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Reform in Redditch are claiming that they have saved the taxpayer almost £46,000 by having one fewer cabinet member than the previous administration on Worcestershire County Council. An official council spokesperson tells me: "There were 10 Cabinet members previously...and 10 Cabinet members now."

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The World Cup needs to be moved to Mexico and Canada in its entirety. America is not safe for players or spectators.

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Watching nearly every political party in the UK chase the same 20% of the worst people in the country, ignoring the other 80%, just to please the papers. Nothing will change in the UK until the papers are taken in hand. Not all the media, just the papers. The rest will flow from there.

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12 activists, including Greta Thunberg, have been detained by Israeli armed forces in international waters for trying to bring life saving food & medicine to Gazans who are being starved under the Israeli siege. Withholding food & medicine is a war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

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NEWS! Winter Fuel Payment to be reintroduced for all state pensioners (Eng & Wal) but clawed back through tax if you earn £35,000+. My instant analysis of how it works, what it means and is it an improvement. youtu.be/fHg7ReqbnpA

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Can many people name the chairman of Labour, Tories, Lib Dems or Greens? How often does an unelected bureaucrat get the 8:10 interview on Radio 4? Completely disproportionate media coverage of Zia Yusuf saga

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Britain has rapidly decarbonised electricity. A huge success story we simply don't talk about. To go further still we need new electricity infrastructure, yet this is largely ignored or even opposed!

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Israel’s idea that they are going to show Greta & the Freedom Flotilla crew violent Oct 7th videos in order to convince them that they are in the wrong… …just utterly exposes how profoundly tribalistic, barbaric and emotionally underdeveloped the Israeli government is.

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“When the Thatcher government sold off the water industry in England and Wales in 1989, it promised better efficiency, greater investment and improved service quality. But more than three decades on, those promises have largely evaporated.”

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This is insane... Currently, we're not only not using the full potential power output of wind farms, we're actively paying the operators BIG money to switch them off! Wasting clean energy, AND handing the neanderthals in Reform a big stick to beat green policies with...! 🤔

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she was in international waters thus any seizure or attack is completely illegal under international maritime law, she sailed under a British flag meaning the UK government has legal responsibility for the ship and her crew's safety & protection.

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2 weeks ago, France, Canada, and the UK warned Israel to take "concrete actions" to stop its genocidal war & boost aid into Gaza. Israel responded by shooting at diplomats from 2 dozen nations — including the trio. Today, Israel intercepted a UK-flagged aid ship with 6 French people on board.

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Wonders of UK energy privatisation. Not enough capacity to carry/store electricity. On windy days, govt pays wind farms NOT to produce electricity. £500m this year, £8bn a yr by 2030. Elsewhere companies are paid vast sums for emergency production. Companies get ssubsidies, we get higher bills.

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Public ownership of England’s water companies could cost close to zero. Companies have violated their licences. Shares worthless. Debt low value. Railtrack, Northern Rock were taken over without compensation for investors. Can do the same for water companies? But govt obsessed with privatisation.

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Children in the most deprived areas of England less likely to achieve good developmental goals by the age of five, says Unicef. Poverty, austerity, real wage/benefit cuts, profiteering, regressive taxes take toll. Futures blighted by political choices in one of the wealthiest countries.

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As Trump deploys the National Guard against his own citizens, the importance of protecting our own human rights from abuse at the hands of govt has never been clearer. But still the Tories push to strip us of our protections, in a desperate bid for power for themselves. Important letter (Times)

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Interesting: Despite the relentlessly negative media coverage, most people in the UK want to stay in the European Convention on Human Rights👇 🔗 yougov.co.uk/topics/inter... via @yougov.co.uk #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

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Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

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US aggression versus EU membership: The UK must choose stability over Trump’s chaos 👏👏👏

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"Other industries such as rail and energy have also struggled in the face of privatisation. But, nowhere illustrates the failure more acutely than the water sector. Left unaddressed, it could easily become a major obstacle to meeting the UK’s climate objectives."

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35 years of England water privatisation. Industry controlled by companies with 1,135 criminal convictions. 1trn litres water a year lost in leaks. Sewage dumped in rivers for 3.62m hrs a year. £85bn dividends, £70bn+ debt, people fleeced Last decade, £112m exec bonuses . Must end privatisation.

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🇪🇺 "66% of the public support a closer relationship with Europe" 📈 "Over half (53%) were in favour of undoing Brexit altogether. Remember when newspapers cared about the will of the people? How times change."

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From a week and a half ago: “As of Monday, the model shows, about 96,000 adults and 200,000 children have died because of the administration’s cutbacks to funding for aid groups and support organizations. The overall death count grows by 103 people an hour.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Fact-check or get out: how to expose lying politicians In a digital world where facts can be verified in seconds, we have no excuse to let politicians get away with lying. Are we part of the problem? @centralbylines.co.uk

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Before September 1998 University was free in England. Now it costs nearly £10,000 a year and it is going up to £13,000. Nigel Farage has the same plan for the NHS.

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We must never, ever, ever abandon the ECHR Treaty. "This treaty was made after WWII to ensure such atrocities would never happen again!" "The UK signed the ECHR in 1951 and the rights enshrined in the Convention have been made part of UK law through the Human Rights Act 1998."

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New research provides conclusive proof that 20mph in London is saving lives. 14 yrs of analysis at 150+ sites - reviewed by experts - shows: ❤️40% fewer deaths (vs 7% drop on roads where no changes were made) ❤️75% fewer children killed & 50% fewer kids hurt And slower speeds deliver so much more:

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The world is watching. And we have friends everywhere. Upload everything, every moment. Don’t give them the chance to twist the truth. We have people on the way to help. You’re not alone. ✊🌙💚

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A newborn baby had to stay in hospital for 5.5 months in the USA in 2011 after being born premature. The hospital sent their parents this bill after 3 months. Imagine what they would have done if they weren't insured or couldn't pay their percentage of this bill?

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The magic of having the world's only fully privatised and most expensive energy.

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Water privitisation is such an utter failure that no one will take it on without getting exemption for environmental crimes. These private companies want to avoid all responsibility for - literal - shit in our drinking water. #RenationaliseWater www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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And Farage wants to privatise much of the NHS. Be afraid.

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Hunt was literally Chancellor of the Exchequer for 2 years 2022-24. Instead of fixing this problem he cut taxes and left a huge black hole in the public finances to give Labour a political headache. It’s always party before country with the Tories.

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Growing stretches of the countryside are falling behind a paywall. Lewis Winks, of @righttoroam.bsky.social “From entry fees for historically open parks, to pay-for-permission wild camping and river swimming, the paywalling of the countryside is quietly shutting the public out."

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Let's also point out the gratuitous inclusion of Maya Forstater's demonstrably false lie that 'many many women' had been assaulted in bathrooms as a result of trans-inclusive policies. There's no evidence of that whatsoever. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Bupkiss. Goose egg.

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We know how to save lives and make our city safer for everyone, especially children, older and disabled people, to walk, cycle and catch the bus. Rolling out 20mph speed limits everywhere people are using pavements and need to cross the road makes sense.

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Los Angeles: if you get tear gas or see other people who have been and someone calling themselves a medic tries to use milk to wash their eyes out SLAP THAT MILK JUG OUT THEIR FUCKING HAND. MILK DOES NOT WASH OUT TEAR GAS. Just use bottled water please.

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England's water industry running amok. Govt's reforms can't work. Govt says it will ban unfair dividends. But shareholders can extract returns with share buybacks, interest payments on intragroup loans, artificial management fees and other charges. Must remove profit motive. Nationalise.

Reform in Redditch are claiming that they have saved the taxpayer almost £46,000 by having one fewer cabinet member than the previous administration on Worcestershire County Council. An official council spokesperson tells me: "There were 10 Cabinet members previously...and 10 Cabinet members now."

The World Cup needs to be moved to Mexico and Canada in its entirety. America is not safe for players or spectators.

Watching nearly every political party in the UK chase the same 20% of the worst people in the country, ignoring the other 80%, just to please the papers. Nothing will change in the UK until the papers are taken in hand. Not all the media, just the papers. The rest will flow from there.

12 activists, including Greta Thunberg, have been detained by Israeli armed forces in international waters for trying to bring life saving food & medicine to Gazans who are being starved under the Israeli siege. Withholding food & medicine is a war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

NEWS! Winter Fuel Payment to be reintroduced for all state pensioners (Eng & Wal) but clawed back through tax if you earn £35,000+. My instant analysis of how it works, what it means and is it an improvement. youtu.be/fHg7ReqbnpA

Can many people name the chairman of Labour, Tories, Lib Dems or Greens? How often does an unelected bureaucrat get the 8:10 interview on Radio 4? Completely disproportionate media coverage of Zia Yusuf saga

Britain has rapidly decarbonised electricity. A huge success story we simply don't talk about. To go further still we need new electricity infrastructure, yet this is largely ignored or even opposed!

Israel’s idea that they are going to show Greta & the Freedom Flotilla crew violent Oct 7th videos in order to convince them that they are in the wrong… …just utterly exposes how profoundly tribalistic, barbaric and emotionally underdeveloped the Israeli government is.

“When the Thatcher government sold off the water industry in England and Wales in 1989, it promised better efficiency, greater investment and improved service quality. But more than three decades on, those promises have largely evaporated.”

This is insane... Currently, we're not only not using the full potential power output of wind farms, we're actively paying the operators BIG money to switch them off! Wasting clean energy, AND handing the neanderthals in Reform a big stick to beat green policies with...! 🤔

she was in international waters thus any seizure or attack is completely illegal under international maritime law, she sailed under a British flag meaning the UK government has legal responsibility for the ship and her crew's safety & protection.

2 weeks ago, France, Canada, and the UK warned Israel to take "concrete actions" to stop its genocidal war & boost aid into Gaza. Israel responded by shooting at diplomats from 2 dozen nations — including the trio. Today, Israel intercepted a UK-flagged aid ship with 6 French people on board.

Wonders of UK energy privatisation. Not enough capacity to carry/store electricity. On windy days, govt pays wind farms NOT to produce electricity. £500m this year, £8bn a yr by 2030. Elsewhere companies are paid vast sums for emergency production. Companies get ssubsidies, we get higher bills.

Public ownership of England’s water companies could cost close to zero. Companies have violated their licences. Shares worthless. Debt low value. Railtrack, Northern Rock were taken over without compensation for investors. Can do the same for water companies? But govt obsessed with privatisation.

Children in the most deprived areas of England less likely to achieve good developmental goals by the age of five, says Unicef. Poverty, austerity, real wage/benefit cuts, profiteering, regressive taxes take toll. Futures blighted by political choices in one of the wealthiest countries.

As Trump deploys the National Guard against his own citizens, the importance of protecting our own human rights from abuse at the hands of govt has never been clearer. But still the Tories push to strip us of our protections, in a desperate bid for power for themselves. Important letter (Times)

Interesting: Despite the relentlessly negative media coverage, most people in the UK want to stay in the European Convention on Human Rights👇 🔗 yougov.co.uk/topics/inter... via @yougov.co.uk #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

US aggression versus EU membership: The UK must choose stability over Trump’s chaos 👏👏👏

"Other industries such as rail and energy have also struggled in the face of privatisation. But, nowhere illustrates the failure more acutely than the water sector. Left unaddressed, it could easily become a major obstacle to meeting the UK’s climate objectives."

35 years of England water privatisation. Industry controlled by companies with 1,135 criminal convictions. 1trn litres water a year lost in leaks. Sewage dumped in rivers for 3.62m hrs a year. £85bn dividends, £70bn+ debt, people fleeced Last decade, £112m exec bonuses . Must end privatisation.

🇪🇺 "66% of the public support a closer relationship with Europe" 📈 "Over half (53%) were in favour of undoing Brexit altogether. Remember when newspapers cared about the will of the people? How times change."

Fact-check or get out: how to expose lying politicians In a digital world where facts can be verified in seconds, we have no excuse to let politicians get away with lying. Are we part of the problem? @centralbylines.co.uk

Before September 1998 University was free in England. Now it costs nearly £10,000 a year and it is going up to £13,000. Nigel Farage has the same plan for the NHS.

We must never, ever, ever abandon the ECHR Treaty. "This treaty was made after WWII to ensure such atrocities would never happen again!" "The UK signed the ECHR in 1951 and the rights enshrined in the Convention have been made part of UK law through the Human Rights Act 1998."

The world is watching. And we have friends everywhere. Upload everything, every moment. Don’t give them the chance to twist the truth. We have people on the way to help. You’re not alone. ✊🌙💚

A newborn baby had to stay in hospital for 5.5 months in the USA in 2011 after being born premature. The hospital sent their parents this bill after 3 months. Imagine what they would have done if they weren't insured or couldn't pay their percentage of this bill?

The magic of having the world's only fully privatised and most expensive energy.

Water privitisation is such an utter failure that no one will take it on without getting exemption for environmental crimes. These private companies want to avoid all responsibility for - literal - shit in our drinking water. #RenationaliseWater www.theguardian.com/business/202...

And Farage wants to privatise much of the NHS. Be afraid.

Hunt was literally Chancellor of the Exchequer for 2 years 2022-24. Instead of fixing this problem he cut taxes and left a huge black hole in the public finances to give Labour a political headache. It’s always party before country with the Tories.

Growing stretches of the countryside are falling behind a paywall. Lewis Winks, of @righttoroam.bsky.social “From entry fees for historically open parks, to pay-for-permission wild camping and river swimming, the paywalling of the countryside is quietly shutting the public out."

Let's also point out the gratuitous inclusion of Maya Forstater's demonstrably false lie that 'many many women' had been assaulted in bathrooms as a result of trans-inclusive policies. There's no evidence of that whatsoever. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Bupkiss. Goose egg.

We know how to save lives and make our city safer for everyone, especially children, older and disabled people, to walk, cycle and catch the bus. Rolling out 20mph speed limits everywhere people are using pavements and need to cross the road makes sense.

Los Angeles: if you get tear gas or see other people who have been and someone calling themselves a medic tries to use milk to wash their eyes out SLAP THAT MILK JUG OUT THEIR FUCKING HAND. MILK DOES NOT WASH OUT TEAR GAS. Just use bottled water please.

England's water industry running amok. Govt's reforms can't work. Govt says it will ban unfair dividends. But shareholders can extract returns with share buybacks, interest payments on intragroup loans, artificial management fees and other charges. Must remove profit motive. Nationalise.

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