When England's water companies were privatised in 1991 they were debt free
Since then they accumulated debt of more than £50bn
Over the same period they paid out £57bn in dividends to shareholders
Raw sewage pumped into the sea and rivers
And not one new reservoir.
Swathes of the U.K. *voted* for economic decline. They literally boasted about doing so. It was a small price to pay for blue passports & ill-informed notions of ‘sovereignty’, remember?
“In the Brexit negotiations, the idea of national humiliation moved from fiction to reality. There was a strange ecstasy of shame: ‘Britain faces a terrible choice: between the humiliation of a deal dictated by Brussels; and the chaos of crashing out of the EU.”
Fintan O'Toole
Pretty sickening to see universities with big surpluses - and therefore clearly the ability to pay staff better and settle the dispute - threatening the most draconian deductions.
Shame on @UniOfYork
Our #RightToStrike is under attack as the Gov tries to push through new legislation.
Join the emergency rally in Westminster to say: REJECT and REPEAL the Strikes Bill!✊
📅Monday 22nd
🕕6pm
📍Parliament Square
https://t.co/anJGKxwFmd
@Arron_banks Brexit is simply the freedom to be forced to comply with EU legislation in order to trade with our closest neighbours, rather than actually having a role in defining that legislation.
Germany's car manufacturers have diversified very quickly away from the UK.
We now make up less than 8% of their export market, down from 14% around 2016.
They need us much less than before.
(Link is to the official German stats authority.)
https://t.co/3rXgQnxs2i
#Newsnight
If you want to know why the Tory extreme right really wanted Brexit, just have a read-up about Freeports.
This is a money laundering scandal waiting to happen.
Meanwhile, in the EU...
https://t.co/Ymw4tTEONP
me in 2020: wow there is really a shortage of books and memoirs and reported experiences about the 1918 spanish flu pandemic. i wonder why??
me in 2023: so we all just memory holed covid and are never gonna talk about That Whole Thing again huh
.@Nutrisystem, we know that you're no stranger to weight loss. As such, it's time for you shed the dead weight that is the #BrandUnsafe@CNN. Stop supporting a company that's willing to platform Trump, a person who bloats the public discourse with his lies and insults. #WeSeeYou
Really excited to see this work from @ArtSpectrometry on bioRxiv! It was fun calculating massive combinations of glycans. Glycosylation is crazy...
https://t.co/0tGxhuNt3p
The news that car manufacturer Stellantis is considering leaving the UK isn’t a problem for just one company.
If Ministers don’t fix the EU trade deal and get a grip of our industrial strategy for electric vehicle manufacturing in the UK, it’ll mean other companies leave too.
UCEA continues to use financial pressures faced by a few, as a pretext to refuse to pay staff across the sector a fair share, all while failing to lobby government for a fairer funding model.
This dispute isn’t about affordability, it’s about choices.