Boris Johnson ridiculed after suggesting people should buy a new kettle to save £10 on power

Outgoing prime minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, who in 2019 was gifted an 80 seat majority on just 43.6% of votes cast.has been ridiculed for suggesting poor people should buy new kettles (which will cost £20) so that they can save £10 a year on their energy bill. 

Johnson made the bizarre suggestion, then became tongue-tied, in his last major policy speech in Suffolk where he pledged £700 million to Sizewell C nuclear power station to help Britain generate its own energy. 

After warning us  it would be 'absolute madness' not to push ahead with the nuclear project as Russian President Vladimir Putin wreaks havoc with global oil and gas markets. He said :"If  Hinkley Point C were  running now, it would be fuelling fuel bills by £3bn. 

So you have to look ahead  and you have to beware the false economy,

 “If you have an old kettle that takes ages to boil, it may cost you £20 to replace it. But if you get a new one, you’ll save £10 a year for every year.....£10 a year, every year, on your electricity bill,”

The UK is currently experiencing a cost of living crisis  which is set to worsen  as energy prices caps surpass £3,500 in October. 

Twitter users were quick to pick up on the suggestion, after the clip went  viral  with one person writing: “He’s now outright taking the mickey of those drowning in costs, as he comes back home from his luxury traveling around Europe.”

Another user said: “Boris Johnson says we should spend £20 on a new kettle which will shave a tenner off our energy bills, even now as the UK crumbles, as people beg, steal, borrow to survive (because of his party) it’s one big joke.”

Aren't Tories brilliant at economics? It;s like suggesting using a thimble to bail out the Titanic after it struck the iceberg.  Johnson’s “kettle” moment is like Trump’s “bleach” moment or Tony Abbott’s “suppository” moment. It’s on that level. This seems ridiculous, but it's absolutely intentional. Boris Johnson and the Tories have nothing but utter contempt for people. Don’t forget: every Tory MP voted confidence in keeping  Johnson  as PM for the summer.  They actually voted for this 

What a way to go though in a truly insulting, idiotic, out of touch, contemptuous and glib manner to the very end. A disgrace to his office and country. An  absolute embarrassment of a human being with a huge legacy of failure on every front. History will record this -  Johnson is undoubtedly the worst PM we’ve ever had. By some distance. Not just bad, staggeringly so, a dishonest, venal,  arrogant, mendacious, unprincipled, divisive failure who in three years almost destroyed the country.

Let us not forget that Boris Johnson was known to be a liar long before he became PM. He was fired twice for lying, once by the leader of the Conservative Party. But each time he was allowed to return to work, to win promotion and to get away with it. It worked for him and so he kept doing it. The damage  that he has been allowed to inflict the country as a result  is immense.

He presided over the largest number of covid deaths in Europe He raised taxes by the most in 70 years Biggest drop in living standards since 1815 Squandered Billions on track and trace, the cost of living crisis .alongside the parties, the corruption scandals, the cover-ups, the Afghan disaster, the twisted wreck of lies and broken promises, .who right to the end  the great tub of lard could not resist taking the piss with his ‘Buy a new kettle’ speech. Churchill would have been proud.

The following is well worth a read on  his toxic legacy as prime minister and increased authoritarianism and how he rigged uk politics for the tories:

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Why is Johnson who  is leaving office in disgrace  booted out of office by his own party even  having a farewell tour, and still wasting public money? He has been widely accused  of shirking his Downing Street  duties and  jaunting of on luxury holidays ever since he reluctantly  agreed to resign at the start of July, Despite calls for  him to leave office early and let a caretaker prime minister take over. All this happening while millions of is on the UL are being plunged into crisis  over crippling energy bill costs.

I'd rather spend £20 for a ringside seat in a courtroom should  Johnson  quite rightfully face criminal proceedings.who has brought more misery, poverty and lack of trust than anyone could’ve imagined  Send him down now and good riddance! 

Johnson is expected to step down as prime minister on Monday 5 September, when either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will take the role after being voted leader of the Conservative Party.They all said we had the best with Johnson, but either pair, could still be worse carrying on the legacy of cronyism and corruption and not taking action immediately on the cost of living/ energy crisis  currently spiralling out of control  leaving so many pushed  to the edge, worried about paying for food energy and fuel over the next year  .God help us all. 

How I'd like to ask  are dangerous clowns like this still  running the country and why are we putting  up with it ? This country and its people, have been treated like a plaything by Boris Johnson and the Tory Party for far to long..Time to get rid  of them all at the earliest opportunity.

Don't forget to support the Don't Pay campaign for October 1st, the day that the energy  price rise comes into effect, we need to show that we will not be helping energy companies make record breaking profits while people freeze and starve to death. Enough is enough!  https://dontpay.uk/

 

 

Remembering Revolutionary Black Panther Fred Hampton ( 30/8/48-4/12/69)

 

Leading Black Panther Fred  Allen Hampton was born. on  the 30th of August 1948 in Summit ,Illinois to Francis and Iberia Hampton two factory workers who had migrated north as part of the Great Migration of Black Americans out of the south..Fred Hampton  was key in forming links between the Panthers and working-class people of all races. 

Hampton grew up with an older brother and sister. His family was friendly with the family of Emmett Till before Till's 1955 murder. Hampton's family moved to Maywood, another Chicago suburb when Hampton was 10. Hampton attended Irving Elementary School and Proviso East High School. In high school, he led the school's Interracial Committee. He also protested the school only nominating white girls to run for homecoming queen, which resulted in the inclusion of Black girls.

After graduating with honors from Proviso East High School, Hampton studied pre-law at Triton Junior College. He also attended Crane Junior College (later  Malcolm X College) and the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

Hampton became involved in the civil rights movement,  and led the Youth Council of the NAACP's West Suburban chapter, growing membership to more than 500. He advocated for a community pool in his hometown of Maywood, which led to an arrest for "mob action."

In November 1968, Hampton helped found the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. From his base in Chicago, he served as chairman of this local chapter. Though Hampton was just 20, he became a respected leader in the Party, aided by his talent for public speaking and experience in community organising,  

Many saw him as the next possible Martin Luther King or the next Malcolm X, or perhaps the next great leader of Black Americans. He combined a huge personality  with a brilliant, critical mind and became a charismatic educator and speaker. His public statements on capitalism, racism, politics, Marxism and socialism were peppered with slang and profanity that refused to bow to the rules of the system. He sought to unite people through socialism, against the capitalist system, fighting against racism and discrimination  through practice and deeds, seeking to find solutions that would improve poor and working peoples lives, through struggle, without getting bogged down in watered down reformity.

He sought to do this through observation and practice. Such interracial working class organizing and open criticism of the capitalist economic system made him dangerous. It was one thing to organize along racial lines. It was another to try to unite the white, Black and Hispanic workers together in working class solidarity!  A dangerous message then,  still is today I guess.

 Fred Hampton was a dedicated revolutionary who studied theory and carried this through into everyday action. Throughout 1969, he maintained a demanding speaking schedule; he organised weekly rallies in support of BPP members in jail or on trial.

His organisation  provided breakfasts for poor school children and a free medical clinic for those that needed it. Hampton himself also taught political education classes. He also managed  to persuade two of Chicago's most powerful street gangs to stop fighting one another.
His attempt at unification of different peoples struggles  bought him to the attention of J.Edgar Hover and the F.B.I. From the 1950s until the 1970s, the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) had already  been targeting  leaders of activist organizations like Fred Hampton. The program served to undermine, infiltrate, and spread misinformation (often through extrajudicial means) about political groups and the activists who belonged to them. COINTELPRO targeted civil rights leaders such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as well as radical groups like the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement among others.  As Hampton’s influence in the Black Panthers grew, the FBI began to focus on his activities, opening a file on him in 1967.

The FBI enlisted a man named William O'Neal to infiltrate and sabotage the Black Panthers Party. O'Neal, who had been previously arrested for car theft and impersonating a federal officer, agreed to the task because the federal agency promised to drop the felony charges against him. O’Neal quickly gained access to Hampton by becoming both his bodyguard and a security director in Hampton’s Black Panther Party chapter.  

During an early morning police raid,on December 4, 1969,  he and fellow Black Panther Mark Clark were assassinated in a hail of bullets by the FBI and Chicago police. Hampton who was only 21.had been asleep when first hit, and, as he lay prone on the floor, was shot twice at point-blank range in the head. His body was then dragged into the doorway in a pool of blood.

The police opened fire on the remaining bedroom, hitting several Panthers repeatedly. The survivors were beaten, dragged into the street, and arrested on a charge of the attempted murder of the police officers who had carried out the raid, and aggravated assault. Many in the Chicago African American community were outraged over the raid and what they saw as the unnecessary deaths of Hampton and Clark.in what was seen as a serious attempt to undermine the Black Panthers powerful message, his  death was an act of police brutality. His death was government-sanctioned murder. His death was an assassination. His death was an execution. 5,000 people attended Hampton’s funeral where Reverends Ralph Abernathy and  Jesse Jackson eulogized the slain activist.   

It is tempting to look back at the raid as a singular example of law enforcement run amok; a violent and inexcusable governmental reaction to the political climate of the time. And yet, so much of what happened in the aftermath is familiar to anyone who has studied systematic police violence ever since. today..

The official investigation into the shootings was a farce, and it was left up to the survivors and the BPP to pursue a civil case against the SPU and the FBI. Finally, in 1983, it was acknowledged that there “had in fact been an active governmental conspiracy to deny Hampton, Clark and the BPP plaintiffs their civil rights”.

Damages of $1.85m were awarded to the survivors and the families of the deceased.

In 1990, and later in 2004, the Chicago City Council passed resolutions commemorating December 4 as Fred Hampton Day.

The saying most often associated with Fred Hampton is: “You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution. You can jail a liberation fighter, but you cannot jail liberation.”

Fred Hampton Jnr was born a few months after his father’s murder. He, too, is active in the African-American revolutionary movement and has spent almost nine years in jail on politically-related charges..

While he met a tragic and untimely end, it is important to remember that he was killed for his ideas, because those ideas carried so much weight and . they  still do. Although many years have since gone since his passing, the peoples love for this man remains strong. His powerful message  remains strong. People still fighting discrimination and ongoing racism.Fred Hampton is a hero in the struggle for Black liberation, revolution and socialism. He should be remembered and his example should be followed by all progressive and revolutionary people.In 2004 the Chicago City Council passed a resolution commemorating December 4 as Fred Hampton Day.

In the courtroom at a 1969 trial for a trumped up robbery charge, only months before he was killed, the 21 year old gave an amazing speech  defending himself and all Black people, while at the same time calling on all working people to unite in revolutionary solidarity. There is no better way to end this article than with his words, passionately explaining the beliefs that he died for.

" We got to face some facts.  That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower classes, and I talk about the masses, I'm  talking about the white masses, I'm  talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses.

We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're going to fight racism with solidarity.

We say don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism, you fight capitalism with socialism. "

Although many years have since gone since his passing, the peoples love for this man remains strong as  does his  powerful message.. People still fighting discrimination and ongoing racism.
In 2004 the Chicago City Council passed a resolution commemorating December 4 as Fred Hampton Day.

Fred Hampton - Political Prisoner

 

 

I am a revolutionary - Fred Hampton

Your next Prime Minister everyone!

 

Your next  Prime Minister everyone! Seems there is no cost of living crisis for Liz Truss  who has claimed nearly £5,000 in  taxpayer expenses on gas and electric in the last five years .Yet she says she won’t “bung more money into the system” to help hard-up Brits facing fuel bills of £3,500 a year – and rising. So no need for looting for her  or to go cold or hungry or worry about  energy supply being cut off cause the public pay her bills even though many cant pay their own. 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pm-hopeful-liz-truss-claims-27849129   

If it were not for the Conservative Party’s renowned historic reputation for nepotism, it would be a complete mystery with regards to how Truss has got anywhere near political office.I would‘t trust Liz Truss to run a bath. This woman will be more incompetent than Boris Johnson Mark my words   On one occasion,  she was exposed as either unable or unwilling to spell ‘literate’. She also once blew 3.5k in a restaurant (and claimed it back as expenses). I'm sure she will be very understanding about a pensioner on 800 quid a month worrying about how they'll manage a 3.5k energy bill. 

As Environmental Secretary, she backed David Cameron’s Britain Stronger In Europe campaign for the 2016 EU Referendum, only to simulate the behaviour of an unabashed Brexiteer as soon as the winning side proved not to be her own. She then U-turned to passionately advocate for Theresa May’s deal with the EU (though also saying that no deal would be a more attractive option than remaining in the European Union, to her credit) only to then back Boris Johnson’s amendment of the deal which was worse, having offered not one, but two borders between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. She appears to flip-flop on issues of policy more than the fish she no doubt wishes British fishermen to surrender to the French. This brings us to Truss’ position on the Northern Irish protocol today, namely her will to abolish it.   

Of course, all those who voted for the deal in the first place deserve to bear the brunt of this criticism, not just Truss. But given the fact that she has been constantly metamorphosing throughout her political career – first from a Liberal Democrat to a Conservative, second from a One Nation open door centrist to hard line Thatcherite, and third from an attendee of marches supporting the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament to someone who seems to now froth at the mouth at the prospect of nuclear war – it would be foolish to assume that she has political conviction beyond her delusional self-image. 

For many the  biggest issue in the UK right now is the seemingly uncontrollable cost of living crisis. With annual  household bills expected ,  to reach over £4,200 in January Truss has rejected financial help for unprecedented bill increases as 'Gordon Brown economics.' 

'The first thing we should do a Conservatives is help people have more money of their own,' she claimed 'What I don't support is taking money off people in tax and then giving it back in handouts.'handouts' 

 Her cost-of-living plan or complete lack of one  would give *10 times* as much to the rich as those who need it.  

Top 10%: £936 

Bottom 10%: £92 

In the time that Truss has been the minister for Women and Equalities, more than half of women have admitted they believe women’s equality is in danger of going back to the 1970s at work, home and in society, according to a Guardian survey.

last September, Truss was accused of treating the position like a ‘side hustle’ by the women and equalities committee. The committee also accused the government of regressing ‘equal rights after decades of progress’ through their lacklustre approach.

In terms of her voting record on LGBTQ+ rights, in May 2013, Truss was one of 117 Tories to vote in favour of marriage equality, then in July 2019 she voted to permit same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland. In September 2020, she was criticised by trans rights campaigners when she announced reforms to the Gender Recognition Act would not include a right to self-ID for trans people. 

In 2021 Truss announced the government’s proposals for a conversion therapy ban, with a draft bill in spring 2022. Many critics called it a ban ‘in name only’, with major loopholes remaining, for example, talking therapies for over-18s will not be outlawed. Conversion therapy for transgender people will also not be included in any ban. 

She was recently accused of delaying  a Foreign Office human rights report because of Rwanda criticism . Truss also said that Boris Johnson "did a fantastic job as prime minister." As Truss and Sunak attempted to woo Conservative members. remember we have no say  in who will be our next PM it became very clear they were both working very hard to assure than an  even more hostile environment will help to restore the green pastures of this crumbling nation.

And as a minister who also appoints members to the Equalities and Human Rights Commision's board, Truss' record of both human rights and foreign policy is concerning. After resuming arms sales to Saudi Arabia  in July 2020, days later, seven children and  two women were killed in a Saudi-led air strike,  Truss was subsequently branded " deeply cynical" by human rights group Amnesty International for arguing  that apparent war crimes by Saudi  forces in Yemen had been "isolated incidents " I don't thin this lack  of concern  for human rights is going to disappear when she becomes  prime minister.

Truss recently removed commitments to abortion, scxual health rights  and bodily autonomy from  an official statement on gender equality signed by more than 20 countries. 

Dubbed the ‘true blue’ candidate of the leadership race for sitting firmly on the right wing of the Conservative party, Truss is considered the economic descendant of the witch  that was Margaret Thatcher  and plans to cut tax immediately.

‘Under my leadership, I would start cutting taxes from day one to take immediate action to help people deal with the cost of living,’ she has said – with no mention of rising food prices, energy bills, transport costs or affordable housing.

Through appealing  to the Conservative base with populist soundbites and meaningless phrases, Truss has cemented her position as a person of power , while ignoring the  chaos she has been complicit in crafting.and while on the brink of the worst cost of energy crisis for a century wont pledge too scrap the energy price rise.  

There’s a class war in this country, and it’s being waged from above with such a callous disregard towards the needs of the most vulnerable. Social services should step in and take Britain away from the Conservatives on the grounds of neglect and dereliction of duty in a time of unbelievable crisis.Tey have entirely broken trust with the British people and no not have a mandate to govern, Join the campaign to fight back. http://wesayenough.co.uk

Rocketing energy bills inflict misery on households

 

Households in Great Britain face a  gigantic leap in energy bills from October after the regulator raised the energy price cap, taking the average gas and electricity bill to an eyewatering  £3,549 a year. In a blow for hard-pressed consumers already struggling with soaring inflation, Ofgem approved the £1,578 increase on the current figure of £1,971 for the average dual-fuel tariff – a rise of 80%. The cap will be almost treble what it was a yearas a year earlier last October, when it was raised to £1,277. The announcement comes as households attempt to budget for a tough winter. Rocketing energy bills have fuelled rampant inflation, which breached 10% last month  and is forecast by some economists to climb to 18% from January.

The scale of harm caused by these price rises needs to sink in. A warm home this winter will be a pipe dream for millions as they are priced out of a decent and healthy quality of life.This will be the biggest attack on living standards in decades piling further misery onto so many households.Your energy bill is a direct result of not voting for Jeremy Corbyn.

Fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA) estimated that the rise would increase the numbers  of UK households in fuel poverty from 4.5 million last October to 8.9 million  this October, taking into account the Government's measly support package announced  in May, which should be extended and increased as soon as possible.

No one should go cold or hungry,  but Ofgem  is condemning millions of us to starve or freeze this winter. I thought a regulator was there to protect consumers following privatisation. All Ofgem are doing is protecting the super-profits of the energy companies which  make £6 million pounds an hour, this is a cost of greed crisis and in many cases could ne a death sentence. it's  disgusting.

Jonathan Brearley, CEO of OFGEM, is paid ~£300k p.a. to regulate energy Co's. They are enriching their execs snf foreign corporate shareholders whilst we endure poverty inducing bills.  It appears he is failing, let him know what you think  jonathan.brearley@ofgem.gov.uk

 Literally everything that is happening now is a price that hard right Tories in Starmer's Party and the Tory Party were willing to pay to keep us on a right wing trajectory. The silence from government, the raising of CAPS without any consultation, debate or compromise. People will be sacrificing essentials for themselves or their children, and having lights on and hot food should not be a privilege.This is 21st century Britain, enough is enough! The nationalisation of ‘big energy’, which could mean clean energy generation and lower household fuel bills  to everyone, is long overdue.

The Tories don't care about whether poor people die, on the contrary, they welcome it. Saves money on benefits and the NHS.  Clears poorer neighbourhoods allowing for gentrification and conspicuous overspending. The moaning about energy prices will stop, as those who can't afford it will have gone.  They looked the other way as thousands of people died because of their austerity policies.  A study published in the BMJ linked austerity to 120,000 extra deaths in England (primarily a result of the reduction in nurses) Another study estimates 130,000 deaths.

A caring tory is as common as hen's teeth. Humanity means nothing unless it brings them money and they can make a profit our of someones misery   They are ruthless, smug and sanctimonious. who  have showed their total indifference to people dying given their endless rule-breaking by travelling (Cummings etc), partying (Johnson and half his cabinet), meeting up behind privacy gates (Carrie and every Tory **** with a country pile) during the Covid years.

People's patience has worn very thin now and it's about time.This is a national emergency. and our bloody government has a moral duty to act but does nothing apart from telling us to use less energy only a matter of days after insisting  people should not feel they should cut down after grim warnings about spiralling prices.A disgraceful disregard for people, Bastards is to kind a word for them .We need to freeze gas and electricity prices immediately. I lived through the poll tax riots when people protested against an unfair charge and won . and it's far more desperate times that we are facing now. I don't understand why more people aren't bloody furious  at what's happening to this country.

All I want at the end of the day is to send Truss, Sunak, Johnson and their supporters to Rwanda. Permanently. Doesn't seem a lot to ask? After all they've been raving about the place for months. 

In  the meantime a National Day of Action on October 1st has been declared with protests across Britain. Freeze profits not people. Join here:https://wesayenough.co.uk/

The roll call of shame : The Tory MP's who voted to allow sewage to be discharged into our seas and rivers.

 

On Wednesday (20 October), 265 MPs shamefully voted with the Government  to reject an attempt by the House of Lords to toughen up the approach to the discharge of sewage, with 22 Conservative MPs rebelling and voting against the Government. 

 Lords Amendment 45 to the Environment Bill would have placed a legal duty on water companies in England and Wales to make improvements to their sewerage systems and demonstrate progressive reductions in the harm caused by discharges of untreated sewage.

This then meant that water treatment companies could continue to dump sewage into  our waterways.Water companies discharged raw sewage into rivers in England more than 400,000 times last year and for more than three million hours, according to figures published by the Environment Agency.

Swimmers are currently being warned  to avoid at least 60 Uk beaches as water companies are pumping raw swage into the seas with the southwest and south coast being the worst affected.

Campaign group Surfers Against Sewage  have created an interactive map which shows that popular locations such as Great Yarmouth,  New Quay and Bognor Regis have all been impacted just as families begin to enjoy their summer holidays. https://www.sas.org.uk/map/ 

I always viewed conservatism as the politics of the sewer, but I didn't ever expect it to be so literal.  We need public ownership of our water now.

Our beautiful rivers and coastline ruined by sewage pollution , terrifying bills. Low pay. Raging inequality. Soaring inflation. NHS on its knees, Social and care justice system too. Strikes .Transport hell. Price hikes. Food banks without food, 2/3 of households forecast to be in fuel poverty by January. Thanks Tories for this total hellscape. The Tories are both literally and metaphorically showering us all with shit. The vilest most hated Government in modern history. Time to flush them away!

Here is a list of all the Tory MPs who voted to allow water companies to  discharge raw sewage into seas and rivers. Many pf whom are now getting all hufty after being called out for voting the way they did , getting cross with us for minding about their abject negligence. Exactly  what does  it take for these people to say sorry. The Tories are both literally and metaphorically showering us all with shit. The vilest most hated Government in modern history. Time to flush them away!  .

 

Nigel Adams (Conservative – Selby and Ainsty) 

Adam Afriyie (Conservative – Windsor) 

Peter Aldous (Conservative – Waveney) 

Lucy Allan (Conservative – Telford) 

Lee Anderson (Conservative – Ashfield)

Stuart Andrew (Conservative – Pudsey)

Edward Argar (Conservative – Charnwood) 

Victoria Atkins (Conservative – Louth and Horncastle)

Gareth Bacon (Conservative – Orpington) 

Kemi Badenoch (Conservative – Saffron Walden)

Shaun Bailey (Conservative – West Bromwich West)

Duncan Baker (Conservative – North Norfolk)

Steve Baker (Conservative – Wycombe)

Harriett Baldwin (Conservative – West Worcestershire)

Steve Barclay (Conservative – North East Cambridgeshire)

Simon Baynes (Conservative Clwyd South)

Aaron Bell (Conservative Newcastle under Lyme)

Scott Benton (Conservative – Blackpool South) 

Paul Beresford (Conservative – Mole Valley) 

Bob Blackman (Conservative – Harrow East) 

Crispin Blunt (Conservative – Reigate) Peter Bone (Conservative – Wellingborough) 

Andrew Bowie (Conservative – West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine)

Graham Brady (Conservative – Altrincham and Sale West)

Suella Braverman (Conservative – Fareham)

Jack Brereton (Conservative – Stoke-on-Trent South)

Andrew Bridgen (Conservative – North West Leicestershire)

Steve Brine (Conservative – Winchester)

Paul Bristow (Conservative – Peterborough)

Sara Britcliffe (Conservative – Hyndburn)

Anthony Browne (Conservative – South Cambridgeshire)

Fiona Bruce (Conservative – Congleton)

Felicity Buchan (Conservative – Kensington)

Alex Burghart (Conservative – Brentwood and Ongar)

Rob Butler (Conservative – Aylesbury) 

Alun Cairns (Conservative – Vale of Glamorgan)

Andy Carter (Conservative – Warrington South)

James Cartlidge (Conservative – South Suffolk) 

William Cash (Conservative – Stone)

Miriam Cates (Conservative – Penistone and Stocksbridge)

Maria Caulfield (Conservative – Lewes)

Alex Chalk (Conservative – Cheltenham)

Jo Churchill (Conservative – Bury St Edmunds)

Theo Clarke (Conservative – Stafford)

Brendan Clarke-Smith (Conservative – Bassetlaw)

Chris Clarkson (Conservative – Heywood and Middleton)

James Cleverly (Conservative – Braintree)

Thérèse Coffey (Conservative – Suffolk Coastal)

Damian Collins (Conservative – Folkestone and Hythe)

Alberto Costa (Conservative – South Leicestershire)

Robert Courts (Conservative – Witney)

Claire Coutinho (Conservative – East Surrey)

Stephen Crabb (Conservative – Preseli Pembrokeshire)

Virginia Crosbie (Conservative – Ynys Môn)

James Daly (Conservative – Bury North)

David T C Davies (Conservative – Monmouth)

James Davies (Conservative – Vale of Clwyd)

Gareth Davies (Conservative – Grantham and Stamford)

Mims Davies (Conservative – Mid Sussex)

Dehenna Davison (Conservative – Bishop Auckland)

Caroline Dinenage (Conservative – Gosport)

Sarah Dines (Conservative – Derbyshire Dales)

Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative – Huntingdon)

Leo Docherty (Conservative – Aldershot)

Michelle Donelan (Conservative – Chippenham)

Nadine Dorries (Conservative – Mid Bedfordshire)

Steve Double (Conservative – St Austell and Newquay)

Oliver Dowden (Conservative – Hertsmere)

Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative – Thurrock) 

Flick Drummond (Conservative – Meon Valley)

David Duguid (Conservative – Banff and Buchan)

Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative – Chingford and Woodford Green)

Ruth Edwards (Conservative – Rushcliffe)

Michael Ellis (Conservative – Northampton North)

 Natalie Elphicke (Conservative – Dover)

George Eustice (Conservative – Camborne and Redruth)

Luke Evans (Conservative – Bosworth)

David Evennett (Conservative – Bexleyheath and Crayford)

Ben Everitt (Conservative – Milton Keynes North)

Michael Fabricant (Conservative – Lichfield)

Laura Farris (Conservative – Newbury)

Simon Fell (Conservative – Barrow and Furness)

Katherine Fletcher (Conservative – South Ribble)

Mark Fletcher (Conservative – Bolsover)

Nick Fletcher (Conservative – Don Valley)

Liam Fox (Conservative – North Somerset)

Lucy Frazer (Conservative – South East Cambridgeshire)

Mike Freer (Conservative – Finchley and Golders Green)

Marcus Fysh (Conservative – Yeovil)

Mark Garnier (Conservative – Wyre Forest

Nusrat Ghani (Conservative – Wealden)

Nick Gibb (Conservative – Bognor Regis and Littlehampton)

Peter Gibson (Conservative – Darlington)

Jo Gideon (Conservative – Stoke-on-Trent Central)

John Glen (Conservative – Salisbury)

Robert GAndrew Griffith (Conservative – Arundel and South Downs)

Kate Griffiths (Conservative – Burton) James Grundy (Conservative – Leigh)

Jonathan Gullis (Conservative – Stoke-on-Trent North)

Robert Halfon (Conservative – Harlow)

Luke Hall (Conservative – Thornbury and Yate)

Robert Goodwill (Conservative – Scarborough and Whitby) 

Richard Graham (Conservative – Gloucester)

Helen Grant (Conservative – Maidstone and The Weald) Chris Green (Conservative – Bolton West)

Stephen Hammond (Conservative – Wimbledon)

Matt Hancock (Conservative – West Suffolk) Mark Harper (Conservative – Forest of Dean)

Rebecca Harris (Conservative – Castle Point)

Sally-Ann Hart (Conservative – Hastings and Rye)

John Hayes (Conservative South Holland & The Deepings)

James Heappey (Conservative – Wells)

Darren Henry (Conservative – Broxtowe)

Antony Higginbotham (Conservative – Burnley)

Richard Holden (Conservative – North West Durham)

Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative – Thirsk and Malton)

Philip Hollobone (Conservative – Kettering)

Paul Holmes (Conservative – Eastleigh)

John Howell (Conservative – Henley)

Paul Howell (Conservative – Sedgefield)

Nigel Huddleston (Conservative – Mid Worcestershire)

Neil Hudson (Conservative – Penrith and The Border)

Eddie Hughes (Conservative – Walsall North)

Jane Hunt (Conservative – Loughborough)

Tom Hunt (Conservative – Ipswich)

Alister Jack (Conservative – Dumfries and Galloway)

Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative – Morley and Outwood)

Robert Jenrick (Conservative – Newark)

Caroline Johnson (Conservative – Sleaford and North Hykeham)

Gareth Johnson (Conservative – Dartford)

David Johnston (Conservative – Wantage)

Andrew Jones (Conservative – Harrogate and Knaresborough)

David Jones (Conservative – Clwyd West)

Marcus Jones (Conservative – Nuneaton)

Simon Jupp (Conservative – East Devon)

Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative – Shrewsbury and Atcham)

Alicia Kearns (Conservative – Rutland and Melton)

Gillian Keegan (Conservative – Chichester)

Julian Knight (Conservative – Solihull)

Greg Knight (Conservative – East Yorkshire)

Danny Kruger (Conservative – Devizes)

Kwasi Kwarteng (Conservative – Spelthorne) (Proxy vote cast by Stuart Andrew)

John Lamont (Conservative – Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk)

Andrea Leadsom (Conservative – South Northamptonshire)

Andrew Lewer (Conservative – Northampton South)

Julian Lewis (Conservative – New Forest East)

Chris Loder (Conservative – West Dorset)

Mark Logan (Conservative – Bolton North East)

Marco Longhi (Conservative – Dudley North)

Julia Lopez (Conservative – Hornchurch and Upminster)

Jack Lopresti (Conservative – Filton and Bradley Stoke)

Cherilyn Mackrory (Conservative – Truro and Falmouth)

Rachel Maclean (Conservative – Redditch)

Kit Malthouse (Conservative – North West Hampshire)

Anthony Mangnall (Conservative – Totnes)

Scott Mann (Conservative – North Cornwall)

Julie Marson (Conservative – Hertford and Stortford)

Theresa May (Conservative – Maidenhead)

Jerome Mayhew (Conservative – Broadland)

Paul Maynard (Conservative – Blackpool North and Cleveleys)

Karl McCartney (Conservative – Lincoln)

Stephen McPartland (Conservative – Stevenage)

Mark Menzies (Conservative – Fylde)

Stephen Metcalfe (Conservative – South Basildon and East Thurrock)

Robin Millar (Conservative – Aberconwy)

Maria Miller (Conservative – Basingstoke)

Nigel Mills (Conservative – Amber Valley)

Andrew Mitchell (Conservative – Sutton Coldfield)

Gagan Mohindra (Conservative – South West Hertfordshire)

Damien Moore (Conservative – Southport)

Robbie Moore (Conservative – Keighley)

Penny Mordaunt (Conservative Portsmouth North)

Anne Marie Morris (Conservative Newton Abbot)

James Morris (Conservative – Halesowen and Rowley Regis)

Joy Morrissey (Conservative – Beaconsfield)

Jill Mortimer (Conservative – Hartlepool)

Wendy Morton (Conservative – Aldridge-Brownhills)

Kieran Mullan (Conservative – Crewe and Nantwich)

Holly Mumby-Croft (Conservative – Scunthorpe) 

David Mundell (Conservative – Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale)

Sheryll Murray (Conservative – South East Cornwall)

Andrew Murrison (Conservative – South West Wiltshire)

Robert Neill (Conservative – Bromley and Chislehurst)

Lia Nici (Conservative – Great Grimsby)

Neil O’Brien (Conservative – Harborough)

Guy Opperman (Conservative – Hexham)

Neil Parish (Conservative – Tiverton and Honiton) 

Owen Paterson (Conservative – North Shropshire)

Mark Pawsey (Conservative – Rugby)

Mike Penning (Conservative – Hemel Hempstead)

John Penrose (Conservative – Weston-super-Mare)

Chris Philp (Conservative – Croydon South)

Christopher Pincher (Conservative – Tamworth)

Dan Poulter (Conservative – Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Rebecca Pow (Conservative – Taunton Deane)

Victoria Prentis (Conservative – Banbury)

Mark Pritchard (Conservative – The Wrekin)

Tom Pursglove (Conservative – Corby)

Will Quince (Conservative – Colchester)

Tom Randall (Conservative – Gedling) 

John Redwood (Conservative –Wokingham) 

Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative – North East Somerset)

Nicola Richards (Conservative – West Bromwich East)

Angela Richardson (Conservative – Guildford)

Laurence Robertson (Conservative – Tewkesbury)

Mary Robinson (Conservative – Cheadle)

Douglas Ross (Conservative – Moray)

Lee Rowley (Conservative – North East Derbyshire)

Dean Russell (Conservative – Watford)

David Rutley (Conservative – Macclesfield)

Gary Sambrook (Conservative – Birmingham, Northfield)

Selaine Saxby (Conservative – North Devon)

Paul Scully (Conservative – Sutton and Cheam)

Bob Seely (Conservative – Isle of Wight)

Andrew Selous (Conservative – South West Bedfordshire)

Grant Shapps (Conservative – Welwyn Hatfield)

Alec Shelbrooke (Conservative – Elmet and Rothwell)

Chris Skidmore (Conservative – Kingswood)

Chloe Smith (Conservative – Norwich North)

Greg Smith (Conservative – Buckingham)

Henry Smith (Conservative – Crawley)

Julian Smith (Conservative – Skipton and Ripon)

Royston Smith (Conservative – Southampton, Itchen)

Ben Spencer (Conservative – Runnymede and Weybridge)

Mark Spencer (Conservative – Sherwood)

Alexander Stafford (Conservative – Rother Valley)

Andrew Stephenson (Conservative – Pendle)

Jane Stevenson (Conservative – Wolverhampton North East)

Bob Stewart (Conservative – Beckenham)

Iain Stewart (Conservative – Milton Keynes South)

Gary Streeter (Conservative – South West Devon)

Mel Stride (Conservative – Central Devon)

Graham Stuart (Conservative – Beverley and Holderness)

Julian Sturdy (Conservative – York Outer)

James Sunderland (Conservative – Bracknell) 

Desmond Swayne (Conservative – New Forest West)

Robert Syms (Conservative – Poole)

Maggie Throup (Conservative – Erewash)

Edward Timpson (Conservative – Eddisbury)

Justin Tomlinson (Conservative – North Swindon)

Michael Tomlinson (Conservative – Mid Dorset and North Poole)

Craig Tracey (Conservative – North Warwickshire)

Laura Trott (Conservative – Sevenoaks)

Tom Tugendhat (Conservative – Tonbridge and Malling)

Shailesh Vara (Conservative – North West Cambridgeshire)

Martin Vickers (Conservative – Cleethorpes)

Matt Vickers (Conservative – Stockton South)

Christian Wakeford (Conservative – Bury South)

Robin Walker (Conservative – Worcester)

Charles Walker (Conservative – Broxbourne)

Jamie Wallis (Conservative – Bridgend)

David Warburton (Conservative – Somerton and Frome)

Matt Warman (Conservative – Boston and Skegness) 

Giles Watling (Conservative – Clacton)

Suzanne Webb (Conservative – Stourbridge)

Helen Whately (Conservative – Faversham and Mid Kent)

Heather Wheeler (Conservative – South Derbyshire)

John Whittingdale (Conservative – Maldon)

James Wild (Conservative – North West Norfolk)

Craig Williams (Conservative – Montgomeryshire)

Gavin Williamson (Conservative – South Staffordshire)

Mike Wood (Conservative – Dudley South)

William Wragg (Conservative – Hazel Grove)

Jeremy Wright (Conservative – Kenilworth and Southam)

Jacob Young (Conservative – Redcar)

Enough Is Enough !

We have reached  beyond tipping  point

Our communities torn bitterly apart,

As the cost of living soars so high

Energy prices out of control,

People unable to afford to eat

Tax cuts given to the elites.

No money for struggling families

Vestiges of privilege still intact,

The rich getting richer and richer

Wars tearing nations bloodily apart ,

Refugees forced to Rwanda

Trapped in an agonising reality.

Global warming, climate crisis

Disasters all around impending,

Democracy mutating daily

Into present day dystopia,

Tories forcing through draconian policies

Keep tightening their chains round necks..

As Summer draws to an end

A constant gruelling battle for survival,

Benefits stripped to the bone

After years of cuts and freezes,

The poor will have a miserable time

Many will go hungry, many will be cold.

With Labour party opposition not opposing

Vultures preying upon the weak, 

The working class at least fighting back

Screaming enough is enough,

Standing united and proud 

Against an establishment that does not care.

Until change is rightfully achieved 

Will continue to sing loudly out,

Hearts filled with devotion and pride

Anger and fierce defiance, all they can muster,  ,

As flowers still bloom below their feet

Wont let the bastards grind them down.