Chris Morris

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

This is a brilliant investigative piece on Farage, the dark millions behind him and the double standards of so much British journalism. Read and retweet! Nigel Farage pocketing £5m from a donor shows he’s unfit for power https://t.co/zHuVfDV8dh

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry.

Do your thing internet.

https://t.co/kZz1cXBtz3

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

Grateful to Times columnist Giles Coren for putting to the sword a local council pipsqueak for trying to put out of business a restaurant in the middle of nowhere where owner Ruth Hanson does all the kitchen prep herself, the washing up, the bookings, the till, payroll and then cooks it.
The restaurant is called Hansom in Bedale, North Yorkshire. To give you an idea of its remoteness it’s 7 miles from Northallerton and 31 miles from York.
So, on occasions, her husband Mark, who had a job of his own, gives up his evenings to chauffeur some guests to and from their homes.
Coren points out when he reviewed the place last year ( he gave it a glowing recommendation) he had to hitchhike from Northallerton station.
No Bedale train, no metro, no Uber hanging around at the corner.
Enter Chris Doyle, licensing enforcement officer for N Yorkshire council, who has written to Ruth saying in his view Mark was operating a taxi service and that would require a raft of expensive and time consuming licences.
Ruth responded that Mark was her husband, he was unpaid and there was no separate charge for the journey.
Doyle said he didn’t care as there was deemed to be a commercial benefit and warned without a licence the council may take legal action.
Coren has a great last paragraph; “ Yeah, you sue her, you absolute local heroes.
“ You teach Ruth and Mark a lesson for being great at their jobs, for treasuring their customers, for trying to create a little joy and make ends meet in a collapsing world.”
PS Thought you’d like to see what a Ruth menus looks like. This is called the Sunday Sharing Feast.
Starters.
Smoked Leek and Pickled Croque
Monsieur
Whitby Crab Crumpet Pickled cucumber, Garden herbs.
Heritage beetroot, whipped goat’s Curd, Wild Garlic emulsion.
Main Course
Wensleydale chicken, Apricot and sage Wellington.
Honey and mustard mash, buttered spring , cider sauce.
Dessert
Yorkshire rhubarb and ginger trifle.
Cost; £55.
With publicity thanks to Coren’s column and this tweet I suspect the queue will be out the door and Mark can have his evenings off again.

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

Hey @Morrisons I will never buy ONE thing from you ever again unless this guy, trying to stop shoplifting, is reinstated.
RETWEET IF YOU AGREE

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

I have listened to Sir Olly Robbins evidence for last hour and forty minutes and am seeing the very best of the civil service. I am left incredulous that the decision was made to fire him. Has there been a more egregious and shameful decision by a political master desperate to save his own skin?

[Edward Henry KC @edwardhenry1]

My dear client. He sat beside me when I told his story to the Inquiry. I feel numb at his passing. He suffered so much and endured tremendous grief. He was stoical but marked by tragedy. Those malignants who put him through all this are beneath contempt.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A few negative reviews have been penned on the Gerald-Keith-Doris Cinematic Universe.

The Guardian: "A troubling celebration of ruminant agriculture that fails to interrogate the structural violence inherent in... " (Keith ate the rest of this review. Keith found it on Dave's kitchen table. Keith did not find it nourishing.)

PETA: "These animals are being exploited for content." (Doris was unavailable for comment. Doris was in Brian's field. Doris has not consented to the PETA statement either.)

Friends of the Earth: "The Ruminati represent everything wrong with Britain's failure to transition away from livestock-based agriculture." (The Ruminati. They've named them. The Ruminati. We're keeping this.)

George Monbiot, via newsletter: "Charming, certainly. But charm is how the pastoral lobby has always obscured the data." (Gerald has not read the newsletter. Gerald was improving the south corner while the newsletter was being written. The south corner has field scabious in it. The newsletter does not have field scabious in it.)

The Vegan Society: "We note with concern that this content has significantly increased public sympathy for farmed animals while simultaneously increasing public sympathy for farming them." (This is, they acknowledge, a confusing outcome. They are working on a position paper.)

Brian: "I added a tenth column."

Opening weekend: strong.

The Ruminati are unavailable for comment.

The Ruminati are grazing.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

This needs to be reposted 100 times a day.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"I went to hospital after drinking tap water. Now my water bill has gone up 62 per cent."

Yep, that's how the scam works.

https://t.co/knMyOjogn3

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Call time on the legalalised scam that is privatised water here:👇👇👇👇
https://t.co/wclY6xs74x

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak."

Meanwhile South West Water, no relation to the equally hopeless South East Water, have admitted to poisoning the town of Brixham and making 150 people sick.

I'll ask the question again, what the hell is it that a water company has to do to lose their operating licence?

https://t.co/YVnnWEUkhF

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Call me Mr Bastard, but might I suggest a prison sentence would be more of a deterrent than a fine the consumers will inevitably end up paying?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And just so you know what kind of scumbags you're dealing with here over recent months South East Water have been in the High Court twice, trying to keep their activities secret.

Turns out they had been illegally abstracting water without a licence, 52.3 million litres of it.

And were trying to suppress the fact they were about to be fined for not supplying water.

No doubt major shareholders @NatWestGroup will be able to confirm that they approved of the company trying keep all of this secret from their customers and the public.

[#spycops Inquiry Nerd @bristolnoborder]

I barely get half a dozen re-tweets normally. I think Sir James Bevan maybe in trouble, as this post has somehow got nearly 50k views! #dirtybusiness #sackjamesbevan @DwrCymru

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Thames Water is running out of money again and is now asking to borrow another £823 million.

And still government won't act.

PS And guess who's gonna pay for all of that, yep the customers.

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

We have to campaign for what the environment and people need, not what our government and the polluters have said they might let us have - if we play nicely and let them keep milking our bills.

Channel 4's #DirtyBusiness has put us in front of the goal. Let's not waste that.

We don't need 'campaign victories', we need an end to the privatisation scam.

Real fish WERE killed by Thames Water pre the making of this video. Thousands of them

[Hugh Grant @HackedOffHugh]

Dirty Business on @Channel4. Brilliantly made, devastating. Water must be nationalised now. The owners of the private water companies jailed.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Thames Water sewage spills set for record high."

Hard to believe isn't it, even after all of the outrage, all of the publicity, all of the anger Thames Water is well on course to dump more sewage this year than at any point in the last 10 years.

Time for govt to act, time to take back TW.

https://t.co/lLNWci8pI8

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Did you see the shocking finale to Dirty Business?

Govt must act, NOW!

And can I just say, a huge round of applause to all of the decent people working within the water industry and regulators, trying to do their job, to make things better, to put things right and all the while being hampered by politics, corporate greed and incompetence. 👏👏👏

https://t.co/mRtQzVDrxH

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Law suit against South West Water by the people of Exmouth, Budleigh Salterton and Lympstone is now expanding to include the towns of Dawlish, Sidmouth, Teignmouth, Newquay and Penzance.

Tell your friends.

https://t.co/Ay9pATeF4r