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GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukM to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 days ago

Thames Water nationalisation prep 'stepped up', says government

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Thames Water nationalisation prep 'stepped up', says government

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GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukM to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 days ago
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The Environment Secretary Steve Reed says the government "stand ready for all eventualities".
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    I’m not British, so I should not get involved in British Politics. But privatizing water was a mistake of epic proportions. Keir Starmer needs to have some guts and nationalize it. Enough is enough.

    The trash media (The Sun, Daily Hate Mail) talks about poor people stealing welfare, while corporate financiers stole BILLIONS OF POUNDS from you and your families:

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/01/england-privatised-water-firms-dividends-shareholders

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw4478wnjdpo

    Who privatized water? Margaret Thatcher.

    After her time in office, she became a lobbyist for tobacco companies:

    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-19-mn-4763-story.html

    They even paid her birthday party:

    Philip Morris’s chief executive, Geoffrey Bible, will chair the dinner. A spokesman for the company said: “Philip Morris is writing the Thatcher Foundation a cheque to cover the cost of the party. That leaves all the money made, like ticket sales, as profit to the foundation.”

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tobacco-giant-pays-for-1m-thatcher-bash-1576517.html

    It says it all, doesn’t it?

    Please take your water back!!! Write to your MPs.

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