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Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
Good old @unitedutilities strikes again. 1 month ago 14 miles of coast closed because of sewage dumping and now this.
As a reminder the former CEO who retired in March was paid £30 million during 12 years he ran the company.
Think on that the next time you can't go for a swim.
Lancashire sewage-polluted sea hampering GB triathlon team
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-la…
Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
Final cost of Johnson's legal bill for defence at Privileges Committee £265,000
Tories claimed this was normal to pay, but failed to be able to mention a single time it had ever happened before, in other words effectively another lie.
No surprise there eh?
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Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
BREAKING
Public Accounts Comm report today on MICHELE MONE & PPE Medpro.
- National Crime Agency & House Of Lords investigations ongoing
- DHSC suing Medpro for £120m+ for unusable PPE through VIP Lane
-High Court ruled VIP lane was unlawful
-Gov PPE contracts £9 billion written off, inc £4 billion that can't be used.
NOTE: all of this is added to Tory claims they're spending more on NHS
Don't forget c£37bn in addition on Test & Trace 😡😡😡
Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
“Fiercely eloquent”. I’ve been called a lot of things in my life but that’s a first. 😂
"They've made off with £72billion worth of our money - some of which should have clearly gone into building, maintaining & upgrading the sewage system"
The fiercely eloquent @Feargal_Sharkey on the outrage of raw sewage in our rivers👇
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Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
"If freedom of movement was reinstated tomorrow, I could fill the 15 vacancies I need to reopen for lunch".
Multiply that by a whole country.
And let's not forget, freedom of movement is a 2-way street & it's your freedom that has been curtailed as well.
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Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
Fingers crossed.
Will Labour join @GreenJennyJones @natalieben and others in the Lords who want to stop the #IllegalMigrationBill on Monday. All it takes is for the Lords to vote for the same amendment twice. @BBCr4today @YvetteCooperMP
Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
Dear 🇬🇧,
As we approach the NHS 75th anniversary, here's your reminder that 10 years ago, it was ranked the #1 healthcare system on Earth. You don't need a new system. You need a new govt that won't intentionally destroy it for their own financial benefit.
#SOSNHS #NHS75
ALT A chart from the Commonwealth Fund 2014 "Mirror Mirror" report ranking healthcare systems among wealthy nations. The UK ranked 1 in nearly every category, including overall ranking. It delivered the best care for the least amount of money, beating every other wealthy nation. We don't need a new healthcare system. We need a new government that will care about it.
Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
I think ticket offices at railway stations are one of those things that remind of what a society should actually be. Real jobs and real interactions , and community can sometimes be placed above shareholder dividends. It's a choice we can make. #SaveTicketOffices
Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
So @thameswater needs another £3.2bn by 2030.
Who's paying? Let me take a guess, they want it to come out of our pockets not theirs, wouldn't that be right @Ofwat?
thisismoney.co.uk/money/mark…
Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
We are corporate slaves now.
They dodge taxes & profiteer from food, water, energy, the environment, transport, communications, sickness and more.
Political parties have been bought.
Putting a cross on paper hasn't held them to account.
What next?
leftfootforward.org/2023/07/…
Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
This Tory government is patently corrupt and cruel.
Prove me wrong
Our #NHS deserves better
Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
The results are in.
98.1% of those who voted though that @UKLabour should respect the wishes of voters and nationalise the water industry.
1.9% felt they should help Liv Garfield save her £4m salary. I assume the latter were votes from Liv and her immediate friends and family.
The boss of @stwater has written a 'secret' email to other water industry bosses urging them to "fend off nationalisation".
If you were @UKLabour who would you support, the 69% of voters who think WCs should be nationalised or someone trying to save their £4m a year salary?
98%69% of voters.
2%£4,000,000 salary.
9,053 votes • Final results Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
A brilliant and detailed assessment of what’s gone wrong, where we are and what needs to happen next.
With the terrifying conclusion “Government thinks that saving the private water companies is more important than them polluting our water, rivers and beaches”.
Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
From the man who was trail blazing the financial time bomb that is England’s water industry long before the rest of us even knew there was a trail to be blazed.
Respect.
The financial engineering of England's water companies, and the long running failure of the regulator to stop it, is tbh a national scandal. Here is something I wrote about the "organised rip off" that is water privatisation back in 2017 ft.com/content/2beee56a-9616…
Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
A detailed account of how shareholders ram raided England’s water companies and stole our cash.
Here is an article by @gillplimmer1 and me explaining how the financial engineering (aka looting) worked, and how - contrary to the claims of the industry, the debt was never necessary to fund investment (or at least the investment they did) ft.com/content/b60e062e-9712…
Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
'If Thames Water hadn't indebted itself so much and rewarded its executive so handsomely we wouldn't be in this position'
Labour MP Darren Jones, Chair of the Business and Trade Committee, spoke to #BBCBreakfast about the future of Thames Water
bbc.co.uk/news/business-6603…
Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
UK water companies have managed to rack up combined debts of an eye-watering £65 billion. What on earth have they done with all that dosh? Certainly not repair massive water leaks or stop sewage polluting rivers and beaches. Even the absurd dividends they’ve been paying themselves can’t account for it. Perhaps Ofwat could explain, if it wasn’t in their pocket (clear example of what is known as regulatory capture).
Alexandra Lunness 💙 #FBPE retweeted
"Sunak should seize Thames Water today, says Feargal Sharkey
Whitehall draws up contingency plans as troubled water supplier faces collapse."
telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
