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What kind of country have we become? A 73-year-old retired nurse was arrested and handcuffed after taking her mother out of a nursing home.
Ylenia Angeli was pulled over by police in a parking lot as her bewildered mother, Tina Thornborough, 97, watched her.
This scandalous incident was caught on video by Ms. Angeli’s daughter, Leandra Ashton, and posted on the internet.
Welcome to Police State Britain.
During a visit to the nursing home, where they were only allowed to see Ms Thornborough through a window, the two women were distraught at how much she had visibly deteriorated.
They decided to take her out and take her to Ms. Angeli’s house, so that she could be cared for by her own family.
Ylenia Angeli was pulled over by police in a parking lot as her bewildered mother, Tina Thornborough (pictured), 97, watched
The nursing home, in Market Weighton, Yorkshire, called the police and they were eventually located in a parking lot near the garden center, where Ms Thornborough was enjoying coffee and cream pie. Ms. Angeli was handcuffed and forced to sit in the back seat of a police car. The handcuffs were not removed until they were taken back home.
The video images are heartbreaking. Miss Ashton, an actress who has appeared on Coronation Street, can be heard sobbing and arguing with the police.
She insisted that nothing was premeditated. After care workers refused to allow Ms. Thornborough out, her daughter took matters into her own hands. In defiance of Covid restrictions, she seized a wheelchair and headed for the border, putting aside staff attempts to stop her.
For the first time in nine months, they were able to hug. “I was able to hug my mother and tell her how much I love her,” Ms. Angeli said.
She is convinced that her mother’s lack of physical contact with her daughter and granddaughter contributed to her deteriorating health. Ms. Thornborough was returned home, against Ms. Angeli’s wishes, after a period in the hospital in the summer.
I want to take care of it myself. If she is at home with me, I can see her every day and give her everything she needs. I am a trained nurse and I have my own nursing home so I know what I am doing. I have a lot of experience in caring for the elderly ”.
But under the conditions imposed when Ms. Thornborough was admitted to the nursing home, her family now has no say in her well-being. It is a story that will resonate with tens of thousands of people in the same boat. Families are being torn apart by the official reaction to the pandemic. It’s no wonder we have a mental health crisis.
This scandalous incident was caught on video by Ms. Angeli’s daughter, Leandra Ashton (pictured together), and posted on the internet.
The government’s initial policy to address Covid in nursing homes was terribly sloppy.
At first, the ministers insisted that the houses were safe, a fatal miscalculation that led to an excessive number of deaths.
If anything was ‘killing Granny’, to quote our callous and satisfied Secretary of Health Matt Hancock, it was the Government’s decision to move elderly patients from hospitals to nursing homes.
So now all physical contact between family members and loved ones in nursing homes is prohibited. Visitors are reduced to looking at their elderly relatives through a glass, as if they were exotic fish in an aquarium.
In some cases, outdoor visits are allowed, but touching is not allowed.
Sons, daughters and grandchildren can only stand and watch in despair as their loving parents and grandparents are condemned to spend the remainder of their lives in virtual solitary confinement.
During a visit to the nursing home, where they were only allowed to see Ms Thornborough through a window, the two women were distraught at how much she had visibly deteriorated. In the photo: Mrs. Angeli in a patrol car
In a heartbreaking interview with Nick Ferrari on LBC radio, Miss Ashton spoke for Britain. ‘We need to challenge the worst virus in this country, which is fear. We do not think rationally, we focus on a disease.
“This narrative of fear, of shutting down and shutting up and staying safe, must change to living life, not saving it.”
Ms Angeli added: ‘The collateral damage that has been done to families across the country is enormous. Families are falling apart. It’s destroying us. ‘
Love that. But the police reaction is equally, if not more, scandalous. Ms. Angeli said of her arrest: “I thought this couldn’t be happening. It was absolutely horrible. ‘
Why the hell was she handcuffed? She is a 73-year-old retired nurse, not the Yorkshire Ripper. And why was it necessary to hold it down during the journey back to the residence? What did they think I was going to do?
When two black athletes were detained and handcuffed after police stopped their car in North West London in the summer, there was a national protest, led by the BBC. This prompted a formal investigation into the possible misconduct of the officers involved.
Ms. Angeli’s treatment deserves no less response. The fact that she was later arrested is irrelevant.
This was a manifest abuse of police power. And sadly, we can expect more in the next month.
During the first lockdown, some forces behaved abominably, sending drones to spy on hikers, threatening to arrest bathers, etc.
The second time around, they already promise to be tough on people who break the rules and are being goaded on by Interior Secretary Priti Flamingo.
With her predecessor Jacqui Smith reduced to spinning around on Strictly, it’s Priti’s turn to put on her old boots.
Thanks to Covid, the Old Bills are now encouraged to think of themselves not as public servants, but as our jailers.
Consent policing no longer comes into play, unless you’re planning to host a Black Lives Matter demo or invite 200 people to the funeral of a much-loved member of the traveling community. In which case Plod will turn a blind eye.
I might have been prepared to give the Humberside police the benefit of the doubt, until I remembered that it is the same force that recorded an alleged ‘transphobic’ tweet from a former police officer as a ‘hate incident’ and sent an officer to warn you that you could be prosecuted unless you moderate your “thinking.”
How many more times? If you give someone any authority, especially if they come in a high visibility uniform, they will always abuse it.
Even if that extends to arresting and handcuffing a 73-year-old woman whose only crime is loving her 97-year-old mother and wanting to care for her.
This is the kind of country we have become.
The Poppy Appeal has its roots in the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915, taking inspiration from the poem In Flanders Fields that commemorates the fallen soldiers of World War I.
The poppy itself is a poignant symbol. But in recent years different versions have started to appear, with the logos of football clubs and other organizations. SNP and Plaid Cymru politicians sport poppies mounted on saltiers and Welsh dragons.
Why? The poppy is supposed to greet service men and women, not advertise political parties or loyalty to Aston Villa, Chelsea or any other Premier League team.
Those who vainly insist on wearing these tacky badges should remind them that Remembrance Day is about the sacrifices of others, not theirs.
Humberside police (yes, again) have issued electronic attacks on two men wanted for theft.
They both wear Covid-safe face masks.
That should reduce the number of suspects to about 50 million.
Be careful how you go.
