Hold a referendum to bring the #water industry into #PublicOwnership

Hold a binding national #referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership.

Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our #privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it.

#Petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762640/

#sewage #greed #PeopleNotProfits #WeOwnIt #CorporateGreed

#Privatisation: billions from #UK #energy #bills taken in profits

Common Wealth thinktank found 24.2% of energy bill went to profits of electricity generators, networks, household suppliers in 2024

Also revealed: Scale of cash extracted from bill payers since privatisation of #UK’s energy system

Shareholders of #Britain’s #privatised energy corporations took over £70.7bn #payouts between 2010 & 2025, rather than #reinvesting or reducing bills

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/17/privatisation-premium-billions-from-uk-energy-bills-paid-to-shareholders

#greed #CapitalismFail

I could say productivity declined because the government(s) #privatised essential services.

We didn’t have any problems with #productivity until they did that.

The lack of efficiency and the throwing of public money to groups who didn’t provide a better service but instead paid it to CEOs and owners is what a lack of productivity is all about.

#ai is just going to be an extension of this mess.

#auspol

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As the economy slows and productivity flatlines, is Australia having another banana republic moment?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/17/australian-economy-productivity-banana-republic-keating-chalmers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

So #Trump just #privatised the #dollar.

#GENIUSact allows stablecoins to take over what you can get for it, and the control is now in the hands of big tech.

Together with CLARITY, money laundering & bribery will increasingly define the dollar’s worth, too. And when #crypto crashes the dollar will go down with it.

But the rich will be very happy about it. They will finally get their poor domestic serf class, as cheap as chinese labour.

Trump did everything he promised. That’s how it’ll look.

Blaming #privatised #water for #sewage dumping? Here is a 1976 article from when it was in public hands. https://archive.org/details/NewsUK1978UKEnglish/Jan%2017%201978%2C%20The%20Times%2C%20%2360212%2C%20UK%20%28en%29/page/n15/mode/2up?q=pollution+sewage

A form of #pollution that is less obvious — until the moment when, swimming at sea, we are confronted by a sheet of lavatory paper—is sewage. The Coastal Anti-Pollution League considers it a “disgusting state of affairs” that a large number of sea side towns dispose of their untreated sewage far too close to land.

@mlanger
Back in the 80s all our (UK) #government run #water #companies were #privatised, thanks to right wing government dogma. The government then set up a regulator whose function was primarily to keep prices low. Of course, that didn't stop the companies paying out enormous dividends, but it did stop any investment to update the infrastructure,

The result is that, now there is some recognition that #climatechange is real, we have near bankrupt companies and #infrastructure not fit for purpose. It's not that we need the existing infrastructure repaired we need more #reservoirs and #pipelines to shift it where it's needed.

I wish there was someone who could tell me I have this wrong?

#ukpolitics

So, a #privatised postal service is raising the price again - doubling the price of 1st class in the three years of privatisation.

Shame #BBCNews couldn't be bothered to report on the dividends and exec bonuses paid in that time

#EssentialServicesShouldNotBePrivatised
#NationaliseEssentialServices

BBC News - Price of first-class stamp to rise to £1.70 - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygl9vj28do