Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most

"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.

What followed was anything but. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt. Our rivers are polluted, our bills keep rising, and we’re told to pay still more..."

Sign the petition: End the tax break for big pharma like GlaxoSmithKline at the Autumn budget While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax break...

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Nigel Farage's hypocrisy exposed during PMQs. 🚨

Farage has earned more than £1.1 million through second jobs since the General Election, but he calls for cuts to the minimum wage for young people.

Unbelievable.

Ofwat letting water firms charge twice to tackle sewage, court to hear River Action bringing legal action against water regulator over who should foot bill for firms’ past failures to invest

Ofwat letting England water firms charge twice to tackle sewage, court to hear

Companies billed people for sewage disposal, used cash to pay dividends and exec bonuses, dumped sewage in rivers.

Now charging again to fund promised investment, not raising capital from shareholders. Customers fleeced

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?

“We asked a hundred people to name a government economic priority. You said: cutting spending on disabled kids travelling to school.”

Good morning Blueskyers. Have a top Tuesday & follow this advice. 🤣

The online baying mob shouting "Vote Reform" after Saturday's train stabbing attack may wish to note that not a single Reform MP has turned up for the Home Secretary's statement on the incident.

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills.

Norway - 0
UK - 0
France - 0
Spain - 0
Portugal - 0
Denmark - 0
Australia - 0
Iceland - 0
Italy - 0
Finland - 0
Ireland - 0
Germany - 0
Netherlands - 0
Sweden - 0
Japan - 0
Canada - 0
United States - 643k

Cut benefits, cut minimum wage, raise retirement age, means test pensions, get rid of the NHS.

Why are you voting for Farage?

Sharon Graham, UNITE, "If you've got a £1,700 bill, £500 of that is profit.. They've made £30 billion in a single year.. It's obscene"

Meanwhile Labour go after the poor, the disabled, the elderly, instead of windfall taxing energy companies. Disgraceful

Food is too expensive, controlled by billionaires.
Energy is too expensive, controlled by billionaires.
Housing is too expensive, controlled by billionaires.
Wages are too low, controlled by billionaires.

I'm going to blame... immigrants.

Tightening Pip benefit eligibility could save £9bn a year, says Reform Lee Anderson says ‘gaming the system’ is too common and jokes about symptoms of anxiety and depression

Tightening Pip benefit eligibility could save £9bn a yr, says Reform.

Targeting vulnerable people.

People with less serious psychological conditions won't get PIP without face-to-face assessment.

Reform plans to sack 100k civil servants.

Silence on ending corporate welfare, tax perks of the rich

Hundreds reportedly killed at Sudanese hospital as evidence of RSF atrocities mounts Rapid Support Forces, which claimed control of El Fasher on Sunday, reportedly killed at least 460 people ‘in cold blood’

Hundreds reportedly killed at Sudanese hospital as evidence of RSF atrocities mounts

Rapid Support Forces, which claimed control of El Fasher on Sunday, reportedly killed at least 460 people ‘in cold blood’ in a maternity hospital - vile and sickening behaviour

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"I would argue very strongly that the Conservatives and Nigel Farage, the champions of Brexit, caused the small boat crisis themselves.

"It's about time that we held them to account for that."

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk

Pedalling to Paris in 2026 for @mind.org.uk

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP.

And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

🚨 LIB DEM CENSURE MOTION 🚨

We have tabled a censure motion, calling on Parliament to rebuke Sarah Pochin’s racist remarks and for Reform Leader Nigel Farage to withdraw the whip.

The Sheer Scale of Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed Billions of pounds were wasted by successive Conservative Home Secretaries on a chaotic and costly system that left vulnerable people at risk, according to a new Parliamentary report

The Sheer Scale of Conservative Mismanagement of the Asylum System Revealed – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/10/27/t...

This is the ‘great’ America Trump keeps bragging about under his presidency.

Why does Farage need another press conference?

All he is doing is spouting more lies, nonesense & racism as usual.

The media need to stop giving Farage & Reform so much air time.

#NeverVoteReform

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

🚨🗳️Today is Polling Day in Dunster!

Cara Strom is the hard-working Lib Dem candidate with a proven track record of delivering locally. Cara is someone I know will work tirelessly for residents in Dunster - but only if you vote for her today! 🔶

Get out and vote for Cara Strom! ✍️✖️

#Somerset

People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.

I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.

Care home firm HC-One fined £1.9m after woman choked to death on her dinner HC-One Limited admitted health and safety failings which led to the death of Margaret Campbell, 96, at Cradlehall Care Home in June 2022.

Private equity care home owner HC-One Limited fined £1.9m after a resident choked to death on her dinner.

Ignored patient specific instructions, staff shortages.

Company fined multiple times for patient deaths.

Care and profits can't be combined

Reform suspends four Kent councillors after Guardian publishes leaked video of fierce infighting Members of Reform’s showcase county council will be investigated after ‘evidence that they brought the party into disrepute’

They suspended the four who leaked the recording. Not the one telling the others to Fu****g suck it up. Nor the one laughing like a hyena at the ones complaining.
Lest we forget - Kent is Reform’s flagship council. The stated model for how they’ll run government.

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’

In a letter to Badenoch, the Lib Dem leader, Ed Davey, called it “deeply concerning and unpatriotic. People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to ‘go home’. This is their home.”

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Absolutely colossal night of success for the Lib Dems.

In the 10 byelections, the LDs have gained from the CONs, GRNs, INDs and LAB, with a narrow loss to REF by 31 votes in Babergh.

Scoreboard: LD 7, REF 1, CON 1, IND 1.

I assume the media will cover this as breathlessly as every opinion poll?

You’d have to be mentally challenged to support Trump on these three facts alone.

US is working on doubling aid to Argentina to $40 billion by tapping private funding sources The Trump administration is looking to provide an additional $20 billion in financing for Argentina.

Trump to up US Aid to Argentina to a total of $40 billion after Milei chainsaws the country's economy.

So much for DOGE.

So much for America First.

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