LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
When in the EU they took too many of our fish and limited UK quotas. They banned our beef for too long. They kept us short of milk quota to limit our exports of dairy. They gave grants to close our orchards. Why would they help our food exporters this time?
LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
🚨DURO GOLPE A LA UE de Von der Leyen💥
La abogada holandesa Meike Terhorst ha destrozado los planes ilegales de la UE para el control masivo
«¡La UE NO ES un Estado soberano, NO PUEDE imponer NADA a los países miembros!»
¿La tiranía de la Identidad Digital? ¡Podemos tirarla a la basura!
BRAVO👏🔥UN GRAN EJEMPLO este es el trato que hay que dar al totalitarismo de Von der Leyen 🔥
LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
Mandated Folic Acid Flour Fortification Violates Informed Consent
@ukmfa1 Dr Liz Evans on @CHDTVLive
"...it completely violates informed consent or individualised medicine...different people have a different risk v benefit profile and it is a one-size-fits-all approach...it will be so hard for people who don't want to consume folic acid to avoid it...white flour is added to so many things..."
LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
REPARATIONS OR MONEY LAUNDERING?
Can we ask the proper question here? Is this reparations or money laundering?
If this comes to pass...
It takes money out of our tax system, but where does it actually go? Descendants of slaves aren't just the current underprivileged, they're also now professors, doctors, sportsmen, people with good jobs. It's at least 4 or 5 generations since anyone was a slave.
So considering we now have an estimated 50 million people in modern day slavery (15.7 million of those in Commonwealth countries alone), does reparations just keep rolling on and on?
We can't get timely healthcare as it is. By the time our taxes have gone on weapons to countries at war, foreign aid, and now reparations, there's nothing left to run the country. The benefits system gobbles up our PAYE as it is.
The correct response in my view. Every nation had slaves, Britain began the dismantling of the Transatlantic Slave Trade .
We had our own slaves in the depressing wool and cotton mills, the coal mines and foundries .kids worked barefoot , dressing in rags their entire lives and died young.
Reparations ignores our suffering. The working class didn't choose this life.
Do our forefathers get ignored because of their skin colour?
Isn't it fashionable these days to reflect on their abuse.?
They worked for a pittance , had malnutrition and a host of health conditions directly caused b their environment
Reparations should start here!
LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
To me this is CONCLUSIVE PROOF that the folic acid mandate is nefarious + malicious.
SACN ADVISED IN 2009 THAT OVER 50'S NEED AVOID OVER 200MCG PER DAY TO LOWER RISK OF GETTING CANCER.
The current @CMO_England IS AWARE of this.
@RupertLowe10 @EstherMcVey1 @AlPinkerton
5⃣What are the potential risks? - Dosing
Before I get onto summarising why this is a bad policy that should be reversed, I want to talk a bit about doses.
One of the main arguments from the pro-fortification camp (and indeed the government) is that the amounts of folic acid going into food are low compared to what is in a typical supplement.
This argument is bogus. It doesn't stand up to the evidence. First, a bit of context:
💊A typical folic acid supplement targeted at women of child-bearing age is 400 micrograms/day.
🔝The "upper limit" which has been adopted as the "safe maximum" for adults, is 1000 micrograms/day. (You'll remember from previous posts in the thread that some of the adverse effects of folic acid supplementation were observed in studies involving supplementation of 1000ug per day, so I'm not sure how "safe" this safe level is).
🧑🔬In 2009, the UK Chief Medical Officer was advised by the Scientific Advisory Committee:
"For people who choose to take supplements, as a precaution, it would be advisable for those aged over 50 years not to consume supplements containing folic acid above the recommended nutrient intake (RNI) for folate of 200 µg/day since the risk of developing colorectal adenomas/colorectal cancer increases after this age".
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Let's have a look at a typical day's eating for someone who's not especially health conscious, and how much folic acid they will consume after these new rules are in force:
Breakfast
🥣Bowl of corn flakes, whole milk 50-120 ug
🍞2 slices of white toast 100-120 ug
with Marmite 100ug
Orange
Coffee with milk
Mid morning
🍪2 digestive biscuits 15-30 ug
Cup of coffee with milk
Lunch
🍞Coronation chicken sandwich, three slices of white bread 150-180ug
Packet of crisps
Bottle of orange juice
Banana
Mid afternoon
🧁Slice of sponge cake 20-40ug
coffee with milk
Dinner
🍕2/3rd of a typical supermarket Margherita pizza 80-150ug
🧄Portion of Garlic bread 30-50 ug
🥧slice of apple pie 15-30ug
custard
cup of coffee with milk
Supper
🍘🧀cheese with crackers 10-20 ug
hot chocolate
Total folic acid intake from food alone = 500 to 700 ug
So the folic acid supplementation here is around 3 times the maximum recommended for the over 50s, and approaching twice what is in a folic acid supplement for pregnant women.
Add in a few more slices of bread or pizza or cake, and the 1000ug "upper limit" - the one where adverse effects were observed in several studies - is at risk too.
So no, dear government, the amounts of folic acid in food are not going to be insignificant at all - for many people with a diet rich in baked and processed foods they will be highly significant and easily exceed what is in a folic acid pill.
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LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
Norway's PM warns Britain NOT to follow its example by joining the EU single market in Brexit reset because Brussels takes too much control trib.al/BlTNDPI
LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
Quality food costs more. A fact of life, right?
Better, more expensive, ingredients, prepared more expertly, by higher skilled, higher paid people, packaged more carefully and nicely and perhaps transported a long distance.
This Crosta Mollica Italian pizza is on offer at £5 in Morrisons now. The Morrisons own brand one is half the price, at 2 for £5.
While we expect to pay more for better quality, in a modern Western country we should have a reasonable expectation of a minimum level of safety, even in cheap products.
The Italian made pizza does not contain folic acid (or any other additives). The British made Morrisons one, like all goods made in Britain with non wholemeal flour, does now contain folic acid.
How much?
We don't know for sure because the lebel doesn't tell us. But we can do an estimate based on the details of the UK legislation. From next month, by law, non-wholemeal wheat flour must be fortified with 250 µg (0.25 mg) folic acid per 100 g of flour
If we do some sums (included in the next post to keep things simple here) a reasonable estimate for the amount of folic acid in this pizza is 300 micrograms.
"So what?", you may say. Folic acid is folate which ia a vitamin and it's good for us!
NO!
Folic acid is a synthetic molecule which is different from the natural folate (vutamin B9) found in many foods, and behaves differently in the body.
"So what?" you may still say. 300 micrograms is a tiny amount. It's safe!
Also NO!
Firstly, lots of people will eat a lot more flour in one day besides one pizza, so their daily total will often be far more than 400 micrograms. White flour is in all sorts of foods, often in very unexpected places. And in many existing vitamin supplements.
And, more importantly, some years ago a recommendation was made to the UK Chief Medical Officer that people aged over 50 should not consume more than 200 micrograms per day in folic acid supplementation, because of research showing an increased risk of colon cancer.
And yet, the government is now mandating the addition of this chemical to all non-wholemeal flour, meaning it is in countless everyday foods like pizza, consumed by millions.
And this is all before we get into the fact that the NHS recommends that people with cancer or a heart stent avoid folic acid supplementation entirely.
What the hell is going on here?
Hey, Food Standards Agency @foodgov : Your website says that you are "responsible for food safety and food hygiene in England, Wales and Northern Ireland"
Are you asleep?
"Non Per Tutti" says the Crosta Mollica packaging. Not For Everyone.
£5 pizzas may not be for everyone. But everyone should have a reasonable expectation that food on sale in British shops won't make them sick.
Don't you think?
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LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
I read this open mouthed.
Are You happy for energy companies to be able to access your finances and charge you more to help someone less well off?!?
🚨Labour’s Bill Would Let Energy Firms Dig Into Your Tax Records and House Value So They Can Charge You Extra to Subsidise Others
Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh introduced the Energy Independence Bill last week that would hand energy companies access to eight government databases, including your HMRC tax and income records, child benefit, property value and pensions.
This is a major expansion beyond the limited fuel-poverty data they already get. Official assessments openly plan “progressivity”: discounts for some households paid for by extra levies on those judged better off.
Nothing happens until the bill passes and ministers create a scheme through further legislation.
Her department calls it targeting support. The unmistakable purpose is giving private firms the power to inspect your private finances and raise your bill to subsidise everyone else.
This is not support. It is a deliberate decision to treat your private tax records and property value as legitimate tools for deciding who gets charged more, then hand that power to private energy companies.
Once the machinery exists, Labour will expand it. The only real question is how far they intend to go.
LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
MPs must join Monday's debate to end white flour fortification, as it affects us all.
Forcing an entire population to ingest the drug Synthetic Folic Acid violates our bodily autonomy.The data does not justify compelling the nation to take this additive without choice or opt-out.
🤖 Made with AI
LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
Show us Deng Chol Majek, who murdered Rhiannon Whyte.
Show us Ahmad Mulakhil, who repeatedly raped a 12-year-old girl.
Show us Abdelrahmen Adnan Abouelela, a convicted terrorist who raped a woman in Hyde Park.
Show us Islamuddin Talash, who raped a vulnerable man in a Leicester park.
Show us Sheraz Malik, who raped an 18-year-old woman.
Show us Abdul Khan, who raped a 13-year-old.
Show us Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old and a woman in Epping.
Show us Ayman Mohammed Al-Shammari, currently facing terror charges, who raped a woman in her own home.
LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
It is truly disgraceful that Andy Burnham is using Remembrance Sunday to promote his EU deal.
LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
This is totally dishonest polling by Tory donor who isn’t even a member of the British Polling Council.
He had us at 21% in May and we achieved 28% - his polling has been proven as bogus time and time again.
Kemi Badenoch storms to an eight-point poll lead over Nigel Farage as voters back her tax-cutting policies trib.al/SIqgNsC
LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
People need to get their facts straight. Reform has not gone soft on immigration. Zia was born in Scotland to legal immigrants. His father is a doctor and his mother is a nurse, and both have worked in the NHS since arriving here. Zia is a self-made millionaire who has paid millions in tax to this country.
Lowe did not spend his own money on the rape gang inquiry; he crowdfunded it. He was asked by Maggie Oliver not to go ahead with the inquiry as it was a complete waste of time, since only the courts have the power to make people appear in court. Maggie said all it would do is make the victims relive their ordeal [delete again]. Lowe’s inquiry was completely toothless.
Lowe went into business during lockdown with Sunak's wife. When it failed, they both walked away owing taxpayers £6.1 million. Look at what Lowe did to Southampton FC; they cheered when he left. He’s a nasty, vindictive, bitter, and egomaniacal person.
And surely to God you were not taken in by his offer to Reform! If he'd been genuine, it would have been done in private—not done by a video on the internet, set to music with a list of ridiculous demands! Why should Reform step down? Lowe is an MP only because he stood on the Reform platform. All of Lowe’s councillors stood as independents and then switched to Lowe's gang.
Lowe sits on Tory committees. Why? He’s obviously been promised something. He’s already said that if he doesn’t win the general election, he’s off. When did you last hear of a single MP—who even has a deputy leader—becoming the government? You are being played, people. Wake up! Lowe is no good! But of course, if you want Labour to get a second term, carry on supporting him!
LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
To any young ones out there who think the state pension doesn’t matter or should go — please take a moment to listen. My husband is about to retire. He’s paid into workplace pensions for over 40 years, working process and manual jobs. Not high-paid roles, just decent above-average wages for that kind of work. He stayed at one place for 18 years and another for well over 20. Over that time the companies changed schemes and pots — things he had no say in — and sorting it all out now has been a right hassle. Workplace pensions do have a big advantage: the employer pays in as well (under the rules it’s at least 3% of qualifying earnings, on top of what you put in). If you were only paying into your own private pension today, you wouldn’t automatically get that employer money. Even so, after all those years of him and his employers putting money in — amounts that could easily add up to several thousand pounds a year in total contributions — he’s looking at something that, if he’s lucky, might cover roughly half a month’s wage each month from the whole lot in retirement. A lot of ordinary workers end up in a similar position. Changing jobs means multiple pots, contributions can be at the minimum levels, and growth doesn’t always turn into the kind of income people hope for once fees, markets and inflation are taken into account. It’s doubtful many of you will build a private pension that does much better on its own. The state pension is still the safety net underneath all of that. Right now the full new state pension is around £241 a week (just over £12,500 a year), and it rises under the triple lock. For people who haven’t built huge private pots — which is most of us who aren’t in high-paid jobs — it makes a real difference. Support it and fight to keep it strong. It’s your safety net too, not just for the generation retiring now.
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Gent in purple, "State pensioners who have contributed their whole lives are on a lot less than minimum wage"
"I'm very lucky to have a small German pension, and believe me, it's a lot more than what we pay in this country"
"Most of western Europe their pensions are much higher than the state pension in this country"
"I'm lucky I get a pension from the military"
"But people on the basic state pension, I reall feel sorry for them"
My view:
The full new State Pension is roughly £12,548 a year.
Someone working 37.5 hours a week on the £12.71 minimum wage earns about £24,785 before tax.
That puts the full new State Pension at barely half a full-time minimum-wage salary.
Government figures show that 12% of pensioner families received their income entirely from the State Pension and other state benefits in 2024/25.
That same year, around 1.7 million pensioners — one in seven — were living in relative poverty after housing costs.
A better pension means being able to heat your home, eat properly and see friends without calculating what you’ll have to go without afterwards.
It also means money spent in the communities where pensioners live.
After a lifetime of working, caring and contributing, financial security should be something people can expect.
LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
Our country is lucky to have @CeeMacBee
Who is exposing a fraud by Labour
To sell us all out to the EU.
Captured Market
In the Substack below, I explain what the MSM didn't mention or didn't understand about the leaked press release of the 'done deal' Reset 'negotiations' that are meant to take place on November 20th, but this is just a Photo Op and a signing ceremony.
catherinemcbride.substack.co…
LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
I just bought a sponge cake in M&S and it has folic acid in it ,if folic acid is in so many things now how do we know we aren’t having too much of it ?
LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
Burnham is about to surrender Britain’s ability to deport foreign criminals to the EU.
A leaked draft of Burnham’s ‘Brexit Reset’ states the UK will ‘not proceed’ with early deportations and removals to the EU under the Sentencing Act 2026.
Since 2023, the authorities have sent more than 375,000 notifications abroad regarding EU nationals convicted in Britain.
Burnham is happy to betray the 17 million Brits who voted to leave the EU, and throw open our borders as a bargaining chip.
He has already capitulated on everything the EU has demanded.
He’s set to bring 80,000 young EU citizens here while a million young Brits are out of work.
He’s set to continue to give British fishing rights to Brussels.
He’s set to send taxpayer money into a fund for less developed EU countries.
Over and over, Andy Burnham has put the interests of foreign nationals above the interests of the British people.
This ends with us.
Reform will be a government for one people and one people only:
The British people.
LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
A message from Henry’s Mum, Lucy Ross.
In her own words, Lucy shares why she created The Henry Nowak Foundation in loving memory of her son.
#henrynowakfoundation
#HenryNowak
LadyVonDeGarden retweeted
Z ogromnym niepokojem przyjmuję doniesienia o tragicznych wydarzeniach w centrum Krakowa.
Moje myśli są z ofiarami, poszkodowanymi i ich rodzinami.
Pozostaję w kontakcie z odpowiednimi służbami i oczekuję pełnego wyjaśnienia okoliczności tych dramatycznych wydarzeń. Szef Biura Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego jest w drodze do Krakowa.
Bezpieczeństwo Polaków jest absolutnym priorytetem!