@DarkSprouty, X
It’s totally outrageous that this is being done and the company who is causing it is paying out dividends and bonuses. Ofwat is a chocolate teapot of a water regulator. No doubt those who run it are most likely compromised too.
Rashpukin, Reddit
Friends reunited
I am writing to you to share my story about your vendor in Sevenoaks, Ronnie. I live in Singapore and I was lucky enough to have some free time this year to come to the UK to visit my elderly parents, which was a great joy for us all.
One Saturday I brought my mum to Sevenoaks. As we walked along the High Street, your vendor Ronnie enthusiastically greeted my mum, who for years supported him every week, buying the magazine when she was still mobile enough to come shopping on her own. Ronnie and my mum chatted animatedly and I was astonished that Ronnie had even remembered where I lived after previous conversations with my mum. I was so touched by this that afterwards I was almost in tears.
Ronnie shared a little about his life and updated my mum with his family news. I cannot tell you how much this meeting meant to me. Thank you, Ronnie.
Victoria Epps, Singapore
Prison brakes
The government cannot imprison its way out of the climate crisis! Unfair legal action will just serve to strengthen feelings of support for peaceful activists. The activists I know are decent, well-informed, educated, brave people of all ages. They are all trying desperately hard to protect future generations from a disaster which is already happening. I’m 75 and know how the climate has changed over the years. The activists are not the trouble causers. They are the protectors.
Audrey Arksey
Union dues
Regarding your article: No, unions are not ‘holding the country to ransom’. That’s exactly what the unions have done, no matter how they dress it up. The rail strikes, the junior doctor strikes; they did not hit the rich, they did not hit the politicians, it hit normal people. And in health, it hit the most vulnerable in society.
Stuart Goodman, Facebook
I feel the shame despite being off ill with four surgeries and a fractured shoulder in the last 20 months. Our children even pick up on that mindset. Very challenging to manage despite giving the best for recovery and re-entry to full-time work.
@Clt21century, Instagram
The fabric of society which was trampled to death by the Tories is having its guts kicked out again by Labour. The country needs to go back to basics and decide if we are going to use the resources of the UK to look after the billionaires and lobbyists or the rightful recipients – ie the people!
@ct9058023, Instagram
And the lack of jobs? And the zero-hour, 20-hours-a-month contract jobs? And the small businesses trying their hardest to compete with corporations? Parents my age wonder why they’re struggling so hard to raise their children and wonder what the hell any of them are going to do if and when they reach pension age, if they make it that far.
@boredbecky, Instagram
I think it’s really difficult to get a job now. I was lucky to get employment. Everything now wants you to apply online but I don’t use computers. My employer was amazing and let me apply with a good old-fashioned application form and a pen.
Sally-anne Hardwick, Facebook
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