Absolute chancers. Nationalise water. Now.
And keep it in public hands forever.
"This government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to Islamic State or Al Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. Frankly I'm deeply ashamed"
Labour peer Peter Hain in the Lords in July last year
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If your politics consist of handing out bungs to tech companies and politically connected service providers, and your primary offer to the public is nastier crackdowns, then you have to win over reactionaries and racists, because they are the section of the electorate who might vote for that stuff.
It would make much more sense, electorally speaking, for them to have done some relatively weak Ed Milibandy stuff that might at least start to pay off for 2029, but *they did not want to do that* because that sounded gay and soy and frankly Corbynite. They have instead done what they wanted to do.
If you think this is wrong, then you should really go back and look at what Morgan was telling the lobby journos in 2023/24.
I mean, look. Labour has not spent two years having the Home Secretary dress up in black Imperial commissar outfits to announce blood-curdling crackdowns on Them out of political expediency. They’ve done it because they both want and *have to* win the support of elderly racists.
Gosh. You say "untreated sewage discharges" like they're a BAD thing😵💫
The Slug's 45-year-long trail through Private Eye’s pages… Full story online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/street-of-sh...
For the rest, including cartoons, Pseuds, Dumb Britain and all the other regulars, you’ll have to buy the magazine.
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Zack Polanski
Saul Staniforth
“Hungry slugs returning after dry weather,” cautioned the BBC News website last Wednesday, while the following morning’s Times chimed in to warn: “Ravenous slugs are crawling your way.”
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And lo, just two days later came news that Eye stalwart David “the Slug” Sullivan had slithered back into the limelight, as he resigned as co-chairman of West Ham United FC ahead of an exposé of “serious historical allegations” on the BBC’s Panorama and in the Times.
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