Cat Hobbs
cathobbs.bsky.social
Cat Hobbs
@cathobbs.bsky.social
Founder/director of @weownit.org.uk
Loves public services. Campaigning for public ownership, against privatisation.
📮Take back Royal Mail📮

"As recently as 2023, I posted 20+ Christmas cards a year. Last year I sent three...I would send more if prices were more reasonable"

"It should be stripped of the ‘Royal’ title. Or bring the company back into public ownership"

weownit.org.uk/news/dear-of...
Dear Ofcom...one supporter's response to the Royal Mail consultation
There this is a huge flaw in the promise of ‘next day delivery’ - one supporter's letter to Ofcom about stamp price increases.
weownit.org.uk
December 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The public has had enough of this disgusting money-go-round at Thames Water

But did you know the company is asking to be allowed to *release sewage outside of current legal limits until 2035-40* ⁉️

Tell @ofwat.bsky.social to say NO weownit.org.uk/act-now/ofwa...

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water defers controversial £2.5m in bonuses to bosses
Heavily indebted utility puts back ‘retention payments’ for 21 executives until new year amid search for rescue deal
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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🤑Thames Water creditors are haggling with Ofwat.
💩They want permission to pollute our waters until 2040.
But we've had a year of reasons why Ofwat should just say NO.
🎄As we enter the holiday season, we'll look back at all the times Thames has proved it must be taken into public ownership. 1/2
December 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Brilliant statement here @andrea4gs.bsky.social new General Secretary @unisontheunion.bsky.social

“Wes Streeting? Anybody that thinks he’s going to try and save the NHS, I’ve got some magic beans for you, because he’s not. He is privatising the NHS now.”

💯🎯🔥

www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Unison's Andrea Egan: Labour Government Has 'Done Very Little For Working People'
Interview with Andrea Egan, the challenger to Unison incumbent Christina McAnea, who talks about her own plans for the union, favouring Andy Burnha...
www.politicshome.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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A Health Secretary who won't meet
#NHS patients...but will take £220k+ from private healthcare donors.

So yes - we brought a puppet to Wes Streeting's office to ask the question: who is really pulling Streeting's strings? ⬇️
December 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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My letter in the FT today on the US-UK Pharma deal:

The government has made an open-ended commitment to gradually dismantle the price control system put in place from the late 1990s.

MPs need to ask ministers some hard questions.

www.ft.com/content/884c...
Letter: NHS drug prices and what US deal really portends
From Nick Dearden, Director of Global Justice Now
www.ft.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Privatisation is doing real damage to the NHS and the care patients receive.

Time for the government to deliver on their promise to reverse outsourcing and rebuild our NHS.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Concerns over 'destabilising' impact of private cataract clinics
A health committee in Oxfordshire writes to the government about the use of private providers.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Highlights from the Railways Bill session in Parliament pt3.

💯 Calum Miller, MP for Bicester and Woodstock. The government must listen to passengers, to make GBR a successful railway that we can all be proud of. @calummillerld.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Here's John McDonnell MP nailing the atrocious behaviour of Thames Water - a zombie company desperately trying to cut a deal with the water regulator. @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social

🚨Enough is enough. Thames Water needs to be in public ownership.
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Today House of Commons will debate Railways Bill

Great that franchises are coming into public ownership but we also need

🚄 Publicly owned rolling stock (trains)
🚄 An end to competition + private profit
🚄 Accountable passenger watchdog
🚄 Lower fares, new lines, investment!
December 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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'The standoff has already continued for months longer than anticipated'
Why the standoff? Because Ofwat hasn't agreed to leniency on pollution.

They know how angry the public would be if Thames was allowed to wreak even more havoc on our environment.

Email Ofwat now. 👇 Link in comments
Thames Water faces collapse as crisis talks take ‘longer than expected’
Debt-ridden utility company warns of ‘material uncertainty’ despite seeing profits rise to more than £400m
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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🚨"They want to take away your healthcare and sell it back to you"

American doctor in the NHS raises alarm about underfunding and privatisation of the NHS.

Share if you support our NHS. vist.ly/4h6vb
December 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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I was a GP Practice manager when we were required to start doing" online consultations". In practice it meant replacing a morning of face to face or telephone appointments with answering emails. As a Patient Safety manager i think Email access is great but not a replacement for face to face.
Susanna Reid: The BMA says a recent survey found more than 40% of more than 1,300 GP practices had to reduce the number of face to face appointments because GPs are so busy dealing with online communication

Wes Streeting: The BMA are moaning minnies
December 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
📮Take back our 500 year old Royal Mail 📮

Buy back this national asset from its Czech billionaire owner

Use the profits to reduce outrageous stamp prices and improve service

Until 11.59pm tonight @ofcom.bsky.social is listening to YOU - take action on link below

weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-...
End the Royal Mail privatisation experiment now
Ofcom is consulting on stamp prices. It is time to demand that they end Royal Mail privatisation.
weownit.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Really scary new data on A&Es

“Private hospitals rely on the same overstretched staff...
The answer isn’t outsourcing; it’s investing in NHS staff, services, capacity”

Wes Streeting needs to listen to @keepournhspublic.bsky.social

#OnlytheNHS can solve this

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Numbers leaving A&E without treatment triples in six years
Soaring demand has led to ‘shocking’ rise in untreated patients leaving NHS emergency departments in England, data shows
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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5 children ill after playing in the Thames; an unwell Kayaker; a rower who couldn't sit some of his GCSEs due to E coli.

Meanwhile, publicly owned Eau de Paris has opened up the Seine for swimmers.

Well done River Action for your work co-ordinating legal complaints against Thames Water!
People living along polluted Thames file legal complaint to force water firm to act
Residents claim raw sewage and poorly treated effluent as result of Thames Water’s failings are threat to health
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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If you live in South Yorkshire this is for you:
Lee Pitcher MP is hosting a public meeting with South Yorkshire Mayor Oliver Coppard to talk about all things buses.
📅 Thursday 4 December
🕕 6–7pm
📍 Hatchell Wood Primary School, DN4 6SL
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Absolutely sickening

The government has agreed to let Trump force the NHS to pay 25% more for medicines

"The move will cost taxpayers in Britain about £3bn"

Terrible news for patients

www.ft.com/content/02e4...
NHS medicines budget to increase by 25% in push to avoid Trump tariffs
UK government will make it easier for drugs to be approved for use in order to secure carve-out from import levies
www.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is truly shocking - the government LOST at least 5500 responses in their consultation on the Railways Bill! 🤯

But YOU can hold them to account, stand up for a publicly owned railway

Sign up by Monday 1st December
🚄https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/railways-bill🚄

www.youtube.com/shorts/NWiu6...
The government lost thousands of public responses to their railway consultation
YouTube video by We Own It
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Regulation won't fix our broken water system.

You have until 3rd December to tell DEFRA exactly why their plans for a new fines system won't work.

Take 2 minutes now to complete the consultation.
Email DEFRA - regulation won't fix our broken water system
Email DEFRA - regulation won't fix our broken water system
weownit.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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This government made the wrong decision about private finance at the Autumn Budget.

But that didn't stop us from securing wins.

Here's what you achieved in the campaign against PFI 2.0
November 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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WTF!👇

'In April, @weownit.org.uk mobilised 6131 people to respond to the government’s “A railway fit for Britain's future” consultation,outlining reforms the Railways Bill needs to include.

The #Government *LOST* 6120 of these responses!

Lost OR IGNORED?🤬 Sign HERE👇
weownit.org.uk/act-now/rail...
The government lost YOUR rail consultation responses - take action
It is crucial for passengers that our voices are heard and that the bill delivers on the hopes and expectations of passengers. But this has not happened.
weownit.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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All Labour, Green and independent councillors at Oxford City Council have just called for public ownership of Thames Water

This government can't stop the rising tide of public opinion, even from their own councillors.

📣 Public ownership of Thames Water NOW.
Council calls to nationalise Thames Water amid 'disgusting' sewage spills
Oxford City Council has called for Thames Water to be brought back into public ownership, amid complaints about "disgusting" sewage spills.
www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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🚨This is a scandal! The government lost thousands of public responses to their railway consultation.

That means that if you want to end the private rolling stock ripoff, or cut fares, or end competition law in the railway, your voice was silenced.

Take action here: weownit.org.uk/act-now/rail...
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Absolutely disgraceful 👇 - Labour's manifesto promised NHS would be "publicly owned and publicly funded"

Openly now ripping off patients for generations to come

Even the Conservative government said "goodbye to PFI"

Outrageous, unjustifiable, wrong
"Part of this will be capital funding we've allocated into the primary care estate.. & some of it, we're working with the private sector as part of a private sector partnership to fund the rest of them"

Minister Karin Smyth on how the new walk in health centres will be funded
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM