Burnham slammed for saying he won’t renationalise Thames Water

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[ad_1] It’s been widely reported that Andy Burnham wants to ‘renationalise’ vital public industries and utilities. This sounds good, because people hate privatisation, and they want the UK to once more own its own assets. The problem, of course, is that Burnham isn’t planning to renationalise anything, as he keeps admitting: Andy Burnham says we could have a "localised public control option" for Thames Water What does that mean? Who is in charge? Where do the profits go? We need nothing less than permanent PUBLIC OWNERSHIP of Thames Water with households, workers and anti sewage groups on the board pic.twitter.com/0s1OT1mMzz —…

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Watch: “think of the 10,000 Palestinian prisoners” — flotilla abductees arrive in Ireland

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[ad_1] Irish citizens criminally abducted by Israel from the humanitarian Gaza flotilla arrived back in Ireland last night. Israel beat, tortured and in many cases raped or sexually assaulted them and hundreds of volunteers from other countries. But their thoughts and words were for the 10,000+ Palestinians — including 400 children — Israel holds without charge. They are tortured and raped every day, even more brutally. Flotilla vs daily reality The white faces among the flotilla victims has generated a small amount of equivocating western media interest. But for the Palestinians, such abuse is an everyday, horrific reality: View this post…

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I Gotta Horse!

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A Visit To My Local

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My local, the Mount Radford is a terrific place to meet friends and socialise in a congenial atmosphere; if that is you are a student. The prices are really reasonable; if you are a student The prices are really expensive; if you are not a student, as somebody has to pay for the student discount The staff will be friendly and engaging; if you are a student The staff will be unresponsive, ignorant and downright rude; if you are not a student I'm gonna stop now before I say something more I'll regret......... Disagree? Write your own review here.

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Saint Monday

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Saint Monday is the tradition of absenteeism on a Monday.[where?] Saint Tuesday is the less common extension of this to a Tuesday.[1] The tradition of taking Monday off has been common among craft workers since at least the seventeenth century,[2] when the workweek ran from Monday to Saturday as had been the custom and expectation for centuries. Brother workmen, cease your labour, Lay your files and hammers by Listen while a brother neighbour Sings a cutler’s destiny: Fare thee well ye factory darlin’s Fare the well me cruel machine Men are here to wet their whiskers Whiskey, Gin and auld Poteen How upon a good Saint…

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If you do the crime, you do the time. . . .

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What's wrong with performing your ablutions in a bucket and in front of your cell mate? What's wrong with emptying your own waste each morning? "Slop out, slop out", cried the screw in the corridor as he opened up the foul smelling cell to allow us to empty the offending mulch into the bog at the end of said corridor. Is this Victorian England? No, the prison is indeed Victorian, but the year is 1980 and this was the start to every day. I was doing my time for my crimes, and there it ends; if you can't do the time,…

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What’s It All About? (1)

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I landed on planet earth to the screams of my poor mother on Wednesday June 6th 1962 at 15:00, or 3pm in old money. “Never again”, she was heard to say afterwards, and like with most things she said, she meant it. I imagine that my father was in the betting shop at the time, as back in those days the Epsom Derby was run on a Wednesday, and it was a big event. Larkspur won the race under Neville Sellwood and trained by the Irish legend Vincent O’Brien, his first winner of six in the race down the years. I’m…

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Chinese Burns

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I am not a communist, but I am an anticapitalist As far as Communism goes, if you call a bunch of Capitalists selling off their country's assets for their own avaricious and political gain a "collapse", consider this: What about Great Depression, the worst systemic banking crisis of the 20th century, or the 2008 International Banking Crisis, whereby we are left paying the price, whilst the people who caused it still live it up in Kensington & Chelsea with their Oligarch mates. The fucking irony is that remaining so called Communist countries are now playing the Capitalist game better than the…

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A Tale Of Two Cities

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For those who do not dwell on the cruel and barbarous actions of the Stasi, what is now often forgotten is that the GDR also represented an effort to build a completely new and egalitarian society. Gender equality and equal pay for men and women were part of the GDR from the very beginning. The 1949 constitution was direct and very clear: “Men and women are equal.” A law introduced in 1950 ensured that women retained their rights after marriage and introduced financial support for mothers who devoted their time to looking after their children. This applied not only to married…

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Gatwick Blairport

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The transport secretary Heidi Alexander tells the annual dinner of trade body, Airlines UK in London." I love flying, I always have". Meanwhile Kier Stammer (sic) bubbles with pride at the UK's progress on carbon emissions .......... oh well, thats politics. Or as the transport secretary and Margaret Thatcher would call it, "growth".

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Howards End

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62 hours of pure joy; for little more than a large whiskey. 62 hours of not wasting precious funds on booze, to be told; "Vapers Not Welcome". Is it any wonder that a record number of so called "pubs", closed last month? Truth is, there are hardly any real "boozers" left - ever since John Prescott declared "we are all middle class now", and 10 years after that introduced the ban on smoking as the ultimate coup de grace, so that people could take their kids into pubs (is that really wise in any case? We aint French after all). People,…

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Haslar (Preface)

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Get in the fucking water! There were 5 of them. I was standing completely naked on a sickly coloured tiled floor and they weren't happy, they really weren't happy. I think it was a result of them not being able to give me the shaven head treatment. Unlike my fellow victims, I didn't have any curly locks to chop cos I was a skinhead back in 1980. The water was hot; very very hot, and they knew it. I lowered myself into the tub, cringing with the pain of the heat and began to wash with the green carbolic soap they…

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A Letter To The Editor (2007)

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Dear Editor, As was to be expected, there has been much written in recent weeks concerning the recently imposed ban on smoking in public places, and I would like to take the opportunity through your excellent, unbiased and campaigning newspaper, to say how much my life, and the the lives of my friends and family have changed since it's overdue inception. Firstly, I no longer need to worry about dying of cancer, and have naturally cancelled my monthly donation to Cancer Research, as it is quite plainly no longer required. Hooray! I will live to be 100 years old and will…

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