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EricEatsPickles 🚲 Profile picture
@EricEatsPickles
Nov 23, 2019 • 10 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
How broken are borough council @RedditchMatters & local government policies, when most of the stories in the weekly paper @RedStand are about people trying to patch the massive holes in the social fabric...
Support Redditch #FoodBank this Christmas. Let's not demand & enable a more just and fairer society instead...
redditchstandard.co.uk/news/shoppers-…
Redditch Lions raise funds for @ChildrenInNeed. If only all those tax dodging corporations like @BootsUK paid their tax perhaps children wouldn't be in need...
redditchstandard.co.uk/news/redditch-…
Bereaved father campaigns for '#RoadSafetyWeek'.
Is this really all we can do instead of making our roads & the vehicles on them safer? This tragic story also has the dead corporate hand of #RoadSafety shill @Brakecharity all over it...
redditchstandard.co.uk/news/ollie-sel…
Even education isn't safe. This cash-strapped high school was saved from closing with 'emergency funding' to replace a boiler.
redditchstandard.co.uk/news/emergency…
Meanwhile local schools are urged to 'join the race for life' against cancer.
In case you forgot, cancer is one of the UK's 4 biggest health crises, but we're dicking about with collection tins & guilt tripping people...
I imagine being in a hospice isn't a bundle of laughs. But don't be glum - @CoopFuneralcare of all people is sponsoring this Santa fun run to raise cash...
redditchstandard.co.uk/news/targeting…
Pub organises music festival to raise funds for cancer and lung disease. Both exacerbated by air pollution, another of our 4 biggest health crises...
redditchstandard.co.uk/news/organiser…
In other news, schoolchildren donate to a homeless charity, the Salvation Army begs for xmas gifts for children, men strip for a naked calendar in aid of motor neurone disease & men cycle the TdF course to raise funds for leukaemia...
@RedStand & other papers like it are essentially little more than a weekly record of council & local government failures.
It's mind-boggling that those who vote for these people don't see anything wrong. And they'll vote for more of the same in December.

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Sep 5, 2020
If you think the UK has a 'free press', think again.
Just 3 companies (News UK, Daily Mail Group & Reach) dominate 83% of the UK newspaper market.
Including online readers, just 5 companies (News UK, Daily Mail Group, Reach, Guardian & Telegraph) dominate nearly 80%...
A pliant government has allowed wealthy individuals & organisations to amass vast political & economic power & distort the media landscape to suit their interests. Six billionaires own &/or have a majority of voting shares in most of our national newspapers...
True editorial independence doesn’t exist in these papers. The owners can – & do – interfere with what is published, which editors & journalists are promoted or fired & also exert undue influence as to which political parties the paper supports..
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Jul 29, 2020
This exemplifies everything that's wrong with the licensing system. A persistent offender who is demonstrably incapable of operating dangerous machinery in public spaces is allowed to drive again, with the 'exceptional hardship' excuse.
standard.co.uk/news/uk/shane-…
#ShaneWarne & other persistent offenders should undergo psychological screening as well as a retest before he's ever allowed behind the wheel. A cycling proficiency test on roads should also be an essential part of the driving test.
Automated speed limiting tech would curb Warne's worst excesses & ensure he can never break speed limits again.
This is what the '#RoadSafety' lobby needs to address, otherwise the lives of innocent victims are worth no more than thoughts & prayers.
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May 28, 2020
I complained to @thesundaytimes about @Real_RodLiddle's article on using piano wire to harm cyclists & got this reponse.
They're claiming it's all a 'joke'
I'm absolutely appalled.
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I'm not aware Liddle was passing himself off as a comedian these days, but if he is he needs to think about his new career direction because advocating violence against others is far from a laughing matter.
Hi article is as funny as cancer...
2/5
The ST's reply is a shocking attempt to defend the indefensible & the illegal.
It's attempting to justify inflammatory 'journalism' that incites criminal behaviour.
Liddle, the Sunday Times and Stephen Bleach should all be ashamed of themselves...
3/5
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Mar 1, 2020
@Stowie38 @DonnachadhMc @TfL @TfLTPH @Heidi_LDN @UberUK @TheRealSitts @TootlestheTaxi @TheSun @thetimes @IoD_Press @SadiqKhan @LonGreenParty @StopKillingCycl 'Risky' cycling not so dangerous...
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@Stowie38 @DonnachadhMc @TfL @TfLTPH @Heidi_LDN @UberUK @TheRealSitts @TootlestheTaxi @TheSun @thetimes @IoD_Press @SadiqKhan @LonGreenParty @StopKillingCycl Also, we're not 'killing ourselves'.
Every jurisdiction that has analysed causes of bicycle/motor vehicle collisions has found that drivers are at fault for the vast majority...
@Stowie38 @DonnachadhMc @TfL @TfLTPH @Heidi_LDN @UberUK @TheRealSitts @TootlestheTaxi @TheSun @thetimes @IoD_Press @SadiqKhan @LonGreenParty @StopKillingCycl West Midlands, UK, 2016
"statistical analysis of 5 years' worth of data on collisions involving bikes & motor vehicles ... the cyclist was rarely to blame, innocent in the majority of KSI collisions"...
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Dec 2, 2019
Days after a terrorist kills 2 innocent people, MPs rush to change legal processes.
In the interim 20 innocent people die on UK roads: tumbleweed.
#UnacknowledgedEverydayMotoringTerrorism
standard.co.uk/news/crime/pol…
The carnage never ends, while politicians look the other way.
#UnacknowledgedEverydayMotoringTerrorism
standard.co.uk/news/london/ea…
Another hit & run.
The needs & safety of #VulnerableRoadUsers continue to be ignored as political parties obsess about immigrants.
The biggest danger we face is already here & behind the steering wheel...
#UnacknowledgedEverydayMotoringTerrorism
standard.co.uk/news/crime/hea…
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Nov 4, 2019
Q: Kids, how can you breathe less pollution on the school run?
A: Don't let your parents drive you. Stay out of that car & walk or, better still, get on your bike instead...
bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-eng…
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