Liz Richards

Occasional gardener and flower arranger, walker and biker

[Deborah Pitman @DeborahPitman]

Returning migrating birds face disaster in Derbyshire. @networkrail operatives have cemented nest entrances closed. Full details on the link. #UnblockOurNests #Swifts
https://t.co/kFgQKf8HTC

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

In January 2011, just 17 people waited longer than 12 hours on a trolley for an emergency hospital bed.

In January 2024, more than 50,000 people did.

Please RT so everyone can be aware of the damage the Conservatives have done to our NHS.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

You own a water company….

You enjoy a monopoly market

You sell something people require for survival

You don’t spend profits building or repairing your infrastructure

You give billions to shareholders

You pollute our waters

…you then expect the bill-payer to bail you out.

[Cllr Al Bayliss 🔶🌍♻️🇬🇧🇪🇺 @Al_BaylissLD]

Good grief! The level of selfishness & entitlement is off the scale here. This is outside the Aldi in London Road, Bishopdown, in my ward, and why we need segregated cycle lanes not pathetic painted shared usage paths! #salisbury @SouthWiltsCPT @wiltscouncil @journalupdate

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Michelle Mone's husband Barrowman has issued a "statement" this morning after @thetimes report showing the National Crime Agency is investigating a £3 million payment into Mone's Coutts bank account, which would prove her direct benefit from the PPE Medpro contract as well as indirectly through trusts.

The statement is full of "look over there", fundamental lies (we saved the govt £100 million - they didn't) & obfuscation. Who'd have thought it?

Obfuscation is where he doesn't mention that he didn't declare his interest on company filings- nowhere on the Companies House declarations at the time.
She didn't declare her interest on official documents, she lied consistently (par for the course), threatened press with libel, lied to her lawyers, lied about her lawyers "they told me to lie" - they didn't.

Now their defence about getting £65 million profit and pandemic profiteering is saying
"I'm not the only one who robbed the public, they're picking on me, it's not fair"

There is so much which needs to be investigated with other companies too. We've been saying this for a long time.

@RachelReevesMP has promised a Covid CORRUPTION Commissioner to investigate them if Labour win the next election.

More to follow with data.....

Don't forget to follow "The VIP Files" with @GoodLawProject and I here.

We have access to huge amounts of data through FOIs and are putting it together about numerous contracts given through the infamous VIP Lane.

It's a Tory mess which stinks and they're still trying to hide a lot of the evidence.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

“Jo Maugham of the Good Law Project said: ‘What we see now is beds being sold off quietly at knock down prices crystallising massive losses for the taxpayer.’”
https://t.co/8Xug33TlK8

[Wild Moors @wildmoorsuk]

After being burnt to cultivate fresh heather for grouse to eat, the UK's peat moors are converting from huge carbon stores into carbon emitters.

Ahead of the shooting season opening on 12 August, we're calling on @DefraGovUK to bring this damage and destruction to an end.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth | George Monbiot https://t.co/6GyWJlwqhB Please read this from @GeorgeMonbiot and then support the media that does talk about climate change @BylineTimes

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

I won’t stand by whilst this shameless Government tries to walk all over the junior doctors who sacrificed so much to keep us safe during the pandemic. If you stand with our Junior doctors please RT this widely. Let’s make sure the public know the FACTS

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Right wing propaganda is now overwhelming us. Its never been more important to fight back with the FACTS & the TRUTH. I’ve done my best to hold this Government to account for many years. If you like my films & reports please RT/follow & help me reach as many people as possible

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

The Prime Minister has repeatedly claimed an above-inflation pay rise for NHS staff would drive inflation. That’s NOT true & he knows it. It’s just another shameless attempt to sow division between the public & those who sacrificed so much to keep us safe during the pandemic

[Liz Richards @LizRichards3]

@kari_ne676 @EnglishHeritage It is indeed...

[Liz Richards @LizRichards3]

Thank you @EnglishHeritage for the close up view of the magnificent #Stonehenge this morning (and bonus Great Bustard). Also our wonderful guide. Amazing.

[Karine @kari_ne676]

@LizRichards3 @EnglishHeritage Is this Stonehenge?

[Phil Richards @phildrip]

Best way to get to town for the market in #Salisbury. My superwoman wife smashed the hills even with fully loaded panniers 💪

[BBC Question Time @bbcquestiontime]

“You have cut local services to the bone - and then you worry about antisocial behaviour?”

This #bbcqt audience member gives an excoriating appraisal of the government’s performance, saying she’s “staggered” at the gap between the audience and the panel

https://t.co/ibqk7DDUY5

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

“For her to just be literally buried alive, inside of a sack, she must have just been absolutely terrified. The sack was actually sodden with urine from stress, or maybe from her being in there for multiple hours or even days.”

Read the full story here👇
https://t.co/pCObCf0Cbb

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Oh bloody hell!! 🤬

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

Just a reminder, the “record NHS funding” includes the billions spent on dodgy PPE, tests, and test and trace contracts…money the NHS never saw.

Genius really. Artificially inflate the NHS budget, take the money for your mates, and then use it as an excuse to let the NHS fail.