Dear British Public,
Go fuck yourselves.

Love, the government.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/757426?reveal_response=yes

Petition: Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset

To make water a non profit making national asset that ensures we have a secure water infrastructure that ensures our water security for future generations.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

@gareth

Or, the for-profit owners would make it too costly and painful.

That's why this needs to be a nationwide movement, not only a petition.

#NationaliseWaterCompanies

@TCatInReality
And yet when Thames Water - valued at the time at £24 billion if memory serves - put itself up for sale, it couldn't get £3 billion.

With £20 billion in debt, let it go bust. Let the venture capitalists and profiteers swallow the losses and then nationalise it for nowt.
@gareth

@blingoali @gareth

I would pay 50p on the Pound to UK pensions, but otherwise let the creditors lose it all.

The problem is that these contracts were written in ways that obligate the gov to cover much of the debt. That was madness.

@TCatInReality @blingoali @gareth that was deliberate!

@AndyDearden @blingoali @gareth

I have no doubt.

Because who would invest in such a volatile business as ...checks notes...water, without gov guarantees.