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@cjd66.bsky.social
Hiking and camping, cycling, Scunthorpe United, Beatles, 80's computing, real ale and scotch whisky, lefty but forced to vote tactically where I live. BSc Natural Sciences 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦
“Every announcement by the company over the last few days telling customers when water supplies would be restored has been wrong. We’ve had endless announcements each giving a different time for water supplies returning.” #TunbridgeWells #SouthEastWater

hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hit...
Tunbridge Wells MP calls for South East Water CEO to resign over water outage
Tunbridge Wells MP Mike Martin has called for the resignation of South East...
hellorayo.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
#TunbridgeWells #SouthEastWater @kentonline.co.uk

"vulnerable and elderly people were suffering as a direct consequence of the “failure of leadership” shown by the water company’s chief executive, David Hinton."

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
MP demands water boss resigns after three-day outage in Tunbridge Wells
Lib Dem MP Mike Martin says situation is ‘utter disgrace’
www.independent.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
#Trump

"US attorney Joseph Nocella said at the time of #Gentile 's sentencing that #GPBCapital was built on a "foundation of lies" and that the company made $1.6bn (£1.2bn) while using #investor capital to pay distributions to other investors"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump releases fraudster executive days into prison sentence
The former investment manager was convicted of defrauding thousands of investors.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"Police are considering corporate manslaughter charges as part of their probe into the #PostOffice #Horizon scandal

Investigators previously said they are looking at “a significant number of people” from the Post Office, #Fujitsu and in the #legal profession"

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Police consider additional charges in ‘unprecedented’ Post Office scandal probe
The NPCC said there are 53 persons of interest as part of the investigation
www.independent.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The pollution record of #SouthEastWater should have been enough for their boss to resign long ago. #TunbridgeWells @kentonline.co.uk

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...
South East Water boss 'should quit' over Tunbridge Wells shortage
South East Water now says supplies are not expected to be fully restored until Tuesday morning.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
#TunbridgeWells #SouthEastWater @kentonline.co.uk

Now it is 8am tomorrow! Businesses are losing money, zero hours staff aren't being paid, schools are closed.

The CEO of South East Water needs to resign.
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform saying his former party has "lost touch with the people it was meant to serve".

He should know. When he was in Government he took a five-figure donation from JCB, then stayed silent when it axed hundreds of his constituents' jobs just two weeks later
Conservatives Promote JCB's 'Revolutionary' Pothole Machine While Taking Millions of Pounds in Donations from the Company
Senior Conservatives have repeatedly promoted a pothole repair machine made by a company which has donated huge sums to the party and its MPs
bylinetimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Don't let the right-wing press' witch-hunt of Rachel #Reeves and her #budget deflect you from this on-going issue with #Farage #ReformUK

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nigel Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate
Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
@kentonline.co.uk I hope you will be chasing up whom of this group will be resigning over the water fiasco in #TunbridgeWells

www.southeastwater.co.uk/about/who-we...
Our Directors | South East Water
South East Water's directors
www.southeastwater.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
#TunbridgeWells @kentonline.co.uk #SouthEastWater

Now its 2pm before resolution of the issue.
December 1, 2025 at 7:32 AM
#TunbridgeWells @kentonline.co.uk #SouthEastWater still dragging on 😡
1 Dec 5:59 AM
Good news! We're beginning to fill our drinking water storage tanks at Pembury Water Treatment Works, once they have reached a good level, we'll be able to send water to our drinking water storage tank at Blackhurst.
December 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
#Trump brown-nosing bollocks from the #DailyMail
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Latest update - water issue estimated to (not) be fixed by 6am Monday #TunbridgeWells #SouthEastWater 🙄 @kentonline.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.

Please sign and share 🙏

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.

We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Fuck DOGE and fuck Elon Musk.
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A reminder to friends planning to travel to the #US to support their team in the #WorldCup next year. You may want to clean up your social media accounts of such photos before immigration take a look at your phone. Or better still buy a cheap burner phone for the trip #Trump
November 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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“The world of 2026 is entirely different from 2016, the old red lines no longer make sense and Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford” @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"Officers believe the man and woman, identified as #MAGA supporter and PR executive #MelissaReinLively, 40, and #PhilippOstermann, a venture capitalist, could have information that may help them with their investigation."

metro.co.uk/2025/11/17/a...
American couple accused of racist assault in Bond Street 'no longer in UK'
Police want to speak to Melissa Lively and Philipp Ostermann after an incident at a Tube station over the weekend
metro.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM