Roger Merry
@RogerMerry1
Traveller, garden designer, conservationist
How embarrassing can it possible be to say you are going to cut sewage dumping by 50% by 2030 only to realise that announcement had already been made by Ofwat over 1 year ago and that your new target is actually worse than the old one. OOPS!!!
Peat map! The reply to the reply to the reply to the query about why it’s SO RUBBISH Apparently it’s still fine and yet also known to be not fine. Seems to imply rock may be peat without robust data to prove it’s not and it’s down to us to prove it? Or am I reading that wrong?
Something remarkably satisfying about watching this weed sugar beet...
This is an act of betrayal. To agree an extradition treaty with #HongKong after China trashed the Sino-British Agreement and has arrested peaceful democracy campaigners and incarcerated them. The most iconic of whom is #JimmyLai. Also the young democracy campaigners who fled Hong…
The Secretary of State for the Environment has spent a lot of time the last few days claiming that he has secured £104 billion private investment from the water industry. Which is really odd as yesterday the MP for Keighley and Ilkley told parliament that £93 billion of that…
Worth pointing out that since 2010 South Korea has built four nuclear reactors at a single plant in the UAE, now supplying 25% of the Gulf state’s electricity needs (much of it for desalination). The plan now is to add two more reactors at existing plant and a new plant with…
Points curiously omitted from the official government statement: *I will be pushing up the daisies long before Sizewell C is generating electricity for the national grid. *Mr E Miliband will be in his dotage. *The estimated cost of nearly £40billion is twice what it was only…
Absolute rubbish @SteveReedMP You slashed the delinked payments last year by 76 % and have capped this years payment at £600. The SFI is now a shadow of its former self to new applicants, taxed pick up trucks and fertiliser, increased NI, got rid of the market for 2m tons of…
'This government is supporting farmers with more investment' 'You broke a pledge to them!' Katherine Forster asks Steve Reed about what the NFU has called farmers' 'torment with worry' due to government policy.
How on earth was this man ever a barrister? Clueless, illogical, weak. And talking nonsense
There are 1.3 million people on social housing waiting lists in England alone. But Keir Starmer believes there’s ‘lots of housing’ spare we should be giving to illegal migrants That’s madness. What is he going on about?
Let’s not forget that most of what we’re now borrowing is spent on meeting the cost of previous borrowing. The OBR reckons we’ll borrow £143 billion this financial year 2025/26 (it will be more than that). It also estimates we’ll spend £111 billion paying interest on existing…
BREAKING NEWS: More pressure on Chancellor Reeves to raise taxes/repair public finances/‘fix the foundations’ (still a work in progress, contrary to ministerial claims): UK government borrowing rose to almost £21 billion last month, £6.6bn higher than June 2024 and the…
The impact summary and draft legislation has been issued for the #FamilyFarmTax, and it is paper thin. There are no improvements to the proposal, and it appears to be being introduced as expected. The statement suggests 2,000 deceased estates every year will pay more tax.…
You need to tell your cabinet and staff to stop gaslighting the British public Prime Minister. This might be helpful. x.com/Feargal_Sharke…
Well what an incredible morning this is going to be. Labour govt trumpeting a long list of stuff they claim they've done to deal with the water industry. Tories say they just nicked their old policies, thing is the Tories are right. Example. 1. All sewage overflows to have…
Opps... govt really has been sussed. Govt's supposedly new sewage targets are worse than the old ones. That's what happens when you try to regurgitate a bunch of policies from previous govts and try to pass them off as your own. Good work @adamvaughan_uk / @thetimes 👏👏👏
@Feargal_Sharkey here's a chart that tells the story of how ambitious the government's new sewage pollution cuts target is
Well what an incredible morning this is going to be. Labour govt trumpeting a long list of stuff they claim they've done to deal with the water industry. Tories say they just nicked their old policies, thing is the Tories are right. Example. 1. All sewage overflows to have…