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richard boon

@booniepops

World's Coolest Librarian, latterly (allegedly); punk + post instigator, early (apparently) - retired

stoke newington, london Katılım Haziran 2011
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Michael Gray
Michael Gray@1michaelgray1·
This is the utterly corrupt face of today's Labour Govt: against jury trials and decreasing the poverty of others; in favour of genocidal Zionism, & with both hands (and his wife's) in the till. Shameful betrayal of the party's traditional principles - yet supported by Starmer:
MikeD@mjdaly57

Jonathan Reynolds - Labour MP for Stalybridge and Hyde (Greater Manchester) since 2010. Jonathan is the Secretary of State for Business and Trade. Jonathan is a ‘Parliamentary Officer’ in the lobby organisation Labour Friends of Israel and was very much involved in the plots, coups and leadership bids aimed at removing Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. The @MENnewsdesk found that no Manchester MP claims more in expenses than Jonathan. @SkyNews found that the highest rent claimed by any Labour MP for accommodation in London was from Jonathan. Jonathan’s wife is also his senior Parliamentary assistant. Jonathan has accepted the following donations and perks: £720 in tickets and hospitality from @SRTRC_England for a football match at @SunderlandAFC ⚽️ £1,500 in tickets and hospitality from @ManUtd for a match at Old Trafford. ⚽️ £3,000 from Martin Littler. £54,770.42 from @unitetheunion £3,457 in tickets and hospitality from the @EntainGroup and @BetGameCouncil for a match at Wembley. ⚽️ £3,000 from Tony Blair associate David Claydon. £1,500 in tickets and hospitality from Ernst & Young LLP @EYnews for The Chelsea Flower Show.🌺 £1,700 from Labour Friends of Israel for a trip to Israel. 🇮🇱 ✈️ £4,000 from The Indian High Commission for a trip to India.🇮🇳 ✈️ £10,545.58 from the Hong Kong government for a trip.✈️🇭🇰 £2,950 from Public First. £2,000 from the @CommunityUnion £750 in tickets and hospitality from @SunderlandAFC for a match at Wembley.⚽️ £1,428 in tickets and hospitality from the @IvorsAcademy for the Ivor Novello Awards.🎶 £468 in tickets and hospitality from @swfc ⚽️ £3,377 in tickets and hospitality from @Google for the Glastonbury Festival. ⛺️ (Labour had promised to increase the digital service/corporation tax from 2% to 10%. The day after Glastonbury it ditched the policy altogether.) £466 in tickets and hospitality from the @FootballAssoc for the FA Cup Semi-Final.⚽️ £3,960 in tickets and hospitality from @bpi_music for the @BRITs 🎤 £450 in tickets and hospitality from @pnefc ⚽️ £1,390 in tickets and hospitality for the Summit of Minds Festival in the French alps. 🇫🇷 £9,006.35 from the Lowick Group Ltd. £1,400 in tickets and hospitality from @EFL for Carabao Cup Final matches.⚽️ £315.50 in tickets and hospitality from the @BBC for Strictly Come Dancing in Blackpool. 🕺 £7,000 from @UsdawUnion £5,000 from Lord Matthew Oakeshott. £466 in tickets and hospitality from the @FootballAssoc for a Europa Cup match.⚽️ £315 in tickets and hospitality from Anschutz Entertainment for an Elton John concert. 🎶 With his £150,000 salary, expenses (£67,307.91+ claimed since 1/4/24), donations, his wife’s £41,000+ salary, allowances and perks, Jonathan has done very well in his fifteen years at Westminster. On 9th July 2025 Jonathan voted for the Universal Credit/PIP cuts that will result in further hardship down the line for people who are disabled and vulnerable. Jonathan also voted to scrap the #WinterFuelPayment to pensioners 🥶 and initially voted to retain the two child benefit cap which ‘significantly contributes to child poverty’ in the UK. Jonathan also voted to scrap trials by jury and voted against an inquiry into grooming gangs. ‘The Labour Party - Working For You’. @UKLabour @jreynoldsMP @McrLabour #LabourDoorstep #LocalElections @RachelReevesMP

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Feargal Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
12 out of the 14 stretches of rivers designated as bathing spots are polluted with the @EnvAgency issuing a "Do Not Swim" advisories. So exactly 16 months into a new govt what's been achieved? Absolutely nothing, nada, zero, zilch. Well that's alright then. thetimes.com/uk/environment…
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Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
Ofwat has given water companies £600 MILLION of your money which is supposed to "unleash waves of innovation in the water sector", "to better meet the evolving needs of customers, society and the environment", and which "seeks broad solutions that tackle big water sector challenges", yes people actually do write this sh*t and what, what has any of that achieved? I think you already know the answer to that one. newcivilengineer.com/latest/ofwat-i…
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Feargal Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
What is a government to do? If it allows this govt will miss their supposed "cut sewage dumping by 50% by 2030", target. The rest of the industry will cry foul and demand the same right, to fragrantly, wilfully, deliberately break the law. Or they can fine TW even more money bearing in mind that TW still hasn't paid the last £123 million fine. Ho hum.
Big Issue@BigIssue

Thames Water wants permission to pollute Britain’s rivers until 2040. No, seriously #Echobox=1761023295" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bigissue.com/news/environme…

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Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷
"Mr Blair, what are you qualifications for taking on a major role of governance in the Middle East?" "I am familiar with the Middle East because I bombed it."
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Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
"Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms." And all of it, all of it now entering the food chain. When does it stop? How long before we demand it stops? What next? theguardian.com/environment/20…
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Stokey Updates
Stokey Updates@StokeyUpdates·
45 Stoke Newington Church Street, which has been empty for the last few months, is reopening as a beauty salon.
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Nigel Farage MP
Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage·
There is only one way to stop people coming into Britain illegally. We must to detain and deport them. It’s time for bold action.
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Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
"What’s really in the water at Lake Windermere?." So the @EnvAgency take one sample per week for 4 months at each of Windermere's 4 designated bathing sites and rate them as "Excellent". Citizen scientists took more than a 1,000 samples from the lake over two and a half years and found harmful levels of bacteria so high that many of the sites sampled would be rated "Poor". 🤔 channel4.com/news/whats-rea…
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Feargal Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
"Feargal Sharkey just nailed the £100bn water industry nationalisation lie." And here's the thing, it is a lie, a complete and total fabrication, none of it based on what anyone with any grasp of the situation could even remotely recognise as reality. thecanary.co/uk/analysis/20…
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Feargal Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
First govt claimed they got that ludicrous £100bn to nationalise the water industry came from a think tank report. Then it claimed didn't because the idea was totally rubbish, transpired the report had been bought and paid for by water companies. Then it claimed it had been calculated internally by civil servants at @DefraGovUK independent of everyone else. Then it didn't because the idea was also rubbish, transpired there was no independent Defra calculation it was all based on the same rubbish, totally makeup, totally factious @Ofwat's regulatory capital value, the one that also claims that @thameswater is worth a mind melting £21,008,425,000. Blistering letter calling govt out for its deceit from the People's Commission. theguardian.com/business/2025/…
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Feargal Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
"Southern Water users urged to keep daily task to '4 minutes' amid hosepipe ban." Meanwhile @SouthernWater's fat cat CEO Lawrence Gosden has just seen his salary double to £1.4 million, customer's bills have gone up by a stonking 53% and the number of serious pollution incidents have tripled since 2022. Oh and the company leaks about 94,000,000 litres of water each and ever day. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/s…
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Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
Meanwhile in other news the water industry rich list. The men and women that have been paid a combined total of £278 million in just 11 years. That by the way is your money. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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Feargal Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
So exactly how effectively has govt, water industry and regulators been in dealing with pollution, sewage dumping and the despicable state of our rivers and beaches in the last 12 months? "Serious pollution incidents up 60% in 2024 from previous year." It's over. Enough of the niceties, the finger wagging, the pointless foot stamping, heads need to roll. gov.uk/government/new…
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Feargal Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
Thames Water boss says 'too much rain' to blame for major rise in sewage dumping. That wouldn't be the fat cat CEO of @thameswater trying to misled parliament again would it? Surely not! And there was I thinking that the law demands WCs to build, operate and maintain sewage systems capable of "effectually dealing, by means of sewage disposal works or otherwise, with the contents of those sewers". Section 94 of the Water Industry Act 1991 if you're interested. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
"Water companies ‘to impose surge pricing’ in summer." Oh dearie me, it's finally come to this. In an attempt to deflect from their own greed, incompetence and mismanagement water companies have come up with what they no doubt will think is an utterly brilliant strategy, blame their customers. And @Ofwat does what exactly? thetimes.com/uk/environment…
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Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
"Demand for water is rising fast but England’s system for tracking water use is outdated, patchy and opaque, leaving regulators in the dark, and can even reward businesses for using more". You couldn't invent a more screwed up scheme even if you tried. theguardian.com/environment/20…
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Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
So right the middle of the Arla Great North Swim event, Fri 12th June - Sun 15th June, lake Windermere, guess what @unitedutilities are getting up to? Yep, you got it, dumping sewage into the environment all of it heading into Windermere. Good old UU always dependable when you need someone to screw with your sunny weekend swim event.
MattStaniek@MattStaniek

Sewage currently on its way into Windermere - blue is currently discharging - green is it hasn’t discharged in the last 24 hours - white is suspiciously “under review” savewindermere.com

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Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey·
Senior creditors of Thames Water have submitted a £5 billion rescue plan but it all depends on Ofwat & EA postponing fines and investigations into the company’s past illegality and renegotiating performance targets, including penalties if targets are missed for the next five years. In other words letting Thames Water totally and completely off the hook. So Steve Reed, Ofwat and EA, what's your next move? thetimes.com/business-money…
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