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Keir Starmer, Wes Streeting and NHS boss Amanda Pritchard all want more private sector involvement in our #NHS Let’s get out there and show them the public wants to keep our NHS public! #KeepOurNHSPublic #PatientsNotProfit

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Elon Musk's ideas don't belong in the UK It's time to start talking about DOBE not DOGE 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQUi...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

As bills go up and service gets worse, this angry Thames Water customer wants public ownership! If you agree, sign our petition ✍️ tinyurl.com/yxht3p94

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Just outrageous - nearly £4 billion "excess profit" pocketed by privatised energy networks while YOUR bills went up Energy transmission and distribution is a natural monopoly and other countries recognise this PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW ⚡️🔥 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

What more evidence do we need? Privatisation has been a disaster. ✉️ Mail - pay more, get less 🚰 Water - pay more, get less ⚡️Energy - pay more, get less 🚌 Transport - pay more, get less The only people who get more are the fat cats at the top. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

NO, the government must not enable any more private ownership of Thames Water NO to Covalis which wants to sell off OUR assets NO to CK Hutchison, 75% owner of Northumbrian Water NO to KKR Take Thames Water into PERMANENT PUBLIC OWNERSHIP www.ft.com/content/8812...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Why should YOU pay for Thames Water's money-go-round? Why should 16 million people be ripped off? The campaign on Channel 4 last night 👇 Don't let them get away with it, sign the petition here weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin... PERMANENT PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOJt...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Thames Water got their £3bn bailout approved at the High Court, but where was the Environment Secretary? 🤔 The judge slammed Steve Reed for not attending. 😡 Governments should govern. Sleepy Steve needs to wake up, sort this mess and take back Thames! tinyurl.com/yxht3p94

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Devastating that our 500 year old successful Royal Mail has been ruined by privatisation “Because it’s gone private and it’s not public any more, it’s just all about profits” The government must TAKE BACK ROYAL MAIL www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Great the FT now demands special administration for Thames Water! But this aim is 100% wrong "to return Thames to the market as a stable, privately owned firm" Privatisation failed The aim must be to transfer Thames Water into PERMANENT PUBLIC OWNERSHIP www.ft.com/content/8534...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Scotland customers pay on average £113 less for water than England. Public Ownership of water is normal in 90% of the world. 82% of us want to see water nationalised (YouGov July 24). Thames Water, a zombie company, just took on £3bn extra debt. So yes we DO want water nationalised as a whole!

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Yes it's totally wrong. Thames Water "customers" are bailing out this sinking company with a MASSIVE bill rise of 35% You pay more - and you have no choice about it This is why we need PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If Thames Water was any normal company it would have gone bust. Instead, it's been bailed out. We'll fight this decision. Water is an essential part of life. Which is exactly why it should be in public ownership. Agree? Sign our petition weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

The facts: almost £1 billion of bill payers' money spent just so that Thames Water can carry on ripping off its customers and polluting our rivers and streams. Water needs to be taken into public ownership. Ash Williams of @windrushwasp.bsky.social outside the High Court this morning.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

"We have to join together as one, and stop this from going any further." Laura Reineke of @henleymermaids.bsky.social reacts to today's £3 billion bailout. Thames Water limps on, leaking cash, and failing its 16 million customers. It's privatisation, and it's rotten to the core.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

🚨Thames Water gets to add £3bn to its debt mountain. 🚨 @NwogboJohnbosco reacts to the High Court verdict on Sky News this morning. No other country in the world runs its water like this. Public Ownership NOW! weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

🚨Breaking🚨 ⚖️The High Court has approved #Thames Water’s £3bn bailout loan. This is just a stay of execution. Thames will limp on for a few months like a profit-thirsty zombie. The privatised business model is rotten and must be condemned. Public ownership NOW!

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Decision day! Will Justice Leech stand up for 16 million Thames Water "customers" by saying NO to £3 billion bailout? 🤞🤞🤞 Join us outside the High Court at 10.30am with @windrushwasp.bsky.social who have been fighting in court TAKE BACK THAMES WATER www.windrushwasp.org/single-post/...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Private finance was a disaster under Blair. New PFI contracts were actually banned by the Conservatives in 2018. 🔧 NHS repairs backlog = £13.8bn 💸 Amount still owed to PFI = £44bn Now Wes Streeting wants more PFI in our #NHS. 🤯 Sign our petition ✍️ tinyurl.com/3b6bjnzc

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

High Court ruling expected this week on whether Thames Water can borrow another £3bn at 9.75%. If allowed customer bills will rise, sewage dumping & dividends will continue. If not, bankruptcy looms. Govt wants to temporarily renationalise, then reprivatisatise. Wrong policy. archive.ph/OTgtH

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

⚖️If tomorrow's High Court ruling goes against Thames Water, and they are placed in special administration, then it's a pivotal moment for public ownership. 💧But it should just be the start. 🌊Water - ALL OF IT - should be in public hands, not just Thames Water.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Tomorrow the High Court is ruling on Thames Water's bailout plan. They expect you to pay for their failures. And they're appealing to the Competition and Markets Authority because a 35% bill increase isn't enough. ❌ No bailout ✅ Public ownership now youtu.be/spN3WFC-vz0?...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Public ownership works! 🚰 Let’s take back our water in England and Wales too. Starting with the collapsing #Thames Water. ❌ No bailout ✅ Public ownership now Sign here ✍️ tinyurl.com/yxht3p94

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Why has Wes Streeting surrounded himself with champions of the NHS privatisation experiment that resulted in the worst-rated, least caring hospital ever? And why do you maybe not know that an NHS privatisation experiment resulted in the worst-rated, least caring hospital ever? A thread 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

As Wes Streeting trumpets the role of the private sector in “saving the NHS”, it’s worth remembering what happened the only time a whole NHS hospital was handed to the private sector to run. The care failings - gaining the worst CQC rating ever - were chilling (& barely reported at the time):

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

When bills are rising, raw sewage is being pumped into our waterways and companies like Thames Water are on the brink of collapse - this pay rise will feel like a slap in the face to many billpayers. Regulation isn’t working. We need public ownership of water NOW. 💧

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Thames Water - Leaving Londoners without water - Spending your bills on dividends instead of 100 projects to clean up rivers - Now appealing to the Competition and Markets Authority because a 35% bill increase just isn't enough Time to get organised 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=spN3...

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Thames Water is a joke but the joke is at our expense - Environment Minister Steve Reed must end this now Our quote in the Guardian 👇

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Absurd appeal from Thames Water - beyond a joke They want your bills to increase by more than 35%! 💰 For your own good, mind you ⁉️ CMA (and Ofwat) must stand firm for consumers Steve Reed must bring Thames Water into PERMANENT PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW www.standard.co.uk/business/tha...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

If you share our concerns about the £1.3b contract for community healthcare in Bath, Swindon & Wilts being given to private equity owned HCRG Care Ltd (rather than to #NHS providers), please sign UNISON's & PONHS' petition to local councils: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/de...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

🚨Breaking🚨 Sir Stephen Fry calls on Keir Starmer to bring ‘effectively bankrupt’ Thames Water into public ownership. 💧 So that ‘it works for all of us, people and planet.’ 🌎 Agree? Sign our petition. Link in comments 👇🏽 #SirStephenFry #ThamesWater #PublicOwnership

submitted 9 days ago • 38 comments

Absolutely disgraceful In the decade after privatisation Thames Water SOLD OR CLOSED at least 45 sewage treatment works Today at least half of its sewage plants lack the pipes and tanks to process enough waste water PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW www.ft.com/content/21ec...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

As Ofwat opens an enforcement case against Thames Water, which is due to go bankrupt in 34 days, we ask 'What is Steve Reed waiting for?' End the farce. Public ownership now.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

To protect the interests of shareholder and creditors, the Thames Water board have put the safety of Londoners and Thames Valley residents, and our environment, at risk. Its official privatised water can only continue to function by cheating the public. 🤯 Public ownership now

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

If you're a Thames Water "customer" their debt is your problem. Public ownership is the solution 👇

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

“This is just a ‘money-go-round’, and they want to keep the money-go-round going as long as possible.” @cathobbs.bsky.social slams Thames Water’s proposed £3bn emergency bailout - and calls for public ownership. #ThamesWater #BlockTheBailout #PublicOwnership www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Exposed: Professor David Hall outlines the failed water privatisation project #water #publicownership #thameswater youtu.be/ykwvoV-DRL4?si…

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Just when you thought Thames Water bosses’ behaviour couldn’t get any worse! The company is rotten and must be brought back into public ownership. Agree? Sign our petition ✍️ tinyurl.com/yxht3p94 #ThamesWater #BlockTheBailout #PublicOwnership

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

Thames Water has only one source of revenue……its customers. No matter how they spin it, customers will always have to pick up the bill for wasteful, greedy, polluting water bosses. #ThamesWater #BlockTheBailout #PublicOwnership uk.news.yahoo.com/thames-water...

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

🗳️Our poll has closed. People want #Thames Water in full public ownership now! This is backed up by the 82% of us nationally who want all #water companies in public hands.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments