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Labour offers nothing solid over Tory sewage mess
Having flushed commitments to water nationalisation down the pan, Starmer’s party has nothing useful to say about the mismanagement of wastewater and rampant pollution by private water companies, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Down the plughole: Keir Starmer has ditched Labour's pro-public ownership policies

BACK in December, I suggested Labour would drop its committment to water nationalisation. 

All the signs are there, but we are still waiting for the other shoe to drop — Labour’s leadership are caught between their urge to purge the party of any left-wing commitments, and their inability to argue for things with clarity and determination. 

So just as the private water firms prove they are unfit stewards of our nations fluids by pouring vast waves of human shit and piss into our rivers and seas, Labour decides it has nothing coherent to say.

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