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wibble....and all things....

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

This is what corporate corruption looks like in real life, a company that leaks about 100 million litres of water per day, cuts off the water supply to its customers, shareholders bled the company dry, massive lack of investment, incompetent management, sweating the assets…. and in and on…

Govt should put an end to customers misery and seize control, today..

[Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @BellRibeiroAddy]

Hose pipe bans seem a bit redundant when AI data centres are guzzling 11-19 million litres of water every day.

In a Westminster Hall debate this week, I called for action to address the drought risk posed by their excessive water usage during periods of extreme heat.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

It's amazing, in the UK a handful of rich people steal £10bn, it's 'wasted' with 'honest mistakes' lets just forget about it.

Someone steals some nappies, that's a dangerous thief needs to go straight to jail.

The people in charge need to go to jail, they are the real criminals

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

"You shouldn't be getting a medal for being robbed by your own government."

Betty Brown 92, the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Scam was outraged about being in the New Year Honours List.

We want compensation and prison sentences not worthless medals.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

South East Water warns over survival as funds dry up.

£1.7bn debt
Pays interest at rates of 6% - 10%
2011-2025, paid £947m dividends, £401m interest
104m litres of water lost daily to leaks
Customers fleeced

Takes bad management to destroy a monopoly.
https://t.co/1rgE4OGNe7

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Thames Water increased its bonus payouts to £4.1m for senior managers.

It has £19.7bn debt, fleeces customers, dumps sewage in rivers, loses billions of litres of water to leaky pipes.

But bosses rewarded .. for what?

Govt/Ofwat do nothing.
https://t.co/bmvqFV8ESF

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

75% of adult care homes in Wales are run for profit.

It is the same story across UK.

Profits for shareholders, higher bills for public purse, less money for frontline services.

Humanity financialised.

Little public debate about corporate welfare.
https://t.co/K3iC3Mvf58

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Michael Gove today "Mistakes were made in the procurement of PPE, but it is important to stress these were honest errors."

They should all be on trial, every one of them. Their bank account history searched, every penny they have received in the last 6 years accounted for.

And if they got anything from the PPE scam they should go to jail for Life.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

WARNING⚠️
Andy Burnham is running to be Prime Minister on the strength of the Manchester Model.
Before the country decides, it should know what that model did with £600 million of public money in its own backyard.
GMCA's housing loan fund lent around £600 million to a single private developer, Daren Whitaker of Renaker, to build the skyscrapers that have redrawn Manchester's skyline.
A tribunal found GMCA failed to obtain a statement of assets and liabilities from Whitaker before lending.
🧵
https://t.co/n3BQB3WJBd

[DPAC @Dis_PPL_Protest]

#RailwaysBill

Disabled peers have called on the government to ensure that an accessible rail system becomes a reality through its new railways bill.

https://t.co/WZe41s0meo

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Andy Burnham: We must rebuild Britain’s hard power to face a darker world.

Promises more defence spending, higher profits for US firms.

Who will protect us from
Private equity
Crumbling infrastructure
Low incomes
Poverty
Corporate profiteering
NHS queues
https://t.co/VkqTGG0Sdj

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Burnham talks as if the genocide in Gaza is in the past, but it's happening NOW. Britain is arming Israel NOW.

This UN report is from two weeks ago.

Burnham must commit to fully ending UK complicity NOW.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Govts talk about easing cost-of-living crisis.

No party has any plan.

Crisis due to low wages, profiteering by utilities/oligopolies.

Govts don't push for higher wages, break-up conglomerates, control price of essentials, embrace progressive taxation.
https://t.co/gsqssLxOoH

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Average UK renter pays 41% of take-home pay on rent.

Rocketing cost of energy, water, food, essentials.

Median take-home pay £26,208.

39% of adults have £1,000 or less in savings.

Can't get economic growth without curbing profiteering, ending poverty.
https://t.co/gsqssLxOoH

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

We can't trust the data.
We can't trust Palantir.

Write to your local NHS Trust and ask them to say no to Palantir 👇
https://t.co/PsCDnjsTBl

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

All lobbying of govt ministers, aides and senior officials should be publicly declared .

All lobbyists need to be licensed and registered,

Also transcripts of meetings must be published with 48 hours.

Criminalise receipt/payment of political donations.
https://t.co/ZZlqw9GVsf

[London Renters Union @LDNRentersUnion]

Housing benefit should cover the full cost of renting.

But we can't keep handing more and more public money to private landlords, much of it for homes that used to be publicly owned.

We need rent controls to bring rents down.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Despite promises of govts, gap between UK richest and poorest areas consistent since 1997.

Deindustrialisation, loss of skilled jobs, lack of public investment.

Disposable incomes in the richest area four and a half times higher than in the poorest.
https://t.co/yOOnrY3okr

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

😱Turns out treating everyone like a suspect isn't going down too well...

“The British public does not want to live in a ‘papers, please’ society.

“They emphatically rejected mandatory digital ID, and as they learn more about invasive facial recognition technology, they are rejecting it too.

“It is outrageous to subject millions of innocent people to intrusive biometric identity checks when they have done absolutely nothing wrong” - @JCoulson1013

READ | https://t.co/3dQce70kIx

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

⚠️What does BlackRock own in Scotland?
Because the answer is more than most people realise.

Start with ports.
BlackRock holds a 30% stake in Peel Ports, which operates Scotland's west coast infrastructure through Clydeport, King George V Dock in Glasgow, Greenock Ocean Terminal, Hunterston, and Ardrossan. Scottish ports, American shareholders.