Prof Catherine Rowett 💚 Ex-MEP @catherinerowett@respublicae.eu

@Richard61982733 Aren't shareholders the ones who put in the investment to enable the company to make or do what it's offering to consumers? 🤔

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@benhabib6 What would actual Brexit be?

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How do you punish a water company that took money from consumers and failed to deliver the service they paid for? Confiscate the assets and nationalise it to return what the public paid for to the public. Don't let's let them wriggle out with more promises. #GetGreensElected

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RT @EmilyLincOBrien: Water companies in Wales, Scotland and NI are all government owned or not-for-profit.
We deserve the same in England- not endless promises from water companies and a govt that wants to cover up the failure of their privatisation experiment. 2/2

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65626241

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RT @EmilyLincOBrien: Sometimes "sorry" is not enough.

We welcome water company apology on dumping raw sewage - but not their plan to add the £££ to our bills, not their obscene profits.

Only @TheGreenParty would put water companies in England into public hands. 1/2

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65626241

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RT @Richard61982733: @catherinerowett Manifestly an attempt to head off effective action by govt & pass off their profiteering as an 'error'. They must not get away with it. #NatioaliseWater

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RT @eaglepeaknaod: @catherinerowett The audacity to put bills up to cover the costs.....@WaterUK don't "get it". #wealreadypaid

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Or should I say under the Tories? What a surprise that they've eliminated the special tariff that rewarded those who use very little water. Not profitable enough?
#TorySewageParty

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That huge standing charge we pay, that remains whether you cut back on water use or not, that's for maintaining the water and sewage system. It brings in billions. That is us paying for the improvements. They've raised my standing charge by far more than inflation since Brexit.

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And where's the regulator with teeth who will see to it that the billions don't end up going in as profits to shareholders, borrowed to pay dividends and paid for in higher water bills? The problem is that it pays to pollute, and no one goes to prison. #ProsecutePolluters

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I wonder whether she thinks it would be better to nationalise it so that shareholders didn't "need a little something"? Or does she stand to gain from the little something they get?
RT @jrc1921: The Chair of Water UK, Ruth Kelly, states that water companies don't actually make much profit and that shareholders 'do need to see some sort of return'

Kelly was a New Labour Education Secretary and left Labour in 2018 when it was committed to nationalising water compan…

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RT @siobhanfreya: @BBCBreakfast Sorry, is this the Ruth Kelly who was a Labour MP AND Communities Minister at one stage and is now member of right wing think tank Policy Exchange?
What does she "get"; that the public will have to pay more?

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Yes but it was your obligation to invest and upgrade, and instead you delivered profits to shareholders. It's not OK to put up bills as if we still owe the money. We already paid for it. #WaterUK
RT @BBCBreakfast: 'I'm sorry.. we get it'

Ruth Kelly from Water UK spoke to #BBCBreakfast on behalf of England's water companies For not "acting quickly enough" to tackle sewage spills

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65626241 https://t.co/N1Xqb10mXB

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No snow in the mountains, drought and dry rivers, deluge and overflowing rivers, scorching heat. I think Italy may be getting a sense of what climate change has in store for Europe.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/17/italy-storms-people-dead-thousands-evacuated-emlia-romagna?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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RT @JoshFwd: Labour’s support for Proportional Representation.

A short thread 🧵

83% of members
79% conf delegates in 2021
63% Labour voters
51% local Labour groups (CLPs) so far
(97% of local groups who debate it, support it)

52% of the public (17% oppose)

Unions with a conf vote…

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RT @MVTFWD: Britain consistently REJECTS the Tories and right wing ideas.

In the 1979 General Election, 56.1% voted for other parties.

1983, 57.6%
1987, 57.8%
1992, 58.1%
2010, 63.9%
2015, 63.2%
2017, 57.7%
2019, 56.4%

The Tories WON them all anyway.

We need Proportional Representation. https://t.co/XfmdzVXPUX

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@TransportActio2 More buses, more frequent and late into the evening eyc.

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RT @bobreeduk: @adampayne26 The haulage sector's "success" in recruiting drivers is causing a shortage of mechanics, many of whom had licences before they were incentivised to take up driving

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Where are the UK workers who would staff all these things, #Braverman? Some are victims of Johnson's disastrous "herd immunity" #Covid response. Some are on interminable NHS waiting lists. Some in asylum seeker hostels forbidden from working. The rest don't exist. #BrexitBritain
RT @adampayne26: 70% of meat processing staff were foreign in 2016 and that's a "significant number to replace"

"We are talking decades to get where Suella Braverman would like us to be"
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RT @adampayne26: Suella Braverman’s fruit pickers speech hasn’t gone down hugely well with farmers

It “shows she doesn’t have an understanding at all of the industry she is talking about,” says the NFU

They say just 8% of people who did Pick for Britain were UK workers

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/industry-leaders-criticise-suella-braverman-migrant-worker-speech

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