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July 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The family was appalled. “It was scary,” Josh, now a 36-year-old
property developer in Utah, told The Daily Telegraph while
campaigning with his father in Florida. “I am in favour of you
reforming your health care system,” he joked.
His parents, who were raised in the wealthy Michigan enclave of Bloomfield
Hills, could not believe John Major’s government would consign Britons to
death by maintaining a creaking Soviet-style system – even if it was free
for foreign visitors such as their son.
“It made us realise things were different over there,” Josh’s
mother, Ann, said after a campaign rally in South Carolina. “He just
couldn’t get the answers he needed.”
Mitt Romney, then 47, had just run unsuccessfully against Ted Kennedy for the
US Senate in Massachusetts. A multi-millionaire from his private equity
career, he reached for his wallet and paid cash to send Josh to a private
clinic nearby.
“He received a timely examination and a very welcome clean bill of health,”
Mr Romney said later in a memoir. But tragically, “most of the British
are not so fortunate,” he warned his countrymen.
While Mr Romney has like Mr Obama faced criticism for introducing a “mandate”
forcing people to have health coverage while he was governor of
Massachusetts, his system remained devoted to private health insurance
rather than government-run care funded by taxpayers, as in Britain.
He lands in London on Wednesday, and will hold two fund-raisers before meeting
David Cameron – who chose not to visit Mr Romney during his US trip in March
– as well as other senior ministers, Ed Miliband and Tony Blair. As the
chief executive of the 2002 Winter Olympics, he will attend Friday’s
Olympics opening ceremony, before leaving for Israel.
He will be accompanied on his foreign tour by Josh, who was based at the Leeds
Mission between 1994 and 1996, also passing through Mansfield, York,
Harrogate, and Ripon.
Fellow missionaries recalled a happy foreign adventure full of recitals of the Leeds
Mission Song. “We will go forth two by two, preaching the gospel in
this land,” it went.
“The weather could have been a lot nicer,” said Jason Governo, 37, an engineer
from Georgia who was one of Josh’s designated “companions” during their
two-year stay. “But we had a lot of fun”.
Friends of Josh Romney from the time recalled a polite young man whose
privileged upbringing never made him cocky. A keen basketball player, he
once joined a trip to a funfair near Leeds, riding bumper cars and donning a
velcro suit in order to throw himself at a sticky velcro wall.
The missionaries were banned from mixing with local youths. Like all Mormons,
they were barred from drinking alcohol. The merest hint of romantic
involvement with female missionaries, known as “sisters”, was strictly
forbidden.
Yet a mission president during Josh’s stay said that his good looks did not go
unnoticed. “Any interest was strongly discouraged,” said the president, who
did not wish to be named. “But it doesn’t mean that sort of thing wouldn’t
be happening in people’s minds”.
However Josh and his compatriots were repeatedly frustrated by the deprivation
of grey 1990s Britain. “I dropped a log on my foot and cracked a bone,”
said Mr Governo. “I went to the emergency room, waited for hours and
was told ‘come back tomorrow’.
“Eventually they handed me some paracetamol and said. ‘Don’t walk on it
for six weeks’.” Paracetamol as the solution to any medical problem
soon became an in-joke.
“But we were in northern England, where we’d heard there were more poor
people,” said Janelle Bartlome, 39, from Utah. “We were told in
London things were different and better.”
John Ashworth, now a manager at a cosmetics company in Utah, lived with Josh
in a flat in Mansfield, Notts, for two months in 1995. “There was mould
throughout the entire apartment,” said Mr Ashworth, 36. “In the
bathroom, on the ceilings. It was quite nasty.”
Missionaries bought second-hand suits that could survive the grimy houses into
which they were invited. Some, however, were not even fortunate enough to
get that far. “Our German companions had a very difficult time,” said Mr
Ashworth. “Often an elderly resident would tell me: ‘You can come in, but
the German stays outside’.”
Meanwhile their strict £150-a-month budget drove them to risk their health on
Britain’s most controversial product at the time. “Because of Mad Cow
Disease, the price of beef came down dramatically,” said Mr Ashworth. “I
would buy beef for almost every meal. We had hamburgers, beef with pasta,
all sorts. As a result I now can not give blood – and my wife claims I’m
losing my memory.”
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