Family, animals and QPR ! Work for QPR but my opinions are personal
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Frank Atkinson retweeted
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.....
Frank Atkinson retweeted
BBC Blue Peter
Back in March 1974, John Noakes climbed 80 feet up one of the floodlights at QPR’s Loftus Road, to change a light bulb (a big light bulb) in the days before Health & Safety…and in a pair of flairs.
The man was fearless!
Courtesy of the BBC
Frank Atkinson retweeted
Defrauded the UK taxpayer out of £200m for useless PPE...
Not in Prison!
Never been prosecuted!
Never paid back a penny!
Still a peer!
There's your two tier justice system...
#PPEMedPro #PPE #MichelleMone
Frank Atkinson retweeted
A brilliant contribution from @Kevin_Maguire on #BBCQT
Asylum seekers are demonised for being in a system that prevents them from working.
"Let asylum seekers work"
He acknowledges there is a problem but it is blown out of all proportion.
Stop paying for them to sit in grotty hotels. And ask why, when black and brown people commit crimes, it's blown out of all proportion.
Well said, Kevin. 👏"
Frank Atkinson retweeted
The media thinks a billionaire tax is a terrible idea.
The media is owned by billionaires.
Go figure.
40 years is long enough: End commercial whaling now - Sign the Petition! c.org/MVTjJwkSgg via @UKChange
Frank Atkinson retweeted
Happy Monday!
Have a Great Week and remember to bring Fun, Sunshine & Love in whatever you do!
Just watch out for any trains…
#StillBringingSunshine 👓☀️❤️
#MorecambeAndWise #EricAndErnie
Frank Atkinson retweeted
Sometimes wildlife isn’t invading our neighborhoods—we’re building into their home. Every road, light, and construction project changes the world they once knew. If a wild animal is simply trying to survive, maybe the question isn’t “Why is it here?” but “What happened to where it lived?”
Frank Atkinson retweeted
West London had a flooding problem. Engineers had planned an artificial reservoir and levee. The city released beavers instead, because why not?
The conventional answer to flooding for most cities is usually more hard infrastructure to push and contain the water, at a cost to the taxpayers.
Beavers have a different plan. Their dams slowed the flow, spread water across wetlands and held it upstream for longer. The landscape absorbed the pulse instead of delivering it all at once.
In their first year at Paradise Fields, the beavers made at least seven dams and two lodges. Water that used to rush through the site toward Greenford station in minutes now takes hours to seep through the chain of dams and wetlands.
The targeted area downstream had flooded repeatedly for a decade. It stayed flood-free through the beavers' second winter, then their third. As of this year, Greenford station has gone three years without flooding.
The wetland changed too. Freshwater shrimp and swarms of Daphnia appeared. Surveys found more aquatic invertebrates, and the project recorded at least two new bat species. A near ecological dead zone was becoming habitat while it held back stormwater.
This obviously doesn't mean that beavers can replace every flood mitigation plan in every city. This site had enough land, water and food, plus a 1.2-kilometer enclosure for the beavers to thrive.
But the payoff of working with nature is clear as day. Seven dams, water slowed from minutes to hours, and three flood-free years downstream. That, as the kids say, whips.
