bettyknowsnothing

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[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The idea that in recent days whole towns and villages were blatantly, deliberately cut off from the public water supply because water companies haven't invested in enough equipment to treat and supply water is utter madness.

[bettyknowsnothing @100707]

@Iolanthe2345 so is his sister

[Stuzi 🐝🐝 @stuzi_pants]

In hiding for over a fortnight to swerve any scrutiny over his multitude of illicit donations but finally breaks cover to shit all over the express wishes of Henry Nowak’s family

You can set your watch by Farage’s pisswizardry

A stain on U.K. politics

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote in Parliament for the last 11 weeks.

During that time he will have collected about £50,000 in wages and expenses.

But he will tell you Disabled People and immigrants are the problem.

No, it's rich lazy parasites like him.

[Quentin Letts @thequentinletts]

Plaintive note from a Mr Smith of East Preston, Sussex.

[bettyknowsnothing @100707]

So NOcasha has been thinking
' maybe we could get some yurts and offer yoga? ' #thearchers

[Craig. @bambibristol]

From the bloke who hasn’t made it into his place of work for the last 77 parliamentary votes…

[Prof Colin Talbot (rerum cognoscere causas) @colinrtalbot]

Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM.

Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison

Huge coverage of both

Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month.

Media coverage? You judge.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

'Utter disaster’: Alan Bates attacks schemes compensating post office scandal victims.

7 schemes. £1.5bn paid from public purse, could hit £3.5bn.

Zero contribution by Fujitsu, PO execs, other perpetrators.

No one charged for false criminal convictions.
https://t.co/1pkj4Fx051

[Just me @TomSoede]

Apparently Nigel Farage's annual cashflow of £1.28m is over 13 times higher than the UK Prime Minister's salary (~£167k). Driven by his £1.1m GB News contract, EU pension, and MP wage, he makes more in 1 month (~£107k) than a typical UK worker makes in 2.5 years. #UKPolitics #Farage

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Nigel Farage registered ‘absent’ from the last 77 votes in Parliament

Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...

https://t.co/fsxzTKkL4Z

[The Daily Britain @dailybritainonx]

MP attendance petition hits 10,000.

Same week: Report that Farage missed 77 consecutive votes, no Clacton surgeries in 10 months, earns £100,000.

Should there be statutory attendance rules? 👇

[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

This couple have been caught on camera fly-tipping near Nuneaton. The evidence will be passed to the Leader of Warks County Council @_GeorgeFinch who, we have full confidence, will ensure these people are prosecuted. @bbcmtd

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Many MPs tell us that the current state pension age is 'unsustainable'. Which is odd, really, given that they can claim parliamentary pensions as soon as they turn 55.

[bettyknowsnothing @100707]

@MumofFatCassie She's such an Aldridge!

[bettyknowsnothing @100707]

Why is Stella offering to help? I thought she hated Braaahn?
#thearchers

[bettyknowsnothing @100707]

@KayrieTrix @SkySportsF1 He's AT WORK, and the precious 'celebrities' should show some manners

[bettyknowsnothing @100707]

@abblade1925 @SoVeryBritish Exactly

[bettyknowsnothing @100707]

@SamaHoole Scams like this are happening everywhere. Thousands of trees planted in plastic tubes, developers/builders leave with smug faces.
Two months later the trees are all dead.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.