Ian Hall

GB News has said that no-one cares what Carol Vorderman has to say. So here is a Poll. If you listen to Vorders RT If you listen to 'News' from the swamp Like

Look, it's perfectly simple. I wasn't going to become an MP, then I was given £5 million and I coincidentally decided to run for Parliament. I then bought a house for £1.4m cash after saying I was "skint" and my girlfriend bought a house for £885,000 with money she didn't have and which I originally said I had bought. The gift was totally unconditional, as well as being for security and then it was a reward for Brexit. Nobody should have known about it, but the Russians hacked my phone, according to 'counter-espionage experts' who don't exist. See?

The funniest maths in modern environmentalism. One almond requires 12 litres of irrigated water to produce. Peer-reviewed, ScienceDirect, 2017. A glass of almond milk contains roughly 50 of them. 600 litres of water before the carton is filled. The water comes from the San Joaquin Valley in California, which sits over one of the most over-extracted aquifers on earth. The valley floor has subsided by up to nine metres in places due to groundwater depletion. The carton is then refrigerated, sailed across the Atlantic, refrigerated again, lorried to a Manchester Tesco, and bought by someone who is concerned about the environmental impact of dairy. Meanwhile, in Cheshire. A British dairy cow drinks roughly 70 to 100 litres of water a day and produces around 28 litres of milk. That's about 3.5 litres of water per litre of milk. The water is rainwater that fell on her field or came from a local stream fed by the same rainwater. The rain was going to fall on the field whether the cow stood in it or not. 80% of her moisture intake comes from the grass itself, which is also rain. She converts the grass, free of charge, into a litre of milk containing seven times the protein and four times the calcium of almond milk, and shipped roughly 18 miles to the same Tesco. To recap. 600 litres of stolen aquifer, flown halfway round the world for nutritionally worthless beige water. Or 3.5 litres of rain that was already falling, converted by an animal you can pet, into actual food. The shopper picks the almond. She has been told this is the ethical position. The aquifer would like a word.

@RosieP4 Steve Reed's "call to arms" and "build, baby, build" is a disaster for our countryside.

And how many water industry executives do you think have ever been investigated never mind prosecuted for all their illegal sewage dumping? Yep, you got it.

The next time some tells you that the regulators, the EA and Ofwat don't have the power call them out on it, it's a lie. One example right here... 👇👇👇 don't accept the lie, don't accept the fraud, enforce the law.

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. 👇

£215 fine for 1,600 dead fish. Why bother putting any effort or investment into safe slurry handling if a prosecution ends with such a small fine!

When you see stories like this you realise that the health of our waterways is not a priority in government, the civil service or the legal system. We are entitled to clean rivers as a bare minimum but our system is systemically incapable of achieving it.

@TonyJuniper The least you and @EmmaforWycombe could now do is start protecting nature. When will the SSSI Pipeline re-open? When will you protect our rare Priority Habitats and threatened species? Sites like Miiddlewick Ranges are at risk and are irreplaceable if lost. @SaveRanges

This isn’t even debatable. Sadly the main reason people hate Starmer is because they’ve been told to. He hasn’t been perfect but he hasn’t killed thousands of people, or taken us into an illegal war, or wiped billions off our economy etc etc etc

Thanks, Pam! Just passed 120K . People don't need to be put off by the government's 'it would take years nonsense'. In the 2008 banking crash, Northern Rock took 5 days to nationalise and British steel is being done now in just a few weeks. People have the power to change their future but they have to use it - and if government is trying to discourage them from signing, that ought to be confirmation that we are on to something and it is a good idea!

WHY has the government’s comms team been so utterly terrible at saying what this caller does in under a minute? W H Y ?? @UKLabour @_Government_UK

Fergal is correct. Despite a guaranteed return of £22BN in profits by 2030 - private water companies continue to use our rivers as sewage pipes and the sea as a cesspit for sewage. It’s cheaper & therefore more profitable than spending on infrastructure. Public ownership now.

‘Don't swim’ warnings in place at nearly all of England’s official river bathing sites - BBC News apple.news/AzBONqs1uS8u-g…

Please consider signing this petition as I have done if like me, you are appalled at the amount of sewage tipped into our waterways to the vast financial benefit of others. Why would any country sell control of something as crucial as water? It is lunacy. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7626…

@WaterUK Working towards is doing a lot of work here. What about the last 30 years that you have had to sort this out? So casual with our precious water resources because the customer pays for everything. Utter hypocrisy! @Feargal_Sharkey

Much of our pipework is ageing and needs renewing. Water companies are working to reduce water leaks by 1 billion litres by 2030. So, we can keep water flowing to where it’s needed, for generations to come.

I'm delighted for Nigel Farage. According to @nberpubs, Brexit gave our country a 6-8% reduction in GDP per capita, a 12-18% reduction in Investment & a 3-4% reduction in productivity. But it gave Nigel Farage a gift of £5millon. So that's alright.

We've been translocating small numbers of young adult trout from below the mill. There are signs that they are spawning in the upper reach, and we hope that the population will become self-sustaining. But for now, we've carefully selected another 25 fish to boost their numbers.

With a historic mill presenting a barrier, it isn't possible for wild trout to repopulate this section of the river on their own. But we had greatly improved its wildlife habitat, working closely with the River Mel Restoration Group and the local @EnvAgency Fisheries Team.