Secretary of state for health and social care Sajid Javid has come into hot water after posting a misleading tweet, falsely claiming he was opening a new hospital that day.

The tweet featured a picture of Javid writing on a notepad captioned:” looking forward to opening one of 48 new hospitals later today.”

The tweet is in reference to a promise from the conservative election campaign in 2019 to open 48 new hospitals if they were successfully re-elected.

However, the new hospital in question was in fact not a new hospital, but a new cancer centre within Carlisle hospital. The £35 million addition to the hospital has been widely accepted as a great investment by many. The centre will be one of the biggest cancer facilities in the country with all new state of the art technology and is set to help thousands of patients around Cumbria.

Despite the cancer centre’s good reception, Javid has faced thousands of angry tweets after trying to pass the centre off as a whole new hospital which commonly costs over ten times more than the £35 million cancer centre investment. 

Some are worried the false claim casts doubt on all Tory credibility after a similar promise to put 20,000 more police officers on the street, but it was later realised this number only just matches the amount of police the same government had previously cut.

Businesswoman and TV investor Deborah Meaden was among the many to call out the claim, tweeting simply: “This is a lie, Rt” in an effort to highlight the misinformation.

Deputy leader of the opposition Angela Rayner also made a clear stand to combat the claim tweeting: “This is a lie. There is no new hospital.”

Along with celebrities and political opposition criticising the claim by Javid, many Doctors have also come forward to call out the tweet for being a lie, in an attempt to signal the industries distrust in the current government.

Palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke replied: “Please. It’s a cancer unit within an existing Hospital, the Cumberland Infirmary.

If you spin this brazenly, why on earth should NHS staff, patients and the public trust you?”

When interviewed Ex Nurse Rosie Hurst had similar worries on how It will affect patients trust in the governments running of the NHS:” It’s not like I ever really expected forty odd new hospitals. But how are people going to feel if they have had a local facility closed in recent years and voted at the promise of a huge increase in hospitals but see really, it’s just wings and wards. If I was still in the NHS, I would be furious they find it okay to throw all this false hope at the industry for no reason other than ego.”

International Condemnation from World leaders shows a lack of faith in US democracy after capitol attack.

After the storming of the capitol building in D.C many world leaders took the time to express their condolences and condemn the attack. However, many took it as an opportunity to criticize the alleged democratic role model of the world and outgoing president Donald Trump.

Figures throughout the middle east and Asia have mixed reactions telling of their international affairs with the USA. Notably China who have a currently troubled relationship with the US accusing them of being hypocritical and the Chinese state-controlled media called it “Karma” for the US response to protestors in Hong Kong.

However Chinese politicians did state they wish for “safety and stability in the US”

Iran took the Chinese attitude a step further by mocking the United states with the Ayatollah saying “This is their democracy this is their election fiasco. Today the US and American values are ridiculed by even their friends”

The president of Iran took a softer approach blaming Trump calling him a “sick man” and criticizing the fragile nature of “their democracy.”

Many western figures and close allies of the United States had a consistent response expressing concern over the incident agreeing it was an outrageous assault on democracy.

The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his heads urged for a peaceful transfer of power and “unreservedly” condemned Trump for the role he played in encouraging the riot.

First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon said she “stands in solidarity with those on the side of democracy in the US.”.

The majority of the EU were in unison with a condemning response but standing with America through the touch time and wishing them strength into the transition of power.

Speech report. Jacinda Ardern addresses parliament after Christchurch shooting.

New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has urged the country to come together in support and remembrance of the Christchurch massacre victims, and to deny the “notoriety sought” by the perpetrator.

In her address to parliament a week after the far-right attack which saw 50 worshippers killed in a Christchurch mosque on an online live stream the Prime minister outlined the steps being taken to support the affected communities and send a message to other would-be extremists.

Ms Ardern refused to say the name of the terrorist saying, “He will, when I speak, be nameless.” in an effort to silence his.

Instead, she implored everyone to, “speak the names of those who were lost”. 

Her sentiment has been largely supported and many publications have not printed his name.

In the speech she made an emphasis of saying the names of the victims and commending the bravery they showed.

She told the house, “Naeem Rashid, originally from Pakistan, died after rushing at the terrorist and trying to wrestle the gun from him.”

And,

“Abdul Aziz, originally from Afghanistan, confronted and faced down the armed terrorist after grabbing the nearest thing to hand”

Ms Ardern emphasised that he was not a New Zealand citizen and his ideology goes against everything it means to be a New Zealander.

A key focus of her speech was about prevention of future violent attacks she stated how “we cannot allow this to happen again.” before telling the house that the countries gun laws “will change.”. Telling them that decisions on gun laws will be made before the house meets again, suggesting immediate action to tighten gun laws.

She stated that although they believe there’s no threat of another attack the country will remain on high alert.

As the massacre was streamed live and remained online on the original post for over ten minutes and was viewed thousands of times the Prime Minister told social media companies, they have to take some responsibility regarding hateful content being made and spread, she said,” they are the publisher not just the messenger” and, “it cannot be all profit no responsibility”.

Ms Ardern also used the speech to reassure her citizens, by outlining extra policing to be around mosques at prayer times and providing phone numbers that can be rang for support if people are distressed after the incident.

The speech was concluded with a final message of unity in English, Maori and Arabic.

Melton Residents furious after thirty-five thousand pound hole is dug in town centre to hold the towns Christmas tree. 

Melton council’s spending for September revealed thirty-five thousand pounds was paid to Corby based contractors, Jeakins weir, to dig the seven foot hole in the town market square. Prompting backlash from “furious” locals after the information from bidstats.com was posted on a neighborhood watch Facebook group, by a local restauranteur. 

Residents anger was due to the fact the cost appears massively excessive for the size of a job, which for reference took less than a day and the hole is around a foot deeper than the depth a telephone pole is buried. One resident Brett Dziura called it an; “absolute joke’ and said; “The council really don’t give a sh*t about Melton people.” 

The large expense has however been defended by Melton councilor Leigh Higgins claiming; “context is needed’ to understand the need for the works which he says are; “ a long term solution to enable a tree to be put up safely “ and he mentions how it will be used for “years in the future.”  He further justified it by saying the cost is small compared to the cost of being liable if it were to fall and injure someone. 

However the councilors explanation gave no reasoning as to how such a high price was reached. 

Whilst residents were pleased at having some sort of explanation, many felt it raised more questions than it answered, was the stand the tree was held in in previous years unsafe? And who decided it was less safe was it the council or was it the contractor. 

I have contacted councilor Higgins for further information. 

This comes at a time of high suspicion of government awarded contracts after in the the summer a £13 billion contract was awarded to serco for a track and trace app which the company was not experienced in developing, and cost hundreds of times more than paid by other countries for more effective apps.  

I asked a number of students from the University of Essex, in a Vox pop style interview for their thoughts on the candidates of the US election.

Iuan Jenkins 18;”I think they both definitely have their flaws and one probably has a worse reputation than the other. Either way its gonna cause a lot of discussions and either way it ends badly and a lot of people are gonna disagree and be angry with either candidate.

Rumyana Krasteva 18; “Personally I believe that with a two party system all you can really do is vote for the lesser of two evils. So to not be apathetic if I could vote id have to choose the slightly better one. Which in my opinion is Biden because I think trump is a terrible, terrible person but neither of them is really good.”

Georgia Stroud 20; “I don’t know massively loads about it but from what I do know about the two candidates id definitely say it would be better for the world and the country with Biden but either way the backlash is gonna be negative from the other side.”

Lily Morris 18; “I think the best option is to definitely settle for Biden because I think its just way too dangerous to allow Trump to remain in power and carry on how he is.”

Nana Osei 18; ” I think widens definitely better. like, the whole country and even the rest of the world has massively divided and racists and far right extremists have had voice and its spreading and is enabled which is obviously wrong. But like he’s not as supportive on Brexit so I’m some ways he might be worse for us.”