Alexandra Turner

Chelmsford Lass, Mother to Frederick & Auntie to Dexter ❤️

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@greateranglia To be honest Georgie it’s every single Chelmsford to Liverpool at train I get on. Trains are stifling and you can’t open any windows so rely on the air con to be turned up

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@greateranglia can I ask why that now the trains are equipped with air con, that it is not turned up when we are suffering with the heat at the moment? It makes no sense that we are still boiling hot and having to bring our own fans. Turn the air con on! Thanks

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@greateranglia It hasn’t left Liverpool Street yet?

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@greateranglia can you get the aircon turned up on the 14.36 to Chelmsford please.

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@JulesSunley Exactly that!

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@AdrianEdmondson sooo upset Alien Earth has finished it was excellent! Please say there’s another one? 👽

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@GMB I like #edballs but that interview with Mark Wogan was cringe to watch. Constantly interrupting and making it about his political beliefs rather than listening to the interviewee. Do better lol

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@gi_dalor @FortuneHotelUK 100%

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

People winding me up today at the Costa del Sol, Phil and Justine! Poor Laura #placeinthesun

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@mariana057 Me too! 🤣

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

All these things happened to me in London today

I paid nearly £30 for a train ticket to take me into London from a town just 30 miles away —on a Saturday

The first person I sat next to, I think from India, decided to have a FaceTime conversation with his friend on speakerphone so we all had to listen to it

The train was late by 40 minutes due to unexplained “signalling issues”. It was also filthy.

I paid nearly £8 for a pint

I offered a woman my seat on the tube without realising she was with a man who intervened and said “no man”. He was not from the UK. I think he took my gesture as an insult.

I was asked for money by homeless people 3 times in one day

I noticed several people who are paid to give information to taxpayers and tourists over the tannoy on the London Tube cannot speak English properly

A cabbie told me “London is dead most nights”, unless you are the global high net worth set or top 1%

Restaurants are visibly struggling and often hideously overpriced

I had dinner in a neighbourhood where the average rent is £3,663 per month while half of all local social housing has gone to people who were not even born in the UK

I was constantly aware I should not get my phone out on the street as 80,000 were stolen last year

I also read on the way back while checking that stat that there were 90,000 shoplifting offences in London last year, up 54%

My train back —delayed—was suddenly changed at the last minute with all passengers on board. They were told it would no longer be stopping at all stops.

I bought a tin of instant coffee on the way home and it had a security tag on it

Maybe I’m in a bad mood and perhaps it’s amusing to think how somebody of my political outlook is “triggered” but to me there is a deeper point here

London is over —it’s so over

It’s a city in visible decline with deteriorating standards and no real sense of identity or belonging

Going in and out of our capital city is a truly miserable experience

Infrastructure is falling apart, as is the social contract

I’ve been coming in and out of London since 1981

I simply cannot remember a time when it’s been this visibly dire and when so many things just do not work as they should

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

What an embarrassment England! #ENGSEN

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@byewig1921 Nope

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@greateranglia Thanks Johnny. I think I’m going to have to. If anything to ensure that it’s easy to add tickets into a different smartcard

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@greateranglia I purchased a flexi season ticket which has been put onto a smart card I don’t have and have been told it can’t be transferred to my smart card. Who can I speak to about this please cos I am having to purchase daily tickets after already buying the flexi!!

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@greateranglia I called the team yesterday and she said she would refund. She hasn’t even started the process and now I’m told I have to wait up to 72 hours while I’m almost £300 down and paying for extra tickets. Not happy 😡

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

Yikes!!! #uncanny

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@Essex_Travel What happened? There was a guy running down the middle of the road and lots of people getting out of their cars…

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@CostaCoffee your loyalty card doesn’t work, will not work, time and time again I remove app, download it again, buy my morning tea at the station and it doesn’t work. I am missing out on sooooo many free teas! ☕️ what’s wrong with your app?

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@McDonaldsUK Done

[Alexandra Turner @Turnipsx]

@McDonaldsUK order 1797 regiments way little waltham no fries with my meal. Have tried to call. This is happening quite often now…