Ant

North Wales, history, Lfc, nature, nhs, German Pointer, a good Whiskey

[Ant @judder67]

@PintsBeauty @octoplay_real

[Ant @judder67]

@20th_Centurygal

[Ant @judder67]

@harman_geoff @BotFinderUK .

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries on 🌍 yet a 🧱is too much of a stretch for Labour to save our swifts.This symbolic 🎥 is for those who care that the existence of swifts is on the line.I hate campaigning but I’ll never give up on the birds.If you care,share🙏

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

One of these Peers is the former CEO of …… the RSPB. Talk about betrayal.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Rachel Reeves’s new adviser has links to Thames Water lobbyists."

Yep you read that correctly, Jenny Scott, who will now work at the Treasury, will continue her role as a partner at Apella Advisors — a firm she co-founded — that lobbies on behalf of Thames Water. Yep and I did not make that up.

https://t.co/0NY44TCeMS

[June Slater @juneslater17]

41% less prison offices than we had 20 years ago, in a growing prison population.
Less fire stations
Less Fire Officers
Less Police Officers
Less school places
Less NHS beds
Less road repairs
Less GP places
Less NHS dentists
Less police stations
Less post office
Where's all the money gone?

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

1/8 Environment Minister Steve Reed is telling you that he won’t nationalise the water industry, because it would cost £100bn.
👀but where does that figure come from? 👀
Reed claims that it comes from within his own department.
🚨However, it looks suspiciously like it might have come from the private water companies themselves. 🚨
Steve Reed and his £100bn: a timeline
#ComeCleanSteve

[Ant @judder67]

@PeterStefanovi2 Then stand down so we can get someone in that will stand up for the public interest

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Oh what have we become.

Apparently now so bereft of ideas and grappling childlike with how to deal with the water industry, in a speech later today govt will yet again make another attempt to claim responsibility for policies and ideas that were actually developed and launched under previous Tory administrations.

Examples.

1. "Record investment: with £104 billion." Had nothing whatsoever to do with this govt, it's the result of work started in Oct 2022, 2.5 years before the 2025 election. 👇

2. "Ringfence customers' bills for upgrades." Once again work which had been completed early 2024, before the election. Ofwat were due to make the announcement but were prevented from doing so because of purdah rules. 👇

3. "Reinvesting company fines into local projects:" Policy was actually announced by Tory govt on 9th April 2024, 3 months before the election. 👇

4. "The Water (Special Measures) Act: banned unfair bonuses."

The industry dealt with that idea with a rather contemptuous display of arrogance last Thursday. Southern Water is one of the 10 companies 'banned' from paying bonuses. What did the company do, why doubled the CEO's salary instead that's what.

Oddly govt were warned that's exactly what was going to happen by none other than the chairman of Thames Water. In fact the same TW that discussed, at a board meeting, how to get round the ban and then promptly paid managers £2.5 million in bonuses. 👇

Apart from destroying your credibility in a heartbeat by trying to claim responsibility for other people's work what leaves me totally baffled by all of this is that No10 signed off and approved it all. Or did they?

Either way, mind blown.

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

Yay for @Feargal_Sharkey !

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

😡Steve Reed banned the Water Commission Report from exploring public ownership in England.
🤣He says it's too expensive. But the £100bn figure comes from a 2018 report funded by the water industry. We say that it's nonsense, & the experts agree. Watch this video to find out why

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

The government is abolishing Ofwat

But ruling out PUBLIC OWNERSHIP, normal in 9 out of 10 countries

"Blaming Ofwat alone is like blaming the satnav for driving off a cliff when the road was built that way" @labourlewis 💯

The problem is privatisation

https://t.co/MaGdIWNiYu

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"In its refusal to renationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country."

As usual George gets to the nub of it in a single sentence.
Government is no longer acting in our interests but that of the markets.

https://t.co/04aSuC5DNu

[Julian Heather @JulianHeather1]

Correction: The BBC obsession with Reform, and its unceasing wall-to-wall coverage of Reform, boosts Reform, so that Chris Mason @ChrisMasonBBC can give them even more coverage, saying Reform's momentum (aided & abetted and promoted by the BBC) is "making the political weather".

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

Crooks.

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

22 tonnes of microplastics are dumped on farms PER DAY via sewage sludge, my latest investigation has revealed.

Emails & docs I obtained through FOI have exposed how this & other alarming warnings from the EA have been sat on for years.

Read the story 👇
https://t.co/emMyGt0BP7

[RiverActionUK @RiverActionUK]

An Environment Agency (EA) insider has broken ranks to expose what they describe as a “deliberate and ongoing cover-up” of the public health and environmental dangers of spreading sewage sludge on farmland. 😯

https://t.co/A7YjCZMBv2

[RiverActionUK @RiverActionUK]

“It’s a Trojan horse” 🐴 https://t.co/DfLjPmHG4l

“Pfas, pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors and microplastics hidden in sludge threaten the long-term sustainability of humanity’s farmland.” said a water sector insider.

Marketed as fertiliser, this sludge is polluting our soil, entering the food chain, and threatening the future of British farming. 😨

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

When a privatised company like Thames Water builds a new reservoir, it is THEIR shareholders who benefit from a new asset on THEIR balance sheet that we’ve all paid for through OUR bills!

The game is rigged. End the rip-off. Public ownership NOW!
https://t.co/lKcBNOxSf8