{"id":70628,"date":"2023-06-29T09:38:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T08:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=70628"},"modified":"2023-06-29T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T08:49:54","slug":"reaction-to-this-mornings-twitter-thread-on-the-water-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/06\/29\/reaction-to-this-mornings-twitter-thread-on-the-water-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaction to this morning&#8217;s Twitter thread on the water companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was pleased with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/06\/29\/englands-water-industry-is-environmentally-insolvent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this reaction to my Twitter thread<\/a> on the water companies:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-70629\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-29-at-09.34.23-550x294.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-29-at-09.34.23-550x294.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-29-at-09.34.23-768x411.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-29-at-09.34.23-600x321.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-29-at-09.34.23.png 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After three hours, the traffic is pretty exceptional:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-70630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-29-at-09.34.46-550x297.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-29-at-09.34.46-550x297.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-29-at-09.34.46-768x415.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-29-at-09.34.46-600x324.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-29-at-09.34.46.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am told there will be a Guardian story on this later today.<\/p>\n<p>Radio interviews have begun.<\/p>\n<p>This story is big precisely because it lays bare the whole fallacy of privatisation that has imposed massive costs on us all.<\/p>\n<p>But the question is, will the government and the Labour Party have the courage to do anything to address this issue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pleased with this reaction to my Twitter thread on the water companies: After three hours, the traffic is pretty exceptional: I am told<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/06\/29\/reaction-to-this-mornings-twitter-thread-on-the-water-companies\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,176,35,108,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-corporate-accountability-network","category-economics","category-environment","category-green-new-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70633,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70628\/revisions\/70633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}