🚨Urgent: Thames Water want permission from Ofwat to ILLEGALLY pollute rivers and seas until 2040.

🤮They want your bills to fill their pockets with gold, while they fill your rivers with sewage.

✍️Sign now. Tell Ofwat to say NO to Thames Water before Tuesday 21st October.

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💩Thames Water's creditors are trying to strike a deal with Ofwat that could let them off complying with pollution rules until 2040.

There's a better way than their dirty tricks!

Public ownership - because we should have a say in how our water is run.

It's great that the government is bringing rail franchises into public ownership

But we also need
🚄publicly owned trains, no profits leaking out
🚄democratic passenger watchdog
🚄⬇️ fares e.g. 1/3 off with national railcard
🚄investment like Switzerland

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

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

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Water bills = a tax on us collected by hedge fund profiteers while they wreck our water systems. 💩🤢💰💰💰Take back water Now 👏@weownit.org

Let's take our water into public ownership. Sign the petition: weownit.org.uk/act-now/lets...

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.

The public wants services that work for the public, not for profit. Are YOU the right person to help make that happen?

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This is the quite the journey!
😡The expense
😱The archaic, broken ticketing system
🙄The delays and cancellations.

If you think we all deserve better than the 💩private transport system we've got, support us and fight for public ownership.
weownit.org.uk/people-not-p...

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

"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...

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

🔥“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

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...

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...

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.

In her conference speech Rachel Reeves promised £29 billion for the day-to-day funding of the NHS.

Is this private finance? NHS Trusts already have £40bn of debt. More will be a disaster.

Take action - tell Rachel Reeves, don't paralyse our NHS with more private finance.

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

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”.