Corporate intelligence company has been paid more than £1m by Thames Water while trying to avoid #renationalisation

#Hakluyt, run by Varun #Chandra until appointed as #Starmer’s business adviser worked with Thames since 2023, providing political, strategic advice

That relationship continued since Chandra joined No 10. He trying to prevent Britain’s biggest, troubled water company from state ownership

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/13/thames-water-paid-1m-plus-to-corporate-spooks-firm-part-owned-by-starmer-adviser

#corruption #ToxicLabour

Thames Water paid £1m-plus to corporate spooks firm part-owned by Starmer adviser

Exclusive: Hakluyt – formerly run by Varun Chandra – has been advising utilities company as it tries to avoid renationalisation

The Guardian

🚧 Vinci, Eiffage, ... Ils se gavent pendant que certaines lignes de train tombent en ruine.
56 milliards € de profits depuis 2006 grâce aux autoroutes privatisées.
Et l’État ? Il regarde passer les dividendes…

▶ Et si on reprenait la main ?
▶ Et si on finançait enfin les mobilités durables ?
👉 https://lenouveauparadigme.fr/superprofits-autoroutiers-et-si-letat-reprenait-la-main/

#autoroutes #superprofits #écologie #transports #renationalisation #JusticeSociale #LNP

Superprofits autoroutiers : et si l’État reprenait la main ? -

Un retour au public des autoroutes permettrait de financer la transition écologique et de démocratiser l’accès aux mobilités.

By all means - tell us there is any inaccuracy in this definition of privatisation by @anotherangryvoice.bsky.social at anotherangryvoice.substack.com/p/the-new-job We'll wait. #RenationaliseWater #RenationaliseEnergy #RenationaliseRail Want #renationalisation? then #VoteGreen.

Lourd est le parpaing de la réalité sur la tartelette aux fraises des illusions du capitalisme.

#Economie
#Liberalisme
#Capitalisme
#TalibansLibéraux
#CarambaEncoreRaté
#Train
#privatisation
#ReNationalisation

Polls in the #UK show overwhelming support for #renationalisation of rail, power and water. There is massive support for #TaxTheRich and putting a stop to #TaxEvasion. They also show that 80% plus do not support #privitatisation in the #NHS. There is broad support for #GreenEnergy and a #greeneconomy. #RefugeesAreWelcome too.

What do we get. #Managerialism and barely controlled decline towards #collapse when the far right take over to create a #fascist state to benefit the #billionaires that bank roll the wannabe hitlers.

The #government do not represent the will of the people. They are about as far removed from the will of the people as its possible to be. We can't change that with the Parlimentary system. It doesn't matter which party you vote for as they are all compromised by the rich, both here in the UK and abroad. No political party represents the people.

We need to change everything, and very soon.

@MarieClaudeS même la #GrandeBretagne est en train de renationaliser le #rail, espérons juste que les autres pays n'attendent pas 30 ans et la destruction des #ServicesPublics avant de s'y mettre auss!
Pour la #renationalisation du #train en #Angleterre, voir: https://seenthis.net/messages/1074884
Petite révolution au Royaume-Uni : le train va redevenir…

lic https://reporterre.net/Le-Royaume-Uni-veut-renationaliser-ses-trains Quelques semaines après l'annonce : Le Royaume-Uni nationalise l'opérateur de son réseau électrique https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/royaume-uni/le-royaume-uni-nationalise-l-operateur-de

L’égalité d’accès pour tous dans les nouveaux chemins de fer britanniques - [mcInform@ctions]

@DarkSheepArts

Not sure they are allowed to buy rolling stock but have to hire it from #roscos - rolling stock companies - which are the one profitable part of the #railway system - and are not covered by the #renationalisation plans.

Water companies face £168m fines over #sewage spills https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypp032le0o

Still nowhere near enough to bring these companies to heel. And why the ‘consultation’ #ofwat ? JFDI.

A mere splash in the sewage pipe of cash extraction these companies have engaged in.

#renationalisation, no time to waste

Thames, Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water face £168m fines over sewage spills

Thames Water, Northumbrian Water and Yorkshire Water face fines for repeated sewage leaks.

@jon And every inch of the pre--Beeching lines has to be reopened. Even if it means buying out a huge tranche of "executive" homes that were built on some old line that got flogged off, or rebuilding a viaduct that got pulled down in 1986 for being "unstable" even though they had to spend extra time and money doing it because the structure proved too "resilient" to just pull it down like planned.

Yes I may have somewhere specific in mind, why do you ask?

#UKPol #BritishRail #Renationalisation