South Western Railways, C2C and Greater Anglia passenger rail services to be renationalised next year. Others to follow.
But it isn't full public ownership.
Lucrative freight and rolling stock companies making billions in profits to remain privatised.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rebecca #Aldernet (@rebecca_aldernet_art) •Holl
Sarah #Lee (@SarahSRLee) •Whispering Night•
Fiona Gibson, contemporary sculptor based in Llandeilo, West Wales. Her work is based on local mythology
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“Dreams of my Washroom”
Oxford college referred to charity regulator over £1m investment in Israeli settlements - www.middleeasteye.net/news/oxford-college-refe...
Socialists are intelligent, caring people - whose life is far greater than just about themselves..
Capitalists just want a bigger house and a more expensive car.
That's the intellectual difference.
Mrs Thatcher sold off public assets to private rip off merchants.
She sold off the public housing stock.
Blair ended free higher education in his first year of office.
How stupid do you need to be - not to see how socially divisive this was??
Breaking: Twitter support asks users on the sex offenders register to self identify by putting a Union Jack in their username
World beating UK, energy prices nearly double anywhere else.
Also the UK, every energy firm making 4-10x profits.
I wonder if they are related?
Be aware
Nelson Mandela on Gaza.
This post from the PM is problematic for a number of reasons.
A thread…🧵
So thrilled with my In Place Of War Fellowship Award
The head of the Norwegian Refugee Council has likened the situation in Gaza to a ‘dystopian horror film’, with endless destroyed homes and a desperate population on the brink of famine.
The US and UK governments must end all arms sales to Israel now.
Joe Biden’s green light for Ukraine to fire US-supplied missiles deep into Russia is a potentially dangerous escalation.
It pushes the prospects for peace further into the distance while risking an even broader NATO-Russia conflict with disastrous consequences for the whole world.
Crying 😂
Fox friction . Thanks to @jamesclarke.photo on Instagram for today's #FoxOfTheDay
Snow forecast for tomorrow, the winter fuel allowance for many, gone, this will cause deaths. Meanwhile MP's keep their entitlement to their fuel expenses. A gravy train filled with truffles for them, whilst some pensioners face a stark choice, either eat or heat. #restorethewinterfuelallowance
Bluesky seems to be a much nicer place to be. I’ve therefore decided to post the odd ‘classic from the CWS archive’ from time to time. As kind of sorbets between the main courses of hideousness.
This one’s from December 2017 x
How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example).
1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company.
2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly.
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This should be treated as a national scandal. More than 1 in 3 children are now living in poverty in the UK as deprivation levels rise to the highest in the 21st century.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
USA are now supplying Ukraine with 1,000 pound cruise missiles costing $1 million each to be fired up to 500 kilometres deep into Russia.
This is unprecedented and we move now into entirely unknown territory.
There is no good explanation for this sudden escalation by Joe Biden.
