Environmental puritans tell us water is scarce and we should ration its use. They should take a look at their local lakes, ponds, streams and rivers. Have they ever been to the seaside? Have they watched nature deliver free water onto gardens and fields as rain ? Water is about the most common substance on the planet.
It is true some human intervention is needed to store water in convenient places and to clean it up if we want to drink it. Water is not destroyed by use but returned to the water cycle, often in a dirtier form than before we used it from the tap.
Companies can offer us more water from rivers, from desalinating sea water, from underground water in acquifers and from collecting more rainwater.We could each collect more of our own as rain from our roof.
If the monopoly was lifted there could be more innovation. Do we need all water to our house to be high drinking water quality? Could there be cheaper less processed water to flush loos and clean cars? Industry often has to take the additives placed in monopoly drinking water out before using the water for their processes.They might like additive free water.
Would companies intensify marketing home systems for collecting and using rainwater for non drinking purposes?
I have accepted the strictures of the water hair shirt environmentalists as they have helped block bigger and growing water supplies. I would like to be able to buy a sprinkler for my grass , use the hosepipe on my shrubs and wash my car more often but do not do so given the ridiculous restrictions on supply.
What a nonsense that a leading industry has to lecture its customers to use less of its product when it is all around us. Now there are problems speeding digital investment in data centres given water shortages limiting potential supply to them. Why does the government of our country not want us to be better off?
July 30, 2025
Good morning.
Sir John. Are you aware of the concept of, ‘supply and demand ?’ Because if you were, then you would tackle the issue of demand first knowing that, getting supply up is a little more difficult and expensive and you would not have to worry about watering your garden and cleaning your car.
We are running out of easy decisions and solutions to problems that should have been tackled long, long ago.
Reply I have endlessly argued for no net migration!
July 30, 2025
One skill person leaving the country replaced by someone living in an hotel or compleley on State benefit is not one in one out or Net migration.
Looks good politically but not good for the country.
I guess the difference between a political view of things as opposed to common sense view of things and effect in reality. Only it seems appreciated by the tax payer experencing the long term efects of short term Government
based political dogma
July 31, 2025
The current ONS projection is that the number of people of state pension age will increase by 13.8% over the decade 2022-2032 (from 12 million to 13.7 million). Furthermore, the number of births and deaths in the UK over the same period is projected to be similar. Therefore, any and all population change will be as a result of migration.
A no net migration policy will mean increasing the number of pensioners (with their seeminly sacrosant triple lock and WFA, health care and social care costs) while the number of people of working age declines by a similar number. That means increasingly fewer working people paying for each pensioner. How expensive is that going to get for those of us still of working age?
July 31, 2025
Improve productivity per person Peter.
Efficiency, automation, AI, clever machinery.
There are countries wealthier per head than the UK with smaller populations than us.
Yours is a Ponzi scheme..ever more people..who you forget also need State support and a pension.
July 30, 2025
Cheaper , less purified water for flushing loos and cleaning cars would require two delivery sources into homes and is there the possibility of confusion /mixing them and contamination ?
Reply No. Only the drinking water supply would route to the taps.
July 30, 2025
Clean water and dirty water would require two pipes to deliver it surely? Otherwise how would the clean water not be contaminated?
Reply Yes of course. This is but one idea of many. Most likely would be a pipe to capture rain falling on your roof for gardens and loos
July 30, 2025
Two types of water, one for flushing and the other potable, has been done, in Hong Kong. It was deemed necessary as drinking water was a scarce resource in the 50’s and 60’s. It was fazed out as better quality water became available. Flushing water was just strained sea water, I believe. Water supply in Hong Kong and Singapore are both under government departments. It can be done under central government management, you just need a good government……
July 30, 2025
Indeed can be done privately under good regulation too. The problem is getting good regulators or things well run when under government control. This seems to be virtually impossible in the UK currently.
July 30, 2025
Certainly agree with that.
Interesting viewing the Trump Starmer unscripted media questions for 90 mins earlier this week..
Trump came across with all of the common-sense and logical answers, on a whole range of topics.
He wiped the floor with Starmer who looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights, and who actually lied about immigration (we have it under control), Farmers and Inheritance tax (they only pay 2% per year not the sums suggested), Electricity Power production of which wind and Nuclear is a part, is the best way forward.
Starmer a failed Apprentice, against a Master Commercially aware CEO.
July 30, 2025
The majority of installations only supply mains water directly to a single (kitchen) tap. Other taps are supplied via a storage tank for cold and after heating, for hot. The stored water is not strictly ‘potable’, as it is allowed to stand for periods of time before use,in an open tank.
Rainwater systems do not need to be linked.
July 30, 2025
True with low pressure systems anyway. I have found dead pigeons and rats in header tanks before now. Not good to think of this as you clean your teeth in the bathroom!
July 30, 2025
I was give to understand the cost of having the additional pipes and supply for water adequate for non-drinking purposes was less than the cost of making all the water suitable to drink.
July 30, 2025
Apologies – that should read “more than the cost of making all the water suitable to drink”.
July 30, 2025
So why are they not building Data Centres by the sea like atomic power Stations? Much less of an Engineering problem to run comms to the site rather than large water pipes from a source miles away.
But thats only the start. A lot of electric power is needed for an AI data centre which might be making bit coins for the future. The atomic power station is next door. But if not a small reactor perhaps. To keep every one happy a direct connection to the wind farm just off shore. Better have a few solar panels on the roof. No need for a water supply as the processed sea water will be top quality and drinkable.
Sir john I do like your view of Enginering as some human intervention required.
Have you checked the water levels in the lakes and streams in the Wokingham area ? Is the rain fall for time of year normal for our area.
Shall we have another HS2 project to bring water down from Scotland to Wokingham ? If we were not overpopulated we would not need so much water not to mention sewage to dispose of. Now population control is a job for Government which is a nationalised industry if ever there was one.
Should that be privatised for greater efficiency and competion ?
Reply I regularly out the case that we do not have the water and other capacities to keep inviting so many people in. I am proposing a system for water that would provide more reservoirs and when an MP backed the Abingdon proposal which the Regulator and planners blocked.
July 30, 2025
More reservoirs, perhaps higher charges in summer and more use of grey water for loo flushing and gardens! We have more than sufficient water supplies dropping from the sky.
July 30, 2025
It would be good to know the engineering details of your suggestions. If the undertaking will attract private investment it has to show a profit.
We need a new model for funding utility investment not controlled by Politics or private shareholders who are not British.
I do believe Mrs T was attempting to do this but in the long term it failed.
I am not too worried who and how run so long as completely British owned and profit and tax return to the tax payer and British investors.
Our strategic resources must not be owned or influenced by non-uk countrys or organisations. Their running not influenced by the Government of the day’s politics
Reply We had a model Blair/ EU destroyed it by removing the golden shares blocking foreign takeovers.
July 30, 2025
Thank you Sir John for pointing this fact out. The labour party ceased to be worried about the country and working people’s interests probably after Harold Wilson.
July 30, 2025
Talking about scarce resources, for the past 2 days there’s been virtually no wind. Milibrains windmills have been supplying between. 1.2 and 3.1% of demand. We are Importing on average 17% of our electricity. It’s the lowest demand time if the year. Heaven help us when winter comes.
July 30, 2025
and this wind is costing us……
July 30, 2025
Heaven help us when winter comes and Milibrain has then forced us all on to heat pumps and
EV cars with tax payer subsidies! Demand on very cold days might be ten times summer demand and often cold days means little wind. Vast grid capacity investment would be needed too.
July 30, 2025
This vast capacity investment then wasted unused for much of the year. The best way to store energy for winter is a pile of coal or a store of gas, petrol or oil then use for heating or transport directly or convert to electricity as required. Powering heating with electrict heat pumps using gas generated electricity makes little sense. Even if you are a CO2 devil gas zealot like Ed Milibrain! Assuming he does actually believe the drivel he spouts endlessly!
July 30, 2025
Why do politician almost invariably choose duff experts to advise them? Simple they want the ones who agree with their political agenda and views not the ones who tell them basic truths. For example that net zero is lunacy, that they must cut government spending and waste, lower taxes and not pump people with dangerous net harm Covid “vaccines”. Money, deluded group think or political religions.
Trump is right we could easily have energy at 30% of the current costs by abandonning net zero and we should do this. Drill and Frack, Drill and Frack and fire mad Ed.
July 30, 2025
When I tell people that we’re on average importing 1/5th of our electrcity from france ; people just don’t believe me ….until they see the energy dashboard ‘national grid live’ which is, as at 9am 20.4%
July 30, 2025
as at 4:30pm its 22.1% …..and we all pay a massive amount more for french energy
July 30, 2025
Imagine a UK where we didn’t have to accept french illegal immigrants nor buy their energy ….it really is possible; perhaps with no ECHRs nor Net-Zero and a political backbone
July 30, 2025
Interesting thoughts Sir John.
It is not just industry that might like additive free water, I would too. I don’t see why a government should mandate effectively forced medication for the population. I don’t want fluoride nor chlorine put in my water.
I was recently forced onto a water meter because the supplier managed to get a drought order a few years ago, which allowed them to force meters onto householders. Given that they are so short of water in this area, why have they been able to add thousands of new homes and people to fill them?
The problem with infrastructure projects in this country, is that they take too long to come into fruition, by the time the protest groups have dragged it through the courts to protect the local bats, newts and stag beetles. By the time the infrastructure is finally completed, it is inadequate or out of date.
July 30, 2025
‘Flouride’ – over-focusing about fluoride in water is a bit sissy. We need to bring national service. People back then didn’t worry about things like that.
July 30, 2025
South East Water imposed a hosepipe ban 18th July. Then on 28th July they informed me my DD must rise from £69/month to £105/month.
Yet executives continue to reap large financial rewards. Share holders get dividends. This is the reality of privatised water Sir JR.
July 30, 2025
Exactly. The fat cats in water are as corrupt as socialists. We got to be pragmatic about capitalism. As opposed to ideological.
July 30, 2025
The dreadful Nigel Farage, never one to miss an opportunity for a soundbite, has pontificated that “a Reform government (ribald laughter!!) will scrap the Online Safety Act” Apparently in the cause of “free speech”
Farage objects to this modest attempt to protect children from extreme hard-core pornography, which now insists on age verification before access. Why does he think children should be allowed to access filth of this nature? What would Reform put in it’s place? Farage admitted that he didn’t know – but someone he knew did!
etc ed
July 30, 2025
SG there us nothing modest about the OSA. It is open to interpretation by all the bad players especially the police. It is a sledgehammer to crack a nut and largely ignored and bypassed by the ones it’s meant to protect.
July 30, 2025
Your animus towards Farage is clouding your judgement. Why not take the time to read all the provisions of the act and understand that it is potentially far wider than protecting children. That is their excuse. It will give Ofcom/Ministers authority to ‘ban’ any on line opposition and we are beginning to see that already.
With the new sinister online monitoring group, we are seeing a government frightened of its people seeking to shut down consent.
Kyle voted against a grooming enquiry. etc ed
July 30, 2025
Your comment reveals your own misunderstanding of what is needed.
July 30, 2025
I have looked and listened to interviews on both sides of this argument.
My conclusion as a novice on computer and software use.
Government regulation as proposed (with good intentions) will not keep children safe, will and already has curtailed free speech.
As usual we have yet another complicated new law that is not fit for purpose, because it has been structured incorrectly, and can already be bypassed and deemed ineffective, simply by a few clicks on a keyboard or mouse.
Politicians insulting each other when that is pointed out, does not help anybody or move matters forward.
July 30, 2025
The attack along these lines by the dire science, technology & innovation minister and other dire Labour MP was appalling. This bill is a vile and evil attack on free speech. It will not stop children getting access as they well know it is pure censorship under the vile OFCOM who thing the Net Zero religions should be promoted endlessly and that pointing out that the Covid Vaccines would do more harm than not was mis-information and should be banned.
July 30, 2025
It’s called the World Wide Web for a reason.
July 30, 2025
The first use of the Online Safety Act has been to censor on-line pictures of protests against migrant hotels highlighting assaults on local children and also court transcripts from grooming gang cases. Seems like it’s you who has a problem if you want to cover all that up.
July 30, 2025
Will the Online Safety Act protect people from destructive socialist ideas being promoted on the internet?
July 30, 2025
The Online Safety Act seems to be more concerned with protecting government from criticism and providing justification for new Thought Police to enforce that rather than protecting children, many if whom are savvy enough to evade its controls. So now we have the threat the the government will try to ban VPNs so those here will have restricted access to foreign news sources (already many require VPNs if they detect the user is covered by GDPR regulation), which would leave us in a Chinese firewall. Meanwhile the government does little to protect children, encouraging them to learn about all manner of unusual sexual preferences and discouraging normal family relationships and support, and doing nothing adequate to tackle grooming gangs etc.
The ill-thought out act, brought in by the last government, should go. We should be looking to get rid of the propaganda that adults and children alike are subjected to via our broadcast media instead.
July 30, 2025
What is the point of keeping children from ‘the filth’ on the internet when we are happy to allow them to be gang raped from the age of 10 for years on end – and worse!
The aim of the legislation is to stop people speaking of what is happening in the country, it causes the bigotry of some politicians to be upset.
July 30, 2025
SG:
The OSA with its purpose to suppress free speech shows how far left the Civil Service, police and judiciary have become and the history of the last century shows us that countries who end up with far left governments never escape from poverty and authoritarian one party rule.
July 30, 2025
Today Mrs Gold is supervising a specialist firm we have engaged to clean and pigeon-proof our solar panels, which produce 45% of the electricity that the household uses. The infernal beasts insist on building nests underneath them. We are fed up with the noise and the mess that the feral pigeons make. The firm undertaking the work had to wait until the nests were empty, as they are not allowed to disturb nesting birds.
We do have a rainwater harvesting system. It collects water from one of the roof gutter downpipes and diverts it into two 400l plastic butts, which fill up rapidly when it rains. Their overflow goes to the drains and so the water company charge us for disposing of it!
Mrs Gold and Old Jim, our gardener, use the rainwater in the orchid greenhouse and the flower beds in the front garden. The pigeon excreta makes the water cloudy and when it’s bad, it smells. We are looking forward to the pigeons moving out. However, the orchids are wonderful at the moment, Mrs Gold has a gift for growing them
July 30, 2025
Well done you
I hope you treat your butler, driver and cook with dignity
You might also occasionally take a trip outside your gated property to see what’s actually happening to this once wonderful country of ours
Then maybe you’ll stop posting such rubbish
July 30, 2025
You fail to address your ignorance RE. the ‘online safety act’ and post up aload of drivel to divert attention, pathetic.
July 30, 2025
My tank collects 50,000 l.
I don’t know why you bother collecting a couple of spoonfuls. You may as well just spit on the orchids. Cheaper.
July 30, 2025
SG,
Your post reads like an incident from ‘The Archers’.
Pigeons are wary of tin foil near bird feeders. Maybe that would be an inexpensive solution for your roof ?
Even better, squirrels are deterred from bird feeders by the foil tins that hold quiche. They stop squirrels climbing down when even barbed wire is no hindrance to them.
July 30, 2025
On topic, shame too many people abuse your hospitality by dumping their ‘angst of the day’ where is the business case/investment appetite?
I am sure you know barriers to entry, both financial and non are far too great let alone resulting timescales.
So no business case. I am not certain why you are pushing it unless you are testing the water’ (no pun intended) to see whether there might be some interest to form a consortium?
July 30, 2025
Sir John
‘If the monopoly was lifted’
That is today’s situation some entities have reached the state were what ever happens they can ‘Blackmail’ the user and the State.
Companies have been broken up time and time again because their size has led to a situation that abuse is almost inevitable as weak and poor management seeks the easy way out.
July 30, 2025
A bit like Government when it doesn’t have a clue what managing the economy is – so just want to steal more money from those that create it. Then wonder why things dry up and get worse
July 30, 2025
The last reservoir built in UK was in 1992. Both Labour and Conservatives have had plenty of time to address this problem.
July 30, 2025
That old water chestnut again.
Let us consider the ‘lower cost grey water supply’ notion. For a start the cost of lovely clean EU approved water to your house is a small fraction of your water bill, the main cost element is taking away the sewage. You are welcome to introduce competition into the sewage collection market – if you can find any takers.
But to low cost grey water. So we dig up your kitchen floor to allow in the new grey pipe, we pull up your carpets and floorboards and re-plumb your loos. You pay for this bit at plumber’s rates!
After which we trench your front garden to join the newly trenched roadway to couple up the low cost grey pipelines. Then we make trenches all the way back to the sewage/industrial water treatment works. Perhaps a mini-works built and run on the cheap. Where we site pumps and bacterial slime preventers. We slap the cost of the new grey water billing system (that employs hundreds of people and consultants and regulators and legislators) on you. Remember that this new grey water is supposed to be even less cost than the ordinary clean water it is replacing.
I don’t know about you Sir John, but this looks like the economics of the madhouse. Assuming the use of grey water is optional then only new build would ever even consider it. The cost being added to our already sky high housing cost. Daft idea – forget it.
Reply I put forward ten ideas. The market will decide. There will be no monopoly making you do things in the way the current monopolies make you put in a meter then ban your hosepipe. I had my garden neatly dug to put in a new broadband cable, all taken care of in the monthly price of the service
July 30, 2025
Tapping into an upstairs bath/shower waste is often a low cost job and can reduce demand for garden watering. My parents did it.
July 31, 2025
Jim
Take your point about grey water, but surely the idea is to use your own grey water collection for such matters as flushing the toilet is it not. Yes it would require a reasonable amount of plumbing on site with rainwater, sink, bath, shower collection, with provision for a storage tank and pump, but all waste water would then surely go into your existing foul drain/sewer system would it not.
Thus whilst perhaps difficult and costly to a degree, it is not as expensive or disruptive and extensive as you suggest. Certainly would be less expensive and disruptive on new builds.
People would however need to get used to not having a pristine toilet bowl of clean water at the bottom of the pan, and perhaps use a coloured disinfectant to disguise it, as many do now.
July 30, 2025
Water may not be scarce but good sense is scarce.
That said in the last week Kemi Badenoch pronounced a sensible new policy on behalf of the Conservative Party – they would ban doctors from going on strike. That said if doctors and Police are rightly banned from striking, so too should everybody else be banned from striking If people don’t like their pay they or conditions, they are entitled to try and (individually) find a better job if they can but they are not entitled to conspire with others to disrupt the lives of their customers.
July 30, 2025
There ought to be an alternative to striking that achieves the same effect. How about the workers can elect to suspend the chief executive’s pay in lieu of strike action? That should get the matter resolved quickly. If not it begs the question whether the CEO is up to the job or the workforce are ungovernable.
In the case of the resident doctors, whoever has the power to approve or reject a pay demand – perhaps the health secretary.
July 30, 2025
There’s plenty of water I agree we need a national grid for water to move around the country. This was proposed a good while back but not acted on with a outline plans. Failure by government of which ever colour
July 30, 2025
Banned by the EU Water Directives.
July 30, 2025
Rely on government to provide an adequate solution in an adequate time .. or time to research domestic rainwater harvesting, filters and non-chemical purification.
July 30, 2025
But who do we get to run the water?! The clever people are making money in High Tech, Finance, Property, and so on. Where it’s much easier to make good money and in a non-corrupt way compared to water. Water requires people with a good sense of public duty to work well. That’s the reality. All we can really do is help the real wealth creators in our economy to do better. Water is like the poor relation or arthritis we’re stuck with as other countries have exact same problem.
July 30, 2025
I have a huge water tank under my driveway, fed by my downpipes off the roof. I have a pump attached to a drip feed to the beds on a timer, so my flowerbeds are watered every day.
However I think the quality of the water is superior to what we get from the taps. All the dust etc from the roof settles in the tank, and then the drip-pipe filters the water further.
I would like another system which feeds our drinking water, possibly modified so that it was maintainable and the quality monitored.
Then all we need the water companies to do is process the sewage.
July 30, 2025
Do you have a septic tank?
July 30, 2025
Perhaps we could dispense with the water companies altogether and just engage a logistics firm to transport it to Westminster where it will feel at home?
July 30, 2025
“It is true some human intervention is needed to store water in convenient places and to clean it up if we want to drink it.”
It all depends.
1) In the north and west, where I live, most tap water is from bogs, lakes or rivers. It needs treating to remove all the obvious and unpleasant impurities. However, two nearby towns get their water from boreholes and it needs little doing to it. In the best cases, it is naturally filtered by the local rocks.
2) In the south and east, where JR lives, I understand that the majority of tap water comes from boreholes. If they’re deep enough and located in the chalk, I doubt that it even needs filtration because it has already passed through 50 to 100 metres of slightly porous rock. This kind of tap water is chemically similar to bottled mineral water.
So some water might be safely stored and piped to consumers, little more than that. It might be interesting to compare today’s water bills to those before the industry was reorganised and centralised in 1974. Technically, people then didn’t get a bill; they paid a percent of the house’s rateable value. However, the costs incurred by local government or small private companies to provide potable water could easily be unearthed.
I am sceptical that there are any economies of scale in water infrastructure. However, the above figures could prove me wrong … or right.
July 30, 2025
“We could each collect more of our own as rain from our roof.”
Are there currently any restrictions on doing this? Restictions on the size of the collector? Restrictions on the uses other than for drinking? Clearly not allowed to use a hosepipe for this collected water when there is a hosepipe ban.
July 30, 2025
No.
July 30, 2025
As you imply there is no clear plan to deal with water supply and distribution. Water is irregular in its arrival and geographically haphazard, but in terms of volume adequate to our needs. We need, as a matter of urgency, to improve its storage and its distribution. Posibly more resevoirs, but absolutely a national grid .
Encourage roof run of for gardens, but bare in mind that not everyone has their own roof or garden. Father did it in 1936 with two very large wine vats and from our acre fed a very extended family during WW2. A task he added to building Spitfires and being a Special Constable.
If a small country like Israel can solve the problem in much more challenging circumstances, then we have absolutely no excuse for the situation we find ourselves in.
I found it fascinating to listen to Trump giving our hapless PM a common sense lecture on how to solve our energy crisis, in sensible easy steps. Sad we have to wait another four years of self inflicted damage across the piste before resolution.
July 30, 2025
Your suggestions are simply blue-sky thinking about what could happen. The problem is that too many people see the problem, not the opportunity. Who knows what water solutions might be found if competition were introduced?
Who would have believed 35 years ago that the heavy, bulky first-generation mobile phones could evolve to what they are today?
The old saying applies – Will those who say it can’t be done get out of the way of those who are doing it!
You only have to look at the subsidies for Wind and solar power to know the Government has no clue! There is no situation so bad that the Government can’t make it worse.
July 30, 2025
Plus they lose roughly 30% through leakages annually as a result of poorly maintained pipes, what other industry could afford to lose 30% of its resources and stay in business.
July 30, 2025
This nonsense has got to stop!
Multiple lifeboats have been called out to help with chaotic scenes in the English Channel, as more than 500 small boat migrants attempt to cross to the UK. Lifeboats from Dover, Ramsgate, Walmer and Dungeness have all been called in to support Border Force vessels, which have been overwhelmed by the number of migrant boats currently making the crossing.
Every French border patrol vessel in the region, along with a number of French lifeboats are currently escorting multiple migrant dinghies towards the UK.
One senior maritime security source told GB News: “The situation out there is complete chaos.
Surely UK should tell the French, and specifically Macron that we will not accept them ‘escorting boats’ to where Border Force are being expected to manage the situation. They must turn them back and escort to France.
For God’s sake Starmer grow some balls!
July 30, 2025
MT :
Illegal migrant boats escorted by the French navy are clearly not in any danger. So there is no reason for either Border Force or the RNLI to go out to collect them and when the French navy call in advance to meet at the cross-over point we should simply refuse saying no lives are in danger unless the French navy abandons them in mid Channel and surely they would’t do that would they?
July 30, 2025
”If you build it and they will come”
Build it (a free all found hotel) and they will come (europes illegal immigrants)
July 30, 2025
149 criminals were illicitly shipped, into the UK yesterday on the 29th July from France……
July 31, 2025
Why does our Civil Service and judiciary continue to encourage these criminals to break into Britain with free accommodation in 4 star hotels (now also houses), free health care, free mobile phones, £40/week pocket money, free clothing, free entertainment, free travel, free legal fees and the freedom to roam our streets (even outside schools) and take black market jobs undercutting our indigenous population? And why do we offer all this when the French do not despite also being members of the ECHR? What is wrong with tents within a fenced area at least for those who arrive with no documentation?
July 30, 2025
Excellent article from SirJ today on ‘net-zero’ in the telegraph & picked up by net zero watch
July 30, 2025
In other mad new
Liverpool council are to spend £10 to build a 1.8 mile cycle-lane, taking 1.5 years to build, leading to massive disruption on a major route …..a cycle-lane that no one will use
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/much-needed-boost-liverpool-council-32168231
Liverpool City Council has a debt of £100 million
July 30, 2025
Firstly we should refuse to accept illegal migrant boats that are being safely escorted by the Frech navy. Secondly we should put them up in tents in either fields or hangers as the French do and within a secure, fenced area if they arrive without identification. If the French, who are also I understand signatories of the ECHR, do not provide them with free 4 star hotel accommodation, free healthcare, free translation and legal services, £40/week pocket money, free clothing, discounted tickets for entertainment, free wifi and video games and the freedom to roam our streets and take black market jobs undercutting our indigenous population, then why do we?
July 30, 2025
agree
August 1, 2025
Ever since they announced the hosepipe ban, it’s been nothing but rain up North, the school holidays are becoming a washout.