STOP THE WORLD, I WANT TO GET OFF
Huw Edwards, winter fuel payments and Covid at the Olympics
By Oliver May
ANOTHER week of utter shame for the BBC and its employees, both current and former.
Former BBC News presenter Huw Edwards has been charged with making indecent images of children.
He was suspended by the BBC in July 2023, with some reports saying he received full pay – believed to be about £500,000 a year – before resigning for “health reasons”.
At the time, former colleagues jumped to his defence, calling reports of his demise a witch hunt by the “gutter press”, namely the Sun newspaper.
Others were even more vocal.
Today, however, those supporters are largely silent with news that Edwards has been charged with making three indecent images of children. Edwards is accused of having six category A images – the most serious classification of indecent images – on a phone.
Some of those vocal in their defence of Edwards remain in their jobs.
Journalist Maajid Nawaz, who was vocal in his stance against jab mandates and Covid boosters, lost his job at radio station LBC due to those opinions.
While some might argue the world is not fair, it certainly shouldn’t be as mad as this.
EVIDENCE is plentiful that the current UK Government is the same as the previous one, differing only in name. The tweet below from actor John Bowe encapsulates this perfectly.
There is a £20billion shortfall in public finances, according to Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
She did not mention that, within days of taking office, her Prime Minister announced he would be sending £84million to Africa and the Middle East to “stop migration to the UK at its source”.
Reeves also failed to mention that her colleague Ed Miliband, shoehorned into Cabinet as Energy Secretary, has promised to honour the previous Government’s pledge to give £11.8billion of our money to overseas climate aid.
Naturally, she failed to mention the some £3billion per year of our money being handed to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine, or the fact that each MP is allowed to use £3,400 of our money per year to help pay for heating used in their homes.
Reeves did, however, mention that Labour would be stopping winter fuel allowance for some pensioners.
She said this was “essential to preserve economic and financial stability within our economy”.
In May this year, Starmer lambasted then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for plans to remove the winter fuel allowance, asking: “Will he now rule out taking pensioners’ winter fuel payments off them?”
I would say you could not make it up. But I think Reeves and her lot are doing just that.
IT WAS Maniac Monday at the Olympic Games this week as sleepy newspaper desks around the country were all in a tiz when it was announced swimmer Adam Peaty had returned a positive Covid test.
“The whole swimming team could be affected,” the national newspaper journalists said.
“The entire team could be affected,” another countered with clear extreme shock.
“Yes, we better not play down that line,” declared another – and you could even imagine them quivering with delight that this was, somehow, what they call a dramatic, brilliant story.
It was a sobering moment for those already awake at how many ‘sleepers’ are still using Covid tests.
Has Peaty actually got Covid? Why are Olympic authorities still insisting on athletes using these tests – tests which have been proven to be useless? Tests which are now bundled together and sold as Covid and Flu tests.
There are no rules from the Government on isolating if a person happens to return a positive from one of these useless tests. There is guidance, sure. But nothing to say you ‘must’ do this, that or the other, or else.
Perhaps there should be some guidance to these so-called journalists from the national newspapers, who used their valuable newsprint to publish this bilge.
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