Andrew Stumpf

Sharing this (pay wall free) article again in light of posts about 24 hour work e mails. Comments afterwards emphasised the right corporate culture over ‘easy fixes’ like fruit at meetings. Stress and burnout: an FT investigation via @FT ft.com/content/f32a4a…

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUniform Day 2 Warden #FlatHolm

In 2021 we were asked to present at the Road Safety GB Festival of Road Safety on the call for a national urban/village 20mph default speed limit. It's still valid and since then the data is even clearer that 20mph reduces casualties by 20-30%. Its time for 20mph vimeo.com/642715509?fl=p… vimeo.com/642715509?fl=p…

THE WATER RIP-OFF IS NOT ADDING UP. Barry Gardiner MP has exposed the great trick at the heart of Labour’s position on water. Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds says bringing water back into public ownership would cost an “enormous amount of money”. But when challenged, her department’s own response admitted it has not assessed the cost of continuing with privatisation against the cost of public ownership. Read that again. The Government insists public ownership is too expensive, while refusing to do the maths needed to prove it. Water is a natural monopoly. People cannot shop around for a better pipe to their home. Yet billpayers are trapped in a system where their money must cover not only clean water, functioning infrastructure and sewage treatment, but the financial interests of private owners, creditors and shareholders. Public ownership is not some wild luxury. It is common sense. Remove the need to extract profit from an essential service and put billpayers’ money back into pipes, reservoirs, sewage works and lower bills. The question is no longer whether the privatised water model has failed. We can see and smell that failure in our rivers and on our beaches. The question is why a Labour Government is defending it without even calculating the public alternative. Come clean, Secretary of State. Publish the full comparison. Let the public see who this broken system is really serving. Labour Heartlands #LabourParty #PublicOwnership

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUniform Day 1 crisp and evenly spaced trees

@sheenz_m_ Is that the animal with a single horn on its head?

Attention Alphabetters! This is your reminder that Mon 25 May is the start of Week U and the theme for the #AlphabetChallenge is Uniform. So actual uniforms, things with uniformity of colour, pattern or form etc - any definition of the word really. Use the # below and have fun😊

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime Day 7 There’s a time and a place . . #SanJose

I wondered how some MPs were getting away with avoiding their constituency work - it turns out we don't have proper rules governing them. Sign the petition 🔽 if you agree that should change petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7643…

New analysis from the Welsh 20mph default shows that casualty reduction estimates when excluding roads that didn't change speed limit is -37%. Even allowing for a -5% long term trend this means a 32% reduction on roads changed from 30mph to 20mph. A powerful indicator that #20splenty and that just like in Wales and Scotland, 20mph must become the urban norm in England and Northern Ireland to meet any credible road safety strategy or Safe System approach.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime Day 6 Worrying time. Nuclear blast monitoring station #BannauBrycheiniog

@Bishop_Beesley Member of the Legislative Assemblyof Northern Ireland 2007 to 2012 Junior Minister at the Office of the FM and DFM 2011 to 2012. MEP reelected in 2014 and in 2019. She left the European Parliament in 2020 and returned to the Northern Ireland Assembly till 2021

As an aside this photo passed across my desk earlier. Can anyone guess the identity of the lady in the red jacket sat with the grinning imbecile that is our Prime Minister?

This should destroy Nigel Farage’s entire political argument. Net migration has collapsed from 944,000 to around 204,000, yet voters still think it’s rising because Reform and Farage have spent years feeding Britain hysteria instead of facts. Asylum seekers are only about 9% of immigration, not the “invasion” constantly screamed about. The NHS was broken by underfunding. Housing was broken by austerity. Wages were crushed by corporate greed. Migrants were the distraction. Not the cause.

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. 👇

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime Day 5 lunch time among fallen plums

@Frances_Coppola @savelibservices Us oldies clearly hate children

65+ year olds who get free bus passes. Riight.

@AndrewRTDavies 🤔

Plaid Cymru separatists promised Vale and Bridgend parents 20 hours of free childcare a week. Yet they’ve already backtracked on this key election pledge. The separatists’ first week in office has been mired by broken promises. Worryingly, this is not the only one. Rhun ap Iorwerth also pushed Welsh independence in his first call with the Prime Minister. This was despite telling voters the election was not about independence. Cynical moves like this turn people off politics. It’s why public trust is at an all time low. The people of the Vale of Glamorgan and Bridgend will not forget this Plaid Cymru separatist betrayal.

@WillHayCardiff Damn. I assumed they’d be out but replaced by the next on the list. That’s mad

Prediction time! I think that by this time next year Reform UK will have lost at least five of their Senedd Members. Why? Well because those individuals might be able to make more money outside Reform than within it. What's also really undemocratic about this system is that even though MSs were elected on party lists, if they leave that party and go to someone else, they are still allowed to keep their jobs.

The Beer House Act of 1840 required public houses to close at midnight in towns and 11 p.m. in rural areas but also enabled local authorities

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime Day 4 Time, gentlemen, please #Grosmont #TheAngelInn

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTime Day 3 #Pienza summertime

@AndrewRTDavies You know there is no £ deposit on glass for four years? You know he could put a bar code on every bottle even those going to England? You know DRS is common in Europe? You know it reduces litter - that the tax payer pays for - and recycling? Is this another 20mph?

For this to function effectively, the same rules must apply UK-wide. We are one nation. The economies of the different parts of Britain are all intertwined. Doing things differently in Wales for the sake of it is costing Welsh jobs. This is why our living standards are worse.