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Boss of England’s most polluting water provider United Utilities admits firm ‘isn’t good enough at stopping sewage dumping’.
Dumped sewage for 3.6m hours. CEO got £1.4m pay.
Company has 205 criminal convictions, allowed to hike bills by 32%.
Must remove profit motive. Nationalise.
Dumped sewage for 3.6m hours. CEO got £1.4m pay.
Company has 205 criminal convictions, allowed to hike bills by 32%.
Must remove profit motive. Nationalise.
United Utilities boss admits water firm ‘isn’t good enough at stopping sewage dumping’
Louise Beardmore, boss at England’s worst-polluting firm, tells MPs pollution rise partly down to extra monitors and wet weather
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Boss of England’s most polluting water provider United Utilities admits firm ‘isn’t good enough at stopping sewage dumping’.
Dumped sewage for 3.6m hours. CEO got £1.4m pay.
Company has 205 criminal convictions, allowed to hike bills by 32%.
Must remove profit motive. Nationalise.
Dumped sewage for 3.6m hours. CEO got £1.4m pay.
Company has 205 criminal convictions, allowed to hike bills by 32%.
Must remove profit motive. Nationalise.
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What the government can’t afford:
❌Lifting children out of poverty
❌Disability benefits
❌Compensation for WASPI women
❌Winter fuel allowance
What the government can afford: an extra £13.4 billion on the military.
Never any money for the poor. Always enough money for war.
❌Lifting children out of poverty
❌Disability benefits
❌Compensation for WASPI women
❌Winter fuel allowance
What the government can afford: an extra £13.4 billion on the military.
Never any money for the poor. Always enough money for war.
February 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
What the government can’t afford:
❌Lifting children out of poverty
❌Disability benefits
❌Compensation for WASPI women
❌Winter fuel allowance
What the government can afford: an extra £13.4 billion on the military.
Never any money for the poor. Always enough money for war.
❌Lifting children out of poverty
❌Disability benefits
❌Compensation for WASPI women
❌Winter fuel allowance
What the government can afford: an extra £13.4 billion on the military.
Never any money for the poor. Always enough money for war.
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Another snippet in the @bmj.com, this time referring to work by the @ippr.bsky.social.
Obesity is strongly correlated with deprivation, though I think some people still struggle with that concept.
We already know this fact, but the challenge is how to improve the situation?
#SDOH
#EndPoverty
Obesity is strongly correlated with deprivation, though I think some people still struggle with that concept.
We already know this fact, but the challenge is how to improve the situation?
#SDOH
#EndPoverty
![OBESITY
On leaving primary school 28.9% of children who live in England's most deprived areas are obese, which compares with 14.7% of children in the least
deprived areas
[Institute for Public Policy Research]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e5jo2wxiyxyjcgwbjtjdblzo/bafkreicvawvgx77ak5xmwgdpq4nsp5qdfqchsr263kahar4wbnq2qvnkoi@jpeg)
November 15, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Another snippet in the @bmj.com, this time referring to work by the @ippr.bsky.social.
Obesity is strongly correlated with deprivation, though I think some people still struggle with that concept.
We already know this fact, but the challenge is how to improve the situation?
#SDOH
#EndPoverty
Obesity is strongly correlated with deprivation, though I think some people still struggle with that concept.
We already know this fact, but the challenge is how to improve the situation?
#SDOH
#EndPoverty
So a man who is worth at conservative estimates over 700 million and had a 48 million pay rise this year is to spend his 76th birthday opening a food bank!! # NotmyKing
November 14, 2024 at 8:43 AM
So a man who is worth at conservative estimates over 700 million and had a 48 million pay rise this year is to spend his 76th birthday opening a food bank!! # NotmyKing