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Ben

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Litter picker, gardener, peat free enthusiast, reuser of stuff, trying to reduce plastic pollution. One planet. One step at a time.

South East, England

Joined November 2017

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

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11 days

10 days ago my 13 year old son said 'dad have a look at this'. He has a whatsapp group with some mates and some mates of mates. One of the latter had sent a video to the group with the words 'hey watch this'. It was a collection of video clips of hostages being decapitated. 1/1

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3 years

Hi @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer I'm not sure if your Comms person is asleep but you've so far tweeted a total of zero times about the raw sewage in our rivers and lakes which has trended for the last 48 hrs. Some sort of at least vague opposition to this would b grand. #StoolBritannia

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3 years

Out with the grass, in with the plastic. Lunatic species we are

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3 years

@GretaThunberg I'm going net zero on swearing by 2050 to, which is great as it means i can swear as much as i like for the next 28 years

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5 years

@AMAZlNGNATURE One on the left is like 'give it a rest love'

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11 months

As you can see I've mastered growing carrots

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2 years

@johnredwood Hi John, are you tweeting this in your capacity as an advisor to an energy investment firm for which you earn circa 200k for 50 hours a month work or as your second job as an MP?

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10 months

Yesterday they didn't see the sign, today they sat on doubles instead

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3 years

@nicktolhurst I for one am shocked that ending freedom of movement would end freedom of movement

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2 years

@johnredwood Hi John, are you tweeting this in your capacity as an advisor to an energy investment firm for which you earn circa 200k for 50 hours a month work, and for which you were given a 35k bonus in June, or as your second job as an MP?

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3 years

In the run up to Christmas don't forget to buy loads of tat from China and then blame China for the emissions involved in buying said tat.

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2 years

@johnredwood Hi John, are you tweeting this in your capacity as an advisor to an energy investment firm for which you earn circa 200k for 50 hours a month work or as your second job as an MP?

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4 years

Hi @CocaCola , I picked this up, given my local recycling facility won't take them, given terra cycle don't take them could you tell me how you expect I recycle them?

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4 years

@MattHancock Christ and there I was going to vote for Nick Robinson. Cheers Matt

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3 years

@brianmoore666 I think the apparently independent MP pay review board should recommend MPs a medal and some clapping and see what happens then

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1 year

Hi @Tesco when it comes to litter around your Broadbridge Heath store we could do without Every Little Bit of it

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4 years

Do think that water butts should be a mandatory part of any new builds.

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4 months

@Joey7Barton @LouiseRawAuthor This is why , from the CPS, not rocket science mate

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2 years

@trussliz You literally binned your chancellor for implementing the promises you made to the party members who got you elected. You have no mandate for any of this now. If you want to serve the national interest call a GE

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2 years

Remember to tie down your lawns good and proper...

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6 years

@4FreemanLittle @realDonaldTrFan @DemodogsandCats U know it's a fake account?

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2 years

@IanDunt

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2 years

@johnredwood Hi John, are you tweeting this in your capacity as an MP or as a paid advisor to a fossil fuel investment firm for which you get paid c. 200k for 200 hrs a year

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5 years

Yup in hedges, side of the road, the usual

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McDonald's UK

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Who’s spotted our Spring Cups? 😍

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4 years

The final sign of the Apocalypse. @marksandspencer The 'organic fresh drinking coconut' flown from Thailand, packed in Spain, with added plastic ring pull and industrially compostable, that never will, plastic wrapped straw. Sorry folks. Can't say we weren't warned.

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4 years

@RichNeville @RoadsideMum Will all the other statues now jump into the river in a show of solidarity?

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2 months

@I_amMukhtar I mean she only has to present his twitter account

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11 days

So good luck everyone. I'm just listening to @mrjamesob . Parents of children who have killed themselves as a result of these sites are calling in. I'd only ask you have a listen and a think. Put the phone down sometimes, go out to the park, hug your kids while you can. Take care

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2 years

@richardaeden @mrjamesob before you tweet, here's something for you

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3 years

@stephenhowlet19 @bradfordcowboy @talkRADIO @Iromg @InsulateLove Mike literally said you can grow concrete and this is your take

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5 years

I found £30 quid in a purse a few months ago, handed to police, no one claimed (there was only cash, no cards, ID etc). If you're a litter picking group in need of some pickers and gear, let me know and I'll spend it on you.

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3 years

Sometimes you don't need to look up to see the sun

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2 years

@johnredwood Hi John, are you tweeting this in your capacity as an advisor to an energy investment firm for which you earn circa 200k for 50 hours a month work or as your second job as an MP?

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5 years

Changed my browser to @Ecosia . They plant trees with the profits they make from your searches. They publish their accounts monthly. Seems like a good thing to do. Maybe give it a go to.

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2 years

So much of a garden center still appears to be dedicated to killing stuff that lives in the garden

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4 years

People of Britain please stop with the mask littering. Really.

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11 days

So I've stopped using X other than to post this. I miss the folks i've got used to chatting to but I can't support this site nor others like it anymore. Since Musk took over this site has become a sewer of pornbots and racists shouting about free speech 11/11

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2 years

Seems like @SouthernWater are actively doing what they can to hide sewage release data and make potentially unsafe beaches seem fine @JolyonMaugham

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SOS Whitstable

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Here is the updated @SouthernWater Beachbuoy website in operation. A look at the Portsmouth area. All looks pretty good, right? Certainly no sewage to be concerned about. (1/4)

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2 years

@robbiedhill @EvilSoupdragon @CenterParcsUK You just told them to book a hotel which you now expect will be closed as well. Genius

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5 years

@WirralCouncil Did you think 'was this a good idea' when you tweeted that?

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2 years

Let's visit a nice place, have fish and chips, dump our rubbish by overfilled bins and watch it get blown into the sea

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2 years

@BootstrapCook @thereclaimparty Hopefully every view is more money the Judge orders them to pay

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10 months

This bloke hit the jackpot, being on doubles, engine on and on the phone. Apparently it was ok because 'its the school run' and then he helpfully gave me some career advice

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so there we are, this is the stuff your kids are seeing. Human beings having their heads removed with knives, people shooting themselves in the head, brains and blood of real people. This is the stuff that earns the likes of Musk and Zuckerberg billions. 9/9

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2 years

Inspired by @Feargal_Sharkey , some new leaflets. Grammar could have been better...

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2 years

@johnredwood Hi John, is that John the investment firm employee being paid circa 235k an year for 50hrs a month work or John the MP speaking?

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2 years

@lewis_goodall Imagine resigning over something the Gov says didn't happen

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3 years

@LanceForman @Sillyshib @butwhatifitsall @jriekemann Hi Lance, over a month ago you were saying how easy it was to export to Europe, which is slightly odd given .

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10 months

Favorite bit of allotment, admittedly not much veg :)

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3 years

My yearly attempt at getting enough peas for one meal is in full swing

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5 years

£41k for flytipping a fridge gets my vote. Spanish have it right.

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Man ordered to collect fridge he threw off Spanish cliff

Another man mocked recycling as he filmed the fridge rolling down a ravine in southeast Spain.

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3 months

@ShippersUnbound If there was ever a hotbed of wokism it's football fans

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4 years

@kashanacauley @AnnNarkeh Unfortunately those who think antifa is bad wont be bothered about the fascists

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2 years

@mrjamesob and vote to criminalise protest, and to strip UK nationals of their citizenship without warning

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@JimMFelton @SirRogerGale Not sure about Roger and his character references

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4 years

@LuckyHeronSay @jessphillips Can we all be nicer to each other?

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3 months

@I_amMukhtar @walegates @NiallMcConnell5 Yeah the interviewer was struggling not to say 'white' Irish like he wanted to

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2 years

Nothing beats a barrow of home made compost :) #pinkandproud

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@Councillorsuzie @mrjamesob ambushed by a radio station

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@geoffwilton2 @PippaCrerar They've just joined defund the police

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2 years

Why I support the @RMTunion According to the High Pay Centre think tank, pay for top CEOs today is about 120 times more than the average worker in the UK. At the turn of the millennium it was 50 times, In the early 1980s in what was 20 times.

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26 days

Youd have thought @Tesco could hire some cleaners with 2 billon in profits but it seems not

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2 years

@johnredwood Hi John are you tweeting in your capacity as an MP or as your primary job as an energy investment firm consultant for which you are paid circa 200k for 50 hrs a month work?

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4 years

@JimMFelton For isolationists we aren't very good

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2 years

@Royston_Smith Well done Royston for proving her point

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4 years

Just picked up 103 pieces of @OpenreachHelp plastic crap from one of their junction boxes. Every day their engineers are polluting the streets with 1000s of pieces ready to be washed into drains and ultimately into streams, rivers and oceans.

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2 years

@Tony_Diver

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5 years

I love @AfrozShah1 , if I hadn't a partner I'd marry him.

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So inspiring: 3 years ago this week, the world's biggest clean-up was started by one man. Turtles started to hatch again on Mumbai's Versova beach for the 1st time in 20 years "I feel I owe it to my planet to give give give and not take take take" - Afroz Shah #BeTheChange

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5 years

Hi @HughFW @itsanitarani could you be good enough to have a word with your @BBC colleagues about the huge amounts of plastic tat that every BBCs kids magazine comes with

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2 years

@JoeGrowling @MartinSLewis Civil disobedience

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8 months

@LutfurRahmanTH Translation - your tweet has reached a sufficient threshold that me and my all male cabinet might reverse ferret

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2 years

@mrjamesob @MitchellCMM @GBNEWS For balance he could get an electrician to do the other half

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@GaryLineker

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5 years

@romanovsun @piersmorgan @SocialMobilityF Piers doesn't want information. It's his kryptonite.

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5 years

Seeing that @waitrose have a sign saying bring your own container I thought I'd get some cheese from the deli. They used one plastic sheet to put it on the scales, one to then grasp the cheese and another to then wrap it before putting it in the box. I died a bit more inside.

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3 years

Anyone else in a non environmental job wanting to do something environmentalLy beneficial and have no idea where to start?

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2 years

@BBCLauraKT Protesting about his right to wear a coat will get him up to 10 years soon

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3 years

Saw this down my road, maybe there's some hope

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11 days

He hasn't been back, I think. We contacted our schools safeguarding officer and they've chatted to our son and the other members of the group. The other kid goes to a different school so they contacted that school to deal with it. 7/7

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I'll do what i can to educate be more aware of what my kids are looking at but these sites are killing and harming children in the pursuit of profit for their shareholders. There is no 'moral crusade', Elon Musk and Zuck are in it for the money no matter the harm to your kids.

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5 years

Did a @2minbeachclean today and found this beauty. A 1950s milk ‘Safety First Milk Association’ bottle. Was buried in the low tide sand. Will use it as a vase.

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2 years

@mrjamesob the only proper justice is if Steve sues Andrea for libel and spends all the proceeds on speakers.

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4 years

One of the benefits of a pandemic is the range of new littering opportunities it brings

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2 years

@Askrigg_lad @LBC @mrjamesob No Mac, literally no one, that's why he has 1.3 million listeners as we're all so dense we can't change channel.

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@SMTHFC1 @melissaeweiss @mrjamesob @EylonALevy Then you haven't really been listening to him

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2 years

As i picked cucumbers no 36, 37, 38 and 39 i pondered once again why I'd planted 8 cucumber plants

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3 years

@JonHolb Did you reply to the mum of the girl involved?

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@JonHolb I am her mum and sent you a message a while ago. You didn't answer. Everyone else has said it all already but i wanted to say thanks. By trying to say she was in the wrong... you've acrually highlighted this awful form of discrimination again. The world is changing!!!

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2 years

half of me wishes to start a revolution, the other half just wants to go down the allotment. #torn

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3 years

@CoolsomeXD @JimMFelton Be worth grassing him up just to hear him say he made it up and how he's never broken a rule in his life apart from the libel ones

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5 years

@bbclaurak it seemed that Mr Bettel was heard perfectly

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3 years

If everyone had to grow their own veg wed soon learn never to take it for granted. Such an eye opener on how weather can ruin a crop.

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4 years

@vinod_d007 @PippaCrerar Don't call him Boris!

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4 years

@JimMFelton @lucyallan One can only hope she and the others get sued with all damages going towards anti grooming charities, that would be fab.

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4 years

@NoonDaniel @JimMFelton @SusanHarris80 @10DowningStreet Thick as mince certainly describes this shitwaffle

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If we are such a horrible racist country. 1. Why do people want to come here. 2.Why do they stay here. Even most of the BLM protesters can return back to their roots..

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2 years

@ILoveCFOfficial It looks shite, stinks if something pisses on it, poisons the planet, is ecologically devoid of life and will burn your feet if too hot but yeah apart from that it's FAB

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Billions are spent on algorithms. Once your child has seen one such video be assured they'll be pointed in the direction of more. Feeling down? Sure here's a load of video's about how you can kill yourself and why you're useless. 10/10

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1 year

@EmmaWebsdale @XRNottm @XRebellionUK @ExtinctionR @XRNewark @sascampaigns @Feargal_Sharkey Saw this in a Waitrose the other month

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2 years

@mercer_felicity @trussliz Presumably you were employed as your husbands Principal Secretary based on talent rather than any other connection

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4 years

Hi @marksandspencer , as part of your 'Plastic Plan' you say 'Where it’s not possible to reduce or remove plastic, we want to help our customers to reuse or recycle any we do use.' why then do you continue to wrap two individual boxes in plastic like this?

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