Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten UK scientists warn
The government promised to learn from the #pandemic but appears to be suffering from #Covid amnesia, forgetting devastating cost of an underfunded #health service & public services cut to the bone
There's no evidence the health service would be any better prepared today should another #lethal #virus appear in the near future, scientists said.
Two #posties deployed to Harray amid delivery disruption - The #Orcadian Online
Two postal workers have been deployed to Harray to “return deliveries to normal” after some residents reported not receiving any letters or parcels for over ten days.
#RoyalMail shared this update with The Orcadian today (Tuesday), amid serious concerns around a lack of #deliveries — and communication regarding the #disruption.
https://orcadian.co.uk/two-posties-deployed-to-harray-amid-delivery-disruption/
Private Equity #Fire Truck firm worsens LA Fires
Increasing prices caused by #private #equity firm American Industrial Partners consolidating fire truck industry. forcing up prices
#AIP bought multiple #FireRruck manufacturers & rolled them up into conglomerate called #REV Group
AIP made show of allowing these manufacturers to continue operating independently, in fact it quickly moved to operate them as a single firm
Not competitive
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll
I can't believe the government are letting our #water bills go up by as much as £220 a year
I've just emailed my MP asking them to intervene. It only too about 30 seconds.
Use this link:
NHS email accounts hijacked for phishing campaign
Over 130 NHS email accounts were hijacked for a credential harvesting phishing
The phishing campaign started in October 2021 & escalated in March 2022
All of #phishing emails passed email authentication for nhs.net, & were sent from 2 IP addresses used by the NHS, which confirmed that the 2 addresses were relays within the mail system used for a large number of accounts
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252516702/NHS-email-accounts-hijacked-for-phishing-campaign
Jeremy #Corbyn warns against return of Labour’s expensive PFIs
It’s like doing a bad deal with a pawnbroker & never getting out of it
It might give us a shiny new hospital, but will give us debt that goes on forever
When PFI was first proposed in 1994 or 1995 as Labour policy, there is a bit of TV footage of me standing outside my house explaining to TV journalist that #PFI would cost us all a lot of money in the long run
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24484096.jeremy-corbyn-warns-return-labours-controversial-pfis/
Buy back British Gas
Under #Labour plans, #GreatBritishEnergy won’t sell direct to UK households - this is a missed opportunity
Please buy back British Gas as the retail wing of the new company, so it can give us cheaper bills.
63% of the population want to buy back #BritishGas. It is normal for households to be able to buy energy directly from a publicly owned company in other countries like France and Sweden.
Privatisation promised savings and better services. Instead, we got higher costs and crumbling infrastructure. 
By Kate Moore
Time to take back control? 
How much does your water company profit from pollution?
This is a scandal. Every day, private English #water companies are dumping huge amounts of disgusting raw sewage into our rivers and seas. #Privatisation has been failing since 1989.
The shareholders receive £1.6 billion a year on average - that money could be invested in water infrastructure to stop sewage. 69% of us support public ownership.
Stop #sewage
Sign #petition
https://weownit.org.uk/privatisation-profits-from-pollution/home
RT by @CarolineLucas: 10 years after the Govt sold off @RoyalMail (losing us £750 million in 1 day when shares were undervalued) it has been run into the ground. In #Brighton 48% of letters arrive late, assets are neglected and posties undervalued. #privatisationfail #weownit https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/28/royal-mail-shareholders-braced-for-final-takeover-offers
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RT by @CarolineLucas: PFI was a failure that still costs public service budgets dearly. And Labour’s NHS plans are full of MORE creeping privatisation.
In Brighton, concern for the future of the #NHS is huge. People here don’t want a Labour govt without Green MPs to defend it. #privatisationfail
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Fresh crisis for Thames Water as investors pull plug on £500m of funding
Decision raises concerns about financial future of UK’s biggest water firm and increases prospect of nationalisation
The beleaguered utilities company announced this morning that its shareholders had refused to provide the first tranche of £750m funding set to secure its short-term cashflow, after the company had failed to meet certain conditions.
