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Privatisation broke our water system. @labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it. Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: ​https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&​

Thames Water Prospective Private Equity Owner KKR Donated $1m to Trump Inauguration. Business model: profiteering, price hikes, low investment, high leverage, asset-stripping, excessive returns. In US KKR group sanctioned 217 times, fined $678m for anti-social practices. Can't address water woes.

Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...

You can choose not to eat in wetherspoons if you don't want to. You can't choose a different water supplier if you don't want to shell out hundreds of pounds for them to dump raw sewage in rivers while handing billions over to shareholders.

❗️ NEW: 10,000 people say they'll stop paying their water bills. Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves won't stop the price hikes and sewage dumping, so we're taking matters into our own hands. Join the pledge to strike today and, together, we'll end the failure of private water 👉 takebackwater.uk

So much love for Sess. #FFC 🤍🖤

Only two words in me tonight. Muniz and Sessignon

The Royal Navy has tracked a Russian warship sailing through British waters. HMS Somerset completed a three day operation monitoring the Russian vessel as it passed from Syria into the English Channel and North Sea

Public ownership of water isn’t just popular—it’s common sense. MPs must take bold action on the sewage crisis. Ask yours to attend @labourlewis.bsky.social’s Clean Water drop-in on 18th March and show their support. Take action now: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... #ourwaterourway

Starmer is not perfect by any measure. But we are no longer in the dark ages of Tory chaos. And it's important to remember that.

Just imagine a scenario in which PM Liz Truss was in charge now and then tell me that "all politicians are the same"

From this time last year

As opposed to ……

"Efforts to keep potentially disease-ridden meat out of the UK are being undermined by post-Brexit border checks." Brexit is an unsustainable, enfeebled position for this country. Its frameworks simply don't work well.

just saw someone in the FT comments section referring to Tesla as the swasticar

Silva irritated by Man Utd questions! 'Ask a different manager, NOT me' #FFC 🤍🖤

URGENT: Imagine paying for food poisoning and covering the restaurant’s debts when it goes under. That’s what water bosses could do to us. Tell your MP to back @labourlewis and support New Clause 8 to #BanTheBailouts today: actionnetwork.org/letters/0ecf...

Ooh.

Cannot recommend this highly enough. Not least as a corrective to the absolute balderdash published by the Telegraph & others.

I’m still on Twitter because so many FFC fans are still on it but coming back on here is like a warm bath compared with the right wing vitriolic tweets.

SAS Rogue Heroes is so good I can only watch one episode at a time.

Why Donald Trump’s return to White House means UK must rejoin European Union bylines.scot/politics/wor...

I have seen a lot of "news" stories about the current California fires as natural disasters. Southern California ecosystems are fire prone, but this event is a direct result climate change and management neglect. We need to change how we view these events, and the press is not helping.

Well that was a strange, messy game. Ipswich as difficult to play against as expected, & a bizarre ref performance, but we also just could not create anything clear-cut. Thank you to Raúl’s assuredness from the spot for saving us from a complete letdown. Onward! #FFC #COYW

Feels good to have a pen taker that can actually take a pen 💪 #utf

"He was a breath of fresh air in the Premier League" Tom Cairney praises Fulham’s strong record over the Christmas period and highlights how Marco Silva is the perfect manager 💪 (Part 2)

This is the colleague that the likes of Cleverly, Badenoch & Jenrick are refusing to defend...

While we’re banning books… Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.

Contents of my two year old granddaughter’s handbag !

On the left, a Tweet from Toby Young showing empty ICU beds in England in 2020 On the right, an article showing an empty hospital ward in Sri Lanka in 2012 The Tories have made this Covid conspiracy nutcase a lawmaker in the House of Lords

Whenever I share govt announcements on here, one thing is always certain: the comments will be full of surprise from people who haven’t seen the news anywhere else Here's a bunch of recent announcements that you may have missed bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/l...

This is a failure of democracy. 82% of the public want water back into public ownership, but we weren’t part of the decision. Now we’re stuck bailing water companies out for decades of recklessness. We need a new water system where everyone has a say. www.theguardian.com/money/2024/d...

Thank you @owenjones.bsky.social for your support today 🙏🏻 #savetheobserver

"What do we want?" "Autocorrect to stop making us look stupid by changing simple words in our texts." "When do we want it?" "Not!"

Thames Water is collapsing. NO BAILOUTS for the shareholders and banks who caused this mess. Tell the government to take it into public ownership PERMANENTLY and protect the public interest. #WeOwnIt weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...

If anyone is looking for a distraction from the news, I woukd strongly recommend A Place Of Tides by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social which I have just finished and which is a beautiful book. Unusually for me, I read it slowly because I did not want it to end

I wonder what class you become when you have people bringing you steak for your not-lunch…

Is this true? How come Offwat are suddenly doing their job?

London unions are concerned that Sadiq Khan has just outsourced the running of the Elizabeth Line again, despite rail nationally coming back into public ownership/control

I think I’ve just gone on Bluesky but I’m not sure. I may have applied to become a landscape gardener by mistake.

I’m calling on all comedians to march against us paying inheritance tax. For us it’s not a job, it’s a way of life. The tax means my kids will have to sell everything if I die and their jokes will be lost forever! But I don’t expect you to understand that, Kier Starmer!!!

I so miss this woman ! PM question time was never so good ! She could always outwit the Neanderthal Tories!

Exclusive: Water, energy, rail and Royal Mail should all be run by the state, voters say www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

“In 2017 BBC Countryfile host and farmer Adam Henson said "pop stars, film stars and hedge fund managers are buying land so it is difficult for young people to get into farming".” www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...