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Londependence stands up for London and all its people. We want an autonomous, diverse and livable London. #FBPE
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Temporary re-nationalization?
Why temporary?
It's very simple: Thames Water's dividend-gorging shareholders can keep their company and their debts, and good riddance.
All we need back from them is our water supply.
Temporary re-nationalization?
Why temporary?
It's very simple: Thames Water's dividend-gorging shareholders can keep their company and their debts, and good riddance.
All we need back from them is our water supply.
Campaigners to use Thames Water high court case to push for temporary nationalisation
Judge to rule on utility’s plea for £3bn debt lifeline as MPs and charities say emergency loan too costly for customers
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February 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Temporary re-nationalization?
Why temporary?
It's very simple: Thames Water's dividend-gorging shareholders can keep their company and their debts, and good riddance.
All we need back from them is our water supply.
Temporary re-nationalization?
Why temporary?
It's very simple: Thames Water's dividend-gorging shareholders can keep their company and their debts, and good riddance.
All we need back from them is our water supply.
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Why is the government so squeamish about dumping Thames Water.
They've had their nose in the trough for long enough and they've gorged their fill.
It's time to dump them.
It's time we took back our water supply.
Why is the government so squeamish about dumping Thames Water.
They've had their nose in the trough for long enough and they've gorged their fill.
It's time to dump them.
It's time we took back our water supply.
Ministers must hold the line on Thames Water. It got itself into the mess | Nils Pratley
It seems Thames is trying to scare the government into thinking the world will end if it falls into ‘special administration’
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January 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Why is the government so squeamish about dumping Thames Water.
They've had their nose in the trough for long enough and they've gorged their fill.
It's time to dump them.
It's time we took back our water supply.
Why is the government so squeamish about dumping Thames Water.
They've had their nose in the trough for long enough and they've gorged their fill.
It's time to dump them.
It's time we took back our water supply.
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An icon of London travel for 15 years, now taken off-line by jobsworths.
Thanks to Matthew Somerville for putting it on line over 15 years.
An icon of London travel for 15 years, now taken off-line by jobsworths.
Thanks to Matthew Somerville for putting it on line over 15 years.
January 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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An icon of London travel for 15 years, now taken off-line by jobsworths.
Thanks to Matthew Somerville for putting it on line over 15 years.
An icon of London travel for 15 years, now taken off-line by jobsworths.
Thanks to Matthew Somerville for putting it on line over 15 years.
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Shame on whichever borough did this.
No London family should be forced to move out of London against their will.
Shame on whichever borough did this.
No London family should be forced to move out of London against their will.
‘Take this house or you’re homeless’: families sent to a Durham town from London
Charity says Horden is ill-equipped to deal with influx of homeless people and community spirit is being exploited
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January 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Shame on whichever borough did this.
No London family should be forced to move out of London against their will.
Shame on whichever borough did this.
No London family should be forced to move out of London against their will.
The deluge of hatred against our mayor and our city from extremist politicians and newspapers is unfortunately no surprise.
These bigots just can't accept that London is a cosmopolitan world city and has a mayor who happens to be Muslim.
These bigots just can't accept that London is a cosmopolitan world city and has a mayor who happens to be Muslim.
January 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The deluge of hatred against our mayor and our city from extremist politicians and newspapers is unfortunately no surprise.
These bigots just can't accept that London is a cosmopolitan world city and has a mayor who happens to be Muslim.
These bigots just can't accept that London is a cosmopolitan world city and has a mayor who happens to be Muslim.
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Lying, scheming, cheating....
Just what do Thames Water have to stoop to before England's regime will let (!) London take back its water supply?
Lying, scheming, cheating....
Just what do Thames Water have to stoop to before England's regime will let (!) London take back its water supply?
Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses
Exclusive: UK’s biggest water company assessed risks before cutting back on cost of environmental work, investigation shows
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December 27, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Lying, scheming, cheating....
Just what do Thames Water have to stoop to before England's regime will let (!) London take back its water supply?
Lying, scheming, cheating....
Just what do Thames Water have to stoop to before England's regime will let (!) London take back its water supply?
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A promised and much needed reform unnecessarily put on hold.
London should have the power to scrap leasehold itself, rather than having to wait for Westminister to do it.
A promised and much needed reform unnecessarily put on hold.
London should have the power to scrap leasehold itself, rather than having to wait for Westminister to do it.
Cladding, mould, £75,000 charges – welcome to life in a British leasehold flat
Residents of a blighted London block have been trapped in their homes by a swirl of events, as government attempts to reform the law drag on
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December 23, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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A promised and much needed reform unnecessarily put on hold.
London should have the power to scrap leasehold itself, rather than having to wait for Westminister to do it.
A promised and much needed reform unnecessarily put on hold.
London should have the power to scrap leasehold itself, rather than having to wait for Westminister to do it.
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A pig of a mess thanks to Brexit.
Who knows if our meat is safe or not?
(Certainly not Britain's border controls, who don't have the staff to check it now we're out of the EU.)
London didn't vote for this.
Londoners shouldn't have to suffer it.
#Londependence
A pig of a mess thanks to Brexit.
Who knows if our meat is safe or not?
(Certainly not Britain's border controls, who don't have the staff to check it now we're out of the EU.)
London didn't vote for this.
Londoners shouldn't have to suffer it.
#Londependence
Shocking new figures on illegal meat imports at Dover prompt fresh calls for Defra funding - Pig World
Shocking new figures highlighting the volume of illegal meat imports being intercepted at the Port of Dover have prompted fresh calls for the government to ensure this work is properly funded.Duri
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December 22, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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A pig of a mess thanks to Brexit.
Who knows if our meat is safe or not?
(Certainly not Britain's border controls, who don't have the staff to check it now we're out of the EU.)
London didn't vote for this.
Londoners shouldn't have to suffer it.
#Londependence
A pig of a mess thanks to Brexit.
Who knows if our meat is safe or not?
(Certainly not Britain's border controls, who don't have the staff to check it now we're out of the EU.)
London didn't vote for this.
Londoners shouldn't have to suffer it.
#Londependence
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A tiny slap on the wrist for Thames Water for illegally siphoning off funds to its shareholders.
Meanwhile, their "customers" get heavily penalized, with huge hikes to our water bills.
It's time London had the power to take back its water supply.
A tiny slap on the wrist for Thames Water for illegally siphoning off funds to its shareholders.
Meanwhile, their "customers" get heavily penalized, with huge hikes to our water bills.
It's time London had the power to take back its water supply.
Thames Water to pay £18m penalty after breaking dividend rules
Regulator says it will claw back £131m in ‘unjustified’ payments as it announces companies can increase bills by 36% by 2030
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December 20, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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A tiny slap on the wrist for Thames Water for illegally siphoning off funds to its shareholders.
Meanwhile, their "customers" get heavily penalized, with huge hikes to our water bills.
It's time London had the power to take back its water supply.
A tiny slap on the wrist for Thames Water for illegally siphoning off funds to its shareholders.
Meanwhile, their "customers" get heavily penalized, with huge hikes to our water bills.
It's time London had the power to take back its water supply.
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Absolutely disgraceful that Ofwat is allowing Thames Water to raise bills by 33%
Asset stripping
Sewage dumping
Demanding a bailout
Time to WITHDRAW THAMES WATER'S LICENCE and bring it into public ownership
Not make households pay
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Asset stripping
Sewage dumping
Demanding a bailout
Time to WITHDRAW THAMES WATER'S LICENCE and bring it into public ownership
Not make households pay
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water to get green light to hike bills by more than a third by 2030
Exclusive: Long-awaited decision by water regulator Ofwat falls short of utility’s requested 59% rise
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December 19, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Absolutely disgraceful that Ofwat is allowing Thames Water to raise bills by 33%
Asset stripping
Sewage dumping
Demanding a bailout
Time to WITHDRAW THAMES WATER'S LICENCE and bring it into public ownership
Not make households pay
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Asset stripping
Sewage dumping
Demanding a bailout
Time to WITHDRAW THAMES WATER'S LICENCE and bring it into public ownership
Not make households pay
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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The Brexit Curse:
Brexit cost UK £27bn in lost trade in first two years.
British exports fell by 6.4%, imports by 3.1%.
OBR forecast a 15% slump in trade, leading to a 4% reduction in national income, over the longer term.
Self-inflicted harm.
Rejoin the EU.
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Brexit cost UK £27bn in lost trade in first two years.
British exports fell by 6.4%, imports by 3.1%.
OBR forecast a 15% slump in trade, leading to a 4% reduction in national income, over the longer term.
Self-inflicted harm.
Rejoin the EU.
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Brexit cost UK £27bn in lost trade in first two years, review finds
Despite fall in trade, LSE study says overall impact was more limited than OBR forecasters first estimated
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December 19, 2024 at 8:35 AM
The Brexit Curse:
Brexit cost UK £27bn in lost trade in first two years.
British exports fell by 6.4%, imports by 3.1%.
OBR forecast a 15% slump in trade, leading to a 4% reduction in national income, over the longer term.
Self-inflicted harm.
Rejoin the EU.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Brexit cost UK £27bn in lost trade in first two years.
British exports fell by 6.4%, imports by 3.1%.
OBR forecast a 15% slump in trade, leading to a 4% reduction in national income, over the longer term.
Self-inflicted harm.
Rejoin the EU.
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Thames Water fined £18.2m for 'unjustified' £131.3m dividend to shareholders.
At the same time OFWAT allows Thames to hike customer bills by 35%.
Capital raised from customers who will own nothing, shareholders will get returns.
Privatisation is a scam.
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At the same time OFWAT allows Thames to hike customer bills by 35%.
Capital raised from customers who will own nothing, shareholders will get returns.
Privatisation is a scam.
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Thames Water fined £18m over dividends but granted 35% bills hike by 2030
The ruling falls well short of a 59% bills hike requested by the troubled water company, as it tries to secure a bailout from investors.
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Thames Water fined £18.2m for 'unjustified' £131.3m dividend to shareholders.
At the same time OFWAT allows Thames to hike customer bills by 35%.
Capital raised from customers who will own nothing, shareholders will get returns.
Privatisation is a scam.
www.independent.co.uk/business/tha...
At the same time OFWAT allows Thames to hike customer bills by 35%.
Capital raised from customers who will own nothing, shareholders will get returns.
Privatisation is a scam.
www.independent.co.uk/business/tha...
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Thames Water want the spineless regulator OFWAT to let them hike our bills by 59% (half as much again as the outrageous 40% UK average the "water industry" want).
We need signatures on this petition to oppose it.
Thames Water want the spineless regulator OFWAT to let them hike our bills by 59% (half as much again as the outrageous 40% UK average the "water industry" want).
We need signatures on this petition to oppose it.
84% Hike for Sewage in Rivers? Tell OFWAT: Enough is Enough!
On 19th December, OFWAT will announce one of the biggest water bill hikes in history.
Despite overwhelming public opposition, water bosses are pressuring our regulator to approve a staggering 40% ave...
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December 7, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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Thames Water want the spineless regulator OFWAT to let them hike our bills by 59% (half as much again as the outrageous 40% UK average the "water industry" want).
We need signatures on this petition to oppose it.
Thames Water want the spineless regulator OFWAT to let them hike our bills by 59% (half as much again as the outrageous 40% UK average the "water industry" want).
We need signatures on this petition to oppose it.
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England water firms push for higher shareholder returns.
NO. They picked customer pockets for years, paid high dividends, neglected investment.
They charged for sewage disposal, dumped it in rivers. Customers due a refund.
Let them go bust. Nationalise.
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NO. They picked customer pockets for years, paid high dividends, neglected investment.
They charged for sewage disposal, dumped it in rivers. Customers due a refund.
Let them go bust. Nationalise.
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Water firms push for higher shareholder returns as Ofwat considers bills increase
Companies say higher returns are needed to ensure record infrastructure investment across industry is delivered
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December 4, 2024 at 8:11 AM
England water firms push for higher shareholder returns.
NO. They picked customer pockets for years, paid high dividends, neglected investment.
They charged for sewage disposal, dumped it in rivers. Customers due a refund.
Let them go bust. Nationalise.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
NO. They picked customer pockets for years, paid high dividends, neglected investment.
They charged for sewage disposal, dumped it in rivers. Customers due a refund.
Let them go bust. Nationalise.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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It's shocking that events in the Middle East are stirring up race divisions between London schoolchildren.
What's happening over there is not the fault of people here, still less of children.
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia have no place in London.
It's shocking that events in the Middle East are stirring up race divisions between London schoolchildren.
What's happening over there is not the fault of people here, still less of children.
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia have no place in London.
Thugs hurl rocks at Jewish school bus and shout ‘f**k Israel’ in suspected hate crime
Pupils from Jews' Free School targeted in suspected hate crime on busy north London high street
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December 3, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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It's shocking that events in the Middle East are stirring up race divisions between London schoolchildren.
What's happening over there is not the fault of people here, still less of children.
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia have no place in London.
It's shocking that events in the Middle East are stirring up race divisions between London schoolchildren.
What's happening over there is not the fault of people here, still less of children.
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia have no place in London.
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Tories' biggest donor makes a killing at taxpayers' expense on outsourcing contracts.
Well what a surprise!
And his racist comments aren't much of a surprise either.
Isn't it time London was free of this whole stinking regime?
Tories' biggest donor makes a killing at taxpayers' expense on outsourcing contracts.
Well what a surprise!
And his racist comments aren't much of a surprise either.
Isn't it time London was free of this whole stinking regime?
Frank Hester: computer programmer who made fortune from public sector contracts
Software company Hester built from scratch has won more than £400m of NHS and prison contracts in the last eight years
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March 15, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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Tories' biggest donor makes a killing at taxpayers' expense on outsourcing contracts.
Well what a surprise!
And his racist comments aren't much of a surprise either.
Isn't it time London was free of this whole stinking regime?
Tories' biggest donor makes a killing at taxpayers' expense on outsourcing contracts.
Well what a surprise!
And his racist comments aren't much of a surprise either.
Isn't it time London was free of this whole stinking regime?
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English government policy is directly responsible for the collapse of affordable house building in London.
Desperately short of affordable housing, London needs the power to properly fund council and housing association homes from its own revenues
English government policy is directly responsible for the collapse of affordable house building in London.
Desperately short of affordable housing, London needs the power to properly fund council and housing association homes from its own revenues
Affordable housebuilding in London is set to collapse by 75%. That’s a problem wherever you live | Peter Apps
A huge grant cut imposed by George Osborne in 2010 is hitting hardest in the capital but will soon be disastrous elsewhere, says the author Peter Apps
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March 3, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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English government policy is directly responsible for the collapse of affordable house building in London.
Desperately short of affordable housing, London needs the power to properly fund council and housing association homes from its own revenues
English government policy is directly responsible for the collapse of affordable house building in London.
Desperately short of affordable housing, London needs the power to properly fund council and housing association homes from its own revenues
Racists in outer England call London a "ghetto" because (!) it's so ethnically diverse.
Some ghetto!
A quarter of London households are multi-ethnic.
Every London neighbourhood has its ethnic flavour, but ALL of them are mixed.
We LOVE our diversity. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Some ghetto!
A quarter of London households are multi-ethnic.
Every London neighbourhood has its ethnic flavour, but ALL of them are mixed.
We LOVE our diversity. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
February 28, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Racists in outer England call London a "ghetto" because (!) it's so ethnically diverse.
Some ghetto!
A quarter of London households are multi-ethnic.
Every London neighbourhood has its ethnic flavour, but ALL of them are mixed.
We LOVE our diversity. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Some ghetto!
A quarter of London households are multi-ethnic.
Every London neighbourhood has its ethnic flavour, but ALL of them are mixed.
We LOVE our diversity. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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They dump sewage in our River.
They neglect the pipes they're supposed to be maintaining.
And they make us pay through the nose for it.
It's time we took back our water supply.
#Londependence
They dump sewage in our River.
They neglect the pipes they're supposed to be maintaining.
And they make us pay through the nose for it.
It's time we took back our water supply.
#Londependence
Thames Water forecasts more leaks over next two years than predicted
Revision will pile further pressure on firm to invest in infrastructure amid anger over its sewage-dumping record
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February 16, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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They dump sewage in our River.
They neglect the pipes they're supposed to be maintaining.
And they make us pay through the nose for it.
It's time we took back our water supply.
#Londependence
They dump sewage in our River.
They neglect the pipes they're supposed to be maintaining.
And they make us pay through the nose for it.
It's time we took back our water supply.
#Londependence
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London councils have been systematically defunded by England's Tory regime.
London needs access to its own revenues to rebuild its local services.
London councils have been systematically defunded by England's Tory regime.
London needs access to its own revenues to rebuild its local services.
Barnet council’s ‘Graph of Doom’ now looks prophetic
In 2011, no one believed councils would be left to swallow the rising cost of social care unaided. But after funding cuts of 40%, their plight looks increasingly bleak
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February 1, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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London councils have been systematically defunded by England's Tory regime.
London needs access to its own revenues to rebuild its local services.
London councils have been systematically defunded by England's Tory regime.
London needs access to its own revenues to rebuild its local services.
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Putting up a joke candidate like this for London mayor is a real insult from England's Tories to the people of London.
Putting up a joke candidate like this for London mayor is a real insult from England's Tories to the people of London.
Susan Hall doesn't know what a London bus ride costs, how much police are paid, or who owns Hammersm...
London mayoral candidate Susan Hall has failed to answer questions about bus fares, police salaries, and who owns a Thames bridge in need of repairs.
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January 24, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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Putting up a joke candidate like this for London mayor is a real insult from England's Tories to the people of London.
Putting up a joke candidate like this for London mayor is a real insult from England's Tories to the people of London.
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It wasn't London that voted for England's #BrexitDisaster.
But Londoners are still having to pay the price for it.
Drug shortages are just the latest.
London needs its own relationship with Europe.
It wasn't London that voted for England's #BrexitDisaster.
But Londoners are still having to pay the price for it.
Drug shortages are just the latest.
London needs its own relationship with Europe.
U.K. Drug Shortages ‘Worse Than Ever’ As Brexit Continues To Bite
The number of drug products in short supply nearly doubled from start of 2022 to the end of last year, official data show.
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January 19, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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It wasn't London that voted for England's #BrexitDisaster.
But Londoners are still having to pay the price for it.
Drug shortages are just the latest.
London needs its own relationship with Europe.
It wasn't London that voted for England's #BrexitDisaster.
But Londoners are still having to pay the price for it.
Drug shortages are just the latest.
London needs its own relationship with Europe.
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Labour take London and their own voters for granted.
Their pro-Brexit policy isn't for the good of the UK, but purely to appease reactionary voters in marginal Red Wall constituencies.
NO English party represents the people of London.
Labour take London and their own voters for granted.
Their pro-Brexit policy isn't for the good of the UK, but purely to appease reactionary voters in marginal Red Wall constituencies.
NO English party represents the people of London.
What Britain’s Labour Party thinks of Europe
Rachel Reeves is heir to a long Labour history of ambivalence towards the EU
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January 11, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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Labour take London and their own voters for granted.
Their pro-Brexit policy isn't for the good of the UK, but purely to appease reactionary voters in marginal Red Wall constituencies.
NO English party represents the people of London.
Labour take London and their own voters for granted.
Their pro-Brexit policy isn't for the good of the UK, but purely to appease reactionary voters in marginal Red Wall constituencies.
NO English party represents the people of London.
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Brexit makes things harder and more expensive for London businesses, with more complications, red tape and export bureaucracy.
But London didn't vote for England's Brexit disaster.
London businesses should have the right to use proper EU standards.
Brexit makes things harder and more expensive for London businesses, with more complications, red tape and export bureaucracy.
But London didn't vote for England's Brexit disaster.
London businesses should have the right to use proper EU standards.
‘We’re out of step’: how post-Brexit UK is drifting from EU standards
The UKCA quality standard is imposing unwelcome costs, from chemicals to construction materials
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December 29, 2023 at 3:49 PM
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Brexit makes things harder and more expensive for London businesses, with more complications, red tape and export bureaucracy.
But London didn't vote for England's Brexit disaster.
London businesses should have the right to use proper EU standards.
Brexit makes things harder and more expensive for London businesses, with more complications, red tape and export bureaucracy.
But London didn't vote for England's Brexit disaster.
London businesses should have the right to use proper EU standards.