On the weekend I attended Take Back Water: What if we refuse to pay💧🌊 My notes from the event include: We must shift our thinking away from the consumer narrative - WE ARE ENTITLED TO WATER - it makes up over 60% of our bodies💙 Continued below🩵

TODAY: What if we refused to pay? Join us and an incredible line up of experts from think tanks, trade unions and local anti-sewage pollution campaigns to discuss how we take back water from the profiteers and polluters 👇

Abolish private ownership of water next.

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Tired of reading about Water Boss’ Bonuses? Reading about Fine’s that do fuck all? Seeing Sewage increasing? What if we refused to pay our water bills? Join Take Back Water tomorrow for the first event of many on politics of refusal and common ownership.

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Speaker line-up | Common ownership For our first session on Saturday, we're excited to be joined by a series of excellent speakers from the water and common ownership movements. Check it out 👇

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What will it take to end the failure of private ownership of water? On Saturday 19 July, we're inviting you to join us and an incredible line up of experts from think tanks, trade unions and local anti-sewage pollution campaigns to discuss this question👇

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🎳 What if we refused to pay? 🎳 ✉ From the Poll Tax to Don’t Pay, mass refusal has a powerful history in the UK. Millions have come together to oppose unjust taxes and soaring bills through the act of refusing to pay.

Thames Water might soon be brought into a Special Administration Regime, but public ownership alone won’t fix a system rigged for private profit. Without real social control, we risk repeating the same mistakes.

The Government said it’d cost £99bn to publicly own our water. But this drew on calculations by — drumroll — water company lobbyists. The true cost is closer to zero. Here’s why. 🧵

It’s always the same - privatise the profits, socialise the losses. They spend decades siphoning wealth off-shore and then everyone else has to bail them out so they don’t run any risk.

Like only they can do, Labour and Starmer have made an already bad situation a lot worse 👏🏼

What other industry could so brazenly demand immunity from the crimes they commit? If Keir Starmer won't stand up to this blackmail, it's up to us to act. Join the pledge to strike and help put the criminal Thames Water out of business for good 👉 takebackwater.uk

Keir Starmer could've taken Thames Water back into public hands months ago. Now he's being blackmailed by the only remaining bidder willing to rescue the utility before it runs out of cash at the end of the month. Their terms: don't prosecute our crimes.

Water firms have already said they'll increase bosses' salaries to get around any ban on bonuses. The only way to end the profiteering is to take water out of private hands.

it will never not astound me how little you can buy a labour politician for

politicians prefer private companies because nationalised ones don’t ‘donate’ to them

I'm about to do my mandatory "don't do corruption" training at work and I'll be interested once again to see how many of the things I'm explicitly told will lead to me being sacked the government openly does.

Imagine working for years to get into politics just to sell out a whole integral bit of infrastructure for £27k.

£27k is nothing to those 'donating'. Labour aren't even good at bribery. Cheap.

this country is laughably corrupt.

Can we please call this what it actually is? It's CORRUPTION!

£27,000 *bribe*

our crooks are so shamefully cheap i hate it here

The government bent over backward to hand Thames Water over to KKR. Now they've pulled out and Thames only has cash to operate until the end of the month. Water for 16 million people is now at risk all over a £27,000 donation?

Nobody will buy a UK water company. The current owners have syphoned off money by borrowing against assets, sold all the assets they can, degraded all the assets that remain .. and polluted all the waterways with sewerage dumping. Nobody will buy a UK water company.

Thames Water secured a £3 billion emergency loan three months ago.

Thames Water is a monopoly with 16 million trapped customers. Yet KKR – a predatory private equity firm – doesn't even want to own it. If public ownership isn't the answer and private investors won't invest, then maybe Steve Reed has no idea what he's doing.

“Sources close to the situation told the BBC that the politicisation of the water industry was a major disincentive for investors to put money into the sector.” Customers are scaring multi-billion pound private equity firms off from investing in water. Let's keep it going 👉 takebackwater.uk

KKR drops out of plan to rescue Thames Water. Not even the most predatory private equity firms are interested in this failed utility. Time to take Thames back into public hands.

A brazen lie from Labour. Private owners of water firms have handed themselves £80 billion in recent decades instead of investing. Did Starmer and Reed really think anyone would believe that they'd suddenly decide to invest £104 billion? www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

Govt confirms criminals control England water industry. "Since the privatisation of water and sewerage companies in 1989, all ten Water and Sewerage companies which discharge into English waters have been convicted of criminal offences". Still allowed to fleece people, no end to criminality.

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They should take fine out of money for dividends FFS

We pay our bills, then we pay to bail them out. We should be firing the boards and getting our money back instead.

Great point – we lose either way 👇

Thames Water fined £122 million for sewage dumping and shareholder payouts. Industry regulator says customers won't pick up the cost, but where else will the money come from? Our bills – up 31% this year – are their only source of income. We're paying to bail them out.

Ofwat could fine Thames Water enough to put it out of business or revoke its operating licence. These costs will just be passed on to the customer to pay.

We refuse to pay anymore and continue to bail water companies out. Join us in building a mass non-payment campagin to takebackwater.uk and bring water into public hands.

💬 "I think that, within the first three months, I did make a difference." Thames Water CEO, Chris Weston, believes he was worth the £185,000 bonus he received for just three months work last year. What do you think? 🤔

How toothless is #Starmer, do we think? More or less toothless than our corrupt regulator, #Ofwat...?

Keir Starmer three days ago: "Bonuses for failure? We won’t stand for it." Today: Thames Water bosses may have received £100,000s in bonuses funded by bailout cash weeks ago.

⁉️ What's going on with these bonuses for Thames Water bosses? Keir Starmer is crowing about blocking 'bonuses for failure' after Thames Water halted a bonus scheme for its senior management team. But is this really a sign the government is getting tough on water firms? 🧵👇

Correction: Thames Water halts ONE bosses' bonus scheme. CEO Chris Weston won't get three additional bonuses funded from Thames' emergency £3 billion loan. But he's still in line to make millions from his regular salary and bonus – which we're paying for through our bills.

We all already know water firms are routinely dumping sewage illegally. Fine them out of existence.

Totally unacceptable - water should never have been privatised!!