After 40 years, privatisation of our public services has failed. It's time for public ownership. We use it, we pay for it, We Own It.
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Tell Andy Burnham to block the Thames Water bailout before Thursday 29th October.
Remove the licence, TAKE IT BACK @@andyburnham.
Sign the petition: vist.ly/5p395
Yet more billpayers saying no to the Thames Water bailout!
Andy Burnham, you said you would pull every single lever to ease the cost of living.
Blocking this eyewatering £2.4 billion bailout will benefit billpayers across the country, by making it clear that water companies can't expect to keep failing at our expense.
We are not blank cheques.
@andyburnham , these members of the public are calling on you to protect households during a cost of living crisis, by blocking the £2.4 billion Thames Water bailout.
Let Thames Water go bust and bring it into public hands.
Andy Burnham has said that billpayers must not be treated like blank cheques for water companies.
Yet if he allows this eye-watering £2.4 billion Thames Water bailout to go ahead, he would be doing just that.
Yesterday, we handed in a petition signed by over 27,000 people calling on Burnham to Block the Bailout.
Failing water companies don't deserve any more of our money. Let them go bust!
"We live among the ruins of the public transport networks that Thatcher and the private operators have left us"
The National Coalition of Better Buses campaigns are calling on Andy Burnham to deliver FULL PUBLIC OWNERSHIP and passengers at the heart of the system @LabourList
vist.ly/5qn5r
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Rough is a gas field off the coast of Yorkshire
Owned by private company Centrica, they will close it in April 2027 unless they get government support
BRING ROUGH INTO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP for energy security, jobs, climate
@PatriciaNPino @Cmmonwealth 👇
common-wealth.org/publicatio…
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The corporate penetration of the NHS decision making structures by companies which are seeking NHS contracts is becoming a serious problem. observer.co.uk/news/national…
Spot on from Darren Jones, Labour MP for Bristol North West.
76% of us want to see Royal Mail in public hands.
Privatised Royal Mail is a dismal failure. Stamp prices go up while reliability goes down.
And now they want to cut 2,500 backroom jobs by the end of next year.
TAKE IT BACK.
We Own It retweeted
Beyond frustrating
'Environment Minister @angelaeagle is “demanding answers” from the failing companies and will be highlighting the “worst offences around the country”'
You have the answer and you can solve it:
Privatisation failed
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
lbc.co.uk/article/people-are…
WE ARE NOT BLANK CHEQUES.
At today's We Own It weekly webinar, we made it clear where the public stand on bailing out failing water companies.
@andyburnham , will you block the £2.4 billion Thames Water bailout and put households first?
Today, we delivered a petition signed by over 27,000 people, calling on Andy Burnham to block the Thames Water bailout.
Burnham promised to end Thatcher's legacy of privatisation.
How can we take this promise seriously if we leave our most essential resources in the hands of US hedge funds?
Let Thames go bust and bring it into public hands.
These members of the public - alongside over 27,000 people who have signed the petition - want to see the Prime Minister Block the Bailout and bring Thames Water into public hands.
@andyburnham , we are not blank cheques!
We Own It retweeted
Today outside Ofwat @andyburnham spotted handing a blank cheque to the privatised water industry
They've had enough since 1989
£82 billion debt added
£85 billion dividends
36% bill increase last year, now they want more
NO more water bill increases, NO Thames Water bailout
TODAY Thames Water's creditors are deciding on whether or not to hand over an eye-watering £2.4 billion loan to the utility.
A £2.4 billion lifeline for a company which has run our infrastructure into the ground and filled our rivers with sewage.
No more bailouts at our expense.
Let them go bust!
'Campaigners raise concerns it could add £40 to each household's bills in interest alone'
We are not blank cheques @andyburnham !
Over 27,000 people have already signed the petition calling on you to block the Thames Water bailout and bring Thames Water into public hands.
theguardian.com/business/202…
We Own It retweeted
I'm not a blank cheque! Today, Thames Water’s creditors decide whether to hand over a £2.4 billion bailout. Rewarding water companies failure affects billpayers across the country, during a cost of living crisis. @andyburnham you must block bailout, let them go bust! @We_OwnIt
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Whose side are you on @andyburnham ?
US hedge funds or Thames Water households?
Why should 16 million people pay an extra £40 on interest alone for a bailout when you can write down Thames Water's debt RIGHT NOW by taking it into special administration?
theguardian.com/business/202…