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After 40 years, privatisation of our public services has failed. It's time for public ownership. We use it, we pay for it, We Own It.

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Our NHS buildings are crumbling - and worse - says @JPuntis . 💙Underinvestment is placing NHS workers and their patients in insanitary conditions. Demand that your election candidates commit to increased funding for our NHS: #NHSPledge
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🚨 82% of people are against the privatisation of Channel 4. Share this and let @NadineDorries know that you're one of them!
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Cambridge University student destroys private energy bosses and energy privatisation with FACTS🔥🔥🔥 He's absolutely spot on. What we need now is the nationalisation of our energy.
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“There is plenty of money in my industry (rail), and it is going out of it in the form of profits. It’s leaving this country and going to tax havens.” - Eddie Dempsey of the @RMTunion 👏
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🚆 Mick Lynch is absolutely right. Rail privatisation has been a disaster for everybody except the shareholders whose pockets it has lined. It's time to bring the WHOLE railway into public hands!
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The Health and Care Bill has just passed in the Commons. Disgraceful!!! The bill now goes to the House of Lords where the government is outnumbered. We will take the fight there and demand that private companies are not allowed to sit on NHS decision-making boards.
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💥The move toward covert privatisation has already done so much damage to our NHS. We have to stand up and say NO. Thank you so much @stephenfry for the strong message. Take action with us against NHS privatisation from 2-4pm on Saturday 25th February, in Parliament Square.
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Cambridge University student destroys private energy bosses and energy privatisation with FACTS🔥🔥🔥
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💥The move toward covert privatisation has already done so much damage to our NHS. We have to stand up and say NO. Thank you so much @stephenfry for the strong message. Take action with us against NHS privatisation from 2-4pm today, in Parliament Square.
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Nationalise Bulb 💡 (instead of the taxpayer paying Octopus £1 billion to buy it) Now is the perfect time to set up a state owned energy supplier (like EDF in France which has kept bill rises to only 4%) #NationaliseBulb
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🚨🚨🚨A&E doctor @andrewmeyerson exposes the NHS bill's deep flaws and warns against more NHS Americanisation. Please retweet and tag your MP.
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Channel 4's #Dispatches is exposing the absolute catastrophe that's been unleashed by the government privatising the response to coronavirus. This pandemic of privatisation has put people's lives at risk and undermined our fight against the virus.
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Who's to blame for the pressure on our NHS? Clue: it's not GPs. The government is wasting time on a health bill that will worsen privatisation when they should be funding and fixing our NHS. NHS doctor @andrewmeyerson shuts down the government's attempt to blame GPs for delays🔥
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Privatisation has failed 💧 sewage in our rivers 💩 💡 beyond outrageous energy bills ⚡️ 🚌 second class 'public' transport 🚄 📮 rising stamp prices and falling deliveries 📩 🏥 watching our NHS being outsourced bit by bit 👩‍⚕️ Time for public ownership
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How did we get into this mess? ⚡️1986 - our energy sold off 🚍1986 - our buses privatised and deregulated 🥤1989 - our water sold off 🚝1994 - our railway privatised 📮2013 - our Royal Mail sold off 2022 - time to take back what's ours!?
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MPs just voted for the NHS Corporate Takeover Bill. Disgraceful.
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We're sick of 💧 sewage in our rivers 💩 💡 beyond outrageous energy bills ⚡️ 🚌 second class 'public' transport 🚄 📮 rising stamp prices and falling deliveries 📩 🏥 watching our NHS being outsourced bit by bit 👩‍⚕️ No wonder public ownership is so popular...
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Outrageous. Conservative MPs voted to allow private companies to sit on NHS Boards😡🤡 Don't let them get away with it. Sign and share. 👉🏿👉🏿👉🏿
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BREAKING - New poll reveals: ❌ Just 31% believe Boris Johnson is telling the truth that NHS is 'off the table' in a trade deal. ❌ 57% of people concerned about impact of a trade deal on NHS. ❌ 71% don't want NHS in a trade deal. #HandsOffOurNHS
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Absolutely disgraceful. Tory MPs have just voted against protecting our NHS from trade deals. #TradeBill
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After the public uproar against their first vote, you’d think the government would learn. Last night they voted AGAIN to allow private water companies to pour sewage into our rivers. The solution is clear: we need to take our water into public ownership.
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🚨BREAKING🚨 Our new polling with @Survation shows that Red Wall voters OVERWHELMINGLY support public ownership. 🚊 Rail: 68% 💧 Water: 70% 💡 Energy: 68% 🏥 NHS: 80% 📮 Royal Mail: 68% 🚍 Buses: 67%
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Channel 4 is a publicly-owned asset that doesn't cost the taxpayer a penny. Selling it off makes no sense and puts jobs, small businesses and popular TV shows at risk. Sign our petition and tell @NadineDorries to keep Channel 4 in public hands👇
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SHAMEFUL: Conservative MPs just voted against a Lords amendment to the Environment Bill that banned private water companies pouring raw sewage into our rivers. We need public ownership of our water now.
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30 years of privatisation has been a disaster - our rivers are being poisoned with raw sewage while water companies are making billions. It’s time to bring our water into public ownership💧
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🚨🚨🚨Today and tomorrow are key days for the future of our NHS. Your MP will be voting on the Health and Care Bill and you need to make sure they vote against it. NHS A&E doctor @andrewmeyerson explains why. Retweet and tag your MP. #ScrapNHSBill
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This is shocking. The CEO of Operose - the UK wing of the American health giant Centene that is taking over GP practices across London - has been appointed as a health policy adviser to Boris Johnson. The revolving door of privatisation in action.
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"The function of the private sector is not to provide quality care. "It's to make billions for the insurance companies." "So strengthen the NHS. You need more money? Put money into it. But don't go the American route." 🔥🔥🔥 @BernieSanders
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The truth is, a 54% rise in your energy bills is not inevitable - it’s a choice by government. Here's 4 ways public ownership could help💡
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Virgin has been given a seat on an NHS decision-making body. The Health bill MPs will vote on on the 23rd of November will make this standard practice. It has to be stopped.
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🚨🚨🚨70% of Conservative voters say they're worried the bill will worsen NHS privatisation. MPs, nobody wants this bill. SCRAP IT! Share this video. #ScrapTheBill #CorporateTakeoverBill
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Matt Hancock's NHS reforms would lead to more American-style privatisation, not less. Stop Matt Hancock's plans for a private takeover of our precious health service.
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HUGE🔥🔥🔥 Tens of thousands of people demonstrating against NHS privatisation and underfunding at the #SOSNHSDEMO
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📢Who paid for it? We paid for it! 📢Who paid for it? We paid for it! It’s #OurNHS . And we’re going to keep it. Public healthcare works✅ Privatisation kills ❌
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These countries have their services in public ownership. Why can't we? #GE2019
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Public ownership is hugely popular: 🚂 76% want publicly owned railways. 🏫 81% want publicly owned schools. ⚡️ 77% want publicly owned energy. 🏥 84% want publicly owned NHS. 🌳 70% want publicly owned parks. 💧 83% want publicly owned water.
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Matt Hancock wants to hand millions more to Serco. But the public are fighting back. #ScrapSerco
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Tony Benn was absolutely right on Royal Mail privatisation. Our Royal Mail should be in public hands.
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Serco wants to "cement the role of the private sector" in our NHS with its track and trace contract. @MattHancock - it's time to kick them out of our health service once and for all.
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On #BBCQT , @CarolineLucas is absolutely right. Even with the vaccination programme, we still need an effective test and trace system. We won't get that until we put contact tracing in the hands of public health teams, rather than the likes of Serco who have demonstrably failed.
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Our new polling @Survation 📢 💧69% want publicly owned water 🚌65% want publicly owned buses 🚄67% want publicly owned rail 🏥78% want a publicly owned NHS 💡66% want publicly owned energy 📮68% want a publicly owned Royal Mail
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The public overwhelmingly support public ownership of public services. 💪Let's push for govt to represent our interests, not private ones. For a start, let's see manifesto commitments to protect our NHS from privatisation. 💙
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We need #ourNHS to be reinstated as a properly funded, fully public service 💙
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HUGE news! The Tories are instructing their candidates not to sign the pledge to protect our NHS from trade deals by ending privatisation. They're running scared and know the campaign to protect the NHS is cutting through! #HandsOffOurNHS #GE2019
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Our public services should be in public ownership. @YanisVaroufakis is absolutely right.
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US health insurance giant Centene is taking over 49 GP practices. They have to be stopped. @JeremyCorbyn is absolutely right.
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Our new report has exposed the scandal of privatisation in the NHS supply chain. 👇 ❌ Every item of PPE goes through 4 levels of profit taking ❌ Privatisation is part of the story of PPE shortages ❌ Private companies have continually failed to deliver
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🚆 @jeremycorbyn is absolutely right. Rail privatisation has been a disaster for the public. It's time to bring the WHOLE railway into public hands!
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The government should not privatise Channel 4. That's it. That's the tweet.
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"The NHS is on fire right now" - @andrewmeyerson telling the brutal truth about NHS underfunding. The government is starving our NHS of much needed cash, and it is leading to deaths. We need emergency funding for our NHS now🏥
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JUST LAUNCHED! We’re calling on Keir Starmer to reinstate our NHS as a fully public service. The Labour Party created the NHS to work for patients, not profits. @Keir_Starmer must stand up for what the NHS was meant to be. If you agree, sign & share!👉🏼
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Why is the government giving £350 million to Lord Ashcroft?! 😡
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Channel 4 makes world-famous TV programmes and films, holds the government to account, boosts the economy (inside and outside of London), and it doesn’t cost the taxpayer a penny! Selling it off would be an act of economic and cultural vandalism.
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What do people think about public ownership? 🚂 76% want publicly owned railways 💦 83% want publicly owned water 💡 77% want publicly owned energy 🏫 81% want publicly owned schools 🏥 84% want a publicly owned NHS 🌳 70% want publicly owned parks
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"I think it's worth fighting for it" - Stephen Fry on why you should take action to get politicians to take the #NHSPledge right now:
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The coronavirus crisis is exposing the folly of privatisation. When business is good, operators pocket huge profits. When business is bad, government steps in & pays anyway. The system is designed so profits are privatised, but losses are nationalised.
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BREAKING: Our new poll with @Survation : 🏥 76% want the NHS reinstated as a fully public service 🏥 78% want the NHS to receive more public funding to deliver services 🏥 83% want the NHS to be nationalised and run in the public sector.
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💩Private water companies have been dumping sewage and letting infrastructure crumble for over 30 years. 💧Sign the petition to bring water into public ownership!
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📢We have a message for @Keir_Starmer at the Labour Conference. Share if you agree.
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💥 Today patients stuck on waiting lists respond to plans to expand private sector use in our NHS They tell their stories and send a clear message to govt: ❌ STOP diverting public money to private shareholders 💙 FUND our NHS properly to tackle waiting lists #OnlytheNHS
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The Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre was built using public money. Now the government plans to sell it off during a pandemic. This has to be stopped. Sign this petition to tell @KwasiKwarteng to stop the Vaccine Manufacturing Centre sell off👉
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We rallied outside No 10 Downing Street tonight with @UniteinHealth , other campaign groups and hundreds of people demanding that the government #ScrapNHSBill . The NHS is the best thing we’ve created. It is our duty to protect it from those who would sabotage it for profit.
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Mick Lynch is right. It's time to nationalise our railways.
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Oxford Uni research proves privatisation leads to worse care for patients. Use our #PledgefortheNHS tool to call on election candidates to: 💙 Fund our NHS properly ❌End outsourcing ✅Reinstate Health Sec's duty to provide healthcare for all
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This government is trying to destroy our NHS and the BBC - we can’t let them.
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In a new video for We Own It, @johnmcdonnellMP explains why @UKLabour will bring rail, water and energy into public hands #GE2017
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Rishi Sunak claims to be 'worried' about fitting the cost of booster jabs into the shockingly limited NHS budget he created. The solution is simple: reinstate the NHS as a fully public service and fund it properly🏥
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The CBI says we can't afford public ownership. It's wrong: 💦Buying back our water companies pays for itself in 8 years 💡Buying back our energy networks pays for itself in 7 years 📮Buying back our Royal Mail pays for itself in 7 years
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We have to stop our NHS being sold off in a UK-US trade deal. #HandsOffOurNHS #NotForSale @KeepNHSPublic @SoniaAdesara
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If the government want a real answer to the strikes which is fair to passengers, and fair to workers, they should take all the franchises back into public ownership 🚂 #Solidarity @RMTunion
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Mick Lynch is right. Ticket office staff keep our railways safe, secure, and accessible. That’s why we’re joining @RMTunion in opposing plans to close nearly 1,000 ticket offices across the rail network. Sign the petition now👇
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New polling from @Survation shows that three quarters of the public want to see the track and trace system run by local public health protection teams. It's time for the government to face reality. It's time for the government to #ScrapSerco
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💥Just launched! Thames Water is collapsing. Tell the government to take it into public ownership PERMANENTLY and protect the public interest. Sign our petition 👇
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On #r4today it's absolutely staggering to hear Health Minister Edward Argar suggesting the government will stick with its contract with Serco to provide track and trace. Serco has resolutely failed. They shouldn't get a penny more of public money.
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Health Minister Edward Argar is on #r4today defending the national test, track and trace system run by Serco. Argar's background before entering parliament? Head of public affairs at Serco 🤔
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Privatisation has failed, we pay more and get less 1986 - our energy sold off 1986 - our buses privatised and deregulated 1989 - our water sold off 1994 - our railway privatised 2013 - our Royal Mail sold off 2022 - time to take back what's ours?
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Margaret Thatcher sold off our water thirty years ago. It's time to take it back.
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Now a #GeneralElection has been called, remember: 🚂 76% want publicly owned railways 💦 83% want publicly owned water 💡 77% want publicly owned energy 🏫 81% want publicly owned schools 🏥 84% want a publicly owned NHS 🌳 70% want publicly owned parks
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BREAKING!!! @AndyBurnhamGM has just announced he will be taking Greater Manchester's buses into public control. After years of campaigning, the free-market wild west on Greater Manchester's buses will come to an end!
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It is absolutely disgraceful that the US health insurance giant Centene is taking over our GP practices. @JDBakewell is absolutely right. This must be fought. It must be resisted.
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📈 Shell profits up 109% 📈 Centrica profits up 411% 📈 Energy bills up 150% This is daylight robbery. It’s time to kick out the profiteers and bring energy into public hands⚡️
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Our public services should be in public ownership. @YanisVaroufakis is absolutely right.
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Last night we launched Find My NHS🔥🔥- a web tool that makes opposing NHS privatisation and outsourcing in your local area as simple as a few quick clicks. Fighting privatisation and having an impact in your local NHS has never been easier. Use it now!
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This morning, NHS campaigners paid Serco's HQ a visit and left them a present. They left them with a pile of horse manure to say that Serco's management of the track and trace system stinks! #ScrapSerco
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Boris Johnson just made the former boss of a private healthcare company the second most powerful person in Number 10 Downing Street. This is the revolving door that could destroy our NHS - it's time we closed it.
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Rishi Sunak needs to hear this 👇
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It's true @yanisvaroufakis . Time for public ownership!
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The government have outsourced test and trace to private companies. And they won't even show us the contracts. @Johnrashton47
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Unbelievable. #ThamesWater is lobbying Ofwat to increase your bills and up their shareholder dividends😡 @CatHobbs explains how water privatisation has ripped us off 👇 Call on Thames Water to be brought into public ownership with NO bailout here:
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Serco shouldn't be anywhere near our NHS. Ever.
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🚨BREAKING🚨 In March, private bus companies tried to stop @AndyBurnhamGM taking buses into public control. But their judicial review failed, and today their appeal was thrown out. After years of campaigning, the free-market wild west on Greater Manchester's buses will end!
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So well said by @DrTonyOSullivan . The government must invest in our NHS instead of diverting public funds into private pockets through these contracts with private companies. #OnlyTheNHS
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💥 Just now on Sky News 💥 🚍"Re-regulation of buses could be symbolic of a need to get more public control and ownership of critical services, things that people have to rely on to live" #BeeNetwork "Transport is one of those but so is water, so is electricity" @AndyBurnhamGM
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HUGE support from Labour voters for public ownership 👇 Nationalisation would help with cost of living and climate crisis
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Time to kick private companies out of the test and trace system @matthancock .
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