Rob Billson

Self Employed Consultant @newroutesuk Grants Manager @Calderdalefound, @Humanists_UK School Speaker, #Arsenal #Calderdale 1 son. Views are my own. Woke 😀🌈

[Rob Billson @robbill]

Wine in pints and the abolition of inheritance tax? These are the key issues, never mind poverty, economic stagnation, homelessness etc. Its called performative politics apparently, performed by a bunch of terrible actors, pretending to be a government. #getthetoriesout

[TAGS @tagsprogramme]

Many thanks to @CalderdaleFound & @HAFCalderdale for the continued trust to deliver #HAF26 Holiday camps.
Loads of local children being active, eating healthily & making friends
Darts 🎯
Gymnastics 🤸‍♂️
@hbpicturehouse to watch GOAT
Sport ⚽
Art 🎨
Cheerleading 💃
Meals & snacks 🍝

[Rob Billson @robbill]

The problem is caused by Thames Water not giving a shit, but being happy for shit to spread throughout the streets

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Thames Water's reply to a customer @robJGray82 about sewage spewing into the street. "Hydraulic overload", they say.

That of course translates as we spanked all the money we should have invested in the sewage system, paid it all to shareholders and managers, inflated salaries, bonuses etc and that's why the company is now £20 billion in debt which you'll have to pay for, again.

"Hydraulic overload". Really!

[tony mullin @tonymullin3]

Seems Nige couldn’t make #BBCLauraK as he’d forgot he was going to a school reunion at Dulwich…shame, she could have asked him what his favourite Lost Prophets song is

[Rob Billson @robbill]

Something for the UK to follow

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: Australia has passed a Bill that will limit the total spending on a party by billionaires like Elon Musk to Just $50,000

This will ban billionaires from single-handedly buying Elections in Australia.

[John Kirby @csljohnkirby]

Oh @RupertLowe10 Let's think about this a minute.

1. Prince Albert – German-born consort who transformed British science, industry and culture.
2. George Frideric Handel – German-born composer whose work defines British musical heritage.
3. Sir Ernst Chain – German refugee who turned penicillin into a usable, life-saving antibiotic.
4. Michael Marks – Polish-born co-founder of Marks & Spencer.
5. Marc Isambard Brunel – French-born engineer whose work paved the way for Britain’s greatest infrastructure era and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
6. Sir Alec Issigonis – Born in Turkey to Greek parents, creator of the Mini.
7. Sir Ludwig Guttmann – German-Jewish refugee and founder of the Paralympic movement.
8. Judith Kerr – German-Jewish refugee and beloved British author.
9. Sir Ben Helfgott – Polish-born Holocaust survivor and British Olympic weightlifter.
10. Sigmund Warburg – German-born banker who modernised Britain’s financial markets.
11. Joseph Bazalgette’s Huguenot ancestry – Immigrant lineage behind the engineer who built London’s sewer system.
12. David Ojabo – Nigerian-born representative of modern engineers contributing to UK electrification and infrastructure.
13. Sonia Friedman – American-born producer reshaping British theatre.
14. Zaha Hadid – Iraqi-born architect who transformed Britain’s built environment.
15. Anya Hindmarch – British designer born abroad, shaping global perceptions of UK fashion.
16. Sir Anish Kapoor – Indian-born sculptor behind landmark British public artworks.
17. Mo Farah – Somali-born Olympic legend representing Britain at its best.
18. Nadiya Hussain – Bangladeshi-born cultural figure reshaping British food media.
19. Ralph Miliband – Belgian-Jewish refugee and influential British political thinker.
20. Claudia Jones – Trinidad-born activist, founder of Notting Hill Carnival.
21. Sake Dean Mahomed – Indian-born entrepreneur who introduced shampooing and Britain’s first curry house.
22. Sir Charles Kao – Shanghai-born physicist behind fibre-optic communication.
23. Sir George Iacobescu – Romanian-born engineer who built Canary Wharf.
24. Sir Mohamed Mansour – Egyptian-born business leader and major UK employer.
25. Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou – Greek-Cypriot founder of easyJet.
26. Ivan Magill – Irish-born anaesthetist whose innovations revolutionised modern airway management.
27. Sir Frederick Stern – German-born horticulturalist who transformed British botany.
28. The Tata family – Indian-born industrialists shaping British steel, automotive and manufacturing.
29. Sir Peter Jonas – American-born impresario who revitalised English National Opera.
30. Sir David Tang – Hong Kong-born entrepreneur and philanthropist.
31. Henry Wellcome – American-born pharmaceutical pioneer, founder of the Wellcome Trust.
32. Sir John Ritblat – Czech-born property developer shaping London’s modern skyline.
33. William Herschel – German-born astronomer who discovered Uranus while working in Britain.
34. Peter Mark Roget – Geneva-born physician and creator of Roget’s Thesaurus.
35. Sir Jacob Epstein – American-born sculptor who shaped modern British art.
36. Faraday’s Huguenot ancestry – Immigrant roots behind one of Britain’s greatest scientists.
37. Lucian Freud – German-born artist who transformed modern British portraiture.
38. Sir Michael Balcon – Jewish-Lithuanian background; driving force of Ealing Studios and British cinema.
39. Malala Yousafzai – Pakistani-born Nobel laureate influencing British education and human rights.
40. Sir Salman Rushdie – Indian-born literary figure.
41. Mona Hatoum – Lebanese-born contemporary artist.
42. Sir Trevor McDonald – Trinidad-born broadcasting icon.
43. Sir Leszek Borysiewicz – Polish-born scientist, former head of the Medical Research Council and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge.
44. Billy Butlin – South African-born founder of Butlins, shaping British leisure culture.
45. Hans Krebs – German refugee biochemist; discovered the Krebs cycle in Sheffield.
46. Max Born – German-Jewish refugee mathematician, Nobel laureate and mentor to British scientists.
47. Karl Popper – Austrian-born philosopher who shaped British political thought.
48. Jacob Bronowski – Polish-born mathematician, philosopher and broadcaster.
49. Freddie Mercury – Tanzanian-born British music legend.
50. Sir Mo Ibrahim – Sudanese-born telecommunications entrepreneur who helped build the modern global mobile network from a UK base.

Britain wasn’t built by immigrants. It was built with them, strengthened by them and carried forward by them. From engineering to medicine, music to mathematics, literature to the Paralympics, our story is a tapestry woven by hands from every corner of the world.

The UK has always been at its best when talent arrives, contributes and becomes part of the national fabric. That isn’t something to fear or deny. It’s something to be proud of.

#BritainsQuietStrength #BuiltByMany #HumanKindness #StrongerTogether #ProudOfBritain #ThisIsWhoWeAre

[EndPopulistLies @EndPopulist]

@BBCPolitics When’s RefCon propagandist white male supremacist serial lying shitweasel @ChrisMasonBBC handing in his resignation?

It has to be this week along with his partner in Putin funded Brexit lies Tory Laura

The BBC has been as ‘impartial’ as a Proud Boys rally since before Brexit

[monty and lottie. (emma) @montysbiscuit]

@BBCPolitics @BethRigby @SamCoatesSky @Peston @ChrisMasonBBC
Will you all be resigning after making a full apology to our Chancellor?
Time to stop bashing our female MPs & Ministers.

[Kay Burley @KayBurley]

I think three prime ministers in just six weeks rather speaks for itself…

[Moi🍃💚🍃🦎🦇🌳 @Moi02114223Moi]

Who lobbied against swift bricks. Any of developers who paid £100m to CMA to go away?

Anyone care to come clean why @UKLabour whipped members against a simple enhancement to prevent a species going extinct?

Do tell, like to explain why to my kids

[Stuart 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @stuartpengs]

Swift bricks. Literally the easiest conservation win it's possible to imagine. Cheap, simple, effective and negligible cost to the developer. Yet both UK and Welsh govt can't even get this right. We've got no hope on the complex issues.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

3 November 1936 | French Jewish girl, Sylvia Bergman, was born in Paris.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 19 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://t.co/AENjcRS04c

[Susie Taylor 🍃💚🍃 @SusieTa32510601]

Turncoat @SteveReedMP supported the Swift brick last year…but @UKLabour decided #nature is expendable in the name of corporate greed..Just how much #nature hatred was discussed between @RachelReevesMP and corporate developer lobbyists over cosy breakfasts?

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

What an own goal by the government...😒
The UK is the most nature depleted place on earth, this small measure would have made a big difference to endangered Swifts & other cavity nesting birds, but the people in power just DO NOT CARE! 😡

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

These 2 women have broken my💔One is a role model in my 📕 about this campaign, her speech FOR swift bricks 2 years ago, extremely powerful. The other has supported from the start (she used to be the CEO of the RSPB!)
It’s gutting they voted AGAINST swift bricks. I believed them

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

These are the people who blocked the swift brick amendment last night. 102 Labour Peers thanks to the rather extreme 3 line whip which just goes to show how much #Labour do NOT want to help nature let alone swifts. Normally a 3 line whip is used for fairly extreme amendments.

[Steve Walker: #NAFO #KPSS #FBPE @tweetdodger]

@WriterHannahBT @SteveReedMP As a Labour member, I am embarrassed by your betrayal of our wildlife. Seems the developers soon took control of you.

https://t.co/yII0G156rK

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Just so deeply depressing. If Ministers can’t support something as simple as swift bricks, which can have an amazing impact for swifts, then what hope is there for more complex measures? They just don’t care

[Rob Billson @robbill]

@DanicaPriest This is stupid and self defeating, development for its own sake is just destruction.

[Danica Priest🦇🦎🦇🦎🍃💚🍃 @DanicaPriest]

Planning Bill Update: All of the nature friendly amendments have been rejected by the government. That means no protections for endangered species, no mitigation hierarchy, no swift bricks, no protections for irreplaceable habitats like chalk streams. This is unacceptable! 1/ 🧵

[tony mullin @tonymullin3]

The BBC at its absolute worst. Letting Ben Houchen call people protesting against a genocide, recognised as such by the UN, led by an Israeli leader indicted by the international criminal court, ‘useful idiots’ is a disgrace. The only hate marchers are the IDF. #BBCLauraK