Helen W

Cake, reading and music...these are a few of my favourite things. She/her.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Water privatisation is a con.

(Location: Thames Water HQ)

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Caroline Lucas, "Water companies had no debt when privatised. They have since borrowed £52 billion and paid £72 billion in dividends. Meanwhile we have a sewage scandal. Privatisation of water was a serious mistake and it needs to be permanently rectified."

[Helen W @hellsbells799]

@Biggreenbooks @LouKellett Thanks both 🙂

[Helen W @hellsbells799]

@Biggreenbooks @LouKellett Yes please, if it is still available

[Helen W @hellsbells799]

@DownloadFest you have oversold this event, queues for everything that are a joke. Bands missed because of traffic issues - was really looking forward to this #fedup #shitshow

[Helen W @hellsbells799]

@DownloadFest What is your plan for people stuck in traffic, with paid passes?? This is an absolute #shitshow. You knew it was sold to capacity

[Helen W @hellsbells799]

@DownloadFest This maybe your advice, but have been stuck on same stretch of road, about 3.5 miles away and have barely moved...

[Helen W @hellsbells799]

@DownloadFest Well thanks for the advice - we have been in traffic for over 3 hours and we live 40 mins away #shitshow #stillstuck #notmoving #quickertowalk

[Helen W @hellsbells799]

@TelegraphTravel School holidays are ridiculously expensive. Tourist areas often don't have the traffic infrastructure to cope with high volumes. Areas that are beautiful are very often 'priced out' by affordability too.

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

Return tickets from Manchester:

▪️India £343

▪️Jamaica £345

▪️Brazil £325

▪️Ivory Coast £319

▪️London (rail) £369

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

we don’t have seven years left before dangerous climate breakdown. we already have dangerous climate breakdown, especially for the most affected people and areas. every day of inaction by governments makes it worse.

[Colin Davis @ProfColinDavis]

I was one of the XR scientists arrested yesterday. I'll say more about that in due course but more urgently, one of us - Emma, who was on the front page of the @Guardian today - has not been released. The UK govt is making scientists into political prisoners. @damiengayle

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

Shouldn't over 1,000 scientists risking arrest to save the planet be a bigger news story than Elon Musk trying to buy Twitter?

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it a thousand times: If the penalty for breaking a law is a fine, then that law only exists for the poor.

[Dan White : Disability Campaigner / Author / ♿️ @Danwhite1972]

Turned off all my central heating finally as latest fuel bill is unpayable

I now have to use a hair dryer on cool just to warm my disabled daughters feet as they were purple before I put 5 pairs of thick socks on her (she cannot regulate body temperature)

UK 2022

Pls RT

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Tory MPs just voted *again* to ban protests which are "too noisy" - a direct assault on our democracy & precious #RightToProtest. Just hope it gets reinstated in the Lords (who ironically seem to be doing a much better job at defending civil liberties than Commons) #PolicingBill

[Kath 💙🙀🇪🇺✊🏾 @KathyBurke]

Apparently this is what they do in parliament, all parties, whatever the subject. With people terrified as to what they’re going to do about rising fuel/food prices and people elsewhere getting bombed out of their homes, maybe it’s time they just fucking stopped.
ALL of them.

[Susanna Reid @susannareid100]

Business Minister Paul Scully told me there had been no vote on the Fire/Rehire bill. It’s reported it ran out of time because one Minister spoke for so long.

That Minister was … Paul Scully.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

A low paid worker who gets Covid after the 2nd April will:-

•pay for their own test kits;

•go for 3 days without any pay;

•on day 4 have a choice of statutory sick pay of £2.48 an hour or go into work & spread the virus to colleagues.

[Helen W @hellsbells799]

@CatnapMistress So sorry for your loss xxxx