Peter Taylor

Sale Sharks Rugby and still disillusioned with UK politics. Find me on [email protected]

[Peter Taylor @PeteTaylor99]

@nolanjimradial Shocking, 12 years of Tory rule

[Peter Taylor @PeteTaylor99]

@ZoeJardiniere First big error

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

This document should keep you awake at night.

The govt’s National Risk Register now ranks losing our drinking water alongside a PANDEMIC as one of the two biggest threats facing the country

This year, in the right-hand document: The chances of “Catastrophic impact” on our drinking water supplies - up to a one in four chance.

Last year, same document (on the left) rated it a minor risk. Bottom of the chart.

So what changed? Nothing changed!

Water is still in private hands and depute the Water Special Measures Act deteriorating rapidly.

This is where 36 years of privatised water has brought us.

Tens of billions handed to shareholders. Over £60 billion of debt racked up on water assets that should belong to al of us.

Leaking pipes. No new major reservoirs. Sewage in our rivers, on our beaches, in our sea.

They didn’t invest. They extracted. And now the state’s own risk experts are telling us the tap water could go.

And the regulators? They watched. Fines for pollution became a business expense. Thames Water’s creditors are now asking for their pollution fines to be written off. You couldn’t make this stuff up!!!!

So let’s cut the crap about ‘tougher control’ of water companies. We’ve tried that for 36 years. It ended with drinking water on the national risk register next to a pandemic. You can’t regulate a cash machine into caring about you.

There’s one answer. Bring water back into mutualised public ownership. Run for people, not profit. Answerable to bill payers, not bondholders. Every single pound going back into the pipes and reservoirs we should have built decades ago.

Water is life. And yet we’ve watched it turned it into a payday.

Time to take it back.

[Peter Taylor @PeteTaylor99]

@nige_h64 Tough group. Same always seem to get Glasgow and Clermont

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

EXCL: Nigel Farage has been trying to block Bank of England cryptocurrency plan that could be costly for billionaire bankrolling his party.

Reform UK leader has said Christopher Harborne wants nothing in exchange for millions donated to party and undeclared £5m personal gift to Farage revealed by Guardian.

But Farage used private meeting at Bank to urge governor to drop plans for state-run alternative to digital currency that has made his Thailand-based benefactor one of richest people in world.

Cracking tale from @tomburgis

https://t.co/o4ljHGx8fZ

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone.

It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off.

Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now.

We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

The growing risk of a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation system, of which the Gulf Stream is part, is nothing less than the number one long-term security threat to our way of life in Britain, Europe and the Western world in the era in which we live.

The consequences on our societies of an AMOC collapse would be simply devastating for Britain especially, beyond anything imaginable but a full blown super pandemic or nuclear war — with scientists modelling temperatures dropping around 15.c and half of our arable land being lost.

This is just one of many climate catastrophes starring at us of the modelling and the observed data and is why it is why Labour has continued to place such importance on Net Zero and international climate talks despite the Greens and progressive activists now looking elsewhere post-October 7th and the Conservatives joining Reform in now campaigning against them.

It is also one of the most important areas our foreign policy has and must continue to diverge from Trump’s America, an active opponent to progress on this agenda. It is also why despite the huge security, technological and industrial risks they pose we need an active and substantive dialogue here as far as is possible with China — which Labour has pushed for.

[Peter Taylor @PeteTaylor99]

@SaleSharksRugby Sums up the season really. God knows how many Sale will lose by v Bristol. Get Sean Edwards on the phone, fast!

[Peter Taylor @PeteTaylor99]

@nige_h64 @SaleSharksRugby Had to switch Asher to the other side of the scrum & play Harper at TH. Replacements will probably struggle late in the game

[Peter Taylor @PeteTaylor99]

@ToryFibs You got me googling it as it was the first time I’d heard it! 🙈😂

[Peter Taylor @PeteTaylor99]

@BrookesTimes @thetimes Not your best piece of work

[Peter Taylor @PeteTaylor99]

@danielsusskind @b_judah Well said. Like all reasonable people in Britain, we stand with you. Stay strong

[Peter Taylor @PeteTaylor99]

@SharkTankRugby A northern farce!

[Peter Taylor @PeteTaylor99]

@SaleSharksRugby I think there’s a few players out there today who won’t get a contract next year!

[Peter Taylor @PeteTaylor99]

@JontyUpNorth @SaleSharksRugby Particularly when you launch it a few days before turning out an injury depleted team against a near first choice Saracens. Should have waited for next season

[Peter Taylor @PeteTaylor99]

@SaleSharksRugby #NorthernFarce If this was any other sport, I think Sanderson would have to go. Next season with all the new signings is his last chance!

[Peter Taylor @PeteTaylor99]

@SharkTankRugby You should ask for your money back

[Peter Taylor @PeteTaylor99]

@nige_h64 @SaleSharksRugby Dire

[Peter Taylor @PeteTaylor99]

@SaleSharksRugby Saracens on the other hand appear to have a strong lineup

[Peter Taylor @PeteTaylor99]

@SaleSharksRugby Alexa, show me a Sale team depleted by injuries to a large number of 1st choice starters …..