For 2nd time this week, I just voted to back the Lords amendments to the Govt's repugnant #RwandaBill . Lost again. But there's no defending it - it's inhumane, illegal & ineffective all in one. Now back to Lords to keep up fight to lessen the sheer cruelty of this shameful bill.

1 in 10 of us face a 3 week wait for a GP appointment. With hundreds of GPs facing closure wait times could get even higher. The Government need a proper plan to save GPs from closure. Agree? Join me today & sign the petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop… via 38 Degrees

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Raise the income threshold for plan payment plan 2 university tuition fee loans!
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Policy making beyond Westminster resolutionfoundation.org/events/policy-…

Will update my spreadsheet - so that’s at least *108* sitting MPs who have been given knighthoods/damehoods since 2010.

A reminder that between 1997 and 2010, Labour gave such honours to… *11* sitting MPs… x.com/whazell/status…

Today in 1963 the first Beeching Report was published. The Minister for Transport was Ernest Marples. Before taking office he sold a big stake in a road building company to his wife
He closed 1000s of miles of railways & built lots of motorway
He fled to Monte Carlo in early 1975

Re new ‘honours’.

upday.com/uk/uk-russia-b…

Feargal Sharkey, 'There's nothing exceptional about 3.6 million hours of sewage being dumped into our rivers'

'What is exceptional is the £72 billion worth of our cash that they've taken in dividends'

Ben Chu, 'Since privatization in 1989, the water companies had no debt. Now…

Off to the big park with #sophiefromromania this morning

How it works:

-Former Egyptian Govt minister gives £5m to Tory Party

-His company revealed to be doing business in Russia year after invasion of Ukraine

-Gets knighthood for business and charitable activities
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

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'The question we should be asking is ‘where's our money gone?’... The truth is the water industry has simply become a legitimised rip off.'

Environmental campaigner Feargal Sharkey says water companies have failed to invest enough in a 'functioning sewage system'.

#Newsnight

Anna Jones: A major Tory donor has been awarded an honour by Sunak... what do you make of that?

Anneliese Dodds: This is the action of an incredibly arrogant PM, who doesn't care... Mohamed Mansour donated £5m to the Tories & now he's being honoured.. the public will be appalled

This would be a perfect time for Keir Starmer to clarify his plan for water. Public ownership is the only way to get a grip, so why won't The Labour Party back it?

Nationalise them.

Nationalise them now.

Happy Birthday Angela Rayner 👍🏼

As for the Tories -
James Daly MP with a majority of just 105 votes who's trying to cause her trouble, in Dec 2023 he claimed most children who struggle in his constituency are the “products of crap parents”. Nice man!!

Re Tory…

28 March 1935 | Dutch Jewish boy, Jacob Leefsma, was born in Leeuwarden.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in February 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

🌊💷 English water companies are still expected to shell out up to £15bn in dividends to their shareholders by the end of the decade
👛🏘️ But the costs of ending the sewage scandal are being passed on to households struggling with a cost of living crisis
goodlaw.social/b11m

28 March 1930 | A Jewish girl, Olga Meszaros, was born in Paris. She lived in Cluj.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.