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[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

water bosses + shareholders must be held criminally and financially responsible for what they’ve done

seize their assets, bankrupt the fuckers, ruthlessly pursue those who actively pumped shit out into our rivers and seas through the courts+ bring water back into public control

[Black Dog 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @hotwings100]

I don't care what the news or the politicians say, but we cannot wait 7 years for the first reservoirs to be started.
Burnham should call a COBRA meeting and set up a climate change working party to start working immediately. Otherwise the UK will be unliveable in 7 years.

[Daniel Kebede @DanielKebedeNEU]

Schools have been left to find £460 million from existing budgets to cover teacher pay awards.

That means hard choices for schools.

The government still has time to do the right thing. Fully fund teacher pay, protect school budgets and give children and young people the education they deserve.

From 3 October, members will be asked to vote on strike action.

Get ballot ready by checking your details on https://t.co/5wG0td9v65 #SaveEducation

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Plant. More. Trees.

Stop. Using. Oil.

[Iris Books @Iris_readagain]

@premnsikka "Private equity firm" - in other words, asset strippers. A lot of universities have some very desirable land that people would like to build on.

[Cllr Regan Hook 🌹 @RHHarrowRoad]

Just look at Tory-led Westminster Council!
🔎Removing free school meals from 600 secondary school children
🔎Scaling back essential mental health provision
🔎Cutting services for young people
🔎Withdrawing support for families who rely on free school meals during school holidays

[Spirit Of Attlee @SpiritOfAttlee]

How the hell does a water company £21bn in debt, cash running out and still dumping sewage into rivers justify pulling a million quid from its emergency borrowing facility to pay the finance chief a signing on fee?

Thames Water just did it for Steve Buck. Delayed 15 months. “Contractual.” Cash from the lenders fighting to stop nationalisation. Chairman admitted customers will call it unfair.

Your bills are up. Your river is a toilet. They still look after their own.

This isn’t a scandal. It’s the privatisation model working exactly as designed. Special Administration and public ownership under democratic control is the only adult answer left.

Demand Burnham and Eagle stop playing games with the vultures and take it back. Now.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

@thameswater recently told me that due to “fiscal constraints”, they can’t afford to fix all of the illegal outfalls on the River Roding by 2030 (already a more than fair deadline in the circumstances I feel).

This single one million pound payment to their finance chief would, alone, be enough to stop a billion litres of raw sewage a year entering the river in Ilford. Which other companies do we allow to commit serious crimes because they’ve taken money that should have been used to ensure their company complies with the law & given it to their execs instead? How long until the government says “no more” to these chancers & puts Thames Water out of its misery?

https://t.co/VIeQ3XT8ht

[R Mel @romfordroy]

Count Binface has been unmasked. Inside the bin is a man pledging to serve the people of #Clacton. Turns out he understands how Westminster works.

[Tanita Tikaram💙 @tanita_tikaram]

Sometimes I think about how Michael Gove was able to dismiss the Tories £ 10 billion PPE waste & industrial scale corruption as an ‘ honest ‘ error & UK media said ‘ Oh that sounds credible ‘ 🙄 & the story disappeared after 2 days .

[Climate Watcher 🔥 @pmagn]

David Attenborough “Things are going to get worse”

“I find it hard to exaggerate the peril.. this is the new extinction and we are half way through it. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it the worse it is going to get.”

https://t.co/BXjiFCwNiT

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

We are in the middle of a drought in the UK & the world is in a climate catastrophe

🚨Crops are failing
🚨People are dying
🚨 Mass extinction of wildlife

It should be ILLEGAL to allow the expansion of AI centres using drinking water vital for human existence

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Strip away the theatre and Reform UK is a billionaire-backed project to dismantle the public realm, shred regulatory protections and hand what remains of state power to capital.

It’s plain to see – just follow the money.

Farage accepted a £5 million “gift” from a Thailand-based crypto billionaire, then went on to champion a light-touch approach to cryptocurrency regulation.
It’s clear we need a stronger firewall around our democracy.

That’s why I’ve backed @stellacreasy's amendment to the Representation of the People Bill to cap political donations at £100,000.

This would be a vital safeguard against billionaire capture of our politics and a important step towards rebuilding trust in our democracy.

[𝕯𝖞𝖑𝖆𝖓™ @Dylanszn01]

You can’t afford a house because houses stopped being homes and became investment vehicles for people who already have homes.

[Met4Cast - UK Weather @Met4CastUK]

Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age.

We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

Since 2021, the 10 largest private water companies in the UK have hiked up their bills by an average of 56% while spilling sewage more than 1.8 million times 💰💩

Find out what the sewage scandal has cost you – and send Andy Burnham a message 👇
https://t.co/PGRsAe1ljN

[Prof. Peter Strachan @ProfStrachan]

Bankrupting The Future: "European Central Bank warns climate crisis poses growing threat to 'core financial stability'".

"If you destroy nature, you destroy the core on which our economies depend."

"This is not some kind of a flower-power, tree-hugging exercise."

"This is core economics. This is core financial stability, core price stability.”

#Biodiversity #Nature #Economics #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

https://t.co/TqlPfc4w3r

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

If private equity is bad for football

Why is it ok for our NHS, social care, education, housing, energy, transport, water companies etc?

[Sonny @thehonestletter]

Britain has produced a generation of thirty-year-olds who can't afford to move out, can't afford to have children, can't afford to get ill, and can't afford to stop.

They did everything they were told. School, university, the debt, the graduate scheme, the promotion that came with more responsibility and £200 a month.

The reward is a life where every month is spoken for before it starts, with nothing left over to build anything that might eventually get them out.

A million people didn't independently fail. This is what a decade of flat wages against climbing costs actually looks like.

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

A female black redstart gazes at the smoldering ruins of her habitat.

We are destroying the extraordinarily complex living systems that support life on Earth, including us.

Location: Pilat Regional Natural Park, a protected region in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.