Andrew Leaver

Architect, skier, runner, fan of the arts, the great outdoors and all things design

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

A Parliament which began with promises of “levelling up” ends with money promised to the North being redirected back to London.

Britain needs major change.

#HeadNorth

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Anas Sarwar, "Seeing Tory MP Mark Francois talk about the five families as if he was some kind of pretend mafia don, I think makes the whole situation utterly pathetic"

"Rishi Sunak is weak. The Conservatives are out of touch. They're corrupt. They're lying. They're divided. They're chaotic. They're out of ideas. And frankly they're out of time"

"In 2024 they're going to try and make you forget what has happened in the last four years, since the last general election.. Nobody should forget partygate, £ billions wasted on PPE, Liz Truss crashing the economy, the culture wars, and the fact that we've had 2 leadership elections, 3 prime ministers, 5 chancellors, all failing our country" #BBCQT

[Andrew Leaver @Leaverarch]

@roberthaines77 I had my knutsford train delayed by half an hour at Piccadilly so @Northern could let their delayed Crewe train come in late and depart late in front of us. Utter contempt for customers.

[Larry & Paul @larryandpaul]

👇🏻 #FridayFeeling: A message to the @Conservatives on behalf of the British people.

#ThankYouTories 🙏🏻

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Lake Windermere is England’s largest natural lake and a world heritage site, but treated as sewage dump by water companies.

70 days of illegal sewage dumping in 2022.

Boosts water company profits, dividends, exec pay.

No water company exec prosecuted.
https://t.co/vJcB6EP3QV

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

David Cameron lobbied to get Greensill loans from the Taxpayer.

They were paying him £1m a year for 25 days of ‘work’.

Less than a year after securing more than £5bn from the taxpayer they went bankrupt.

But not before Cameron sold his shares and made another £7m.

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

David ‘Cut the green crap’ Cameron banned onshore wind and shutdown our solar industry.  That cost energy bill payers billions in the years that followed and left us more exposed in the recent energy crisis.  He’ll fit right in with Sunak and his band of fossil fools..

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

So just to recap, our unelected head of state has given a position in Britain's unelected House of Lords to an unelected foreign secretary, on the recommendation of an unelected prime minister

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

By this time next week, Greater Manchester will have retaken control of our buses after almost 40 years of deregulation.

I hope it signals the start of a public transport revolution across the whole of England.

#BeeNetwork
https://t.co/1Sfq0aFIe4

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Spain’s inflation rate is 2% because unlike the UK it stood up to business.

Spain capped energy prices by more than the UK, cut cost of public transport, taxed excess profits and controlled rents.

UK let corporate profiteering rip, no rent controls.
https://t.co/Omvx4WEN7B

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Bullshit by Sunak well exposed here

[sarah murphy @13sarahmurphy]

(Dear) Mail on Sunday,
Don’t be a moron.
Raging childishly at the EU.
You wanted the border.
You’ve got the border.
We’re a third country *outside* the EU now.
These are the consequences of your idiot ideology.
Grow up.
This is your shitshow.
Own it.
And apologise.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Well what do you know, the Chief Executive of Jaguar Land Rover has confirmed their factory would have been built in the UK had it not been for Brexit as that was their first choice. So the UK taxpayer has had to fork out £500m to get what they could have had for free.
#brexit

[Tobi @TobiFrenzen]

Brexit is becoming obsolete!

The Council of the EU today (Jun 27) adopted a decision to sign a new FTA between the EU 🇪🇺 and New Zealand 🇳🇿

All without screwing up its own industries! It would appear it is beneficial to be patient and part of a larger trading block after all...

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Macquarie venture capital “Vampire Kangaroo”.

Bought @thameswater in 2006. When they sold had taken £2.7bn in dividends out of the company, £2.2bn in loans, left company £10.8bn in debt & a pension fund deficit of £380m.

They now own @SouthernWater

https://t.co/C0FWIT9P46

[George Leaver @georgel99]

Can you imagine if Corbyn had installed the son of a former KGB spy in the House of Lords? The @DailyMailUk would be apoplectic. Now they employ the actual ex PM that did so 🤡

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Some preparatory viewing before tonight’s Dispatches on Johnson and Lebedev

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Alastair Campbell, "You were lied too.. I understand why you voted for Brexit.. Johnson, Farage, these conmen were coming along and offering you something that was going to make your lives better.. I don't blame you for voting for Brexit, I blame them for lying to you." #BBCQT

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

BREAKING: the White Cliffs of Dover have been illuminated with the UK 'warming stripes' for #ShowYourStripes day!

These stripes represent the UK average temperature from 1884 to 2022 with blue colours for colder years and red colours for hotter years.

https://t.co/LW5Kgrr8w3

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Nadine Dorries cares about her mid-Bedfordshire constituents so much…

…that she resigned from serving them because she didn’t get her peerage.