Active Time we celebrated a remarkable lady
CHRISTIAN Wakeford, the Conservative MP for Bury South who defected to Labour, says that his decision came as a result of months of agonising over Boris Johnson’s Government blocking Labour (and Marcus Rashford’s) proposal for free school meals for hungry children, cutting Universal Credit while food and energy prices are soaring, tolerating Dominic Cummings’ trip to Barnard Castle during lockdown “to test his eyesight”, the cost of living crisis, and now the nine – or is it ten? – parties which were held in Downing Street in defiance of the regulations which had been announced from podiums in a conference room just yards away.
But a particular reason for Wakeford abandoning the Conservatives was being threatened that, if he didn’t vote against free school meals, a town in his constituency which had been without a school for a decade would not get the school which was planned to be built.
So much for the claimed “levelling up” agenda, when the Government is prepared to deprive a town of a local school if its MP doesn’t vote the way they want.
Another Conservative MP for a North
West constituency, William Wragg, has reported similar threats to the Metropolitan Police.
But then no-one looking at the party of David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg could imagine that they care very much about state schools anyway.
Or that a Prime Minister who described the £250,000 he was paid for writing a newspaper column as “chicken feed”, and a party which defended the reported £6 million made by one of its MPs for legal work including defending foreign tax havens which deprive Britain of tax revenue for public services, has much concern about the rest of us at all.
HER Majesty The Queen will become the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, 70 years of service, god willing in 2022.
She acceded to the throne on February 6, 1952 when
Her Majesty was 25 years old.
I class myself an Elizabethan. She has a connection to our area by the Duchy of Lancaster owning farms, houses and land. She is the only woman to drive without a licence or number plate.
She can handle a
Landrover and is a trained mechanic due to her war service. She is not a spend thrift and, in fact, got her bankers Coutts to install a cash machine in the basement for her family’s use!
She has had more than 18 prime ministers and 15 US Presidents. She has got a
Gold Disc awarded from the sale of Party at the Palace CD as it sold out within days of release.
She is the only Royal able to change a spark plug in a
AT LAST year’s funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh, her husband of 73 years, the Queen sat in black in a pew on her own in order to comply with Covid regulations. She was right to do so.
Over the course of the pandemic, Covid-19 has killed 150,000 people in Britain. And, in the circumstances at the time, her Government had implemented restrictions to reduce its spread.
Yet the night before her husband’s funeral, the seat of that Government in Downing
Street reverberated with the sound of a party.
This was not one of the parties attended by Boris Johnson, who was away that night. But he did attend other parties, including the ‘Bring your own Booze’ party which he now pretends to apologise for while claiming that it was a “work event”.
The English language has expanded in recent days with event, gathering, and work meeting becoming synonyms for a good old-fashioned “booze-up”. All in the cause of evasion and deceit and this is the state of dishonesty into which Britain has fallen under Boris Johnson.
Fuel bills are set to soar for ordinary households, while energy companies have handed out £200billion in dividends to their shareholders since the Tories came to power.
Tory MP Owen Paterson received £500,000 for lobbying and Boris tried to overturn the parliamentary standards commissioner’s findings of wrongdoing and force out the commissioner while exonerating Owen Paterson.
The Prime Minister’s special advisor drove to Barnard Castle while suffering from Covid “in order to test his eyesight”.
The Government handed out billions of pounds to companies linked to Tory party members and donors via a “VIP lane” which circumvented civil service procedures – and has now been ruled illegal by the courts. That car or fit a new tyre; ok she’s a elderly lady now so may not do it today. She is fluent in German and French. To me she is a fine Queen and we should celebrate her reign.
Yes some royals need to go. I for one fear for the monarchy’s future with the ascension of Prince Charles as he will not be a patch on the greatest monarch who reigns over us and who has been a pillar of strength and to me defines what being British is all about.
Be for or against the idea of monarchy, 2022 is a time to unite to celebrate this remarkable lady who shows women’s empowerment and took on the men and brought stability to our nation.
She has risen above active involvement in politics. As an expression of one’s patriotism and hope for the continued reign and life of our monarch, God Save the Queen.
At least the Conservative Party and Prime Minister can justify having this party eh? is corruption by any other name so, perhaps, we will find even better synonyms for that.
A YouGov poll found that only 6% of us believe that Boris Johnson has been honest about the parties in Downing Street. As a Tory minister reflected ruefully (and I am quoting his own words), the public is now realising when you peek behind the curtain, Tories are privileged sneering elites who take the rest of us for fools.
WITH energy prices soaring along with inflation, there is call in some circles to reinstate the triple lock for pensioners.
Without the lock pensioners will get just over a three percent rise, which will certainly leave them a lot worse off.
The government are saying more pensioners should apply for pension credit. What if you are just over the amount for eligibility?
I know there has to be a cut-off point, but the people who are, for example just one pound over will lose out in a big way, leading to more hardship.
So, I think under the circumstances the government should have a re-think regarding the lock’s suspension.