Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal
There is no end in sight to the pollution caused by a ‘broken’ system. Experts say it could even be getting worse
The inside story of a privatisation scandal
‘England remains an anomaly across the world, as the only country apart from Chile where water, a natural resource, is owned by private companies for profit’
Profiting from essential utilities is a #DirtyBusiness
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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🔥 Might be a good time to drive this over 100,000.
Link —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
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We lost Gorton and Denton because of cheating. Which is weird when you consider that we were the only party who broke election law by sending out phoney letters from ‘a neighbour’.
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Coming from a Clacton resident who was looking forward to meeting you and chewing the fat over sausage rolls and cupcakes I for one feel a bit cheated that you’ve been depriving us all of your enormous personality and charisma…
28.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wonder if they used those words because they are almost impossible to make a good anagram with?
Hey ho - Operation Pedo Trump…
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Meanwhile, Reform want to send us back to the 1970's.
— producing a combined output of 74 megawatts from 18 floating turbines, sufficient to power the entire city of Inverness (population 65,000) continuously and indefinitely from tidal energy alone.
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And the world’s population have nothing they can do to stop it…
Apart from not letting billionaires get away with not paying their taxes…
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This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that the USA and Israel are rogue states.
The UK must end our cosy relationship with the USA and our ongoing support for Israel.
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Narcissists are always complaining - me - me - me - they can never get enough of themselves….
28.02.2026 19:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And most of them are already raging narcissists…
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In my working class opinion - psychoanalysis says that when people become fixed in their thought processes they are in many ways on a path toward mental illness.
Billionaires are by this same maxim, fixed in the job of making more and more money even though they don’t need it - mental illness….
28.02.2026 19:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by BBC Politics
Zack Polanski challenged on “unproductive wealth”, welfare and international relations
Thanks for all the kind comments!
I do agree that the Green Party seems to be interviewed with so much more hostility than anyone else.
But you know what - bring it on. 💚
youtu.be/cpVOHPYnnmE?...
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The tragic awfulness of this government is that it has extended a factional war against the left of the Labour Party into a war against almost all the good things we might have expected of it. It cannot respond to the crisis it faces, because its hatred of the Labour left is definitional.
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Operation Epic Distraction
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Absolutely - mental illnesses are all based in fixed ideas!!
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We could soon die in a nuclear holocaust because it was easier than jailing a paedophile ring
Oh shit, so this is how it all ends?
‘So this is how it all ends? With a society too passive and brainwashed to remove the paedophile ring it put into power—a twisted cabal that is about to trigger a holocaust to avoid accountability?’
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/we-could-s...
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The ludicrous state of affairs where corporations can sue elected govts over loss of profits when govts enact legislation to protect the environment and the people has to be stopped.
No corporation should ever be able to override the elected govt of a people
www.globaljustice.org.uk/resource/cas...
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Greens celebrate 'victory for hope'
Green Party's Hannah Spencer celebrates winning the Gorton and Denton by-election at Manchester Central.
Green Party's Hannah Spencer celebrates winning the Gorton and Denton by-election. “Everybody deserves to have their needs met. Everyone deserves a voice in our democracy.”
theecologist.org/2026/feb/27/...
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A few paragraphs from Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead’s Right Wing Watch for Left Foot Forward..
Read the rest by clicking the link..
mailchi.mp/4a2adf33e208...
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Let's plan for nature!
The UK Government is proposing changes to the National Planning Policy Framework. Help it work for nature.
I've taken action for our wild places!
The UK Government is proposing changes to the National Planning Policy Framework. Help it work for nature, don’t weaken it!!
Be more Green..
action.rspb.org.uk/page/187254/...
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When the right use the phrase 'hard left', what they really mean is 'equality', they don't use the word equality because it's closer to the truth.
#FarageIsaTwat
28.02.2026 08:36 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
"At home, a lot of girls dress the same way.
It's boring. I pretty much dress like this all
the time. People always get a shock when I
turn up to their door to fix something. I work
with lots of fortysomething men and they
probably just think I'm a bit weird."
Trope doing rounds in Reform circles that Hannah Spencer is a "fake plumber" because those people can't imagine that a Green politician might be anything other than the sum of their horrid prejudices.
If it were a lie she'd have been playing the longest of long games... because here she is in 2013.
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US AND ISRAEL ATTACK IRAN
Multiple explosions heard in Tehran, elsewhere, as Israel launches attacks on Iran with US help.
The world's two rogue states, Israel and the USA, have started a war not against Iran but against the whole world. We stand with Iranians, with Humanity, against the notion that Israel and the US can bomb anyone their fancy takes them to bomb. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Rayner tells Starmer by-election defeat must be a wake-up call: Live
The former deputy PM said the government must ‘be braver’ following a humiliating defeat
Unbelievably, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says Labour should resist calls to shift leftwards after its resounding defeat in the Gorton and Denton by-election.
She should be in Reform.
And Starmer must go.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
28.02.2026 08:38 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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