'They've provided shareholders with £72 billion of our money. Maybe more of that should've been spent on the sewage system.'
After failing to find a river in the UK that passed all of his tests, @feargal_sharkey challenges water corporations to an on-air debate.
@NickFerrariLBC
"He said British soldiers were often “scrawny, ill-educated and under-privileged” but they have a “nobility of spirit, a streak of cheerful and irrepressible defiance, a joyful wildness and above all a capacity for sudden violence that when tempered by discipline, values and esprit de corps, makes them among the most hard-to-beat soldiers anywhere in the world”."
General Sir Patrick Sanders. Quoted in The Times.
It's easier to beat public opinion and politicians. You just need patience.
Here’s a curious tale involving Boris Johnson, the annual allowance for former Prime Ministers, and the man Kemi Badenoch chose to stand in for her at PMQs last month. Oh, and £67,803 of taxpayers’ money handed to Johnson that he wasn’t entitled to claim. (1/8)
@Saracens Thank you and farewell Mark Thompson. Hopefully his next business opportunity is close at hand and he can reflect positively on the impact he made while at the club.
Welcome @Hamswilson. Good luck. Fans will be keen to get to know him from saying hello at games and club events.
Reminder the clocks go back an hour tonight
Whilst some will get an extra hour's sleep on Sunday, spare a thought for the National Trust Volunteers who work tirelessly through the night to move the stones back 1 hour at various stone circles around the countryside.
Danny Sriskandaraja, "Steve Reed talked about he ideology and the question is why are we paying for the ineptitude of the water companies" #BBCQT
"We're not.. We paying for the ideology of the 1980s moment of deciding to privatise somethings human's can't do without, water"
"Worse still its based on awful economics.. Why would you privatise a service which is effectively a monopoly?"
"This is the biggest heist in plain site.. £85 billion has been paid to the shareholders of water companies.. While we have been treated like cash-cows.. How can that be right"
We often hear about the 7 Wonders of the World, both ancient and modern.
But what about wonders of the Medieval Age?
Here are seven — and what happened to them... 🧵
If UK news shows are going to give Boris Johnson a platform to spout his absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it
We cannot allow those once in power to rewrite history.
If you agree RT this FACT CHECK