Hot off the press Headlines – Holly Folkard-Smith
‘MPs reject no-deal Brexit’
Classic. Yet again a vote was cast in Parliament this week with MPs voting against a no-deal Brexit the day after voting against May’s Brexit deal, for the second time. Another vote was proposed considering another referendum, another general election or other vote on an extension on Article 50. The public have become saturated by unsuccessful updates and advancements on Brexit which further disunite the country and parliament. What will happen on the 29th March is still unpredictable and uncharted.
‘Period poverty: free sanitary products for schools is ‘huge step’
Amika George, 19, began campaigning on period poverty when she was 17 stating that these improvements would make a “massive difference” to girls who struggled to afford sanitary products. 49% of girls have missed an entire day of school because of their period. These kinds of shocking statistics urged her to organise a protest attracting over 2,000 people along side other protests such as The Pink Protest and the Red Box Project. Unsurprisingly, nothing yet has been achieved on this matter in parliament with Hammond (Chancellor of Exchequer) announcing that the government was responding to these concerns. But with Scotland already making huge advancements in this area with a new £5.2 million scheme providing free sanitary products in schools, colleges and universities, the Treasury said they would now like to make similar developments.
‘Boeing grounds entire crash aircraft fleet’
The crash on Sunday killed 157 people and was the second fatal Max 8 disaster in 5 months over Indonesia, raising the death toll to 189 lives. Boeing stated that after its consultation with the National Transportation Safety Board it has decided to ground 371 aircrafts “out of an abundance of caution”. This decision was then cemented when investigators found “new evidence” at the scene of the Ethiopian Airline crashes, but has yet to reveal their findings.
Food for thought- Boris Johnson
‘Johnson historical child sex abuse comments ‘horrific’
Whilst being interviewed by LBC Johnson made controversial claims that “an awful lot of police time” was spent looking at “historic offences and all his malarkey”, stating that £60 million was being “spaffed up the wall” on historic child abuse cases and other such related issues. Johnson was addressing issues concerning the number o police numbers on the streets adding that investing money into investigating historic cases does not do any good in protecting the public now. Outrage spread across the media soon after with the NSPCC calling his remarks an “affront to victims” and Chris Unsworth (director of Offside Trust- an organisation set up by survivors of child sexual abuse) thought his remarks were “ignorant, dangerous, disgraceful and unbelievably distasteful”. Amongst all these allegations against Johnson, do you think he has a point?
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