Renationalise without compensation. The water companies have robbed us for 30 years.
The experts are clear: the new White Paper on Water won't work if it doesn't tackle the root problem - who owns our water in England.
😡The government seems more concerned about 'stability for investors'.
😍Yet 82% of the public want water in public hands. It's time Labour listened.
😡The government seems more concerned about 'stability for investors'.
😍Yet 82% of the public want water in public hands. It's time Labour listened.
Labour can't fix broken water system without tackling ownership, experts say
Tougher regulation won’t fix Britain’s water crisis, experts say, while privatisation and investor protections remain in place.
www.bigissue.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Renationalise without compensation. The water companies have robbed us for 30 years.
Oh.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Be v. afraid considering UK gov's refusal to renationalise because it would be 'too expensive'. UK is theoretically 'wet' but incredibly mismanaged by for-profits and foreign interests.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Be v. afraid considering UK gov's refusal to renationalise because it would be 'too expensive'. UK is theoretically 'wet' but incredibly mismanaged by for-profits and foreign interests.
Era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ is here, UN report says
Overuse and pollution must end urgently as no one knows when whole system might collapse, says expert
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Oh.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Be v. afraid considering UK gov's refusal to renationalise because it would be 'too expensive'. UK is theoretically 'wet' but incredibly mismanaged by for-profits and foreign interests.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Be v. afraid considering UK gov's refusal to renationalise because it would be 'too expensive'. UK is theoretically 'wet' but incredibly mismanaged by for-profits and foreign interests.
Misspelling "renationalise" there. It was ours to begin with.
January 21, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Misspelling "renationalise" there. It was ours to begin with.
We could afford to end all this crisis management if we just taxed the insanely rich. We could also afford to fully renationalise all public services and fund local councils properly so they could maintain schools and social services, build green infrastructure and pay refuse collectors properly.
January 21, 2026 at 8:16 AM
We could afford to end all this crisis management if we just taxed the insanely rich. We could also afford to fully renationalise all public services and fund local councils properly so they could maintain schools and social services, build green infrastructure and pay refuse collectors properly.
I no longer see much distinction.
Neither would renationalise water and send the execs to jail.
Neither would stop enabling austerity, fossil fuel and genocide.
Neither would renationalise water and send the execs to jail.
Neither would stop enabling austerity, fossil fuel and genocide.
January 20, 2026 at 9:11 PM
I no longer see much distinction.
Neither would renationalise water and send the execs to jail.
Neither would stop enabling austerity, fossil fuel and genocide.
Neither would renationalise water and send the execs to jail.
Neither would stop enabling austerity, fossil fuel and genocide.
#Renationalise water
Forcing you to pay huge amounts more to corrupt, criminal Water Companies isn't an overhaul.
It is making a terrible system even worse.
Get rid of the Private Water Companies.
It is making a terrible system even worse.
Get rid of the Private Water Companies.
January 20, 2026 at 5:19 PM
#Renationalise water
Fudging the numbers through sleight of hand and fucking over patients is not the same as actually solving the issues
Renationalise the stolen parts,sack the 3rd party thieves,put medical professionals back in charge and end dodgy contracts
The NHS is not a profit making asset,it's a public service
Renationalise the stolen parts,sack the 3rd party thieves,put medical professionals back in charge and end dodgy contracts
The NHS is not a profit making asset,it's a public service
January 20, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Fudging the numbers through sleight of hand and fucking over patients is not the same as actually solving the issues
Renationalise the stolen parts,sack the 3rd party thieves,put medical professionals back in charge and end dodgy contracts
The NHS is not a profit making asset,it's a public service
Renationalise the stolen parts,sack the 3rd party thieves,put medical professionals back in charge and end dodgy contracts
The NHS is not a profit making asset,it's a public service
This is what we expect of this austerity government. Choosing not to renationalise monopoly utilities to protect the wealthy asset holders over the wishes of its people.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Water firms could be let off pollution fines as part of government overhaul
Exclusive: Campaigners claim changes will let companies ‘off the hook’, as government prepares to unveil new white paper for water industry
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:41 PM
This is what we expect of this austerity government. Choosing not to renationalise monopoly utilities to protect the wealthy asset holders over the wishes of its people.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Indeed: our water companies should not have been recklessly privatised.
But if we renationalise, the huge debts with which the foreign owners have loaded up the water companies would be transferred to us, the tax payers.
There is a better, less simple, solution: bsky.app/profile/layl...
But if we renationalise, the huge debts with which the foreign owners have loaded up the water companies would be transferred to us, the tax payers.
There is a better, less simple, solution: bsky.app/profile/layl...
South East Water have done the extraordinary by making Thames Water look good.
The Liberal Democrats have long called for a better regulator to fix our broken water industry.
We are also calling for water companies such as Thames Water to be made a public benefit company.
The Liberal Democrats have long called for a better regulator to fix our broken water industry.
We are also calling for water companies such as Thames Water to be made a public benefit company.
January 20, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Indeed: our water companies should not have been recklessly privatised.
But if we renationalise, the huge debts with which the foreign owners have loaded up the water companies would be transferred to us, the tax payers.
There is a better, less simple, solution: bsky.app/profile/layl...
But if we renationalise, the huge debts with which the foreign owners have loaded up the water companies would be transferred to us, the tax payers.
There is a better, less simple, solution: bsky.app/profile/layl...
#Thatcher's REAL legacy - the theft of national resources
"Troubled waters: How the UK’s water companies became a national disgrace"
#renationalise
"Troubled waters: How the UK’s water companies became a national disgrace"
#renationalise
January 20, 2026 at 9:35 AM
#Thatcher's REAL legacy - the theft of national resources
"Troubled waters: How the UK’s water companies became a national disgrace"
#renationalise
"Troubled waters: How the UK’s water companies became a national disgrace"
#renationalise
Yet absolutely nothing on the outrageous profiting from the Water Barons and their investors. Caps on CEOs salaries? Nope. Powers to renationalise if a company messes up? Nope. Its shuffling deckchairs on the Titanic.
January 20, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Yet absolutely nothing on the outrageous profiting from the Water Barons and their investors. Caps on CEOs salaries? Nope. Powers to renationalise if a company messes up? Nope. Its shuffling deckchairs on the Titanic.
So what’s to stop private water companies from poaching top staff from this new regulator, just like they do with Ofwat today?
It’s a completely futile gesture.
Renationalise now!
It’s a completely futile gesture.
Renationalise now!
January 20, 2026 at 6:59 AM
So what’s to stop private water companies from poaching top staff from this new regulator, just like they do with Ofwat today?
It’s a completely futile gesture.
Renationalise now!
It’s a completely futile gesture.
Renationalise now!
For goodness sake Starmer, stop pussyfooting around and renationalise the whole of the Water Industry.
We are the laughingstock of the World.
#Starmer #water #UKLabour.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We are the laughingstock of the World.
#Starmer #water #UKLabour.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Water companies to face regular MOT-style checks in industry shake-up
The government says the industry will have nowhere to hide, but campaigners say the reforms do not go far enough.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 4:56 AM
For goodness sake Starmer, stop pussyfooting around and renationalise the whole of the Water Industry.
We are the laughingstock of the World.
#Starmer #water #UKLabour.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We are the laughingstock of the World.
#Starmer #water #UKLabour.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Need to do the same for Thames Water. Renationalise.
Thousands left without water in the middle of winter in the UK. And those same people are now facing a massive bill hike.
Privatised water is a scam.
I've written to the Prime Minister asking why he won't end this rip off and bring failing South East Water into public hands.
Privatised water is a scam.
I've written to the Prime Minister asking why he won't end this rip off and bring failing South East Water into public hands.
January 19, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Need to do the same for Thames Water. Renationalise.
This is the difference in cost between Public and Private Bus Services.
Now calculate it for Water and Energy.
Stop the theft, Renationalise everything.
Now calculate it for Water and Energy.
Stop the theft, Renationalise everything.
January 19, 2026 at 12:55 PM
This is the difference in cost between Public and Private Bus Services.
Now calculate it for Water and Energy.
Stop the theft, Renationalise everything.
Now calculate it for Water and Energy.
Stop the theft, Renationalise everything.
The economic illiteracy
The absolute refusal to renationalise and fix public services
The continuing degradation of the NHS (still suffering from PFI round one and they're going to do it again!)
Going to Murdoch's party was really all we needed to know but there's so much more.
The absolute refusal to renationalise and fix public services
The continuing degradation of the NHS (still suffering from PFI round one and they're going to do it again!)
Going to Murdoch's party was really all we needed to know but there's so much more.
January 19, 2026 at 10:27 AM
The economic illiteracy
The absolute refusal to renationalise and fix public services
The continuing degradation of the NHS (still suffering from PFI round one and they're going to do it again!)
Going to Murdoch's party was really all we needed to know but there's so much more.
The absolute refusal to renationalise and fix public services
The continuing degradation of the NHS (still suffering from PFI round one and they're going to do it again!)
Going to Murdoch's party was really all we needed to know but there's so much more.
More evidence to renationalise, especially important infrastructures like the water industry.
January 19, 2026 at 9:16 AM
More evidence to renationalise, especially important infrastructures like the water industry.
According to their own account bio, the role of Ofgem is "to protect consumers now & in the future by working to deliver a greener, fairer energy system".
And yet here they are, producing this thinly veiled threat.
How about stopping energy company profiteering...?
#Renationalise
#OfgemIsCorrupt
And yet here they are, producing this thinly veiled threat.
How about stopping energy company profiteering...?
#Renationalise
#OfgemIsCorrupt
🚨 Tampering with your meter is illegal and could be dangerous.
Meter tampering causes one death every 10 days in the UK.
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Meter tampering causes one death every 10 days in the UK.
More details thanks to Citizens Advice here: https://ow.ly/2U6N50X3r93
January 19, 2026 at 7:13 AM
According to their own account bio, the role of Ofgem is "to protect consumers now & in the future by working to deliver a greener, fairer energy system".
And yet here they are, producing this thinly veiled threat.
How about stopping energy company profiteering...?
#Renationalise
#OfgemIsCorrupt
And yet here they are, producing this thinly veiled threat.
How about stopping energy company profiteering...?
#Renationalise
#OfgemIsCorrupt
Agree with this post 100%.
But sadly, as with all regulators that start "Of" they are bloody useless.
#Renationalise
But sadly, as with all regulators that start "Of" they are bloody useless.
#Renationalise
#Ofwat can decide that South East Water has breached its licence conditions by failing to meet customer service standards obligations.
It has that power.
SEW should be stripped of its licence and its executives fined & charged.
#Renationalise water.
It has that power.
SEW should be stripped of its licence and its executives fined & charged.
#Renationalise water.
Water supply issues for thousands in Kent days after week-long outage
January 19, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Agree with this post 100%.
But sadly, as with all regulators that start "Of" they are bloody useless.
#Renationalise
But sadly, as with all regulators that start "Of" they are bloody useless.
#Renationalise
#Ofwat can decide that South East Water has breached its licence conditions by failing to meet customer service standards obligations.
It has that power.
SEW should be stripped of its licence and its executives fined & charged.
#Renationalise water.
It has that power.
SEW should be stripped of its licence and its executives fined & charged.
#Renationalise water.
Water supply issues for thousands in Kent days after week-long outage
Water supply issues for thousands in Kent days after week-long outage
Thousands of people in Kent are once again experiencing water supply issues days after similar disruption.
news.sky.com
January 18, 2026 at 6:16 PM
#Ofwat can decide that South East Water has breached its licence conditions by failing to meet customer service standards obligations.
It has that power.
SEW should be stripped of its licence and its executives fined & charged.
#Renationalise water.
It has that power.
SEW should be stripped of its licence and its executives fined & charged.
#Renationalise water.
Starmer won't renationalise water, because he's wed to neoliberalism and would rather axe the regulator to encourage foreign investment than allow essential national infrastructure to stray from privateering corporates.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Ofwat to be abolished in biggest overhaul of water since privatisation
Ofwat to be abolished and a new, single, powerful regulator to be established to cut water pollution in England’s rivers, lakes and seas, and protect families from massive bill hikes
www.gov.uk
January 18, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Starmer won't renationalise water, because he's wed to neoliberalism and would rather axe the regulator to encourage foreign investment than allow essential national infrastructure to stray from privateering corporates.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
1) The Greens haven’t costed anything! It’ll all be paid for with “wealth tax” & MMT! They have so far promised to renationalise energy & water (at least £500bn) as well as massively increase NHS funding beyond the increases Labour have done, which is austerity apparently. How’s that going to work?
January 17, 2026 at 4:52 PM
1) The Greens haven’t costed anything! It’ll all be paid for with “wealth tax” & MMT! They have so far promised to renationalise energy & water (at least £500bn) as well as massively increase NHS funding beyond the increases Labour have done, which is austerity apparently. How’s that going to work?
" Troubled waters: How the UK’s #water companies became a national disgrace "
> #renationalise them with NO COMPENSATION
> 80+% of the Public want then #renationalised
> #renationalise them with NO COMPENSATION
> 80+% of the Public want then #renationalised
January 17, 2026 at 9:41 AM
" Troubled waters: How the UK’s #water companies became a national disgrace "
> #renationalise them with NO COMPENSATION
> 80+% of the Public want then #renationalised
> #renationalise them with NO COMPENSATION
> 80+% of the Public want then #renationalised
#Renationalise water
Water Privatisation is NOT a failure.
It is a spectacular success... for them.
Vast profits for a terrible service, for something you will always need.
And if they go bankrupt from vast debts they have stolen
You pay.
Renationalise without compensation and throw them in jail
It is a spectacular success... for them.
Vast profits for a terrible service, for something you will always need.
And if they go bankrupt from vast debts they have stolen
You pay.
Renationalise without compensation and throw them in jail
January 16, 2026 at 6:34 PM
#Renationalise water