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After 40 years, privatisation of our public services has failed. It's time for public ownership. We use it, we pay for it, We Own It.
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🤔We asked the DHSC who has ultimate decision-making power to use private finance in new neighbourhood health centres, and whether communities would get a say in decisions to use private finance in their health facilities. 1/3
Screenshot of a response from the DHSC to a freedom of information request by We Own It: "Thank you for your request dated 4 December to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), a copy of which can be found in the accompanying annex. "Your request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). "DHSC holds information relevant to your request. However, we consider that this information is exempt under section 35(1)(a) of the FOIA, which provides protection for the information that relates to the formulation or development of government policy. Section 35 is a qualified exemption and requires consideration of the public interest test."
January 8, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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Happy New Year! Here's your regular reminder that public ownership is popular in the UK. ✅

In 2026, join the fight to take back control of our public services and run them for people not profit. 🫡

Sign up to our newsletter. 👇
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Infographic showing the responses to the question "Do you think the following should be nationalised and run in the public sector, or privatised and run by private companies?" Headline: Public ownership is popular Water - 82% Energy - 71% Buses - 66% NHS - 87% Rail - 76% Royal Mail - 75% Polling by YouGov, June 2024
January 3, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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🚨NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION🗓️
If you're sick and tired of public services being run for profit not people, join us.
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Quote from Andy Burnham in The New Statesman, September 2025: "“When we sold off the water, sold off the electricity, sold off the gas, sold off the council homes, sold off the buses, sold off the trains, we found ourselves in a position where ordinary people couldn't afford those basics anymore."
January 1, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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Ofwat must say NO to 15 years of illegal sewage in 2026.

DECEMBER: Thames Water tried to make Charlie Maynard pay legal fees as high as £1400 an hour, in effort to quash any attempts to represent the public interest in legal disputes. 1/2
Screenshot from The Guardian: Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour. Exclusive: Charlie Maynard accuses the utility of ‘retaliation’ over his push for government to gain control of company
December 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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A year of reasons why Ofwat must say NO to 15 years of illegal sewage in 2026.
OCTOBER: The enshittification of Thames Water continues...In 2023-24, its serious sewage pollution incidents more than doubled from 14 to 33.
Tell Ofwat to reject Thames Water's new deal.
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Thames Water wants to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO. Screenshot from The Guardian. Thames Water ranked worst supplier in England as firms’ ratings hit record low.
December 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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A year of reasons why Ofwat must say NO to 15 years of illegal sewage.

SEPTEMBER: Despite huge under-investment, Thames Water asks Ofwat if they can do fewer infrastructure projects. Whose interests do they serve??
Tell Ofwat to reject Thames Water's new deal.

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Thames Water to do fewer improvement projects under lenders’ new rescue plan. New consortium says infrastructure projects must be cut back to make beleaguered company viable again
December 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Join our amazing supporters to fight for public ownership in 2026.

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Quote from George Monbiot in The Guardian, April 2019: "We're not idiots, even if we are treated as such. We know what the profit motive does to public services."
December 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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A year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO to Thames Water's outrageous deal: a licence to pollute our water until 2040.

JULY: TW pays more in fees to get £3bn bailout than it paid in fines for the 💩in our rivers.

Tell Ofwat to reject the Thames Water deal. #OFWATsayNO

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Screenshot from The Guardian. Thames Water spent £136m on securing emergency funding, leaked document suggests. ‘Atypical expenditure’ document suggests utility’s costs over 12 months outstripped the £130m it paid in fines
December 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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A year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO to Thames Water's outrageous deal: a licence to pollute our water until 2040.

JULY: half of Thames Water's treatment plants can't handle demand. This is where lack of investment leads.

Tell Ofwat to reject the deal. #OFWATsayNO

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Screenshot of BBC news article: half of sewage treatment works 'cannot handle' demand.
December 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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A year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO to Thames Water's outrageous deal: a licence to pollute our water for the next 15 years.

JULY: Thames Water gives £2.5m in fat cat payouts despite Ofwat's bonus ban.

Tell Ofwat to reject the Thames Water deal. #OFWATsayNO

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Screenshot of a Guardian article: Thames Water refuses to claw back bonuses paid using £3bn emergency loan. Money was paid out from loan meant to stabilise firm’s finances weeks before it paused retention payments plan.
December 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Happy post-Christmas!
All we want for Christmas is public ownership.
December 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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The gift we want for Christmas - not 15 years of illegal sewage courtesy of Thames Water.

Have a good one - and here's to less 💩 in 2026!
All I want for Christmas is... Thames Water in public ownership
December 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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🎄In the holiday season, we've been looking back at all the reasons Thames should be taken into public ownership.

JULY: The Govt were stuck on a figure of £100bn to bring water into public hands. It wasn't just us saying this was wildly inaccurate. Here's Dr Ewan McGaughey.

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December 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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4: your consultancy responses on the new publicly owned railway helped us get meetings with the Minister and Department for Transport. 5: you spoke truth to power - asking Ofwat and Steve Reed to defend households and the environment not shareholders and bondholders. THANK YOU for being determined / focussed / strategic and brave!
December 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Thank you SO MUCH to our supporters for everything you've done this year to campaign for public ownership. 1/2
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1: You didn't give up on taking back Thames Water 2: you stayed focussed and won victories. - taking buses into public control in South Yorkshire - with Association of British Commuters, making sure the railway's duties include disability, social, economic and environmental impacts. 3: you challenged Government spin, galvanising Labour MPs to oppose new private finance in our NHS.
December 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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A year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO to Thames Water's outrageous deal - polluting our water until 2040.

JUNE: US equity firm KKR pulls out of rescue bid=profit before people.

If you think water belongs in public hands, tell Ofwat to reject the deal. #OFWATsayNO

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December 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Why the future of England's water could be decided in 2026.

👀Watch this, then tell Ofwat why they have to reject Thames Water's reckless rescue deal. vist.ly/4jefr
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December 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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A year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO to Thames Water's outrageous deal - polluting our water until 2040

MAY: Thames Water is hit with the biggest ever pollution penalty.

...and now they're asking Ofwat to let them off their legal obligations for the next 15 years?? #OFWATsayNO
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Screenshot from Financial Times. Thames Water fined £123mn over sewage leaks and 'undeserved' dividends. Repeated failings led to raw effluent pouring into waterways, watchdog finds.
December 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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🤑Thames Water creditors are haggling with Ofwat.

💩They want permission to pollute our waters until 2040.

😡But we've had a year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO.

Take 2 minutes to email Ofwat and tell them to reject the outrageous deal. #OFWATsayNO

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December 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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A year of reasons why Ofwat must say NO to 15 years of illegal sewage.

MAY: our brilliant supporter Lois kept up the pressure on Environment Minister Steve Reed, asking why he didn't want to bring water into public hands.

Watch all of the Lois vs Steve videos on Youtube.

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December 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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A year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO to Thames Water's outrageous deal - being allowed to pollute our water for 15 years.

MARCH: Thames Water & Ofwat both scaremongering in the press about the cost of taking TW into public ownership.

But here's the truth.

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December 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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A year of reasons why Ofwat must say NO to Thames Water's outrageous deal - to pollute our water for 15 years.

MARCH: in what becomes a pattern of devious behaviour, Thames begs Ofwat for leniency.

Send our email to Ofwat. Tell them to show Thames Water the door.
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Image of sewage outflow at a beach. The headline reads Thames Water begs to be spared fines and costs, warning bidders will walk away.
December 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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A year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO to Thames Water's outrageous deal - polluting our water until 2040.

FEBRUARY: The High Court grants Thames Water a £3 billion bailout, increasing its debt mountain. It limps along for the rest of the year.

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December 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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A year of reasons why Ofwat should say NO to Thames Water's haggling - polluting our water until 2040.

FEBRUARY: Thames Water admits delay to >100 environmental schemes funded by customers.

They can't be trusted. Tell Ofwat to say NO to their latest proposal.

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BBC News item from 12 February 2025. Thames Water admits delay to environmental works.
December 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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A year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO to Thames Water's outrageous deal - polluting our water until 2040.

JANUARY: Thames Water's creditors push for £3bn bailout - at a potential cost of £250/year to customers.

Here's what we said about it: vist.ly/4iz5n

Screenshot of an article from the Times dated 22 January 2025. Thames Water had asked to be allowed to increase bills by 52% in order to pay for infrastructure upgrades. Thames Water faces bankruptcy after stalemate with regulator. Ofwat is refusing to increase its cap on price rises, but with £16 billion of debt and ageing infrastructure the company says it will not be enough.
December 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM