'British decline linked to Brexit, weak leadership and poor finances in damning report': independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

When I was in year 7 we were reading Lace in the playground to each other.

Idea if we don't talk about sexual harassment or consent to kids before they are 14 protects them from coercion or misogyny is as much a delusion as that bit with the goldfish.
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It's International Museums days this saturday, so here's our list & map of 200 UK free museums and galleries in case you fancy a visit... moneysavingexpert.com/deals/free-mus…

E. coli scare: Water company gives update after fears of contaminated supplies to thousands of homes in Surrey and Kent news.sky.com/story/e-coli-w… The Great Betrayal: Reaching a point when drinking water from your tap is no longer safe should prove the nail that breaks the camels

United Utilities 2023/24 revenues £1.9bn.
Operating profit £517.8m.
Dividends up 9.4%.
£8.8bn debt
No corporation tax - due to high capital allowances.
Investment inflated by capitalising interest paid.
Since 2010 sanctioned 216 times, still dumps sewage.
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'Company pumps ‘millions of litres’ of raw sewage into Lake Windermere.'

And the Environment Agency turn up 13 hours later and test for water quality in the wrong place. Yep ya couldn't make it up.

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🚨WE MUST KEEP THIS IN THE NEWS

Government wants an indefinite delay to the end of no-fault evictions so it can review whether the court system can cope with cases

Meanwhile to implement its law breaking Rwanda scheme its found 25 court rooms, 150 Judges & 5,000 sitting days!

I saw this mentioned by a mutual & it takes a lot to shock me, over hatred towards the LGBTQ community. I assumed, as this was so extreme, it was in the US. In fact it was in BELFAST!

Gordon Brown, 'We've got the highest levels of poverty in living memory amongst children'

'Children ill clad and hungry.. Families having to chose between heating, eating and keeping clean.. Mothers ashamed because they're having to queue up at food banks to get food for their

Good evening . The Rescue Hoad's Wood 🍃💚🍃 petition is 260 short of the big 10K and these fine fighting folk have a meeting with the Environment Agency tomorrow . It would be nice to have a nice round figure for them to state . . . just saying ! change.org/rescuehoadswood

Sam Lowry Those are good things, aren't they?

What a roaring success the privatisation of water has been. One of the richest countries in the world and we can't swim in our water or even drink it without getting sick? This can't go on. What will it take for this Government to act? news.sky.com/story/warning-…

If you're wondering what these dolls are, they’re 'educational dolls' used for children (as young as 3) who have been inappropriately touched so they can try and show how and where because their voices and understanding were curtailed, silenced and manipulated. They don't even…

BREAKING (literally)

Customers of privatised South West Water near Brixham
told to boil water before drinking
after minimum of 22 cases of vomiting and diarrhoea
due to waterborne bacteria

Tory World 😡

This is absolutely vile. I mentor several overseas mature students, they work hard and if they have family with them they support them, often by working too. This is not who we are.

Stephen Flynn, 'On Monday the Prime Minister compared North Korea, Iran and Russia, with those people in Scotland who believe in independence.. Will he apologise?'

Rishi Sunak, 'That's not what I said'

Stephen Flynn, 'Not only did he compare us to despots, he proactively

Portugal is smashing it - the whole country ran 95% on green electricity last month. That’s incredible, and right on our doorstep. We have everything we need to reach Energy Independence ourselves - except a government that gets it. bit.ly/3WLyB91

Operation Yellowhammer, engineered chaos this is all by design.
Lorries carrying perishable food and plants from the EU are being held for up to 20 hours at the UK’s busiest Brexit border post as failures with the government’s IT systems delay imports entering Britain.
Businesses

Neoliberals want to hike the state pension age (SPA).

Each hike transfers wealth from poor to the rich.

Rich live 10 years longer than the poor.

Life expectancy in Blackpool is 73.4 yrs, 86.3 yrs in Kensington and Chelsea.

Say no to hikes in SPA.
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Share this with as many powers to be as possible please

James O'Brien

I’ve been in customs for 2 hours now . I’ve just been back to ask what the problem is .

I’ve now been told they want to do a physical examination of my van . For empty returnable packaging

I’m done