Hey @google I’d like to report an error.
The lake that borders New York and Ontario is an international body of water, and it is widely agreed by the entire world, except one rogue leader, that the name of this lake is “Lake Ontario”
Grow a spine and fix it.
BREAKING: Doug Ford just unveiled a massive sign reading “Lake Ontario Now and Always” on the shoreline of Lake Ontario.
Trump would hate it if this went viral.
Burnham is looking at rewriting insolvency law so Thames Water and the rest of the privatised utilities can finally be pulled under public control.
That is the right fight. Creditors who loaded the company with debt and treated clean water as a cash machine now threaten legal war to keep their grip. The establishment spent forty years selling the pipes and the rivers.
Ordinary people paid the bills and swam in the sewage. Changing the rules to put the public first is not radical. It is the bare minimum after decades of extraction. Hold the nerve. The parasites will scream. Let them.
The Uberisation of water must be stopped.
Profiting from scarcity in an essential of life is bad enough. But these companies helped create the scarcity.
🚰 No major reservoir built since privatisation
💧 2.9 billion litres leaked every day
🏗️ Just one operational desalination plant
For 35+ years, they’ve sweated the assets instead of investing in them. Now they want us to pay even more for their failures.
Water is a common good, not a commodity.
Bring it back into public ownership.
Southern Water has the most debt after Thames Water - and it wants to increase your bills by £43
Who owns Southern Water? MACQUARIE - the "vampire kangaroo" which racked up Thames Water's debt
@andyburnham say NO to bill rises
Privatisation is unaffordable
Let them go bust
And here’s the sucker punch.
A big chunk of this £3.4bn water bill hike about to hit every single one of us, is in effect a subsidy for big-tech, corporate data centres!
Here’s how:
Within that £3.4bn sits £477m specifically to serve new housebuilding and data centre development.
United Utilities received the largest single approval, £995m, partly for water infrastructure serving data centres in east Manchester.
Read that again. Households in drought, under hosepipe bans, are being asked to fund the water infrastructure for data centres.
The bill for corporate demand is being socialised through the domestic tariff, in the middle of a supply emergency.
We pay for the infrastructure, we pay for the debt, we pay for the profits, and roughly a third of what we pay goes out as returns to investors and creditors.
Only public ownership will stop this daylight robbery.
As the jaw dropping amount wasted on duff PPE is revealed a reminder.
Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman.
These f*ckers owe taxpayers £148,000,000.
ARREST THEM!!
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I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.
No President in History has ended the same war so many times.
Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.
No President has ever done this before.
And he is nowhere near finished ending it.
It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Listen to me very carefully, @AndyBurnhamGM
Everything you are doing right now is going to cost me, my neighbours, my friends, my family, and every single citizen in this country.
As a former top civil servant rightly warned, this manufactured leadership uncertainty is enormously disruptive and it costs us real money.
We are utterly fed up with paying more for food, for housing, and for our daily cost of living just because of characters like you.
Hope? You talk about hope and you framed the Makerfield election around giving us hope. Is this your idea of hope?
To shake the markets, to drive up prices, to make investors walk away, and to stop us from reducing the debt we carry because of politicians like you?
Is that what you call hope?
How many times is this that you are trying to become the leader of the Labour Party?
You chose to pull this stunt mid term, while this government holds a massive majority in parliament.
No reasonable politician who actually cares about their party or the country would ever do this.
Let me tell you, Andy, this selfish behaviour will bury you politically. You only stay relevant while the media pumps your narrative. What truly awaits you is Josh's team, who will gladly stab you in the back at the very first opportunity.
As for Jeremy Corbyn and the rest of the self-proclaimed left wing who cannot accept that they do not lead this party, they need to take responsibility. If you do not like this party, leave.
Go and build your own far-left party and implement your policies there.
My message to you, Andy, is that I will never stop lobbying against your hypocrisy.
Right now, you are just an ordinary MP who means absolutely nothing more. Even that seat was taken through a manufactured plot with Josh, triggering a by-election just to give you a stage for this theatrical performance.
I have only one single message for @Keir_Starmer and @UKLabour:
Keep your word. You won the historic election with Keir Starmer as your leader, so stand your ground and get on with the job.
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Has @Nigel_Farage personally sued Ben Habib yet?
Has @Nigel_Farage reported his "hacked" phone to the proper authorities yet?
Has @Nigel_Farage answered how his girlfriend afforded that house in Clacton yet?
Has @Nigel_Farage settled on a lie for that £5 million yet?
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