Boris Johnson tells Mike Pence the NHS is not for sale//
Boris Johnson has told the US Vice-President that the NHS would not be for sale in any post-Brexit trade deal with America and that Britain is “not keen on that chlorinated chicken”.
In a meeting in Downing Street with Mike Pence, President Donald Trump’s right-hand man, the Prime Minister said: “The National Health Service is not on the table as far as our negotiations go.
“We are not keen on that chlorinated chicken.”
In a dig at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his reluctance to agree to a general election, Mr Johnson said: “We have a gigantic chlorinated chicken of our own on the opposition benches.
”Boris Johnson becomes the first PM in history to lose his first three Commons votes in a row
Mr Johnson has repeatedly insulted Mr Corbyn in a desperate bid to bully him into a snap general election.
Boris Johnson welcomes Mike Pence to No10 (Image: PA)
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Netanyahu and Secretary of State Pompeo Sign Document in the Synagogue of the Sanhedrin Council
A synagogue has been built under Jerusalem’s Western Wall. It could be the beginning of the Third Temple. No problem.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Pompeo, already among the first to enter, they even signed some document in this ‘very Synagogue of the Sanhedrin Council’.
However, a point of note; there is an “Altar” resembling the one in the First and Second Temples of Israel.
Pete Buttigieg, the openly gay mayor of Southbend, Ind., on Sunday challenged Vice President Mike Pence’s traditional Christian views on sexuality and said that his marriage to a man has brought him “closer to God.”
“Being married to Chasten has made me a better human being because it has made me more compassionate, more understanding, more self-aware and more decent,” he said at the LGBTQ Victory Fund’s annual brunch.
“My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man. And yes, Vice President, it has moved me closer to God,” he added to applause.
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks at the LGBTQ Victory Fund National Champagne Brunch on April 7, 2019 in Washington. Keren Carrion, USAT
Pence has long opposed gay marriage due to his belief in the traditional Christian conception of marriage as a union between one man and one woman.
In 2004, while serving as a Congressman representing Indiana, Pence co-sponsored a proposed Constitutional amendment that would enshrine heterosexual marriage as the only permissible form of marriage in the U.S. He also voted against repealing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that required gay service members to conceal their sexual orientation.
Buttigieg, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, went on to argue that any opposition to his identity as a gay man translates into opposition to God.
“That’s the thing that I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand,” he said. “That if you have a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me. Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.”
The Navy veteran then attacked the Trump administration’s attempts to ban transgender people from the military.
“The struggle is not over when transgender troops, ready to put their lives on the line for this country, have their careers threatened with ruin one tweet at a time by a commander in chief who himself pretended to be disabled to get out of serving when it was his turn,” he said.
