From Zack Polanski's speech today: Privatisation of state assets, the things we used to own, was "a bonfire sale".

https://weownit.org.uk/privatisation

💩The latest Thames Water deal offered by its creditors is no deal.

They're offering regulator Ofwat a bribe in return for playing by their own rules on illegal sewage dumping.

This is too little, too late. You can email your MP to tell Ofwat they must reject this deal: https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/email-your-mp-the-thames-water-creditors-latest-deal-must-be-rejected

🚨Thames Water's creditors have cobbled together a new rescue proposal which contains a bribe, a 'Get out of jail' card, and a veiled threat:

"Under the Proposal, all outstanding fines would be paid...as a result, the Company would not be subject to the outcome delivery incentives regime during AMP8 [2025-2030]. Funding is conditioned on further engagement...with the regulators on enforcement matters."

Ofwat must say NO to Thames Water's insulting proposal.

https://weownit.org.uk/news/high-wycombe-protest-illegal-sewage-thames-water-emma-reynolds/

Sewage has caused people's deaths.

💩Yet this government is considering a deal - proposed by Thames Water's creditors - which has future sewage pollution baked into its terms and conditions.

👎Any deal which endangers us and our environment by allowing pollution for profit is NO DEAL.

🤔Perhaps the Environment Secretary should watch all three episodes of 'Dirty Business', not just 'some of it...'

Barry Gardiner MP calls out Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds over her department's lack of research into the cost of publicly owned water.

IT'S NOT ADDING UP. The government are telling us public ownership is too expensive, yet they haven't even worked out how much it would be ⁉️

Public ownership is so much more affordable than a privatised system which hands over billpayers' money to distant shareholders.

It's time for government to come clean on the true cost of public ownership.

❓❓Won't public ownership of water be too expensive?

❗❗On average, private water companies are taking around 1/3 of your bill and spending it on shareholder payouts and debt servicing

Under public ownership, all of that money would go into fixing crumbling water infrastructure and lowering bills.

🚨It’s privatisation that’s too expensive🚨

💩"Illegal pollution is highly profitable and regulation keeps it so."

Great explainer from Ash Smith at Windrush Wasp about how multi-billion-pound 'highly regulated' utilities with highly paid CEOs are making money by systematically breaking the law.

We need to flush these crooks out of our water system. We need public ownership.

https://www.windrushwasp.org/single-post/the-proceeds-of-crime

Hang this in the The Louvre *

Hugh Grant is right - the privatisation of water is a scam, and it's a Very English Scandal that no-one has been brought to justice for their mistreatment of our rivers and seas.

We need public ownership now.

* (with extra security, obvs.)

We're fighting for public ownership of water, starting with the collapsing Thames Water.

Take 2 mins now to to write to Ofwat and demand that they say NO to the Thames Water creditors' demand to pollute illegally until 2040 -

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/email-ofwat-the-public-have-said-no-to-illegal-sewage-until-2040

❌This government is telling us that regulating water companies is the answer to the sewage crisis...❌

....Yet regulators are more toothless than ever. The environment agency is writing off serious sewage spills without even visiting sites, because water companies won't let them.

And why is there no pushback? The water companies are paying the Environment Agency!!

Enough of this farce. Public ownership of water now.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/01/thousands-pollution-incidents-england-downgraded-without-site-visit-data-suggests