Thames Water, the poster child of predatory capitalism announces hosepipe ban. TW loses 200bn litres annually to leaks. Dumps tons of sewage in rivers. Paid dividends, neglected investment. No new reservoirs since 1989. Massive hikes in customer bills. Numerous criminal convictions.

Thames Water lenders preparing legal challenge in event of Burnham nationalisation. Bullying to extract cash from customers/govt. TW shares are worthless, debt trades at discount. Must enforce laws, impose fines, bankrupt TW. Creditors will get little. Nationalise, TW violated licence terms.

Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.

Argentina’s post whistle behaviour - THUGS! Absolutely shocking. Paredes especially - beating up a Spain sub who didn’t even play. WTF is wrong with them? Just BAN THEM from international football. 🤬🤬🤬

BYE MESSI AND YOUR MERRY BAND OF CHEATING THUGS. GOOD RIDDANCE. Mbappe wins the Golden Boot! Hahaha

Everyone is Spain today 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸. Good luck, guys.

I just signed the petition calling on Andy Burnham to kick Palantir out of our NHS and police - can you add your name too?

England & Wales water firms lose 2.87bn litres a day, 20% of all water pumped through network. Hosepipe ban would save 577m(4%) litres a day. Violating hosepipe ban is a criminal offence, potential penalty of £1,000. No water execs fined or prosecuted. No new reservoirs built since privatisation

Private Equity Is Taking Over Your Veterinarian. PE devouring town centers, housing, healthcare, dentistry, care homes, pet care. Business model: high debt, price hikes, staff/wage cuts, monopolies built, low investment, tax abuse. PE owns 2000+ UK vets, little competition. Regulatory silence.

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil/gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday - the BBC Cha-ching, very profitable for the billionaires and the politicians who get their donations. Now we see why Ed Miliband couldn't be Chancellor

Do you know what else they’ve done? If you deferred claiming your pension, you used to get a lump sum with interest. Imagine my shock on learning you now only get a year as lump sum with the rest used to top up your weekly pension. It’s my money! They want us dead! This on top of the WASPI scandal.

Italy just sent 32 people to prison for killing 43 people in 2018 with a dodgy bridge. In the UK 0 people are in prison or even on trial for killing 72 people with illegal cladding in 2016.

Andy Burnham's chief of staff will be James Purnell, CEO of Flint Global, a corporate lobbying firm whose clients include Amazon, Uber, BP, Apple and Thames Water. The utility Burnham says should be nationalised. What's behind the soft left mask?🧵 europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-zone-b...

Who is Burnham really working for?

This must be outlawed, exactly the same as foreign donations to political parties. Because these background groups are just as political and wield as much influence as corrupt little parties like Reform.

Wessex Water, owned by a Malaysian entity via Jersey, CEO got 14% base salary increase despite bonus ban over sewage spill. 3.5% for workers WW loses 70m litres of water to leaks daily. Dumps sewage in rivers. Customer bills to rise 21% Bosses rewarded for robbing people, damaging the environment

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Traders at Brixton market fight back against private equity takeover of the site, want community ownership. PE will kill the market, currently owned by a Texas billionaire. Once it is gone, it's gone forever. Solidarity for resistance to big business, PE and financialisation of everything.

Thames Water increased its bonus payouts to £4.1m for senior managers. It has £19.7bn debt, fleeces customers, dumps sewage in rivers, loses billions of litres of water to leaky pipes. Numerous criminal convictions, licence not revoked. But bosses rewarded .. for what? Govt/Ofwat do nothing.

Water companies reclassify bonus as retention payments, circumvent rules. Anglian Water CEO gets £1.3m retention pay. AW won't meet its regulatory targets. 44% rise in customer bills, sewage in rivers, 182m litres a day lost to leaks, criminal convictions. Govt/Ofwat do nothing. archive.ph/kmZz8

When will all this privatisation scamming be stopped? @uklabour.bsky.social

Free zones do not require acts of Parliament. Enter secondary legislation, which is an insidious form of corporate governance. 🧵 europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-same-t...

England is the home of 85% of the world's chalk streams, a crucial part of the UK ecological system. Despite criminal convictions, water companies continue to destroy it by dumping raw sewage. I asked the Minister to revoke their licence to operate. Watch the Minister's reply.

[Reform UK Communications Office] "NO! 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐅𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐞! I said LOSE the Score! - You're fucking fired!!!! GET OUT!"

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PSA.

Another Boeing plane failure. “Man nearly sucked out of window mid-air on Ryanair plane, passengers say”

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Insider Trading: Suspicious trading before 41% of takeovers sets new UK record. Sharp increases in abnormal trading ahead of sensitive market announcements. The City is a global leader in sleaze, illicit financial flows. Dearth of prosecutions. Yet govts deregulating. archive.ph/mEb8L

Average UK renter spent 41% of take-home pay on rent. Rocketing costs of energy, water, food, essentials. Real average wage unchanged since 2008. Median take-home pay £26,208. 39% of Briton have £1,000 or less in savings. Can't get economic growth without curbing profiteering, ending poverty.

Pet prescriptions could be capped at £21 under proposed vet sector reforms. Private equity controls 60% of the vet market. PE will find new ways of exploiting - unnecessary appointments, surgeries. Don't let PE build local monopolies. Apply "fit and proper person" test. PE won't pass it.

Millions of pounds and many, many questions: why Reform figures face NCA scrutiny. At least four suspicious transactions flagged by banks. Include £5m gift from a crypto billionaire, to a £1m donation routed to party fundraising vehicle, Britain Means Business, via a convicted fraudster’s mother.

All lobbying of govt ministers, aides and senior officials should be publicly declared . All professional lobbyists need to be licensed and registered, transcripts of meetings need to be published with 48 hours. Also criminalise receipt/payment of political donations. No 2nd jobs for MPs.

Poverty lowers healthy life expectancy (HLE). HLE in Richmond-upon-Thames, male 69.3 yrs, female 70.3 yrs. Parts of Blackpool, male 50.9 yrs, female 51.2 yrs. Parts of Scotland, male 44.8 yrs, female 44.2 yrs. Ending poverty makes people productive, reduces pressure on public services.

Colombia v Switzerland being referred to as Charlie v The Chocolate Factory.

PETITION: Launch a full investigation into Nigel Farage’s undisclosed donations act.38degrees.org.uk/act/farage-d...

I’m just about to cancel with @VirginMediaBusiness so they’d better not piss me around because I do not have the patience.

UK income tax personal allowance frozen at £12,570 since 2021. If increased in line with inflation, it would be £16,048 for 2026/27. As a result, in 2026/27 someone earning £17,000 will pay additional £696 in income tax and £278 in national insurance. All because govts appease the rich.

Do you like graphic novels? Or know others who do? Not my thing but I’m sharing to help the creator. #graphicnovels

Student loan promotion in England & Wales amounted to mis-selling, MPs say. Students not told clearly that loan terms could change retrospectively. Govt froze repayment threshold, forcing graduates to pay more and sooner. Must abolish Uni tuition fees, as in Scotland.

Woke up to such good news this morning. 🇧🇪

Farage reminds me of the school bully throwing his weight around while goons are by his side, but once alone tries to be everyones best mate so he doesn’t get smacked silly. He has always and will always be an insignificant little turd of a man empowered by corruption alone. #Farage #Reform

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Severn Trent Water company doubles CEO reward plan to £3.1m despite anger over water pay. Reward for what? 400m litres of water a day lost to leaks. Sewage dumped into rivers for 200,000 hours Customers fleeced No reservoir built since 1989 £12bn paid in dividends Must nationalise water.

13.4m Britons, including 4m children, live in poverty. 25.3m, including 14.9m working adults and 7.7m children, live below minimum income standard. Work doesn't pay enough, benefits are low, tax system is regressive. Can't banish poverty or get sustained economic growth without redistribution.

Poverty can't deliver sustained economic growth Worker share of gross value added down from 71.9% in 1975 to 59% Average real wage unchanged since 2008. 4.4m jobs don’t pay the real living wage. Millions rely on charity. No political party wants to tackle systemic causes of poverty.