The ghost of Thatcher lives on - years after her death, her dead hands are still around our throats.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/13/margaret-thatcher-council-housing-selloff-2024

#Thatcher #SocialHousing #RightToBuy #England #EnglishPolitics

There may be no nasty impulse to punish ‘skivers’, but the end result – the most vulnerable hit hardest – is exactly the same. Labour follow Tory (and quite possibly, if we knew what they were) Reform leads.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/05/labour-cuts-benefits-tories-vulnerable

#Society #UkPolitics #Ryan #Disabled #EnglishPolitics

Thames Water - again

They are now 'warning' that they will go bankrupt without massive increases in English water prices (and no doubt more pollution). The coimpany has debts of more than £16Bn - of course siphoning off money for shareholders has had nothing to do with that.

Nationalise them

http://archive.today/2025.01.22-220321/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/thames-water-faces-bankruptcy-after-stalemate-with-regulator-r8rx2h8l3

#ThamesWater #Theft #Nationalise #EnglishPolitics