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Supermarke­ts are profiteeri­ng in crisis

- Gary O’Brien Via email S T Vaughan Via email

against ‘requiring improved sewerage systems’, against ‘requiring a reduction in the harm caused by untreated sewage discharges’ and against ensuring ‘untreated sewage is not discharged’ are culpable.

At the time they said the reason they voted against those measures was to protect consumers from increased bills – ironic given Thames Water’s recent bid to raise bills by 40%.

Back then they said: “We now have the legislatio­n in place to deal with our archaic sewage system while also holding water companies to account.” Failure and lies!

Labour is going to have to match Atlee’s 1945 government for us to get through this. Yes, it will take “a decade of national renewal”.

Atlee followed the devastatio­n of WW2 – Starmer will follow the devastatio­n of Conservati­sm. right outside 10 Downing Street, but failed to act on Boris Johnson illegally staging lockdown parties inside, until his political opponents later revealed it at a politicall­y convenient time for them. So that timing looked suspicious for the police too.

And in 2016, FBI head James Comey confused computer files with emails (a file is on one computer, an email is on both the sending and receiving computers).

Comey was hunting Hillary Clinton’s emails, found that many were deleted from the ‘from’ computer, and abandoned the search, reopening the investigat­ion only when finding a set of emails (convenient­ly) found just before the election. The timing looking suspicious for the FBI.

He should’ve made a very public appeal earlier for the emails from any computers they were sent to. That way, when they then turned up just days before the election, a crucial issue would’ve been why whoever had them had ignored his public appeal, certainly clearing the FBI of suspicion.

So with Angela Rayner, the police need to be credibly explaining why they didn’t notice anything when it actually occurred – and if they failed to notice anything, then keeping more of an eye on our politician­s generally, for their own reputation­al benefit if nothing else.

After all, who was it who said we need the most stringent measures watching everyone post-9/11? Answer: the Labour government and the police.

SOME £2.8 billion of profit, and this is just Tesco. That’s a 160% increase on last year’s figures. What a wonderful thing the cost-of-living crisis is for the retail trade.

So, just how can we hear the argument that world-market prices are responsibl­e, when the truth is our supermarke­ts are profiteeri­ng from the cost-of-living crisis?

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Susan Danielis-Marshall spotted a robin and a sparrow sharing a meal

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