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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 2d

Is the Thames Water bailout plan – which relieves the company from fines for up to fifteen years – lawful?

Our director Jo Maugham breaks it down.
@goodlawproject.org
https://www.whatthelawdoes.com/p/is-the-thames-water-bailout-plan?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1o8vlm

Is the Thames Water bailout plan - which relieves the company from fines for up to fifteen years - lawful?

A group of Thames Water’s senior creditors, London & Valley Water (“L&VW”), has submitted to Ofwat proposals for them to be relieved from fines for past or future sewage dumping for a period of up to ...

www.whatthelawdoes.com

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The Rt Hon You’re gonna need a bigger boat. @daviddidley.bsky.social · 2d

BBC, Palestinian prisoners, Israeli hostages. Why are the prisoners and not hostages? They have been held hostage longer than the “war” itself.

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The Rt Hon You’re gonna need a bigger boat. @daviddidley.bsky.social · 2d

Cancelling Sky is just a none event, they are appalling, My dish fell off last March, no return of call or message until we cancelled our DD, now they are threatening debt collectors. Cancel your Sky. They’re a scam.

The Rt Hon You’re gonna need a bigger boat. @daviddidley.bsky.social · 2d

Funny how the same channels/newspapers are behind all these isn’t it? 🤔 Hmmm now I’m no Sherlock Holmes…but you’d think they weren’t on our side wouldn’t you?

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3d

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

www.thetimes.com

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The Rt Hon You’re gonna need a bigger boat. @daviddidley.bsky.social · 2d

They hate anything the right wing press tells them to hate. They have to rush in hating Greta as poppy day is coming up.

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The Rt Hon You’re gonna need a bigger boat. @daviddidley.bsky.social · 3d

Very underrated band in my opinion.

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The Rt Hon You’re gonna need a bigger boat. @daviddidley.bsky.social · 3d

Bloody small boats and foreign folk rinsing us dry coming to this country. Ah sorry it’s the rich rinsing us, my bad.

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d

Water bills for England households to rise even higher.

Bills already up by 36%. Competition regulator permits another 1%-5%, £556m hike

No curbs on exec pay, dividends, sewage dumping as companies raise capital from customers, shareholders get returns.

End the Scam. Nationalise water

Five water firms provisionally allowed to raise bills by further 1% to 5%

An independent group appointed by the competition watchdog rejected nearly 80% of increases sought by companies.

www.independent.co.uk

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 3d

The BBC's justification for platforming Farage beyond the actual significance of his small parliamentary party are his polls. A rather cynical explanation, for he wouldn't be where he is without the constant, uncritical appearances he's given on the BBC. It's a (literally) vicious circle.

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The Rt Hon You’re gonna need a bigger boat. @daviddidley.bsky.social · 3d

As apposed to letting the rich rob us blind while distracting us with Hate and racism. Surely not? This would be terrible for the UK. Down with this type of thing.

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The Rt Hon You’re gonna need a bigger boat. @daviddidley.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone remember the name of that little race horse jockey Hobbit that was given nearly 30billion to set up a spread sheet for Covid? Never hear of her anymore. I assume she’s living on her own desert island now somewhere. Where is all the money going we shout.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 3d

You don’t get to bankroll a genocide…

Embolden and cheer on the perpetrators

…and then call yourself a hero for pulling the plug.

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The Rt Hon You’re gonna need a bigger boat. @daviddidley.bsky.social · 3d

The man who helped Israel with a Genocide has discussed a cease fire for a moment to get a Nobel Peace prize then will start building hotels on the Gaza Strip. I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets it in this fucked up world we live in.

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Kevin the Librarian 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @the-librarian.bsky.social · 3d

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 3d

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 4d

Turns out having a welfare state and a hoarding capitalist class isn’t actually sustainable

unusual whales @unusual_whales
X.com
Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system, per Reuters

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 4d

In a nutshell.

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 4d

Our media lets us down badly :

Labours accomplishments - rarely mentioned

Nigel Farage’s house - dropped/ignored

Nathan Gill’s admission of working for Russia - zilch

Russia/Iran funding Reform/Farage - silence

Instead they spread lies on the Budget/MPs/anything to discredit Labour

Why????

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The Rt Hon You’re gonna need a bigger boat. @daviddidley.bsky.social · 4d

Nadine Dorries on GMB being lorded up by the presenters. It really has become so obvious these people are being paid to suck up to parties that are going to take away human rights, so we can be exploited by them. Dirty horrible vermin.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5d

"Whether you're in the US or UK or Germany... democracies are tearing up their own civil liberties, their own constitutions, the First Amendment in the US!, for the sake of a foreign country: Israel. That is insane!"

My mini-rant on Zeteo's 'Ask the Editor' show today.
zeteo.com/p/dei-for-pr...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 6d

What you are seeing is a co-ordinated effort by every single member of the Billionaire Media across the Western World, trying to get you to blame immigrants, so you don't blame billionaires.

Don't be fooled.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 6d

If the media covered Palantir/BlackRock's public sector takeover and the rollout of deregulated investment zones with the same intensity as Nigel Farage and immigration, we'd see actual outrage at the seismic corporate power grab secretly remaking Britain. The UK is being privatised.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 5d

Tories offer £47bn austerity - cuts to disability benefits, PIP for mental health claimants, social housing, civil service, regulators, green economy, accompanied by anti-migrant rhetoric.

Won't hike taxes the rich or curb profiteering.

The nasty party heading for the dustbin of history.

Tories confirm plans to cut PIP for mental health claimants

The Conservatives have unveiled plans to cut spending on welfare and scrap environmental subsidies

www.mirror.co.uk

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 5d

No corruption here, folks! Totally normal stuff the deputy director of the CIA(Michael Ellis) just demoted the acting general counsel and decided to make himself the top lawyer while still being the No. 2 in charge.

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