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Wow. You actually went through all my posts - and there are a lot - back to January 2025 to find that tweet, and draw some weird conclusion from that? You are really, and I mean REALLY, weird.

That was Yvette Cooper, if I remember correctly

Not just that, they were literally bragging about the flags they had at home, incl all sorts of bunting, and how they loved hanging them up everywhere.

In French Parliament!!!

You know what else smells and is dirty?

They had a spare £75 million to spend to tell us we need to be more like the Dutch / Germans, who use 15% less water than us p.p. Of course they didn't mention the UK loses 20% to 23% of all treated water pumped through the network. compared to only 5%-8% in Germany and 3%-6% in the Netherlands.

New campaign urges public to reduce water use as UK emerges from heatwaveExclusive: £75m publicity drive will ask people to treat water as precious resource and cut daily use by 28 litreswww.theguardian.com

And that regional rail services consistently maintain a punctuality rate of around 90%, and still offer a more widespread and dense regional and commuter network that offer high frequencies of trains compared to rural UK. 10/10

Finally, the German rail issues are very much a tail of two systems, with the long distance (ICE/IC) trains having a punctuality of only around 62% currently, but the regional S-bahnrail services consistently maintain a punctuality rate of around 90%. 9

For comparison, this is the 5 year outlook of British rail according to Google Gemini. I know what I'd prefer. 8

Coupled with the nationwide rollout of the digital European Train Control System (ETCS), the core arteries of Germany's network are engineered to emerge vastly more resilient, digitized, and capable of handling much higher volumes by the end of the decade. 7

Germany is choosing short term pain for long term transformation. This is the 5 year outlook of German rail: By roughly 2030, Germany plans to have completely overhauled around 40 of its most heavily congested main corridors 6

During these total shutdowns, everything—tracks, switches, overhead lines, stations, and digital signaling—is ripped out and replaced brand new all at once. And these shutdowns are having a ripple effect on rail traffic nationwide, causing even worse delays and disruptions. 5

The Germans have decided to take it on the chin, and do total line overhauls (Generalüberholung), completely closing entire high-density corridors (such as the Riedbahn between Frankfurt and Mannheim, and major arteries like Hamburg–Berlin) for months at a time, simultaneously. 4

To fix the current rail issues Germany is executing an unprecedented, multi-billion-euro industrial strategy to fix its network, spending over €23bn annually for the rest of the decade. And they don't do piecemeal night/weekend work, that causes endless cascading delays for years & years to come. 3

They do have an excuse though. People in the UK seem to keep forgetting the Germans have spent upwards of €2 trillion levelling up former communist East Germany last few decades. Whilst keeping its national debt at 63.5% of GDP. 2

Funnily enough a lot of the disruption you currently experience is caused by the Germans fixing the problems. Long 🧵. German rail is having serious issues. Decades of chronic underinvestment have led a rail infrastructure that is outdated, failing and not suitable for this day and age. 1

Dear Damned, this is a story about a specific case of a data centre being prioritised over affordable housing in a city centre, not a case of a meat factory being prioritised over affordable housing in a city. Hope this helps 👍

I wonder who will be in charge of Reform in 6 months time. Craig from accounts?

Full comparison Spain vs Portugal here.

Climate comparison: Portugal / SpainCompare the climate of Portugal with that of Spain: temperature, precipitation, humidity, rain days, sunshine hours and more.www.worlddata.info

It is even worse. Without any regard for the enormous risks & shortages we already face, UK governments give the green light to build, build, build nuclear power plants and datacenters. Which all use a lot of water we don't have, and create heat islands pushing up local temperatures even higher.