asked Sir Laurie Magnus, his newly appointed ethics adviser, to examine whether Mr Zahawi broke the code of conduct on ministerial behaviour.

Mr Zahawi said that during the probe he would stay on as Conservative chairman, a role in which he is responsible for party administration and political campaigning.

He pledged to co-operate with the inquiry, adding he was confident he had "acted properly throughout".

The investigation could prove problematic for the Tory party, given Mr Zahawi would be expected appear frequently in the media in the coming weeks ahead of local elections in May.

Mr Sunak's spokesman said on Tuesday the probe would be carried out "swiftly," but no timeline had been set for publication of its findings.

On the other hand, Ms Nokes (Former Tory Minister), who chairs the Commons women and equalities committee, said Mr Zahawi should "temporarily" stand down during the investigation.

She added that "for his own sake" he should "allow some space" between the probe and his chairman role, as part of which he attends cabinet.

She also urged him to "come clean on all of the questions being posed" into his affairs by journalists and others.

Well Ms Nokes, very difficult to come clean, not just Mr Zahawi, but nearly 2/3 of Rishi Sunak Cabinet including Rishi itself, starting with “party gate” on No.10. There are quite a few who bridge The Ministerial Code like Dominic Raab(Deputy PM), Jeremy Hunt (Chancellor of Exchequer), Suella Braverman(Home Secretary) up to the last one Gavin Williamson Minister Without Portfolio).

Government should concentrate and focus and solve real problems such as cost of living, strikes and the state of the NHS .

MERRY CHRISTMAS

autobalance2010@gmail.com (Z KOS MSc MEc BScEcon Hons MBA) — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 14:49:37 GMT

and

PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2023

From drinks by the fire with the light all aglow,

To counting the number of sleeps left to go,

From family gathering where you sit on odd chairs,

To perfect roast potatoes to which no other compares,

Now we all come together

for Christmas and New Year celebrations,

Where we make traditions that will last generations!

Merry Christmas and Happy & Prosperous New Year 2023

ENGLAND OUT - AGAIN ...England 1-2 France - FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 01:17:57 GMT

"L" for LOOSER

On July 14, 2021 I wrote in the blog “BACKLASH OVER ABUSE OF FOOTBALERS – THE GARETH SOUTHGATE CALAMITY SAGA” as follows: - Finally, going back to Southgate. It was Gareth Southgate who chose the players and not Priti Patel or Boris Johnson. Taking my politics hat off and my football cap on, people who know and understand football were all collectively shocked at the line up for penalties. Sancho and Rashford were both players who never even kicked a ball in the game, were left with one kick on the biggest stage at the most critical of moments. Also, Saka who had a great game was given the ‘final’ penalty as a 19 year old. Every football mind knows your most confident and experienced man should be taking a penalty that colossally important. My point is not that Southgate enabled the racist abuse, that would be very improper to suggest, but let me make it clear that he set that team up to fail, he let down his players.

Therefore, Southgate let down the British people in 2021. More than year ago, I stated clearly that Southgate did not achieve anything in his football career. Don’t judge on qualification! What we have to play against was like walking into the park and with the team on his disposal my “grandma” would qualify for the World Cup 2022.

I was even more disquieted to find out that FA gave him job till 2024. I am lost, and in dark! Who on earth is behind all this charade?

Complete looser: - from missing the penalty, to be relegated with every club, did not win Euro even less the World Cup.

Remind me on Bojo (Boris Johnson). He was saying that we will be better off every month for £365,000,000 which UK was paying to EU.

APPOINT A CLOWN - EXPECT A CIRCUS ... Part IV

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:52:42 GMT

JEREMY HUNT appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer on 14 October 2022.

JEREMY HUNT failed to become PM, nobody wants to support him. He finally finds the way out to be "closer" to the PM persuading Liz Trust to appoint him to become Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Our NHS is broken.

Who broke it?

- Conservatives have been in power for the last 12 years!

Who broke it?

- The Minister for Health was Jeremy Hunt!

How many ministers for health resigned and been appointed during the last 12 years since Conservatives are in power?

- Steve Barclay

- Therese Coffey

- Steve Barclay

- Sajid Javid

- Matt Hancock

- Jeremy Hunt (4 September 2012 - 8 January 2018)

Therefore, Jeremy Hunt was Minister for Health for nearly 6 years - half a time conservatives are in power! How can people of the UK trust such a newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer apart from fiddling with the numbers again and sinking the ship Britannia even more down to the bottom!

ELECT A CLOWN - EXPECT A CIRCUS ... Part III

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 21:56:24 GMT

RISHI elected 25 October 2022 - resigned ???

PM with NO MANDATE , become PM upon 218 people voted for him of 76millions UK citizens.

Why was he chosen? Because they made the deal inside the conservative party upon the failure of Boris Johnson and Liz Trust.

During the covid time RISHI played with "Other people money" for what people were giving him credit for! Why - what for?

They scam British people.

Not just that they heavily involved their families (sister's job > Boris Johnson sister, Jacobs Rees-Mogg and others, lists can go on and on). Doesn't matter who would be the Chancellor of Exchequer at that time, everyone could do the same.

Now we have the biggest inflation in the last 41 years, a big hole of £55 billions not to mention other issues.

What Cabinet put Rishi together? All the same faces - just different titles.

Don't forget when you go to the next election who to vote for!!! Rishi and all his Cabinet are saying "All New Cabinet, All New Ideas, everything will be going perfectly. ....

Who are they kidding?

ELECT A CLOWN - EXPECT A CIRCUS ... Part II

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 21:37:24 GMT

LIZ elected 8 September 2022 - resigned 25 October 2022

From her speech at the Conservatives Conference she said: - "This is a disgrace" !

Yes, Lizzy, you as PM was more than just a disgrace!

You remember 2014/2015 when you were acting as Housing Minister and you were on "BBC Daily Politic" asked by presenter Andrew Neil "how many houses you build"? Your answer was "I don't know the exact number". When Andrew asked you again you said "I have to check the numbers". Well, Andrew stated clearly what your answer should be: "NONE". Disgrace again!

Like you were disgraceful when working for the environmental department, and allowed all the s*** to go to the Thames river. Disgrace again.

And before you became PM you were Foreign Minister. What a mess and disgrace was your deal with Australia, and that was the ONLY deal you made.

Better NOT TO TOUCH anything in the future because it will be messy again as all your political involvements doesn't matter the job you done.

Ps: On your speech for becoming PM, when you finish with "your secret to tell" (that you were in another party before you joined Tory's) you could not find a way out from the room. Normally people are using doors to go out.

ELECT A CLOWN - EXPECT A CIRCUS ... Part I

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 21:21:57 GMT

BOJO elected 24 July 2019 - resigned 5 September 2022

Despite Bojo's amazing victory to get the job as PM, Bojo only ended up doing it for less than three years.

BRITAIN IS BROKEN - AND WE DID IT!

YES, WE THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY, THE PARTY OF LAW AND ORDER, WE DID IT!

What will be Bojo's legacy?

First PM in UK history who broke the law
Spent £37 billions on Track & Trace program which never ever work
Spent £9 billions on PPE which was never ever used
Spent in addition £4 billions on PPE which was not up to the standards
Announce the world leading Track and Trace System MOONSHOT which will cost £100 billions for the equipment - however equipment even doesn't exist.
He failed with Brexit what brought United Kingdom on their knees
Rolling covid - covid NEVER EVER EXISTS!
During the investigation and Sue report he fled to Ukraine which was another mistake UK made - getting involved with another war. Same story as with Libya, Iraq, Balkans wars, Afghanistan and few others

BRITAIN IS BROKEN - AND YOU SHOULD SAY - WE, THE CONSERVATIVES, WE DID IT!

One "sorry" and apologise would be showing a bit of respect to people in the UK.

QUEEN ELIZABETH II FUNERAL

autobalance2010@gmail.com (Z KOS MSc MEc BScEcon Hons MBA) — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 18:07:19 GMT

NATION PAYS FINAL FAREWELL

The nation has paid a final farewell to Queen Elizabeth II, with a state funeral and military procession.

World leaders and foreign royalty joined King Charles III and the Royal Family in the congregation at Westminster Abbey.

Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets as the coffin was taken to Windsor where she was laid to rest.

You were a rock to all your family and nation.

You were respected by the whole world.

You were in the hearts of many people around the world and deep deep in my heart as well.

Every year on 21st April we celebrate our birthdays.

I don't know how long I will be still alive, but on our birthdays' I will light a candle for great Queen!

Cancer took my wife way too early, now I've lost my queen. How cruel life is.

Rest in peace!

QUEEN ELIZABETH II - 1926-2022

autobalance2010@gmail.com (Z KOS MSc MEc BScEcon Hons MBA) — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 09:01:18 GMT

Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary born in London 21st April 1926

Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in London on April 21 1926.

At the time, no one expected her to be Queen as she was third in line to the throne behind her uncle and father.

During her record-breaking reign, she dedicated her life to serving her country and Commonwealth.

In a radio address in 1947 on her 21st birthday, she said: "I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."

Princess Elizabeth became Queen in 1952 at the age of 25, when her father, King George VI, died.

Her coronation took place 16 months later at Westminster Abbey.

The Queen held a number of other titles, which will now automatically pass to her son and heir.

She was head of the Commonwealth, commander-in-chief of the British Armed Forces, and supreme governor of the Church of England. She was also patron of more than 600 charities and organisations.

Wife, mother, grandmother

Away from her official duties, she was a devoted wife and mother to four children, and dedicated grandmother to eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

In 1947, she married her wartime sweetheart Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey, with a relatively simple ceremony as the country was still recovering from the war.

King George VI wrote to her about his feelings about giving her away: "I was so proud of you and thrilled at having you so close to me on our long walk in Westminster Abbey, but when I handed your hand to the Archbishop I felt that I had lost something very precious."

The Queen gave birth to Prince Charles in 1948 and to Princess Anne two years later. Prince Andrew and Prince Edward - who were born in 1960 and 1964 respectively - were the first children to be born to a reigning monarch since Queen Victoria had her family.

Until his death in 2021, the Duke of Edinburgh, "her beloved husband", was always by the Queen's side.

She described the Duke as her "constant strength and stay" and in 2017 the couple celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary, the only royal couple to ever reach their platinum anniversary.

A record-breaking reign

The Queen's reign saw 15 different prime ministers, from Sir Winston Churchill to Liz Truss.

She was more widely travelled than any other international leader and the world's oldest head of state, always using her own distinctive form of quiet diplomacy to represent the United Kingdom around the world.

In 2015, she also became the longest-serving British monarch in history, passing the record set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria.

As head of state and head of nation, Queen Elizabeth II was widely regarded as a symbol of stability, working tirelessly to make sure the monarchy remained relevant during a period of immense social, technological, and economic change.

She was a monarch without equal who will now be mourned across the globe.

What happens now

Upon the Queen's death, Prince Charles has immediately become the new monarch and he will be known as King Charles III.

A period of national mourning has begun and is set to last until the funeral, which is expected to take place in 10 days time.

Her body will be moved to Buckingham Palace, where it will likely remain for five days.

The government is not expected to announce any other business, unless urgent, to allow focus to fall completely on the Queen.

PLATINUM JUBILEE

autobalance2010@gmail.com (Z KOS MSc MEc BScEcon Hons MBA) — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 08:08:11 GMT

Salutes to our special lady the Queen Elizabeth II on her 70 years of service

We all salute our special lady the Queen Elizabeth II on her 70 years of service.

Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch in British history. She has four children, eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, died on 9 April 2021, aged 99. The prince married Princess Elizabeth in 1947, five years before she became Queen. The Queen is the UK's longest-serving monarch, having reigned for almost 70 years.

Born in 1926, Princess Elizabeth became queen on the death of her father, King George VI, in 1952. She married Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in 1947 and the couple had four children: Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward.

A former prince of Denmark and Greece, Prince Philip was born in 1921 and served in the British Royal Navy in World War Two. He was the longest-serving consort of any British monarch and retired from royal duties in 2017 having completed more than 22,000 solo engagements.

He died on 9 April 2021.

WAITING TIMES FOR CANCER PATIENS

autobalance2010@gmail.com (Z KOS MSc MEc BScEcon Hons MBA) — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 06:51:28 GMT

UNSAFE AND UPSETTING FOR STAFF AND PATIENTS (OPEN LETTER)

Professor IAN ABBS

Chief Executive and Chief Medical Officer

Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Trust Offices

St Thomas’ Hospital

Westminster Bridge Road

London SE1 7HE

Date: 20 ^th May 2022

Dear Professor Abbs

Re: WAITING TIMES FOR CHEMOTHERAPY PRESCRIPTIONS

UNSAFE AND UPSETTING FOR STAFF AND PATIENTS

It is with a heavy heart that I feel compelled to complain about the level of service currently being provided by the pharmacy team at Guy’s Hospital for the staff and patients in the chemotherapy village. There appears to be an ongoing repetitive problem with inappropriate and substantial delays for planned outpatient chemotherapy prescriptions being dispensed.

This is causing upset for your staff, distress for your patients and creates an unsafe feeling due to the visible constant stress that both pharmacy staff and the unit staff are under. It has the horrific traits of an accident waiting to happen.

I am in the midst of a potentially 24 week course of chemotherapy, which involves me coming to the chemotherapy village nearly every day of the week.

The staff in the village are amazing and absolutely committed to providing the best care, which includes minimising the amount of time that myself and other patients have to spend in the unit. I know you will be aware of how precious every day is for those being treated for complex cancers.

On Thursday 19 ^th May, I came to Guy’s at 8.30am, I finished my chemotherapy infusions at 12:30 am. I finally left the unit with Cytotoxic component which I have to have connected via picc line for further three days at 5:40pm.

There were several people in a similar situation to me – not only was a beautiful day with the sun shining taken from me and others, but there were not even enough seats in the reception area to accommodate everybody who was waiting. Your staff were also becoming visibly upset, one nurse was in tears what was going on. This is the longest I have waited so far, but it is regularly more than 2 hours. Your staff does not deserve to be under the pressure because your pharmacy does not or cannot do the job on time.

It would seem to me there are too few staff and too much work. On other hand I was told from secure sources that there are not all the medications available as should be due to the Brexit and you are not getting all the components to your pharmacy on time. Reducing the workload would literally be a death sentence to many in these post Covid 19 catch up times.

So, it would seem you either need good supplier or more staff or ask the existing one to work more hours or all three together.

You are in the incredibly fortunate situation of having a well-funded charity established to support the work of the hospital – seemingly with £960 million in reserves. If you need to spend a £1million to sort out this current hiatus, I would be amazed. But it really does need sorting, please.

The upset for all cannot continue – and the risk of mistakes being made is too high.

Thank you for your help in resolving this urgent situation.

Yours sincerely

Zdenko Kos MSc MEc BScEcon(Hons) MBA

SHOULD WE TRUST BORIS JOHNSON and JOE BIDEN?

autobalance2010@gmail.com (Z KOS MSc MEc BScEcon Hons MBA) — Fri, 13 May 2022 12:06:47 GMT

WHAT THEY FED YOU WITH and WHAT THEY LIED TO YOU ABOUT?

For any doctor who has a thorough education and complete information, it is completely clear that in this case, the appearance of the Corona virus was abused to produce mass fear into dark intentions.

Being and working with viruses I spent and was directly responsible for viruses that have high mortality eg. Ebolavirus, HIV, Hawtavirus, Mirburg, Rabis, Rotavirus and others which are common and originate in majority from Africa. Let me remind you that decades ago one or more viruses along with nerve agent poison eg. Sarin and others were mixed and cloned with canine Demodicosis which is normally easy to cure. US injected all these viruses along with few other grown cultures which being cloned into dogs where US used these dogs to spread quite mortal disease in few countries’ majority on African continent countries like Libya, Iraq and few others and by just touching the dog you were dead in 10 to 15 minutes. This was part of US cold war against Libya for example. All these cultures was grown in US on one island in the US.

Basic information that everyone should know:

Corona virus is one of the many viruses from the Influenza virus group, which is characterized by spontaneous mutation and arrival in the winter months, bronchitis and pneumonia. So, these viruses have been 'visiting' the human species for at least 150 years if not longer, every year.

The proportion of Corona virus in influenza syndrome is 7-15%. It is no different from other influenza viruses - it does not like the nasal mucosa, so it attacks the throat, throat and bronchi more.

Complications of the flu are not a matter of "evil" of this virus but poor immune status of the infected person, diabetes, etc. There are no malicious viruses but there are immune systems that are ingrained and cannot provide the right response to the virus and destroy it. That is why more deaths of the elderly and sick occur in the winter months in the transition to spring. This is a pattern that has been unfolding before the eyes of all of us for decades and centuries.

The Corona came in 2020, completely the same as it came in all the previous years and as it will be coming back in all the years to come. But in 2020, the world's “hidden powers” decided to perform a play with her that is not in the least naive.

1. They renamed the Corona SARS > Covid19 purely because they made the unknown of the known and as such people are afraid of the unknown.

2. Doctors who have access to epidemiological statistics can see with the click on their computers that the incidence of influenza syndrome and the mortality associated with it are the same as in 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 ... and “evil in power” all over the world pulled corona out of that group of viruses.

Why didn’t they direct it to people in 2019 or before? They “cooked” people with birds, pork, beef poisoning and now they decided that it was time to “increase the fire”. The reasons are the fall of the pharmaceutical industry and the threatening bankruptcy where the government should bail them out. On top of which also there were some elections (eg. US, UK, …) where few people were adamant to get in power or remain in power. That’s why they produce chaos so that they can rearrange things so that they can rule again or to get in power. It is not brain teasers that old people are the biggest burden for any country and economy.

Therefore, what happens in the real life of Corona and the humans is normal, nothing is extraordinary. Every year, according to the World’s Virology, every 1000 of infected by influence, flu, etc… at least one (1) if not more die from its complications, and not from its complications which medicine has failed to. And that is it! And this year as every year the mortality rate will be 1‰. But when it is presented with 3 press conferences a day, as in 600 patients died also the third one, etc., then it is a production of fear in which people do not know how to calculate percentages in comparison with previous years.

The false deadly epidemic and pandemic worldwide has an identical pattern of behaviour. Why do they need it? To implement measures of isolation of man from man in order to break the national nations by breaking economies, which means destroying small and medium-sized enterprises.

Global capital will survive because the Federal banks eg. The Bank of England will print “new” money and all the banks will survive.

The next two (2) steps on agenda are:

1. Forced vaccination and

2. Installation of G5 and G6 stations around cities and by facilities.

Why do they need to be forced? Because in that vaccination, as in many others (eg. flue jab) , there will be aluminium, which is a cellular receiver and amplifier of high-frequency electromagnetic waves. This radiation destroys the pineal gland in children and destroys the human immune system and blocks the utilization of oxygen at the cellular level.

G5 and G6 stations need to be installed. The G5 facilities are large and in my knowledge and estimation, they are normally installed by "army", not "domestic" but there will be some military exercises such as defending “UK” or “USA” or “Europe” or “world”, so on that occasion they will cover cities with G5 and G6 EM field.

Schools will do this under the pretext of disinfecting schools or for some other reason. That is why children and teachers were removed from schools. That was clearly seen in the US, Ireland, UK, …. .

I am not the only who raises voice against this “bloody” scam and fraud, there are the German, Swiss, Americans and others specialist virologists who stand by me, while unfortunately there are thousands and thousands of doctors who are silent for fear of existence.

Don’t be blind, even if you have never ever come across virology just ask yourself what is in your environment (area) that you see and hear with your own eyes different from previous years. Release their “stories” and stories of their “Chief Medical Officers” and let your healthy mind answer how much more ill people or how many more people die are around you?

Did you not ask yourself “how on earth they come out with vaccines in such a quick time”? Did you ever get the details about what the vaccine is made of? I don’t think so, it was never ever in public doesn’t matter whether was going for AstraZeneca, Modena, Moderna or Pfizer.

In December 1993 I spend holidays with my wife in Tokyo(Japan). I was stunned that majority people in Tokyo was wearing mask. Therefore, this is nothing new! You wear masks because of the pollution or in the winter months when you go to places with a lot of people because it is part of the general health culture and a way to get protected naturally.

Mask “yes” but closing, isolation of people, the ban on work and movement is a scam and fraud and high treason which has not been seen so far!

Where did all this start?

US! Who followed? UK!

And what do we have today after apparently “covid19” is out and “under control”?

The Ukraine!

Where did it start?

US! Who followed? UK!

Please don't be blinded on this one either! The Ukraine is not the war Putin would like to have. Since the Ukraine “independence” in 2014 the US and UK were "feeding" Ukraine with all sorts of advisors and equipment of which weapons were ahead of all other supports.

Why?

Because the US needs to sell weapons, and the US needs Ukraine's gas and fossil fuel, food and rest.

On top of which Joe Biden and Boris Johnson are working how to bring NATO on borders with Russia.

The war in Ukraine is simply the West side's way to get cheap gas and fossil fuel, food, have control on region, to sell weapon and nothing else!

Biden and Johnson don't care about Ukraine people! They gave them weapons to fight the war with Putin rather to impact their army and fight the war.

Do you remember Afghanistan, Libya or Iraq?

Who started?

US! Who followed? UK!

Same pattern, just different subject!

Both the US and UK had a humiliating exit from Afghanistan, not to mention that US and British soldiers being killed and that US and UK solders killed hundred of thousands people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, on Balkans and forced 8.2 million people to flee their countries.

Remember Balkan’s war?

The US and UK used NATO to do the strikes on Serbia. They targeted civil targets eg. they bombarded trains full of civilians (women and kids), they bombarded Belgrade TV and Radio centre during working hours, not to mention other atrocities.

I was part of this wars, as high ranking officer, I contributed to liberate Slovenia, I done significant job for Croatia to get Croatia liberated, I was in Bosnia, not to mention other war places I was active with.

How on earth US and UK have face accusing Putin and talking about war crimes! Johnson and Biden should be ashamed of all this, US and UK should be in Nuremberg court long time ago for the war crimes instead.

If they would not be given weapons to Ukraine, there would not be any war, no cities and villages would be destroyed, no people would be fleeing from the country and what is most important there would be no casualties or just the minor ones. Balkan is still a "hot point" and will explode when tiny mistake will be made on one or other side.

Both presidents cannot deal with internal issues. Biden is looking to get approval from Congress to get 33 billion US Dollars as support to Ukraine while domestically they have no money to rebuild what was destroyed by tornadoes and other elementary catastrophes. Completely the same is with our Boris Johnson where No.10 is the most partying address in the UK. Over 100 penalties were issued by police, investigation still not finished, new fines to come. Boris as Joe has enormous internal problems, from costs of living, poverty, party gate scandals, spending money for "nothing", high inflation (I put some figures together and came that inflation is already over 10% (10.6%) on 08th May 2022) not to mention that Conservative Party lost in last election on 5th May 2022 over 500 sits. In the end, what strikes me most, our Rishi Sunak and Boris are telling you daily that the Ukraine is the guilty of the high prices for everything in UK from the fossil fuel up to oil for our day to day use in food industry or at home. Comparing size of Ukraine with size of UK it is quite understandable that Ukraine should be the exporter specially because of very good soil. However, giving Ukraine the weapons to fight against Russian, I wonder who will be working on fields in Ukraine? No one, and don't be blinded again, a proximally 400millions people might get hungry!

What you need to know about Ukraine and why is Ukraine attractive as a magnet for the US, UK and other countries?

In Ukraine, agriculture plays an important role in the economy despite that the % in GDP is not so high. In 2021, the agricultural sector generated 12% of GDP. The main agricultural products are cereals, sugar, meat and milk. Ukraine is the world's leading producer of sunflower oil, producing more than 1/3 of world production.

Ukraine's advantage is also in its mineral wealth, especially where iron and magnesium are the most important. It is understandable, however, that Ukraine also has many energy sources, especially coal and gas.

Ukraine generates 66% of GDP in the service sector. Ukraine is a transit country in the field of energy, as transit took place from Russia to Western Europe and the Balkans via its territory.

The Ukrainian industrial sector in 2021 generated 22% of GDP. Heavy industry predominates, especially iron and steel. Together, these two segments account for about 30% of total industrial production. Important segments are also the coal, chemical, shipbuilding and machinery industries (aircraft, turbines, locomotives and tractors).

Both, Joe and Boris needs covid or Ukraine to remains the president and the Prime Minister to blame someone else for all the disasters they are coursing by bad judgements while on other hands they want to grab bargains from food to fossil fuel and they don't care how many people will die or suffer .........

This is the only truth!

JACOB REES-MOGG a JOKER or a SMOKER?

autobalance2010@gmail.com (Z KOS MSc MEc BScEcon Hons MBA) — Fri, 13 May 2022 07:56:44 GMT

What a joke(r) ...

JACOB REES-MOGG A JOKER OR A SMOKER?

There are people who believe that they are something special and that they are always right.

We are in a living crisis and what our government came out with was the news that they intend to cut 90,000 civil servants jobs which apparently are a burden and they are the reason that the UK is not doing well as it should and we are in a "living crisis".

For our government this will make all the changes and necessary savings.

Don't be fooled. Boris Johnson is trying to give a boot to people who are working in Passport Offices, Probation, DVLA, ... There was a crisis in DVLA recently where civil servants were working from home having Netflix paid by taxpayers’ money and doing nothing. However, there is a shortage of staff in probation, prisons, ....

This smells more like austerity and not progress with jobs and wellbeing at all.

I am a bit lost!

We have a government and Boris Johnson who is saying day by day that we have the highest employment.

Question: Where does Boris Johnson intend to employ these 90,000 workers?

Answer: They will be in job centres looking for the jobs, at the same centres which just let them go and cancel their employment.

However, Jacob Rees-Mogg was even more patronising, saying in an interview on Friday 13th May 2022 for Sky News that people must not double up with the communication stuff.

If I am not mistaken, normally ministers have one or two advisors at most.

Question: How many advisors Jacob Rees-Mogg has?

Answer: 4 (four) advisors.

Mind you, all 5 doing nothing.

But Jacob Rees-Mogg is very active elsewhere:

Jacob Rees-Mogg’s new job as minister for ‘Brexit opportunities’ could make him substantially richer through his shares in an $8bn investment fund, experts have warned.

Rees-Mogg is a major shareholder in Somerset Capital, which he founded, and stands to gain if its funds benefit from Brexit trade deals. The firm specialises in investment across ‘emerging markets and major economies, such as China.

The government insists Rees-Mogg will not make decisions “in respect of financial services”, though could not give a full description for his new brief.

But Susan Hawley, executive director of Spotlight on Corruption, told open Democracy: “Rees-Mogg’s vast investment portfolio in dozens of sectors across several continents could pose a serious conflict of interest with his reported intention of axing a thousand regulations when he could stand to benefit personally from the process.”

BACKLASH OVER ABUSE OF FOOTBALLERS

autobalance2010@gmail.com (Z KOS MSc MEc BScEcon Hons MBA) — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:46:37 GMT

The GARETH SOUTHGATE calamity saga ...

I’m shaken by today's headlines regarding online abuse of three black footballers on media platforms and am ashamed that even after 30 years in this country there are still large numbers of people targeting black players. I am a football fan myself and all that matters to me when I am watching football is the game, not politics.

If anything, it should be an escape from politics. Thus, I am upset that the game is being tarnished and seemingly thrown onto the frontlines of what seems to be a cold cultural conflict derived from the US. We must distinguish sports from politics as politics is inherently divisive and tribal, whereas the only thing that should divide fans is the badge on their shirts.

Taking a knee before the game is not the gesture all of us would support because of the negative connotations and connections with BLM as an organisation, not the 3 words themselves, as Lyle Taylor of Nottingham Forest has stated. Those at the top of BLM simply have views that are grounded in the 20th century. One example; a founder of the movement idolises Chairman Mao. Furthermore, the organisation’s lax view on violence and anti-police rhetoric is far too detached from reality especially in a British context. The idea simply is that the connection between the gesture and some of the worst factions in cultural politics is too strong and I feel not just myself but many others would simply like a gesture an act that is not divisive, that doesn’t in some way allow to be politically manipulated into pushing vile and extreme views.

Yes, it was refreshing to see the kneel at first and calling for actual change. However, taking the knee has lost its ability to bring people together to push for a unified message fighting racism. How many football teams in Europe and elsewhere are starting the game by taking a knee? Only a few in Europe and not even every US team are doing it anymore.

Back to the racial abuse of 3 English players who missed the penalty:

This has nothing to do with Priti Patel or Boris Johnson, this is a gesture of people who have not been raised in their families with healthy moral and ethical values. I’ve never voted for a Tory, nor do I like Boris, but the idea that it was these two that stoked the fire and made these disgusting people propagate those racist views lacks any legitimacy, and the claim simply exists to spread more division.

I feel this comes down to a lack of professionalism in the team, built up by Gareth Southgate, who has and always was a failure of a manager.

These players do their jobs (should do their jobs), they are paid for these jobs money that 99.99% of us could only dream about.

When you are having players being paid £80,000 to £320,000 per week, people find themselves disillusioned with these millionaires when they decide to lecture the working man wrongfully about who’s to blame. For example, Tyrone Mings having silly online spats with Priti Patel. The whole situation seems a bit pathetic on Twitter and takes away any salience that would otherwise go towards building bridges and bringing hope by showing how we as a country responded to these racist factions and talk of how we can better protect these players and communities from these factions.

Finally, going back to Southgate. It was Gareth Southgate who chose the players and not Priti Patel or Boris Johnson. Taking my politics hat off and my football cap on, people who know and understand football were all collectively shocked at the line up for penalties. Sancho and Rashford were both players who never even kicked a ball in the game, were left with one kick on the biggest stage at the most critical of moments. Also, Saka who had a great game was given the ‘final’ penalty as a 19 year old. Every football mind knows your most confident and experienced man should be taking a penalty that colossally important. My point is not that Southgate enabled the racist abuse, that would be very improper to suggest, but let me make it clear that he set that team up to fail, he let down his players.

You have been well beaten by old Italian geezers who have superb coaches in Mancini and Vialli who enable and show unifying character that brilliantly presents a patriotic spirit that does not give space or time of day to some Ultra Italy factions with links to fascism. The fight for every ball all around the pitch. England getting to the final with the squad like that for me is not a success at all, bearing in mind passing the semi-finals against Denmark with a penalty that many believe was a dive. Instead of taking advantage of this by winning the final, England failed and now some in the England rank are whining trying to make the point on the media against Priti and Boris. Priti and Boris do not have footballs at their feet 24/7 like he does and they are not paid like he is. Those two have a job and regardless if they do it well or not, they stick to that job (unlike Matt Hancock maybe).

Final thoughts, I believe and have for quite a few years that there has been a deterioration of professionalism and a quiet disregard to what actually needs to be focused on from both England players and the media. Ultimately, we need to find a new way to unite ourselves that doesn’t give space to extremist views!

THE PREACHER MAN

autobalance2010@gmail.com (Z KOS MSc MEc BScEcon Hons MBA) — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 12:55:43 GMT

Appears to be perfectly acceptable to our Secretary of Health, Matt Hancock, to carry out an affair with a self-appointed member of staff in his government office, while preaching social distancing and receiving his salary from the taxpayers.

Mr Hancock had been under increasing pressure to quit, after the Sun published pictures and then a video of Mr Hancock and Gina Coladangelo, who are both married with three children, kissing.

The newspaper said they had been taken inside the Department of Health on 6 May.

Mr Hancock has ended his 15-year marriage to his wife, Martha, and the relationship with Ms Coladangelo is understood to be a serious one. Fellow Tory MPs, as well as Labour and the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, had called for the health secretary to be sacked and a senior Tory figure told the BBC that many MPs had told their whips on Saturday that he ought to resign.

Analysis by Laura Kuenssberg Political Editor:

One out and one in. The prime minister had backed Matt Hancock to hang on.

The now former health secretary had tried to cling on. But even on Friday senior Tories were directly warning both of them that his position was just not tenable.

Not because of his personal exploits with a taxpayer-supported colleague, but because he broke the rules that he helped to set.

One senior Tory told me it "beggared belief" that the man who had essentially banned casual relationships for a year was caught out having disobeyed the guidance himself, but still tried to maintain his position. Another insider said "everyone hates hypocrisy".

For every moment that he tried to stay both his and Boris Johnson's judgement remained in doubt.

Tory MP Andrew Bridgen told BBC News it had become clear that a "sizeable minority or even a majority of the public no longer had confidence in Matt Hancock".

Mr Bridgen added it "was not the affair but the hypocrisy of being someone who makes the rules and then broke the rules".

Rivka Gottlieb, from the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, told BBC News it was "absolutely right" that Mr Hancock resigned but said she thought he should have been sacked months ago over his "appalling record".

Concerns had also been raised about the process which saw Ms Coladangelo, a friend of Mr Hancock's from their days at Oxford University, appointed to the role - last September.

A No 10 spokesman has insisted the "correct procedure" had been followed but refused to go into detail.

BREXIT SAGA

autobalance2010@gmail.com (Z KOS MSc MEc BScEcon Hons MBA) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:19:07 GMT

The most notorious promise that public health will receive a £ 350 million weekly "membership fee" in the EU turned out to be the biggest lie

If the election were held today, due to the pandemic and Brexit, the Conservatives would lose the current vast majority of 80 MPs, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson would even lose a seat in his constituency. Labour would get 37.7 percent of the vote and Conservatives 35.6. The outcome of this first New Year's opinion poll may be the beginning of the end of Johnson's rule, if those in the Conservative party that enthroned him to carry out Brexit judge that they no longer need it. Johnson is also harmed by the first problems of leaving the EU. It is just the tip of the iceberg. The British are not allowed to go to Spain

The staff of the Spanish airline Iberia yesterday at Stansted Airport did not allow nine British citizens living in Spain to board a plane destined for Madrid. It claimed that their pre-Brexit residence documents were no longer valid. The British Embassy in Madrid, which claims to be and is being provided by the Spanish authorities, had to respond to countless calls from worried and confused Britons living in Spain because of the incident; there are about 300,000 Brits residing there.

The British right-wing pro-Brexit media reports rather than reports that there was no chaos in Dover for the first three days after the actual departure from the EU, and that only three truck drivers were fined and sent back to the EU without required documents. Truth be told: due to the holidays and the weekend, there were very few trucks in Dover in the past few days. In addition, countless importers and exporters exported and imported as early as December, fearing a misunderstanding, which they had planned for most of January. The picture will be clearer today.

Forgotten services

While the government places the most emphasis on a duty-free and quota-free trade deal, Johnson has come under increasing criticism for failing to agree with the EU on the service activities that make up almost 80 percent of the British economy the biggest “British” problem in the negotiations, they account for only 0.1 per cent of British GDP).

All those involved in service activities in the UK who want to continue to "sell" them in the EU will have to open representative offices if they do not already have them, and employ a mobile local workforce throughout the EU. This is a great irony of Brexit nonsense, as Brexitists claimed that Brexit would bring more jobs for the British. But this is just one of the broken promises of the Brexitists.

The most notorious promise that public health will receive a £ 350 million weekly "membership fee" in the EU turned out to be the biggest lie. Healthcare, which is under increasing pressure due to the incompetence, inconsistency and slowness of the government in the battle with the new coronavirus pandemic, is receiving even less government money than before.

Who will control the border with Gibraltar?

Spain will have the final say on who will be able to go to the (British colony) of Gibraltar and who will not, the Spanish government claims, based on a post-Brexit "agreement in principle" concluded just hours before the Spanish-Gibraltar border becomes hard without an agreement. classical border. Under this agreement, Gibraltar remains part of the Schengen area with free movement, and Spain will be the guarantor for it. The Port of Gibraltar and the airport have become part of the external border of the Schengen area, and border control will be carried out for the first four years by the EU border agency Frontex. Prior to the pandemic, more than 28,000 people (Gibraltar has a total population of 33,700) crossed the border between Gibraltar and Spain every day, including 15,000 employees on the other side of the border. The agreement in principle, the Spanish interpretation of which is denied in Gibraltar, is to be turned into a real agreement by the EU and the United Kingdom in the forthcoming negotiations

JOHNSON'S FATHER APPLIED FOR FRENCH CITIZENSHIP

autobalance2010@gmail.com (Z KOS MSc MEc BScEcon Hons MBA) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:04:54 GMT

If the father does not trust the prime minister, how should the voters?

Johnson's father applied for French citizenship

Most of all, how much confidence the British people have in Johnson's agreement on Brexit relations with the EU and the announced post-Brexit global Britain may be shown by the fact that his eighty-year-old father Stanley Johnson applied for a French passport on New Year's Eve (his mother was born in France, his the old mother was French).

If the father does not trust the prime minister, how should the voters?

PM TO ANNOUNCE NEW ENGLAND LOCKDOWN

autobalance2010@gmail.com (Z KOS MSc MEc BScEcon Hons MBA) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:25:08 GMT

On 4th January 2021 PM will Announce new England Lockdown

Boris Johnson is expected to announce a set of new national restrictions for England, similar to the March lockdown, in a televised address at 20:00 GMT.

The PM is likely to urge the public to follow the new rules from midnight.

It is expected people will be told to work from home if possible and schools will close for most pupils.

It is not yet clear when the measures will be reviewed, but MPs are likely to be given a vote to approve them retrospectively on Wednesday.

It comes as Scotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight, with schools to be closed.

Mr Johnson will set out plans for England as the UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations.

What a joke!

If PM Boris Johnson would close the airports, horseracing venues and other venues in January 2020 we would not be where we are now!

Jabs will do the difference?

What a joke again!

Seems nobody takes the fact of virus mutation. If you attack any virus, the virus will mutate and come back even more lethal being on first place. All NEW variants will have mutations to the spike protein that the three leading vaccines are targeting.

It is correct, vaccines produce antibodies against many regions in the spike protein, however it is highly likely that few changes would make the vaccine noneffective and as more mutations occur, the vaccine need to be altered. What was perhaps "ok” yesterday it is not “ok” today anymore.

While Matt Hancock is saying there is no evidence that mutations will evade the vaccination or a human immune response, Mrs Sharon Peacock, director of COG-UK confirmed, “If there is an instance of vaccine failure or reinfection then that case should be treated as high priority for genetic sequencing.”

Still waiting to see full lists of the side effects of the Pfizer and the Oxford vaccine. No data published, no medical memo in circulation.

WISHING YOU MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021

PAR002_123@heg.com — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 19:31:15 GMT

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021

To all our Buyers and Suppliers: Warmest thoughts and best wishes for a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year 2021 !

RISHI SUNAK'S FURLOUGH U-TURN

PAR002_123@heg.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 01:47:28 GMT

Yet another U-turn ...

Rishi Sunak's furlough U-turn was quite right decision – but even in kindergarten everybody know that, yet another U-turn was forced because of canceller's errors!

Finally, health first. We all are amazed that canceller comes to 1+1=2. How amazing despite that his and PM Boris Johnson delays to lockdown cost lives and hammered the economy. I am still not convinced whether this is not just the “order” by PM to Sunak for “getaway” from deep-trouble waters where the boat start sinking 10 months ago.

This week we have encounter a second national lockdown, which forced government to U-turn on extending the furlough scheme. Both these outcomes the PM and chancellor did not want and doggedly resisted for weeks. Chancellor was the “leather” for the group of ministers in cabinet who opposed the circuit break which was suggested and backed by Labour party. Not to mention that chancellor fought Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, over the compensation package for those most affected by tighter coronavirus restrictions.

Nevertheless, this was the 8th U-turn of this government, many to come!

CORONAVIRUS ... LOCK-DOWN ... BREXIT ...

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:25:43 GMT

BREACH OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ...

What has happened in this another tumultuous evening on 29th September 2020 in the House of Commons? Just to recap, MPs voted 340 to 256, majority 84, in favour of the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill at its third reading, despite warnings that the legislation threatens the Union and the country’s global reputation. Ministers have defended powers contained in the bill, which gives them the opportunity to override the Brexit divorce deal. The Bill will undergo further scrutiny in the Lords at a later date.
The government was forced to compromise earlier in the bill’s passage in the face of a Tory backbench rebellion, which resulted in changes to give MPs a vote before ministers can use the powers which would breach the Withdrawal Agreement brokered with Brussels last year. Tonight, however, no Conservative MPs rebelled to oppose the bill, according to the division list. Those who did not record a vote included former prime minister Theresa May who voiced concerns about the bill.
Is it strange why NO Conservative MPs voted against the bill on Tuesday night, on top of which it was clear more than 20 did not vote, with the majority assumed to be abstentions, not surprising Mrs Theresa May among them. Mrs Teresa May (former prime minister) was in Westminster on Tuesday, and as a vocal opponent of the bill seemed likely to be a deliberate abstention. Other Tory MPs who did not vote include the former attorneys general Geoffrey Cox and Jeremy Wright. Any surprise? Not for me! Seems few people still know what can happened.
On other hand our Prime Minister Boris Johnson argued the law-breaking measures were needed to counteract the possibility of the EU responding to a lack of a permanent trade deal in December by effectively blocking goods from entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK! What a joke! This is highly unlikely to happen.
The rebellion coalesced around an amendment led by the Conservative backbencher Bob Neill, which decreed that the government could only use the powers to change the Brexit departure deal with prior approval of MPs.
Another very (un)expected resignation has happened with Lord Keen, the UK government’s law officer for Scotland. Government not bothered at all the government agreed an amendment broadly similar to Neill’s plan. However, this did not satisfy everyone with Teresa May using a Commons speech last week to condemn the idea of ditching elements of the withdrawal agreement, which has the status of a treaty and is thus protected under international law, as “reckless” & “irresponsible”.
Speaking for Labour on Tuesday, the shadow business minister Lucy Powell said the government was being reckless and “using Northern Ireland as a pawn in a wider negotiating strategy. The government are playing a dangerous game, and it’s the people and businesses of Northern Ireland who risk paying the price.
The bill will now move to the Lords, where Johnson faces potentially stiffer opposition, not least from Michael Howard, the former Tory leader who has also condemned the law-breaking plan. However, the timetable for the Lords has yet to be set out, prompting more speculation that the contentious elements might be aimed more as a negotiating stick for the EU rather than an urgent legal necessity.
Lord Neuberger, former president of the supreme court, has condemned the bill as a “flagrant breach” of the UK’s international law obligations that would “muzzle” British courts. Speaking at an online seminar organised by the International Bar Association on Tuesday evening, Neuberger said there would be moral and practical ramifications. He asked how the government, which is passing some “pretty draconian” laws through Covid-19 health regulations, could expect people to obey them if it is “seen to be breaking its obligations on the international law stage”. At the same meeting, Prof Philippe Sands QC, warned that the government’s threat to break international law would “undermine the UK’s negotiating position” in any future treaties with other countries and destroy our reputation for being trustworthy.
Dominic Grieve QC, the former Conservative attorney general, said the bill was unprecedented, drives a “coach and horses” through the UK’s international obligations and would do “massive reputational damage” to the UK.
Questions to PM Boris Johnson:
How can we'll be working with Europe if we will be in breach of the international law?
What will happen with our imports?
What will happen with our exports?
What will happen if France close the border?
What will happen if Belgium close the border?
Who will be on borders?
What documentation importers/exporters needs to fulfil?
And another 218 what's!

Hope there will be no "Armageddon" or "End of World" or even less "War of the Worlds".
Guess what? Boris Johnson since he is in No.10 made so many "U" turns on his decisions that all conservative and labour PM's did not do together! So, be happy, be calm and do (not) trust to our PM, to do the best for all of us. God save the Queen and our PM!

By Z KOS, MSc MEc BScEcon(Hons) MBA

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GIVING UP DRINKING ...

autobalance2010@gmail.com (Z KOS MSc MEc BScEcon Hons MBA) — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Our marketing research ...

The decision to cut down your alcohol intake or to completely give up drinking is one that only you can take for yourself.

For some people, a period of time off from drinking or ‘abstinence’ is the best way to reflect on their relationship with the alcohol. Other people, particularly those who have been alcohol dependent go on to become abstinent on a long term basis.

Suddenly drinking no alcohol at all sometimes referred to as 'going cold turkey' or 'white knuckling' can cause serious alcohol withdrawal symptoms if you were drinking heavily before the change.

A good first step is to speak to your GP, nurse or alcohol specialist to help inform your decision about what is right for you, your health and your well-being.

We tried to figure it out how our buyers will approach our campaign to minimize on alcohol with simple marketing research.

We offered for every £ 45.00 spend on grocery:

1) Shop voucher for £ 10.00 or

2) Bottle of red/white wine valued £ 10.00

Results been as follow:

From 288 people who qualify for voucher or free bottle scheme

1) 17 buyers took the voucher and

2) 171 buyers took the bottle.

On our further research on question "why bottle was preferred choice" the results was as follow:

From 17 people who took vouchers

a) 12 people choose voucher because they don't fancy drinking at all

b) 2 people said they preferred to choose on their own the drink therefore they leave possibility to use voucher to purchase alcohol

c) 1 buyer made no comment while

d) 2 buyers stated clearly that they will give voucher further as present for Mother's day.

From 171 buyers who preferred bottle of wine ahead of voucher their opinion was as follow:

a) 91 buyers stated clearly that they looking forward to taste the wine offered at home with family during the meal

b) 38 buyers took bottle which they will use as part of the gift further

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Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year 2020

Thu, 22 Dec 2016 21:05:42 GMT

To be the even better than 2019 ...

To all our buyers and suppliers: Warmest thoughts and best wishes for a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year 2020!

HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU OR WOULD I LIE TO YOU

WORLD COWBOY SHERIF TRUMP GLOBAL CHAOS GENERATOR

WORLD NATIONAL SECURITY IN HANDS OF LUNATIC DONALD TRUMP

ONE-MAN BAND FARAGE AND BUNCH OF DELUSION DEFECTORS

REFORM UK HAS BEEN AT THE CENTRE OF A SERIES OF SCANDALS SINCE

STRENUOUS LIFE OF PM KEIR STARMER

IF PRATT NIGEL FARAGE REALLY BECOMES THE PM THEN THERE REALLY IS NO HELP AND HOPE FOR BRITAIN

JEFFREY EPSTEIN, UKRAINE, UNITED KINGDOM ...

MAGIC CIRCLE: ZELENSKYS > VERESHCHUK > OLENA ZELENSKA FOUNDATION > HOFMANSKA SUNFLOWERS FOUNDATION > STAVNICH CARITAS UKRAINE FOUNDATION > SAVE THE CHILDREN FOUNDATION LONDON > GROSVENOR > BRITAIN'S PEDOPHILE ELITES

LIAM ROSENIOR WHO??? WHAT A 24 CARAT PLONKER

CANNOT BELIEVE PEOPLE WHO THINK LIAM ROSENIOR DESERVE CREDIT. HE DOESN'T!

BOARD OF PEACE - WHAT A JOKE

BOARD OF JOKERS AND SMOKERS

SHOULD I STAY, SHOULD I GO

A BIG QUESTION FOR PM STARMER AND ALSO ANDY BURNHAM

THE GREENLAND CRISIS IS ESCALATING

PETULANT CHILD DONALD TRUMP JUST CANNOT JUMP OUT OF HIS SKIN

CLEAR VIOLATION of ARTICLE 2 of the CHARTER OF THE UN

UNILATERALLY ATTACKING A SOVEREIGN NATION IS AN ACT OF WASAND VIOLATION OF FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

TODD BOEHLY AND A NEW EARLY 2026 CHELSEA FC BONANZA

DUET LIAM APPOINTMENT SHOWING HOW SICK TODD BOEHLY REALLY IS

US WANT TO GET 300 BILLION EUROS FROM EUROPE

THERE IS LEGAL AND FINANCIAL RISK DOING THIS NOT TO MENTION POSSIBLE RUSSIAN RETALIATION

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026

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BUDGET GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE, GOING THIRD TIME, SOLD

DISGRACEFUL SPEECH IN HOUSE OF COMMON UPON CHANCELLOR PRESENTED HER BUDGET

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS BLACKMAILING EU AND THE UK

CHANGE THE DIGITAL MARKETS ACT (DMA) AND DIGITAL SERVICE ACT (DSA) OR WE'LL IMPOSE 50 PERCENT TARRIFS ON STEEL AND ALLUMINIUM

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

WHERE WILL BENJAMIN NETANYAHU GET HIS HUMANITARIAN VISA

GAMBLING WITH SUN VEGAS IS NOT HEALTHY FOR YOU

THINGS ARE GETTING AROUND AND CAME BACK AROUND

HALLOWEEN CAME EARLIER TO #10 THIS WEEK

DELUSIONAL NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE SAYING THIS IS EVIDENCE THAT BRITAIN IS BROKEN

THE UK DIGITAL IDs

EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE CASES ARE SO BIZARRE

THREE TIMES "F" SAGA – FARAGE / FULLER / FERRARI

IF PRATT FARAGE REALLY BECOMES THE PRIME MINISTER THEN THERE REALLY IS NO HELP AND HOPE FOR BRITAIN

NO WHITE FACES IN BIRMINGHAM (UK)

I SAW DESPERATION AT THE TORY CONFERENCE - THE FEELING OF CRISIS

ISRAEL MARKS 2nd ANNIVERSARY OF OCTOBER THE 7th

SHOULD ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS CELEBRATE? NO, NOT AT ALL!

CANNES CAN-CAN, YES OR NO THE PLACE FOR RETIREMENT

CHOICES: CANNES, LONDON, ZURICH, LJUBLJANA, SINGAPORE OR L.A.

MICHELLE MONE(Y) CONSERVATIVE PEER PAYBACK TIME

BARONESS MONE - UNDERWEAR QUEEN NEEDS TO PAY BACK £143 MILLION

IS CHELSEA FC A SINKING SHIP?

UK CABINET RESHUFFLE

CRISIS, WHAT CRISIS?

HISTORIC SUMMIT INSIDE CHINA - MADE IN CHINA

TRULY MOMENTOUS WEEK IN CHINA WITH SPECTACULAR PARADE

TODD BOEHLY'S AND CHELSEA FC ISSUES

CHELSEA SMASH PL TRANSFER WINDOW RECORD WITH £314m SALES

THE UK INSOLVENCY SERVICE DECISIVE ACTION

OPEN LETTER TO THE INSOLVENCY SERVICE - OFFICIAL RECEIVER'S OFFICE

LIONESSES DEFEND EUROPEAN TITLE 2025

THE MOST CHAOTIC TOURNAMENT BY ENGLAND BOSS SARINA WIEGMAN

BRITISH SPIES AND SAS NAMED IN AFGAN DATA BREACH

CONSERVATIVES MESS THEY HAVE TRIED TO BRUSH UNDER THE CARPET

CHELSEA FC FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP WINNERS 2025

PRESIDENT TRUMP PASSED THE THROPY TO CHELSEA PLAYERS

IGA SWIATEK WON WIMBLEDON FINALE 2025

ANGELA RAYNER Deputy PM HEADACHES with UNITE

IS THE LABOUR PARTY STILL THE PARTY OF LABOUR? THE RAYNER v UNITE ROW

WELFARE REFORM BILL 2025

PM Starmer defended the bill despite being forced into a humiliating climbdown

NATO SUMMIT 2025 - THE HAAG (LA HAYE) HOLLAND

IS 5% INCREAS OF SPENDING REALISTIC OR JUST MORE MONEY FOR U.S.

U.S. - IRAN WAR OF CAT AND MOUSE: A BIT TOO LESS TOO LATE

AFTER ISRAEL & IRAN WAR GAME OF STRIKES, U.S. INTERVENED DIRECTLY

ROBERT JENRICK’S MP LONDON UNDERGROUND BONANZA

IT IS ONE RULE for TORY & THEIR CRONIES and ANOTHER FOR EVERYONE ELSE.

SUITS ME - AMBIGUOUS STATUS & NON-COMPLIANCE with FCA

OPEN LETTER to HM TREASURY and THE FINANCIAL OMBUDSMAN UK

CHELSEA FC WINS THE CONFERENCE LEAGUE 2025

THE ONLY CLUB IN EU WHO WON ALL FOUR MAJOR EUFA COMPETITION

TRUMP HAS SPOKEN OUT

50 PERCENT TARIFF for EU, NOT TO MENTION TARIFF ON CHINA

WHY WHY WHY is the UK GOVERNMENT UNDER THE PRESSURE

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