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Now that its pissing down with rain can the water barons stop with their constant scaremongering about drought and running out of water and focus on their job of fixing leaks.

First Watson and Palantir, now Hutton and Thames Water The dregs of the Blair government continue to debase themselves to the highest bidder www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Sometimes, albeit increasingly rare, backlash works.

Funny how governments suddenly find hundreds of millions when a profitable corporation wants public money, yet ordinary people are told there simply isn’t enough to fund essential services. If taxpayers are expected to take the risk, they deserve a fair share of the rewards.

As long as we have water privatisation, the system will never "work in our interests" The government should take water into public ownership (normal in 9/10 of world) 5 DAYS TO GO - @andyburnham.bsky.social say NO to Thames Water creditors, say NO to bill hikes www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The fall in immigration is mutilating Healey’s Budget iandunt.substack.com/p/the-fall-i...

This is why I support a third runway at Heathrow, the problem isnt the number of flights but the engines in the planes. Focus on electrical transition of aircraft.

The Netherlands is pushing the world towards electric flight faster than most European countries. Development is well underway: “There will be six engines. And we have folding wingtips, because the wings are very large” www.euronews.com/2026/10/24/b... #airtravel #ActOnClimate #Airbus

Trump is working extra hard to bring financial benefits to Russia.

A preemptive move to block certification of Alaska Senate results launches a legal battle amid broader concerns over the Trump administration’s willingness to accept the outcome of the midterms. The DOJ cited confusion over similarly named candidates. https://wapo.st/4zPBk1B

Very glad to see Davey going with this. He should keep on doing it. Very notable that neither the Tories nor Reform ever ask such questions.

Despite all the media coverage of wind "constraint payments" ie "paying windfarms to switch off" (and paying gas plants to switch on), this accounts for less than 4% of typical household electricity bills (Yes, balancing costs are going up, but in total they add £35 to a total bill of £858)

To summarise, we're going to produce more of the stuff that makes energy more expensive, at the detriment of funding alternatives that would reduce the cost

Nuffield Trust finds that the NHS surcharge (at £1035/year + £776 for students + children) raises 60% more than the cost of the healthcare it covers, putting £2.5 billion into the NHS Rapid drops in immigration therefore hit the NHS finances www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/articles/ana...

Why become entirely self-sufficient with wind and solar power, while becoming a net exporter of both, when you can continue to rely on unstable, unsustainable oil and gas supply from third countries? It's ideological insanity. Welcome to the modern right.

UK Chancellor announces £2bn Energy Wealth Fund after Jackdaw gas project. PR gesture. UK squandered North Sea wealth in tax cuts for corporations and the rich. Norway didn't, has $2.4 trillion sovereign fund. UK govts fight class wars, long-term neglected.

The court's ruling overturning the original decision was based on emissions. And neither site currently operates so nobody is going to become unemployed. So your argument fails on both counts as neither is true. Not that truth matters; money has won again.

The approval of the Jackdaw gas field is an environmental catastrophe. But also, side-eyeing this from an industry which has lost THIRTY THOUSAND JOBS in the past five years, what the absolute fuck is this justification?

🚨BREAKING: Michael Bloomberg just dropped $80 MILLION into the midterms to help Democrats take back the House. The former NYC mayor is making a massive late push when it matters most. Now we have to finish the job. Vote BLUE. 💙

Tomorrow's front page: Man City paid council £750,000 a year for stadium naming rights - that sold for £100m #TomorrowsPapersToday

This position may prove an electoral risk to the Conservatives in yellow/blue marginals in southern England, + maybe to winning coalitions for London. But also a major challenge for sustaining majority support, across major political tribes of the UK's human rights framework, multilateral & domestic

Andrew Boff has left the Conservative Party after 53 years (so will now be an independent in the GLA) over his support for human rights. The leadership will not allow candidates to run if they publicly support continued UK membership of the ECHR, ratified since 1951 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What was the point in changing Prime Ministers again? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Republican Senator Thom Tillis: “Putin is playing President Trump like a fiddle. And history is not going to look good on an America that failed to rise up and defend the Western world.”

They have always been this way. There has been no sudden change. This is who they always were. www.businessinsider.com/gop-candidat...

The Government claims soverign debt levels are unsustainable, welfare spending will be cut, BBC spending will be cut Why then does Burnham scramble to spend funds defending an oil rich Arab dictatorship? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The question for rejoin supporters is whether this is the type of EU we wish to rejoin. If EU is run by Russia supporting nazis do we want in? Lots to discover before rejoin is even a possibility.

Threats like this only reinforce the case for ditching Starlink and other US services www.ft.com/content/d1e2...

Anyone surprised? The US, China and Russia want to carve up the world. We need the EU 🇪🇺!

When Trump says the Ukraine does not want to end the war, what he is really saying is that Ukraine does not want to surrender to a deal that he has worked out with Putin which would see the Ukrainians hand over more of their land and people. Speaking the truth is important.

The colossal misjudgement that Trump would back Ukraine, not Putin, was obvious at the time. Johnson is paid a fortune for this inane piffle.

Reformers will need to be much louder and more committed than they are now to secure change, particularly inside the Labour Party but also outside. They'll need to finesse their arguments and slogans for the tsunami of bullshit to come.

This is exactly why Labour high command is part of the problem not the solution. Quite frankly if they dont engage with electoral reform they deserve to get eaten by Reform.

BREAKING: A Reform MSP has quit Nigel Farage's party The Scottish Parliament confirmed the resignation, which means Labour is now Holyrood's second biggest party

We have until Thursday 29th October to stop Thames Water from being bailed out yet again at our expense Andy Burnham, block the bailout, remove their licence, TAKE IT BACK. Sign the petition 👇 weownit.org.uk/act-now/tham...

Those masked men are absolute cunts. No political meaning to their bullshit whatsoever. Just ruinous acquisitive thugs.

Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water. Here are some suggestions. Enforce laws. Prosecute execs for harming health, environment. Cancel licence to operate. Put TW into special administration. Nationalise at knockdown price. Apply to all water companies.

When will this Labour Government stop tinkering? Thames Water is a busted flush. It's worthless. Cheer up the nation. Nationalise it now. Not a penny compensation. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

By and large we don't get the governments we deserve; we get the governments funders pay for. As in the US, UK politics is becoming dominated by huge spending. The result is *inevitably* to push us rightwards. The unions' position is breath-takingly blinkered. They will never win the funding race.

The trade unions resisting a political donations cap in the UK are ragged-trousered philanthropists. Thanks to their delusion that a system allowing limitless donations enhances their power, they're in danger of handing the country to the far-right parties that billionaires support. Burnham must act

Haven’t really been paying much attention to Israeli politics recently but just saw Netanyahu has a pretty good chance of staying PM. What happened to the whole “the good people of Israel hate Netanyahu and once he’s out we can really pursue a two state solution” idea?

The UK could re-enter the EU in a “Switzerland plus” package that could be negotiated within months of any decision to deepen ties with the bloc, the head of a European parliament committee has said www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

On Trump, Brexit and voting reform, Ed Davey saying what Andy Burnham can't say, and Badenoch/Farage never would, is a very obvious - and potentially fruitful - strategy for the LibDems. It will need to be said as well as posted on social media, though.

“We were arrested under the Terrorism Act for doing our jobs” The arrests of at least five journalists outside Elbit Systems’ UAV Tactical subsidiary in Leicester have been called ‘deeply concerning’ by press advocacy group Reporters Without Borders. www.leicester.news/we-were-arre...

😡😡It is offensive that Thames Water could be bailed out and then allowed to hike our water bills AGAIN, beyond the 36% average hike by 2030 already approved @cathobbs.bsky.social.bsky.social has written to the government to block the bill hike and take water into public ownership vist.ly/5nte6