OK, the Gorton and Denton by-election, I have some thoughts! Let's take a look at some of the FACTS and burst a few of the more ridiculous takes doing the rounds But first up, can we acknowledge just what bad losers Reform are?!🤣 Right, let's get started... 🧵 1/

We have to campaign for what the environment and people need, not what our government and the polluters have said they might let us have - if we play nicely and let them keep milking our bills. Channel 4's #DirtyBusiness has put us in front of the goal. Let's not waste that.

SOS Whitstable SOS Whitstable get's it, how come govt doesn't?

Any tells you that 'treated' sewage is clean / harmless show them this.

Venture capitalists grab a 42% stake in Yorkshire Water. A good cash cow these days is hard to find. theguardian.com/business/2026/…

"Water firms acting like ‘criminal gangs’ dumping 10,000 hours’ worth of sewage each month on dry days." If it was another sector, or any other group of people they would all be in jail right now. What not the water industry? lbc.co.uk/article/water-…

This morning's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announcement exposes yet again the ugly greed and undying lust environment charities have for water companies bloody money, in reality nothing more than the proceeds of crime. Northumbrian Water wanted to put their bills up

The sort of thing a coward would use AI for?

let me get this straight a team will not be playing in the FIFA World Cup because they are currently being bombed by the FIFA Peace Prize winner

Why isn’t a newspaper south of the border willing to spell out what the overwhelming majority of us want?

At what point do mass media call Israeli settlers doing this, 'terrorists'?

Scottish newspaper The National is a constant reminder of what an English newspaper might look like – if they weren't all owned by billionaires.

Gaza. Completely flattened and destroyed. Over 70,000 dead. Over 20,000 children dead. There is no justification for this. None whatsoever.

Is it "how to shoot kids"?

🧵 These stories really are coming thick and fast at the moment🙄 Guess what? The Canadian school is NOT 'banning food at lunchtime' during Ramadan🤦‍♀️ Obviously... And if you BELIEVED it to be true, then you need to ask why you would choose to believe such an obviously

I am a US citizen & Surgeon who took care of the Boston Maraton Bombing victims in 2013. I paid for 7 years to own a small apartment in downtown #Beirut for my 3 kids to enjoy summers there. Today, #Israel reduced my dream home to rubble, with american weapons, paid by my taxes.

Another former sub postmaster dies awaiting payout. Wrongfully convicted, but no full compensation. Fujitsu hasn't paid anything. Injustice everywhere - Grenfell fire, Infected blood, HBOS frauds, insolvency frauds ... Govts protect big business. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Amazing how honest a politician can be when not in receipt of Friends of Israel cash.

Bombers leaving for Iran from England. We did not consent to this.

What is the point of keeping water privatised? This was the question Labour MP Barry Gardiner put to Emma Reynolds, the secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs. However, when Reynolds said nationalising water would "cost an enormous amount of money", she was