I’m an old IT pro. Co-mum to Tig and Freddie, rescued Border Collies x Welsh Sheepdogs. They are the latest of our greatly loved and now hugely missed dogs.
We have a very porous border with England and there is research by an Oxford academic which concluded that “Wales was made to look like a Brexit-supporting nation by its English settlers.”
Tories salting the earth update. Eighteen Tory MPs have written to Steve Barclay (he's DEFRA this week), asking him to gut Natural England's ability to create SSSIs.
" ... and consider wider factors, such as the economic and cultural impact of notification."
Thames Water has seen its troubles deepen after its parent company defaulted on part of its huge debt pile.
Kemble Water has formally told lenders it failed to meet a deadline to pay interest on £400m of debt due on Tuesday.
(This company is responsible for the water supply for a quarter of the UK population. Also for pumping raw shit into our rivers and seas. Debts of £14.7Bn, has handed tens of billions in public subsidies to foreign shareholders …)
At the time of privatisation in 1989, Thatcher's government absorbed the water industries debts.
Privatisation was sold to the public on the basis that the new companies would be free to raise funds on the financial markets in order to invest in their infrastructure.
WTF happened to all our money and the safety of our water and sewage 🤬
Just been for a walk in the sun with my wife (ma waf) like a couple of young and carefree people without children who still like each other. Of course my main focus was these things that annoyed me...
My late MiL used to go shopping with a piece of chalk in her handbag (before she had my wife she was a teacher) and she’d correct all the shops’ misuse of grammar and apostrophes 🫣
