Paul Carden

Retired Aviation Professional

[Paul Carden @PIERREPJC]

@DeesideDotCom Bet they were glad to see the drone first.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

BREAKING: Two of what are supposed to be the better water companies have syphoned out £700 million EACH in dividends in the last 2 years

Enough is enough. Bring them into public ownership, starting with Thames Water.

Demand Andy Burnham block the Thames Water bailout: https://t.co/PPggMUoZ9E

[Paul Carden @PIERREPJC]

@ShitChester Looks cleaner than the river.👍

[David Williamson @theirishego]

I'm a double amputee.

I recieve 3,600 a year in PIP

@Helen_Whately receives *39,000* a year in housing.

If our Hels wants to cut down the welfare bill I've an idea where she should start...

[Ragged Trousered Philanderer @RaggedTP]

On 22nd September 1934 at Gresford Colliery, Wales, an explosion killed 266 men & boys underground. 6 survived and only 11 bodies were ever recovered.
The wages of all were docked by half a days pay by the owners because the men had 'failed to complete their shift.'

[Paul Carden @PIERREPJC]

Care to Fact Check this @BBCr4today ,@BBCNewsnight ?

[Debbie @glenys1971]

Well after today’s announcement from the Bank of England, there is something very, very, very wrong in the system.

So … let me get this straight:

* British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June

* BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone

* Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year

The MEN at the top:

* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary

* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits

* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m

* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.

* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m

* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m

* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m

* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package

* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000

* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m

* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary

Meanwhile there are...

* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.

* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.

* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.

* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.

* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.

* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.

* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.

* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!

* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.

* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!

All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...

THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others.

Something needs to change.

Why is customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?

I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

She was only four when Trump said he would end the war in 24 hours. Just turned six when Musk decided to join Trump on Putin’s side and help the Kremlin killers murder her

[Paul Carden @PIERREPJC]

@stewartnextday @David__Osland You don't think there's enough already?

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Looks like selling Royal Mail to a Czech billionaire worked out every bit as well as selling our water system to an Australian investment bank and our steel industry to an Indian multinational

[Paul Carden @PIERREPJC]

@rubyturnersoul @StevieWonder One amazing singer who hopefully will be up singing with @StevieWonder .
What say you @BBCLater ?
Now how would I get tickets for that?

[Sharon Graham @UniteSharon]

We cannot keep going back to the trough of working people - they simply haven't got anything left to give.

Stop making everyday people pay - tax wealth. @TaxJusticeUK ⤵️

[Paul Carden @PIERREPJC]

@TheHardCompound @BTCC @jasonplato @LouGoodmanMedia @timharveyracing @BBC_TopGear @InsideBTCC @TouringCarsNet @TouringCarTimes @NESCAFE @renaultgroup @chevrolet @SilverlineTools Yea Happy Birthday JP..
Shared with @haywardmusic .

[Andy Saunders 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 @1940Andy]

Worth a watch…

[Left Right Centrist 🇪🇺 Rejoiner @LeftRig57257476]

Did we ever get to the bottom of this?
The whole thing seems to have disappeared without a trace.

[Normal Island News @NormalIslandNws]

Oh my god @grok I've just heard that a country plans to execute a paraplegic former soldier by firing-squad on live stream on December 3, 2026.

I assume the country is Iran. Am I right? I mean what other country could possibly be this backward, evil and barbaric?

[Paul Carden @PIERREPJC]

@MarkyBWiganer @Peston If they got a taste of what a lot of people did maybe it might change their point of view.

[Paul Carden @PIERREPJC]

@dianamahon @Peston Yea, of course current Gov could.
Start at the top.
It's about time they showed an example to the rest of the nation.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In the first series of Clarkson's Farm, a young woman told Jeremy Clarkson his sheep would never make money, and the wool cheque proved her right before the year was out.

Ellen Helliwell was the shepherd he hired when it became clear he could not manage 78 ewes himself. She lambed them through the night, treated their feet, and told him the arithmetic at the start.

Then came shearing. A gang arrives, charges by the head, and leaves a pile of fleeces. Clarkson sent the wool off and learned what every sheep farmer in Britain already knew. The fleece was worth less than the cost of taking it off the animal.

For 800 years that fleece was the wealth of England. It paid for the cathedrals and the wars. A sheep was kept for five or six years for her wool, and the mutton at the end was a bonus that fed the country.

Now the wool is a disposal problem, so the only thing a sheep can earn from is a lamb sold at five months. One income where there used to be three. Clarkson's flock lost money, and he said so on television.

The reason the fleece is worthless is in your wardrobe. The jumper is acrylic, the fleece jacket is polyester, the carpet is nylon, and all of them are made from oil.

Ellen could do everything a shepherd has had to do since the Bronze Age, and do it at three in the morning. The thing she could not do was compete with a plastics factory.

Check the label in your collar before you ask why British lamb costs what it costs.

[Paul Carden @PIERREPJC]

@LloydCymru Can we have the RED route for the A55 please ?
Now they're in the mood to build roads.