David Norris

Children's and Educational Publisher. Loves running, cycling, camping, old movies, board games, whisky, postcards, rose and violet creams. Still European.

[David Norris @davidnorris2]

Thought for the Day

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Thames Water's finance director given a £1,000,000 signing on bonus.

Water industry depravity hits an all time low. Their contempt for customers and the environment clearly knows no bounds.

When are govt going to intervene and put a stop to this? @andyburnham @angelaeagle

https://t.co/WB23sNU4hS

[The Purple Pimpernel @Eyeswideopen69]

If Andy Burnham wants to make an appointment that would truly change the way government is viewed in the United Kingdom, he should immediately appoint Feargal Sharkey as his Environment Agency chief and give him real power to regulate our green and pleasant land.

[Richard Corbett @RichardGCorbett]

Since water services were sold off by Thatcher to be run for private profit, the water companies have:
- amassed debts of over £50bn
- paid £78bn to shareholders
- raised CEO pay to £1-3 million a year
- lose 2.87bn litres of water a day through leaky pipes
- polluted EVERY river

[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

If anyone knows who this car belongs to, can you please tell them that littering is an anti-social, lazy and disgusting criminal offence? Reg: CV17 CWX
We have images of before and after they stopped in this layby and will be passing the evidence to Herefordshire Council to issue a fine.

[KT Tunstall @KTTunstall]

Wow @British_Airways you just won the worst travel experience award 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

2+ hours delay LHR to DFW, missed my connection AND you’ve lost my bag with all my gig stuff in. 1 poor dude on the desk for 50+ people with no bags and zero explanation.

To the good people of Lewistown MT who will have a 6am-rebooked-flight-no-gig-clothes-or-make-up version of me, I will do my damn best 🧟‍♀️🎸 Off to find a fucking tooth brush…

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

This is well worth a listen.

Not only because @Feargal_Sharkey destroys the zombie myth that the private sector is investing to upgrade our water infrastructure over the next 5 years (spoiler: the money is coming from our bills).

But also because the BBC interviewer allowed that falsehood to go completely unchallenged.

[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

You know things are getting really dire when even the Council is fly-tipping.... @bradfordmdc @BBCLookNorth

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

We've had 4 Environment Secretaries in just over 2 years - Barclay, Reed, Reynolds and now Eagle.

Why? Because despite the disaster that our water has been, they failed to do the obvious thing.

Angela Eagle must make taking Thames Water into public ownership her top priority.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

🚨@andyburnham is expected to take Thames Water into Special Administration today

Bad news for those who have taken £12 billion out of the company in dividends. Wonderful news for ordinary households!

Anything less than permanent public ownership as a next step would be a grave betrayal

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Finding this quite hard to stomach from a country that is bombing the shit out of other countries…

[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

One of our cameras has picked up this couple fly-tipping in Powys. Photos will be sent to @PowysCC for prosecution.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Thames Water has already run out of money. Due to “funding constraints”, they do not apparently have the money to fix the illegal outfalls pouring billions of litres a year of raw sewage into my river before 2030.

A business that is so short on cash that it can only continue operating by breaking the law is called at best bankrupt, & at worst serious organised crime.

[Terry Crow @redwater1]

@NicholasTyrone My money's on Binface

Up his own arse Farage is in deep trouble here

This really is people vs the establishment

And a very British thing to do

Bin to Win!!!

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

On my way, Clacton.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.

Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.

While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.

That's how privatisation 'works'.

[Roger Pinney @RogerPinney]

Dumped on the side of the road in north Wales seemingly dumped by Yodel/Inpost driver. Rang the company but they don’t care. @InPostUK @Inpostukhelp

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

Public control and public ownership are not the same thing! Water in England is already in public control.
That's why we need PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

REGULATION HAS FAILED.

Government said they would fix the pollution crisis by banning bonuses for water bosses. The bosses' response? 🤑 Just change the name!

No more feeble regulations. No more faffing about while our water system crumbles. It's time for public ownership of water - https://t.co/7u88FtAoJL

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Victory for common sense (for now, at least)…

It’s a relief that @EnvAgency have finally realised that prosecuting volunteers for cleaning & restoring a river (that they had left to rot) without permission was not a good look, so they have dropped their charges in favour of a ‘warning’. Thank you for all your support & encouragement, from across the country, the political spectrum & around the world. I’m certain that the comms disaster suffered by the EA over this was crucial in getting them to begin to see sense at last.

This is, however, not the end of the story. The River Roding & its tributaries, like most rivers in the UK have still been abandoned & in parts left to die by the Environment Agency, with no plans to even put a stop to the serious environmental crimes taking place (like illegal sewage dumping), let alone to begin the process of restoration that the river so desperately needs.

I am therefore seeking a meeting with the EA’s Chief Executive to ask (1) that the EA instead use its prosecuting powers for good, to demand a detailed plan from Thames Water to fix all illegal sewage discharges in years, not decades & (2) that the EA turns this whole saga into a good outcome by using the River Roding as a pilot scheme for how the EA can work with, rather than against, grassroots river guardians, to provide the protection & restoration our rivers so desperately need.

I hope they will accept these very reasonable requests. But if not, I will continue to defy the EA, & will not be seeking their permission or authorisation to continue to care for & restore the river I love.

[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

Is anyone not embarrassed that the side of the M25 looks like this? @nationalhways are given £5 BILLION a year and they repeatedly leave the motorways looking rundown, littered and squalid. Has Britain really sunk this low…