fabulous

Brilliant 😂

Quality stuff.

Great job! Fantastic, well done all 👏 xo 💕

A fabulous human and one that could genuinely help to Transform his community in County Durham 🥳 xo 💕

It is cheaper to dump waste into the Sea & pay a fine. Stop paying any dividends to any Water Companies who pollute. Any Private Water Companies who pollute will be charged in Court & the CEO will do a SIX MONTH PRISON STRETCH.

Don't forget Labour brought in a unfair way of paying for water, based on the value of your house?

Labour are bought by everyone and cannot be trusted on any issue

Yeah. Voting tory will make all the difference

Liar liar pants on fire hope you don't have to live just on your pension mrs starmer 😂

Thanks, but I'm voting Labour anyway. I'm not going to throw my vote away and have to tell people I was responsible for letting the Tories back in again.

You point out the obvious regarding Labour - ffs this is an ignorant negative based broadcast. You spend 95% talking about the problem and issue people already know about?!? Do you not ask people first ? Put your solutions out there screw talking about the opposition 95% of this advert !

only except more sewage as the more people are here the more quantity and the reason for the mess is that no one wants to live near sewage works and also the lack of people paying for the water in some community if you live in a shed you still use the toilet

This lifelong Labour voter says never again

What did you expect, there is a symbiotic relationship between businesses who make huge profits and the Tories who get financial sweeteners from them for their help.

Taking back England and Wales water. Scotland has always had the understanding that access to clean water is a right not a commodity, therefore it’s free and clean.

The title should read England's Water. 😂

‘Fine them 100% of market value’…so not only do we get our water industry back but we get to see all those who have profited for so long at the expense of our water quality squeal with anguish! Win-win 😂

I think I'm gonna hold onto my pitch fork in any case

140 years ago Joseph Chamberlain (a Tory) argued for the public ownership of the water industry saying "It is difficult, if not impossible to combine the citizens' rights and interests and the private enterprise's interests, because the private enterprise aims at its natural and justified objective, the biggest possible profit." Well, 40 odd years of privatisation have proved him right. It's blatantly obvious that the water industry should be the first of Thatcher's/Major's privatisation projects to be renationalised, and Labour's attitude is shameful. You're right - where there's a will, there's a way - and with determination and imagination the change could be made pretty swiftly. And this is one measure that would be universally popular, except with the mainly foreign owners of the water companies, but frankly they've exploited and cheated us for long enough.

I'm wholly with you when it comes to the domestic scene - the elimination of gross inequalities, the establishment of decent working conditions and pay and decent pensions for all, radically transformed housing and education policies, renationalisation of utilities, transport, water etc... I probably also share your attitude towards Israel and Gaza. However you are clearly misguided when it comes to Russia's brutal and illegal invasion of Ukraine, since you condemn all spending on war and gratuitously included a shot of Zelenskyy towards the end. If Ukraine doesn't stop Russia, then Russia won't be stopped. Try watching a few videos of Russian state television on KZfaq channel Russian Media Monitor, including those where they talk about nuking the West, and learn what we are really up against.

Now is the time to #TransformPolitics

Whichever political party is in power, the fundamentals of the system are the same. Whether we have the present electoral system, proportional representation, or whether many people vote or don’t vote, capitalism is the driving force for state policy. ANY vote is a vote for capitalism. As working-class people, we are exploited whether we can take part in so-called ‘free’ elections or whether we live under a blatantly authoritarian regime. National and international capital continue to control the wealth that we create, and protect it through the police, legal system, and military. People who don't vote are told that, “If you don’t vote you have no right to complain”, but voting under these circumstances is just pretending that the system we have is credible, that voting gives us power. If that was true, the working class, the class that forms the vast majority of the population, would by now be living in comfortable material conditions, and have the functionaries of the state very clearly acting on our instructions to the benefit of all. This is obviously not the case though - we have next to no say in the decisions that get taken by the people we elect. The system in the UK is called ‘representative democracy’, yet when have the interests of the working class ever been truly represented? Our standard of living has been consistently eroded for many decades under both the Tories and Labour. This is because the role of government is NOT to represent the interests of the people, but to represent the interests of capital. Whatever way you vote, you are voting for capitalism, you are voting to be exploited, and you are voting to be ruled over, bossed around and bullied by various institutions that can control you with violence or the threat of violence. When we vote we sell out our birthright to be free individuals that fully benefit from our own labour and our collaboration with other workers. This makes no sense and more and more people are beginning to realise it. OK, so what can we do instead of this impotent act of submission? Well, if we don’t want others to have power over us, then we shouldn’t willingly put our power in someone else’s hands! History tells us that those we give power to will betray us and abuse that power. Organising horizontally, using some form of direct democracy, where everyone affected by a decision gets a say in that decision, while not perfect, is infinitely more fair and practical than handing over decision making to individuals and institutions who’s class interests are absolutely opposed to our own. So… DON’T VOTE, ORGANISE! We should organise with our neighbours, workmates, other people we have shared interests with, and other working-class people who are subject to particular modes of oppression because of their identity, such as racism, homophobia, transphobia etc. We are the experts on what we need, and on the best way to run things for the common good. We can use direct action to achieve this… Direct action is where we individually or collectively (usually collectively) solve a problem without looking to someone else to solve it for us. By this we mean, not just protesting and asking for change, but things like occupying, sabotaging, working to rule, refusing to pay their prices or their rent, and striking when WE decide if it’s time to strike, not when union bureaucrats and the state give us permission to. Plus of course, creating our own, horizontally organised groups, affinity groups, mutual aid groups and unofficial unions. For example, when workers aren’t paid the wages owed them, rather than asking the government to give us better legal protection, we take action to force employers to pay. Such things have been achieved with only a few dozen people. Renters unions have had many successes such as getting repairs done and refusing to pay rent increases, sometimes with only a handful of people. Imagine the power we could wield in our workplaces and our communities if thousands of us decided to refuse to be abused, oppressed and exploited any longer, and began to say NO! Of course, in reality, people are understandably afraid of taking the state on. But direct action doesn’t have to mean an all-out fight to defeat capitalism in one go, but by confronting the system directly at any point we can start to take control. In fact, all the good things we think of as having been created by the state - free healthcare, free education, health & safety laws to protect us at work, housing regulations, sick pay, unemployment benefits, pensions - came about historically to put an end to organised campaigns of collective direct action that threatened their power. Mostly we do this collectively - where we would fail as individuals, together we can win. That doesn’t mean that individuals can never act on their own - sometimes an individual can take an action that can inspire thousands! It’s time for us to stand up as individuals and as communities, and take our destinies into our own hands. It’s time to reject absolutely the legitimacy of the state and any top-down institutions that say they will represent our interests, such as political parties both large and small. We, as a class, already produce everything required for our material needs. We, as a class, know very well how to operate and take advantage of the technology we already have, and how to innovate to create even greater technologies. The ruling class, and their illogical, dysfunctional capitalist system just obstruct optimal production of goods and services and prevent a fair, functional and practical distribution of the wealth we create. This is now in plain sight and it’s time for us to act! It’s inevitable this will sometimes lead to confrontation on the streets and elsewhere. This can be scary but ultimately, we have to stand up for ourselves and our class by whatever means are necessary, otherwise we will continue to be ground into the dirt with increasing austerity, inequality, increasing destruction of our communities by local government and their policies of social cleansing for example, and through increasing authoritarianism and state violence. We can lay down and let it happen, or we can come together, realise our power, and FIGHT BACK!

Only just become aware of this initiative . Resigned from LP once leadership endorsed war crimes in Gaza, What next ?

Do you agree with open door immigration? Do you support government led investment or just re-destributive economics.

I'm very interested.

Keep on fighting

I agree with everything you say about the established parties but not sure yet another political party under our FPTP system is what we need. The Green Party already exist, why not join us instead of fighting us?

Myself and others have set up a meeting with a founding member of Transform in my area and have advertised on eventbrite ( also trying to get local papers to write something but not easy). Urge others to try and do likewise in their respective areas. Need to get the word out as not everyone knows about Transform.

Politicians, political parties and union leaders are a diversion away from building independent, grass roots alternatives and carrying out direct action. Even if we are to gain reforms how we do so is vital and we should not be dependent on politicians and union bosses and look up to them as our 'saviours'. We need to build real working class self-organisation, resistance, solidarity, power and unity. This will be just another failed leftie project which won’t get anywhere. All the disillusioned Corbynistas who joined the Labour Party in a surge of enthusiasm could do with trying to think outside of the political and social democratic prison. Try forming affinity groups that reject the state, capitalism and authority and look at the history and actions of the historical anarchist, working class and peasant movements, for an alternative inspiration to overturn our decadent, decaying feudal-capitalist society.

A dead duck as soon as it's hatched

we already have it, it’s the Green Party

Awesome. I’m in.

Union support could make or break it.

Nice idea, but obvious danger of merely further splitting the already split Left. As long as we are subject to FPTP, it is clearly essential to get as many other left-leaning organisations onside, combined into a single party.

I'm 100% in. Really hope this takes off in popularity, we need a party that stands for socialism!

all small left parties should join up in this and end sectarianism as Ken Loach asks us to. this umbrella party could support all the socialist independent candidates in all elections and unite many individual causes and movements in one movement for social, political, judicial and ecological change as "La France Insoumise" does in France. This combination of smaller groups is the way in which left wing movements all over the world are developing a democracy from a more authentic representation of the people. of course we should be doing it too.

Crazy how everything they say is current Green Party policy

Signed up.. this has been too long coming.. but they will try everything to stop it. In truth my politics means NO political party is the answer... BUT.. in the interim, we DO need a truly left wing party. NOW!

At long last the promise of a real parliamentary alternative for progressives of the true Left. This is the best piece of news for a very long time!

More strength to your elbow, as they say.

I’m definitely in and will encourage others - I see this as our only choice. Support Independent’s. Get them onboard too when the Time is right for ‘both them and Transform?!’ 👍🏻✊🏾✊🏻✊🏽✊🏼✊

Im in!

Please make a go of this. Let Novara Media know about this. Maybe talk to the unseat Kier mob too?

you uk nationalists are like americans who claim to have no accent

I am! 😊

We desperately need this! Signed up and supporting to the fullest.

Where ar TUSC on this ?

Excellent!!!!