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#ThamesWater

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TC Won't Give In To Lies<p>Surely <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> will only be made worse by a giant US private equity firm.</p><p>FFS, end the madness and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationaliseThamesWaterNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationaliseThamesWaterNow</span></a> </p><p>BBC News - Thames Water picks private equity firm as preferred buyer<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crldrylyy9do" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/crldryly</span><span class="invisible">y9do</span></a></p>
michael<p>can we just renationalise <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/31/thames-water-names-us-private-equity-group-kkr-as-preferred-partner" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/business/2025/</span><span class="invisible">mar/31/thames-water-names-us-private-equity-group-kkr-as-preferred-partner</span></a></p>
Alan Matthews #ClimateCrisis #FBPE<p>"Seven housing developments including two in the <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23London" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#London</a> Borough of <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Ealing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ealing</a> have been identified as flushing foul water into West London's rivers including the River Brent."&nbsp; <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23polution" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#polution</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ThamesWater" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThamesWater</a> <a href="https://ealing.news/environment/two-ealing-housing-developments-in-perivale-and-greenford-named-as-flushing-sewage-into-rivers/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ealing.news/environment/...</a><br><br><a href="https://ealing.news/environment/two-ealing-housing-developments-in-perivale-and-greenford-named-as-flushing-sewage-into-rivers/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJTqmRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQcrjcZsP2T6f1rixKcWsnB1Fi57MzAMsvN7xIxCO5mQ3h44SICa83cLIw_aem_04wQ-l6k2z_KCoC2lAuBbg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Two Ealing housing development...</a></p>
Juggling With Eggs<p>How do we renationalise after 40 years of privatisation, minimum investment in infrastructure and complete failure to fix the leaks?</p><p>It will be incredibly expensive on taxpayers. But if we don’t…how long will it be before Londoners die of cholera and typhoid, while ‘profit’ is still extracted from <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> for shareholders?</p>
Juggling With Eggs<p>Left is now <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Green" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Green</span></a> Party not <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a>.</p><p>Since 1989 £7 billion paid to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> shareholders instead of upgrading the Victorian sewage system.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Thatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thatcher</span></a> thought she could have her cake and eat it. Get the cost of overhauling national infrastructure off the government’s balance sheet, while overseeing progress. </p><p>Only one element happened…and her city mates got rich<br><a href="https://leftfootforward.org/2025/03/green-party-co-leader-calls-for-renationalisation-of-thames-water-during-sewage-works-visit/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">leftfootforward.org/2025/03/gr</span><span class="invisible">een-party-co-leader-calls-for-renationalisation-of-thames-water-during-sewage-works-visit/</span></a>?</p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Go Brexit, cover everything with shit. </p><p>But at least the Shareholder get their payout, that's all that matters./s</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/20/watchdog-investigating-whether-defra-breaking-laws-on-cleaning-up-english-rivers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/mar/20/watchdog-investigating-whether-defra-breaking-laws-on-cleaning-up-english-rivers</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sewage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DEFRA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEFRA</span></a></p>
Jayne :wales_flag:🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@Geri" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Geri</span></a></span> </p><p>By any measure, <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> is a failed business as it cannot function without government support (i.e. subsidies).</p><p>If you or I "invest" (AKA "gamble") on the stock market we're always warned that our investments can go down as well as up.</p><p>Thames Water should be nationalised with no recompense to shareholders who must have known the risk of business failure when they invested 🤷</p>
Geri ❤️<p>Steven Reed on #<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BbcQuestionTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BbcQuestionTime</span></a> says it will cost £100 billion to renationalise <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a></p><p>Nonsense, you just issue public bonds to the shareholders</p>
Geri ❤️<p>Whatley on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BbcQuestionTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BbcQuestionTime</span></a> refers back to when <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Thameswater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thameswater</span></a> was publically owned and says that every time the government's budgets are put under pressure, there was difficulty. In so much as shall we spend more money on The NHS or shall we spend more money on the water companies and she said it was under invested</p><p>But this is not true.</p><p>Thames Water returned a profit every single year for ten years before Thatcher sold it</p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@NorthantsGreens" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>NorthantsGreens</span></a></span> Customers should go on a payment strike and destroy the company like we are destroying Tesla </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeslaTakedown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeslaTakedown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LateStageCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LateStageCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NoBillionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoBillionaires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sewage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a></p>
michael<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oxford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oxford</span></a> news headlines in the last few days were all about the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/goldToilet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goldToilet</span></a> heist and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> bailout. Are we sure there isn't a link between these? Like one could be a symbol of the other ?</p>
Susi Arnott<p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/CitizensArrest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CitizensArrest</span></a> of criminally greedy water company CEO <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> <a href="https://www.citizensarrestnetwork.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">citizensarrestnetwork.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Jules<p>Green activists try to make citizen’s arrests of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> executives<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/18/green-activists-try-to-make-citizens-arrests-of-thames-water-executives" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/mar/18/green-activists-try-to-make-citizens-arrests-of-thames-water-executives</span></a>? <a href="https://social.coop/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterPollution</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/SewagePollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SewagePollution</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a></p>
Thames Water Discharge Bot<p>💩 7 Thames Water outlets are currently discharging waste into UK waterways! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bot</span></a></p>
Kriszta Satori<p><a href="https://journa.host/tags/BBCNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBCNews</span></a> - <a href="https://journa.host/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> 's £3bn rescue deal cleared by court<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7vzq9436zdo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/c7vzq943</span><span class="invisible">6zdo</span></a></p>
Geri ❤️<p>I am watching a documentary about <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> one of the managers is leaving. For a 'joke', someone has left a plastic poo in the corridor. They are all laughing </p><p>I am furious.</p>
AntJBro<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@Geri" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Geri</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> is totally fucking outrageous but not as much as the ineffectual regulator (not sure it serves any purpose in reality) or this in the pocket of the sponsors Tory government we have at the moment.</p>
Geri ❤️<p>1/4 of the UK's population relies upon <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> for a commodity it can't do without.</p>
Geri ❤️<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> are going to use £1.5billion pounds out of the £3billion pounds that they have been recently allowed to receive to appeal against the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ofwat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ofwat</span></a> decision to limit the amount of money they can charge customers. </p><p>That is fucking outrageous!</p>
The Japan Times<p>U.K. water companies discharged sewage for 3.6 million hours in 2023, polluting rivers and coastlines while damaging ecosystems and scaring away tourists. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/17/world/science-health/britain-sewage-waterways-seas/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/</span><span class="invisible">17/world/science-health/britain-sewage-waterways-seas/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/worldnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldnews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sciencehealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencehealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thameswater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thameswater</span></a></p>
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