Dad, worker, likes to play outside.
Sheffield
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It ‘fought’ a little early on, although could have saved the facade.
Then it turned its back when @iqbal_mazher ditched the conservation area at the last minute, after spending officers’s time and money on it:
hhbs.org.uk/2024/03/15/the-l…
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Claiming poverty, leniency and exception just days after paying shareholders £156 million in dividends.
Not a good look @thameswater, really not a good look.
telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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"Thames Water boss handed huge bonus despite horror year which saw sewage dumped."
Apparently it's to ensure that water companies can attract the right level of talent. 🤣🤣🤣
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See YOUR proposed increases.
Legalised thievery from firms which have paid a 20% increase in executive pay last year, and paid £2.5 billion in dividends in 2023
16 water monopolies have paid out a total of £78bn in dividends in the 32yrs between privatisation in 1991 to 2023
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They partied , they bet on elections , they crashed the economy, they broke every public service, they destroyed integrity and honesty in public office , they paid their mates billions , they put their friends in the House of Lords, they gave their cronies knighthoods, they went into the jungle , they lied again and again, they were convicted by police, they went on holiday when they shouldn’t and they have the cheek to question Keir Starmer’s work ethic. I would never take anything for granted but I hope they are annihilated on Thursday. The worst people and government we have ever had!
P.S good afternoon all 😊❤️
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Dear @bbcnews, I've just been looking at your election results tracker.
It seems Reform won 2 seats.
The Greens won 181 - NINETY times more seats.
Can I assume that from now on we'll see the Greens represented 90 times more often than Reform on your shows?
For balance.
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I’m old enough to remember when we were threatened with arrest for *not * wearing masks on a protest
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Weird how John Mothersole now has another position of power Chair of
@TNLComFund
@TNLComFund why is Mothersole still chair when under his leadership Sheffield Council misled the public and courts? Wasted vast sums
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Let's stop pretending that police in the UK are impartial enforcers of the law. They roll back democracy to clear the path for corporate power.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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NEWS
One of Tories’ biggest ever donors Frank Hester who gave £5m to Tory party earlier this year.....profited from £135m of NHS contracts in 4 years via his company
More discoveries from @GoodLawProject @JolyonMaugham
⏬️ theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Did you know in the Netherlands regulations around the disposal of treated human waste are so restrictive that it all but bans the spreading of 'treated sludge' on 'agricultural land' as they simply don't want the risk of it reentering the food chain in any way whatsoever.
Did you know that in the UK we ensure that around 87% of treated sludge is recycled to agricultural land as a soil improver?
Sludge is able to provide growing crops with an important source of nutrients.
Find out more about this unique process below.
water.org.uk/waste-water/ext…
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Today's the Inglorious Twelfth. The day bloodsport enthusiasts begin shooting Red Grouse for fun.
It's not a thing here in #Shetland. We have no managed grouse moors. Our hills abound with life.
You'll be told managed grouse moors are better for wildlife. It's not true.
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There's more to this. Justice Males dismissed the case against me because there was no case, there was no 'not guilty'. @SheffCouncil @SheffLabour intimidated me with threat of prison on the basis of no case. @GreenJennyJones @paulpowlesland @JayMitchinson theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…
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listening to a landlord on world at one that had a £300 mortgage, on a flat with rental income of £1000
It’s just extraordinary that people think this practice is in any way ethical
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DON’T LOSE YOUR WAY ⏰
Shocked to learn @DefraGovUK capitulated so readily to the demands of landowners with no regard for the wider public ❗
We need all hands on deck to save the 41,000 paths at risk before the clock runs out ▶️ dontloseyourway.ramblers.org… opendemocracy.net/en/public-…
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Exclusive revealing how @theresecoffey gave wealthy landowners exactly what they had lobbied for and potentially robbed the public of thousands of miles of historic rights of way
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Simply not true.
There are just 2 stretches of river in England designated as bathing water, Ilkley and Oxford.
Both have 'no swim' advisories posted this morning.
Both are listed as having 'Poor' water quality. @bbclaurak
Laura Kuenssberg asks Coffey if she’d swim in our waters & is happy to let kids in it this summer
Therese Coffey can’t see a problem then calls the European Environment Agency liars on live TV when they say our waters are the worst in Europe.
Shameless
#ridge #bbclaurak
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"Water companies will pay an estimated £14.7bn in dividends by the end of this decade."
Yes, you read that right £14.7bn to them and another £10bn on top of your bill. The world has totally gone mad.
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"What has gone wrong? Pretty much all that could."
@Dieter_Helm delivers a blistering appraisal of the water industry's greed and regulatory failure.
There is a solution but is govt and industry up to it? Currently, probably not.
dieterhelm.co.uk/regulation-…