Loved life in 60s onwards before 2010 ish; (even the 70's) before the woke and PC mob decided to spout their nonsense. Don't get me started on cancel culture.
"Swimmers warned to avoid sewage release area."
Southern Water up to their old tricks again I see. Sewage illegally dumped into the sea and people told to say out of the water.
When are govt going to get a grip?
https://t.co/3jNNjEmDwF
@BBCBreakfast . We're in the middle of global conflicts. Paying highest prices in Europe for our energy. How about our UK govts make efficient use of our own gas and oil fields. Delay net zero and stop destroying our economy and way of life.
@jan_murray Piece of nonsense this interpretation of the law. That's why statute law needs to be tightened to the particular details of the offence. Nothing about wether it causes alarm or distress is of relevance in the charge, only in the context of the law itself...The law's an ass...
"Ukraine is the only country that is fulfilling NATO's destiny. And we owe them everything."
So says Russian @Kasparov63, world chess grandmaster.
What do you think?
"Warning as lead and arsenic wash up on beach."
Remember those plastic beads now washing up along a 70 mile stretch of the English coast, the ones belonging to Southern Water that they told you were inert and totally harmless?
Turns out they're contaminated with lead, arsenic and cadmium amongst other things.
And @EnvAgency does what exactly?
https://t.co/XuXZrLGAUN
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer @MichelleMone - who today rightly (& wonderfully) lost her legal case - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle?
For the £122 million you pocketed from taxpayers for delivering unusable PPE – at least £65 million of which went straight into your venal husband’s offshore accounts in the Isle of Man?
For being one of a small minority of corrupt grifters who saw a global pandemic as nothing more than a chance to get rich quick?
For caring more about lining your own pockets than the deaths of NHS staff & patients?
For being disgustingly cynical & avaracious - unlike all those millions of ordinary, decent Britons across the country who stepped up with such courage & decency?
I was given masks whose ear loops fell off & aprons so flimsy they ripped apart when you tried to put them on, Michelle.
Nurses and porters in our hospital died from the Covid they caught there, Michelle.
How dare you try to bleat victimisation now, Michelle?
You are the polar opposite of the values that should govern public life.
Repay what you owe & get your dishonourable form as far away from the House of Lords as possible.
E. coli levels in the Lymington river are 80 time above the threshold for safe bathing water.
Not that Southern Water would know anything about that...
https://t.co/iebnJHGBkl
"Eight days of continuous sewage discharge recorded."
Now what was that thing about ending sewage dumping in Windermere? How's that working out?
https://t.co/l0NgpSshBY
I see that govt is once again spreading that old myth "This government has secured £104 billion of private sector investment to improve our water infrastructure nationwide."
Patently, blatantly and demonstrably untrue.
1. Water companies submitted their draft business plans to @Ofwat 9 MONTHS BEFORE THE ELECTION on 2nd Oct 2023.
It was those business plans that included £96 billion of so called investment. It was then for Ofwat to scrutinise, review and approved the final versions of those plans. It was that review process which borough the total spend up to £104 billion. Nothing whatsoever to do with govt.
2. Nor is there any "private sector investment" it's coming straight out of your pocket, that's why water bills have gone up on average by 36% this year. Once again nothing whatsoever to do with govt.
No doubt ministers will be keen to set the record straight.
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." Your Tues morning broadcast from the Ministry of Truth.
1. "We have blocked unfair multi-million pound bonuses for water executives." Which was a waste of time as WCs simply doubled CEO's salaries.
2. "passed new laws so bosses can face up to two years in prison for sewage offences". Blatantly untrue. There is no such thing as "sewage offences", the only, and ONLY offence is "impeding [an] investigation", not dumping humongous amounts of sewage, not ripping off your customers, only, and only, "impeding [an] investigation".
3. "A record 81 criminal investigations into water companies have been launched in England since the election." Blatantly untrue. All of that relates to an @EnvAgency investigation which began on the 18th Nov 2021 2 years and 7 months BEFORE THE ELECTION.
4 "This will cut sewage pollution in half by 2030 as a major staging post towards cleaning up our rivers". Which isn't nearly as good as the target announced by @Ofwat just over 1 year ago. Ho hum.
But hey, at least there's no nonsense about £104bn private sector investment or £100bn to nationalise the water industry so I suppose it is kind of progress.
https://t.co/FZiwqXtQAi
Hosepipe ban WCs tell customers to "Turn off the tap when brushing your teeth. Keep showers to 4 minutes when you can".
Meanwhile those involved, @SouthernWater, @thameswater, @sewateruk and @YorkshireWater between them leak approx 1,055 BILLION litres of water EACH AND EVERY DAY from their badly maintained, underinvested, cracked old network of pipes. Ho hum.
https://t.co/Yu8wGBWVGT
Well done @_GeorgeFinch Proud of you.
@warkspolice again…. Well well well
British parents simply cannot take any more of this. I want my country back for my kids and yours too.
"London ‘super sewer’ boss awarded £600,000 pay rise despite £100m cost overrun."
You'd never guess that Thames Water's customers now have a £25 surcharge on the water bills, for the next 20 years, to pay for this nonsense.
https://t.co/6LNrHLaSky
So let me see if I've got this right.
@Southernwater who sold off 35 reservoirs in just five years making £26 million in the process, who leaks about 34 billion litres of water per year from their badly maintained, underinvested, creaky old network of pipes is telling customer to stop using water, to ration it.
Well that's alright then.
https://t.co/YSFCDPYZ94