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Paul Carden retweeted
Helen Whately on #BBCBreakfast calmly selling Tory plans to cut £2.8bn from Child Disability Living Allowance, targeting kids with special needs, ADHD, autism, learning difficulties and what they dismiss as “low-level” issues.
The same MP who claimed up to £39,000 a year in taxpayer-funded London rent (while living in a substantial home in Kent) and takes a large salary + expenses.
These children didn’t choose their disabilities. Their families didn’t ask for this fight.
This is disgusting and wickedness!
Standing charges North Wales highest in UK ?
What say you @MarkTamiMP ?
National Grid debt is safe, as they say, safe as houses in fact.
A monopoly supplier allowed by regulators to add the costs of their debts to customer bills, while the debt itself builds an ever-bigger balance sheet and company value - is obscene. The 9.8% return on equity is wrong for such a safe investment - this is infrastructure and the rates of return for that kind of asset are normally half what OFGEM are allowing. If we adjust the rate of return to market norms - we could significantly reduce levels of debt required and the costs that get loaded onto our bills. OFGEM are not regulating energy companies properly nor are OFWAT - we have a systemic fault in the regulation of privately owned monopoly suppliers of vital services.
We need to take proper control of these industries. In the interests of people, business and the wider economy.
briefs.co/news/national-grid…
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Paul Carden retweeted
Today, I sent a letter putting New Jersey’s port and terminal operators on notice: importing Russian diesel violates federal law and could carry serious civil and criminal consequences.
New Jersey will not stand by while Donald Trump supports Vladimir Putin at the expense of Americans. Instead of lowering costs, these imports help finance Putin’s war against Ukraine and a campaign of violence and terror that endangers our servicemembers abroad.
As a Navy veteran, I cannot let that stand unchallenged. Our ports must not be complicit.
Paul Carden retweeted
RMT backs findings of Carmont train disaster enquiry
RAIL union RMT fully backed the conclusions of the Fatal Accident Inquiry into the tragic derailment at Carmont in 2020 which cost the lives of three people and led to serious injury to others.
The Fatal Accident Inquiry found that private contractor Carillion had been instructed by Network Rail to build a new drain in the area of the derailment, but it was not installed in accordance with the design.
“As a result, the drain was unable to accommodate the flow of surface water during the intense rainfall in the area on 12 August 2020,” the inquiry found.
RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey said that Network Rail needed to move away from outsourcing renewals and maintenance works on rail infrastructure and bring the work in house.
“This would ensure that work is carried out to the correct standard by trained staff with appropriate resources to ensure rail travel remains a safe method of transportation in Britain.
“We also support the removal of the ancient intercity fleet of rolling stock involved in this crash as it is clearly not up to modern standards,” he said.
Network Rail had already pleaded guilty to a contravention of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 at the High Court in Aberdeen on September 7, 2023 and was fined £6.7 million.
ALT Derailment scene showing a passenger train partially off the tracks surrounded by trees with emergency workers inspecting the site.
Paul Carden retweeted
🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @AldiUK understands what Government appears to be missing.
While Government responds to rising food prices by making some imports cheaper, Aldi is investing long-term in British production.
Julie Ashfield puts it perfectly:
“The ability to produce [food] belongs in the same category as water and power.”
And: “Building capacity takes years… decisions must be made before the next shock, not after it.”
Exactly 👍 Orchards, breeding herds, farmers and processing capacity cannot be recreated when a crisis arrives.
Food production is national infrastructure. Food security is national security.
Paul Carden retweeted
No fuss
No fanfare
Just real support for installers let down by normal training routes.
3 more having had books read at them for 3 days and the answers to exams provided. A very vocal training proving on socials responsible!
We could expose, confront and battle. But whats the point.
Better to set a different path and example for others to find value in.
Thats the A121 way.
Unique and sadly so.
Paul Carden retweeted
Road casualties on Wales’ 20mph & 30mph roads have fallen by 35% since before the default 20mph limit was introduced.
The evidence is clear: lower speeds mean safer roads, fewer casualties & lives potentially saved. That’s progress worth getting behind. nation.cymru/news/casualties…
Paul Carden retweeted
SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
Paul Carden retweeted
This young lady understands that in a Democracy the power resides with the people, not the Orange tyrant that’s squatting in the White House. Let’s get the vote out and create the biggest #BlueWaveIn7Days it’s time to take our country back. Make a plan and let’s seal the deal!🗳️
Paul Carden retweeted
“There’s only one devil I can see, and he sits in the White House.”
🇺🇸 I NOMINATE THIS WOMAN FOR PRESIDENT!
1 minute, 50 seconds of the most powerful speech you’ll hear. 🔥 WATCH!
Paul Carden retweeted
He wanted to be PM in order to be PM. He didn’t expect there to be work. His narcissism persuaded him we would all love living under him & laughing at his ‘jokes’. He was a perfect, one-man argument for the abolition of Eton.
Paul Carden retweeted
Bradley Walsh hosts a night filled with laughter, music and memories. Bringing together performers, stars, and friends from across film, television, theatre, and music for a celebration of the people and stories that have entertained generations.
Stars taking part will include: Stefan Bednarczyk, David Benson, Michelle Collins, Bobby Crush, Matt Henry, Jack Lane, Robert Lindsay, Jeremy Secomb, Harriet Thorpe, Emma Williams and me. With further casting and other special guests to be announced.
This special evening brings together Elstree Studios and Denville Hall, two institutions both celebrating their centenary this year, each holding extraordinary places in British entertainment history, to unite for Raise the Roof! - a spectacular celebration for Denville Hall’s Centenary Appeal.
With Helen Mirren and Daniel Radcliffe, I am helping raise funds to mark the 100th anniversary of Denville Hall, which provides hospice care and more for people who have worked in the UK entertainment business. We are building accommodation for couples and establishing a fund to ensure Denville thrives for a further century. This concert is just the beginning of a very necessary campaign. Book at delfontmackintosh.co.uk/what…
Paul Carden retweeted
BREAKING: Two of what are supposed to be the better water companies have syphoned out £700 million EACH in dividends in the last 2 years
Enough is enough. Bring them into public ownership, starting with Thames Water.
Demand Andy Burnham block the Thames Water bailout: vist.ly/5pbs6
Paul Carden retweeted
I'm a double amputee.
I recieve 3,600 a year in PIP
@Helen_Whately receives *39,000* a year in housing.
If our Hels wants to cut down the welfare bill I've an idea where she should start...
Paul Carden retweeted
On 22nd September 1934 at Gresford Colliery, Wales, an explosion killed 266 men & boys underground. 6 survived and only 11 bodies were ever recovered.
The wages of all were docked by half a days pay by the owners because the men had 'failed to complete their shift.'
Care to Fact Check this @BBCr4today ,@BBCNewsnight ?
Well after today’s announcement from the Bank of England, there is something very, very, very wrong in the system.
So … let me get this straight:
* British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June
* BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone
* Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year
The MEN at the top:
* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary
* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits
* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m
* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.
* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m
* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m
* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m
* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package
* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000
* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m
* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary
Meanwhile there are...
* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.
* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.
* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.
* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.
* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.
* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.
* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.
* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!
* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.
* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!
All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...
THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others.
Something needs to change.
Why is customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?
I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....
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Paul Carden retweeted
She was only four when Trump said he would end the war in 24 hours. Just turned six when Musk decided to join Trump on Putin’s side and help the Kremlin killers murder her
