Is it time to renationalise our utilities?
If you live in the UK, you will have noticed the increased level of interest in the discharge of sewage into our rivers and seas. The government is concerned about the impact of this on the upcoming local elections and is talking tough but doing nothing.
The situation with raw sewage also affects …
Is it time to renationalise our utilities?If you’re wondering who to vote for in UKs local elections
In case you’re still wondering who to vote for in this May’s local elections, here’s a list of Tory achievements during the last thirteen years:
- 1,000 sure start centres closed.
- 780 libraries closed.
- 700 football pitches closed.
- Food bank use is up 5,400%.
- Homelessness is up 1,000%.
- Rough sleeping …
This made me chuckle. Read the A-Z of Tory sleaze here
The UK government is missing in action
A Tory source tells the UK i newspaper: “The iceberg is getting closer and closer… and you’ve got Liz and Rishi doing a ridiculous leadership contest. We’ve got nothing, we’ve done nothing.”
UK government ministers were accused of a “dereliction of duty” today for not providing anyone for the …
The UK government is missing in actionToday, news outlets in the UK report that water companies have failed to monitor the amount of sewage discharged into the sea in popular resort towns.
This is a disgrace, and I’ve supported a petition calling on the Government to renationalise the water supply as the industry, in its current form, …
One reason that energy prices in the UK have skyrocketed.
The EU price cap on gas is 43.99 Euros per mega watt hour. The UK is £263.79 per mega watt hour.
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Enough Is Enough! There’s a growing pushback in the UK against the status quo.
We’re not in this together, we never have been.
Great quote from the Daily Mirror Whitehall correspondent Mikey Smith on the campaign to keep Boris in No 10.
“Imagine there being an active campaign to get Boris Johnson to stay on as PM, and not one to bring Gordon Brown back. Not saying either is the answer, but one seems objectively less of a …
Peppa Pig and prolonged pauses – it is, I think, time to start worrying about the prime minister.
At the end of this speech, in an interview with ITV, the interviewer, having watched the speech, and gauged the audience’s reaction, saw fit to pose the following question: “Is everything OK, …
Mark Barrow has spent thirty years filming underwater clips that document the state of Britain’s rivers and streams. In the last twenty years, he has seen the percentage of UK waterways classified as healthy drop from over 90% to less than 15%. Now, as water companies are effectively granted …