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Just unblock their nest holes, @networkrail. Please share! theguardian.com/environment/20…

‘Government needs to recognise failure of water privatisation’ – Feargal Sharkey channel4.com/news/governmen…

A little reading for the weekend. "Feargal Sharkey challenges Keir Starmer to stamp out 'profiteering from pollution." express.co.uk/news/politics/…

Govt to relax planning rules for factory farms; despite local opposition,concerns about water pollution, air quality. My local council refused permission for the 7th McDonald's restaurant in town, near a school. Govt allowed it without visiting the site. theguardian.com/environment/20…

China billionaire owner of Northumbrian Water wants to bid for Thames Water. NW has 50+ criminal convictions, dumps sewage in rivers, fleeces customers. 90% of England's water is foreign owned. More of the same can't solve problems. Must nationalise. theguardian.com/business/2026/…

We are literally up shit creek.

How can the BBC justify how much coverage they give other marches which are significantly smaller in size? The bias is so obviously blatant. theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2…

Absolutely shocking behaviour from the health secretary! Threatening to withdraw training jobs for doctors if they don’t accept a real-terms pay cut… Knowing that the consequences of this will be our patients who’ll find it even harder to access to specialist care Disgraceful

Listen to a grieving mother and have no doubts: water privatisation has been a lethal scandal. Avoidable tragedies caused by ideology of privatisation & profiteering. Govts listen to corporations and their controllers, not the pain of the people. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

So, as a doctor I can’t accept a plastic pen from a pharmaceutical company because it might influence my prescribing decisions, but MPs can accept thousands in cash from those who want to privatise the NHS and it won’t affect their decision-making??? CTFO thenational.scot/news/25967768.…

It’s not rotting, it has been privatised.

Environment Agency is too weak to tackle an “out-of-control plague” of waste dumping. Lacks resources. Fees to visit official dumps encourages fly- tipping. Water companies are major offenders. Execs face no penalties. EA in cahoots with companies. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Thames Water treatment site in Oxfordshire is the most offending sewage work in England. 2021 - 2025: 287 illegal sewage dumps. Marine life and biodiversity destroyed. Danger to human health. Execs rewarded, dividends paid, investment neglected. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

What future? 4.5m UK children live in poverty. 5 year olds are 7cm shorter than their European peers. Tories want to reimpose the two-child benefit cap, condemn 450,000 children to poverty. Reform wants to do the same to cut price of a pint of beer. leftfootforward.org/2026/03/is-the…

"Water companies are ruining our seaside — prison is the only deterrent." Cracking idea but here's the thing. The Environment Agency already has the power to bring prosecutions resulting in a maximum jail sentence of 5 years, unlimited fines, and under the Proceeds of Crime Act confiscation orders. How many water company executives do you think have ever been investigated never mind prosecuted by the EA? thetimes.com/travel/inspira…

Bumper pay awards to FTSE100 bosses. Smith & Nephew CEO pay doubles to $15.3m. Similar story at BP, Shell, Rolls Royce and more. Average real pay for workers unchanged since 2008. Govts preach pay restraint to workers, silence on fat-cattery. archive.ph/w7OZJ

It's a simply enough question. MP: Can you give me a date when govt are going to stop allowing water companies to regulate themselves? GOVT: Err, Err, Err, blah, blah, blah... That'll be a NO then.👇👇👇

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Patients harmed as Covid pandemic brought NHS close to collapse, inquiry finds. In 2016 Exercise Cygnus concluded that the NHS cannot cope with a hypothetical H2N2 influenza pandemic. Tory govt did nothing. 232,000 died from Covid. NHS yet to recover. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Israel targets a British journalist in Lebanon. The BBC: “Missile lands next to presenter” Pathetic even by its own incredibly low standards.