And water is a natural monopoly, we can't have competition, so we need public ownership - normal in 9/10 countries around the world

Here's why we can afford it, starting with Thames Water dieterhelm.co.uk/publications...

Lewisham's 🔴Labour council🔴 wants public ownership of Thames on the table

🕑There's only so long this government can hold out against the tide of public opinion

💧Lower our bills; clean up our seas; democratise our water. Public ownership of Thames Water NOW. www.salamandernews.org/lewisham-cou...

Completely infuriating

Competition & Markets Authority said requests from 5 private water companies to increase bills AGAIN were "largely unjustified"

But your bills will still rise

This is all unjustified

There is no market, PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW

news.sky.com/story/custom...

WE are being forced to pay more for the privilege of being ripped off by water companies.

They've not invested. Instead they've taken out £80 billion in dividends and loaded up those companies with £70 billion in debt.

Now they are being allowed to hike our water bills.

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This is scary

We need manufacturing capacity so we can't be held to ransom says
@nickdearden.bsky.social
theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Start by reversing the sale of previously publicly owned Vaccine Manufacturing + Innovation Centre www.bmj.com/content/376/...

www.politico.eu/article/brit...

This is so wrong. Ministers should protect the public interest, not a handful of creditors clinging on to their bad investments

@ofwat.bsky.social and the government must prioritise households and the environment, cut Thames Water's debt in half right now with Special Administration

🔥“Oligarch enterprises have taken control of so much of the key industrial infrastructure of this country.”

@paulsweeney.bsky.social nailing it at our joint Labour Conference panel event with @labourlist.bsky.social. #lab25

I have committed to keeping our NHS publicly owned and publicly funded.

Private finance is not welcome in our NHS, and must be ruled out at the Autumn Budget this November. @weownit.org.uk

"Decency demands that Ofwat and the Government don’t allow themselves to be pushed around by a bunch of opportunistic hedge funds"

Ofwat must say NO to more sewage and setting a dangerous precedent

Excellent article on Thames Water in the Telegraph

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Private companies incentivised to put asylum seekers in hotels rather than bedsits as they could earn EIGHT TIMES as much profit, says @paulkohlersw19.bsky.social

Hotel owners and private companies benefiting despite allegations of terrible conditions

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In December, Ofwat approved average bills going up 36% by 2030 - that's £597 a year.

🤑But for the water companies, that's not enough! Shareholders want more of your money, so they're appealing for even bigger bill increases.

END THE SCAM. Public ownership of water, starting with Thames Water.

Are they actually joking ⁉️

5 private water companies want permission to raise your bills EVEN HIGHER

💧Bills already went up £10/month in April💧

There is no market, the rip off won't end until we end privatisation

Start by taking back Thames Water

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

📢NEW REPORT!

'Making the connection: Rail & the sustainable growth opportunity' calls for rail investment to deliver economic growth, reduce inequality & boost productivity - all without compromising environmental goals.

Read the full recommendations: https://ow.ly/8rYL50X3sW7

Thames Water creditors offering to save their own skins with 25% debt write off while carrying on polluting your rivers for the next 15 years?!

NO NO NO

Special Administration NOW. Cut the debt by 50%, invest every penny of your bills in stopping sewage

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

🔥"What is more British than wanting to own instead of renting for everyone in this country?"

We Own It Director Cat Hobbs speaking at Commonwealth's panel event 'Who Owns Britain?' at Labour Conference. <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:egvrtbix76defbtjk743wb7s" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@cmmonwealth.bsky.social

Dangers of NHS 10 year plan @mgreenwood2024.bsky.social

🏥Shift from publicly owned hospitals to public-private-funded neighbourhood health centres

💰Outsourcing continues (while CHPI shows £1 in every £3 NHS spends on cataract operations leaks out in profit)

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The 10 Year Health Plan will embed privatisation: my letter to The Guardian www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This is a fantastic letter from former MP Margaret Greenwood <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ixtdj5ce6xodtcka2zm7r6dn" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@mgreenwood2024.bsky.social.
The government’s new 10-Year Plan for Health could bring private finance deals back. That would break Labour’s 2024 election manifesto promise that “the NHS will always be publicly owned and publicly funded”.

We were delighted to have @PaulJSweeney as part of our panel event with @LabourList at #Lab25.

⭐Here's what public ownership could look like:
✅involvement in innovative infrastructure
✅reinvesting profits in local communities
✅taking public stakes in the companies of the future.

Labour's manifesto promised "the NHS will always be publicly owned and publicly funded" 🏥

Rachel Reeves is considering breaking that promise with new PFI 💔

But 30 Labour MPs have confirmed they stand by the promise ❤️

Brilliant Mirror coverage thanks to @martinbagot.bsky.social 👇

I will trust this government to deliver an "online hospital" that works for patients when they've fixed the problems with the real ones

Around 320 patients DIE every week due to long waits for beds in A&Es

Fund our NHS, fund new doctors, end the waste of outsourcing, no new PFI

It's disgraceful that Keir Starmer went back on 2020 pledge to bring rail, mail, water + energy into common ownership

Deeply ideological to insist natural monopolies, essential services stay privatised

TAKE BACK our stolen public assets, put money in our pockets 💧💡🚄📮 #Lab25

Starmer should be promising that the UK will build its own trains #Lab25

Labour could set up Great British Trains

Start commissioning PUBLICLY OWNED trains and phase out the private rolling stock rip off

weownit.org.uk/why-public-o...

Keir Starmer is promising "working people in control of public services"

But we're not in charge of
Our water 💧
Our energy grid and retail 💡
Our trains 🚄
Our Royal Mail 📮
Our NHS 🏥

Starmer could deliver that though - UK OWNING assets - it would unite left and right #Lab25