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JillyCL ☮️ 💙 🌱🍉 retweeted
If true this is outrageous.
It seems that Andy Burnham’s latest version of ending 40 years of neoliberalism is handing Thames Water over to US hedge funds.
Labour have stopped even pretending to serve us or our communities anymore.
Labour stand for the hedge funds.
🚨BREAKING
The Financial Times has just revealed that Thames Water’s US hedge fund creditors are close to agreeing a ‘last and final’ deal to take over the company.
A handover to US hedge funds. A continuation of the privatised chaos. And a huge reward for the people who have run our water into the ground.
The deal would see them allowed to pollute our rivers and seas without consequence - in exchange for an upfront payoff.
This deal is absolutely outrageous, in every regard.
112 MPs have already called for special administration of Thames Water.
A cross-party group of MPs - who scrutinise the Environment Department - have said that the creditors’ proposal should be rejected and Thames Water should be brought into special administration.
And the former Environment Secretary rejected a previous version of the creditors’ deal in June. This new version is not better in any way.
@andyburnham promised to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation. He promised public control of life’s essentials.
This really is the moment of truth for Andy Burnham. If he allows the water supply of 16 million people to be sold off to US hedge funds - how can we take him seriously about any of his promises?
NO DEAL to the Thames Water creditors. Special administration now.
JillyCL ☮️ 💙 🌱🍉 retweeted
On the 8th of September last month, @Ed_Miliband said:
'To those who finance or facilitate illegal settlements... you will face the full force of UK sanctions.'
Just weeks later, £10.7m of British public funds went to firms tied to illegal jewish settlements.
So which is it, Ed?
1. Is it because you have family occupying Palestine?
2. You buckled when 'israel' closed our consulate in Jerusalem and expelled our diplomats?
3. You lied?
The British public demands an answer.
AJ EXCLUSIVE: The UK awarded £10.7m ($15m) in new public contracts to firms linked to illegal Israeli West Bank settlements, despite UK gov’t pledges to punish companies that profit from settlement activity, an Al Jazeera investigation reveals.
🔗: aje.news/99ct5z
JillyCL ☮️ 💙 🌱🍉 retweeted
Living in tents surrounded by horror every day - but somehow - it's not enough for Israel.
It has to punish Gaza more and more.
JillyCL ☮️ 💙 🌱🍉 retweeted
NEW: Ed Miliband has been condemned over a 'performative' video in which he claimed the UK Government 'will not rest until we bring an end to the intolerable suffering in Gaza'
JillyCL ☮️ 💙 🌱🍉 retweeted
Zelensky is rarely in Ukraine he has just been in Spain and is set to visit Ireland tomorrow.
He goes from one country to the next to avoid going back to Kiev.
European leaders seem to be happy to facilitate this...he's become a kind of human pass the parcel.
JillyCL ☮️ 💙 🌱🍉 retweeted
Why does the entire planet remain silent on this catastrophe?
Why does the cowardly international community maintain this shameful silence?
Why do politicians refuse to utter a single word of truth in the face of a genocide broadcast live?
And why are we treated as if we are a burden to humanity, or creatures without rights, fated to suffer and die slowly under tents swallowed by freezing rain and floodwaters?
We are not just numbers on a news broadcast. Among us are doctors, engineers, teachers, scientists, technicians, and professionals. We have always been a proud, resilient, educated, cultured, and civilized people who love life and constantly seek peace—yet we remain steadfast on our land and will never break.
Shame on this world that watches our children freeze and drown, choosing to be complicit through its silence.
#Gaza
#GazaGenocide
#GazaUnderAttack
#PalestineHolocaust
JillyCL ☮️ 💙 🌱🍉 retweeted
“Meghan could have cancelled today, the fact she didn’t, is a testament to their joint passion to this cause”
This what journalism should be, what it used to be, what has been taken away from the 🌎 Ethical journalism/reporting is replaced by propaganda.
JillyCL ☮️ 💙 🌱🍉 retweeted
THE BARBARISM OF A DYING EMPIRE
A century of colonial occupation proves one undeniable truth: the modern world has lost its pulse.
This calculated cruelty does not mean we do not deserve life; it proves they are utterly bankrupt of civilization. Their bombs, their engineered starvation, and their infrastructure of death cannot extinguish a spirit that refuses to submit.
Our unyielding resilience, our refusal to vanish, and our breath on this land are the ultimate acts of defiance. We remain, because this earth remembers its rightful owners. 🇵🇸
#GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #Gaza #EndTheOccupation #StandWithGaza
JillyCL ☮️ 💙 🌱🍉 retweeted
The UK awarded £10.7m in NEW public contracts to firms linked to illegal israeli settlements, despite gov’t pledges to stop funding them aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/1…
JillyCL ☮️ 💙 🌱🍉 retweeted
This is a brilliant take down of historians Simon Schama & Andrew Roberts and their shameful view that criticism of Israel’s genocide is antisemitic, by Robert Manne AO. an Emeritus Professor of Politics at La Trobe University
Robert Manne takes down Lord Andrew Roberts, Simon Schama & Jillian Segal on anti-semitism. And I dare say he knows what he’s talking about:
robertmanne.substack.com/p/o…
JillyCL ☮️ 💙 🌱🍉 retweeted
I broke down while filming these scenes. I couldn't bear the scale of the suffering unfolding before my eyes. I tried my best to amplify these families' voices, but what I witnessed was beyond words.
Children soaked, tents completely flooded, and families left exposed to the cold and rain. The world is not just witnessing this tragedy; it is complicit through its silence.
Watch the report for yourselves.
Dragnet's first dispatch from the besieged Gaza Strip: Dragnet contributor @Tamer_Alnoaizy spent hours walking through tents in Gaza's flooded displacement camps, where Palestinians whose homes and neighborhoods were destroyed by Israeli bombs are now sleeping in freezing water.
JillyCL ☮️ 💙 🌱🍉 retweeted
The government that has supplied arms, that has flown spy flights over Gaza for Israel will not rest until they bring an end to the intolerable suffering in Gaza. How stupid do they think we are?
JillyCL ☮️ 💙 🌱🍉 retweeted
It's important this performative video is met with the scorn that it deserves.
Silence would be unacceptable.
But it's actually worse to have Labour making sad videos whilst continuing to arm a genocide and arrest those who protest. It should be beneath contempt.
JillyCL ☮️ 💙 🌱🍉 retweeted
Cressida Dick a paid advisor for Palantir? Pantomime season has obviously started early this year. FFS!!!
Cressida Dick working for Palantir raises the same concerns I’ve expressed about Tom Watson.
What does a company gain when it recruits a former Labour deputy leader or a former Metropolitan Police commissioner? Their experience, yes. But also their contacts, influence and the authority associated with the offices they held.
This ‘revolving door’ corrodes confidence in politics, public service generally and in institutions such as the police.
Read more here: thebureauinvestigates.com/st…
@TBIJ
JillyCL ☮️ 💙 🌱🍉 retweeted
'The UK government will not stand by.'
So why are you still arming and supporting the racist, genocidal apartheid state of Israel?