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Too often, outsourcing comes at the expense of our services and the workers who keep them going. If you want public services to work for people, not just profit, sign the Record of Support for Labour’s insourcing pledge. megaphone.org.uk/petitions/offi… via @megaphoneuk

Simon, with respect, you’re diagnosing the wrong patient. Nobody serious is proposing tax & spend into a leaking bucket. The argument is about stopping the leak. Running a bath with the plug open doesn’t get fixed by turning down the tap. 40 yrs of outsourced energy, water, housing, transport & care extract rent from every household before a single unit of real economic activity happens. Your “80-year tax high” is partly the state compensating through welfare, housing benefit and NHS crisis spending for costs that privatised provision imposes but never internalises. This isn’t old Labour. It’s about ending rampant and inappropriate outsourcing. Public corporations borrowing against their own revenues, like the model that built the National Grid, don’t add to sovereign debt. The Dutch kept more of their economic foundations in public hands, built more of them, and generate higher productivity as a result. Britain sold the foundations off. The growth constraint you name, high energy, building and capital costs, is the privatisation settlement aka premium. You can’t solve a supply-side cost crisis by leaving the supply-side institutional structure intact.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ That’s what we’re talking g about here.

@champneys do you offer essential companion tickets for spa days (like Bath)?

@marksandspencer still waiting for acknowledgment of an order I returned to staff in store a week ago. Its status reads “awaiting return”.

The local election results in Norwich - despite the excellent track record of Labour at the City Council - and across the country, make this an existential moment for Labour. This will not be fixed by another speech, another comms reset, or another reshuffle. The problem is now far deeper than that. Labour is losing the very people and places it was created to represent. In provincial England, in towns and cities that should be part of Labour’s political heartland, the party’s base is collapsing. Norwich should be a warning. So should the results we are seeing across the country. We cannot pretend this is a 'bad night', a difficult cycle, or a messaging problem. It is a political crisis, and unless we face it honestly, it risks becoming terminal. The Prime Minister has reached the point where the question is no longer whether he can recover. It is whether, by staying on, he does lasting damage to Labour’s ability to govern, rebuild trust, and stop the advance of the right. That is why a timetable for his departure is now necessary. The longer this is delayed, the greater the damage to the party and the country.

"These water companies.. The fines don't work, it's time we actually started upholding the law, and sending some of these executives and directors to jail. If we put one water company boss in jail for six weeks the whole industry would transform itself" - @Feargal_Sharkey

Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-tw

Nigel Farage wants to take the country out of the European Convention on Human Rights The ECHR protects us all - the rights within it – firmly implanted into UK law by the Human Rights Act – are the reason why families devastated by disasters like Hillsborough could demand justice, why victims of abuse can seek safety and why disabled people are treated with dignity in care. It grants our right to protest, our right to privacy, our right to fair trials and so much more.

This Sunday, our runners will be taking on the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon and Half Marathon 💛 Behind every step is a powerful reason, to change the future for those affected by brain tumours. Let’s show them some love and wish them luck as they take on this incredible challenge 👏 Feeling inspired? You could be next. Find your challenge: bit.ly/4gGBpLC #TogetherWeWillFindACure #BrainTumourAwareness

.@Feargal_Sharkey is absolutely right: the government is complicit in the damage to our rivers and seas. No more window dressing. It is time for real action. Give the public a say. Give us a referendum on water ownership. Sign the petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7626…

"The government has missed its own deadline for bringing enforcement action against water companies polluting rivers and seas." And yet again there we have it. All of the promises, all of the empty, vacuous words, all of the failed commitments. Worthless, meaningless, nonsense. thetimes.com/uk/environment…

Exclusive: How polluting water companies are escaping prosecution The Environment Agency failed to prosecute any water company for a serious pollution incident occurring in the last five years, choosing a divisive alternative punishment instead, writes Alex Thomson. Read our latest newsletter: channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-ho…

Palantir already helps governments track, profile, and analyse people at scale. Now they want NHS data. Why is nobody talking about this? Full breakdown on YouTube. youtu.be/Z2jCXF6iQnQ

In 2004, you could buy a Ford Transit van for £10,500 Today it’s £48,000 In 2004 the average weekly wage was £320 Today it’s £730 127% increase on wages but 400% on vans for workers When they tell you inflation is 3%, the cost of living is coming down & wages have gone up, for your protection assume it's significantly more That's why I'm doing a zoom class to help you beat these soaring cost but most importantly increase your earning power See first comment below 👇🏻

Feargal Sharkey, "Water companies... The fines don't work, it's time we actually started upholding the law, and sending some of these executives and directors to jail" Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "You think we should put them in jail?" Feargal Sharkey, "If we put one water company boss in jail for six weeks the whole industry would transform itself"

💪Opposition to facial recognition is MOUNTING 57% of Britons believe live facial recognition is “another step towards turning the UK into a surveillance society”, a new poll reveals Read⤵️ gbnews.com/news/live-faci…

Reinstate windfall tax on banks after surge in profits, TUC urges. Banks will make bigger profits from interest rate hikes, without any additional effort. Claw them back. Energy companies are profiteering too, and must pay windfall taxes. theguardian.com/business/2026/…

Brilliant, brilliant exposé by Alex Thomson @alextomo on @Channel4News last night, blowing the lid of the corrupt, and it is corruption of the @EnvAgency allowing water companies to walk away from criminal charges, jail time, unlimited fines and all for nothing more than a slap on the wrist and some blood money paid to local charities. It's time to put an end to this nonsense, it's time to hold people to account, it's time to send the fat cats to jail. channel4.com/news/the-dirty…

#DirtyBusiness exposed the human cost of profit before public health. Our water system won’t be fixed with tinkering. Need public ownership. I’ve asked my MP to attend the MP drop-in on 17th March & hear that message directly from sewage campaigners: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-yo…

Not a single completed prosecution for any of the 2 million instances of illegal sewage dumping in the last 5 years. Yet the government claims to be taking action. #Channel4 is continuing to expose the privatised water industry tonight. Time to end this mess. Take water into public ownership.