Michelle

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

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[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

10 years of scam adverts. I have the misfortune to be in 44% of them according to the police. I've sued. I've lobbied. I've cried at hideous cases of vulnerable people losing everything. Why has nothing been done. Please watch...

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Must watch: Martin Lewis lets loose on politicians over 10yrs inaction over scam ads.

Courtesy: @thismorning

[Andy Burnham for Makerfield @andy4makerfield]

‘These places are precious.’

This is how Andy will back the small businesses at the heart of our towns 👇

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

Water is too precious and sewage too dangerous to be in private hands.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And in conclusion ... thank you so much once again to everyone at the GMB @GMB_union for the opportunity to speak at Congress this week, a honour and a privilege.

A short tale about leadership.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

The many takes flying around about John Healey, resignation gossip and national security spending miss a fundamental point.

In Finland, where people have a strong social safety net and a real sense of shared national purpose, around 80% say they would be prepared to defend their country. In the UK, that figure is closer to 30%.

That should tell us something.

Until we change the financial architecture of our economy and bring the essentials of life out of the grip of corporate extraction and into public ownership, we will always be told to choose between bombs and butter.

But the reality is we need both.

Modern hybrid warfare means every public service is part of our national resilience. Energy, water, housing, health, transport, food security and social care are not separate from defence. They are defence.

If we want people to defend the country, we have to build a country people believe is worth defending. A thriving state. A fair economy. A society where everyone feels they have a stake.

I spoke about this on Peston on Monday night.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Feargal Sharkey: Labour lacks leadership, vision and ambition

The punk rocker turned clean-rivers campaigner talks fishing, surviving cancer and the Government’s failure to fix the water industry."

A big thanks to @PaddyGalbraith and everyone at @Telegraph for the opportunity. Hugely appreciated.

https://t.co/UbyLRqYXzz

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Truer words never said. 👏👏👏

Privatisation of the water industry has been a fraud, the greatest act of criminality ever perpetrated against the people of England and Wales.

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

The media onslaught is in full swing, my garden stakes are under attack … but I’m loving every minute of this campaign!

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Today I raised an urgent question in parliament about the systemic failures in the water sector.

The constants disasters of privatised water are not the symptoms of market failure. This is the market working as designed: profits out, sewage in, cost of living up, security of supply, decimated. You can no more regulate privatised water companies than you can the tide.

So I asked the Minister for Water: how many more failures, how many more inquiries, how many more deaths - before the Government accepts these problems are systemic – and gives the public the option of taking their water back?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"'No signs of life' in stream after sewage spill."

And the @EnvAgency does what exactly?

https://t.co/4ZyaFy96BX

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

South East Water left thousands of homes in Kent without access to water on the hottest days of the year so far. Yet another shocking example of the failure of privatisation.

Given the scale of the crisis in the water sector, a purely regulatory approach is like putting a complaints box on the Titanic.

Public ownership is the only real solution, as I told the Water Minister in parliament yesterday.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Andy Burnham has launched a scathing attack on 'profiteering' water companies, demanding United Utilities cancel its final dividend payment to shareholders in August."

Now there's something we could all vote for, well done @AndyBurnhamGM

Tip of the hat sir. 👏👏👏

https://t.co/mdAjIqIpPi

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

I pointed out that our Govt chose not to debate Nature, our environment, biodiversity, or Climate Change, in the Kings Speech.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Exclusive: Potential investors fear Andy Burnham could push to bring utility companies into public ownership."

And so he should.

https://t.co/QUrkrgyUsc

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

We're nearly there 96,353 and counting. Do your thing internet.

As for that vacuous act of futility that is govt's response?

The Sewage Campaign Network has asked for a right to reply, we want to be able to write to the very same people govt did shredding their nonsense response.

Sign now, sign today.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

MP introduces Bill to prevent England water companies from "delaying" payment of fines.

Companies negotiate fines, which are later deferred or waived. It is a licence to abuse. No penalties levied on execs.

Bill won't become law. Govt/Tories oppose it.
https://t.co/wlcK4vv7qj

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Five UK water companies spent more than £32mn on appeal to raise bills."

The Competition & Markets Authority ruled that 4 of those companies would be allowed to increase water bills by a further £463 million.

You gamble £32m and you make a £431m return.... good days work I'd say...

https://t.co/v3wIpQjp7h

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

We've had enough of the GREED, CORRUPTION and FINANCIAL ENGINEERING.

"All of that has got to stop". We completely agree with @Feargal_Sharkey.

Time for a referendum on water ownership. https://t.co/QYbVoQQox9