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Secret Local Government Officer

@secret_local

Expert in tone, cynical & professional nuisance.

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Feargal Sharkey (@feargal_sharkey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Sewage released at 41 beaches in Cornwall after heavy rain." Yep, you've read that right. Currently 41 beaches in Cornwall are carrying sewage pollution warnings. Now what bit of any of that rain at the weekend would qualify as "EXCEPTIONAL weather", or "EXCEPTIONAL

Feargal Sharkey (@feargal_sharkey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Q: How does a water company get a 4 star rating from the Environment Agency? A: Make sure at least half of your sewage dumping monitors aren't working or are offline. Easy-peasy. Wouldn't that be right Severn Trent?

Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I gave this TED talk warning Silicon Valley of the profound threat of it posed to democracy nearly 6 years ago. It provoked a lawsuit that caused me years of pain. The UK government did nothing to contain the threat. And here we are.

Feargal Sharkey (@feargal_sharkey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Oh deary me, they just can't bloody well help themselves can they. Southern Water's under siege CEO has taken to gaslighting parliament. Now trying to make us all believe that the policy and regulatory change needed by water companies to allow them to fix all of this was brought

Prem Sikka (@premnsikka) 's Twitter Profile Photo

High Court hearing today on Thames Water plan to borrow £3bn. Already has £17bn debt, funded dividends, wants 53% price hike. A third of customer bill covers interest payments. More debt= higher bills. Let it go bankrupt. Nationalise at nominal price. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Feargal Sharkey (@feargal_sharkey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Appears the French aren't happy with our sh*t washing up on their beaches. "In the United Kingdom, this scandal that poisons the rivers. Privatised since Thatcher and the victim of under-investment, the sewer network is overflowing and waste water is flowing into the Channel and

James Melville 🚜 (@jamesmelville) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’ve never voted Tory in my life and I thought the last Tory government was dreadful. But this bloke is the worst Prime Minister of my lifetime. He’s the diametric opposite of what Labour should stand for. In fact, he stands for absolute nothing apart from his own dishonesty.

I’ve never voted Tory in my life and I thought the last Tory government was dreadful. But this bloke is the worst Prime Minister of my lifetime. He’s the diametric opposite of what Labour should stand for. In fact, he stands for absolute nothing apart from his own dishonesty.
Feargal Sharkey (@feargal_sharkey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thames Water tells the High Court that it's currently spending £15 million PER MONTH on lawyers and advisers and that next year interest payments on its steaming debt pile will be between £800 to £900 million. Wanna guess who's money it is they're spending?

Stella Assange (@stella_assange) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Shocking update from independent journalist Richard Medhurst—if you can, please help contribute to his gfm/paypal so he can replace the reporting equipment that Austrian agents have seized. #JournalismIsNotACrime

WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over

Feargal Sharkey (@feargal_sharkey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Ilchester Estate was fined £28,000 for over abstracting a local chalk stream by 35 cubic meters of water per day. Collectively water companies over abstracted England's chalk streams by about 1,300,000 cubic meters per day. And the Environment Agency does what?

Prem Sikka (@premnsikka) 's Twitter Profile Photo

40% of the world's dirty money laundered through London, UK Overseas Territories, Crown Dependencies. Govt can issue Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWO). Since 2017, SEVEN UWOs issued. ZERO prosecutions/convictions. Contrast it with attacks on little people. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…

Prem Sikka (@premnsikka) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Five more water companies in England appeal against Ofwat’s 36% average bill hike They want more People can't appeal, have to pay up, put up with sewage in rivers, exploitation normalized. Corporations rule and no one is protecting people. theguardian.com/business/2025/…

Feargal Sharkey (@feargal_sharkey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Reed has ruled out nationalisation, saying it would cost up to £100bn". Let me be very clear about this, any reference to a £100 billion cost to nationalise the water industry is a demonstratively, blatant, provable, untruth. That figure relates to a report commission by 4

Feargal Sharkey (@feargal_sharkey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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 Environment Agency ever going to do about any it? Oh and how is that now three and a half year old "largest ever criminal investigation" into

Prem Sikka (@premnsikka) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Water Follies 35 years before privatisation 100 reservoirs built; no major English reservoir since. Thames Water sold-off 25 reservoirs. Southern Water to decommission 43 of 93 by 2030. Companies paid £85bn in dividends, borrowed £70bn. People fleeced. leftfootforward.org/2025/06/nation…

Dan Neidle (@danneidle) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Douglas Barrowman made a fortune from selling tax avoidance schemes. When the schemes failed, his companies aggressively sold their clients another avoidance scheme which supposed rescued them from the first scheme. It was all a scam. A disaster for the clients.

Douglas Barrowman made a fortune from selling tax avoidance schemes. When the schemes failed, his companies aggressively sold their clients another avoidance scheme which supposed rescued them from the first scheme. 

It was all a scam. A disaster for the clients.
James Melville 🚜 (@jamesmelville) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Krishnan Guru-Murthy: "These water companies say they're putting £billions in." Feargal Sharkey: "They’ve taken away £84 billion of our money in dividends and created £74 billion of debt…We've been cheated.”