Gareth Hayward

Ask your MP to attend my Water Bill debate After years of bill hikes, shareholder pay-outs, and pollution, it couldn't be clearer that privatisation has created a crisis in our water system. We can't leave the future of this critical natio...

Great news! @labourlewis.bsky.social's Water Bill will have its first debate on 28th March.

This is our unmissable chance to put public ownership of water back on the table.

Ask your MP to be there and back the Bill: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
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The Government claims it needs to make £6bn of benefit cuts, here's a big long list of places where they could make far more money.

£42bn from ending Brexit.
£80bn Bank profits, even a 10% tax is £2bn more.
£120bn Energy Company profits, quadruple what they were before 2021.

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YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Why doesn’t the UK government ensure that all the benefits due to people are paid

Why doesn’t the UK government ensure that all the benefits due to people are paid? youtu.be/yWLd90c6Nf0?... £23 billion of benefits are not paid in the UK a year. Why is it that finding those who are due to be paid is not a national priority?

On This Day: In 2017, Leeds completed the permanent signing of Pablo Hernandez from Al-Arabi after arriving on an initial six-month loan deal.

175 apps
139 starts
86 wins
49% win rate
40 assists
36 goals
5 seasons
3 Leeds United Player of the Year awards
1 Championship title

El Mago. 🎩🇪🇸 #LUFC

Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.

Ambulance handover delays in England may harm 1,000 patients a day Exclusive: 414,137 people believed to have experienced some level of harm in last year, Guardian analysis finds

The astonishing cognitive dissonance of a health secretary who insists he'll save the NHS - yet kicks the social care crisis into touch until 2028.

1 in 8 medically fit NHS patients cannot leave hospital for lack of social care.

Of course A&E is overwhelmed 🤷‍♀️

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death Previous government spent almost £1m trying to prevent release of documents in 56 legal cases

UK Tory govt spent £50,000 to stop release of review into disabled man’s death.

DWP wrongly stopped his benefits, leaving him with no income.

He weighed 4.5 stone when body found, eight months after benefits were stopped.

Govt tried to conceal murder.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Labour received £4 million from Quadrature just before the GE, this was not reported in the MSM.
Starmer recently announced a Govt partnership with Blackrock, the most criminally corrupt shadow bank in the world that owns almost everything.
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The story behind this picture.

This guy got bitten by a Rattlesnake it cost him £153k to save his life.

They charged him $83,341.25 for antivenom that cost them $2,500.

That is private healthcare and there was nothing he could do except pay.

Jeremy Corbyn is suing Nigel Farage.

RP if you can’t wait to see Nigel Farage bankrupt

Imagine caring more about "taxes" than keeping people in your community alive. All healthcare should be free and all medication / treatment accessible for all. Thinking otherwise is both homicidal and suicidal. If your country can afford to have billionaires, it can afford to provide for everyone.

South Western, C2C, and Greater Anglia to be renationalised The rail operators will be renationalised in May, as part of the government's manifesto promise.

South Western Railways, C2C and Greater Anglia passenger rail services to be renationalised next year. Others to follow.

But it isn't full public ownership.

Lucrative freight and rolling stock companies making billions in profits to remain privatised.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1. The implicit deal behind Starmerism was this: you might not like what he stands for (or fails to stand for), but at least he knows how to win elections. If you want the Tories out, he’s your only hope.
But now? It’s as if he’s going out of his way to lose in 2029. 🧵

🤍 13 years ago, a legend passed away. Gone, but never forgotten, Gary Speed and his family are forever in our thoughts. RIP Gary

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.

How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example).
1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
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In the book, Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber gives an interesting explanation of the difference in politics between those on the Left and those on the Right.