It's a condition of every WCs operating licence that they will not pay a dividend if that would in any 'impair the ability of the company to finance', the water and sewage business.

£7bn in dividends, a company tittering on the brink of bankruptcy, and Ofwat does what exactly?

Creating a Labour Movement Agenda for an Incoming Labour Government is Vital 🌹

My @labouroutlook piece on the failure in UK politics to acknowledge the scale & urgency of the crises we face & the need for a labour movement agenda.
labouroutlook.org/2024/04/19/cre…

If you don't allow people to claim the state pension until they're dead. You avoid billionaires having to dip into their meager funds to finance tea and biscuits for the old duffers who've outlived their usefulness to the wealth class

Carla Denyer holding her own, a must watch 👏🔥 #BBCQT

'The Rwanda policy will be a national shame if it passes.. It's inhumane, it's callous, it's an incredibly expensive way to be cruel'

'£1,800,000 per asylum seeker.. This about how much better we could spend that money'…

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🚨 RMT rejects Network Rail pay offer:
RMT has rejected a below-inflation 2024 pay offer from Network Rail of just 3.5 per cent today at a time when MPs have handed themselves an uplift of 5.5 per cent. 🧵
rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-rejec…

Imagine the shock for the Daily Express when it finds out the Governments Rwanda scheme was NOT included in the Conservatives' 2019 manifesto which means peers could actually refuse to pass the bill without amendment

Infected blood scandal: Children were used as 'guinea pigs' in clinical trials.

Doctors placed profits, research goals ahead of patients' needs.

Hundreds deliberately infected with hepatitis C and HIV.

Shocking. I am lost for words.
bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

Here's the truth about trickle-down economics.

The NUJ is among those remembering 29-year-old Lyra McKee today on the fifth anniversary of her death. Seamus Dooley, NUJ Irish secretary, said: “The thoughts of all NUJ members are with the partner, family and many friends and colleagues of Lyra McKee.” nuj.org.uk/resource/fifth…

What an incredible article!
I’ve never known a senior local government officer enter the fray during an election campaign.
Polling day is a fortnight away, yet the Tees Valley CEO gets a puff piece to paper over her record & by association that of her boss Lord Houchen. 🧵1/3

Memo to Sunak.
❌ The UK is not a sick note country.
❌ It is decades of neoliberalism & austerity that have broken this country.
✅We need investment in people & services.
✅We need a right to good food & homes.
✅We need a publicly owned NHS
✅In short: Socialism.

Such a powerful meeting of Child of the North today launching our Children in Care report. A personal, 💔 & well evidenced read. Crucially we are providing solutions. We can put care back into the care system if the wider political will is there.

It has been a pleasure to host our LACA #GreatSchoolLunch today, on the same day that Sadiq Khan released his manifesto and announced that, if re-elected, he will extend his Universal Primary Free School Meal offer to every child in London for another 4 years.

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I asked the Minister at the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero why people in the North East are paying 75% more in standing charges than those in the South.

Instead of offering a clear answer they passed the buck to OFGEM.

This isn't good enough.

Thank you Ian Lavery MP for your support of the #InfectedBlood community.

With two victims dying every week, time is running out for delivering redress.

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