Le gravi e offensive parole del Presidente Trump nei confronti del Presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni offendono tutta l’Italia. Per questo motivo ho deciso di annullare la mia visita negli Stati Uniti prevista per i prossimi 21 e 22 giugno.
Oh what have we become.
Apparently now so bereft of ideas and grappling childlike with how to deal with the water industry, in a speech later today govt will yet again make another attempt to claim responsibility for policies and ideas that were actually developed and launched under previous Tory administrations.
Examples.
1. "Record investment: with £104 billion." Had nothing whatsoever to do with this govt, it's the result of work started in Oct 2022, 2.5 years before the 2025 election. 👇
2. "Ringfence customers' bills for upgrades." Once again work which had been completed early 2024, before the election. Ofwat were due to make the announcement but were prevented from doing so because of purdah rules. 👇
3. "Reinvesting company fines into local projects:" Policy was actually announced by Tory govt on 9th April 2024, 3 months before the election. 👇
4. "The Water (Special Measures) Act: banned unfair bonuses."
The industry dealt with that idea with a rather contemptuous display of arrogance last Thursday. Southern Water is one of the 10 companies 'banned' from paying bonuses. What did the company do, why doubled the CEO's salary instead that's what.
Oddly govt were warned that's exactly what was going to happen by none other than the chairman of Thames Water. In fact the same TW that discussed, at a board meeting, how to get round the ban and then promptly paid managers £2.5 million in bonuses. 👇
Apart from destroying your credibility in a heartbeat by trying to claim responsibility for other people's work what leaves me totally baffled by all of this is that No10 signed off and approved it all. Or did they?
Either way, mind blown.
Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.
Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK
Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
So good to see all sorts of kind people last night supporting the prospect of lynx reintroduction. 25 years ago we began with beavers. Many said it could not and should not be done. Now on the brink of their official return they have friends everywhere. It's high time for change.
The UK didn’t have a general election from 1935-45 because of WW2. How on earth can Ukraine have one now given 6m people left as refugees when the war started, another 3.5m are living under illegal Russian occupation, and the country’s in a state of martial law?
Ridiculous.
@Peston The rules clearly allow for borrowing for investments.
The problem is for 16 years Mr Peston you allowed the Government of the day not to invest without comment.
Instead the Tories Borrowed at cheap rates to pay for Tax cuts.
Reports today suggest Elon Musk could donate $100m to assist Nigel Farage to become the next PM!
And c. 10% of all party donations come from shady foreign sources
@KeirStarmer#Labour need to be bold and strengthen #ukpolitics and #Democracy by:
- bringing in a cap of £50,000 for political donations from ONLY UK citizens/companies
- banning majority ownership of our media by foreign owners
- passing political advertising legislation
A group of women rallied in London in solidarity with Ahoo Daryaei, the Iranian activist detained after protesting university harassment over hijab rules. She is now in a mental institution, likely facing torture.
Here’s a video produced by “Led by Donkeys” out of the U.K. that puts down the timeline of how Musk used X to get Donald Trump elected. I would save it because I don’t think it will be up for long.