Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃

Geographer, choir member, supporter of charities such as NSPCC and CPRE (the Countryside Charity), dog owner and follower of local issues.

[Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 @ea_calvert]

Petition: Pause plans for Bedford - Cambridge rail link pending a full, independent review https://t.co/wWrRzKzLkw

[Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 @ea_calvert]

I'm supporting @whichuk's #StampOutScams campaign. It's time for banks to get serious about scams and protect innocent victims who are losing millions every year. https://t.co/MSZCgXQ9TV

[BFARe @BFARe.org.uk @BFARE2]

Hey @eastwestrail @ewmlpartnership @ProgressEast and you are putting a railway through Clapham Bedford ? Todays flooded area #flooding

[Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 @ea_calvert]

Ask a teacher what they are paid per hour. It was always depressing to work out what it was when you did t just include time in school. Coaching etc earned more but I would ask some doctors how they work out their pay.

[Dr Dolittle @DocDoLi]

@AbbieTBee What is this obsession with ‘doctors should just be happy with helping people’? Lawyers help people and I’m pretty sure they’re not paid £15 an hour.

[Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 @ea_calvert]

Beth didn’t want to listen or answer questions in a helpful way

[Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 @ea_calvert]

Not underwater trains - 🚆🛫 I thought they were flying trains over a huge raised structure which will obviously need piles for the arches to go down miles.

[BFARe @BFARe.org.uk @BFARE2]

Clapham Bedford! @eastwestrail @ewmlpartnership @ProgressEast have you ordered those underwater trains yet ?

[James Wallace @jaowallace]

Anyone else think @Feargal_Sharkey should be awarded a knighthood for his relentless campaigning to expose the water pollution scandal?

Like & share if you agree

(A sainthood may be more appropriate… you need the patience of one to put up with this 💩)

https://t.co/Qlj8Z8qAdE

[Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 @ea_calvert]

And looking at London etc how many will be second homes or investments?! @luhc @michaelgove

[Andy Wilson @AndyWilson459]

@CommunityPlann1 A lack of financial viability I guess. It’s happening everywhere on brownfield sites. These developments are exactly where affordable homes are most needed!

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

So out of touch. No property in the Rhondda would take a couple over the threshold. This is a tax cut for a tiny proportion of the richest people in the country. Yet more irresponsible Rish!nomics.

[Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 @ea_calvert]

If only it was the last piece - #beds #cambs could heave a sigh of relief that EWR have given up on the other half☹️🏘️🚆 Amazing that MK hardly existed 50 years ago - now they want to build it again in bits all over the route.

[Diana Blamires @diana_blamires]

Final piece of East West Rail track to be laid in New Year connecting Milton Keynes, Bletchley, Winslow, Bicester & Oxford for the 1st time in 50 years
https://t.co/vg8K2xyznq

[Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 @ea_calvert]

Has anyone been damaged by said wasps? Yes, they drip and attract wasps (experience) - bet no one ever picked them. Replace with less worrying fruit!

[Bonkers Busway Cambs News @BonkersBusway]

Soon the only ‘orchards’ left will be a collection of letters on signage marking developments devoid of wildlife. Words that are empty & meaningless, much like the promises of “biodiversity net gain” as concrete is poured #SaveOurOrchards #SaveCotonOrchard 🌳🍎��🐝🪓 https://t.co/NnXtKipoIe

[Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 @ea_calvert]

Whatever the ‘niceties’ not long ago @michaelgove and @luhc were supporting the views of local government!! So ..?

[Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 @ea_calvert]

So so true! But many of us are praying that they won’t be delivered - meanwhile householders and farmers and nature lovers are in limbo at best and under blight at worst. @luhc @transportgovuk @RishiSunak It’s enough to make you not vote!

[Edward Leigh @EdwardALeigh]

Instead, £75m has purchased a stack of reports for projects that may never be delivered. The other £100m has paid for projects that have been or are being delivered, most of which are of dubious benefit and poor to very poor value for public money. /END

[Coton View 🍃💚🍃 @CotonView]

Wow, just wow; Have you seen this @cllrbridget @LNethsingha @pippaheylings.? Do take a good look because @SCLibDems voted to put the C2C busway through the orchard and it may soon be entombed in concrete and tarmac. And no @CambsLabour it’s not a monoculture than can be offset

[CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 @CommunityPlann1]

A very positive approach to town development, thank you @johnharris1969
The problem:
In countless British suburbs and towns, cookie-cutter developments, poor building standards, not meeting local needs for either genuinely affordable flats and houses or homes for social rent

[Stop the Wensum Link 🍃💚🍃 @StopWensumLink]

Why this unnecessary road will be a catalyst for urbanisation far beyond the wildest dreams of those who are determined to ruin our precious countryside.

This road needs to be stopped. Please lobby @NorfolkCC and your local MP

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Once again a massive round of applause to @joe_crowley and everyone at @BBCPanorama for exposing the lies, deceit and corruption of the water industry and the utter inability and incompetence of the regulatory system to deal with it.

It's what @BBCPanorama was built for. 👏👏👏

[Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 @ea_calvert]

Stats without any supporting detail. A way to get around the true meaning of Leveling Up @luhc @michaelgove In the name of the forgotten but for the benefit of those with £ and influence. #gov #unis #developers #housebuilders & to the detriment of all of us by envir distruction.

[Mark Williamson @markrwilliamson]

£1m funding earmarked to address ‘stark inequalities’ in Greater Cambridge - to ‘share the benefits of the growth driven by the city’s knowledge economy’.

According to @Cambridge_Uni, Cambridge has 5,500 ‘knowledge-Intensive’ businesses generating more than £20bn annually.

[Elizabeth Calvert 🍃💚🍃 @ea_calvert]

Yes - when I asked Beth West questions at one of the
Consultations’ she just came out with techdigoop over and over! This is surely not what @transportgovuk @luhc mean by ‘considering local concerns? Or is it?

[BFARe @BFARe.org.uk @BFARE2]

The Conservative mayor replied: “I have challenged Beth West chief executive as vigorously as I possibly can. It’s very difficult to challenge somebody who doesn’t want to be challenged, or sits in a room and smiles at you & won’t answer questions.

[Bonkers Busway Cambs News @BonkersBusway]

“It’s a slippery slope & there isn’t much slope left” in Bristol it’s Yew Tree Farm. In Cambridge it’s Paradise Nature Reserve & Coton Orchard. If councils don’t protect these spaces, don’t heed experts @WildlifeTrusts, what hope is there for stoping the free fall❓#DefendNature