dreams of widnes
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dreams of widnes
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Obviously this was a fucking stupid argument to make back when it was popular to do so but it's even more absurd now given that, since De Zerbi came in and the football has massively improved, so has the atmosphere.

THE WATER RIP-OFF IS NOT ADDING UP. Barry Gardiner MP has exposed the great trick at the heart of Labour’s position on water. Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds says bringing water back into public ownership would cost an “enormous amount of money”. But when challenged, her department’s own response admitted it has not assessed the cost of continuing with privatisation against the cost of public ownership. Read that again. The Government insists public ownership is too expensive, while refusing to do the maths needed to prove it. Water is a natural monopoly. People cannot shop around for a better pipe to their home. Yet billpayers are trapped in a system where their money must cover not only clean water, functioning infrastructure and sewage treatment, but the financial interests of private owners, creditors and shareholders. Public ownership is not some wild luxury. It is common sense. Remove the need to extract profit from an essential service and put billpayers’ money back into pipes, reservoirs, sewage works and lower bills. The question is no longer whether the privatised water model has failed. We can see and smell that failure in our rivers and on our beaches. The question is why a Labour Government is defending it without even calculating the public alternative. Come clean, Secretary of State. Publish the full comparison. Let the public see who this broken system is really serving. Labour Heartlands #LabourParty #PublicOwnership




Andy Burnham holds pretend rallies, standing in front of a dozen party staff and councillors holding placards, pretending to talk to a nonexistent crowd in front of him Neither he nor Starmer could ever inspire crowds like these to turn out to listen to them



Left-wing Labour candidate ‘could stand against Andy Burnham’ #Echobox=1779729513" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

This is so manufactured. He's only pretending to speak to a crowd in front of him - there's nobody there. The only people there other than Labour employees and councillors bused in to provide a backdrop for the speech are one or two carefully selected media photographers.



Andy Burnham is Keir Starmer 2.0

When you see these choreographed pretend rallies, with the people behind Keir Starmer holding placards, remember he's talking to just the camera crew & the people in the shot are pretty much all of the people who are there. Imagine what it would look like if the camera drew back








