'England's chalk streams were millions of years in the making. Can they survive today?'

National Geographic takes a look at England's chalk streams. Can they survive? For some it's already far too late and I'm not at all sure the others can or will. 🤬

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Reform encapsulated in one short interview. They are not a realistic political party, just a group emanating evil, hate and division.

'Water companies... paid £2.5bn in dividends in the two financial years since 2021, while adding more than £8bn in debt.'

No matter what they say, how many promises they make, how many times they beat their chests they still haven't changed.

Liars.

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The @EnvAgencyis is refusing to hand over data which could potentially incriminate itself just as much as Southern Water. 👇🤬

They claim they know what's going on, they're monitoring the situation, that they're doing their job.

Truth is Thames Water 💧 and Southern Water don't even know where larges parts of their sewage system is, don't know where to find it or even where it goes

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So, Nigel Farage - one of the founders & owners of Reform UK - can present an “impartial” programme on a TV “news” channel during the general election according to the broadcasting regulator @ofcom. The leader of the party Richard Tice 🇬🇧 & its only MP Lee Anderson MP can

The winner of today's award for been totally, utterly and completely hopeless, the water industry regulator that has spent £26.7m of bill payers money paying business consultants, the very same consultants employed by WCs.

Step forward Ofwat. 👏👏👏

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Former Labour Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and former Tory Chairwoman Sayeeda Warsi in complete agreement: the Rwanda scheme is more about political posturing, than it is about actualy solving the issue of small boat arrivals.

Good to see cross-party sense. ~AA Sophy Ridge

Incredible. Conservative London mayoral candidate Susan Hall now tells LBC she's backed universal free school meals for primary school children all along 'and that can be documented'.

Here she is just earlier this month calling them 'wrong' and twice saying she'd scrap them

Sunak has allocated 2200 detention spaces, 200 caseworkers, 25 courtrooms, 150 judges and 5000 sitting days for Rwanda

At a time when rape victims have to wait almost 2 years for a trial the PM has suddenly found the cash and capacity to get what he wants
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Did Masters mention Brighton’s losses in getting to the Premier League or that they are owned by a fan who put in £499m of his own money?

Aside from the moral and practical vacuity of the Rwanda policy, one thing it illustrates - as we have been saying for years - is that the delays and shortages in the justice system could be fixed if the government cared to.

When they want to spend money on courts, they find it.

This from #Newsnight in Jan - on the judges & courtrooms that will be made available for legal challenges over Rwanda deportation, when the court backlog is around 66,000

2024: British Olympic windsurfer Sarah Jackson explains that she has to train overseas because there is too much sewage in our waters (after the Conservative party keep voting to allow water companies to do this) #TeamGB in Brexit Britain #Paris2024

2019: Conservative Prime

'A development company that sells off land no longer needed by Thames Water has paid out a £14m dividend despite warnings'.

Yep despite now demanding bill payers bailout the failing WC Thames Water 💧 and or their owners are still trying to pickpocket you.

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His true - & nakedly cruel - colours.

First Rishi Sunak declares he’ll cut benefits for 420,000 sick & disabled people to force them into work.

Now, 2 days later, he scraps a major scheme, the Work & Health Programme, to help disabled people into work.

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Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda scheme is costing over £500m to send just 300 people - less than 1% of asylum seekers, with no plan for the 99%.

Tory policy is just an extortionate election gimmick instead of a serious plan.

Labour’s plan will boost our border security instead /1

Braverman proving, yet again, how unfit she was to hold ANY cabinet position, particularly the office of Hone Sec.

Mishal Husain: You've called for the Met police chief(Mark Rowley) to go... have you seen the whole video involving Gideon Falter?

Suella Braverman: No

MH: I suggest you watch the whole video... as you're basing what you're saying on incomplete information

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Just listened to self styled victim of Met treatment. Gideon Falter, in (too) long I/v on R4 World This Weekend. My sympathy is with the Met as all sides - not least Falter- cash in ahead of London mayoral poll. Real victims are in Gaza & Israel, not here bbc.com/news/articles/…