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All the top stories of the week 18th August
Boris Johnson upped his No Deal broadcast game as the Rebel Alliance of cross party MPs united by the consequences of No Deal for the country. The Alliance plans to bring down the Tory Johnson government and launch a General Election.
The cross party rebel alliance will not suffer the contempt for Parliament that Johnson is currently spouting. Their plan is to launch a No Confidence vote as soon as Parliament returns from its summer recess. Unelected Dominic Cummings has laid out a plan to try and push through No Deal before the Parliamentary and the judicial systems in the UK can stop it.
Civil unrest in Hong Kong continued this week as tension grew between protesters and the Chinese Government. Satellite pictures revealed armoured vehicles massing on the Chinese side of the border with Hong Kong along with threats from Beijing that China could take military control of Hong Kong in under an hour.
Encouraged by Donald Trump, Israel took the widely criticised move of banning congress women IIhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country. This was widely seen as an attack on democracy by the rest of the world as well as in the USA.
Austerity and Tory cuts continue to take their toll on the beleaguered NHS. For the very first time in its history, patients are having to wait for more than 2 weeks to get a GP appointment. This on the back of reports stating that GPs are misdiagnosing patients because appointment times are too short.
Arch Brexiter Arron Banks made jokes about yachting accidents as Greta Thunberg set sail across the Atlantic for a UN crisis summit on the Climate Emergency. Greta has caused a major upturn in teenagers and children reading environmental books.
As Greta sails, scientists warn that micro plastics have already reached the Arctic and are contaminating the air around us. Not so amusing now, Arron, is it?
Top stories of the week 11 August
Boris Johnson continued his delusional march towards No Deal this week. His optimism is wearing particularly thin as more disastrous news emerges daily. A Business Disaster Fund is being set up to save the UK’s biggest employers from going bankrupt. The UK is entering a recession and No Deal will be economically devastating with bookmakers already taking bets on which foods will be rationed first.
It’s also becoming increasingly apparent that No Deal will mean the break-up of the Union. The majority of Scots now support independence and a popular swing to leave the UK is growing in Wales and Northern Ireland. UK Army combat units are already 40% below strength and the break-up of the Union will lead to further devastation of the UK’s armed forces.
The long awaited trade deal with the US hit more problems this week. Despite Donald Trump enthusiasm for the deal, he threatened to refuse any negotiations until the UK dropped its move to tax the US tech giants. Congress has already stated that no trade deal is possible if the Good Friday Agreement is threatened in anyway. On top of all this, the UK was accused of being ‘too desperate’ to get a good deal.
Unelected Dominic Cummings has been accused of becoming a dictator by the Press. Cummings commented that even after a vote of no confidence, Johnson would refuse to step down politically turning the UK into North Korea. Such an eventuality would necessitate the Queen becoming involved in front line politics because only the Monarch can dismiss a Prime Minister and appoint another. A move that would have seismic repercussions. The Press are divided. Pro-Brexit Press say bringing the Queen into politics is a disgrace. The rest of the Press state that Johnson refusing to act democratically is the real cause.
True to form, Boris Johnson continued his long track record of not telling the truth by claiming he would make a £1.8bn new cash injection into the NHS. The fact that this money was already in the NHS budget and not additional funds at all was quickly revealed.
Two mass shootings in 13 hours claimed 29 lives in dreadful atrocities in the US. Donald Trump was accused of creating racial tensions and turning the US into the United States of Hate. Trump was slated for ‘making America hate again’. Later the President blamed mental health, computer games and social media. He did not mention white right wing terrorism or gun laws at all. Trump had a hostile welcome when he visited one of the scenes.
Stories of the week 14 April
The big news this week is that the UK didn’t leave.
A ‘flextension’ was granted by the EU in an act of kindness and common sense to save the bedraggled and confused from No Deal. As you might expect, the Press were deeply divided. Some asked how taking back control ended up as begging the EU to let the UK stay. As Donald Tusk advised the UK ‘don’t waste time’, the Leaver Press saw this as the end for Theresa May as Prime Minister and the end of her proposed deal.
Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn continued their talks to find some kind of compromise but to no avail. Conservatives were horrified that Labour was being consulted and that a customs union was being discussed. On the other hand, Labour negotiators were disappointed with the lack of movement on the Government’s Brexit red lines.
In more depressing Brexit news, the enormous cost of the Brexiter fantasy threat of No Deal was revealed. No Deal preparations were stood down with £4bn already spent. Billions that could have been spent on the NHS, Education or Social Care.
In good news for Remainers, Switzerland overturned the result of a referendum because voters were poorly informed. A Remain Labour MP won a local election in a Leave constituency as the appetite for a second referendum continues to grow.
Alarmingly UK voters appear want to embrace authoritarianism according to the Hansard Society.
The Brexit extension requires the UK to hold European elections. This along with holding cross-party talks with Labour has well and truly split the already bitterly divided Conservative party. Expected to take a bashing in the local and European elections, the race for party leadership is definitely on with Boris Johnson in rumoured talks with the DUP.
‘At least you’ll die from old age’ stated a poignant banner carried on more Youth Climate Strikes this week as the young valiantly try to remind their elders of their responsibility to the planet and future generations.
More news this week on how UK arms sales are leading to civilian atrocities and death in the Yemen.
New proposed online laws could threaten the freedom of speech in Britain.
Stories of the week 3 March
It turns out that Brexit really does leave a bad taste in the mouth. Trump and the US are demanding chlorinated chicken and other such delicacies are part of any post Brexit trade deal. It seems that the real Brexit Betrayal is the health of our nation.
Yet more Westminster splits this week as this time Conservative MPs joined the New Independent Group. There were further rumours of strife within. Hard line Brexiters were biding their time in return for a timetable of when Theresa May would quit to crown Boris as king. At the same time, a senior Minister approached the Independent Group with many more defections to come.
The Press couldn’t be more divided over this. Having seen its version of Brexit rejected, it moved, as it stated it would, to an option of a second referendum and came up with an ingenious method of moving the log jam. If Parliament would accept Theresa May’s deal, Labour would abstain as long as it was put to a People’s Vote with an option to Remain.
The new Billion pound man Chris Grayling or ‘Failing Grayling’ has been once again charged with more gross incompetence. Eurotunnel took the Government to court over their handling of the ferry contracts, costing the tax payer £33 million. Labour say that Grayling’s sheer incompetence across a long list of disastrous endeavours has cost the country a staggering £2.7 billion.
MPs debated recent climate strikes by school children but no-one turned up. In an almost direct response, 2000 sites across the UK were found to have toxic air. Air pollution is known to radically reduce intelligence and also severely affect health outcomes to those exposed long term.
The Shamima Begum story continued to hit the news this week. With her poof family continuing to suffer, Shamima and her baby were spirited away from the refugee camp with claims there was a price on her head. A nation still failed to do anything.
Under continuing Government cuts and underfunding, almost 50 % of GPs are considering quitting or retiring in the next five years. The Government continues to claim the NHS is safe in their hands.
Hostilities between Pakistan and India broke out over Kashmir. Tension mounted as the two nuclear powers faced up to each other. Planes were shot down and a pilot returned in a gesture of peace by Pakistan.
A UN court rejected the UK’s claims of sovereignty over the Chagos Islands outright and ruled its decolonisation unlawful and Britain should remove itself immediately.
Michael Cohen accuses ‘racist, conman’ Trump of criminal conspiracy and maintains he broke the law in the Oval Office.
