Peter Smith

Leicester fox, children’s publishing sales, passionate about education, school and public libraries, reading for pleasure, and the environment

[Peter Smith @peterfrithsmith]

🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? https://t.co/s2wnvtzw1p via @38degrees

[Peter Smith @peterfrithsmith]

Thames Water wants to block campaigners from speaking out against them?! Enough is enough. The Government must renationalise this failing water company. Agree? Sign the petition today: https://t.co/rJGJsQ6jrS

[Peter Smith @peterfrithsmith]

66% of us think our rivers and seas are too polluted to swim in. If you agree, join me in calling on the Govt to crack down on polluting water companies and take action fast. Add your name to the petition: https://t.co/nKdzWVpsr9

[Peter Smith @peterfrithsmith]

We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild it's land. Join me? https://t.co/YaF4yuDz9g via @38degrees

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

A reminder of the Tory rhetoric just over a month ago...
All of it has helped to fuel the #UKRiots - any one of them who claims it's nothing to do with them.... jeez... they've stoked nothing but grievance for 14 years

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Just a tiny number of the things we owned and the recent Tories sold off

If I went back to 1980 and gave you the full list you’d feel sick about it

None of us gained a thing except the super rich

Inequality through the roof.

#UKRiots

[Peter Smith @peterfrithsmith]

Initiate Public Inquiry into Unjustified Executive Bonuses in Water Companies - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/3VdBqCG19P via @UKChange

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

As of today every single sewage company in England and Wales is under investigation as part of the "largest ever criminal investigation", into "widespread non-compliance".

What the hell has @Ofwat and @EnvAgency been doing the last 33 years?

https://t.co/mId4paLizs

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Southern Water Awards Chief a £183,000 Bonus Following Proposal for 73% Increase in Customer Bills."

Tells you everything you need to know about the water industry. Right there, in a single sentence.

https://t.co/AV3Pf3CjFV

[Peter Smith @peterfrithsmith]

Why should customers bail out water companies for their mistakes? THEY built up £60 billion in debt rewarding banks and investors, and now want us to fix their problem. Sign the petition and tell Ofwat: no bill hikes to bail them out. https://t.co/YMhXKPHUPX

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

BREAKING
Biggest waste of all Tory PPE deals.

£1.4 billion of PPE, believed to be compliant, ordered from Full Support Healthcare has been destroyed

Equivalent to 35,000 nurses salaries up in smoke

Tories staying quiet!! 😡

⁦@BBCNews⁩

https://t.co/cA08xiZfBi

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Sunak the ultimate hypocrite today

6 years after D-Day , The European Convention on Human Rights was established to protect the basis of democracies in Europe and the freedoms of those of us within it. Churchill was a part of its founding

Sunak is willing to remove us from it

[Peter Smith @peterfrithsmith]

Stop the new bee killing pesticides!! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/ziixEd3xoh via @UKChange

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"England set to miss post-Brexit targets to clean up rivers by 2027."

Original EU target was 100% of rivers in good ecological condition by 2027. In 2018 give dropped that to 75%.

Latest @EnvAgency forecast just 6% will achieve good status by 2027.

https://t.co/ycagcs5DvE

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

BREAKING
Financial watchdog FCA wants transparency & to disclose some companies which are under investigation

JEREMY HUNT has intervened to warn FCA not to ‘name and shame

And right there is how the system of corruption is encouraged by the Tories👍🏼

RT https://t.co/Qy5zRBnxzL

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Have to say @PrivateEyeNews is absolutely on fire this week. 👏👏👏

[Peter Smith @peterfrithsmith]

Why should customers bail out water companies for their mistakes? THEY built up £60 billion in debt rewarding banks and investors, and now want us to fix their problem. Sign the petition and tell Ofwat: no bill hikes to bail them out. https://t.co/En64IAHWgB

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Ever get the feeling that you’re being had? Presenting: the great sewage scam."

The wonderful @GeorgeMonbiot doing his best Johnny Rotten impersonation, well, almost.

If you're a govt minister, regulator or work in the water industry look away now.

https://t.co/83QUb55C7Z

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

There have been more Conservative MP's found guilty of Sexual Misconduct than Voters guilty of Voter Fraud.

And there's 45,000,000 voters, and 360 Conservative MP's.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Jenny Jones, "We have torrents of sewage pouring into our rivers, onto our coastline, into our chalk streams. But instead of stopping it, this proposal aims to increase it" @GreenJennyJones

"And instead of giving Ofwat tougher powers to regulate the water industry.. Ofwat are now being told that economic growth is more important than clean water"

"Whenever this government does anything I always ask, who benefits? And who benefits here of course? Is Conservative party donors.. Developers who provided a third of Conservative party funds over the previous decade"

"And what you mean by economic growth is the ability of developers to build cheap, sell high, and connect up a lot of new houses to sewage systems that can't even cope with existing demand, without emptying excess sewage into our local rivers and streams"

"And the only way to ensure that new houses are connecting to a modern effective sewage system, is to have the public ownership of waterways"

"The only way to ensure that our water bills are being used to build local sewers rather than off shore bank accounts, is to have people in charge who work for public good and not for private greed"