What happened on 28th June 2023 - with your comments in the Web

On Wednesday, the Mirror reported disturbing news about a shocking plot of British ISIS terrorists plan major attack on UK.

The chilling warning about a new ISIS terror atrocity came from Iraq’s most senior counter-terror officer, whose troops uncovered the plot.

General Abdul Wahab el-Saadi warned: “We know ISIS have been talking to UK-based terrorists and we know what they are planning. It is a big attack.” His elite special forces – dubbed the Golden Division – discovered the shocking plans for an international plot against the UK just days ago after killing dozens of militants in a desert hideout.

The general, 60, told us: “We discovered that the UK is the next target outside Iraq.

“In the past few weeks we launched major operations against Daesh or Islamic State and killed large numbers of terrorists, in one raid there were about five of them, all quite senior.

“I can tell you that from the information we found at the site of one of our recent raids the next intended terror attack will be in the United Kingdom.”

 The Redditors' comments showed that this info has serious reasons.

"My Muslim neighbour said he left the local mosque because they were radicalising young men and teaching them to hate the UK. It’s scary stuff, but the police, council and government won’t do anything out of fear of “racism” and “xenophobia”"

 "Social media etc is doing more than mosques could ever do. Just look at the amess case and the guy in wickford Everybody knows it’s an issue but politicans are too scared to clamp down as we are all addicted to these apps"

"Millions of people have assimilated into British life, this news article shows a handful of people who want to kill. Until we know more about them, we don't know anything about their integration or intent. Take a look at BBC news, the number of White, British murderers who show up in the last couple of weeks alone! They have also failed to integrate into a society where murder is wrong. You're too busy pointing at the boats and not enough time looking at the crime under your nose.... of which this potential attack aims to be one."

On Wednesday either, the Guardian told us how billions of pounds are sucked out of England’s water system.

In the 34 years since England’s water was privatised by Margaret Thatcher, water companies have paid out £2bn to shareholders on average every year.

Reports are now emerging that the government and the Ofwat watchdog are drawing up contingency plans for the collapse of Thames Water, amid fears that Britain’s biggest water company cannot survive because of its huge debt pile. Why does Thames Water have so much debt? Previous research by academics has linked the debt taken on to shareholder payments.

It’s a claim made by David Hall, visiting professor at the Public Services International Research Unit at Greenwich University, and Karol Yearwood, after an investigation into water company finances.

Yet, a day later the BBC couldn't decide on the content of their article. First, it was about MP's warning on Thames Water collapse hitting taxpayers. That transformed into a minister saying that customers' bills will not be affected by Thames Water, then.

Health Minister Neil O'Brien also told  that there were contingency plans "to manage any difficult situations".

The UK's largest water company, which serves a quarter of the UK population, is in talks to secure extra funding as it struggles to pay its debts. On Wednesday, the government said it was ready to act in a worst case scenario if Thames Water collapsed.

Labour MP Darren Jones, the chair of the Business and Trade Committee, told the BBC that if the government was forced to take over the running of Thames Water, "taxpayers will be exposed to the debt and running costs of a very large company".

That much confused Redditors.

"Can someone ELI5 why the taxpayer should pick up the debt of a private company that went under, just to assume ongoing control of the operations? Why would the asset strippers administrators not just do whatever, then it gets turned over to the government for a peppercorn?"

"But did the poor operation of Thames Water not also “hit taxpayers”? What they mean to say is shareholders might be hit. And therefore it’s a big issue."

"Cant let the incompetant managers and shareholders lose out on money."

Yet, the BBC readers called to nationalization of the company.

"If Thames Water becomes bankrupt , then its shares become worthless. UK government then takes it over for peppercorn price and it becomes nationalised."

"Let the company fail.
Let the reckless lenders who loaned the company £14bn (that’s £1000 per customer) take the loss they deserve.

Then return it to public ownership."

"We were always told right from the beginning of Thatcher's privatization project that the value of shares can go down as well as up, so the sharreholders have accepted that risk."

One in seven Britons faced hunger in 2022, says food bank charity - the Reuters revealed on Wednesday.

It said this equates to 11.3 million people, more than double the population of Scotland, and blamed a dysfunctional social security system, as well as a cost of living crisis that is showing little sign of easing.

Britain is the world's sixth-biggest economy but its citizens have been pressured for more than a year by high inflation which has outstripped pay growth for almost all workers.

Government forecasters estimate UK households are in the midst of the biggest two-year squeeze in living standards since comparable records started in the 1950s.

"I’m a bit tired of op-eds being stylised as research and statistics. The latest two from the Trussell Trust (who I deeply respect and used to volunteer for) claim to measure ‘facing hunger’ and ‘food insecurity’, both of which are qualitative and entirely opinion based areas.

Every Brit has technically ‘faced hunger’ in the past year, if you want to get pedantic about it.

And there is more than enough material to nail the government to the wall with, without having to generate this kind of easily undermined speculative stuff."

"I think it makes people lose faith in the media. Most people can just tell the stat is bull. In the UK very few people are underweight, and a tiny population of that is since they can't afford food.

So people's real experience is that poor people they konw are more likely to be obese than underweight and starving."

"Food banks are the Tories' true legacy of their thirteen years in government. They have been around for decades but it is only under the Tories that they have become integral to British society and you have people like nurses and teachers needing to use them."

"I wonder what exactly they mean by hungry? Are people really starving? When I tried to look up the stats on how many people in the UK were underweight, I got confused since you could barely see it above the axis.

So it doesn't look like people in the UK are malnurished. Don't the stats actually show the opposite, that the poor are more likely to be obese. I wish they focused on a more specific stat or measure to demonstrate an issue, since this stat is almost meaningless."