David__Osland
@David__Osland
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Somewhere on the left. My views and not those of any publication for which I write.
London
Joined August 2015
If there's going to be a memorial to Grenfell, let's make it the removal of flammable cladding from the hundreds of buildings that still have it eight years later
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Instead of asking the public to nominate the next Archbishop of Canterbury, why not ask them if England should have an established religion in the first place?
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Three months after Theresa May tweeted this, she was one of 308 Tory MPs who voted down the Grenfell inquiry recommendations
Today we remember all those who lost their lives at Grenfell Tower. My thoughts are with the bereaved & survivors who fight, day in, day out, to ensure such a tragedy never happens again. We, in Parliament, must do all we can to help them. Their loved ones must not be forgotten
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Eight years after Grenfell, and still nobody has been charged with corporate manslaughter, gross negligence manslaughter, perverting the course of justice or misconduct in public office. Out of sight, out of mind.
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Whether Lucy Letby is acquitted after a retrial or not, the uncertainty surrounding her conviction is a major argument against the death penalty
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As a Thames Water customer, how do I shop around for an alternative supplier? Oh wait, I can't.
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I'm a Londoner. I get to decide whether or not to vote for Sadiq Khan, but no choice whatsoever over getting ripped off by Thames Water.
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All Thames Water has to do is collect rainwater in big holes in the ground and run it through a pipeline network already built for them by the public sector. How hard can it be, and does it justify seven-figure pay packets for 'world class entrepreneurial talent'?
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Thames Water appears to be up shit creek. Strangely appropriate, somehow.
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RT @CurtisLHinton: This week @David__Osland, @haighdavid and I discussed the ethical implications of a new solar contract farm Ed Miliband…
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RT @QuewsTV: InFocus with Curtis Hinton: Brexit 5 Years Later, Miliband’s Solar Farm Controversy & Labour’s Welfare Debate Guests David…
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Not everybody can work. No matter how many times governments repeat the mantra that everybody can work.
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Chris Philps says Brits need to improve their work ethic. Perhaps he should tell that to the Tory MPs who didn't show up in parliament for a year, or spent weeks doing celebrity television shows or lecture tours of the US, while drawing a full parliamentary salary.
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If Prince Andrew lived on a council estate, he'd be on the sex offenders' register
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It's a good job Prince Andrew didn't marry a mixed race woman, or he'd have been booted out of the royal family by now
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British workers already put in the longest working hours of any country in Europe, averaging 42 hours a week. Then Chris Philp accuses us of lacking a work ethic.
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There's probably a reason why absolutely none of the world's 200 or so other countries haven't copied Thatcher's madcap water privatisation policies and I just can't think of it right now
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How much of that £123 a year water bill hike will end up in shareholders' pockets? Customers should at least be told.
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Steal £300 worth of goods a week and you're a professional shoplifter. Buy £120m worth of development land on Teesside for a hundred quid and you're a professional property developer.
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