"This is not a white paper, its a whitewash.. this privatisation of water has failed colossally" From cynically being used by Labour before the last election Feargal Sharkey has come a long way, but he's still rejecting nationalisation & the public ownership of water.

🟢 One in six species in the UK is now at risk of extinction. In our latest issue, Stuart Spray shows how Reform UK's plans to scrap biodiversity initiatives would risk accelerating the decline of already fragile ecosystems. subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/82/a-s…

Appalling that the government's new water white paper is about reassuring the shareholders who have ripped us all off 👇 Privatisation has failed since 1989, TAKE BACK OUR WATER

"Pull the plug on South East Water. Put it in emergency measures." And so say all of us, and so say all of us.... Not a word of any of that in govt's hapless white paper. thetimes.com/comment/the-ti…

Still a continuous discharge of sewage into the river wharfe despite the monitor saying otherwise. When you look at the length of the wharfe today, it is being used from Addingham to just below tadscaster as an open sewer. #sewage #pollution IlkleyCleanRiver

The Government wants new water laws that lock us into decades of rip-off privatisation - without asking the public. 82% of Brits support public ownership. You won’t get a say. Stop the stitch-up. Demand a real public consultation: actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop…

Tony Benn’s 5 key questions: “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? How do we get rid of you? And if you can’t get rid of the people who govern you, you don’t live in a democratic system.”

Absolutely terrible decision - fundamentally anti-democratic and a sign of utter weakness. It will come back to bite them … theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

Enough brownfield in Hertfordshire for nearly 27K new homes…CPRE Hertfordshire have compiled a list of available brownfield for each council. Excessive housing targets need to be addressed, #greenbelt left alone for the purpose it was intended. #FoodSecurity #greenspaces Chris Hinchliff MP

Blocking Andy Burnham from standing in Gorton and Denton is a serious political and democratic error. Local Labour members should have the right to decide who represents them. Taking that decision out of their hands reinforces exactly the sense of distance and control that is

Location, location, location: Coton Orchard one side, country reserve the other. No surprise our RSPB England #BigGardenBirdWatch did rather well, despite the dreary weather 🐦

#UnitedNations please stand up for the education of women globally

Look at the amount of response Keir Starmer Steve Reed ..Success in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 to save our Swifts..this is how much people love #nature and our #wildlife ..so stop trashing it and start protecting it as you promised in your manifesto. Chris Hinchliff MP Neil Duncan-Jordan MP National Emergency Briefing

Hedgehogs are now endangered & yet new housing developments are being built like this. No way they recover when we fence in gardens this way

Lady in blue, "Will student loans be the next misselling scandal?" #BBCQT Oli Dugmore, "My three year course, £9,000 a year for the tuition, on top of that a maintenance loan, I left uni with £37,500 of debt" "From the day I was charged RPI interest" "Since I went to uni in

Just look at that tree in the first photo! What sort of brain dead moron would you have to be to think it's in any way ok to chop that down...???!

Are you being lied to? Ministers claim that "This government’s generational reform of the water system, that will cut water pollution and clean up our rivers lakes and seas for good". Yet just 2 weeks ago Defra's leading civil servant told MPs "That is a simplification process.

Answers are needed Ed Miliband Keir Starmer ..why is this huge data centre in Potters Bar and another huge one to be built in Abbotts Langley on #greenbelt? Again where is all the vast amounts of #water coming from for evaporative cooling and the vast amounts of energy to

"The death of Heather Preen: how an eight-year-old lost her life amid the UK sewage crisis." Dirty Business: The Filthy Truth About England’s Water Companies airs next week, Channel 4, Feb 23rd at 9pm. theguardian.com/business/2026/…

Don't build a city on 45k acres of Suffolk farm land. Nature needs farming and farming needs nature. #FoodSecurity #HabitatConservation