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Welcome to Ivydene Gardens Library Catalogue.

When designing a garden, you should not start by buying those lovely plants whose georgeous flowers have attracted your attention at a garden centre and then wonder where to put them.

You need a Garden style from which flows the Garden Planting Design using the plants that are suitable for that Garden Style. The order of abstraction goes down to the Plant Species book which requires reading all the way through to find the names of all the Primroses with Blue flowers (the Plant Type book would have a list instead to reduce your searching time).

The Plants topic in this website will show you lists of plants suitable for different soils, uses, flower colours etc.

You can select cultivated or wildflower plants from The Plant Photo Galleries by comparing thumbnail photos of flowers, foliage, plant shape, fruit/seeds and within flower beds. Website links to the nursery that can sell the plant by mail order is usually stated in the Comments Row in the relevant Plant Description Page, which is added to the screen when you click on a thumbnail photo.

Also using the 5 flower colours per month of a plant type, you could select a bulb with yellow flowers in April, and then using the photos in the Colour Wheel - Flowers select other plants to have complementary or contrasting flower colours. The other Colour Wheels on Foliage and Rock Plants (as seen in the menu on the left) can also aid your choice.

A combination of books, internet and personal experience can broaden your knowledge and provide fun in creating your own garden space.

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Please note that this listing is for information only. I am not able to lend or loan out these books. If you wish to obtain a copy of any book that interests you, visit your local library or Amazon.co.uk.

The chart below explains how Ivydene Gardens Library has been structured. Click a link to get the start page of each section. Each entry, where possible, has an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) to assist you in locating a copy.

In order to assist the design process for a garden, the Library has been split into the following order of abstraction:-

The Reference Library and the Practical Projects categories will assist with construction.

Private garden maintenance can then be assisted by the following:-

Please note that entries in the library pages in red text indicate books that Chris Garnons-Williams has found to be more useful than the others in that section.

Library Category

Definition

Garden Style

The overall style of the garden — Cottage, Japanese, Feng-Shui, etc.

Garden Design

gives design methodologies to follow for the Garden Style chosen.

Garden Planting Design

gives planting design ideas for the beds of the overall garden design chosen above.

Location of Plants

shows which plants should be grouped together for its soil, shade, colour for the garden style chosen.

Plant Association

shows which plant combinations give a pleasing colour combination or foliage contrast.

Plant Types
 

gives growing conditions of a particular family of plants, i.e. Primulas, with lists of where suitable.

Plant Species
 

gives data about a particular family of plants in restricted format.

 

 

Gardening
 

gives general information on how to garden for the whole garden.

Garden Cultivation

gives specific data about growing vegetables in a kitchen garden, or fruit in an orchard, or lawns, ponds etc.

Propagation
 

gives details on how to propagate new plants from seed, division or grafting.

Garden Pests
 

includes information on garden pests and diseases with their control.

Garden Tips
 

gives tips on different parts of gardening

 

 

Practical Projects
 

gives details on how to construct hard landscaping.

Wildlife
 

gives details concerning wildlife that could be found in gardens, their lifestyle and how to encourage them to your garden.

 

 

Reference Library
 

contains some detailed reference material that may contain British Standards for construction.

Miscellaneous

contains books that don’t fit in any of the other categories.

 

 

Health
 

gives data on how to look after one’s own health.

Library to aid garden design, construction and maintenance.
Library Catalogue Introduction.
Garden Style: . . . . . . . . . . .Gives Style - Cottage, Japanese, Formal, etc.
Garden Design (A-G): . . . . . Gives design methodologies for the
Garden Design (G-H): . . . . Garden Style chosen.
Garden Design (J-T):
Garden Design (T-W)
Garden Planting Design (A-G): Planting Design ideas
Garden Planting Design (G-L): for the beds
Garden Planting Design (L-S): of the overall
Garden Planting Design (S-T): Garden Design
Garden Planting Design (T-Y): chosen above.
Location of Plants (A-G): . . . Shows which plants should be
Location of Plants (G-T): . . . grouped together for its soil, shade
Location of Plants (T-W): . . . . and colour for the Garden Style chosen.
Plant Association (A-R): . . . . .Shows which plant combinations give
Plant Association (T-W): . . . pleasing colour or foliage combination.
Plant Types (A-H): . . . . . . . Gives growing conditions of a
Plant Types (H-S): . . . . . . . . family of plants - ie Primulas -with lists
Plant Types (T-T): . . . . . . . . . of where suitable.
Plant Species (A-E): . . . . . . . Gives data about a family
Plant Species (F-M): . . . . . . . of plants in
Plant Species (M-T): . . . . . . . .restricted format.
Plant Species (T-W)
Gardening (A-S): . . . . . . . . . Gives general information on how to
Gardening (S-Y): . . . . . . . . . garden for the whole garden.
Garden Cultivation: . . . . . . . . . Specifically on veg, fruit, lawn, pond etc.
Propagation: . . . . . . . . . How to propagate from seed, division or grafting.
Garden Pests: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garden pests/diseases and their control.
Garden Tips: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tips on different parts of gardening.
Practical Projects (A-H): . . . . . . Gives details
Practical Projects (H-S): . . . . . . on how
Practical Projects (S-T): . . . . . . to construct
Practical Projects (T-Y): . . . . . . hard landscaping.
Wildlife: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .How to encourage wildlife into your garden.
Reference Library: . . . . . . . . . . Some detailed reference material.
Miscellaneous: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Odd books.
Health: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . How to look after your own health.
17 Section Library Catalogue for Private Gardens - Site Map.

 

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Library Pages

Library Introduction
Site Map


Garden Style
Garden Design:-
A-G

G-H with Arsenic and Old Lace Cake Variation Recipes that I - as a Member -provided as cakes during 5 Medway Fair Traders Scheme Meetings.
J-T with Arsenic and Old Lace Cake Variation 5 Recipe
T-W
Garden Planting Design:-
A-G

G-L
L-S
S-T
T-Y
Location of Plants:-
A-G

G-T with Slavery Education of Girls in UK
T-W with Cup Cakes of Arsenic and Old Lace Cake Variation 3 Recipe
Plant Association:-
A-R

T-W
Plant Types:-
A-H

H-S
T-T
Plant Species:-
A-E

F-M
M-T
T-W
Gardening:-
A-S

S-Y
Garden Cultivation
Propagation
Garden Pests
Garden Tips
Practical Projects:-
A-H
with Saving the Church's Common Yew
H-S Plans for new garage on my property, that I built
S-T
T-Y
Wildlife
Reference Library
Miscellaneous
Health

The Garden Style chosen at the beginning defines what a garden should look like.

Following this choice of Garden Style, then:-

  • use the relevant Garden Design methodology, then
  • use the Planting Design to implement the ideas for the beds, before
  • using the Location of Plants to show which plants should be grouped together for the soil, shade and colour of that Garden Style chosen.

Plant Association shows which plant combinations give pleasing flower or foliage colour combinations, then

Plant Type gives growing conditions of a family of plants - ie Primulas - with lists of primulas with the same flower colour, foliage colour or height and where is suitable for those plants, followed by

Plant Species gives data about a family of plants in a restricted format - ie without lists - as the lowest level of useful information (unless you are prepared to read the text in a whole book each time you want to use this particular species of plant).

 

Gardening gives general information on how to garden for the whole garden.

Garden Cultivation gives specific information on veg, fruit, lawn, pond, etc.

Garden Pests details garden pests/diseases and their control.

 

Practical Projects gives details on how to construct hard landscaping.

 

THE 2 EUREKA EFFECT PAGES FOR UNDERSTANDING SOIL AND HOW PLANTS INTERACT WITH IT OUT OF 15,000:-


Explanation of Structure of this Website with User Guidelines Page for those photo galleries with Photos
(of either ones I have taken myself or others which have been loaned only for use on this website from external sources)

 

or

 

when I do not have my own or ones from mail-order nursery photos , then from March 2016, if you want to start from the uppermost design levels through to your choice of cultivated and wildflower plants to change your Plant Selection Process then use the following galleries:-

  • Create and input all plants known by Amateur Gardening inserted into their Sanders' Encyclopaedia from their edition published in 1960 (originally published by them in 1895) into these
    • Stage 1 - Garden Style Index Gallery,
      then
    • Stage 2 - Infill Plants Index Gallery being the only gallery from these 7 with photos (from Wikimedia Commons) ,
      then
    • Stage 3 - All Plants Index Gallery with each plant species in its own Plant Type Page followed by choice from Stage 4a, 4b, 4c and/or 4d REMEMBERING THE CONSTRAINTS ON THE SELECTION FROM THE CHOICES MADE IN STAGES 1 AND 2
    • Stage 4a - 12 Bloom Colours per Month Index Gallery,
    • Stage 4b - 12 Foliage Colours per Month Index Gallery with
    • Stage 4c - Cultivation, Position, Use Index Gallery and
    • Stage 4d - Shape, Form Index Gallery
    • Unfortunately, if you want to have 100's of choices on selection of plants from 1000's of 1200 pixels wide by up to 16,300 pixels in length webpages, which you can jump to from almost any of the pages in these 7 galleries above, you have to put up with those links to those choices being on
      • the left topic menu table,
      • the header of the middle data table and on
      • the page/index menu table on the right of every page of those galleries.

There are other pages on Plants which bloom in each month of the year in this website:-

 

 

Topic
Plants detailed in this website by
Botanical Name

A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M, N,
O, P, Q, R, S, T, U,
V, W, X, Y, Z ,
Bulb
A1
, 2, 3, B, C1, 2,
D, E, F, G, Glad,
H, I, J, K, L1, 2,
M, N, O, P, Q, R,
S, T, U, V, W, XYZ ,
Evergreen Perennial
A
, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M, N,
O, P, Q, R, S, T, U,
V, W, X, Y, Z ,
Herbaceous Perennial
A1
, 2, B, C, D, E, F,
G, H, I, J, K, L, M,
N, O, P1, 2, Q, R,
S, T, U, V, W, XYZ,
Diascia Photo Album,
UK Peony Index

Wildflower
Botanical Names,
Common Names ,

will be
compared in:- Flower colour/month
Evergreen Perennial
,
F
lower shape Wildflower Flower Shape and
Plant use
Evergreen Perennial Flower Shape,
Bee plants for hay-fever sufferers

Bee-Pollinated Index
Butterfly
Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis, Butterfly Usage
of Plants.
Chalk
A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M, N,
O, P, QR, S, T, UV,
WXYZ
Companion Planting
A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M, N,
O, P, Q, R , S, T,
U ,V, W, X, Y, Z,
Pest Control using Plants
Fern Fern
1000 Ground Cover A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M, N,
O, P, Q, R, S, T, U,
V, W, XYZ ,
Rock Garden and Alpine Flowers
A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M,
NO, PQ, R, S, T,
UVWXYZ

Rose Rose Use

These 5 have Page links in rows below
Bulbs from the Infill Galleries (next row), Camera Photos,
Plant Colour Wheel Uses,
Sense of Fragrance, Wild Flower


Case Studies
...Drive Foundations
Ryegrass and turf kills plants within Roadstone and in Topsoil due to it starving and dehydrating them.
CEDAdrive creates stable drive surface and drains rain into your ground, rather than onto the public road.
8 problems caused by building house on clay or with house-wall attached to clay.
Pre-building work on polluted soil.

Companion Planting
to provide a Companion Plant to aid your selected plant or deter its pests

Garden
Construction

with ground drains

Garden Design
...How to Use the Colour Wheel Concepts for Selection of Flowers, Foliage and Flower Shape
...RHS Mixed
Borders

......Bedding Plants
......Her Perennials
......Other Plants
......Camera photos of Plant supports
Garden
Maintenance

Glossary with a tomato teaching cauliflowers
Home
Library of over 1000 books
Offbeat Glossary with DuLally Bird in its flower clock.

Plants
...in Chalk
(Alkaline) Soil
......A-F1, A-F2,
......A-F3, G-L, M-R,
......M-R Roses, S-Z
...in Heavy
Clay Soil
......A-F, G-L, M-R,
......S-Z
...in Lime-Free
(Acid) Soil
......A-F, G-L, M-R,
......S-Z
...in Light
Sand Soil
......A-F, G-L, M-R,
......S-Z.
...Poisonous Plants.
...Extra Plant Pages
with its 6 Plant Selection Levels

Soil
...
Interaction between 2 Quartz Sand Grains to make soil
...
How roots of plants are in control in the soil
...
Without replacing Soil Nutrients, the soil will break up to only clay, sand or silt
...
Subsidence caused by water in Clay
...
Use water ring for trees/shrubs for first 2 years.

Tool Shed with 3 kneeling pads
Useful Data with benefits of Seaweed

Topic -
Plant Photo Galleries
If the plant type below has flowers, then the first gallery will include the flower thumbnail in each month of 1 of 6 colour comparison pages of each plant in its subsidiary galleries, as a low-level Plant Selection Process

Aquatic
Bamboo
Bedding
...by Flower Shape

Bulb
...Allium/ Anemone
...Autumn
...Colchicum/ Crocus
...Dahlia
...Gladiolus with its 40 Flower Colours
......European A-E
......European F-M
......European N-Z
......European Non-classified
......American A,
B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M,
N, O, P, Q, R, S,
T, U, V, W, XYZ
......American Non-classified
......Australia - empty
......India
......Lithuania
...Hippeastrum/ Lily
...Late Summer
...Narcissus
...Spring
...Tulip
...Winter
...Each of the above ...Bulb Galleries has its own set of Flower Colour Pages
...Flower Shape
...Bulb Form

...Bulb Use

...Bulb in Soil


Further details on bulbs from the Infill Galleries:-
Hardy Bulbs
...Aconitum
...Allium
...Alstroemeria
...Anemone

...Amaryllis
...Anthericum
...Antholyzas
...Apios
...Arisaema
...Arum
...Asphodeline

...Asphodelus
...Belamcanda
...Bloomeria
...Brodiaea
...Bulbocodium

...Calochorti
...Cyclobothrias
...Camassia
...Colchicum
...Convallaria 
...Forcing Lily of the Valley
...Corydalis
...Crinum
...Crosmia
...Montbretia
...Crocus

...Cyclamen
...Dicentra
...Dierama
...Eranthis
...Eremurus
...Erythrnium
...Eucomis

...Fritillaria
...Funkia
...Galanthus
...Galtonia
...Gladiolus
...Hemerocallis

...Hyacinth
...Hyacinths in Pots
...Scilla
...Puschkinia
...Chionodoxa
...Chionoscilla
...Muscari

...Iris
...Kniphofia
...Lapeyrousia
...Leucojum

...Lilium
...Lilium in Pots
...Malvastrum
...Merendera
...Milla
...Narcissus
...Narcissi in Pots

...Ornithogalum
...Oxalis
...Paeonia
...Ranunculus
...Romulea
...Sanguinaria
...Sternbergia
...Schizostylis
...Tecophilaea
...Trillium

...Tulip
...Zephyranthus

Half-Hardy Bulbs
...Acidanthera
...Albuca
...Alstroemeri
...Andro-stephium
...Bassers
...Boussing-aultias
...Bravoas
...Cypellas
...Dahlias
...Galaxis,
...Geissorhizas
...Hesperanthas

...Gladioli
...Ixias
...Sparaxises
...Babianas
...Morphixias
...Tritonias

...Ixiolirions
...Moraeas
...Ornithogalums
...Oxalises
...Phaedra-nassas
...Pancratiums
...Tigridias
...Zephyranthes
...Cooperias

Uses of Bulbs:-
...for Bedding
...in Windowboxes
...in Border
...naturalized in Grass
...in Bulb Frame
...in Woodland Garden
...in Rock Garden
...in Bowls
...in Alpine House
...Bulbs in Green-house or Stove:-
...Achimenes
...Alocasias
...Amorpho-phalluses
...Arisaemas
...Arums
...Begonias
...Bomareas
...Caladiums

...Clivias
...Colocasias
...Crinums
...Cyclamens
...Cyrtanthuses
...Eucharises
...Urceocharis
...Eurycles

...Freesias
...Gloxinias
...Haemanthus
...Hippeastrums

...Lachenalias
...Nerines
...Lycorises
...Pencratiums
...Hymenocallises
...Richardias
...Sprekelias
...Tuberoses
...Vallotas
...Watsonias
...Zephyranthes

...Plant Bedding in
......Spring

......Summer
...Bulb houseplants flowering during:-
......January
......February
......March
......April
......May
......June
......July
......August
......September
......October
......November
......December
...Bulbs and other types of plant flowering during:-
......Dec-Jan
......Feb-Mar
......Apr-May
......Jun-Aug
......Sep-Oct
......Nov-Dec
...Selection of the smaller and choicer plants for the Smallest of Gardens with plant flowering during the same 6 periods as in the previous selection

Climber in
3 Sector Vertical Plant System
...Clematis
...Climbers
Conifer
Deciduous Shrub
...Shrubs - Decid
Deciduous Tree
...Trees - Decid
Evergreen Perennial
...P-Evergreen A-L
...P-Evergreen M-Z
...Flower Shape
Evergreen Shrub
...Shrubs - Evergreen
...Heather Shrub
...Heather Index
......Andromeda
......Bruckenthalia
......Calluna
......Daboecia
......Erica: Carnea
......Erica: Cinerea
......Erica: Others
Evergreen Tree
...Trees - Evergreen
Fern
Grass
Hedging
Herbaceous
Perennial

...P -Herbaceous
...Peony
...Flower Shape
...RHS Wisley
......Mixed Border
......Other Borders
Herb
Odds and Sods
Rhododendron

Rose
...RHS Wisley A-F
...RHS Wisley G-R
...RHS Wisley S-Z
...Rose Use - page links in row 6. Rose, RHS Wisley and Other Roses rose indices on each Rose Use page
...Other Roses A-F
...Other Roses G-R
...Other Roses S-Z
Pruning Methods
Photo Index
R 1, 2, 3
Peter Beales Roses
RV Roger
Roses

Soft Fruit
Top Fruit
...Apple

...Cherry
...Pear
Vegetable
Wild Flower and
Butterfly page links are in next row

Topic -
UK Butterfly:-
...Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis and Butterfly Usage
of Plants.
...Plant Usage by
Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis and Butterfly.

Both native wildflowers and cultivated plants, with these
...Flower Shape,
...
Uses in USA,
...
Uses in UK and
...
Flo Cols / month are used by Butter-flies native in UK


Wild Flower
with its wildflower flower colour page, space,
data page(s).
...Blue Site Map.
Scented Flower, Foliage, Root.
Story of their Common Names.
Use of Plant with Flowers.
Use for Non-Flowering Plants.
Edible Plant Parts.
Flower Legend.
Flowering plants of
Chalk and
Limestone 1
, 2.
Flowering plants of Acid Soil
1.
...Brown Botanical Names.
Food for
Butterfly/Moth.

...Cream Common Names.
Coastal and Dunes.
Sandy Shores and Dunes.
...Green Broad-leaved Woods.
...Mauve Grassland - Acid, Neutral, Chalk.
...Multi-Cols Heaths and Moors.
...Orange Hedge-rows and Verges.
...Pink A-G Lakes, Canals and Rivers.
...Pink H-Z Marshes, Fens, Bogs.
...Purple Old Buildings and Walls.
...Red Pinewoods.
...White A-D
Saltmarshes.
Shingle Beaches, Rocks and Cliff Tops.
...White E-P Other.
...White Q-Z Number of Petals.
...Yellow A-G
Pollinator.
...Yellow H-Z
Poisonous Parts.
...Shrub/Tree River Banks and other Freshwater Margins. and together with cultivated plants in
Colour Wheel.

You know its
name:-
a-h, i-p, q-z,
Botanical Names, or Common Names,
habitat:-
on
Acid Soil,
on
Calcareous
(Chalk) Soil
,
on
Marine Soil,
on
Neutral Soil,
is a
Fern,
is a
Grass,
is a
Rush,
is a
Sedge, or
is
Poisonous.

Each plant in each WILD FLOWER FAMILY PAGE will have a link to:-
1) its created Plant Description Page in its Common Name column, then external sites:-
2) to purchase the plant or seed in its Botanical Name column,
3) to see photos in its Flowering Months column and
4) to read habitat details in its Habitat Column.
Adder's Tongue
Amaranth
Arrow-Grass
Arum
Balsam
Bamboo
Barberry
Bedstraw
Beech
Bellflower
Bindweed
Birch
Birds-Nest
Birthwort
Bogbean
Bog Myrtle
Borage
Box
Broomrape
Buckthorn
Buddleia
Bur-reed
Buttercup
Butterwort
Cornel (Dogwood)
Crowberry
Crucifer (Cabbage/Mustard) 1
Crucifer (Cabbage/Mustard) 2
Cypress
Daffodil
Daisy
Daisy Cudweeds
Daisy Chamomiles
Daisy Thistle
Daisy Catsears Daisy Hawkweeds
Daisy Hawksbeards
Daphne
Diapensia
Dock Bistorts
Dock Sorrels
Clubmoss
Duckweed
Eel-Grass
Elm
Filmy Fern
Horsetail
Polypody
Quillwort
Royal Fern
Figwort - Mulleins
Figwort - Speedwells
Flax
Flowering-Rush
Frog-bit
Fumitory
Gentian
Geranium
Glassworts
Gooseberry
Goosefoot
Grass 1
Grass 2
Grass 3
Grass Soft
Bromes 1

Grass Soft
Bromes 2

Grass Soft
Bromes 3

Hazel
Heath
Hemp
Herb-Paris
Holly
Honeysuckle
Horned-Pondweed
Hornwort
Iris
Ivy
Jacobs Ladder
Lily
Lily Garlic
Lime
Lobelia
Loosestrife
Mallow
Maple
Mares-tail
Marsh Pennywort
Melon (Gourd/Cucumber)
Mesem-bryanthemum
Mignonette
Milkwort
Mistletoe
Moschatel
Naiad
Nettle
Nightshade
Oleaster
Olive
Orchid 1
Orchid 2
Orchid 3
Orchid 4
Parnassus-Grass
Peaflower
Peaflower
Clover 1

Peaflower
Clover 2

Peaflower
Clover 3

Peaflower Vetches/Peas
Peony
Periwinkle
Pillwort
Pine
Pink 1
Pink 2
Pipewort
Pitcher-Plant
Plantain
Pondweed
Poppy
Primrose
Purslane
Rannock Rush
Reedmace
Rockrose
Rose 1
Rose 2
Rose 3
Rose 4
Rush
Rush Woodrushes
Saint Johns Wort
Saltmarsh Grasses
Sandalwood
Saxifrage
Seaheath
Sea Lavender
Sedge Rush-like
Sedges Carex 1
Sedges Carex 2
Sedges Carex 3
Sedges Carex 4
Spindle-Tree
Spurge
Stonecrop
Sundew
Tamarisk
Tassel Pondweed
Teasel
Thyme 1
Thyme 2
Umbellifer 1
Umbellifer 2
Valerian
Verbena
Violet
Water Fern
Waterlily
Water Milfoil
Water Plantain
Water Starwort
Waterwort
Willow
Willow-Herb
Wintergreen
Wood-Sorrel
Yam
Yew


Topic -
The following is a complete hierarchical Plant Selection Process

dependent on the Garden Style chosen
Garden Style
...Infill Plants
...12 Bloom Colours per Month Index
...12 Foliage Colours per Month Index
...All Plants Index
...Cultivation, Position, Use Index
...Shape, Form
Index


Topic -
Flower/Foliage Colour Wheel Galleries with number of colours as a high-level Plant Selection Process

All Flowers 53 with
...Use of Plant and
Flower Shape
- page links in bottom row

All Foliage 53
instead of redundant
...(All Foliage 212)


All Flowers
per Month 12


Bee instead of wind pollinated plants for hay-fever sufferers
All Bee-Pollinated Flowers
per Month
12
...Index

Rock Garden and Alpine Flowers
Rock Plant Flowers 53
INDEX
A, B, C, D, E, F,
G, H, I, J, K, L,
M, NO, PQ, R, S,
T, UVWXYZ
...Rock Plant Photos

Flower Colour Wheel without photos, but with links to photos
12 Bloom Colours
per Month Index

...All Plants Index


Topic -
Use of Plant in your Plant Selection Process

Plant Colour Wheel Uses
with
1. Perfect general use soil is composed of 8.3% lime, 16.6% humus, 25% clay and 50% sand, and
2. Why you are continually losing the SOIL STRUCTURE so your soil - will revert to clay, chalk, sand or silt.
Uses of Plant and Flower Shape:-
...Foliage Only
...Other than Green Foliage
...Trees in Lawn
...Trees in Small Gardens
...Wildflower Garden
...Attract Bird
...Attract Butterfly
1
, 2
...Climber on House Wall
...Climber not on House Wall
...Climber in Tree
...Rabbit-Resistant
...Woodland
...Pollution Barrier
...Part Shade
...Full Shade
...Single Flower provides Pollen for Bees
1
, 2, 3
...Ground-Cover
<60
cm
60-180cm
>180cm
...Hedge
...Wind-swept
...Covering Banks
...Patio Pot
...Edging Borders
...Back of Border
...Poisonous
...Adjacent to Water
...Bog Garden
...Tolerant of Poor Soil
...Winter-Flowering
...Fragrant
...Not Fragrant
...Exhibition
...Standard Plant is 'Ball on Stick'
...Upright Branches or Sword-shaped leaves
...Plant to Prevent Entry to Human or Animal
...Coastal Conditions
...Tolerant on North-facing Wall
...Cut Flower
...Potted Veg Outdoors
...Potted Veg Indoors
...Thornless
...Raised Bed Outdoors Veg
...Grow in Alkaline Soil A-F, G-L, M-R,
S-Z
...Grow in Acidic Soil
...Grow in Any Soil
...Grow in Rock Garden
...Grow Bulbs Indoors

Uses of Bedding
...Bedding Out
...Filling In
...Screen-ing
...Pots and Troughs
...Window Boxes
...Hanging Baskets
...Spring Bedding
...Summer Bedding
...Winter Bedding
...Foliage instead of Flower
...Coleus Bedding Photos for use in Public Domain 1

Uses of Bulb
...Other than Only Green Foliage
...Bedding or Mass Planting
...Ground-Cover
...Cut-Flower
...Tolerant of Shade
...In Woodland Areas
...Under-plant
...Tolerant of Poor Soil
...Covering Banks
...In Water
...Beside Stream or Water Garden
...Coastal Conditions
...Edging Borders
...Back of Border or Back-ground Plant
...Fragrant Flowers
...Not Fragrant Flowers
...Indoor
House-plant

...Grow in a Patio Pot
...Grow in an Alpine Trough
...Grow in an Alpine House
...Grow in Rock Garden
...Speciman Plant
...Into Native Plant Garden
...Naturalize in Grass
...Grow in Hanging Basket
...Grow in Window-box
...Grow in Green-house
...Grow in Scree
...Naturalized Plant Area
...Grow in Cottage Garden
...Attracts Butterflies
...Attracts Bees
...Resistant to Wildlife
...Bulb in Soil:-
......Chalk
......Clay
......Sand
......Lime-Free (Acid)
......Peat

Uses of Rose
Rose Index

...Bedding 1, 2
...Climber /Pillar
...Cut-Flower 1, 2
...Exhibition, Speciman
...Ground-Cover
...Grow In A Container 1, 2
...Hedge 1, 2
...Climber in Tree
...Woodland
...Edging Borders
...Tolerant of Poor Soil 1, 2
...Tolerant of Shade
...Back of Border
...Adjacent to Water
...Page for rose use as ARCH ROSE, PERGOLA ROSE, COASTAL CONDITIONS ROSE, WALL ROSE, STANDARD ROSE, COVERING BANKS or THORNLESS ROSES.
...FRAGRANT ROSES
...NOT FRAGRANT ROSES


Topic -
Camera Photo Galleries showing all 4000 x 3000 pixels of each photo on your screen that you can then click and drag it to your desktop as part of a Plant Selection Process:-

RHS Garden at Wisley

Plant Supports -
When supporting plants in a bed, it is found that not only do those plants grow upwards, but also they expand their roots and footpad sideways each year. Pages
1
, 2, 3, 8, 11,
12, 13,
Plants 4, 7, 10,
Bedding Plants 5,
Plant Supports for Unknown Plants 5
,
Clematis Climbers 6,
the RHS does not appear to either follow it's own pruning advice or advice from The Pruning of Trees, Shrubs and Conifers by George E. Brown.
ISBN 0-571-11084-3 with the plants in Pages 1-7 of this folder. You can see from looking at both these resources as to whether the pruning carried out on the remainder of the plants in Pages 7-15 was correct.

Narcissus (Daffodil) 9,
Phlox Plant Supports 14, 15

Coleus Bedding Foliage Trial - Pages
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25,
26, 27, 28, 29, 30,
31, 32, Index

National Trust Garden at Sissinghurst Castle
Plant Supports -
Pages for Gallery 1

with Plant Supports
1, 5, 10
Plants
2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9,
11, 12
Recommended Rose Pruning Methods 13
Pages for Gallery 2
with Plant Supports
2
,
Plants 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Dry Garden of
RHS Garden at
Hyde Hall

Plants - Pages
without Plant Supports
Plants 1
, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Nursery of
Peter Beales Roses
Display Garden

Roses Pages
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13

Nursery of
RV Roger

Roses - Pages
A1,A2,A3,A4,A5,
A6,A7,A8,A9,A10,
A11,A12,A13,A14,
B15,
B16,B17,B18,B19,
B20,
B21,B22,B23,B24,
B25,
B26,B27,B28,B29,
B30,
C31,C32,C33,C34,
C35,
C36,C37,C38,C39,
C40,
C41,CD2,D43,D44,
D45,
D46,D47,D48,D49,
E50,
E51,E52,F53,F54,
F55,
F56,F57,G58,G59,
H60,
H61,I62,K63,L64,
M65,
M66,N67,P68,P69,
P70,
R71,R72,S73,S74,
T75,
V76,Z77, 78,

Damage by Plants in Chilham Village - Pages
1, 2, 3, 4

Pavements of Funchal, Madeira
Damage to Trees - Pages
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13
for trees 1-54,
14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25,
for trees 55-95,
26, 27, 28, 29, 30,
31, 32, 33, 34, 35,
36, 37,
for trees 95-133,
38, 39, 40,
41, 42, 43, 44, 45,
for trees 133-166

Chris Garnons-Williams
Work Done - Pages
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13

Identity of Plants
Label Problems - Pages
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11

Ron and Christine Foord - 1036 photos only inserted so far - Garden Flowers - Start Page of each Gallery
AB1 ,AN14,BA27,
CH40,CR52,DR63,
FR74,GE85,HE96,

Plant with Photo Index of Ivydene Gardens - 1187
A 1, 2, Photos - 43
B 1, Photos - 13
C 1, Photos - 35
D 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
Photos - 411
with Plants causing damage to buildings in Chilham Village and Damage to Trees in Pavements of Funchal
E 1, Photos - 21
F 1, Photos - 1
G 1, Photos - 5
H 1, Photos - 21
I 1, Photos - 8
J 1, Photos - 1
K 1, Photos - 1
L 1, Photos - 85
with Label Problems
M 1, Photos - 9
N 1, Photos - 12
O 1, Photos - 5
P 1, Photos - 54
Q 1, Photos -
R 1, 2, 3,
Photos - 229
S 1, Photos - 111
T 1, Photos - 13
U 1, Photos - 5
V 1, Photos - 4
W 1, Photos - 100
with Work Done by Chris Garnons-Williams
X 1 Photos -
Y 1, Photos -
Z 1 Photos -
Articles/Items in Ivydene Gardens - 88
Flower Colour, Num of Petals, Shape and
Plant Use of:-
Rock Garden
within linked page


Topic -
Fragrant Plants as a Plant Selection Process for your sense of smell:-

Sense of Fragrance from Roy Genders

Fragrant Plants:-
Trees and Shrubs with Scented Flowers
1
, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Shrubs bearing Scented Flowers for an Acid Soil
1
, 2, 3, 4
Shrubs bearing Scented Flowers for a
Chalky or Limestone Soil
1
, 2, 3, 4
Shrubs bearing Scented leaves for a
Sandy Soil
1
, 2, 3
Herbaceous Plants with Scented Flowers
1
, 2, 3
Annual and Biennial Plants with Scented Flowers or Leaves
1
, 2
Bulbs and Corms with Scented Flowers
1
, 2, 3, 4, 5
Scented Plants of Climbing and Trailing Habit
1
, 2, 3
Winter-flowering Plants with Scented Flowers
1
, 2
Night-scented Flowering Plants
1
, 2


Topic -
Website User Guidelines


My Gas Service Engineer found Flow and Return pipes incorrectly positioned on gas boilers and customers had refused to have positioning corrected in 2020.

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Glossary A
Abortive
Abscission Layer
Acaricide
Acaulescent
Achene
Acicular
Acid (of soil)
Acorn
Acre
Acuminate
Acute
Adventitious
Aerate (of soil)
Aerial root
Alkaline (of soil)
Allelopathic
Alpine
Alpine house
Alternate (of leaves)
Anemone-centred (of flowers)
Annual
Anther
Arbour
Aquatic
Asclepiad
Asexual reproduction
Auxins
Awn
Axil
 

Glossary F
F1 hybrids
F2 hybrids
Falls
Family
Fastigiate
Feathered
Fertile (of plants)
Fertilisation
Fibrous
Filament
Fimbriate
Floating cloche
Floret
Flower
Flowerhead
Foliage
Force
Forma (f.)
Formative pruning
Foundation planting
Framework
Framework plants
Frame-working (of fruit trees)
Friable (of soil)
Frond
Frost pocket
Fruit
Fruit set
Fungicide

Glossary K
Knot garden

Glossary P
Packs
Pan
Panicle
Parterre
Parthenocarpic
Pathogens
Patio
Peat
Peat bed
Peat blocks
Peat substitute
Peduncle
Peltate (of leaves)
Perennial
Perianth
Perianth segment
Perlite
Perpetual
Pesticide
Petal
Petiole
pH
Photosynthesis
Picotee
Pinching out
Pistil
Pith
Pleaching
Plunge
Pod
Pollarding
Pollen
Polyembryonic
Pome fruit
Pompon
Potting compost
Potting on
Potting up
Pricking out
Propagation
Propagator
Proximal end (of cuttings)
Pruning
Pseudobulb

Glossary U
“U” cordon
Underplanting
Union
Upright
Urn-shaped (of flowers)

Glossary B
Back-bulb
Backfill
Balled
Bare-root
Bark-ringing
Basal plate
Base dressing
Basin irrigation
Bed system
Bedding plants
Biennial
Biennial bearing
Blanch
Bleed
Blind
Bloom
Blown
Bog plant
Bole
Bolt
Bower
Bract
Branch
Brassica
Break
Broadcasting
Broad-leaved
Bromeliad
Bud
Bud union
Budding
Budwood
Bulb
Bulb fibre
Bulbil
Bulblet
Bush
 

Glossary G
Genus (pl. genera)
Germination
Girdling
Glaucous
Glume
Graft
Graft union
Grafting
Grafting tape
Green manure
Ground colour
Ground cover

Glossary L
Laced
Lamina
Lateral
Layer planting
Layering
Leaching
Leader
Leaf
Leaf mould
Leaflet
Legume
Light
Lime
Line out
Lithophyte
Loam
Lopper
Lute

Glossary Q
Quartered rosette

Glossary V
Variable
Variegated
Variety
Vegetative growth
Vegetative propagation
Vermiculite
Vertebrate

Glossary C
Cactus
Calcicole
Calcifuge
Callous
Calyx
Cambium
Capillary matting
Capping
Capsule
Carpet bedding
Catkin
Central leader
Certified stock
Chilling requirement
Chinese layering
Chlorophyll
Clamp
Climber
Cloche
Clone
Cold frame
Collar
Companion planting
Compositae
Compost
Compound
Cone
Conifer
Conservatory
Contact action
Coppicing
Cordon
Corm
Cormel
Cormlet
Corolla
Cotyledon
Crest
Cristate
Crocks
Crop rotation
Cross-fertilisation
Cross-pollination
Crown
Culm
Cultivar
Cupped
Cutting
Cyme
 

Glossary H
Half hardy
Half standard
Hardening off
Hardy
Haulm
Head
Head back
Heart up
Heavy (of soil)
Heel
Heeling in
Herb
Herbaceous
Herbicide
Hull (of nuts)
Humus
Hybrid
Hybrid vigour
Hybridisation
Hydroculture
Hydroponics
Hypocotyl
Hypogeal

Glossary M
Maiden
Maincrop (of vegetables)
Manure
Marcottage
Marginal water plant
Medium
Mericlone
Meristem
Micronutrients
Micro-propagation
Microlife
Midrib
Module
Monocarpic
Monocotyledon
Monoecious
Monopodial
Mulch
Mutation
Mycorrhizae

Glossary R
Raceme
Radicle
Rain shadow
Rambler
Ray flower (or floret)
Recurved
Reflexed
Remontant
Renewal pruning
Respiration
Revert
Rhizome
Rind
Root
Root ball
Root crops
Root run
Rooting
Rooting hormone
Rootstock
Rose (of a watering can)
Rosette
Rounded
Runner

Glossary W
Water shoots
Whip
Whorl
Widger
Wind-break
Wind-rock
Winter wet
Woody
Wound
Wound paint

Glossary D
Damping down
Dead-heading
Deciduous
Degradable pot
Dehiscence
Dehiscent
Determinate
Dibber
Dicotyledon
Dieback
Dioecious
Diploid
Disbudding
Distal end (of cuttings)
Division
Dormancy
Double digging
Drainage
Drill
 

Glossary I
Incurved
Indehiscent
Indeterminate
Inflorescence
Informal
Inorganic
Insecticide
Insert
lntercropping
Intermediate
Internode
Interplanting
Invertebrate
Irrigation

Glossary N
Naturalise
Neck
Nectar
Nectary
Nematicide
Nematode Worms
Neutral (of soil)
Node
Non-remontant
Nursery bed
Nut
Nutrients

Glossary S
Sap
Sapling
Scandent
Scarification
Scion
Scree
Seed
Seedhead
Seedling
Selection
Self seed
Self-fertile
Self-pollination
Self-sterile
Semi-deciduous
Semi-determinate
Semi-evergreen
Sepal
Set
Sexual reproduction
Sheet mulch
Shoot
Shrub
Sideshoot
Simple (mainly of leaves)
Single digging
Snag
Soil mark
Species
Specimen plant
Spent (of flowers)
Sphagnum mosses
Spike
Spikelet
Spit
Spoon-type
Sporangium
Spore
Spray
Spur
Stalk
Stamen
Standard
Station sow
Stem
Sterile
Stigma
Stock plant
Stolon
Stone fruits
Stool
Stooling
Stopping
Strain
Stratification
Stylar column
Style
Subfamily
Sub-lateral
Subshrub
Subsoil
Subspecies
Succulent (of plants)
Sucker
Sympodial
Systemic

Glossary XYZ
 

Glossary E
Earthing up
Emasculation
Epicormic shoots
Epigeal
Epiphyte
Ericaceous
Espalier
Evergreen
Explant
Eye

Glossary J
John Innes compost

Glossary O
Offset
Open-pollination
Opposite
Organic
Ovary
Ovule
Oxygenator

Glossary T
Tap root
Taxon (pl. taxa)
Tender
Tendril
Tepal
Terminal
Terrarium
Terrestrial
Thatch
Thin (of soil)
Thinning
Tilth
Tip prune
Tissue culture (of plants)
Top-dressing
Topiary
Topsoil
Trace element
Translocated (of dissolved nutrients or weedkillers)
Transpiration
Transplanting
Tree
Trellis
Trench digging
Triploid
True (True-breeding)
Trunk
Truss
Tuber
Tufa
Tunic
Tunicate
Turion

 

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In order to meet the conditions for joining the Single European currency, all citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland must be made aware that the phrase 'Spending a Penny' is not to be used after 31st December 2009.

From this date, the correct terminology will be: 'Euronating'. 

Thank you for your attention.

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Back to back
they faced each other
drew their swords
and shot each other poem demonstrated by this sand sculpture of Everybody is a Winner
Offbeat Glossary A with Ladies and Gentlemen
Poem
Offbeat Glossary B with how to care for the Dulally Bird
Offbeat Glossary C
Offbeat Glossary DE
Offbeat Glossary F
Offbeat Glossary G
Offbeat Glossary HILM
Offbeat Glossary NO with Never Fail Cake Recipe
Offbeat Glossary P
Offbeat Glossary QRST
Offbeat Glossary U
Offbeat Glossary V
Offbeat Glossary WXYZ

Offbeat Glossary HILM
Herbal Lawn
Hiving a new swarm
Intercropping
Ladybirds
Microclimate
Monoculture
 

Offbeat Glossary NO
Nitrogen-fixing plants
Nitrogen-fixing trees
 

Offbeat Glossary A
Accumulator plants
Allelochemics
Allium
Auxins
 

Offbeat Glossary P
Pinching back
Poisonous Plants
 

Offbeat Glossary B
Bay
Bromeliad

DuLally Bird
 

Offbeat Glossary QRST
Rabbits
Raised bed
Shade
Succession planting
Two-level companion planting
Two-season planting
 

Offbeat Glossary C
Catch Crop
Compost
Cover crop
Crop Rotation

Offbeat Glossary U
U-Gardens
 

Offbeat Glossary DE
Diatomaceous Earth
Plants least favoured by Deer

Offbeat Glossary V
Veganic
Vertical gardening
 

Offbeat Glossary F
French Intensive Gardening
 

Offbeat Glossary WXYZ
Weeds
 

Offbeat Glossary G
Green Manure
 

 

 

Herbal Lawn

Ground Cover Herbs from Seed

By Conrad Richter

I often get asked what herbs are suited as ground covers. Customers tell me, "I hate cutting grass," or "I like trying something completely different, and I don't mind if my neighbours think I'm crazy to dig up my lawn." Herbal ground covers are very different, but their pleasing leaf textures and often showy masses of colour are becoming more popular in place of grass. Being the tough little critters they are, they need next to no care once established. And if you don't mind foliage and flowers that tickle your ankles and beyond, you can dispense with the weekly trysts with the lawnmower to keep things trim and proper.

The biggest problem with herbal lawns is the start up cost. Regrettably, some of the finest low growing herbs are only increased by cuttings or division – the flowerless variety of english chamomile, Treneague, is a notable example. You need the payroll of a CEO to afford enough plants for an instant lawn. Or, you need the patience for many seasons of divide and spread to cover much ground starting with a few plants.

Fortunately there are several good choices for herbs you can grow from seed. By far the most popular is wild thyme (Thymus praecox subsp. articus), also known as mother-of-thyme. It grows 4 to 6 inches high, has masses of rose-pink flowers in July, and grows fast enough to crowd out weeds. At 110,000 seeds per ounce, the seeds are very fine, much smaller than grass seeds, so it is a good idea to mix seeds with a filler like sand to avoid dropping 90% of your seed in 10% of the area to be covered. We recommend an ounce of seed per 1000 square feet. In the kitchen wild thyme is not commonly regarded as a culinary herb in North America, but European cooks have long used it in meat dishes just like the more famous English and French thymes (Thymus vulgaris). If nothing else, wild thyme will at least drive you from drink should you dare to consumer alcohol and the leaves at the same time. The combination causes a mother-of-a-hangover!

Another popular choice for lawnless lawns is yarrow (Achillea millefolium). While its white, red or pink flowering stalks can reach a foot in height, its dense, many-divided leaves make for a cushion lawn that just invites a picnic, a snooze or other prostrate activities. I have seen yarrow used very successfully in small urban settings. especially under partial shade. If the flowers get too high, one or two runs a season with the lawnmower will keep things in check. Yarrow seeds are small and light, lighter than wild thyme. there are 175,000 seeds per ounce, and an ounce per 2500 square feet is the recommended sowing rate. Yarrow tea is insurance for colds and flus, which is a good thing if you are going to lie around in your lawn a lot.

If you don't mind a more rangy and taller cover, Fassen's catnip (Nepeta x faassenii) is a good aromatic choice, growing up to 12 inches in height. Don't worry, cats are not as enamoured by this variety as they are by the much taller growing regular catnip (Nepeta cataria). Sow an ounce per 600 square feet.

Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile) is a good choice for warmer, sunny locales. It is a perennial, hardy to zone 6, with finely divided emerald leaves. The small daisy-like flowers are, of course, used to make the popular herbal tea. Be forewarned, there are those who insist that tea made from the Roman (sometimes also known as 'English') is superior to the annual German or Hungarian variety (Matricaria recutita), and there are others who argue just as strenuously the other way. As sides ten to fall along ethnic lines, we prefer to stay out of the debate! In any case, a Roman chamomile lawn is pure enchantment in many landscape settings. Again the seed are very fine – 155,000 per ounce – and one ounce will cover 2000 square feet. As with all seeds this small, it is crucial not to plant too deep; best simply to press the seeds, once broadcast, into the soil using a board or other object with a flat surface.

Table J - Government and Commercial Cons

If you wish to visit the UK
be prepared for its slavery of its population by the the UK Government and the
complete bankrupty of both the UK Main Government, Local Authorities and Commercial Water Boards
making its UK population bankrupt as well if the UK population tried to pay off that UK National Debt,
together with losing its drinking water for 50% of the population in England before 2030.

Table J-A.
In 14 years the UK government of the Conservative Party doubled the annual Tax Receipts and increased the UK National Debt by almost 4 times the Tax collected in 2010-11.
 

Tax receipts in 2010-11 climbed to £414,920,000,000 and then to £827,740,000,000 in 2023-24. So the collected UK tax doubled in 14 years under the Conservative Party.

The UK National debt was increased by £1,573,700,000,000 between 2010 and 2024.
 

So the Conservative Party almost quadrupled the total Tax receipts of 2010-11 during that time as extra debt.

Since the Conservative Party had plans to increase their borrowing by £71,000,000,000 from their pledges during this 2024 general election campaign, how do the Labour Party come up with the money to finance the above?
 

Table J-B.
So it taxed people more and continued to overspend that collected tax the following year.
 

The average yield from 10 year UK government bonds 2010-2024 in June 2024 was 4.12%, compared to 0.18% in July 2020.

The current UK National Debt in August 2024 is £2,720,800,000,000,

but the UK government borrow £120,000,000,000 every year and do not have the yield so that is borrowed as well of

  • £2,720,800,000,000 x 0.0412 = £112,096,960,000, so that is
    £2,952,896,960,000 at the end of 2024-2025
  • £120,000,000,000 +
    £2,952,896,960,000 x 0.0412 = (£121,659,354,752) +
    £2,952,896,960,000 =
    £3,194,556,314,752 at the end of 2025-2026
  • £120,000,000,000 +
    £3,194,556,314,752 x 0.0412 = (£131,615,720,168) +
    £3,194,556,314,752 =
    £3,446,172,034,920 at the end of 2026-2027
  • £120,000,000,000 +
    £3,446,172,034,920 x 0.0412 = (£141,982,287,839) +
    £3,446,172,034,920 =
    £3,708,154,322,758 at the end of 2027-2028
  • £120,000,000,000 +
    £3,708,154,322,758 x 0.0412 = (£152,775,958,097) +
    £3,708,154,322,758 =
    £3,980,930,280,856 at the end of 2028-2029 which is the 5 year term before another General Election

so the UK National Debt has increased by £1,260,130,280,856 in the Labour Term of Office with an extra £51,917,367,571 National Debt yield providing that the yield does not exceed 4.12%.

 

The 30-year UK conventional gilt yields, since Bank of England independence in 1997 was over 7.5% in April 1997.
So what would happen if that yield rate was applied instead

  • £120,000,000,000 +
    £2,720,800,000,000 x 0.075 = (£204,060,000,000)
    £2,720,800,000,000 =
    £3,044,860,000,000 at the end of 2024-2025
  • £120,000,000,000 +
    £3,044,860,000,000 x 0.075 +
    £3,044,860,000,000 =
    £3,393,224,500,000 at the end of 2025-2026
  • £120,000,000,000 +
    £3,393,224,500,000 x 0.075 +
    £3,393,224,500,000 =
    £3,767,716,337,500 at the end of 2026-2027
  • £120,000,000,000 +
    £3,767,716,337,500 x 0.075 +
    £3,767,716,337,500 =
    £4,170,295,062,813 at the end of 2027-2028
  • £120,000,000,000 +
    £4,170,295,062,813
    £4,170,295,062,813 =
    £4,603,067,192,524 at the end of 2028-2029 which is the 5 year term before another General Election

so the UK National Debt has increased by £1,882,267,192,524 in the Labour term of office with an extra £141,170,039,439 National Debt yield providing that the yield does not exceed 7.5%.

 

You can see from these projections that the UK is spiralling out of debt control,

  • especially if this 1% increase in the yield per year from 2020 continues, so that in 3 years time the 30-year UK conventional gild yields example above does in fact become true; and
  • it continued to increase by 1% per year as the markets did not believe that the UK could actually pay the yield.
  • That would probably mean that by the time that this Labour Government had completed its 5 year term , that its borrowing and UK National Debt Gilt yield total more than 50% of the annual total UK Government Tax collected.
     

Table J-C.
There is no way that the UK can repay that UK National Debt.
There is also no way that the UK Tax payers can pay for even 1 year of overspending by the UK Government in each year.

this Labour Government is likely to increase the UK National Debt by

  • £290,704,960,000, which is over £24,000,000,000 a month instead of a £22,000,000,000 'black hole' in 2024-25.
  • If the UK taxpayer pays this extra 36.863% of the total tax receipts of the UK Government Tax - on top of what each taxpayer is already taxed in the 2024-25 year - to cancel this extra UK Government spending in this financial year instead, then the UK National Debt will not be increased in the 2024-25 financial year.
  • The total tax receipts for the UK Main Government for the 2024-25 financial will therefore be 100% + an extra 36.863% from each of 37,400,000 income tax payer to cover the overspending by the UK Labour Government in its first year.

 

The Railway Train Drivers have been on strike for some days between 4 July 2023 and August 2024.
Why were they not sacked?
Instead they were rewarded by 3 pay rises with the pay rise for the previous second year, previous year and this year with no strings attached. This £100,000,000 is being paid for by the UK population.

  • If workers strike, then the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill (passed by House of Commons and House of Lords 4 July 2023) will kick in so you could be fired by ignoring a "work notice" ordering you to work on strike days for you in health, education, fire and rescue, transport, border security and nuclear decommissioning and radioactive waste management.

Suddenly; in July 2024 there is a £20,000,000,000 'black hole', so that in the autumn the Labour Chancellor can raise taxes - bunkum.

This is where that black hole is:- “Rachel Reeves set out
£35,000,000,000
of in-year pressures on day-to-day public service spending. As well as public sector pay (
£9,400,000,000
for awards this year, plusa
£2,200,000,000 overhang from awards last year), this included
£6,400,000,000 for asylum and illegal migration, and
£2,900,000,000 for
rail services (Railway Industry consumed £11,900,000,000 in taxpayer subsidy in 2023-24 and then railway nationalisation)
£13,000,000,000 of the total pressures identified can be covered by reserve funding and underspends elsewhere, leaving
£22,000,000,000 in remaining funding pressures."
Since, the Conservative government of 2010-24 increased the UK National Debt by
£15,799,404,762 a month, it has left the country so overdrawn that the present Labour Chancellor has no money for anything unless it borrows more that the UK population will ever be able to pay back.
Therefore the junior doctors will only get a pay rise if it comes from savings within their share of the NHS budget or
by borrowing
and the same with teachers pay rises, any new roads, or hospitals, pot hole repairs or repair to WRAC buildings.
The water boards know this and because the government do not worry about the reduction in the oxygen or poisoning of the marine life for the UK and its surrounding countries in the European Union, then they will continue to steal from their customers and there is nothing the UK population can do about their steadily declining living standards.





Because of this £20,000,000,000 'black hole', the Labour Chancellow can raise the revenue from taxes by a 25% increase in the 2024 Autumn Budget

  • to pay the UK National Debt gilt interest for the year and
  • the UK government borrowing costs for the year
  • to make the spending equal the tax revenue:-
    UK National Debt in June 2024 is approximately £2,700,000,000,000, which is 99.5% of the Gross Domestic Product in 2023.
    The UK government borrowed £122,100,000,000 in Apr 2023-March 2024.
    In April 2024, central government borrowed £20,500,000,000.
    Since our March 2024 publication, we have increased our initial estimate of borrowing in the financial year ending March 2024 by £800,000,000 to £121,400,000,000, now £7,300,000,000 more than the £114,100,000,000 forecast by the OBR.
    In May 2024, central government borrowed £14,900,000,000.
    In June 2024, central government borrowed £14,500,000,000.
    The UK Government expect debt interest spending to total £89,000,000,000 in 2024-25. UK 30 year Gilt yield is 4.4443%, so if all the UK National Debt was on that, it would be £119,996,100,000;
    and the goverment in April-June have already borrowed £49,900,000,000 out of the expected £89,000,000,000
    • and the chancellor is worried about a black hole of £20,000,000,000
  • when she is likely to borrow over
    6 times that in this year and then
    pay the gilt yield of roughly the same in the year, and
    thus increase the UK National Debt by 25% of their UK tax that they collect from the UK population and businesses in the UK.
    So she increases the UK National Debt by £20,000,000,000 every month and by not supporting the local Authorities, then they have to borrow and then they will also go bust.

This would still leave the UK National Debt, and to reduce that by £100,000,000,000 a year, it would take an extra 10% tax and 27 years:-

  • So if the UK Government increase taxes by 35% - another £345,000,000,000 of annual tax
    • HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) data shows that in 2024-25 there are an estimated 37.4 million income tax payers, up from 33 million when personal income tax thresholds were frozen in the 2021-22 tax year.
      The number of people dragged into paying income tax in the UK has leapt by an estimated 4.4 million in three years because of the government’s freeze on thresholds, official data shows, a statistic likely to reignite the election debate on tax.
      The figures show that a continuing freeze on income tax thresholds, seen as a stealth tax by some, has pulled an extra 1.77 million pensioners into the income tax bracket.
  • using £9,224.60 from every UK income tax payer including Old-Age-Pensioners,
    it would still mean that the UK population would have to additionally pay for the debt interest on £119,000,000,000 of the local Authorities, who currently borrow money to pay their running costs. And, then pay for that Local Authority debt as well.

£9,224.60 plus Local Authority rates leaves me with
about £700 from my combined State Pension and Private Pension after paying water rates, electricity and gas charges, telephone charges and insurance;
leaving nothing for food or heating in the year.
Winter fuel payments to pensioners is scrapped and the money saved has now been spent on giving the Railway Train Drivers their 3 year pay increase in August 2024.
If my wife died, I would have to sell our home and live in a mobile home, until the money ran out.

 

So before the Labour Party came into power in July 2024, the UK government had already overspent by £49,900,000,000 and is estimated to overspend by £121,400,000,000 in the 2024-25 financial year.

New Chancellor, new rules - How Rachel Reeves can improve the framework for fiscal policy making. from The Institute for Government in July 2024.

A new fiscal rule will require the government not to borrow for day-to-day spending and only for investment.
The Labour Party's manifesto committed to meeting a specific set of fiscal rules: "

  • that day-to-day costs are met by revenues and
  • debt must be falling as a share of the economy by the fifth year of the forecast.


The Treasury should specify fiscal rules as ranges rather than point targets; for example, requiring that debt be on course to fall by between 0% and -1% of GDP in a future year, rather than just saying it should fall as a share of GDP in that year.".

As shown in row B above, the annual yield on the current UK National Debt is £112,096,960,000 and the government is due to borrow £121,400,000,000 this financial year because it overspends.

So if the government is not going to borrow £121,400,000,000 but only use £10,000,000,000 for investment, then it is going to have to find

  • £112,096,960,000 for yield on current UK National Debt +
  • £49,900,000,000 for overspend by the Conservative government in April, May and June 2024 +
  • £10,000,000,000 during July 2024 and March 2025 of government borrowing for investment in the current financial year +
  • £20,000,000,000 new treasury black hole
  • = £191,996,960,000 from UK Tax receipts of £827,740,000,000 in 2023-24
     
  • to reduce the UK National Debt of £2,720,800,000,000 by up to 1% which is £27,208,000,000 annually
    =
    £219,204,960,000 a year UK Government tax hole not £20,000,000,000 hole.

Extracting another £220,000,000,000 each year - or 26.58% increase in total UK Government tax whilst not increasing the UK Local Authority Taxes at all - each year for the next 100 years in order for the UK Government not to borrow to finance its spending, and to reduce the UK National Debt to zero will not be possible.

But if it borrows the remaining extra £71,500,000,000, then it will overspend by
£290,704,960,000 or 36.863% increase in total UK Government tax, which is over £24,000,000,000 a month instead of £22,000,000,000 'black hole' in a year.


So the tax increases each year, with the reduction in the annual budgets of government paid for departments like education, National Health Service, Armed Forces and local government are going to bankrupt the country within 2 years
+
increasing our major export of raw sewage, chemical, drugs and microplastic pollution into the seas surrounding the UK by 320 tonnes of combined sewage and rainwater for each of these 1,500,00 new homes to affect European countries on the other side of those seas;
which also decreases the oxygen production from that sea for use by Europe.

Table J-D.
So, if the government is not going to borrow money, how is the Labour Chancellor going to balance the books in her 2024 Autumn Budget?

So if the government is not going to borrow any money, then it is going to have to find

  • £112,096,960,000 for yield on current UK National Debt +
  • £49,900,000,000 for overspend by the Conservative government in April, May and June 2024 +
  • £20,000,000,000 new treasury black hole
  • = £181,996,960,000 from UK Tax receipts of £827,740,000,000 in 2023-24
     
  • to reduce the UK National Debt of £2,720,800,000,000 by up to 1% which is £27,208,000,000 annually
    =
    £209,204,960,000 a year UK Government tax hole not £20,000,000,000 hole.

i reports on how Reeves tells ministers to cut costs as she faces £22bn 'black hole' on friday 9 august 2024:-
"Ministers will be ordered to come up with proposals for making major savings as part of Rachel Reeves's Autumn Budget, i understands.
The Chancellor has claimed to have discovered a £22,000,000,000 hole in the public finances for this year, which must be filled by cuts, higher taxes or more public borrowing.
During an "audit" of public spending last week, Ms Reeves warned departments that they would need to make savings of at least £3,200,000,000 in order to fund higher pay for public sector workers. And Ms Reeves is asking departments to find 2% savings in their back-office costs".
During a visit to North America this week, Ms Reeves said that Government was on track to miss both its fiscal rules, which state that day-to-day spending should not require any borrowing, and that the stock of public debt should be falling, each measured on a rolling five-year time frame."

i Independent experts have warned that savings or tax hikes of £20,000,000,000 a year will be needed to balance the books in the medium term.

Balancing the books - What Reeves can do

  • Raise capital gains tax - by choosing to raise capital gains rates in line with income tax, she could raise more
    £16,000,000,000 a year in revenue
  • Raise inheritance tax which raises about £7,500,000,000 a year by increasing the rate or cutting releif
  • Cut pension tax relief Basic rate taxpayers get relief at 20%, while higher rate taxpayers beneifit from relief at 40% or 45%. The Institute for Fiscal Studies estimated that introducing a flat 30% tax rate on contibutions could bring in £2,700,000,000 a year.
  • Impose 'stealth taxes' - She could choose to keep tax thresholds - the income levels at which taxes start to be levied - at their existing rates
  • Change her fiscal rules - Ms Reeves has hinted at the possibility of altering how government debt is measured - this could allow more borrowing.

£16,000,000,000 from capital gains tax +
£2,700,000,000 from taxing at 30% rather than providing releif at 20% is downright theft +
unknown theft from people leaving their inheritance to their children +
changing how she measure government debt
=
£18,700,000,000 extra tax to cover a black hole of £209,204,960,000.

So the UK population would pay an annual increment of more tax and at the end of each tax year, the UK government would have increased the UK National Debt by £189,204,960,000 + the yield on that previous years extra borrowing.
Then the UK population would pay more and more tax without any possibility of getting the UK National Debt paid or the Government to only spend what it receives in tax.

Big changes in personal tax thresholds have led to the share of adults paying income tax falling from 61% in 2010–11 to 58% in 2019–20 before rising to an expected 66% in 2028–29. 
The share of over-65s paying income tax has risen rapidly from 48% in 2010–11 to 65% in 2023–24.
For the first time ever, the share of over-65s paying income tax is higher than the share of working-age adults paying income tax (63%). This trend is due to the combined effect of relatively strong income growth among pensioners and the phasing-out of the (previously higher) pensioner personal allowance.
The freeze in personal tax thresholds which began in 2021 and is due to continue until 2027–28 inclusive.
Council tax valuations in England and Scotland, already 19 years old in 2010, are now 33 years old and will be 38 years old by the end of the next parliament. It is increasingly farcical – and deeply unfair – to continue to tax people based on the value of their homes from so long ago.
Total revenue, including from non-tax sources, was 37.1% across the 2010s and is due to rise to 41.2% in 2028–29.

Now that more pensioners are taxed, it is easy to tax them more by re-evaluting the value of their homes, so that they pay extra amount on Local Authority Taxes to cover the fact that those Local Authorities now have to borrow money to pay for annual running costs - so get the pensioners to pay for that debt interest. This has been caused by the Conservative Government reducing support for Local Authorities below what the Local Authority can raise in Local Authority rates and the Government Support Grants.

SO THE UK IS GOING TO BE TAXED OUT OF EXISTENCE, WHILE THE DRINKING WATER RUNS OUT AND THE THE NEW WITH OLD HOUSING BECOMES UNLIVABLE IN DURING THE 5 YEAR OF THE LABOUR PARTY GOVERNMENT TERM OF OFFICE.

Table J-E.
I wonder if MPs are influenced by gifts from outside bodies, who might be trying to alter their views!!!

 

MPs opposing tighter gambling regulation receive £279,000
Exclusive. Conflict of interest feared over industry hospitality by Alexa Phillips for the I newspaper of Monday 3 June 2024.

MPs who have opposed tougher gambling regulations have received a total of £279,000 in earnings, donations and hospitality from the betting and horse racing industries since 2019, i can reveal.
The MPs, who received gifts including hospitality tickets to Ascot, Cheltenham and Lord's, were critical of the Governments's proposals for financial risk checks for gamblers.
The donations were all declared in the Register of Members' Interests.
There is no suggestion that the MPs have acted immorally or outside of parliamentary rules, but the figures have prompted concerns of a conflict of interest from campaigners who have called for donations to be capped.
The checks - intended to protect financially vulnerable customers - were outlined in a government White Paper in April 2023 but provoked anger from the gambling and horse-racing industries, which warned they would lose money by having to judge how much individuals can afford to spend.
MPs who received donations also raised concerns that the checks could push those with gambling addictions to an unregulated black market instead.
The MPs denied that the funds from the gambling and horse racing industries had any influence on their views.
 

  • Laurence Robertson, the Conservative candidate for Tewkesbury, received the largest amount of funding from the gambling and horse racing industries, at £109,000. His contributions from 11 firms including £66,000 in earnings from a second job as an adviser on safer gambling for the industry body the Betting and Gaming Council. Mr Robertson was paid £2000 for 10 hours of work each month from October 2020 to June 2023.
    He has enjoyed tickets and hospitality at Cheltenham, Ascot, the cricket at Lord's and the Brit awards courtesy of the Betting and Gaming Council, William Hill and Flutter Entertainment.
    Speaking about the proposed affordability checks in February, he described them as the "greatest ever threat" to the "existence" of gambling and horse racing.
  • The former health secretary Matt Hancock also voiced his opposition to the plans in February, saying "we are making a mistake, so we must stop." Mr Hancock, the outgoing MP for West Suffolk, received donations of £20,000 from Tattersalls, a top auctioneer of race horses, in 2019. A spokesperson for Mr Hancock said that " as the MP representing Newmarket", he is "proud to have both stood up for the horse racing industry and to have brought in some of the toughest anti-gambling measures in the UK".
  • Sir Philip Davies, the Conservative candidate for Shipley, began a second job as a consultant in April with Merkur Gaming UK, which pays £1000, for 2 hours a month providing "strategic advice". The Merkur group is behind slot machines in hundreds of high streets across the UK. Sir Philip was paid £49,980 in 2020 by Entain for "providing advice on responsible gambling". He said the checks "are likely to make things worse for people with a gambling addiction" by pushing them to engage in an unregulated black market.
  • John Spellar, the Labour MP for Warley, received £3,600 in tickets to the cricket at Lord's and an England game at Wembley from the Betting and Gaming Council and Power Leisure Bookmakers from 2021 to 2022.
  • Stephanie Peacock, Sir John Whittingdale and Chris Grayling also received tickets, hospitality, or money.
  • Top 10 Companies making contributions to the MPs
    • Betting and Gaming Council £128,656
    • Entain (Owns Coral & Ladbrokes) £73,995
    • Tattersalls £20,000
    • The Jockey Club £15,629
    • Racecourse Association £8,420
    • Flutter Entertainment & Hestview (Own Paddy Power & Sky Bet) £7,400
    • Arena Racing Company £4,179
    • Qatar Racing And Equestrian Club £4025
    • Power Leisure Bookmakers £3,922
    • Gamesys £3,074
    • Contributions registered since 13 December 2019. Source: Register of Members' Interests.
       

Table J-F.
The Conservative Party from 2010 to 2024 reduced the support grant to Local Authorities.
Local Authorities having used up their reserves are forced to get more from the population under their control

The LOCAL COUNCILS WHO FACE A FUNDING GAP OF £6,200,000,000 IN THE NEXT 2 YEARS and because they have to borrow to fill that gap, then the increase in debt will not only be increased by the Main UK government but also by the Local Authorities.

"The Local Government Association recently reported that one in five councils could be in severe financial hardship within two years and a report from the Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) this week reported that more than 50 per cent of councils are saying it is likely they would issue a Section 114 notice in the next five years. Medway has seen a sharp reduction in revenue support grant from government - £85million to around £7million since 2010 – despite a continuing increase in service demand and inflationary costs.
On Thursday, 29 February, the government confirmed that Medway Council was one of 19 councils across England which had been granted permission to extend its borrowing arrangements through a capitalisation direction. This allows us to borrow up to £14.742million to spread revenue costs over more than one year, enabling it to ease mounting budget pressures, put investment in place to return to greater financial stability and avoid the need for a S114 notice."
SO, NOW NOT ONLY IS THE UK GOVERNMENT OVERSPENDING AND INCREASING DEBT, BUT THEY HAVE REDUCED THEIR SUPPORT SINCE 2010 TO THE POINT OF BANKRUPTY FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT. THESE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS WILL HAVE TO BORROW RUNNING COST MONEY, LEADING TO FURTHER INCREASES TO THE RATES TO PAY FOR IT.
THAT MEANS MORE TAX AND THEN THE 280,000 RESIDENTS GET LESS FOR IT, UNTIL LOCAL GOVERNMENT GOES TOTALLY BANKRUPT AS WELL.

  • "The average Band D council tax set by local authorities in England for 2024-25 will be £2,171, which is an increase of £106 or 5.1% on the 2023-24 figure of £2,065. This includes all precepts including adult social care and parish precepts."
     
  • you can see what smoke and mirrors can do to camouflage what the government is doing by using "the debt-to-GDP ratio, which is a metric that helps understand a country's ability to pay back its debts. A lower debt-to-GDP ratio is generally ideal because it signals a country is producing more than it owes, placing it on a strong financial footing." ???
  • Government debt was equivalent to 99.5% of GDP at the end of June 2024.
  • It was 96.7% of GDP at the end of June 2023.
  • UK general government gross debt was £2,720,800,000,000 at the end of Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2023, equivalent to 101.3% of gross domestic product (GDP).
  • UK GOVERNMENT AND UK LOCAL GOVERNMENT ARE GOING TO BE USING TAX COLLECTED TO PAY FOR THEIR BORROWING, THEN DO NOTHING ABOUT THE WATER BOARDS - EXCEPT TO FINE THEM - SO THAT HALF THE COUNTRY ENDS UP WITH NOT ENOUGH DRINKING WATER BEFORE 2030.

Table J-G.
My Comments on the Electioneering Missive received from the newly elected Labour MP

I have received the following from Naushabah Khan - Labour's Parliamentary Candidate for Gillingham and Rainham in Kent on 28 May 2024, with
her first pledge to us that "I will be a full time Member of Parliament and not hold a second job." unlike the other Members of Parliament at the end of this row.
Like them her fifth pledge is "I will always be open and transparent about my expenses"
She is currently the Member of Parliament for Gillingham and Rainham:-
Labour's 5 Missions as given on their promotion sheet and as endorsed by Keir Starmer:-

  • Get Britain Building Again - Kick-start growth and create skilled jobs by building the infrastructure we need for the future:-
    Every new building just empties its sewage/rainwater into the sea.
    Is Labour going to stop that before building yet more?
    We do not have enough water to supply these new houses - schools in South East ran out of water.
    Chinese state-owned banks are among lenders Thames Water owes £190,000,000 too, which it cannot repay by the end of April 2024.
    Boys from London (BFL) can now buy new homes in the South-east cheaper than in London and then commute to London,
    as decided by the UK government's building requirements for local authorities each year in the South East and
    somehow social housing is not built.
    The houses are too expensive for the local population to be able to afford to buy.
    Unfortunately affordable rental property now 'impossible' for many and many landlords are now selling their properties, even though in London Londoners would have to spend 70.6% of their gross income to afford an average rental unit in the capital. That is why the government is imposing too many houses to be built in the counties surrounding London; to get a lower rent or be able to buy the house and commute to London for those Londoners. But you cannot build more houses anywhere because
    • the shit will be offloaded into the rivers by the water boards and the customers will have increased bills to pay the fines placed on the waterboards for that pollution; instead of fining the water board management of their money they get from the water board as income, bonuses, etc, and
    • that shit hitting the sea is stopping the production of oxygen for us to breathe, and is used by our vehicles, with gas central heating and hot water. So, we are asphixiating ourselves as well as the surrounding countries on the European continent
    • there is no water for these houses and the amount of rain is declining as well as the land to absorb it, so that the rain that falls on these new house properties will be put into the sewer, then the river and finally the sea and not be available to be collected for use by the resident in chalk aquifers for example.
    • and no government is actually going to do anything to the water companies, despite this 5 point action plan, except to buy back the water boards and create a series of public water boards - thus us mugs will be paying the interest on £60,000,000,000 debt of those water boards, the cost of buying these water boards and the cost of a completely new water system with new reservoirs for a decling volume of water from the Labour Party. But before that is done, more houses will be built irrespective of which political party gets into power, because of the increasing cost of renting and too many people requiring to be housed - including these 120,000 people coming over the channel in small boats who are not allowed to work for at least a year but whose running expenses are paid for by the UK public costing £6,400,000,000 for asylum and illegal migration.
    • There is nowhere in the UK that you can sit alongside or swim in any river, lake or the seaside and that will not be tackled by any government because they receive too many kickbacks to make it worth their while as shown by those MPs getting money from the gambling concerns, below.
    • At the moment, I am living on borrowed time. I stopped taking my 11 medications last September, that means by now that my pituary gland tumour has increased in size. So when it gets too big, I will be blind and it will kill me, unless my heart rate of 140 at rest does that first or the atrial fibrillation chest pain gets too painful and I do not get rid of the water in my blood fast enough. At least I will not have to see the increase in corruption for too much longer.
  • Switch on Great British Energy - Cut energy bills for good and create 500,000 high paid jobs with a new publicly owned, clean energy company by harnessing Britain's sun, wind and wave energy to save £93,000,000,000 for UK households by 2030:-
    Median hourly earnings for full-time employees in the United Kingdom in 2023 is £17.40.
    The average wage in terms of total pay is £34,476 per annum.
    £34,476 x 500,000 = £17,238,000,000
    x 6 (6 is the number of years from 2024 to 2030) = £103,428,000,000.
    The average labour cost of this labour force on median wages exceeds the saving by £10,428,000,000.
    Is this cost going to be added to
    a 450% increase in your domestic gas bill from January 2022 to May 2023, or
    a 422% increase in electricity bill for Tremorfa Superstore in Cardiff from £900 to £4,700 a month.
     
  • Get the NHS back on its feet - Cut waiting times by paying NHS staff to deliver 2,000,000 more appointments on evenings and weekends:-
    Rising number of patients die amid waits of up to 16 hours for ambulance.
    Patients die in ambulance while waiting to get into A&E.
    More than 250 needless deaths occur each week due to agonising waits in A&E.
    Why is this - it is because the NHS staff are not paid enough to stay to endure watching their patients die because of the UK government failing to allow for the increased infrastructure cost due to the increased population of more 11,000,000 from 1994 to 2022;
    there is over 43,000 vacancies within the NHS nursing workforce. and
    the UK government is not replacing the unsafe concrete in hospitals,
    but the hospitals still have to pay for them because of PFI.
    And you expect a decling number of exhausted personnel to work every day?
     
  • Take back our streets - 13,000 extra police and Pcsos on the street and guaranteed town centre patrols to tackle gangs, drug dealers and antisocial behaviours:-
    Patrol cars come onto the pedestrian high street of Chatham, but do not stop cyclists, and people riding electric bikes or electric scooters from running down pedestrians.
    I have only lived in this house since 1986 and I have not seen a policeman walking in the street outside, ever.
  • Break down barriers to opportunity - breakfast clubs in every primary school, 6,500 new specialist teachers and Technical Excellence Colleges for top class training and apprenticeships:-
    Are these breakfast clubs going to give free breakfasts to the 9,000,000 starving children? "The overall price of food and non-alcoholic beverages rose around 25% between January 2022 and January 2024. Around 1 in 25 adults (4%) have reported that their household had run out of food and could not afford to buy more in the past two weeks."
    According to the latest Department for Education workforce survey, 40,000 teachers – almost 9% of the workforce – left state schools in 2021-22. This decline is particularly pronounced in subjects like mathematics, science, and modern foreign languages, where the shortage is most acute.
  • Everything is fully funded so there will be no repeat of the Conservative economic chaos of the last few years:-
    Since the Conservative Party have plans to increase their borrowing by £71,000,000,000 from their pledges during this general election campaign, how do the Labour Party come up with the money to finance the above?
    Suddenly; in July 2024 there is a £20,000,000,000 'black hole', so that in the autumn the Labour Chancellow can raise taxes - bunkum.

    See further details above in the previous column of this table.
  • Together with Strong National Defence:-
    Unfortunately we do not have enough bullets to last for more than a week against a Russian attack, but there is nothing in their statement about that. After that, we shout "Bang your Dead" and our soldiers get killed.
  • Secure Borders:-
    We are currently paying milions of pounds to France to stop these boats, but they are not. We have a Navy, why not sink them when they reach the 30 mile sea zone surrounding the UK, instead of spending millions of pounds to send 1 failed asylum seeker to Rwanda.
    "Those who claim asylum in the UK are not normally allowed to work whilst their claim is being considered. They are instead provided with accommodation and support to meet their essential living needs if they would otherwise be destitute. The policy outlining when permission to work will be granted to those who claim asylum is set out in the Immigration Rules. This makes clear that the Home Office may grant permission to work to asylum seekers whose claim has been outstanding for more than 12 months through no fault of their own." We are paying for over 125,750 people to do nothing. No wonder immigrants want to get into the UK, where they do not have to support themselves.

The Conservative and Labour Party have no idea about the mess that the UK is in and are blindly leading us to being completely bankrupt after May 2024.
See further details below in the cells with this wet colour background:-

Do you normally give credit to bankrupt people, government or commerce?

  • UK National Debt was roughly £1,080,000,000,000 in 2009,
  • then Conservatives came into government in 2010.
    UK National Debt was £1,820,000,000,000 in 2019,
    UK National Debt was £2,654,300,000,000 at the end of Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2023 with
    UK government deficit (or net borrowing) was £39,200,000,000 in Quarter 3 2023, equivalent to 5.8% of GDP.
    Conservative Government continues to overspend each month.
  • £2,654,300,000,000
    £1,080,000,000,000
    ---------------------
    £1,573,700,000,000
  • British 30 year Gilt is 4.379% annually on 12 March 2024.
    This equals £68,912,323,000 annual charge on the money borrowed by the Conservative Government since they came to power and this is how much it is if you have all the UK National Debt on the British 30 year gilt:-
    £116,231,797,000.
    The number of Income Tax payers by income is an estimated 31,700,000 Income Tax payers in the UK in 2020 to 2021.
    This means that
    from the tax paid by these tax payers of £3666.62 annually
    for their current portion of UK National Debt of £83,731.86
    is used to pay for the overspending of the UK Government.
    Because the UK government is still overspending
    as forecast until at least
    2029 in Table 1.1: Changes in borrowing since November 2023, then
    that portion of their tax will increase and
    their portion of the UK National Debt.
  • UK Goverment collected £788,600,000,000 in taxes in 2022 to 2023, an increase of 10.2% from the year before.
    116,231,797,000
    ------------------- = 0.14739005%
    788,600,000,000
    0.14739005% of the tax collected in 2022-23 went on paying the 30 year gilt charge.
    This % will increase each year and if the 30 year gilt charge increases, then the % will increase even faster. This means their will be less tax to pay for the public services, until all the tax collected pays for is the overspending carried out by the UK government.
     

Table J-H.
If the Conservative Prime Minister does not do what he says he will do, then the institutions follow suit

The following letter demonstrates that even the Prime Minister does not do what he says he will do and all the powerful institutions below that follow suit.
The Junior Doctors are on strike on 20 December 2023 for pay equal to what they would have been paid in 2010 i.e. 35% increase. They will not get it and like the 40% of newly qualified doctors who will leave this country, they will as well and the government's aim to destroy the NHS will be complete before the end of 2024.

I would not advise you to either trade or visit this country, because there is going to be a complete destruction of society very soon.
 

"A letter from Stephen Robinson to his local Member of Parliament Rishi Sunak -
Dear Prime Minister,
I'm one of your constituents. I wrote to you in July about how late diagnosis of osteoporosis shatterd my life - and what needs to be done to make sure no-one else has to experience the agony I've gone through.
I was shocked when you wouldn't meet me.
That's why I'm writing again. I wish I didn't have to; I would much rather have told you in person. I know you're a busy man, but I also know my story is important.
By the time I finally got my osteoporosis diagnosed, I'd suffered 10 fractures in my spine. I had to go private in the end. That was not easy since I'd lost my job as a forklift truck driver, because the pain made the work unbearable.
I remember months of living in the chair, drugged up to the eyeballs, counting the minutes until the next painkillers.
Looking back, I feel cheated of years of my life.
a Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) could have diagnosed me early. But these services are missing in half of NHS Trusts, leaving 90,000 people unprotected - including me and all the rest of your constituents.
In your letter back, you said FLS had already been "prioritised" in your Elective Care Plan and would get a share of £8,000,000,000 investment. But the truth is that they weren't mentioned once in that plan, and they didn't get a penny.
I went to Conservative Conference to tell my story. Standing for so long almost killed me, but it felt worth it when your Health Secretary said FLS are "a priority".
In September, I watched the House of Lords debate osteoporosis. Your minister, Lord Evans, promised you'd fund FLS in your Autumn Statement. I was devastated when that promise was broken too.
Lord Evans also promised an "Expert Steering Group". The truth is that doesn't exist either.
I'm not political. But I think when Ministers say they'll do things in Parliament, those promises should be kept. Otherwise why should we trust anything your Government says?
As my own MP, and as my Prime Minister, I'm asking you to intervene because you're the only person who can bang heads together and make this miniscule, cost-effective investment in our NHS actually happen, and quickly.
I can't face the new year without knowing others will be spared the agony I went through.
I hope and your family have a very happy, pain-free Christmas.
Yours sincerely
Stephen Robinson" was inserted by the Royal Osteoporosis Society as a full page in The Times of Thursday December 14 2023. Her Majesty The Queen Consort (formerly HRH The Duchess of Cornwall) was President of the Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS) up until the accession of His Majesty The King. The ROS, like many other charities and organisations, are awaiting further news from The Royal Household. 
1 in 2 women and 1 in 5 men over 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis.

If "The Duke of Sussex believes his children cannot “feel at home” in the UK if it is “not possible to keep them safe there, the High Court has heard" in December 2023, then can you?
A 91 year-old friend of mine was run into by a 40 year-old man on an Electric Scooter while returning from the roadside on the verge and passing a tree to get to the pavement; having put out his rubbish. After time in hospital, he died from that injury and diseases he picked up in hospital.
I was walking in a pedestrian high street in Central Chatham with its shops each side in early December 2023, when a person on an Electric Scooter missed me by inches having come from behind. When you get hit, the assailant might say "sorry mate" and then ride on and get a slap on the wrist from the magistrates court, instead of a prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter.
Now I am afraid of walking on any pavement or within a shopping area. In 1972, I had a motorbike accident which dislocated a third of my brain from the skull. If I get violently pushed in any direction, then the rest of my brain could detach and I would die instantly. That is why I cannot get into a glider, do sports like football, or dance. Of course, my assailant would not know that and so would also only get a slap on the wrist.
Do you want to visit a country,
where even one of the Royal Family - with his military career - with some protection;
does not feel that his children will be safe?

WHEN YOU FIND

  • THAT THE MINISTERS DID NOT FOLLOW THROUGH WITH THEY SAID THEY WOULD DO FOR STEPHEN ROBINSON AND THAT
  • A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY DOES NOT FEEL THAT HIS CHILDREN WOULD BE SAFE IN THE UK,
  • YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THE FOLLOWING - TEXT WITH THIS LIGHT BLUE BACKGROUND -
    IN THIS TABLE,
    THE LAST TABLE ON THE RIGHT AND
    IN THE SUPPORTING PAGES IN THIS HOME TOPIC,
  • WOULD MAKE THE PEOPLE IN KENT AND MEDWAY TERRIFIED IN APRIL OR MAY OF 2024,
    WHEN BOTH LOCAL AUTHORITIES HAVE DECLARED THEMSELVES BANKRUPT IN APRIL 2024.
    BECAUSE,
    THE GOVERNMENT WOULD TAKE OVER THE CONTROL OF THESE LOCAL AUTHORITIES SOON AFTERWARDS,
    BUT YOU AND I - THE PUBLIC LIVING IN THESE LOCAL AUTHORITIES -
    WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TRUST THEM IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM AND
    THEY COULD DO ANYTHING AT ALL WITH TOTAL IMPUNITY.

Table J-I.
From 2016 to 5 June 2023 the Conservative Government of 2010-24 has only built 5,202 prison places, instead of the 10,000 it aimed to build between 2016 and 2019.

  • Therefore, the prison system is overloaded.
  • Also, because the prisoners do not receive education to help prevent re-offending, then the prison population is composed of the 37% who re-offend costing £18,000,000,000 a year for crime against the UK population when they out of prison, leaving no cells for new prisoners.

Riots test the new British prime minister in his first month in the job:-
Businesses in England board up amid fears of far-right violence.
A large fiscal shortfall could complicate efforts to respond to the crisis as Starmer’s government pledges to pay police overtime, potentially hold night and weekend court sessions to deal with an influx of cases from the mayhem and make space in an already overcrowded prison system for more than 500 additional inmates.
“The dire state of the criminal justice system that the new Labour government has inherited from the Conservatives makes this difficult situation especially challenging in terms of a lack of available prison spaces, a really severe backlog in the courts that limits how cases can be processed,” said Cassia Rowland, a senior researcher at the Institute for Government think tank. “All of these things will affect the ability of the police to respond to unrest and disorder, and maintain law and order in the streets.”
More than 400 people have been arrested over violence in more than two dozen towns and cities and about 100 have been charged. Few have been released on bail, as some judges have said they don’t want to run the risk of a defendant being released and rejoining the fray.
But if you have no space in prisons where is the government going to put the guilty offenders?
 

 

The retraining schools - called prisons -has the national average of 37% for re-offending rates for prison occupants, which costs £18,000,000,000 a year for crime against the UK population.
The UK Government is creating an annual crop of re-offenders:-

Combination of putting prisoners into private prisons and the government not building them has created a crisis caused by the government:-

  • "Along with private prisons' proven inability to adequately deal with prisoners, it is questionable whether private companies should supervise a state-administered punishment. According to this logic, if the state decides prisoner's punishments, surely the state should also administer these punishments instead of outsourcing them to private companies.
  • Despite the many criticisms of current private prisons, the government has decided to ultimately further privatise prisons in England and Wales in the next few years to deal with Britain's ever-growing prison population." from St Andrews Law Review of 20 March 2022.
  • Private prisons have more assaults per 1000 prisoners than state-run prisons:-
    A 2019 analysis of official UK prison data found that private prisons tend to generally be more danderous than public prisons. 28 state-owned prisons recorded 493 assaults per 1000 prisoners in the year to September 2018. Contrastingly, 5 private prisons recorded 701 assaults per 1000 prisoners, a figure 42% higher.
  • Why the increase?
  • In 1998, the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee found that private prisons were cheaper than state-owned prisons, this was often due to lower salaries and fewer benefits for their staff. In 2003, it was reported that staff working in private prisons can be paid 70% less than staff working in the public sector. Low pay for staff results in high staff turnover, low staffing levels and inexperienced staff. This, along with less training and higher inmate-to-staff ratios, results in more dangerous conditions in private prisons.

From 2016 to 5 June 2023 the government has built 5,202 prison places, instead of the 10,000 it aimed to build between 2016 and 2019.

Lots of words and no action between 2016 and July 2024. Prison population was 85,134 in 30 June 2016. Prison population in 31 March 2024 was 87,869.
Does not leave much room does it?

  • To relieve the prison population instead of building more prisons, "The government will announce plans on Friday to release prisoners early to stop jails becoming full in England and Wales, the BBC has confirmed on 11 July 2024.
    Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expected to set out a suite of emergency measures to free up space in prisons.
    The main measure will be automatically releasing prisoners on “standard determinate sentences” after they have served 40% of their sentence, government sources confirmed.
    Currently, they are released after serving 50% of their sentence.
    There will be exemptions for sexual and serious violent offenders.
    As the re-offenders keep on come back to prison, the judge will have to pass the following judgement on a criminal "Due to the government not supplying prison accomodation, I sentence you to 5 years of sucking a
    gob-stopper each day, for robbing that jeweller of £100,000. During that 5 years you have a 37% chance of re-offending to be allocated your annual share of £18,000,000,000 of misery on the UK public and its visitors.
  • At considerably less cost, then the UK government could reduce the prison population, the misery to the UK population and prisoner re-offending:-
    This is what education is being given by charity to sort out prisoner re-offending as reported by Riverford Organic Farmers Ltd on 22 July 2024:-
    "Last weekend, my daughter Alice brought a group of year sevens from her school in Woolwich, London down to the farm, to camp, forage, and wallow in mud. It is always a huge work setting up the camp and keeping them safe - but also hugely rewarding. Most of the children had barely been outside London, and had never camped; a truly dark, starlight night was a first for them, as was the freedom to wander, fill themselves with strawberries and peas, and then cook their gleanings on an open fire. As in previous years, they quickly and bravely adapted to the novel surroundings, including a very basic composting toilet. The rain poured down, and trainers became sodden - but they showed extraordinary resilience. Children who, I am told, barely speak at school, became ebullient out in the fields: gathering food for their supper, making flatbreads, walking, bat-watching, and meeting mellow cattle and their calves, plus Bernard the bull.
    Perhaps we need to redefine our role as farmers to include husbandry not just of the soil, but also of the people who walk on it. A big ask, but one that our quietly inspirational neighbour Chris Parsons embraced 11 years ago, when he founded the charity Landworks. The use woodcraft, vegetable growing, and cooking as a vehicle to rehabilitate offenders and offer a pathway back into society. Despite the frustrations of working with an underfunded prison system in crisis, reoffending rates for participants are just 5%, compared to a national average of 37%, and employment rates are 94%. Several have joined us at Riverford. Last week, Landworks won the top prize at this year's Charity Awards. See more about this very well-deserved win a landworks.org.uk (just click 'News'). Plus, Chris's posts detailing life at Landworks are great reads."
     

Table J-J.
Do not drive a car in the UK, because of potholes and broken manhole covers/frames in the roads last year.

Drivers of cars in the UK forked out almost £500,000,000 pounds in 2023 because of potholes and broken manhole covers/frames in the roads last year.
"Our expectation based upon the most recent intelligence is that Devon will potentially see a reduction of between £ 11-17million for this year 2021/22 on its highways capital budget. The current estimated cost in 2020/21 is £80 per pothole. Motorists forked out almost £500,000,000 pounds in 2023 repairing damage to their vehicles caused by Britain's pothole-blighted roads (View how exactly are potholes formed on a road? video). The cost of clearing Britain's pothole backlog was estimated last year to cost a record £14,000,000,000, with the estimated repair bill increasing by nearly £1,500,000,000 on the year previous.
The Water Boards are responsible for mains water and mains sewage manholes that are outside of your property boundary. Less than 100 yards on the A2 towards Rainham, Kent from my house, there is a deteriatating manhole. A vehicle has been in that and driven into the scaffolding pipe fence by the side of the road and then after 3 feet (90 cm) into the front door of a terraced house in June 2024. The damage caused by a heavy lorry or tanker at night time could be the destruction of over half those terraced house while their occupants are sleeping, because they do not do 40Mph at that time. There is a pothole appearing after that manhole, which by 29 June 2024 is getting bigger due to the manhole cover frame being depressed on the left hand corner nearest to Rainham every time a tyre runs over that manhole. As that pothole gets bigger, then the frame of that manhole is going to be loosened and the frame will be depressed and before it can go back down again the next lorry wheel will hit the upturned frame and what a shame, people sleeping in that row of terraced houses in a Medway Conservation Area are going to have their homes destroyed. Unfortunately the cost of repairing the potholes is too much to clear within a few years, so this additional method of creating them will have to wait as more manholes break.
Amazing, that broken manhole has been replaced - on 3 July 2024 - with a new frame and top; and the new tarmac is level with the manhole top and the road alongside.

  • When roads are repaired, often only another layer of tarmac is put on top. Unfortunately the manholes in that road are not lifted up to the new road level causing a manmade pothole as is the case between the road humps when no layer of tarmac is put there to make that section of road level with the remainder, making further potholes, because the tarmac layerers are not paid to do the repair properly.
  • What makes driving even worse is when you come to deep potholes next to the pavement because of this poor method of maintaining roads, since you do not notice them until it ruins your suspension and wheel.
  • to fill in ruts, I suspect that blobs of hot tarmac are sprayed into the ruts, causing more damage to the road as the tyres go up the first and down the the other side to be met by the uprise of the second blob, instead of smoothing out this tarmac to be level with the road alongside.
    I have driven over many manholes in the same deteriatating conditions in the last few months in the 154 miles of road within Medway Unitary Authority.
     

Table J-K.
11,000,000 of the UK population is starving, because the money they earn is not enough to pay the bills and to eat.

The Nazis and their allies and collaborators killed 6,000,000 Jewish people.


The UK government is starving 9,000,000 children by not providing enough in the below poverty level wages earnt by the parents:-
The present Conservative UK government - exceed this by starving 9,000,000 UK children and around 1 in 25 adults (4%) have reported that their household had run out of food and could not afford to buy more in the past two weeks in 2024 - having been in power for 14 years.
"Did you know more than 4,000,000 tonnes of perfectly edible food go to waste annually in the UK? That's the weight of 70 aircraft carriers. This is significantly contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. Simultaneously, 11,000,000 people in the country face food insecurity, and the poorest households are forced to spend 50% of their income to afford a healthy diet, leading to a host of health issues." from "Where's the Food?".
Research has found that nutritional deficiencies such as iron deficiency in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life can impact their cognitive, socio-emotional, motor, and physiological health, even changing the actual structure of their brain. This is equivalent to the loss of 3 years of schooling. So, the UK government is quite happy to create 9,000,000 morons who will only be able to do manual tasks in their adult life by starving them and their parents, out of the 14,075,345 children in the UK in 2023. Unfortunately this will lower the Gross Domestic Product to a level which will become unsustainable, within 20 years; because the country will not have enough skilled personnel. The functionally illiterate will increase from 16.4% or 7,100,000 people, who can be described as having "very poor literacy skills".

"UK tax revenue is forecast to total £950,000,000,000 in 2023-24, equivalent to 36.9% of gross domestic product (GDP). Under current government plans, tax revenue is forecast to rise to 37.7% of GDP by 2027–28. If this happens, it will represent the highest level of tax ever seen in the UK."

We are taxed too much and so cannot afford to feed ourselves or our children.

There is nothing that the UK population can do about this,
so there is no point in you reading the text within this light blue background in these Home Pages,

since 11,000,000 of the UK population is starving, because the money they earn is not enough to pay the bills and to eat.
Yet Commerce, UK Main Government and Local UK government make money on the new houses they build for people from London, but not for the local population who cannot afford them.
If
you cannot afford food, how do you expect someone to pay a mortgage on an average house for a first time buyer in London is £492,234 and £353,724 in the South East.
Unfortunately
affordable rental property is now 'impossible' for many and many landlords are now selling their properties.
 

Table J-L.
You may be poisoned by eating food cooked in rapeseed oil produced in the UK

You may be poisoned by eating food cooked in rapeseed oil produced in the UK:-
rape seed grown in this country is impregnated with Glyphosate, which when you consume it goes to your brain and damages it, together with the microplastic created from the deteriating plastic sheet covering that seeded area . The UK is allowing farmers to use the wrong plastic in order to kill its population, whereas the EU banned it and their agricultural plastic breaks down into harmless water and carbon doixide. Unfortunately the microplastics also vastly decrease worm fertility and so with too much of it there will be no worms in the agricultural field and therefore no crops, especially every time they grow rapeseed.

Table J-M.
You may die before being treated on the NHS while waiting, because the Conservative UK Government have effectively reduced the buying power of a £100 in 2010 to £65 in 2024 as a 35% reduction between the pay received by the NHS workers between 2010 to 2024. This has meant that many of the staff have a choice, eat or heat your home.

You may die before being treated on the NHS while waiting:-
the number of doctors and nurses are declining because of poor pay and so if you need medical help you may wait too long to get an ambulance, too long to get into hospital from the ambulance, too long in the Accident and Emergency department before you are seen for treatment and then treated in beds in the corridor instead of a ward, because of a lack of bed space, and die. Neither the doctors nor nurses will receive a 35% pay increase to bring them back to what their wages would have bought in 2010. Once they see that ths Labour Government is as bad as the last Conservative, then they will leave and the NHS Hospital waiting list will increase from 7,600,000.

Table J-N.
It is unsafe to walk along a pavement or in a pedestrianised road in town since kids on motorised bicylces can run into you and kill you.

A 91 year-old friend of mine was run into by a 40 year-old man on an Electric Scooter while returning from the roadside on the verge and passing a tree to get to the pavement; having put out his rubbish. After time in hospital, he died from that injury and diseases he picked up in hospital.
I was walking in a pedestrian high street in Central Chatham with its shops each side in early December 2023, when a person on an Electric Scooter missed me by inches having come from behind. When you get hit, the assailant might say "sorry mate" and then ride on and get a slap on the wrist from the magistrates court, instead of a prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter.
Now I am afraid of walking on any pavement or within a shopping area. In 1972, I had a motorbike accident which dislocated a third of my brain from the skull. If I get violently pushed in any direction, then the rest of my brain could detach and I would die instantly. That is why I cannot get into a glider, do sports like football, or dance. Of course, my assailant would not know that and so would also only get a slap on the wrist.
Do you want to visit a country,
where even one of the Royal Family - with his military career - with some protection;
does not feel that his children will be safe?

Do not walk in the pavement without cameras at their back and front to see if they are about to be run down by electric bikes, etc. Or, you can be stabbed, like the military man outside his barracks in Chatham - part of Medway Unitary Authority on 23 July 2024. They have not ruled out terrorism as a motive, The Telegraph understands. 

Table J-O.
How Commerce persuaded the Conservative UK Government to help them and
get the UK population to pay for it.

19 warnings caused by the government in the UK to turn its population into slaves, where:-
Warning 7 on The Energy Charter Treaty has enslaved the mice in parliament (MPs) to create the windfall tax on renewables (wind and solar farms), biomass and nuclear power generators to be set at 45%.
The actual price of wholesale electricity per megawatt hour in December 2022 was 2,960 euros in the UK and the next most expensive country was 650 euros in France. To try to help 300 companies in the UK by narrowing this gap, then the British Industry Supercharger was created and we the unknowing UK public paid for this help to 300 companies by
a 450% increase in the domestic gas bill from January 2022 to May 2023 for our home - British Gas owner doubles boss's pay to £8,000,000 in 2024 , which is 232 times the median wage as shown above in the next column (I stopped paying British Gas for maintenance, because all they did was check the output and nothing else). If you do not do any maintenance, then that output check will fail and hey presto a new boiler is required - and
a 422% increase in electricity bill for Tremorfa Superstore in Cardiff from £900 to £4,700 a month.

 

Wholesale gas prices
Wholesale gas prices had already been increasing in the second half of 2021 due to increases in demand as economies came out of lockdown and lower levels of supply from some exporters. Gas prices in Europe increased by 50% on 24 February 2022 to around 11 p/kWh. The daily price peaked at just over 17 p/kWh in early March, fell back in April and May before increasing rapidly again over the summer, reaching multiple new records in late August 2022. Prices fell sharply afterwards and have been below 5p/kWh since February 2023, as of July 2024. Spot prices fell further in spring and early summer 2023 before increasing to 3.5p/kWh in late September 2023 and briefly hit 4.5p/kWh in mid-October 2023. They fell back again in mid-December 2023 and, at the time of writing, have been relatively stable since then, generally in the 2.0-2.5p/kWh in the first three months of 2024 and between 2.5 and 3.0p/kWh from April to June 2024.

SO THE ABOVE 450% INCREASE OF OUR DOMESTIC GAS BILL AND THE 422% IN ELECTRICITY FOR TREMORFA SUPERSTORE WERE SIMPLY EXTORTION FROM THE ENERGY COMPANIES.

Table J-P.
Britain cannot defend itself due to lack of an army and lack of bullets

As things stand, the British army would already run out of ammunition within a few days if called upon to fight and would take up to 10 years to field a modern warfighting division of some 25,000 to 30,000 troops.

Table J-Q.
If a member of the Royal Family does not feel safe here, would you?

If "The Duke of Sussex believes his children cannot “feel at home” in the UK if it is “not possible to keep them safe there, the High Court has heard" in December 2023, then can you?
 

Table J-R.

Must be careful of the pollution in mains drinking water
 



Must be careful of the pollution in mains drinking water:-
must boil their drinking and bathing water, because it may be polluted with e.coli or cryptosporidium.



I spoke to an OAP (Old Age Pensioner) on a bus in Medway in June 2024 and she stated that sometimes her water was cloudy and smelt, that she had to boil it before drinking it.

The possible reasons for this

  • is that part of the mains water pipe laid up to outside her property from the reservoir was laid in the 1800's and due to the movement caused by speed humps in the roads, then that part of the clay pipe has either cracked or broken.
    So that now, it has water leaking into that pipe from the earth outside; and Southern Water have not yet relined that Mains Waterpipe with plastic as detailed in next column, since in 2024, they only have 40,000 kms of Mains Water pipework to reline.
  • It is likely that a Combined raw Sewage and Stormwater Pipe has also broken near to that Mains Water Pipe.
    When the pressure in her Mains Water pipe becomes higher than the pressure of the water outside the pipe during the night, then the mains water leaks at that break and combines with the raw sewage from the break in the Combined Sewage and Stormwater pipe.
    The pressure in her Mains Water pipe can be reduced considerably in the morning by her neighbours in the road; and the 100's of newly built flats alongside the River Medway waking up, before commuting to London between 6-9 in the morning. During this time of too many residents taking this mains water, then the pressure can be reduced to below what the pressure is of the water/rawsewage outside it. Then that diluted sewage forces its way into her mains water pipe. The pressure goes up and then she takes water to make her tea and she gets the result. This process can be repeated in the evening.
  • This is another explaination of why the pressure in the Mains Water pipe is lower than the pressure outside it -
    • Copied from E. in next column
      E. 20 million homeless English before 2030 as a
      Minor inconvenience -
      West Midlands, London, Parts of the South West, East Midlands, East of England and South East regions of England are at risk of running out of water by 2030.
      Since the privatized water companies have
      not completed any new reservoirs,
      nor significantly reduced the water loss in their pipework or
      in the pipework between them and the customer's stop tap
      in the last 30 years,
      then the increase of millions in the population comes as a surprise, so that
      the pressure falls below the minimum static head when more is being requested than can be supplied in that pipe.
      So the water companies use this escape clause without fixing the problem:-
      "Water companies should usually supply water at a minimum of seven metres static head, unless low pressure is due to drought or essential maintenance work.
      If the pressure falls below this for an hour or more on at least two occasions in a 28 day period, you're entitled to a payment or credit of £25. Only one payment of £25 can be made in any one financial year.
      " from Claiming Compensation from Water Companies.
      That means that if you get no water for 11 months, then you only get £25 but you still have to pay the Water Board water standing charges.
      Schools are closed as water shortage hits South East; reported on 14 June 2023, due to their ancient pipework structure from their full reservoir not being able to transfer that extra water required. They were probably beyond what that pipe could deliver, since others had taken all that pipe's capacity before them.

This Old Age Pensioner is wise to boil her water twice, but she probaly washes her clothes, washes herself, cooks with it and does the washing up in it, leaving bacteria on the washed cutlery and plates to affect her later.
I spoke to our vicar of St Margaret's Church in Rainham and he provided the following map of current Housing Development for 26 March 2021.
When you add up the number of houses to be built just for this part of Rainham, it is 2,575 plus the 1200 pupils in the School and number of houses in the 2 Swale Prospective development and Swale New homes built plus the 2000 homes that Maidstone Borough plan to build at Lidsing Garden Community, which sits alongside the boundary between Maidstone Borough and Medway Council. That is close to 5000 new homes and 1500 people in the School.
So, if you assume that each home will have 2 adults and 2 children, then ((5000 x 2 adults x 2 children) + (1500 people in the school)) x 129 litres of water consumed on average per person per day in the South-East = 20000 + 1500 x 129 = 21500 x 129 =
2,773,500 litres.
That means an extra 2,773,500 litres of water will be required PER DAY when the water for Medway comes from the aquifers in the chalk.
Southern Water over abstracted water for 2 months from those aquifers in 2017.
How do you expect Southern Water to provide this volume both to Medway residents and the parasites living alongside from Swale and Maidstone who will use the same source of water.
Southern Water will build a new reservoir in Havant for the whole of the South-East, but up to some months ago, they were making little headway in curing their heavy loss of water in their supply system to provide the requirement instead of loosing the water each day.
MEDWAY IS NOT THE ONLY LEMMING DETERMINED TO PROVIDE HOUSING FOR ITS POPULATION WITHOUT WATER, SINCE EVERY OTHER COUNCIL IN THE SOUTH-EAST IS BUILDING, BUILDING, BUILDING.
ONCE APPROVAL HAS BEEN GIVEN, IT IS UP TO THE UTILITIES TO PROVIDE IRRESPECTIVE IF THEY CAN OR THEY CANNOT.
THUS IT IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PLANNING AUTHORITIERS TO VALIDATE THAT THE INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIRED IS THERE, LIKE NO EXTRA DOCTORS AND MEDWAY HOSPITAL WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COPE WITH THE ADDTIONAL PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM TRAFFIC POLLUTION.

If we now add the 1,400 home regeneration scheme in Medway to the 5000 homes above, then we have 6,400 homes.
Add 44+175 (Two new town centre developments given the go ahead in Medway) = 6621
Add 1000 (Transforming Strood Waterfront) = 7621
Add 152 (Choose your own home at Nightgale Rise in Hoo) = 7773

7773 x 2 adults/per home x 2 children per home = 31092.

Medway has a population of 274,015 in 2014.

So 31092 / 274015 =0.113468 = 11.34% increase in population to drink the water. Southern Water have allowed for 15% increase in the water supply by 2035. When you add all the other houses/flats that have built since 2014 in Medway and adjacent to it, it is more than likely than the increase in the population is over 15% already, 14 years before 2035.
In 2024 most of those houses/flats have been built.

 

You never know whether you also are drinking somebody else's diluted raw sewage,
even though the mains water may have been treated at the extraction point, that it then becomes infected between the treatment plant and your household or business.
Just think that it also might contain cocaine, viagra, contraceptive pills, glyphosate to alter its brains functions and microplastics for you to give to your baby - as detailed in the next column.

Table J-S.
Because the unemployed in the UK will not work in the UK Social Care System, then many of the staff in Care Homes are recruited professionals from abroad, who are treated like slaves.

In August 1833, Parliament passed An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies, converting enslaved people into apprentice labourers and taking steps to protect their work and wellbeing.

The UK has re-introduced slavery by conning migrant care workers, who come to care for our elderly?

 

If I need care in a few years, is there going to be any staff in any care home to look after me, when I am paying annual costs of £60,320 for residential care home or £73,320 for nursing home care on 31 July 2024, who are not enslaved?

Care homes close as visa crackdown fuels staff crisis of August 22, 2024
Care homes are preparing for a looming staffing crisis following an 81 per cent plunge in visas issued to overseas workers, with some already forced to shut their doors.
The number of health and care worker visas granted fell from 121,290 to 89,095 in the year to June 2024 – a decline of more than a quarter, according to the Home Office.
Visas issued in the three months to June plunged 81 per cent compared with the same period last year – with an accompanying 66 per cent fall in visas issued for dependants.
Care homes warned that changes to the immigration system that took effect earlier this year were making it more difficult to recruit and could lead to more providers shutting their doors.
Since March, care workers have been barred from bringing their spouses and children – also known as dependants – with them to the UK, which the sector said is putting people off from coming to the country.

Overview of event held on Tuesday, October 11th 2022.

According to a January 2022 National Care Forum (NCF) survey of its not-for-profit care-home members, care homes are missing a third of the staff they need and more than one in four have closed their doors to new admissions. NCF warn that the staffing crisis in care homes is “putting safety and dignity at risk”. With care homes facing a staffing crisis and both costs and demand rising, the directors of Council social care services across England are saying that the care sector is facing the most challenging time it has ever known, with the most vulnerable people not able to get the help that they need. According to a recent survey by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) of its members, 82% of ADASS members said they were worried about the stability of the care market by 2023/24, and nearly 70% of directors say that care providers are closing, ceasing trading or handing back contracts due to a lack of staff. Furthermore, with inflation continuing to rise, 54% of directors state that they overspent on social care budgets last year, and only a quarter are fully confident they can deliver the expected savings this year and 6% say they have no confidence of delivering the savings needed. The survey also found that a stagerring 506,131 people in England were waiting for a social care assessment, for care to begin, or for a review of their care.
The government has insisted that they are investing £5.4 billion to reform adult social care over the next three years, funded by the Health and Social Care Levy which came into force in April. The Department of Health and Social Care state that “[t]his includes £3.6bn to reform the social care charging system and enable all local authorities to move towards paying providers a fair cost of care and a further £1.7bn to begin major improvements across adult social care in England.” The government also highlight that they have provided an extra £500 million of funding for training and career development in the care sector. None of this amount will go on the increase in pay needed to address recruitment and retention challenges, however.

Why is there a shortage of staff?

Shortage of 28,000 workers lays bare London crisis in social care of May 31 2023
Exclusive: Social care workers deserting the industry ‘in droves’ to work in better-paid roles in supermarkets. The extent of London’s social care crisis was laid bare on Wednesday as new figures showed the capital is short of 28,000 workers.
Data published by Skills for Care showed London’s vacancy rate stood at 12.6 per cent in March this year – by far the highest total of any region in the country. It comes amid warnings that social care workers are deserting the industry “in droves” due to poor pay, burnout and job insecurity. Many have sought better paid work in supermarkets or hospitality.
London saw a 44 per cent rise in vacancies in the year up to March 2022 as care providers struggled to recruit workers. Across England, there is currently a staggering 165,000 vacancies across the sector. Analysis by Skills for Care, an industry body for social care, found that care workers are among the lowest paid roles in the economy with a median hourly rate of £9.50.
Staff vacancies and retention issues in the sector are compromising the quality of care offered to patients, experts have warned.
Simon Bottery, a senior fellow at the King’s Fund, a think tank, told the Standard that the price of rent and the soaring cost of living in London “could help explain why the vacancy rate is so high”.
“If you are going to increase the number of people working within the care sector, then you have to increase pay. The Government has refused to address this question in any meaningful way."
“Most people would agree that the difficulty of the job and the skills it requires suggests that it should be paid at a higher rate, particularly given the value it provides for society.” A study published by the King’s Fund last year found that nine out of the 10 largest supermarkets paid more than the average social worker receives.
Mr Bottery said that poor pay progression was a major reason for many workers leaving the sector after just two years, as well as insecure zero-hours contracts. “It is possible that workers would accept a lower starting salary if there was a sense that they would be paid more as they built up skills and experience. But unfortunately, in many cases, that does not happen.
“There are some career development opportunities, but for an awful lot of people the rate they get paid on day one really doesn’t increase year after year.”
Analysis of the London workforce by Skills for Care for the year up to March 2022 found that 68 per cent of the workforce was black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) while 80 per cent were female. Skills for Care said that workers on zero-hours contracts and those under 25 were more likely to leave their posts.
The crisis in social care is directly impacting London’s hospitals as beds are taken up by elderly, vulnerable patients with no care package to be discharged into. This leads to gridlock in A&E, with the most recent figures showing that 22,000 Londoners waited over 12 hours for treatment in February. Pay has remained low for care workers as the spending power of local authorities, who commission services from private care providers, has fallen sharply in the last decade. This means that the rates that providers pay to their staff remains low.
Unlike NHS employees, care workers lack both an established national framework of pay rates and the collective bargaining power of large unions.
“Social care is provided by around 18,000 separate organisations… you can’t have a clear structure to agree and negotiate wages within that,” Mr Bottery added.
Ministers faced criticism earlier this year after it emerged a £500m funding package for social care workforce funding had been halved.
Nuffield Trust deputy director of policy, Natasha Curry, said the announcement was a “particularly low blow amid a cost of living and recruitment and retention crisis affecting social care”.
NHS leaders have previously called on the Government to implement a national care worker minimum wage of £10.50 an hour to fix the workforce crisis. When you work for 40 hours a week, can you live on a gross £1890 a month before tax is taken from it?

The Hidden Crisis: Exploited Care Workers and Staff Shortages in UK Care Homes - Who's Responsible? of 19 June 2024 by Morgan Smith Immigration explains the exploitation of the internationally recruited care workers:-
Internationally recruited nurses, despite their qualifications and dedication, face a grim reality in the UK. Many find themselves trapped in exploitative employment cycles. These professionals, who should be providing essential care to vulnerable patients, instead grapple with irregular work hours and wages that fall below the legal minimum. Their qualifications often go unrecognised, and they are denied the jobs they applied for or are qualified to perform. As a result, they live in poverty, their financial instability compounding the emotional toll of their work.
Adding to their plight, some care workers have paid exorbitant fees, up to £20,000, to secure recruitment in UK care homes. However, upon arrival, they discover that the promised jobs do not exist. The dream of a better life turns into a nightmare of uncertainty and exploitation.

Exploitative Recruitment Practices: A Harrowing Reality for Migrant Care Workers
Investigations reveal a distressing pattern faced by more than 30 workers, primarily from India (though others from sub-Saharan Africa share similar experiences). These individuals paid hefty fees to agents, sometimes even to the care providers themselves, to secure visas for work in UK care homes or as caregivers.
The agents promised that the fees would cover visas, flights, and a month’s accommodation, guaranteeing full-time work with annual earnings exceeding £20,000. However, upon arrival, workers were informed they had to pay for their own flights and find accommodation independently. Worse still, the promised jobs often did not materialise. In some cases, there was no work at all, or the hours and pay fell far short of what was initially pledged.