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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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