Tag: Southern Water
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Living with privatized ‘services’
The header pic is a screenshot from Southern Water’s latest self-promoting newsletter, passed to me in the week they managed to leave 31,000 households in Hastings with no water coming out of their taps, in some cases for five days straight. Southern’s incident updates made much of the fact that they set up three ‘water…
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Why we all hate Southern Water
Over the last few years, as utility bills have pushed more and more of us onto the breadline, and increasing numbers are falling over the edge into destitution, Hastings has had numerous problems with both electricity and water supplies. Water is the big issue just now. In my part of town, the taps ran dry…
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Labour candidate’s letter to Hastings and Rye
A leaflet from Labour’s candidate for Hastings and Rye arrived at my house yesterday. It was an interesting read, and it asks us to tell the candidate what we think. Here goes… I too am very keenly aware that we need a change of government. That’s why I joined the Labour Party and worked daily…
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Disaster by privateers, public services to the rescue
My, but I am glad we live at the top of the hill! Here’s today in Hastings from my point of view… Meandering to Disaster I got just past breakfast time before the power went off. By then, I had noted that, the garden now being completely water-logged, the side path had become a river…
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Make lousy politicians a minority
We could do this. Here’s how… There are millions of people in this country who, like me, have used the phrase ‘politically homeless’. They have been thrown out of, or lost faith in, their ‘natural’ choice of party. There are also increasing numbers of people who, like me, have realised there’s more to politics than…
Kay Green 