You'll want to be sitting down for this bit.
Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends.
And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇
@SusanCalman Looks great. I have just finished the same model. An inspiring, somehow spiritual, build. I’ve put lights inside mine. It makes a real difference, especially in the dark!
We’re wishing the happiest of birthdays to Becca and Lana, our six-banded armadillos, who are six today!
Here are the the birthday girls enjoying an enrichment box full of their favourite sweetcorn treats.
@AlstomUK@greatestgather Yes, a truly great event. Really enjoyed it. In particular thanks to Amber, part of the main gate team, who helped us out with a medical problem on Saturday.
@AlstomUK@greatestgather Yes, a truly great event. Really enjoyed it. Many thanks in particular to Amber, part of the main gate team, who helped my brother and I on Saturday with a medical problem.
How dare this monster disrespect the sacrifice of 636 British service men and women who gave their lives in America’s war or terror. Unlike her, they did give a shit for America’s suffering at the time.
I am quite literally broken by the level of disrespect being shown by an elected representative of the US Congress.
Her President has accepted a royal state visit to the country she couldn’t give a shit about. I believe the offer should be rescinded immediately.
@Keir_Starmer@RoyalFamily
“We are at a heat the human not the home stage for many.”
Money Saving Expert @MartinSLewis tells #Newsnight the situation facing pensioners who’ve lost the winter fuel payment and cost of living payment is "devastating", with the energy price cap also rising in January.
“I think the [winter fuel payment] means testing was too tight”
@MartinSLewis says the winter fuel payment should have been extended to those pensioners with around “£20,000-25,000” annual income
#Newsnight
Imagine a beautiful carbon capture and storage machine that can last for generations to capture solar and light energy and convert water, carbon dioxide and minerals into oxygen and store energy-rich organic compounds while also reducing surrounding temperatures and pollution?
The whole reason everyone allowed labour to cut winter fuel, and to not help children in poverty, was the 22bn black hole.
Today labour have announced 22bn for carbon capture.
There is always money. It's all political choice.
Labour, like the Tories, choose donors over people.
Hi @RachelReevesMP - can you please tell us more about that £22 billion black hole that means you can't invest in the NHS, heat the elderly's homes, or lift children out of poverty?
Carbon Capture
Mr Miliband plans to spend £25,000,000,000 of our money trying to do artficially something that Mother Nature already does naturally for free
Mr Miliband is a nutcase
#CarbonCapture
Keir Starmer and Ed Miliband have announced that they are going to spaff away £22bn of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture and storage technology corporations. The clowns are running the circus.
Nature is the most cost effective and reliable form of carbon capture & storage. 🌳
Ofgem allowed this.
Since the pandemic electricity generation profit margins up 198%.
Electricity/Gas supply profit margins up by 363%.
British Gas profits up 10-fold last year.
BP, Shell double/treble profits.
No UK regulator protects people.
https://t.co/od1OARz5E6