Govt's new water bill does indeed give ministers the power to not only force customers to pay for Thames Water 💧's bailout via increased bills (or any other water company for that matter), but also to payoff the bondholders, shareholders, creditors or "any other financial

Your regular reminder that #Lambeth are close to £1 billion in debt: moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/ieListDocument… Interest repayments are now £44.3M/annum, an increase of £11.5M/annum since 2018: x.com/PeoplesAudit/s… Think how much of that could have been used to support those in need

Keir Starmer BlackRock Rachel Reeves Blackrock is one of the most powerful and utterly corrupt shadow banking outfits in the world. BlackRock has been criticized for investing in companies that are involved in fossil fuels, the arms industry, the People's Liberation Army and human rights violations in China.

Keir Starmer BlackRock Rachel Reeves Now watch Planet Critical's interview with Matt Kennard, at 16,24 he talks about ISDS (Investor-State Dispute Settlement set up by the World Bank in 1966, a secretive corporate justice court that can bypass domestic courts and sue govts for breach of contract, if a corporation

Keir Starmer BlackRock Rachel Reeves The same interview mentioned in my previous reply also explains how SEZs have ISDS embedded within them. I was on a live chat with a Govt rep today and I asked a question, do the UK Govt's SEZs and Freeports have ISDS contained within their license agreements? They couldn't

Keir Starmer BlackRock Rachel Reeves Sale of UK assets to world’s largest money manager means huge payday for bankers Global Infrastructure Partners, whose portfolio includes Gatwick, sold to BlackRock in $12.5bn deal. The UK is going to be privatised👇🏻 theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Cycling continues to increase from 1% of trips in 2000, on the same trend as it has been since 2000, in part related to population increase. @Willnorman changed the basis for the calculation in 2023. Since 2014 they spent a billion and serious cyclist injuries increased by 50%!

Lambeth Council has spent £25m+ on climate and “active travel” initiatives since 2019 It is also paying more than 40 staff at least £100k a year including a “director of climate and inclusive growth” who is on £160k. Now it is dimming the street lights to help pay the bills 🙄

Andrew Ellson Lambeth Council are a total shambles. Completely rudderless and out of ideas. But £2.1M on Windrush Bollards apparently acceptable.. This council needs to be brought to account before it inevitably sails straight onto the rocks

Behind the cherry picked averages, the truth is that using Haringey's stated aims, and their own data, Bounds Green LTN has failed badly: - ⬇️Cycling down - ⬆️Air pollution up - ⬆️Serious collisions and casualties up - ⬆️Boundary Road traffic increase well above 'minimal' 🧵

The evidence: NB: all direct from the council’s own data (that they have misrepresented and ignored in making the LTN permanent). 1. Cycling has gone down both within and outside the LTN – and this has happened despite dockless bikes dramatically increasing access to cycling.

1b: Haringey commentary p38 seeks to suggest this may be the result of different weather in Nov 23 compared to Nov 21, neglecting to mention a control group in Crouch End in which cycling remained relatively stable despite the weather, as referenced in the Imperial report p9

2. Air Quality has deteriorated because of the LTN, as measured by two different methodologies, the first (Systra, p71) comparing to averages across the borough, and the second (Imperial, p7) seeking to measure the direct and specific impact of the LTN.

3. Serious collisions and serious casualties have increased significantly – if we employ the Council’s habit of using % change, and averaging the total across all roads, the data shows that since the LTN serious collisions are UP 60% and serious casualties are UP 33%.

4. Boundary roads – the location of high density housing, parks, schools, buses etc have seen continual growth. The Council report describes this as minimal – the data below exposes the lie.

4b. Worse, BG LTN was introduced after Enfield's Bowes LTN, so Nov 21 as a starting point hides the fact that traffic had increased traffic by 10% in the previous year. The overall figure for LTN increase on Durnsford Road is 22%. And it's clearly not ‘falling back’.

4c. Like so many Boundary Roads, the ones in the table above have high density housing, schools, bus stops and parks. All more polluted, thanks to quiter streets for car owners / drivers in relatively affluent housing.

All of which explains the increased unpopularity of the LTN amongst all surveyed (public, business, carers, disabled people), a fact not acknowledged in any publicity. Note the figures on congestion in particular, which expose the ignorance / dishonesty of c18% respondants.

Overall, Haringey's evidence shows that in Bounds Green the LTN has failed on every meaningful measure. To hide this they’ve played with averages generalised across multiple LTNs, cherrypicked data, distorted the chronology, and misrepresented negative impact.

But, yet again, an LTN has been made permanent despite a clear counter productive impact, which has been hidden through a concerted effort to distort, disguise and hide the actual evidence.