Mike Garner

Digital Services Manager in a University Library, Gamer, Reader, Rugby Union fan, servant to a clowder of cats. Views expressed are my own.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

We refuse to pay for more sewage in our rivers, hosepipe bans, service cuts, dividends and bonuses

Andy Burnham must say no to any bill hike. IF private water companies can't survive without it, let them go bust

82% of us want public ownership of water. We've had enough of privatisation

[Dean Dunham KC @deandunham]

💧 A question for the water companies this morning…

If customers’ existing bills already included money for maintaining pipes and infrastructure, why are consumers now being asked to pay substantially more to fix them?

Investment is essential, but so is accountability.

Consumers deserve to know where the money has gone.

@thameswater @SouthWestWater @AnglianWater @sewateruk @Ofwat

[Mike Garner @Havak]

@LeicesterTigers Good grief that is poor. And £85 as well. How long is the contract with Castore?

[Mike Garner @Havak]

@Barclaycard are closing their web portal so you can only use the app - but after the app hands you off to your bank for approval of a payment when you go back the app resets and the payment doesn't register. Not good at all

[Mike Garner @Havak]

I completed the July challenge faster than 94.9% of all learners on Duolingo!

[Mike Garner @Havak]

At these prices it's a hard pass from me however inivative. The effect AI has had on storage and memory prices is quite devastating for gamers.

[Valve @valvesoftware]

Steam Machine is here, and you can sign up now:

Steam Machine 512GB
Steam Machine 2TB

Plus bundled versions with Steam Controller
Learn more and sign up here: https://t.co/dSr8sbm8db

[Mike Garner @Havak]

I completed the June challenge faster than 94.9% of all learners on Duolingo!

[Mike Garner @Havak]

I completed the May challenge faster than 94.9% of all learners on Duolingo!

[Mike Garner @Havak]

I completed the April challenge faster than 94.9% of all learners on Duolingo!

[Mike Garner @Havak]

I completed the March challenge faster than 94.9% of all learners on Duolingo!

[Mike Garner @Havak]

I completed the February challenge faster than 94.9% of all learners on Duolingo!

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

The energy bill write off con.

Fuel poverty debt £4.4bn. Ofgem says £500m could be written off.

It would be added to the bills of other customers. Energy companies made £514bn operating profit since 2020.

No cuts in their profits. Debt would be rebuilt
https://t.co/IvVmiw4WDP

[Mike Garner @Havak]

I completed the October challenge faster than 94.3% of all learners on Duolingo!

[Mike Garner @Havak]

I completed the September challenge faster than 93.7% of all learners on Duolingo!

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

We’re at a dangerous moment in our country - where refugees are being blamed for all society's problems. While the super-rich, who really caused these problems, are busy taking more and more wealth from working class people.

For 40 years, the ideas launched by Thatcher - cuts, deregulation and privatisation - have meant attack after attack on working-class living standards. The last decade and a half of austerity made things even worse.

Instead of holding the billionaire class to account - those who have stolen the wealth created by ordinary people - Farage and his allies are scapegoating refugees and are being cheered on by our billionaire-owned media.

But hatred and division won’t build a single council house. It won’t put a penny more into the NHS. It won’t deliver higher wages. In fact, Farage and his mates voted against stronger workers’ rights in Parliament recently. They want the NHS replaced with a private system.

The only thing this politics of distraction, hatred and division achieves is to protect our rigged economic system - so that the super-rich can keep getting richer, while everyone else is left worse off.

Let's be clear: the cause of the problems in our society is the tiny elite hoarding the vast majority of our country’s wealth. Refugees fleeing war and persecution are not to blame for collapsing living standards, falling wages, or bringing our NHS to its knees.

So instead of this 'divide and rule', let's unite and build a country that really serves the 99% - not the super-rich.

Let's impose a wealth tax on the ultra-rich, let's build huge numbers of council houses, let's bring water and energy back into public ownership and let's kick the profiteers out of our NHS.

That's how we can build a better future for ordinary people.

[Sharon Graham @UniteSharon]

It's time for a wealth tax on the super-rich and a tax on excess profits. Those who say a wealth tax is too difficult are mistaken. We seem to be able to get workers to pay tax in a matter of weeks, the system is rigged and the country knows it.

#WealthTax NOW!

https://t.co/UzHZUYAsLK

[Mike Garner @Havak]

I completed the August challenge faster than 93.7% of all learners on Duolingo!

[Mike Garner @Havak]

@virginmedia Just as a follow up to this having received the adapter there is no problem after all because it doesn't need to use any of the four RJ45 ethernet ports. Your engineers had the foresight to include RJ11 telephone ports on the Shub3 and the adapter goes into one of those. 👍

[Mike Garner @Havak]

Virgin Media is the media company that does not even offer email as a contact method. Very 20th century of them. They are forcing customers onto VOIP phones but their superhub3 only has four ports - I am sure many people like myself are already using all four. @virginmedia

[Andrew Fisher @FisherAndrew79]

The Cunliffe Report is a joke. Protecting water profiteers, screwing over billpayers.

Scrap Ofwat, keep water privatised and hike bills by another 30%!

Laughable.
https://t.co/mspeR4D4HF

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

We do not need a new water regulator. We need the nationalisation of water and everyone but this Labour government knows it. https://t.co/jqO1vgmyVr