@AlbertoBaIsam @We_OwnIt @juliewassmer Apart from water I'm not sure any other infrastructure should not have been privatised. Unfortunately it will have a knock on effect on everything.
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PaulRobsonRetro
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PaulRobsonRetro
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Parent, Teacher, Coder, amateur (very) musician, terrible sportsman. Disney fan ... obviously.
South Norfolk, England 가입일 Kasım 2025
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@RetroRobson @We_OwnIt @juliewassmer it might well destroy investment in other infrastructure that should never have been privatised, which would be a fucking marvellous knock on effect
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If the water companies can't survive without dumping sewage in our rivers and seas, LET THEM GO BANKRUPT.
Then nationalise them for nothing.
Thank you, Boycott Water Bills and @juliewassmer for inviting us.
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@laurasportals @pvicvah @sappholives83 Fair enough, but can't complain if you are the town bike either.
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@pvicvah @sappholives83 and most women don’t want community dildos
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that any man who is this fixated on a woman’s sexual history will be a possessive, controlling, abusive asshole. Men like this don’t want a partner. They want a blank slate.
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@sappholives83 Nope, they don't want a blank slate, they don't want someone well travelled.
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@RetroRobson @DavidHe91696725 If it's bankrupt then no. It's not stealing from the shareholders - but it is stealing from the creditors.
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"If we stiff all the investors then we can have it for free!"
Wholly true, but if you stiff the investors then the other name for that is theft. Which is, you know, against the law? Even, against international law.
We Own It@We_OwnIt
The government claims that nationalising water would cost >£100 billion. That figure has been repeatedly dubunked - by Professor Dieter Helm, & Professor Ewan McGaughey at the People's Commission for Water, among others. Water belongs in public hands. vist.ly/4vetf
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@DavidHe91696725 @worstall Okay.
So the debt is money owed to people or more likely entities, right ? So when they go bankrupt the assets are sold off and distributed amongst those debtors. You can't just say "it's bust, we'll have your stuff".
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@RetroRobson @worstall What's it taking? They're billions in debt you weapon 😂
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@Alonso_GD Whilst UK prices are high, this is a ridiculous comparison. Tnere are other reasons.
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When I moved to the UK in 2019, I paid £45 a month for electricity. I now pay £185. Every 2-3 months I get an email from my supplier raising my direct debit by a few pounds
Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski
This could have been avoided. Failure to insulate every home, end reliance on fossil fuels & decouple energy prices from gas left us exposed to energy shocks. Now we must act: Cap bill rises after June. End fossil fuel addiction. Lower bills, permanently.
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@Simon_Ingari New hires may have moved for promotion rather than sideways.
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@benjyminty @EricEatsPickles The "issues" is that they are unable to drive competently. It's not "not in a hurry", or "safe", it's being shite.
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@RetroRobson @EricEatsPickles What issues is that? You getting angry because you set off late?
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Guilt tripping drivers is the most craven & least effective road safety strategy. Mandate automated speed limiting tech in every vehicle now.
No one needs to speed except emergency services.
RVA DOT@RVA_DOT
The faster you drive, the less you see. Please slow down.
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@DavidHe91696725 @worstall If the government takes something that's gone bankrupt without paying the shareholders for assets, that's stealing.
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@RetroRobson @worstall Nobody's stealing anything, investments can be good or bad, clearly you didn't know that
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@blisswords Sounds like the crap Reeves was pushing about PPE
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Another nail in Johnson's coffin. Why isn't be in prison? Or at least in court?
Peter Kay (🦋@theonlypeterkay.bsky.social)@theonlypeterkay
Sir Paul Nurse explains that his institute and many other laboratories had the willingness and capacity to roll out Covid-19 testing to the nation. He wrote to government at the time with that offer “We didn’t get any response from David Warr or the Prime Minister, no we did not”
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Excellent speech from @ZackPolanski, time to bring water into public ownership 👏👏👏
We don't have to destroy nature for shareholder returns
We don't have to rack up bills while a handful of people profit
Every penny could be reinvested back into the system
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@bphillipsonMP What does this even mean ? Monthly ? Annually ? Weekly ?
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😞 Our offer of 30 hours of government-funded childcare is no longer saving families £7,500...
...it's now saving them £8,000! 😃
Labour is delivering for working families and tackling the cost of living.
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@RichardBurgon The three things which look like anything other than bog standard first aid kit appear to be a variant of these selfimed.com/products/cme-b… . I'm sure the Cubans will be salivating.
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Some of the medical aid I’ve brought directly with me to Cuba, as Trump tries to strangle the Cuban people.
Today we’ll be receiving tonnes more as the Nuestra America Aid Convoy arrives.
Aid is arriving all the time from Britain thanks to solidarity. Donate to Viva Cuba below.
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🚨 NEW: The proposed names the Government is considering calling its new towns
- Elizabethtown (after the Queen)
- Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline)
- Attleeton (after ex-PM)
- Athelstan (first King of England)
- Seacole (after nurse Mary)
[@thetimes]
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@jimb_burgess @We_OwnIt @juliewassmer It's not that they are non UK, it's that they weren't kept as a single entity. bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
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@We_OwnIt @juliewassmer I hate water companies how did we let non UK companies own our water. However, you will not renationalise for nothing , you will have to buy that debt
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@Mr_Blankname @We_OwnIt @juliewassmer You have to be my age to remember what nationalised industries were actually like. Be worse now.
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@We_OwnIt @juliewassmer If nationalisation is the magic fix, how come publicly owned Scottish Water is £4.6 billion in debt and has similar sewage spill problems as the private companies?
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@NLeesy @We_OwnIt @juliewassmer One of the problems is that they aren't compartmentalised ; Brown allowed Macquarie to use Water assets as collateral in other deals.
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@We_OwnIt @juliewassmer What is the legal structure of these water companies. Without that knowledge this is just speculative nonsense
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@AlbertoBaIsam @We_OwnIt @juliewassmer Yeah great idea. Completely destroy investment in the UK, but other than that no problem.
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@We_OwnIt @juliewassmer we could (and should) nationalise them for nothing anyway. seize them off the criminals that have been running them all these years without compensation and tell them they are lucky they are not going to prison and/or being made to pay back their ill gotten gains
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