#LibDem Surrey County Cllr #Cranleigh #Ewhurst, Executive Member @WaverleyBC, Cllr @cranleigh_pc
United Kingdom
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Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
Ministers I see are still clinging on to that old lie that it will cost £100 billion to nationalise the water industry. @mikekatz
That of course is based on Ofwat's calculations that @ThamesWater for example is apparently worth £21,008,425,000, 🤣🤣🤣
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
So govt finally coughs it up, the whole "it'll cost £100 billion to nationalise the water industry" is totally bogus, complete and utter made up nonsense.
As we always knew, no matter what ministers claimed, @Defra today has finally published their methodology confirming that their calculation does indeed use @Ofwat's factious, made up, notional value for the water industry, their regulatory capital value, you know, the one that claims that @thameswater is worth a staggering £21,008,425,000. What a complete and utter shambles.
No doubt ministers will be keen to apologies for wilfully misleading the public.
“I'm not going to focus on ideology."
It would cost £100bn to nationalise water companies and the government would have to take that money from the NHS and education, Environment Secretary Steve Reed tells @krishgm
The leader of a party with 72 MPs - Are you going to mention this news @BBCr4today ?
Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
I'm boycotting the state banquet to send a message to both Donald Trump and Keir Starmer that they cannot close their eyes and wish away the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Donald Trump can stop this catastrophe in Gaza and get the hostages released.
Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
Just when it seems there are no words left to describe the living hell in Gaza, a new one has been added: “famine”.
This is not a mystery — it is a man-made disaster, a moral indictment and a failure of humanity itself. Famine is not only about food; it is the deliberate collapse of the systems needed for human survival. People are starving. Children are dying. And those with the duty to act are failing. As the occupying power, Israel has unequivocal obligations under international law — including the duty of ensuring food and medical supplies of the population. We cannot allow this situation to continue with impunity.
No more excuses. The time for action is not tomorrow — it is now. We need an immediate ceasefire, the immediate release of all hostages and full, unfettered humanitarian access.
It’s a shame that @BBCr4today showed no interest in resident doctors’ hourly rates (the source of the issue) and more in the ‘lefty’ views of the interviewee this morning. Poor journalism.
Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
This is serious… SERIOUS.
Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
Oh look, spot inspections reveal that 1 in 5 water company discharge permits are being breached.
Who'd have guessed.
Question is what are the @EnvAgency ever going to do about any it? Oh and how is that now three and a half year old "largest ever criminal investigation" into permit breaches going? Hmm?!
Water firms breached their environmental permits in around 20% of spot checks carried out by a watchdog.
The Environment Agency, which only began recording these unexpected inspections from April last year, found 420 breaches in 2,027 probes.
express.co.uk/news/uk/202172…
Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
"Thames Water customers shocked by ‘scandalous’ bill increases. Some consumers will pay almost 50% more from April as confusion mounts over price rises."
That's what 35 years of @Ofwat gets you, customers faced with £10bns worth of bill increases. Time an end was put to this failed experiment.
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Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
Water bills are through the roof, sewage is still being pumped into our rivers and Water companies are raking in massive profits while Ofwat does next to nothing.
Time to scrap Ofwat and bring in a regulator that actually does its job.
Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
"Thames Water creditors ask watchdog to defer sewage spill fines."
Thames Water's bond holders are looking for yet another way to screw customers. Under normal circumstances the regulator would resist this idea, forceable, but we're dealing with @ofwat here so guess what?
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Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
Ukraine has a path to victory without Trump’s extortion- I outlined how in Parliament yesterday:
Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
For someone who prides themself on being so “direct”, it’s striking you still can’t bring yourself to criticise President Trump directly.
Respectable diplomacy is essential for peace.
We need to remember that the villain is the war criminal President Putin who illegally invaded another sovereign country - Ukraine. A divided West only benefits Russia. Now is the time for more cooperation, not less.
Any peace agreement must be negotiated with Ukraine at the table, and will need security guarantees.
We cannot lose sight of the fact that tonight air raid sirens are sounding in Ukraine.
Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
European leader after European leader is now stepping forward to show their support for Zelensky - and implicit horror at Trumps behaviour. All eyes now turning to Starmer - and the Sunday gathering of EU leaders in London. Has this “changed the global conversation ?”
Dear Volodymyr @zelenskyyua, we stand with #Ukraine in good and in testing times. We must never confuse aggressor and victim in this terrible war. (FM)
Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
This is thuggery from Trump and Vance, plain and simple.
They are bullying the brave true patriot Zelensky into accepting a deal which effectively hands victory to Russia. Unless the UK and Europe step up, we are facing a betrayal of Ukraine.
Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
About to talk to @Channel4News about these extraordinary events. And @RoryStewartUK and I will be doing a LIVESTREAM at 8pm. Almost impossible to compute what has just happened in Washington. We shall try
Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
And just when you thought that the water industry couldn't become any more of a shambles here it is.
Govt made a massive strategic blunder when telling WCs that nationalisation was not on an agenda. Utterly predictable the industry saw that as a weakness and are exploiting it. Yesterday over 40% of England's WCs announced they are appealing @Ofwat's pricing decision.
What does that tell you about @Ofwat's competency? And all of that is before we even mention @thameswater.
theguardian.com/business/202…
Cllr Liz Townsend BEM 🔶💙🇺🇦 retweeted
NEW: Explosive new revelations from ex MI6 spy.
Why *did* Boris Johnson block the Russia Report before 2019 Gen Election?
Finally some answers..
Russian military intelligence - the GRU - targeted the Brexit vote. "Money changed hands"
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