Dad to Rafi & Nelle, Hubby to Alex; CEO @thebiglemon @brightoncoaches @SeafordandDist MD @BHCommunityBus; Co-founder @ldn2btnEVrally Fellow @theRSAorg 😊🚌🌍💚
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Tom Druitt retweeted
Today is our last day operating routes 16, 47 & 52 in #Brighton & #Hove 🚌 🚌 🚌
It has been a fun journey, and we are very grateful to our passengers for your custom, our investors for your support and all our staff who have worked so hard every day 🍋☺️🙏thebiglemon.com/2025/03/30/a…
Tom Druitt retweeted
Let’s hear it for all those working this evening to keep the wheels turning while everyone else is out partying 👏 🚌 😍
Happy New Year to all our team, our passengers, supporters and friends, thank you for all your support this year and may the world be kind to you in 2025 🍋😁
This is great, but didn’t @bhlabour vote against a clean air zone in opposition? @bhcitynews brightonandhovenews.org/2024…
Tom Druitt retweeted
Lots of news from #Brighton and #Bristol 🍋 a new structure for next year and two management vacancies 😮 🚌
thebiglemon.com/2024/12/09/a…
Tom Druitt retweeted
Lovely to see so many people at our AGM yesterday!
We started with a tour of the depot, and drove to the Bevy community pub for our meeting
Thank you to our team, passengers, suppliers, investors & partners for all your support this year, we couldn’t do it without you 🍋🚌😍🙏
So Trump won, seemingly for very similar reasons that the UK voted Brexit.
Did our American friends learn nothing from that?
America will now be poorer, less equal, less safe and less relevant.
And so ends the American Dream, the American Century, and the world as we know it
My quote about the bus fare cap has made the front page 😮
Seriously, freezing fuel duty *again* while raising the bus fare cap is all the wrong way round 😞
#buses #busfarecap
Tom Druitt retweeted
Journalists are meant to speak truth to power. That's our job. But what do you do when that power is your own news org?
This thread (professional suicide note?) is about @guardian & @ObserverUK's future. Because it turns out you can’t believe everything you read on a poster..
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Tom Druitt retweeted
Staff meeting in #Brighton today 😁
On the agenda:
- reliability of the electric buses
- communication with passengers when things go wrong
- how we maintain the family team culture in a growing organisation
And of course we finished off with lunch & drinks out together 🍋🚌😍
Tom Druitt retweeted
🧵 Europe Invasion Investigation
1/ We dug into Europe Invasion, a blue tick X account spreading disinformation, xenophobia, and Islamophobia. @elonmusk has boosted it several times, and police say its fake news helped spark the riots in the UK earlier this summer.
Tom Druitt retweeted
You are seriously posting about parking when your @brightonhovecc Lab administration are talking about £100 million local gov cuts and your @UKLabour gov are not going to do anywhere near enough to end this austerity that will cost lives #change: theargus.co.uk/news/24597074…
Tom Druitt retweeted
Already far too many of our visitors come by car. Interested to understand how making parking cheaper won’t exacerbate that issue?
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Tim Farron, "The unpleasantness about this debate is only matched by the lack of proper information" #BBCQT
"85% of refugees settle in the country next to where they come from"
"The French take 3x more refugees than we do"
"The Germans take 4x more refugees than we do"
"If you put us back in the European Union, we are 19th in the league table when it comes to the number of refugees we take per capita"
"Do we need deterrents? Yes. The best deterrents is competence. If we assess people when they arrive - and they are not illegal immigrants - they are people seeking asylum.. From Sudan.. Afghanistan.. Iran.. Syria.. 90%+ turn out to be genuine refugees"
"If we have a competent government, and we haven't had one, let's see about this one.. And you assess them quickly.. And return the ones that are not refugees"
"That is your deterrent"
"Rwanda was a waste of money.. If they spent that money on case workers we could have processed these people, returned the ones that weren't refugees in a humane way, and let th eones who are genuine refugees, become British, pay their taxes, be part of our country, and we should be proud to admit them"
Very well said @timfarron 👏