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Anna Biggins retweeted
Jun 12
The full UK State Pension is now worth around £12,548 a year. That's less than half the earnings of someone working full-time on the National Minimum Wage, despite many pensioners paying taxes and National Insurance for 40, 50 or even 60 years.
Yet every time the Treasury needs money, the same voices appear demanding the Triple Lock be scrapped.
Why?
State pension spending is forecast at around £154 billion this year, but that supports over 13 million pensioners, many of whom rely on it as their primary income. Meanwhile, billions continue to disappear into failed projects, government waste, bureaucracy, consultants, quangos and policies that deliver little value to ordinary taxpayers.
The Triple Lock isn't some gold-plated luxury. It exists because politicians allowed the State Pension to fall behind for decades. Even today, a full State Pension is barely above the poverty line and is nowhere near a typical working wage.
If politicians want to save money, start with waste, inefficiency and failed spending programmes.
Leave pensioners alone.
They worked, they paid in, they built this country and they deserve dignity in retirement, not another raid on their income.
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Anna Biggins retweeted
Does this government have any common sense? How many AI data centres do we need? They’re getting built all over the greenbelt and countryside with no acknowledgement of the huge #water and #energy consumption, and #carbon emissions generated ..the south east and east of England is already facing major water security concerns.. it’ll be the people and the environment that will suffer.
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Anna Biggins retweeted
Jun 11
"Feargal Sharkey brands '£100billion' cost of nationalising water 'nonsense'."
And that is because it is nonsense, pure unadulterated, made up nonsense.
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Anna Biggins retweeted
Jun 11
Well that's awkward.
Jun 8
New readings from Environment Agency show so-called designated bathing area at Sheep’s Green, River Cam, has dangerous levels of E. coli. @cam_friends @Feargal_Sharkey @greenarteries
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Anna Biggins retweeted
"Sewage companies failed to report 126 serious spills last year. Worst offender was Anglian Water, with 23 undisclosed emergency dumps of raw waste."
WHAT, water companies lying to the regulator to cover their own asses? Surely not?!
And the @EnvAgency does what exactly?
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Anna Biggins retweeted
Starmer's back out moaning about 'blockers' again. So we're going to help councils to get blocking. There is simply no need to build on an inch of green space... Keep an eye out here for our NEW councillor toolkit, coming very soon! @CommunityPlann1
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Anna Biggins retweeted
"Welcome to sewage-on-sea: Britain's most fashionable tourist hotspot Whitstable is being despoiled by floods of effluent pouring into the ocean, just as the taps in homes and businesses run dry."
People in Whitstable and Kent really do get it from both ends, your sewage is dumped on to local beaches and your tap water gets cut off simply because the water company can't keep your supply running. Bloody hell.
Brilliant state of the nation piece by David Jones, @DailyMail
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Anna Biggins retweeted
Jun 5
Oops! Ofwat lets the cat out of the bag..
Welsh Water has agreed £45 M will be paid from its profits..
Welsh Water is described as a not for profit organisation.
Have they by any chance been conning the public?
Dŵr Cymru will pay a £44.7m enforcement package, after breaching their legal obligations relating to the service they provide for the environment and their customers ofwat.gov.uk/ofwat-confirms-…
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Anna Biggins retweeted
Jun 2
Reeves examines using private sector funds to build new towns.
It is PFI renamed as public-private partnerships (PPP).
The state guarantees corporate profits. £1 investment results in £6 repayment.
Cheaper for govt to borrow. It can issue public bonds.
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Anna Biggins retweeted
Jun 3
South West Water fined £1.853m for supplying contaminated drinking water.
SWW is a serial offender, loses 107m litres of water daily to leaky pipes, dumped sewage in rivers for 407,006 hours.
Still trades. No exec fined, charged. People fleeced.
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South West Water's £1.8m fine is pathetic. 16,000 households affected. >500 people taken ill. 10 people hospitalised.
22 convictions for SWW since 2014. Why do we reward criminal activity with a 25 year licence & fines totalling 0.04% of the money they've extracted since privatisation?
They should be fined into oblivion. vist.ly/56evz
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Anna Biggins retweeted
Jun 1
I think our agricultural landscape is becoming more and more valuable as regards food security, set against increasing drought and floods and basically any weather that can ruin a crop. What ever you think of this picture, its where our wildlife is....
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South West Water's criminal offence made hundreds of people sick
Shareholders' NET EXTRACTION £5 BILLION from 1990-2023
A £1.85m fine is irrelevant, pocket change
Make them put lack of investment on balance sheet as a liability
Then PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
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Privatisation of water in a nutshell:
They make us pay more
They dump sewage in our rivers
They sell off our reservoirs and build none
But but but… the CEO is paid hundreds of thousands
And the shareholders have been paid billions
Congratulations England, we can’t figure out what 90% can.
ALT Screenshot of Canary headline that says “private water company leaves thousands dry amid record May heatwave”
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Sharing good news ☺️
May 31
Finally some good news from Hampstead Heath! 😀😍
This was just posted by 'swansofhampsteadheath' on Instagr*m 😊
See what she says in the next post in this thread! ⬇️
THANK YOU to all my followers who helped the issue go viral here... you made a difference! 💪👏🐦❤️😍
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Public ownership of water is feasible, affordable, & essential for protecting our rivers & seas. Yet this government is trying to tell us otherwise.
Sign up to join Feargal Sharkey, Dirty Business Campaigners & We Own It on 9 June to protest outside DEFRA (the government's Environment Department). vist.ly/567kv
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Anna Biggins retweeted
Brambles are essential for the natural regeneration of our trees 🌳 especially Oak which would be eaten by 🦌without protection @TheKentAcorn
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Anna Biggins retweeted
Jun 1
He is not wrong, incremental loss of this sort of habitat can go almost unoticed and it is going on every day. Every unecessary trashing of our countryside equals an incremental loss of wildlife. Once its gone its gone.
Jun 1
#bees #conservation #butterflies a small piece of brambles that has been ripped from every building site , every solar farm , or development. Gone for good ! If we don’t soon value our countryside we won’t have any ! More protection not less ! @BC_Suffolk @BumblebeeTrust @butterfly5World @BeespokeNsr @BeeConnected_UK @DefraGovUK @TonyJuniper @StevenFalk @Gameandwildlife @FWAGeast @SWTWildFarms @RosieP4 @Naturalcalendar @NaturalEngland @WildlifeMag @NHM_London @kelly_jowett @Rothamsted
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Anna Biggins retweeted
If you have not yet signed this vital petition - pls now do. ‘Forest City’ in name only; in reality more death to our countryside… nicktimothy.com/no-forest-ci…
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Anna Biggins retweeted
The news of Scotland mandating swift bricks has gone viral on various big mainstream accounts. If only everyone who liked the post below emailed Housing Secretary Steve Reed telling him to go back to his original support and mandate. Just like Scotland AND Gibraltar !
May 29
Scotland became the first nation in the UK to pass a law requiring “swift bricks” in new buildings where reasonably practical and appropriate.
These small built-in nesting spaces provide safe homes for birds such as swifts, sparrows, and starlings, whose populations have declined as older buildings with natural nesting gaps are replaced by sealed modern construction.
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