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Thames Water paid £1m-plus to private intelligence agency part-owned by Starmer adviser
(www.theguardian.com)
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It's almost unbelievable how grotesque this situation is.
£20 billion in the hole, after paying dividends and bonuses, poisoning national waters and not fixing leaks and you can still find £130 million to pay spies, one if whom is already the Prime Minister's bumchum, to try and stop the government nationalising you before the situation gets even worse.
Not sure whether I'm more disgusted at Thames Water or the government tbh.
How are Labour supposed to get the 'highest growth in the G7' while at the same time protecting the most outrageously failing companies?