Off Topic Politics Thread

That's shocking. Absolutely unacceptable, these water companies have been robbing us for years and getting away with it. There is simply no excuse for them to leave people without water, barring the very occasional Act of God.

 

Apparently Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, has the power to simply strip water companies of their licences and put them into special administration. This would be a much cheaper way of renationalising the industry. However, he has ruled out any form of renationalisation, despite polls showing 82% of the public being in favour.

Maybe a campaign of refusing to pay bills might have an effect?

 

Wish the British public would take that stance at times. The French probably would.

 

Leaving a pile of **** on the director's doorsteps sounds good to me.

 

Trouble is the water companies are all saddled with massive debt. So if the companies are stripped of their licenses, what happens to the debt?

A mass campaign of withholding bills would only work if enough people did it. There was a grass roots movement called Can’t Pay U.K. which tried to organise something similar over fuel bills recently, but in the end not enough people were willing to stop paying, and the organisation folded.

 

Disgusting….

 

Don’t forget The communications network .

 

11 dead and at least 60 injured as a terrorist drove full speed into a Christmas market in Germany.

I wonder if it was another quiet lad from Wales?

 

Point scoring off the death of innocent people, Os? Stay classy.

 

68 injured, 15 critically and 1 dead.

Awful

 

An appalling act, thoughts and prayers with those affected.

Can’t find anyone describing it as a terrorist attack though.

 

Seems likely it is though and they've said they're treating it as an 'attack'.

Feels like there's been a few similar incidents in Germany before? Not 100%

 

Not saying you're wrong regarding motives, but there's only 2 confirmed dead right now (though of course that may go up), so I'm not sure where you're getting 11 from?

 

When will you accept that mass undocumented immigration is causing serious harm to society?

How many people have to die before lefty’s wake up and realise that we have a huge (self inflicted) problem?

 

Hardly undocumented immigration

“Officials said the suspect is believed to have moved to Germany in 2006 and had been practising medicine in Bernburg, about 25 miles south of Magdeburg.”

Pretty much a paper trail there. Been German for 18 years.

Tragic, but you can’t blame it all on illegal immigrants.

 

That's awkward. If (IF) the identity of the attacker has been correctly confirmed, he seems to be an AfD supporter, atheist and anti-Islamist.

Seems life isn't always quite as simple (dare I say black and white?) as some people might claim.

https://bsky.app/profile/ramijarrah.bsky.social/post/3ldrotuqo6s2t - background here. However, it's early days and I suspect it will turn out to be even more complex as things develop. That's how life is.

 

How many times do you need to say this, before you wake up and realise that everyone accepts that there is a problem?

 

This. However, this tragedy appears to have absolutely nothing to do with mass undocumented immigration.

 

Step in the right direction as the bill to end hereditary peers goes through. Petition here please sign and share.
https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3342/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=01i1nyj2

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