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This £100 billion figure is from a report funded by the Privatised Water Industry to lobby against Nationalisation.

Why is a Labour MP regurgitating industry lies?

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[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

why is a Labour MP regurgitating industry lies?

Real head-scratcher, that one. Reeeeal brainteaser. An honest-to-goodness Labour MP? Shilling for think-tanks? In this economy? On Christmas Eve, in the rain?
Surely not. Because that would mean...

~~We have no valid voting choice as people on the left who care about progress and compassion and social justice, and haven't since the 1970's. Different flavours of Thatcherite neoliberalism are the only thing anyone under 50 has ever known, and the seemingly endless inertia of that failed ideology within the class-captured, self-reinforcing, closed system of government means it's likely all we'll ever know~~

Probably just a coincidence.