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and Snoopy fan (obviously...)

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 @MazzucatoM on Channel 4:

“Brexit was one of the biggest economic tragedies for this country… sold on lies by Farage and Boris Johnson.”

Brexit reduced our market size, damaged business investment expectations, and left us with weaker growth.

Ten years on, the refusal to hold those responsible to account is striking.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

🚨 BREAKING 🚨
MPs call for government to kick Palantir out of the NHS

https://t.co/wLjzZ7XEIX

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

South West Water fined £1.853m for supplying contaminated drinking water.

SWW is a serial offender, loses 107m litres of water daily to leaky pipes, dumped sewage in rivers for 407,006 hours.

Still trades. No exec fined, charged. People fleeced.
https://t.co/xN3dxKeYnr

[Prof Colin Talbot (rerum cognoscere causas) @colinrtalbot]

Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM.

Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison

Huge coverage of both

Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month.

Media coverage? You judge.

[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

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Economist Mariana Mazzucato says Brexit led to businesses leaving the UK, shrank market opportunities and damaged investment.

She tells The Fourcast that Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson have still not been held accountable for what she calls one of the country's biggest economic mistakes.

Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson have both denied lying to the public.

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

Shocking 👇 the government's decision to say no to public ownership of water MUST be revisited

Mandelson co-founded Global Counsel which lobbied for privatised water

Both Environment Secretaries Steve Reed and Emma Reynolds were clearly close to him

https://t.co/ivPGBO9gSH

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

The BBC is now run by the man who rolled out this journalism-killing technology across Europe, the Middle East & Africa.

It’s a trap. Opting out is a protest vote but Google’s AI summaries are news outlet serial killers that’ll get you either way

[THE NERVE @thenerve_news]

Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we misread

When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. Years later, the Epstein files revealed the full picture, reports Tamsin Shaw

link ⤵️

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

Mandelson described the £750m Palantir deal as “My Personal Pride and Joy”. But what do the just-released documents reveal about his role in the network of Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein?

My first take for @BylineTimes

https://t.co/SkxpcJCP67

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

Corruption ...

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

📵 IT KEEPS HAPPENING

In 2022, the courts dismissed our challenge that would have enforced legal consequences for ministers and officials who use private messaging services to conduct government business.

Four years and a change of government later, public accountability is still suffering:

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Labour has taken four rail companies into public ownership, so that - in Keir Starmer's words - they will now 'be run for the public good, not private profit'. On that logic, why not do the same for water, electricity, gas and Royal Mail?

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

Your occasional reminder that public ownership is popular.
https://t.co/sbqQyPNl0r

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The gravy train continues.

Failed former CEO of Ofwat, David Black has reappeared at a consultancy company called BRG where he will "Advise firms and investors across regulated industries as they navigate shifting regulatory frameworks".

His boss? No less than former head of regulation at Thames Water one Colm Gibson.

As @PrivateEyeNews would say "Trebles all round". Well actually that's exactly what they did say. 👇👇👇

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

The top civil servant at the Health Department "worked for or held shares in 12 companies that benefited from public contracts with DHSC or related health organisations"

She was elevated to the top role by Wes Streeting

She should resign. And we must end NHS privatisation.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

The nationalisation of Thameslink today is a point of no return for public ownership of rail

The government must now truly commit to a railway for people, not profit

✅End rolling stock privatisation

✅Protect passengers' rights and high-quality services

Email your MP now: https://t.co/UVVdsniRRT

[Cherry @Cherryopenmind]

This is what elite, world-class investigative journalism looks like:

Carole Cadwalladr and her team at The Nerve have forensically stripped the mask off the British political establishment.

The pattern they found in The Harborne Receipts is nothing short of terrifying. Millions of pounds flow from a crypto-billionaire into the pockets of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, and like clockwork, weeks later, those exact politicians start pushing laws to benefit the crypto industry.

It is the exact same playbook Donald Trump used in America. It is cash-for-policy, clear as day.

While the billionaire-owned press tries to distract us with culture wars and theatre, true journalists follow the money.

This is the toxic soil that is destroying our democracy from within.

Absolute honour to see her back in action!

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Yet another glaring example of how utterly failed the water industry is. All it took was one hot weekend and not one but two water companies have been brought to their knees, incapable of doing the most basic job possible, supplying their customers with water.

And we tolerate this nonsense.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Oh here we go again. @YorkshireWater claiming they are "INVESTING" £8.3 billion between 2025 - 2030.

That of course turns out to be completely untrue.

The only money I can see that shareholders are putting into the business is paying back the "loan" they took, by March 2027 and the £100 million they were supposed to pay to help reduce sewage dumping by the end of March 2025.

Every other damned penny of that £8.3 billion, that's £8.2 billion is being funded directly out of bill payers' pockets and not a damned thing to do with shareholders.

Why are water companies allowed to tell such utter lies?

Ofwat?