Pete Lamb 🍁
@petelamb_
Adventures big & small. I once ran across Sri Lanka / Cycled Europe; India & Australia / Hiked NZ South Island | 15,000 miles of adventure
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Take it in. The first female chancellor. The first housing secretary who's actually lived in social housing. The first education secretary who was on free school meals. An energy secretary who actually believes in aggressively fighting climate change. Not a bad afternoon.
- climate change is largely absent from this general election so far - and yet the UK had its warmest May and meteorological spring on record according to provisional Met Office figures published today
I love golf. But my god, we have enough golf courses. Why can’t we let natural spaces just ‘be’ ?
Controversial plans, approved by @HighlandCouncil, to build a golf course on one of Scotland’s important & last remaining undeveloped dune systems, Coul Links, has been called in by the @scotgov scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/ministers… #SaveCoulLinks @lornaslater @JoeFitzSNP 📸© Vince Lowe
You know it sickens me that this government campaigned and still campaigns so strongly on national pride. They have no pride in this country. They allow its waters to become increasingly disgusting and polluted, as indicated by @mrjamesob below, they take no pride in our free…
Billions upon billions spent on a railway that won’t connect anywhere to anything. Fucking shambles.
BREAKING: Government refuses to guarantee second leg of HS2 to Manchester news.sky.com/story/governme…
news.sky.com
Government refuses to guarantee second leg of HS2 to Manchester will go ahead
Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt are reportedly in talks to scrap the line to the northern city in a bid to curb costs.
Some good news - deforestation of the Amazon has slowed since Lula got back into power. (From @_HannahRitchie's substack which is so good I recently added it to our recommendations list) open.substack.com/pub/hannahritc…
Boris Johnson is suspended from the House for twice as long as Liz Truss was Prime Minister.
Madness
BREAKING: Government refuses to guarantee second leg of HS2 to Manchester news.sky.com/story/governme…
news.sky.com
Government refuses to guarantee second leg of HS2 to Manchester will go ahead
Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt are reportedly in talks to scrap the line to the northern city in a bid to curb costs.
Many people asking us about #bumblebees at the moment - why they’re seeing them on the ground - so here’s a quick thread to explain what they’re up to. Please #retweet as every #queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce new queen #bees for next year! 1/8
This lady has just spent 2 mins absolutely eviscerating the Conservatives on their record on EVERYTHING 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #BBCQT “ I’m staggered that you think you’re succeeding… Watch and listen!
This photo seems to have vanished from my tweets. Here it is again, just for the record.
The man with a plan to save the world, Steve Irwin
1. The main justification for the lawsuit against wild camping on Dartmoor is that campers might damage the land. Dartmoor *is* in a terrible state. But it has nothing to do with camping. It’s because, as soon as nature starts to recover, the sheep farmers torch it.🧵
Harrowing words from a senior emergency medicine doctor showing the despair at not being able to provide the level of care every doctor hopes to for their patients. Every doctor, nurse & HCW can empathise with this right now. Shared w/ permission. Pls RT to get this out there.
Matt Hancock reads from his Pandemic Diaries 📖 January-June 2021
My instant budget (autumn statement) summary & analysis. Tax, pensions, benefits, energy bills, mortgages, rents & more. Feel free to share. Subtitled version to follow shortly via: youtube.com/watch?v=Q-nkEK…
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In hindsight, do you think Britain was right or wrong to vote to leave the European Union? Right to Leave: 32% (-3) Wrong to Leave: 56% (+4) Via @YouGov, 9-10 Nov. Changes w/ 1-2 Nov. Largest EVER lead for 'Wrong to Leave' (polled since Aug 2016).
France is not fucking around New legislation demands all *existing* carparks with 80 or more spaces must install a solar roof (in 3-5 years) This could generate up to 11 gigawatts, which is the equivalent of 10 nuclear reactors electrek.co/2022/11/08/fra…
The notion that the NHS is struggling because of immigration is batshit and backwards. The NHS needs MORE immigrants, they treat us as surgeons, nurses and doctors and run our hospitals as porters and cleaners and everything in between. This country is turning into a vile place.
Latest @JLPartnersPolls @TimesRadio swing voter focus group on immigration: 🔵 All said Britain is ‘full’ and ‘at capacity’, politicians ‘don’t get it’ 🔵 Blame on immigration for problems with NHS, housing 🔵 Said Braverman’s description of ‘invasion’ was accurate (1/2)
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