megilleland

Do we live in a democracy? https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-25th-october-2023 Andrew Bridgen presents Bill preventing UK Government from signing Pandemic Preparedness Treaty without a referendum 00:24 Andrew Bridgen (YouTube): 10 Minute Rule Bill—Parliamentary Sovereignty (Referendums) Bill Andrew Bridgen (on X): "YouTube have taken down the speech I gave in Parliament today. I am an elected member of the UK Parliament. The speech was given in the Chamber of the House of Commons and responded to by a Government Minister, what chance has anyone else got of putting their views on YouTube?" All part of the control and surveillance of the UK public as directed by the US CIA.

The Guardian 8th Sept 2023 Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week Five million single-use vapes are being thrown away in the UK every week, a fourfold increase on 2022, research has found. This amounts to eight vapes a second being discarded, with the lithium in the products enough to create 5,000 electric car batteries a year. The not-for-profit organisation Material Focus, which conducted the research, said the problem was out of control. The findings come after a series of calls for a ban, with councils and leading paediatricians among those demanding action on vapes because of health and environmental concerns. Scott Butler, the executive director at Material Focus, said the “problem with single-use vapes has gotten further out of control” since the organisation published research last year. “Single-use vapes are a strong contender for being the most environmentally wasteful, damaging and dangerous consumer product ever made,” he said. The number of young women vaping in the UK has more than tripled in the past year, government figures show. I can confirm this on my litter picks. Packet, instructions, plastic top and battery just thrown down in the street after use. And youngsters damaging their brains sucking in this poison by the age of thirty.

Had problems uploading the images to highlight the first paragraph above. If I hadn't found the knife none of this would have happened. The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen, near Oswestry, Shropshire, England is a specialist orthopaedic hospital which provides elective orthopaedic surgery. Marvellous hospital with excellent staff - almost like an upmarket hotel - I enjoyed my two week stay there.

Following a shattered elbow at the end of March I have been confined to the house, not able to drive, ride my bike and do little else except help my partner. Even she is getting cheesed off with me. All this came about after discovering a carving knife in an outside drain, which the police weren't interested in and deciding to tell a neighbour to be careful who they talk to, tripped over some spare tyres in the dark and caused the injury. However things are slowing improving with my physio and daily readings of the Slog. All things move slowly, but we all hope for a better time to come. Our problems are caused by a minority of individuals on our planet who wish to control and coerce us into their way of thinking. I thought it would be interesting to look at the figures behind our state of affairs. Quoting from various sources in 2022 the number of countries run by tyrannical dictators were 57 - surprisingly none by women. Definition of a dictator - the ruler of a land rated “Not Free” as in the site below: https://planetrulers.com/current-dictators/ and https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/dictatorship-countries These people want to run affairs that suit them and their minions only and have total disregard for everyone else. This has resulted in mass migration of people who cannot exist in these countries and they have to flee to escape the ‘manual of repression’ shared by modern tyrants: https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-07-20/the-manual-of-repression-shared-by-modern-tyrants.html So the world is changing for the worst. With the exception of Mongolia there is no democracy from the EU borders to the Sea of Japan. Most of Africa is in the same boat (no pun intended). Pushing people westwards, putting them up in hotels, military camps and now in floating bulwarks off our coast exasperates the future condition and opportunities for UK citizens who now have to integrate with these new boys on the block. At £6 million pounds a day to house the masses including criminals many tourists can't find a bed for the night and the money they could spend is ‎lost to the local economy. As things progress we will probably end up being run by one global dictatorship possibly the United Nations. However who pulls the strings above this lot can only be assumed to be a Mafia.

In the Daily Depress today: By RICHARD ASHMORE 15:30, Sat, Mar 25, 2023 | UPDATED: 16:06, Sat, Mar 25, 2023 ‘Bored’ asylum seekers say living in £6.8m taxpayer funded hotels is like ‘living in jail’ Nearly 400 hotels are now being used to accommodate more than 51,000 migrants hoping to claim asylum in the UK. Asylum seekers living in taxpayer-funded hotel rooms across Britain are "bored", upset with the "bad food" and say it’s like "living in jail". Migrants reaching the UK via small boats across the English Channel are frequently sent to hotels which are being turned into refugee centres funded by Government incentives. It’s estimated it costs the taxpayer £6.8million a day to fund the Home Office scheme which has housed more than 51,000 migrants in around 395 hotels, the Mail Online reports. A Government announcement is expected in coming weeks for plans to stop the practice in favour of using converted disused military sites. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has signalled she wishes the "unacceptable" migrant hotel housing scheme to end as the strategy nears maximum capacity and as it does not represent good value for money. Using hotels has also thrown up controversy in the cities, towns and villages where migrants have replaced guests.

Daily Depress today: Military families forced from their homes as asylum seekers look set to replace them EXCLUSIVE: A mother living at an MOD facility said families on the former RAF base had been told to leave, as fencing is erected 100m away 'for asylum seekers'. Military families living on an historic air base have been told they have to leave their homes, as the Home Office looks set to move asylum seekers onto the former RAF facility in a matter of days. A source living on MDP Wethersfield told Express.co.uk the deputy head of establishment at the base has informed families that asylum seekers will be brought onto site next week - on April 1.

Hereford Times commentator say he is getting £86,000 a week.

I have done and they have told me to dispose of it!

13 inch stainless steel knife conveniently dropped into road drain. Noticed while litter picking Sunday12th March 2023. Hope it wasn't used on anyone! Contacted police that morning. No reply so far.

What has the hotel said? The Three Counties Hotel has refused to speak to the Hereford Times, despite being contacted for comment.

Interesting that the owner of the hotel is very quiet - He is obviously content with the situation.

I wonder what Bill Wiggin and Jesse Norman's moves on this will be? Especially as the authorities expect to use the services of Hereford Medical Group. Recent article in Hereford Times: Worst for same-day appointments Hereford Medical Group came in last place, with just 27.78 per cent of patients (8,225) given same-day appointments.

Asylum backlog hits record high as Home Office launches 'streamlined' applications More than 160,000 people waiting on asylum decisions – quadruple the number at the end of 2019 The Home Office asylum backlog has hit record levels, with nearly 110,000 asylum seekers left waiting for a decision on their case for more than six months, new figures show. There are 160,919 people waiting on asylum decisions as of the end of 2022 – quadruple the number awaiting an initial decision at the end of 2019, before the Covid pandemic – according to figures published by the department yesterday. The number of cases in the backlog – which accounts for people applying directly for asylum and their dependents – hit 132,182, a 60% increase on 2021 and the highest number since the earliest records in 2010.

In the House of Commons today Sir Bill Wiggin MP (North Herefordshire) asking Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP Prime Minister to stop the boats. https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/9798d6fa-8f98-4f73-a1db-8bf749accf1e start at 12:30:57

In The Daily Depress today; Migrant backlog hits record 150,000 but top civil servant doesn't think crisis is priority Asylum-seekers waiting in around 40,000 hotels across the UK are costing close to £7million a day. and The Telegraph reports that as a result of the backlog, taxpayers face a £2.1billion bill in order to adequately house those that have crossed over from France into the UK. According to The Refugee Council, it is likely as many as 50,000 asylum seekers are waiting between one and three years for decisions on their applications and more than 10,000 could be facing waits between three and five years.

In The Guardian today: (extract) ‘Humanitarian visa’ could cut number of asylum seekers reaching UK by boat A cross-party group is urging Suella Braverman to adopt plan that would allow 40,000 people a year to seek asylum in Britain However, a growing cross-party group of political figures is backing a new specialised visa that would allow 40,000 people a year to seek asylum. The proposal has been drawn up by the independent thinktank British Future. It said that rather than ratcheting up expectations and rhetoric, a new visa stream would make asylum case processing and safe returns “faster and fairer”, while also saving money on hotel accommodation created by a backlog of cases. The plan would see a visa made available to anyone with a strong asylum claim or links to the UK, issued at British consulates at locations away from the French and Belgian coasts. Last year saw a huge increase in the number of people making the perilous journey across the Channel. A total of 45,756 people made the trip, up from just 1,900 in 2019. At least 50 people have drowned or are missing, including 32 people who died when a boat capsized in November 2021. Asylum processing delays are now severe. At the end of September, just 7% of asylum applicants were processed within a six-month period. The bill for emergency hotel accommodation for asylum seekers, who are not allowed to work while their case is processed, is currently £5.6m a day. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/18/humanitarian-visa-could-cut-number-of-asylum-seekers-reaching-uk-by-boat Looking at the figures quoted: £39.2m a week £156.8m a month £1,881m a year I suppose it's better than buying bombs.

Is this what we are going to get in Hereford? There seem to be a lot of concerned folk and I don't believe they are all far right. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1736530/immigration-news-far-right-migrant-hunters-asylum-seekers-uk-borders

This could be a ploy to accept a supermarket rather than asylum seekers which would work well in Lidl's favour, but I don't want either. After all we are all going to get older and need care in one form or another and having a local resource south side would be better for all of us. Democracy is dead - corporatism rules the world. An understanding of Joseph Schumpeter an early 19th century Austrian political economist who came up with the phrase "creative destruction" leads us to our present day problems with the conservative and world governments.

Do you want a supermarket or asylum seekers? Neither thank you.

You may want to see this article in The Guardian today of other towns holding meetings to discuss asylum seekers staying in town centre hotels. I wonder what Jesse Norman's views on this are? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/17/asylum-seekers-living-in-fear-far-right-uk-anti-migrant-protests-planned

No support for UK carers then. I bet the doctor's surgery won't be able to cope. I wonder what illnesses they will bring to Hereford to pass among the genteel folk.

Replied to an article on The Slog about alternative political parties bearing in mind we have some elections coming up in May and a General Election in 2024 if we get there!. Also came across this YouTube video which has parallels with Worcester Warriors position. Not keen on Biden and the Democrats, but have always followed Robert Reich - he would make a good president talks a lot of sense. Had a leaflet delivered by the LibDems yesterday, but they are only going to do a deal with the major group.

Woman, 34, 'happy to be alive' after vaping addiction saw her on life support I was crying because I was in so much pain," she said. A woman is “happy to be alive” after her vaping addiction left her on life support suffering a life-threatening lung condition. Amanda Stelzer, 34, said she started vaping seven years ago when her friends all started doing it, with the cool flavours giving her a "buzz". Over that period she was getting through two four-packs of liquid cartridges every week or the equivalent of more than one cartridge a day, but eventually she ended up in hospital. Amanda, from Delaware in Ohio, in the US, visited an urgent care centre in October 2019 because she was struggling to breathe, had severe lower back pain and felt like her heart was "beating out of her chest". Amanda was then diagnosed with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a life-threatening injury where the lungs cannot provide enough oxygen to the body. Despite extensive bloodwork and urine tests, doctors couldn’t work out what was wrong and sent her to the hospital in an ambulance. Within 24 hours of being there, Amanda was put on life support. (more here)

How are you to carry your shopping on these scooters? For elderley people trikes would a safer option.

Vaping – it’s bad and not just because tiny children are doing it! First Dog on the Moon at The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/03/vaping-its-bad-and-not-just-because-tiny-children-are-doing-it