There is one simple solution to 'Service Charges'. Make them illegal and hand operation of flats and public areas back to the Council.
Like they always should have been.
The Government has cancelled plans to have Solar Panels over outdoor car parks.
Despite finding they could generate £28,000 a year each and pay for themselves many times over.
They have simply been thrown in the bin.
Fossil Fuel says no, no doubt.
As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports.
Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round.
A missed opportunity?
https://t.co/7WTmw8RXCV
Honestly @ChrisMasonBBC your appearance on @newswatchbbc was arrogant and defiant!
Your and your colleagues’ behaviour in the last couple of weeks has been abhorrent!
You’re no journalist, Chris, you’re a overpaid sounding board for your right wing bosses. Twat!
When a journalist becomes the news, it's usually time to go. Starmer went because he lost the confidence of his party. Mason has lost the confidence of BBC licence payers!
I'm hearing that @ChrisMasonBBC said he was "offended" by suggestions of bias against Keir Starmer and this Labour gov.
I'm offended that I pay your wages and you have done everything in your power to bring the government down.
The BBC being called out by viewers for their gleeful reporting of the Keir Starmer resignation, and their influence in hounding him out of office
Chris Mason, one of the main culprits, says this is an 'offensive' suggestion
Ok mate 😂
#BBCBreakfast#R4Today#NewsWatch
Your Cash ISA tax free amount is going down from 20k to 12k.
Unless of course, you're over 65.
Then it stays at 20k.
Also over 65s can keep transferring non-cash ISAs into cash ISAs. You can't.
Why is everything in British politics like this?
Dear @EnvAgency.
In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.
Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.
Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.
So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?
Rarely has there been such a contrast between a PM’s performance and public perception of it. It tells you all you need to know about the polarising & pernicious influence of our media ecosystem, including even the BBC’s own TV News.
https://t.co/D8wYlYCMUj
The events in the UK this morning are yet another example of the damage done to Britain by the media, the BBC in particular. The media wants and encourages conflict, argument and dispute. It cares nothing for the country or the harm it causes. Clicks and viewers are everything
A democratically elected British Prime Minister has been driven from office by a relentless campaign of propaganda and misinformation; funded, amplified and perpetuated by foreign billionaires and elites whose interests bear zero resemblance to those of ordinary working people.
A noble gesture from an emotional Keir Starmer, entirely consistent with his conduct in office.
A truly sad day for British democracy.
His full resignation speech:
When a trillionaire wants a PM out, as Musk has been publicly campaigning for in the UK, greater scrutiny is needed regarding the motivations, actions, and independence of the opposition outside and inside the party.
I'll tell you what it says about this country. that poisonous little biased journos so pumped up by their own inadequacy and self-importance can con large numbers of very stupid people against the most competent PM in decades.
Bugger Burnham & you.
This guy could not have done more to prove my point that the hate for Keir Starmer is utterly illogical, and the result of mass brainwashing and indocrination through propaganda.
1) The 12,000 figure is from 2023, when The Conservatives were in charge, not Labour.
2) It refers to all arrests under two long-standing UK laws: the Communications Act 2003 and the Malicious Communications Act 1988.
3) Arrests, not convictions or jail.
4) All harmful electronic communictions - could be someone sending a message threatening to kill their ex, could be an email, could be a whatsapp message. A small percentage were for online public posts.
Will @Tesla_Dawg even recognise they have been brainwashed when presented with the evidence, or will they dig in?