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Rob @robhogg68.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A Bridge too Far from the Madding Crowd

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The Longest Day of the Triffids

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Rob @robhogg68.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

More interesting than your average polling station...

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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Good luck Zack 💚 Get out and vote Green 💚

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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For people and planet vote for Zack.💚💚 #Green #BackZack

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 06/10/2026

"The pattern is clear: Vote Green and watch Labour move" @zackpolanski.bsky.social explains why a Green vote is a powerful vote.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We're into the final 100 hours of the campaign for Holborn & St Pancras! Every leaflet & conversation can make the difference between Greens narrowly missing out or electing our 6th Green MP. Any time before Thurs you can help can make the difference. linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 04/10/2026

Following the vote on the anti-Zionist policy at Green Party Conference, the 5 Green MPs, the Leader and Co-Deputy Leaders have issued a joint statement

A green background with white text that reads: Joint Statement As Greens, we will always uphold universal human rights. We will never tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment. We will continue to stand in opposition to genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and the illegal occupation. We will continue to call out the heinous crimes of the Netanyahu government. And we will continue to work to ensure that the Green Party is an anti-racist party in every way. We know there is no conflict between supporting the rights of Palestinians and the rights of Jewish people. Signed by: Zack Polanski, Rachel Milward, Mothin Ali, Sian Berry MP, Ellie Chowns MP, Carla Denyer MP, Adrian Ramsay MP, Hannah Spencer MP

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Rob @robhogg68.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sadly, I think this is quite accurate.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 29/09/2026

"It is clear that Labour needs the Greens to keep them in check everyday to push them towards the real transformation this country needs." @zackpolanski.bsky.social reacts to the Prime Minister's speech at Labour conference.

HOPE IS NOT JUST A SLOGAN, IT NEEDS TO MEAN REAL CHANGE

ZACK POLANSKI
LEADER OF THE GREEN PARTY

"Unlike his predecessor, we have a PM who talks like he gets it. But sadly like his predecessor he isn’t prepared to break from the powerful and wealthy interests that have created an inequality, affordability and a climate crisis.

Hope is not just a slogan, it needs to mean real change. The speech today had no wealth taxes, no rent controls, no water nationalisation and a strong hint of more North Sea drilling.

It is disappointing that we have a country ready to break from the last 40 years, a Labour government with the majority to do it, and yet what we see are more half measures, reannouncements and tinkering."

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party, London SE1P 6YL

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

৮ অক্টোবর গ্রিনকে ভোট দিন।

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Rob @robhogg68.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Perhaps not the best music to have on in the background while I'm working. The ravishing guitar (or mandolin?) line at around 3:20 just totally took me out of what I was doing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrQD...

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Gafsa

YouTube video by Natacha Atlas - Topic

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Infinite growth on a finite planet is a death sentence. There is no economic growth on a dead planet.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2026

If you put ten children in a room with a single large red button that launches all nukes, it would be a genuine threat to humanity. But it doesn't mean children are a human extinction risk. It means the person who puts them near the nuke button is a human extinction risk.

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Rob @robhogg68.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As we're told how much 9/11 means to us all, remember that this is the anniversary of another 9/11. Terrorism is committed by states as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5m...

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The Other 9/11: How to Make a Nation Scream

YouTube video by Double Down News

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Rob @robhogg68.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Support the Boats #RNLI rnli.org/support-us/g...

An image of four RNLI members in a small boat, with the text "Support the Boats"

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Labour has banned peaceful protest for Palestine. It should not be hard for Andy Burnham to condemn thugs.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Labour stands up for corporations and big money. I'm running to stand up for people and our communities. www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/excl...

camdennewjournal.co.uk

Exclusive: Green Party leader Zack Polanski tells CNJ he WILL go for Holborn and St Pancras

Green leader lays out hopes for by-election

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Rob @robhogg68.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"The volume of output rises while the nature of the work shifts from creation to inspection, and the engineers doing the hardest cognitive labor appear, by the metrics, to be less productive than the ones generating code with AI." leaddev.com/career-devel...

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Engineers grieve a job that no longer exists

As AI shifts engineers from builders to reviewers, research shows the resulting burnout is about a changing identity, not workload.

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Rob @robhogg68.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Maceo Parker Christy Moore Eliza Carthy Bellowhead Nitin Sawhney Clannad Parliament Funkadelic Lee Scratch Perry Ozric Tentacles Bishi

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 28/08/2026

The government must put the brakes on. Data centres should not be given priority for water and electricity over communities.

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 28/08/2026

It's time to put the brakes on data centres. Here's how: ❌ End the blanket 'critical infrastructure' designation. 💧 Highest environmental and community standards for all new data centres. 📋 Create a comprehensive national strategy.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 26/08/2026

POV: You got elected as a Reform councillor, but the group chat keeps getting smaller every three days.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 25/08/2026

Is it "pragmatic" to approve new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea that could cost between £119 billion to £336 billion in climate damage? Sounds more like climate and economic vandalism.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The world is producing more than ever, costs to make it are lower, fewer people are needed to do it But life is unaffordable, services are terrible and the future is dismal. All because a handful of insanely rich billionaires take everything and demand even more. A better future needs rid of them

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Care about the planet? Care about stopping us all being ripped off by vested interests? Its time to join the Green Party Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Rob @robhogg68.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Generative "AI" is unreliable, ethically dubious and environmentally destructive, so no, @microsoft-copilot.bsky.social, I won't.

Windows pop-up notification: "Open and pin Copilot"

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 18/08/2026

Today, a new hosepipe ban came into force - yet nearly 3 billion litres of water is lost a day from leaky pipes belonging to privatised water companies. That's 5x more water than a nationwide hosepipe ban would save. We need to bring water back into public hands now.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

On the left: Oliver North, convicted for his role in illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan administration. On the right: Fox News “military analyst” Oliver North, who thinks Iran shouldn’t have missiles. Same guy. Same Oliver North.

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Rob @robhogg68.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Price rationing is always unjust, as it hits the poorest, with little effect on those at the top. But when it's being seriously proposed to use price to ration one of the essentials of life, it's an abomination.

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Reminds me a lot of some of the claims that @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social has been making about what the real use of AI is -- deferment of responsibility and the broad filibustering of the basic functions of civil society.

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Meanwhile Alberta Tech Minister Nate Glubish saying the quiet part out loud: '“We’re essentially looking at these data centers as digital pipelines and digital refineries for us to help get the value from our natural gas to global markets” www.oilandgas360.com/alberta-pitc...

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Alberta pitches cheap natural gas for data center boom - Oil & Gas 360

The latest oil and gas news, dedicated to all things oil and gas: people, technologies, transactions, trends, and macro-economic analysis that impact commodity prices.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

England water companies want dynamic pricing. Charge more for drinking water, cleaning, showering, flushing toilet during drought. Health epidemics would follow. They lose over a trillion litres a year to leaks; paid dividends, neglected investment. Putting profits before people archive.ph/9oSCf

inews.co.uk

How water companies could charge you more during drought

Rule changes being proposed by the regulator could allow a new regime of dynamic pricing creating higher bills when water is scarce

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Rob @robhogg68.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We need urgent action. Our government is banning disposable barbecues while actively helping the fossil fuel and tech billionaires burn our planet for profit. And sadly, posting on social media, or waiting for the next general election isn't going to cut it.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 14/08/2026

Yesterday, on the hottest day of the year so far, we saw homes set ablaze and people hospitalised. Wildfires are raging across the UK, almost 3/4's of England is now in drought, and nurses are collapsing on duty as a result the extreme heat. Burnham must start tackling the climate crisis now.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Still gobsmacking that Andy Burnhams response to the deaths from the climate crisis has been to pledge to try & stop the sale of single use barbeques. A monumental mistake. Time to do the right thing. Fund our firefighters & say no to new oil & gas. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Green groups urge Andy Burnham to break silence on climate crisis

More than 50 organisations say PM urgently needs to show leadership and prepare British people for scale of change needed as UK struggles through another heatwave

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If @andyburnham.bsky.social were Prime Minister during the Blitz: "There is an urgent problem of bombs falling on London. They appear to be coming out of the sky. We convened a COBRA meeting to discuss it. The root causes of this problem are not something I am prepared to discuss." #ClimateEmergency

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Nationalise the water companies without a penny of our money. Here's how with Feargal Sharkey youtu.be/MPo3_0DjgyU?...

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The Water Industry Scandal

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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Rob @robhogg68.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Utterly corrupt. We need a different politics. join.greenparty.org.uk

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Rob @robhogg68.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I do wish I could've had the opportunity to attend a Jacques Brel performance. Unfortunately, he left us when I was 10, and I wouldn't come across his music until 11 years later, when Marc Almond released Jacky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFG1...

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Jacques Brel "La Chanson de Jacky" | Archive INA

YouTube video by INA Chansons

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Rob @robhogg68.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

An atmospheric physicist (@simonoxfphys.com) reviews Count Binface's (@countbinface.bsky.social) climate policies. www.youtube.com/shorts/3nlU3...

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Count Binface has climate policies?!

YouTube video by Simon Clark

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It's that simple. Go vegan.

The image contains the following text:

**Scenario:**
1. Imagine that there is something you need to stay alive and there are two methods to obtain it.
2. If you choose method 1, you will live but others will suffer and die.
3. If you choose method 2, you will live and nobody else will suffer nor die.

**Do you choose method 1 or method 2?**

Congratulations. You now understand veganism.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Wessex Water defends £80,000 pay rise to its CEO. WW loses 20.9% of its distributed water to leaks. Dumps sewage in rivers. Has criminal convictions. Customers fleeced. But CEO rewarded for failures. Nothing will change until profit motive is removed.

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Wessex Water defends £80,000 pay rise for CEO Ruth Jefferson

Wessex Water says the pay rises to £670,000 brings Ruth Jefferson "closer to market benchmarks".

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 06/08/2026

Losing access to our drinking water is a huge risk. Over half of the country is in drought, yet we're losing 3bn litres of water daily through leaky pipes - which water companies won't fix because it's not profitable. Public ownership NOW to protect the public vist.ly/5duz4

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Zack Polanski ‘absolutely right’ about privatisation threatening water security, water campaigner says

'Leaky pipes and a lack of reservoirs are inevitable outcomes of privatisation.'

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