We need to establish parallel civic structures which carry out the tasks which quangos, NGOs and bloated public bodies have failed to do for decades. You are rightly calling for that in the case of one river: eg Liverpool Guardians are doing the same in terms of community safety.
We need to establish parallel civic structures which carry out the tasks which quangos, NGOs and bloated public bodies have failed to do for decades. You are rightly calling for that in the case of one river: eg Liverpool Guardians are doing the same in terms of community safety.
River Roding in Parliament for the first time
Yesterday I took a guest of honour into the Houses of Parliament for a historical first visit. I was able to smuggle this guest in my bag, but it’s arguably more important than any politician who currently works there. This guest was the River Roding.
A bottle of Roding water was on the desk in front of me as I was given the chance by Ilford MP Jas Athwal to question Thames Water & the Environment Agency about illegal sewage dumping in the Roding for the first time ever.
The facts are damning. Throughout last year I went out on the Roding in a pair of waders with a bucket & ammonia tester & discovered dozens of completely illegal outfalls spewing over a billion lites a year of raw sewage straight into the Roding. In the last 30 years, Thames Water has effectively stolen £10’s of millions of bill payers money that should have been spent on infrastructure upgrades on the Roding, gave the money to shareholders, & then spent almost nothing on the river, safe in the knowledge that no one was likely to call out the tide of illegal sewage that resulted. Up til now, they weren’t wrong: the Environment Agency has not brought a single prosecution for illegal sewage dumping on the Roding since the Agency was founded, despite thousands of crimes being committed.
That cosy consensus had now ended. Before I questioned the EA & Thames Water, I made clear that I wasn’t there just on my own, or for the River Roding Trust, but representing the thousands of people who live the Roding & are determined that illegal sewage dumping will stop. I thought my asks to Thames Water were entirely reasonable in the circumstances: they must by the end of this year provide a detailed, costed plan of the specific physical steps they will take to end all illegal sewage dumps on the Roding by 2030. My ask to the EA was also reasonable: that they must prosecute all illegal sewage spills on the Roding to the full extent of the law, but that they could accept enforcement undertaking that the fines for each offence be spent on fixing the outfalls, rather than going to government.
I’m sorry to say that neither Thames Water or the Environment Agency was able to say yes to either of these fair & reasonable demands. It therefore appears that Thames Water’s plan is to keep saying good sounding words, but to keep dumping sewage in the Roding for decades. The EA’s plan is to let them do this.
The only thing standing between the Roding being killed with sewage pollution for decades to come is all of you. We don’t need ‘citizen scientists’ monitoring the decline of the river whilst justifying big river charity staff salaries to ‘engage’ people in a dying river. We need citizen investigators & campaigners: determined to find where the illegal sewage is coming from & then get it stopped by any (peaceful) means possible.
@scartyke@gregreese But very difficult to say no if a government can then, at a keystroke, cut off your access to banks, retail, fuel and employment by simply changing the ‘green’ on your Digital ID social credit score to ‘red’. It’s exactly how the Chinese punish disobedience. It’s coming here.
The Covid Inquiry has been accused by doctors and medical professionals of suppressing evidence that calls into question the ethics of the vaccine rollout, with key contributions disappearing into a "black hole". https://t.co/UjMZSVz2B0
🚨NEWS: It has been revealed that Labour MP Sureena Brackenridge completely fabricated a story accompanied by an AI image (below) and posted it to her social media
The original post about Maya which was faked has now been deleted and replaced by a post which admits it isn't real
The first statue ever raised in St Paul's Cathedral is not a king, a general or a saint.👑🚫⛪️
It is a quiet Bedfordshire squire who asked one question nobody wanted asked. 🇬🇧
In Georgian England you could be found not guilty and stay in gaol. 🏴
The gaoler drew no wage, he lived on fees from his prisoners, and if you could not pay, the door stayed shut. Innocent or not.
In 1773 John Howard was made High Sheriff of Bedfordshire. Most sheriffs sent a deputy to the county gaol. Howard walked in himself. ⚖️
He asked the magistrates to pay the gaoler a wage instead.
They asked him to name one county in England that did. So he rode out to find one.
Gaol after gaol, county after county, there was none. Just the same fee at every door, cells cut below ground and a fever in the straw that killed more prisoners than the gallows.
In 1774 Parliament called him to the bar of the Commons, thanked him for his humanity and zeal and changed the law of England. Fees struck down. Cleared men freed in open court.
Howard printed the new law himself and sent it to every gaol in England. 📜
Then he kept going. Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Russia. 🏴🇮🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇷🇺
He weighed the prison bread and measured the cells in hundreds of prisons, over 42,000 miles by his own count, and set it all down in The State of the Prisons in 1777.
In 1779 Parliament passed the Penitentiary Act with his evidence before it.
At 63, at Kherson on the Black Sea, he sat at a fever patient's bedside, and the gaol fever he had followed through the prisons of Europe took him too.
He asked for a quiet grave, a sundial and to be forgotten. 🔥
Britain refused.
St Paul's had never once held a statue. The first ever raised was his. The reformers who came after him took his name and carry it still.
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One quiet Englishman kept opening doors nobody wanted opened.
We are the home of British heroes.
There is a place for you with us.
👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
People with energy who join a very right wing party are not normies.
Normal are sitting at home watching Netflix.
It is very hard to get them out . They might join a party but they don’t want to stand or canvass or travel around the country .
All the people who run around the country with energy and live in a camper van for 2 weeks are not normies.
Restore will win with energy . That is what distinguishes it from Reform or the Conservatives.
And that energy is in the young especially the zoomers - the passion , the fire, the strength - and especially young men.
They are the future not boomers.
The Zoomers are the most radical generation ever in living memory .
Whoever gets the energy of young men will win and most of them detest demographic replacement and multi-culturalism.
Zoomer men have suffered everyday at the alter of DEI and two tier policing .
His daughter’s personal information was leaked by the Times and Sky News hounded her. He has every right to be annoyed given the death threats he receives.
If GB News did that to a Labour MP, they wouldn’t be happy and would be mentioning Jo Cox a lot.
Years ago Nigel Farage broke down describing how his children were relentlessly bullied for his political views.
Today journalists published pictures of his daughter’s home and hounded her.
This isn’t journalism. It’s deliberate doxxing designed to put a target on an innocent woman’s back.
Farage already receives constant death threats and violent attacks. That apparently isn’t enough for you. So now you’ve decided to drag his family into the firing line too.
What is your actual aim?
To intimidate? To punish his children for the crime of having the wrong father? To send a message to anyone considering supporting him that their families will be next?
Do you do this to any other politician’s children?
Do you publish the homes of Keir Starmer’s family? Rachel Reeves’? Any Labour MP’s kids? Of course you don’t. The double standard is not just obvious, it’s grotesque.
You are not holding power to account. You are abusing your platform to settle political scores and endanger private citizen’s. You are biased, cowardly bullies who hide behind “the public’s right to know” while trampling every standard of decency you claim to uphold.
Why do you think this behaviour is acceptable? Because you’ve convinced yourselves that anyone who threatens the establishment deserves to have their family terrorised? Because you believe your political hatred gives you a licence that no one else has?
Nigel Farage should sue every single journalist and outlet involved until they’re begging for mercy.
This isn’t reporting. It’s political thuggery with a press pass.
https://t.co/1EjAoACuYv
The press have a responsibility to hold politicians to account.
That doesn’t mean they have a licence to harass and intimidate people’s family members, as we have now seen them do to Nigel Farage’s family.
Dragging families into political warfare is not good journalism, it is underhanded political tactics designed to intimidate politicians out of standing.
It should be down to the public to decide on whether Nigel Farage will be Prime Minister not activist journalists. The press should be reporting on the news, not making the news.
Yes, hold politicians to account, expose any wrongdoing, ask the difficult questions but do not harass people’s families.
This insane. The man hunt is for a tanned European man…. However the one they arrested for it is called Hamed Wali! How much do the police and media hate us???
🇬🇧 UK Colour Revolution - "Let's smash the living shit out off Farage, ensure that he and @reformparty_uk don't win, by fair means or fowl, employing all manner of dirty tricks".
Former advisor to PM Johnson Dominic Cummings lays out Starmer and the UK Deep States plans for Nigel and Reform.
The prediction by Mr Cummings was made back on the 1st of January this year and is proving to be true as phone and bank account hacking is ongoing towards Mr Farage.
🚨Mr Cummings quotes EU Commissioner Von Der Leyen, who stated this year that she and the EU will, "Employ the same tactics as they did with Eastern European countries, i.e 'Colour Revolutions', to stop countries being taken over whose policies we disagree with".
This assessment is exactly what we are witnessing across the Western World, barring Hungary, Poland, Italy and certain States in the USA.
Source: @spectator@Nigel_Farage@reformparty_uk
This is an outright lie from @SkyNews.
They hounded my daughter at home, just days after The Times published where my family live.
Despicable behaviour from the media.
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21 years in Policing, my career ended in 2020 due to injuries sustained on duty.
I do not recognise what British policing has become.
It stopped asking "is this right?" and started asking "how will this look?" Two tier policing on race, religion and the police being used as a political tool.
Here is what that costs. 🧵
Why is receiving a donation from overseas "warp[ing] our elections" and "sow[ing] division", but importing millions of people from Commonwealth countries, who are allowed to vote in British elections from the moment they arrive here, is completely ignored?