Alan Barton

Very ex-civil servant. Jazz fan and art lover. We need a fairer society. Views my own.

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

@paullewismoney V worrying that this self styled radical new govt rules out replacing 2 very bad taxes. Starmer failed because he was afraid to do anything radical and it looks as if things may be the same with Burnham.

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

@chris_railway No rteason for trains not to be driver only. Just over powerful union spoiling train system for everyone else!

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

@British_Airways You must be living in a parallel world if you think BA Customer Relations respond to emails. I am still waiting for a reply to a 30/6 email , also from 9/7. Don't patronise me by thanking me for my patience. That ran out long ago.

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

@British_Airways are a nightmare. Bounced us off an overbooked flight we had booked months previously and now dragging their feet over compensation. Customer services don't respond to emails.
Next flight yesterday no online check in so huge Q at airport. Shambles!

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

@British_Airways Unfortunately your customer relations team don't answer my emails so still waiting for compensation for 8 hour delay after being bounced off prebooked flight (despite being in my 80s and my wife in late 70s)

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

@seatsixtyone EES is a shambles. Just told entering Prague airport from London that system shows I never left Slovenia last month. V unhappy Czech entry agent, v slow to process me.

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

@paullewismoney Is Royal Mail deluded or just dishonest? It has been a long time since we got mail delivereed 6 days a week whether 1st or 2nd class.

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

@RAIL Terrible waste of public money. TfL trains and most Chiltern trains don't have guards and are perfectly safe.

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

@chilternrailway @ldn_primaryHT @GBRenquiries The problem is that you have not leased enough carriages, presumably to save money despite charging customers top dollar for their journeys

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

@alfie__2003 @diana_blamires @chilternrailway @_CallumAnderson Which @chilternrailway services have guards?

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

@alfie__2003 @diana_blamires @chilternrailway @_CallumAnderson How come all @chilternrailway current services run safely without guards, but they need guards to run from Oxford to Milton Keynes. Does the new railway have unique, dangerous characteristics?

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

@SimonSpillett Big Band superb at @officialronnies last night playing great music by sax giant Tubby Hayes

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

@waitrose tawny port not tawny at all - looks more like ruby. What a con!

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

@HertsPolice vehicles blocking footway in front of Barkhill House, Shire Lane, Chorleywood. There at 10.45am, still there 1pm.

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

@PippaCrerar @elenicourea Does the House of Lords really need more party hacks who can stay there for life?

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

Good to see @thameswater using our money well:
"Thames Water also revealed it had paid £57m during the six-month period in fees for advisers on the process such as bankers, lawyers and public relations consultants." (@guardian )

[Salad Jazz @SaladJazz1]

Miles Davis 1969 Berlin
#Jazz

Wayne Shorter,Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette

[Trussell @TrussellUK]

❗ More children are being pushed to food banks each day because of the two-child limit.

No child should know what a food bank is, let alone need one.

Ask your MP to write to the Chancellor to remove the two-child limit now 👉 https://t.co/lFxIMAi611

[Humanists UK @Humanists_UK]

If we're not free to think for ourselves, to challenge ideas/ideologies/religion, or to choose/change our own beliefs, then we are not free at all. Freedom of religion or belief sits at the very heart of who we are as human beings.

#InternationalFreedomofReligionorBeliefDay

[Alan Barton @albar11111]

@profchrisham The trouble is that there is no way that this Labour government will fund the very sensible measures that you recommend because of the stupid "no extra taxes on working people" pledge in their election manifesto. The NHS, social care and we service users will coninue to suffer