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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🏖️Thames Water's creditors have been trying for months to win a holiday from the rules as part of their bid to formally take over the utility.
🤔 Right now, Ofwat's Board are SPLIT over whether or not to let them.
✍️ Write to the Board of Ofwat now. Urge them to reject the creditors and run our water sector in the interests of people, not profit vist.ly/4z5ck
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The government is not only failing to fix the crisis in the water sector. They are lying about the only real solution to that crisis, public ownership.
WATCH @ashsmith43 of @WindrushWasp DEBUNK the lies about water nationalisation.
Sign the petition here: vist.ly/57mue
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Andy Burnham keeps talking about public control instead of public ownership
At best this is super confusing
At worst he's already planning to betray his voters
After 40 years of failed privatisation, the public deserves clarity
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A "huge transfer of ownership" is EXACTLY what's needed to stop the British public paying a Privatisation Tax on outrageous water and energy bills
Call it what it is then - PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
Water and energy are already in "public control" i.e. regulated
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Jun 13
'Public Ownership' means the government or a public body holds the legal title and assets of an organisation or industry.
'Public Control' means the government regulates or directs how an organisation operates, even if it remains privately owned.
So Burnham's 'Public Control' pledge could easily just mean keeping the criminal, polluting privatised Water Companies in place but just beefing up regulation.
Not good enough
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Jun 12
A @We_OwnIt campaign move, getting DEFRA to accept a letter advising a move to public ownership for water and sewage.
I'm here with @Feargal_Sharkey and the two stars of #DirtyBusiness, @ashsmith43 and @watervole3
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Jun 11
The call for public ownership of the water industry is growing louder everyday.
Why are govt refusing a referendum, why are govt refusing to allow the public to decide?
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Jun 12
The evidence is clear: forcing markets and profit into services where they do not belong has not made life better for ordinary people.
Private utility firms have hiked bills, neglected infrastructure and failed the public.
If we are serious about ending the cost of living crisis, we need to bring essential utilities back into public ownership.
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Jun 9
Over a decade of campaigning 😔
Still no promised plan from Northumbrian Water 😡
Only nationalisation will fix our water industry 🌊
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Water is too precious and sewage too dangerous to be in private hands.
Public ownership of water is hugely popular. In a democracy this should count for something. But the government continues to undemocratically protect private water profiteers.
Baroness Jenny Jones helped deliver a letter to the Environment Secretary, asking her to tell the truth about water public ownership.
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We wrote to @andy4makerfield 21 days ago, asking him to commit to PUBLIC OWNERSHIP for all key assets and services 💧💡🚌🚄🚸📮🏥
NO ANSWER
Is Andy Burnham standing up for the public against 40 years of privatisation or will he bottle it?
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Will Stone - MP for Swindon North - on the Thames Water creditors' request to break the rules on pollution:
"This request by Thames Water, if accepted, could undermine the entire industry"
THANK YOU @WStone4SN for standing up for your constituents and bill payers across the country, and saying NO to a whole new low on sewage.
Will Stone MP has signed our open letter calling for special administration of Thames Water - has your MP signed? 👇
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Update on Railways Bill: There was a major win on public ownership this week, but the government failed to take on ANY amendments for passenger and disability rights or public interest.
Our full report is coming soon, before we take this fight to the House of Lords.
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The Railways Bill is the biggest opportunity in decades to get justice for disabled passengers. It also presents serious risks to their rights.
It's exactly the time that well-funded charities should be pushing harder than ever, ensuring the work is not left to volunteers.
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"The industry is broken. Introducing regulations, penalties and blocking bonuses clearly is not working"
Well said @EmmaLewell 🙌
More regulation is simply rearranging the deckchairs, while our pockets empty and our rivers fill with sewage.
Public ownership NOW, beginning with the collapsing Thames Water.
Emma Lewell MP has signed our open letter to Ofwat urging them to take Thames Water into special administration. Has your MP signed? weownit.org.uk/mps-open-lett…
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Over a decade of campaigning 😔
Still no promised plan from Northumbrian Water 😡
Only nationalisation will fix our water industry 🌊
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The brilliant @Feargal_Sharkey sums it up
"The whole industry’s got to go. Absolutely, without exception"
Time to end the privatisation rip off diverting 1/3 OF YOUR WATER BILL into shareholder dividends and debt
Are you listening @DefraGovUK ?
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Jun 11
My being a Parliamentarian (and therefore trustworthy??) had no impact at all.
They eventually let us in and sent some poor unwitting civil servant to accept the letter ...
WATCH: Environment Department security tried to stop @Feargal_Sharkey, Baroness Jenny Jones and the Dirty Business campaigners @ashsmith43 and @watervole3 handing in their letter to Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds urging her to tell the truth about public ownership of water
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We have been campaigning for public ownership of rail for years.
It’s wonderful to see that work, alongside those of the rail unions, recognised in parliament today.
Thank you @switherdenMP for working with us.
Our public services should work for us. Not private shareholders.
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🔥🔥@CHinchliffMP is absolutely spot on: people will judge the success of public ownership of rail on whether it makes using trains cheaper.
His amendment - supported by We Own It - will create a Great British Railcard to give every passenger a discount on fares. Govt should back it.
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The government can’t be bringing train operations into public ownership, which is wonderful, yet allowing many jobs at train stations to be outsourced.
The government must back @johnmcdonnellMP’s amendment to bring services in-house like they promised to do at the last election.
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