UK/European, Too liberal, environmentalist, despairs daily 🇪🇺Trying to keep the best of analogue in a digital world. Shadow Chancellor 🇺🇦VPDFO

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RT @Lord_Sugar: Watched Brexit programme on BBC today. What would Farage, Johnson and Gove say now. We are in a total mess. Small biz can't…
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David Hockney has died aged 88. The Bradford-born artist spoke to Newsnight several times over the years including these two interviews with Kirsty Wark and Stephen Smith. #Newsnight
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This is difficult to watch, it's embarrassing, it's enraging, it's shameful. Emma Reynolds the Secretary of State for the Environment and David Hill the head of water at Defra appeared before MPs on Tuesday where they repeated the same old lie, that water company shareholders invest their money in the companies and we, the bill payers, pay them back over 10, 15, 20, 30 years. Even Ofwat have owned up, that's a lie the £104 billion "private sector investment" is coming directly out of your pockets, your bank account. For God sake just tell the truth. Barry Gardiner, you're a star. 👏👏👏
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Since privatisation water companies have taken more than £85billion in dividend and piled up more than £60billion of debt. Yet all capital and operational costs are covered by bill payers. So why keep a privatised structure for a natural monopoly like water?
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Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x
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I am utterly disgusted with The Guardian. From day one of this government there have been endless attacks and on the PM in particular.At first it was the usual suspects but recently they are all at it,spearheaded by Crear. Simon Jenkins alone writes supportively.

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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. 👇
Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water have nearly 200 criminal convictions between them. On 6 August 2024, Ofwat fined them £47m and £17m for sewage dumping. Fines not paid, will not be paid. Firms claim to have invested. No penalty for abusing laws leftfootforward.org/2026/01/…
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CAN WE CELEBRATE NOW????❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Thank you Robin and Craig and Shetland
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Film of the day - A Room with a View (1985) James Ivory's version of E. M. Forster's classic novel starring Helena Bonham-Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Judi Dench, Dimon Callow. Daniel Day-Lewis and Rosemary Leach @Film4 11.00am this morning.
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Fed up of all the politics…. I just walked into a school assembly in Tipton. And all the children sang this 😭😭 Hardest I’ve ever worked to stop the tears. This is real life. These children. Thank you @FoxyardsP ❤️
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Never a bad time to revisit this total and utter evisceration of Nigel Farage by Democrat Representative Jamie Raskin If it was a boxing match then Farage’s corner would have thrown in the towel Tremendous

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Feargal Sharkey, "Water companies... The fines don't work, it's time we actually started upholding the law, and sending some of these executives and directors to jail" Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "You think we should put them in jail?" Feargal Sharkey, "If we put one water company boss in jail for six weeks the whole industry would transform itself"
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Film of the day - An Inspector Calls (1954) Excellent adaptation of J. B. Priestley's classic play starring Alastair Sim, Jsne Wenham, Eileen Moore, Bryan Forbes, Brian Worth, Arthur Young and Olga Lindo @TalkingPicsTV 3.25pm this afternoon. #JBPriestley #AlastairSim
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All one take and this first take was the only take. JERRY LEWIS THE ERRAND BOY (1961)

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The most emotional day ever I shook a thousand hands and I cried with many of you as you thanked me and told me about the trauma you live with because of dementia. Today our 25th #SamosaSaturday raised another incredible £7261 Absolutely mind blowing total which now means with the challenge last week, the total for this week is at a staggering £91465. I’m lost for words 🥲🥲 The world is great if we focus on the stuff that makes us great. This beautiful energy that lives in us all! The deepest most heartfelt thank you from my family to yours ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Keir Starmer has been hounded by the British media for weeks now because of a potential procedural mistake re Mandelson. Where is the excitement about this? Haven't seen much about it in MSM since the story broke. Although much more damaging to UK democracy. Genuinely baffled.
“It means that Nigel Farage has a kind of sponsor, a kind of sugar daddy.” @FraserNelson says Reform’s bankrolling by crypto bosses is a “major” conflict of interest, as Nigel Farage is under fire for not declaring a £5 million gift by Christopher Harborne.
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I need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry. Do your thing internet. petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Never in my wildest dreams did I think this @LondonMarathon challenge would raise this amount for @DementiaUK 🙏🏾🥹 justgiving.com/fundraising/m…
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This is Stanley Baxter & Angus Lennie with Scottish Country Dancing

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