Burnham slammed for saying he won’t renationalise Thames Water
[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 —…
Watch: “think of the 10,000 Palestinian prisoners” — flotilla abductees arrive in Ireland
[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…