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@Knittingdancer I'd be more worried about the stuff companies like #thameswater have discharged into the water. 
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My, so glad our Government is standing up for us little people against the big water companies..../s
"Thames Water picks private equity firm as preferred buyer."
Argh, shit. (Literally).
BBC NewsThames Water picks US private equity firm KKR as preferred buyerThe troubled water utility firm says KKR could complete the deal in the second half of this year.
Surely #ThamesWater will only be made worse by a giant US private equity firm.
FFS, end the madness and #NationaliseThamesWaterNow
BBC News - Thames Water picks private equity firm as preferred buyer
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crldrylyy9do
www.bbc.comThames Water picks US private equity firm KKR as preferred buyerThe troubled water utility firm says KKR could complete the deal in the second half of this year.
"Seven housing developments including two in the #London Borough of #Ealing have been identified as flushing foul water into West London's rivers including the River Brent." #polution #ThamesWater
ealing.news/environment/...
Two Ealing housing development...
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How do we renationalise after 40 years of privatisation, minimum investment in infrastructure and complete failure to fix the leaks?
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 #ThamesWater for shareholders?
Left is now #Green Party not #Labour.
Since 1989 £7 billion paid to #ThamesWater shareholders instead of upgrading the Victorian sewage system.
#Thatcher 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.
Only one element happened…and her city mates got rich
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/03/green-party-co-leader-calls-for-renationalisation-of-thames-water-during-sewage-works-visit/?
Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate · Green Party co-leader calls for renationalisation of Thames Water during sewage works visit"With every passing day, it’s becoming clearer and clearer that 40 years of water privatisation has been 40 years of disaster."
Go Brexit, cover everything with shit.
But at least the Shareholder get their payout, that's all that matters./s
The Guardian · Watchdog investigating whether Defra breaking laws on cleaning up English rivers
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By any measure, #ThamesWater is a failed business as it cannot function without government support (i.e. subsidies).
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.
Thames Water should be nationalised with no recompense to shareholders who must have known the risk of business failure when they invested 
Steven Reed on ##BbcQuestionTime says it will cost £100 billion to renationalise #ThamesWater
Nonsense, you just issue public bonds to the shareholders
Whatley on #BbcQuestionTime refers back to when #Thameswater 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
But this is not true.
Thames Water returned a profit every single year for ten years before Thatcher sold it
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@NorthantsGreens Customers should go on a payment strike and destroy the company like we are destroying Tesla
#Oxford news headlines in the last few days were all about the #goldToilet heist and #ThamesWater bailout. Are we sure there isn't a link between these? Like one could be a symbol of the other ?
Green activists try to make citizen’s arrests of #ThamesWater executives
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/18/green-activists-try-to-make-citizens-arrests-of-thames-water-executives? #WaterPollution #SewagePollution #DirectAction
The Guardian · Green campaigners attempt citizen’s arrests of Thames Water executives
7 Thames Water outlets are currently discharging waste into UK waterways! #ThamesWater #Bot
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@NorthantsGreens I encourage all #ThamesWater customers to stop paying your bills now! If I was still one, I would!
