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You can talk about sewage You can talk about leaks You can talk about bills But you can't talk about public ownership in the "biggest review of the water industry since privatisation" ⁉️ Take action before deadline Weds 23rd April weownit.org.uk/act-now/wate... www.youtube.com/shorts/yy9ex...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Ministers don't want the Water Commission to look at public ownership. New research shows that under any price tag, taking over the firms saves at least £3 billion a year. Support public ownership? Submit your view to the Commission before it closes. 👇 weownit.org.uk/act-now/wate...

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Govt has launched a review of our water industry, but there's one thing we're not allowed to talk about - PUBLIC OWNERSHIP. Research shows public ownership could save £5bn a year. Demand public ownership is on the table. Sign our petition. Link below 👇

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Selling our assets to debt-laden foreign interests won't end well. 🤔 "The £3.6billion deal for Royal Mail is being financed by £3billion of high-cost debt. How long before Kretinsky comes cap in hand to the Starmer government asking for a bail-out?"

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

"We deserve as a country to profit from our national assets, as other countries do, instead of just picking up the pieces when privatisation goes wrong." @cathobbs makes the case for public ownership in @labourlist #britishsteel #publicownership

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

The privatised water system is a stitch-up. Shareholders have received £78bn over the last 35 years, much of which has been siphoned off overseas, while bills have ballooned, writes @timsmedley.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Infuriating How about instead of making memes, this government actually delivers on ENDING NHS PRIVATISATION? It has four years to kick out private companies and truly back the NHS End outsourcing, end PFI, invest at scale, don't let us become America labourlist.org/2025/04/labo...

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

"What happened in Scunthorpe is not an outlier in the failed experiment of privatisation, and the government’s emergency takeover tells us that public ownership is a realistic solution if there is a political will." 💯@owenjones.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

We are literally sick of this crap! 1,853 reporting sickness from pollution 🤢 4 million hours of sewage discharged 💩 Average water bills rising by £123 💸 If you’re sick of this too, tell the government to bring water into public ownership NOW. 👇🏼 tinyurl.com/2h9bk4e4

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

“If taking back control of steel can get MPs into work on a Saturday, why not mail, rail, energy and water? Government has proven it can act decisively if it needs to. It's time to put these industries in service of the British public.” @cathobbs.bsky.social 🔥 www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

British Steel can't be a one off - Labour should bring key services into public ownership Why are we letting other countries profit from our essential public infrastructure? 💧⚡️📮🚌🚄🏥 Time to take back our national assets, me for @labourlist.bsky.social 👇 labourlist.org/2025/04/nati...

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

If you want public ownership of rail to succeed, respond to the government's consultation and tell them how: 🚄 Keep accessibility + environment duties 🚄 Rolling stock in public hands 🚄 A voice for passengers 🚄 Invest Deadline midnight tonight ⏰ weownit.org.uk/act-now/grea...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Not only are KKR, a US private equity firm, buying up our water infrastructure… they’re also now buying up our primary care infrastructure (hundreds of GP surgeries and health clinics). Private equity = massively leveraged finances and asset stripping 😬😱 www.ft.com/content/3993...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

EXPOSED: Fake water nationalisation tag would still save £3 billion a year. University of Greenwich research shows how taking back control of our water delivers a better deal for the public. Sign our petition to bring water into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/lets...

submitted 18 days ago • 33 comments

Help us to make #GreatBritishRailways great! 🚆 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 before the deadline on Tuesday 15 April 2025, 23:59 👇 Take action here: bringbackbritishrail.org/gbr

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Great to see a strategically important industry saved by this government. Now do all of rail, mail, water and energy! “Our nationalisation phobia has handed state assets over to foreign governments to make handsome profits that should have been ours.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

"When there is foreign involvement in critical infrastructure we need to have a high level of scrutiny" James Murray #r4today #BritishSteel So why do we have water owned by Malaysian billionaire? Royal Mail owned by Czech billionaire? Healthcare by US? Energy by France? 💧📮🏥💡

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Nationalisation is on the table for British Steel In 2020, Keir Starmer promised public ownership of rail, mail, energy and water as well as ending outsourcing in our NHS and local government 💧⚡️🚄📮🏥 PUBLIC SERVICES are also national strategic assets www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

British Steel could be nationalised by the government So why can't Thames Water, the energy grid, rail rolling stock, Royal Mail be "on the table" too? 💧⚡️🚄📮 All of these are strategic national infrastructure

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Stop the gravy train!🚆 Labour is taking rail franchises into public hands - but the trains themselves are still privately owned. The train-owning firms took £3.6 billion dividends in the last decade. Take 1-min to tell the govt to stop the gravy train. tinyurl.com/railway-for-people

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

Privatisation = broken promises, households pay the price 📮When Royal Mail was privatised we were promised that the universal service obligation would be maintained ✂️Now Ofcom is consulting on cutting it Tell them NO - deadline 5pm today 👇👇👇 weownit.org.uk/act-now/usin...

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

7️⃣ HOURS TO GO Almost 8000 people have now sent our template response to Ofcom's consultation on cutting our deliveries in HALF. Can you take just 1 minute to send it and demand public ownership of Royal Mail? Click here: weownit.org.uk/act-now/usin...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

British Steel could be nationalised by the government So why can't Thames Water, the energy grid, rail rolling stock, Royal Mail be "on the table" too? 💧⚡️🚄📮 All of these are strategic national infrastructure

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Let me tell you the story of the most visible example of economic and political failure in modern Britain. Leeds is the largest city in western Europe without a mass transit system, and we are all poorer because of it. How did we get here? Why does it matter? And what can be done?

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

The French would like to thank the UK for funding to them. 2020 - 2024: EDF owned by the French state made £91bn operating profit in the UK, subsidises French households/industry. UK govts oppose public ownership but happy to let foreign govts own UK infrastructure, export billions of profits.

submitted 17 days ago • 36 comments

📮Government flogging off OUR Royal Mail to a Czech billionaire and wants to downgrade your letter deliveries When Royal Mail was privatised, they promised to protect the service!! 😡 Respond to Ofcom consultation before 5pm tomorrow: weownit.org.uk/act-now/usin... www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVWM...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

How will this improve waiting lists and help with the crisis in emergency care? @GoodLawProject reckons our Health Secretary has taken £58,000 from groups linked to private healthcare. Our #NHS can’t be defunded to open the door to private interests. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Very interesting indeed. If water was put back into public hands, as per @greenparty.org.uk policy, both our environment and our pockets would benefit! But Labour’s Environment Secretary has ruled out renationalisation before his review of the industry has even begun… 🤷

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

We can't afford NOT to #renationalise water. These companies are destroying our countryside and letting our infrastructure crumble.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely appalling - these cuts would mean unnecessary patient deaths Wes Streeting's private healthcare donors cannot be allowed to destroy OUR NHS Is this what people elected a Labour government for? 💔 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

🚨NEW🚨 Wes Streeting has bagged another £58,000 from sources connected to the private health sector since taking over at the health department. 👀 But what do his backers expect in return? goodlawproject.org/health-secre...

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

Almost everyone agrees water privatisation has failed But the government tells us they can't afford nationalisation UNTRUE Even if you compensate shareholders at full market value new research from Greenwich university shows public ownership saves money 👇 👇👇 weownit.org.uk/news/governm...

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

We’re paying a 35% 'privatisation tax’ on our water bills. A third of our money’s going straight into the pockets of shareholders and banks. By ditching private shareholders and bringing water back into public ownership, we will save over £3bn a year. leftfootforward.org/2025/04/reve...

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

We’ve now got ‘car park care’ to go with ‘corridor care’. Our #NHS is creaking, as staff do their very best to care in difficult circumstances. Here’s a thought, let’s properly fund the NHS, end wasteful outsourcing and ditch expensive PFI. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

When Royal Mail was sold off we were told that this was to protect letter deliveries. Ofcom is now consulting on cutting letter deliveries from 6 to 3 days a week. When will they admit privatisation has failed? Take 1-min to send Ofcom this message: weownit.org.uk/act-now/usin...

submitted 22 days ago • 15 comments

Disgusting to see this Since Royal Mail was privatised, we pay more and get less Now the government is allowing a Czech billionaire to control our essential national infrastructure 3 out of 4 people want public ownership TAKE BACK OUR ROYAL MAIL www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

📉Satisfaction rates in our NHS have plummeted from 70% in 2010, to a new low of 21%. That's what happens after 14 years of cutbacks and privatisation. The solution is to invest directly in the NHS & build up capacity so that it can treat all patients. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

5 ways to end Awful April: 💧Take water into public ownership 💡Take energy into public ownership 🚌Take buses into public ownership 🚄Take rail into public ownership 📮Take Royal Mail into public ownership You can't "shop around" in natural monopolies www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubrn...

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Billionaires own the public town squares where we communicate online Ideally we'd have a different, cooperative model of ownership for social media monopolies and collectively decide on the rules (see humanetech.com) At the very least we should be taxing them properly

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Martin Lewis is spot on here. Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are waving through price rises across water, energy and council tax today. Shareholders get billions, we get shafted!

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

It's outrageous that so many of your bills are going up in April because of PRIVATISATION 💧💡🚌🚄📮 Natural monopolies make it really hard to "shop around" Here's how Keir Starmer could actually "cut your bills for good": youtube.com/shorts/-6vQ5...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

NHS65 - Citizens’ Jury: The Future of Our NHS Join us at London South Bank University on Saturday 12 April, 4PM-8PM for a public deliberation on the future of our NHS. Read more about the NHS65 campaign and secure your free ticket here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nhs65-citi... #ukpolitics #london #NHS

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely absurd KKR is a private equity firm that inspired a book and film about corporate greed called Barbarians at the Gate NO we don't want them running Thames Water PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

This week I made the case in Parliament for ending the failed experiment of water privatisation. Here’s my speech. youtu.be/5gIOTHnvxEI?...

submitted 26 days ago • 17 comments

"Really, really powerful cashflows" BlackRock's podcast recently talked about how much they love monopolistic utility companies! After 40 years of privatisation we want those cashflows reinvested back into OUR infrastructure 💧⚡️ Me for @politicshome.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Our public services have been stolen through privatisation and austerity. Whilst billionaires have amassed unimaginable wealth. And politicians wonder why we’re so angry. Join the fight back tinyurl.com/yc56f5dy #TaxTheRich #PublicOwnership

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

"What we're seeing is the failure of privatisation. We're seeing a prioritisation of dividend returns over the long-term environmental protection of places like Windermere" Spot on @savewindermere.bsky.social 👏🏾 Regulation has failed. We need public ownership NOW! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments