"Andy Burnham is considering ripping up the country’s insolvency laws to make it easier to bring key utilities such as Thames Water under public control."
Now that my friends would be very, very good news.
https://t.co/vyH6emFIAO
I'm at a loss to understand why Andy Burham can't refer to his predecessor by name - ie Sir Keir Starmer.
Why does he almost always refer to him as "the previous Prime Minister " ?
It is so ill- mannered of him.
Let’s be clear. The only reason most of us can’t stand Burnham is because he seized power in a blatant coup. And the delusion that this lightweight could ever measure up to Keir Starmer is absolutely laughable.
The America vulture capitalists now running Thames Water are trumpeting Liz Barber, former CEO of Yorkshire Water, as the new saviour of the company.
Would that be the same Liz Barber who put up customer's bills by 41% and then refused to give up her own bonus? Of course it would.
Liz Barber was paid £1.32 million in her final year as CEO of Yorkshire Water.
https://t.co/notyxQXAGB
In the 35 years before privatisation, almost 100 reservoirs were built. In the 35 years since privatisation, not one.
An industry in need of reform.
Not a single acknowledgement for Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves.
Just yourself.
You didn’t deliver these, you stole their achievements and recast them as yours.
It's very sad that decent, clever, honourable men such as Darren Jones and Keir Starmer get instantly removed, so we can have the pleasure of immature wankers like Burnham and Healey, to fleece the country and entertain the Public through TikTok, what a dereliction of their duty.
"Government can just nationalise it. But then taxpayers will not only face years of legal cases and end up paying the fines owed to themselves; they’ll also still have to find billions to fix leaks, stop sewage dumping and build drought-proof infrastructure".
The LIE, the damned lie that's told over and over and over.
Over the next 5 years 99% of the funding to fix the leaks, stop sewage dumping, build infrastructure is NOT being provided by shareholders, it's coming from you and me and everyone else via those recent bill increases. The shareholders' contribution is actually less than 1% of the total spend. You should know better @CitySamuel
PS. Water company "fines" rarely if ever paid, at all, and certainly not by shareholders.
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I am genuinely disgusted by @BBCNews so extensively platforming the 'plans' of a tiny party whose policies are cruel and irrational, whose costings are unattainable fantasies and whose leader, deputy and donations are under multiple investigations.
"Burnham to intervene over surge pricing for water"
Frankly @andyburnham should intervene by removing the water industry from private control.
£85bn in dividends paid since 1989 and look where we are, hosepipe bans, water outages and sewage releases.
https://t.co/MBWGTDtxTU
Labour is not a Government of the people any more, it is an opportunistic Government favouring Burnham, Healey, Haig, Powell and Rayner, the only other elites they answer to are Blair and Trump, what a farce this is.
This, I'm afraid, is the problem... (nicely defined)
Labour MPs were too willing to listen to the sh!tstirrers in the Party, fearful of the 80-odd Corbynite MPs.
If they'd stood up & been counted, we'd still have Starmer - the real deal, not the pale imitation we have now.
The Burnham & co narrative that nobody knew what Keir Starmer stood for is of course a con.
I knew, liked and trusted in what Starmer stood for. The contrast between him and five previous Tory MP's was inspiring & in contrast to the dumbing down Burnham is now exposing us all to.