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Founder/director of @We_OwnIt . Loves public services. Campaigning for public ownership, against privatisation.

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2 months
NEW: our model for what Thames Water could look like in public ownership 💧✊ It's about time the conversation shifted from *whether* to nationalise to *how* we can make this company work for the public and the environment
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263 MPs voted in favour of parliamentary scrutiny of trade deals, 326 against Not only did MPs fail to protect our NHS, they didn't even vote to give *themselves* the powers to 'take back control' An absolute disgrace #TradeBill
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WHY on earth are we giving Serco responsibility for contact tracing? Here are 3 reasons why we shouldn't @MattHancock we need local public sector teams, not a shady outsourcing giant with a track record of fraud and failure
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Unbelievable - government decided to outsource coronavirus testing centre to Deloitte, and now they've failed @MattHancock this is not a time for privatisation ideology and jobs for the boys
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This government has been underfunding the NHS for 10 years - since 2010 our NHS has lost 20,000 beds, more than 100 A&Es and it’s short of 90,000 staff We need to fund our NHS at the level of countries like Germany
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New poll: 68% want public ownership of water 💧 65% want public ownership of rail 🚄 63% want public ownership of energy 💡🔥 Utilities and public transport should work for people not profit
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Wes Streeting said he would “hold the door wide open” to the NHS for the private sector The exact opposite of the message he should send: NHS privatisation has failed patients again and again Time to reinstate our NHS as a fully PUBLIC service #OnlytheNHS
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Don't let them take us back to business as normal! Thames Water and the rest should be in PERMANENT public ownership 🌊
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Patients don't want 'more choice', they want to be able to get high quality treatment quickly The Labour Party should be promising to make our NHS what it was intended to be - properly FUNDED, working for patients not profit, so we can all rely on it
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Keir Starmer is right to say that NHS reform is needed Tons of money wasted on failed outsourcing and privatisation that research shows has actually *increased deaths* plus crony contracts like Test&Trace Labour should promise to reinstate the NHS as a fully public service
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📢 NEW research from Oxford University confirms that "care homes operating on a for-profit basis tend to deliver poorer care than third and public sector providers" *Care homes should work for people not profit*
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University of Oxford
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NEW: An Oxford-led study has found that virtually all care homes forced to close in England by the Care Quality Commission are run on a for-profit basis. Of all the involuntary closures since 2011, 804 out of 816 occurred in for-profit care homes. More info ⬇️
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Clear and brilliant from @Ed_Miliband - Labour would bring energy, water, transport into public hands 💡💦🚄🚌 "In relation to natural monopolies, if we're going to make this green transition, then public ownership is the right way to go"
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BBC Newsnight
3 years
"We are in favour of common ownership absolutely... Starmer said this in the leadership campaign - we haven't changed that commitment." - Shadow business secretary Ed Miliband on Labour supporting public ownership of energy, water and transport. @Ed_Miliband | #Newsnight
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We've got a Minister for Common Sense! Does that mean we can have public ownership now?
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6 months
With Keir Starmer's praise for Margaret Thatcher - time for a reminder that her privatisations failed and we're all paying the price If you see Sid tell him! 💡🚌💧
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2 years
Our new polling shows Red Wall voters want public ownership of energy, water, rail, buses, Royal Mail, NHS💡💧🚆🚌📮🏥 People can't afford to heat their homes or take a train, buses are cut, rivers filled with sewage Privatisation has failed
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Private water companies have names like ‘Yorkshire Water’ and ‘Thames Water’ to make us feel like we own them, like they’re working for us. But we don’t and they’re not. They're working for investors around the world My comment piece in the Express today, thanks to @StephSpyro
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The government has already spent £6.5 billion on private Covid contracts Now they're giving out *£100 BILLION* in 'Operation Moonshot'- yet MORE money for Serco, G4S and co This money should be going to our NHS and local public health teams
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We could just have public ownership instead of the taxpayer paying Octopus £1 billion to buy Bulb! Now is the perfect time to set up a state owned energy supplier (like EDF in France which has kept bill rises to only 4%)
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4 years
McKinsey? Seriously? The government has asked privatisation lobbyists to review what's gone wrong with NHS Test and Trace (led by Deloitte and Serco)
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What a statement from United Utilities whistleblower: "Unless we're pushed to do something, the environment is never our priority. Reputation and profit are the most important factors" Bring water into public ownership NOW so it can work for people and planet #Panorama
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If you choose to spend NHS money on the private sector instead of NHS staff and beds you ARE privatising the NHS, not building it up The private sector cannot provide a real solution even in short term - it doesn't provide A&E and relies on the same pool of doctors as the NHS
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Wes Streeting
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Labour will never privatise the NHS. We’ll work with the private sector to cut NHS waiting lists while we build the staff, the equipment and the technology the NHS needs to treat patients on time.
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*Oxford University* confirms privatisation leads to WORSE CARE for patients - please share if you'd like @VictoriaAtkins and @wesstreeting to see this 🏥Time to reinstate our NHS as a fully PUBLIC service #NHSPledge
@UniofOxford
University of Oxford
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A study has found hospitals that are privatised typically deliver worse quality care after converting from public ownership. Researchers analysed 13 long-term studies from different high-income countries such as England, Germany, South Korea and the USA. Find out more ⬇️
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Privatisation kills. Reinstate the NHS as a fully PUBLIC service #Panorama #NHSPledge
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CHPI
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Watch tonight's #Panorama on the systemic patient safety risks in the private hospital sector with an interview with our Director. With more NHS patients being treated in private hospitals is the government knowingly exposing them to avoidable harm?
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It's not a mystery why NHS waiting lists are so high The NHS gets £40 billion LESS per year than comparable European countries If Victoria Atkins wants to reduce waiting lists, she needs to FUND THE NHS (and stop wasting money on privatisation) #r4today
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2 years
ALL ticket offices closed at Oxford station (I can't renew my railcard 😕). Passengers getting a taste of @grantshapps plan to close nearly *1000* ticket offices across the country @RMTunion and @We_OwnIt are fighting back, join us for a day of action on Tuesday 23rd August
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Agree with Wes Streeting that the NHS should be so good no one is forced to go private Disagree that funnelling cash to private companies is the way to achieve this FUND the NHS and reinstate it as a fully PUBLIC service, stop wasting £££ on outsourcing
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Before privatisation, Royal Mail had been successfully delivering letters up and down the UK since 1635!! Tell Ofcom Royal Mail must deliver 6 days a week, and bring it back into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP 📮✊ Deadline to respond to consultation: 5pm TODAY
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BP says we need them for 1) green investment 2) jobs 3) tax revenue Here's a better way to achieve the same outcomes - copy these countries 🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰🇨🇭🇦🇹🇫🇮🇳🇿🇫🇷🇮🇸 and set up a UK publicly owned renewable energy company with profits flowing back to us 🇬🇧
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🏥 Sued the NHS 🚄 Got bailed out on the East Coast line 💰 Now wanting more public money Don't bail him out, buy him out and bring Virgin Atlantic into public ownership ✈️
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BBC News (UK)
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Virgin Group boss Richard Branson writes open letter to employees warning Virgin Atlantic will collapse unless it receives government financial support during coronavirus outbreak
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As his new essay doesn't mention it, I've written an open letter to @Keir_Starmer on public ownership with five reasons why it must continue as core @UKLabour policy *Please RT if you agree public services should work for people not profit* 💧💡📮🚄🚌🏥
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1 year
Keir Starmer promises a 'Take Back Control' bill That should mean bringing OUR public services into public ownership 👇👇👇
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📢🏥NEW study from Oxford University finds that privatising hospitals leads to WORSE CARE for patients @VictoriaAtkins @wesstreeting please read this 👇 Time to reinstate our NHS as a fully public service
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University of Oxford
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NEW: A study has found that hospitals that are privatised typically deliver worse quality care after converting from public ownership. Researchers analysed 13 long-term studies from different high-income countries such as England, Germany, South Korea and the USA. More info⬇️
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"This is not an ideological argument, but a pragmatic one. Private healthcare takes away from the NHS both in terms of staff and resources, and is more expensive for the taxpayer" @DrTonyOSullivan 's response to Wes Streeting is spot on
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No Jeremy Hunt you are wrong #Budget2024 *We DO need a bigger state* We want our NHS schools social care housing public health planning leisure centres museums youth clubs lollipop people street lights public toilets libraries You can't cut anymore, councils are going bankrupt
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We sent a message to politicians today: NHS PRIVATISATION KILLS The 557 people at the protest wrote messages to @SteveBarclay but we weren't allowed to deliver them to the @DHSCgovuk - so we put them under the door! 😬 Time to reinstate our NHS as a fully public service ✊
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Shareholders say they will inject money to rescue Thames Water ONLY IF 💧 they can increase YOUR bills by up to 40% 💩 fines for sewage are capped 🤑 they can keep getting dividends Bring Thames Water into public ownership NOW
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Labour talks about Margaret Thatcher but won't mention - privatisation has FAILED since the 80s Our economy would be helped by affordable green energy, decent public transport, clean rivers and a Royal Mail and NHS we can rely on *Conservative voters want public ownership*
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Did you know? If Royal Mail was in public ownership, it would save around £250 million a year as no shareholder dividends This money would cover you getting YOUR letter deliveries, no need for cuts! Tell Ofcom before 5pm today - public ownership NOW 👇
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Labour's plans to woo and rely on the private sector 🤑will cost more because of large profits 🏥diverts income AWAY from NHS hospitals 👩‍⚕️ leaves fewer staff to do the complex work the private sector WON'T do #OnlytheNHS can fix the waiting list crisis
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"Perhaps it shouldn't have been privatised...Delivering letters is a public service" Absolutely! #r4today Bring Royal Mail into public ownership - backed by 68% of the public and 63% of Conservative voters
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Not the first time Richard Branson has asked for a bailout... @BorisJohnson please say NO Take Virgin Atlantic into public ownership instead #virginatlantic #BransonBailout
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Water privatisation has failed, Water UK chief feeling the heat #r4today "This is Operation 'Save Our Skins' by the water industry" "In recent years, VAST sums have been made... while pouring sewage into rivers and seas" Time for public ownership💧
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British Rail logo designer is rightly 'worried his logo could be used to conceal the failings of a rebranded privatised system' “I think the railways should be fully renationalised. Having disparate companies and regions is a load of nonsense" ✊🚄
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A popular policy - why isn't it mentioned in Keir Starmer's new essay? 64% want rail in public ownership 🚄 69% want the Royal Mail in public ownership 📮 52% want energy in public ownership 💡 63% want water in public ownership 💧 84% want the NHS (fully) in public ownership🏥
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Public services should be in public hands, not making profits for shareholders. Support common ownership of rail, mail, energy and water; end outsourcing in our NHS, local government and justice system.
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A reminder to Wes Streeting and the Labour Party. Choosing to spend NHS money on the private sector will hurt patients
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Water should never have been privatised in the first place 200,000 people are calling for it to be nationalised!
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📮Just asked my postman whether Royal Mail should be back in public ownership after outrageous suggestions of reducing letter delivery days "Well we used to deliver before 12 and we used to make a profit for the country" 💯 TAKE IT BACK
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Passengers want ticket offices on our railway, we want a HUMAN BEING we can turn to for help, not just a machine @We_OwnIt will fight ticket office closures alongside the @RMTunion ✊🚄
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Dear @OxfordCity , please DON'T hand over Oxford's swimming pools and ice rink to Serco 🏊‍♂️🛼 Other councils have paid out MILLIONS to walk away from Serco ⚠️
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PUBLIC OWNERSHIP now. How? 💧let Thames Water (+ other indebted companies) collapse then take over 💧take water company shares instead of fines when they pollute our rivers + seas 💧use Special Administration powers to bring water companies into public hands for poor performance
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Feargal Sharkey
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You sitting down? 4,014,964 hours worth of sewage dumped into England’s rivers in 2023. An all time record. A massive 129% increase on 2022. Exclusive by those fantastic people at the @guardian
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5.5 million people on NHS waiting lists in England alone. Every one of those numbers is a real person who needs treatment We kicked off our campaign this morning @We_OwnIt @keepnhspublic Time for this government to FUND OUR NHS properly
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Everyone needs the NHS, but Wes Streeting refuses to recognise what the NHS needs: - £40 bn/yr extra funding to match equivalent European countries - an end to wasteful privatisation 💰💰 Instead, he wants to turn people against each other - not patriotic, not positive, not OK
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Guardian news
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Wes Streeting defends Labour plan to use private sector to cut NHS backlog
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2 years
🇳🇴 If you live in Norway, the government pays *80%* of your energy bills above a capped price Because it has 56% windfall tax on oil + gas companies = sovereign wealth fund For every £100 Norway collects in tax on North Sea oil, in the UK we collect £8
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Did you know? The CEO of private water company Severn Trent gets paid £2.5 MILLION a year! 💰 I asked the company what customers think about that salary... #PublicOwnershipNow
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The Minister for Common Sense said on #bbcqt that common sense means "working on behalf of the people to bring pragmatism into politics" Can we have public ownership of water, energy, buses, rail, Royal Mail and NHS please? (1/2)
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Just announced - Shell's profits were £7.7 BILLION in the first quarter of 2023 🤑 Time for a proper windfall tax 👇
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So wrong from Wes Streeting Labour should promise that the NHS will again be the *best healthcare system in the world* That means ENDING PRIVATISATION, the 'leaky bucket' 💰 And FUNDING our NHS the way other European countries do - £39 billion/yr more
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Excellent news - Wes Streeting promises to save £1 billion by bringing NHS scanning IN HOUSE Now Labour should sign our #NHSPledge to end outsourcing, provide proper funding and reinstate the NHS as a fully PUBLIC service
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Privatisation is the real "leaky bucket" Wes Streeting doesn't want to talk about 🪣 PFI (costs up to 13% of NHS budgets) Internal market (costs £4.5 bn/yr) Nearly £100 bn spent outsourcing to non NHS firms 2011-21 Contracts incl £37 bn on test and trace
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Bring the whole of National Grid into public ownership ⚡️🔥 It's a natural monopoly and a national asset - spare cash should be invested in infrastructure for a greener future not handed out to shareholders
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Common Wealth
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National Grid paid its international shareholders nearly £9 billion in the last five years. Our latest research from @SophieFlinders_ , @chrismwhayes & @adribuller covered in the @guardian .
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Unbelievable - 2 million+ people in the UK will be cut off from gas and electricity this winter while private energy companies rake in cash British Gas (which used to belong to ALL of us) increased its profits by *889%* last year Public ownership NOW
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More than 1 in 6 local authorities have lost a swimming pool *since 2019* 🌊 #r4today in Cornwall talking to 'disabled people who are learning to do without but they miss it' Austerity has been a pointless, damaging disaster. Can we have our public services back please?
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British Gas profits soar by *889%* while your bills go up It's not right. Bring British Gas into public ownership where it belongs
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The Labour Party *could* be a hero, by promising to take back control of the NHS it created, fund it properly and stop wasteful privatisation Wes Streeting could save patients' lives by being honest and uniting people around the NHS 💙 Me @LabourList 👇
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Step 1) LET the water companies go bankrupt! Step 2) Take them into public ownership, so we're not paying extra for their debt and shareholder dividends
@Feargal_Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey
3 months
We finally have it, the truth. @Ofwat tells select committee @CommonsEFRA it can't use all of it's legal powers to regulate water companies as it would force them into bankruptcy. So we let them blatantly and deliberately pollute the environment. 🤬🤬
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It's never been more obvious that water privatisation has failed Thames Water, on the point of collapse, asking for permission to 💧increase your bills 💩get away with pollution 🤑pay dividends to shareholders NATIONALISE now
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Absolutely outrageous Private Finance Initiative deals on these Scottish schools, hospitals, wastewater plants included an extra 'buy back' fee to own the buildings What a waste of money. This is why we should publicly fund and own our PUBLIC services
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Amazing turnout at @SOSWhitstable protest with @Feargal_Sharkey @GreenJennyJones Time to take Southern Water into public ownership 💧✊ and stop the sewage 💩
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What's the answer to the sewage crisis in our rivers and seas? 💩 Bring the failed privatised water companies in England into public ownership 💧 68% of CONSERVATIVE voters support this
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Many people are now living in 'postal deserts' - but shareholders got £758 million last year Since Royal Mail was privatised, management seems to have forgotten it's supposed to be providing a PUBLIC service Bring it back into public ownership 📮
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4 years
Nationalising industries WOULD make people's lives better Jo Swinson. Privatisation has ripped us off for 30 years and Labour wants to do something about it. 83% want public ownership of water 77% want public ownership of energy 76% want public ownership of rail #r4today
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SERCO leads the track and trace system launching today with 25,000 call handlers This company ❌mismanaged data at a GP surgery ❌failed to train staff properly for a breast cancer hotline service ❌found guilty of fraud in the electronic tagging scandal
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Permanent public ownership is the solution - the normal way to run a water company around the world
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Feargal Sharkey
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Thames Water confirms it, shareholders are not prepared to bail the company out. Will TW make it through the holiday weekend? Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock... 🤔 Not a penny of the public's money, you hear that @RishiSunak @10DowningStreet , not a penny of the public's money.
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Keir Starmer promised public ownership of water, energy and Royal Mail 💧💡📮 Here's why public ownership would save billions that could be reinvested in lower bills Here's what voters think about it 👇
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Dear @UKLabour , please stop blaming the NHS and give us something to vote for in 2024! *Promise to RESTORE our NHS after years of cuts and privatisation* - FUND it to the level of France 🇫🇷 (£40 billion more per year) - Reinstate it as a fully PUBLIC service 🏥
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Dr Rachel Clarke
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I'm sorry @wesstreeting but accusing the NHS of complacency when I work in hospital conditions so brutal they can reduce the toughest, most professional doctors to tears is downright offensive. Not a single member of my Trust is "complacent". Not one. Why would you trash us?
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For the first time since Thatcher deregulated the buses in 1986 @AndyBurnhamGM takes them back into public control in Greater Manchester 🤞Other cities will follow his example and run buses for people not profit A HUGE campaign victory for @PascaleRobinson and @BetterBusesGM
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I blame the government for the Christmas chaos - time for properly funded public services in public ownership 🏥🚄📮 #SolidarityWithStrikes @theRCN @RMTunion @CWUnews
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3 years
Matt Hancock, his sister, brother in law, mother and pub landlord have all been making money out of our NHS Here's what should happen instead
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1 in 5 children in England have no books at home We need libraries "in the land of Shakespeare" says Michael Morpurgo #r4today Politicians must *reopen the 800 libraries* that have been forced to close under this government since 2010
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Don't let them get away with it. FUND OUR NHS PROPERLY @keepnhspublic @We_OwnIt
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Reminder: this government has WASTED our money for 14 years - on shareholder dividends - on artificial 'markets' that don't work - on contracts for cronies - by underfunding public services that are essential to growth We NEED well funded public services in public ownership
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Labour CREATED the NHS in 1948 👇'Use the private sector more'?? NO! Cut waiting lists by making our NHS what it was INTENDED to be Don't copy America, don't waste money on privatisation Reinstate our NHS as a fully PUBLIC service and fund it properly
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Labour conference just voted to end privatisation in our NHS 👏👏👏 #Lab22 Time to reinstate our NHS as a fully public service 🏥
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New poll shows again how popular public ownership is - a majority of voters back it, including Conservatives People understand privatisation is a massive rip off 💧💡🚄🚌📮🏥 Politicians are failing to representing this very common sense view
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"Why are you cutting taxes when the health service needs more money? Why are you not even spending on the scale that Margaret Thatcher did?" Thatcher increased NHS spending by 4%+ /year This government will increase by less than 1% Thank you Nick Robinson #r4today FUND OUR NHS
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Jacob Rees-Mogg's government just updated special administration legislation, making it easier for a private company like Thames Water to be nationalised temporarily then exit as a 'going concern' back to private sector This is the real issue. Public ownership must be PERMANENT
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg
2 months
Thames Water ought to be allowed to go bankrupt. It would continue to be run by an administrator, the shareholders would lose their equity but they took too much cash out so deserve no sympathy and the bond holders would face a partial loss. This is capitalism, it won’t affect
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Cat Hobbs
2 months
Wes Streeting tells Sun readers Labour would reform the NHS and invest £1.1 billion He DOESN'T mention that - the "leaky bucket" in our NHS is PRIVATISATION - the NHS needs an extra *£40 billion* of investment to match equivalent European countries
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Cat Hobbs
8 months
If Labour is willing to 'turn the NHS on its head', its TOP priority should be ending wasteful privatisation (PFI, outsourcing, private profiteering £££) Undo the damaging 2012 and 2022 legislation Reinstate the NHS as a fully PUBLIC service #Lab23
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Cat Hobbs
2 months
Unbelievable: sewage spills more than DOUBLED last year 📈 @SteveBarclay you can remove the licences for privatised English water companies and take them into special administration if they fail to perform *They have failed to perform* NATIONALISE NOW
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Cat Hobbs
4 months
Extremely excited that @stephenfry @frankieboyle @RosieisaHolt @rankinphoto and other brilliant celebrities are backing our #NHSPledge election campaign launching TODAY! 🤩 Our NHS deserves to be properly FUNDED and reinstated as a fully PUBLIC service
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Cat Hobbs
5 years
What does public transport look like in the 21st century? #WhenWeOwnIt How about 🚌 free local buses 🚕 publicly owned taxis 🚄 prices that get people out of planes and onto trains 📢 a democratic passenger voice to represent you Me for @openDemocracy
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Cat Hobbs
10 months
Labour's National Policy Forum (NPF) meets this weekend to work on the party's election manifesto Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting need to recognise that #OnlytheNHS will get us out of the current crisis It's time to fund it properly and REINSTATE it as a fully PUBLIC service
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