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Mike Ray retweeted
"Hundreds fall ill amid sewage crisis after visiting UK's best beaches."
We now live in a country where this has become an annual ritual, and we allow this?
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Mike Ray retweeted
The call for public ownership of the water industry is growing louder everyday.
Why are govt refusing a referendum, why are govt refusing to allow the public to decide?
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Mike Ray retweeted
There are only 8 Reform MPs and they have a combined wealth of over £70,000,000.
They have consistently voted against every single improvement to workers rights and plan to scrap legal protections left right and centre.
They are funded by the bosses to rip up your rights.
Mike Ray retweeted
"Feargal Sharkey brands '£100billion' cost of nationalising water 'nonsense'."
And that is because it is nonsense, pure unadulterated, made up nonsense.
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Mike Ray retweeted
Ian Hislop repeatedly slams Michael Gove on Have I Got News For You #HIGNFY
"I mean, you were sacked and then dismissed, you almost came back. I mean there are cockroaches I know who are in we of your ability"
"Cameron said you have one overriding quality, that is disloyalty"
"I prefer to be talking about levelling up"
"Can I just say at this point, I've always liked experts"
"A turbulent week, what we've seen is a large number of Cabinet members stabbing each other in the back in the hope of becoming leader. Michael"
"In the old days you used to get into trouble with emails, didn't you Michael"
Mike Ray retweeted
"Southern Water sparks fury with ‘absolutely disgusting’ sewage dumping plans."
So Southern Water's big plan to fix the sewage scandal is simply to extent their pipework and dump it further out to sea, no I'm not kidding, just as the good people of Whitstable. @SOSWhitstable
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Mike Ray retweeted
Curse of private equity
Horrific, unregulated, and very profitable. Companies making cash from England’s children in care.
Average charge to the state by a private provider for a child in “care” is £384,020 a year, some charge £1m+.
End privatisation.
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Mike Ray retweeted
"Sewage companies failed to report 126 serious spills last year. Worst offender was Anglian Water, with 23 undisclosed emergency dumps of raw waste."
WHAT, water companies lying to the regulator to cover their own asses? Surely not?!
And the @EnvAgency does what exactly?
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…
Mike Ray retweeted
The UK is spending £369m refurbishing Buckingham Palace for King Charles, who has £22bn and gets £500m more a year.
He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country.
Mike Ray retweeted
Sainsbury's boss eyes bumper £7.3m payday as shoppers reel from higher food prices.
Up from £5.4m last year – 200 times average employee pay.
Govts preach pay restraint to workers, silence on exec pay, shareholder returns.
Let workers vote on exec pay.
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Mike Ray retweeted
"Welsh Water faces £44.7m 'enforcement package' for sewage failings."
The most abhorrent part in all of all of this is that Ofwat has just admitted that since 1994 when the sewage treatment regulations were introduced Welsh Water, like every other sewage company in the UK have been breaking the law.
That's 37 years of illegal activity, 37 years of incompetence, 37 years of failure, 37 years of the gross, violent, decimation of our rivers and beaches.
Where's the justice for them, where's the justice for bill players, where's the accountability, why aren't Ofwat's board now being prosecuted for misconduct in public office?
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Mike Ray retweeted
South West Water's £1.8m fine is pathetic. 16,000 households affected. >500 people taken ill. 10 people hospitalised.
22 convictions for SWW since 2014. Why do we reward criminal activity with a 25 year licence & fines totalling 0.04% of the money they've extracted since privatisation?
They should be fined into oblivion. vist.ly/56evz
Mike Ray retweeted
Two Reform Councillors had died before they were elected.
Five have quit because they never actually wanted to be Councillors.
At least four have been fired because they are vile racists.
One is complaining because he thought he'd be an MP.
One was completely made up
Clown party
Mike Ray retweeted
Oh here we go, a director of South Wast Water. responsible for overseeing fat cat salaries and bonuses also runs a business offering "aura cleansing and crystal healing using techniques 'passed down through a 3,000-year-old lineage'."
Who in the hell appoints these people, @NatWestGroup any ideas?
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Mike Ray retweeted
Could Farage face a by-election?
Two investigations into his undeclared £5m gift.
The Electoral Commission
Parliamentary Standards Commissioner
If as result he is suspended from the Commons for 10+sitting days, petition by 10% of constituents can trigger Recall and by-election.
Mike Ray retweeted
I have seen this lie told so many times even by govt ministers. To be clear the £104 billion investment is not being provided by water company shareholders it's being funded by you, from your bank account not theirs.
Not true. Ofwat say £9.6bn from customer bills in 2025-30. Only owner equity publicly disclosed is £170m - 1.5%. The rest is customer-funded, debt-financed spend - not shareholders “investment.” Why are you trying to mislead people? Cc @weownit @WindrushWasp @Feargal_Sharkey
Mike Ray retweeted
Just met a Reform UK voting couple who didn't know it opposed:
Rise in minimum wage
End of two-child benefit cap
Expansion of free school meals, free breakfast clubs
Help with school uniforms
Horrified that they would lose big from Reform
How many others voted without knowing?
