Steve Rhodes

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

As Gordon comes in to “save” the economy it’s worth remembering 2010,

when Nigel Farage was an MEP in the European Parliament and Gordon Brown was Prime Minister.

Starmer thinks we’ve forgotten. We haven’t!

GLORIOUS 🔥

[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

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

In August of last year, six members of Palestine Action broke into a factory near Bristol.

Now that they are on trial, we are getting the grisly details of what happened.

A security guard, Angelo Volante, recalled in court how the group had threatened him with a sledgehammer and then proceeded to whip him (yes, with an actual whip) until he left the premises.

When Volante returned with police, the attack didn't end. Sgt Evans, a female member of the police force, was ambushed by Palestine Action member Samuel Corner, who struck her in the back with a sledgehammer.

Sgt. Evans' back was fractured by the multiple swings of the sledgehammer, and has been deeply impacted by the injury.

So, when someone asks, "Why on Earth was Palestine Action proscribed as a terrorist organization?" Go ahead and tell them about this story.

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

1/ John Swinney used yesterday’s Ofgem price cap news to once again claim that independence is the solution to high energy bills in Scotland.

Coincidentally, Dorenell Windfarm Ltd published its accounts yesterday, and those accounts expose the vacuity of Swinney’s rhetoric.🧵

[Stephen Merchant @StephenMerchant]

I’ve always been a fan of Liam Neeson’s comedy and list-making.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Guess what happens when you mess with a retired audit partner at PWC?

You get your ass handed to you on a plate, wouldn't that be right @YorkshireWater.

All hail Stanley Root ladies and gentlemen. 👏👏👏

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Now that govt has fired off its two big sound bites,

1. Sending people to jail, which has actually been the law for the last 30 years anyway.

2. Banning bonuses, Thames Water chairman fixed that idea in seconds, says he'll just put up salaries.

So none of it, none of it, not one single iota of any of it will make any difference whatsoever to how water companies behave.

That it then, you run out of ideas?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"But Thames Water told the Financial Times that because the payouts were 'retention payments' they would not be covered by Ofwat’s new powers. The awards — up to half of annual salary — come on top of executives’ salaries and other bonuses. 

The retention bonuses do not fall under the Water Act as they are not performance-related, the company said."

So there you have it, govt's grandstand scheme, the centre of its getting tough strategy sidestepped in a heart beat.

https://t.co/FuiUofmc79

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

What happened when we reported on a fake bank, "Savings UK Ltd", which operates a fake investment website through a '.eu' domain, and files fraudulent accounts?

If your guess is "nothing" then you're dead wrong, because yesterday Threads deleted our post identifying the fraud.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Treasury threatens Defra with £4bn bill if Thames Water nationalised."

It's getting more, and more ridiculous by the day.

1. To suggest that allowing VC funds to take control of @thameswater won't cost bill payers even more money in the long run is just illiterate.

2. In case you didn't notice should TW be put into special administration Defra now has the legal power to put up water bills directly, throughout the country, to cover the cost, that's what the Water (Special Measures) Act was actually all about. Forget banning bonuses, sending people to jail, it's all nonsense, it was about giving Defra the power to directly put your water bills.

https://t.co/nHjIAgxTnJ

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

On the day the National Audit Office confirms, @DefraGovUK, @Ofwat and @EnvAgency have ALL failed some things become blindingly transparent.

1. The public has become the regulator in the absence of any effective regulatory body.

2. The regulators and government are not regulating according to law and are not even in agreement about how they're supposed to interpret it

3 water company investors have not "invested".

👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

There you go, there's the real story today.

"The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and water regulators have failed".

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Remember the Storm Overflows Taskforce, an assembly nay a variable cacophony of the great and good, Defra, EA, Ofwat, water industry, eNOGs, all setup to solve the sewage crisis on our behalf.

You'll be heartened to know then that while it was supposed to meet every 2 weeks it hasn't actually met for 3 years.

And who sits on this august institution representing the environment lobby? Yep our good old friends the Rivers Trust. Ho hum!

https://t.co/GghCQRT0E6

[Bohemian Atmosphere @BohemianAtmosp1]

Fucking lunatics.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And there we have it, there is the level of aggravation, frustration and betrayal being felt throughout the country.

The River Ver is a chalk stream one of only 225 in the entire world and we allow a water company to spend 3,000 hours nonstop dumping sewage into it.

Time to get real. @GMB @CharlotteHawkns

[Jamie Roberton @jamieroberton]

🚨Exclusive: A grieving mother is being threatened with prosecution unless she deletes a damning review into police failings in her daughter's case.

We reported on Danielle Charters-Christie's story last year - police conduct since has raised alarm
https://t.co/3p3wtFLV1V

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Who did this?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Incase you haven't been following this, Thames Water claims it needs £3bn in the next few weeks otherwise it's going bankrupt.

Reality is the proposed loan is an initial payment of £1.6bn of which £800m is going to be charged in fees and interest. Yep, if this is allowed TW's customers are going to get screwed.

https://t.co/Y03kaW3YEf

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

This 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous.

Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids.

Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities and even the police. Its activists have threatened and enacted violence on those who've dared oppose it. People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it. Jobs have been lost and lives have been ruined, all for the crime of knowing that sex is real and matters.

When the smoke clears, it will be only too evident that this was never about a so-called vulnerable minority, notwithstanding the fact that some very vulnerable people have been harmed. The power dynamics underpinning our society have been reinforced, not dismantled. The loudest voices throughout this entire fiasco have been people insulated from consequences by their wealth and/or status. They aren't likely to find themselves locked in a prison cell with a 6'4" rapist who's decided his name's now Dolores. They don't need state-funded rape crisis centres, nor do they ever frequent high street changing rooms. They simper from talk show sofas about those nasty far-right bigots who don't want penises swinging around the girls' showers, secure in the knowledge that their private pool remains the safe place it always was.

Those who've benefited most from gender identity ideology are men, both trans-identified and not. Some have been rewarded for having a cross-dressing kink by access to all spaces previously reserved for women. Others have parlayed their delicious new victim status into an excuse to threaten, assault and harass women. Non-trans-identified leftybros have found a magnificent platform from which to display their own impeccably progressive credentials, by jeering and sneering at the needs of women and girls, all while patting themselves on the back for giving away rights that aren't theirs.

The actual victims in this mess have been women and children, especially the most vulnerable, gay people who've resisted the movement and paid a horrible price, and regular people working in environments where one misplaced pronoun could see you vilified or constructively dismissed. Do not tell me this is about a tiny minority. This movement has impacted society in disastrous ways, and if you had any sense, you'd be quietly deleting every trace of activist mantras, ad hominem attacks, false equivalence and circular arguments from your X feeds, because the day is fast approaching when you'll want to pretend you always saw through the craziness and never believed it for a second.

[Professor Karol Sikora @ProfKarolSikora]

We're told the NHS is underfunded... If that is the case, why is over £80k being wasted on this diversity role?

If it were up to me, every penny spent on these jobs/schemes would be diverted to frontline staff.

I think most sensible people agree.