@boycottthameswater
We are Thames Water customers who refuse to pay part or all of our bills. Doing so hastens the day when Thames Water will be back in public ownership. See https://boycottthameswater.org/advice-for-boycotters/ for contact details and tips on boycotting.
"This is the Dahiya doctrine: if an insurgency cannot be ended or the leadership of a state cannot be subdued, the route to victory lies with the relentless punishing of the civilian population." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My high street (A23 Streatham High Road, London) this morning. Quite dangerous for pedestrians to cross. Private water bad, public water good! @weownit.org.uk @martinabrams.bsky.social
The Consumer Council for Water, quoted here wringing their hands at further price increases, is no use to us whatsoever - they won't help with individual complaints. Wtf do they do? @weownit.org.uk @cathobbs.bsky.social morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mill...
Last week Ash Smith & Peter Hammond joined us to tell Environment Minister Emma Reynolds she must reject Thames Water's rescue bid.
High Wycombe, her constituency is surrounded by illegal sewage dumping.
Thames Water's Dirty Business must stop. Sign our petition if you agree.
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🌊Fantastic to see another council call for Thames Water to be brought back into public hands!
The public should decide what happens to our water, not shareholders!
Swindon Borough Council is now one of a dozen councils standing up for what 82% of the public want.
Who voted for this?
Water companies dump sewage in rivers. Execs get bonuses for destructive practices. Shareholders got £85.2bn in dividends.
6.17m people in England await 7.29m hospital appointments. 300,000 a year die prematurely.
Policies made to appease corporations and super rich.
Labour could bring back our water into public hands but they care more about investors than they do about you
Pumped-up poo protest over water pollution
#Bedfordshire #BedsBucksHerts
🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...
Picture of Kathy Burke with a quote from her Bluesky account: "Dirty Business on C4 was absolutely brilliant and f*****g terrifying. It's imperative we re-nationalise our water companies otherwise the greedy b*****s will kill us all."
English National Treasure says what!
If you agree with Kathy Burke, sign our petition. Bring Thames Water into public ownership. Then we can work on the rest.
vist.ly/4u32r
NO MORE POINTLESS FINES
Privatised water companies see fines as the cost of doing business
Pocket change while they keep prioritising shareholders
Remove South East Water's licence, take it into public ownership NOW
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Last year Jessica's son got ill after playing in the River Thames. Her message to Environment Minister? Don't let our children get ill. Stop the illegal sewage.
If you agree sign our petition: vist.ly/4txpt
"Shocking, absolutely couldn't believe it's a true story"
Jessica, mum of 3 kids, talks about Dirty Business and the time her son got ill from sewage
She tells Environment Minister Emma Reynolds: say NO to Thames Water's proposal for 14 years of sewage outside of legal limits
'We Own It said the proposal effectively sought "to pollute outside of legal limits for the next 14 years"'.
💩Our protest this week, covered by the BBC 💩
South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak.
Water unfit for human consumption, 150 people fell ill.
SWW already has nearly 200 criminal convictions. Licence not cancelled, no exec prosecuted, record high customer bills, sewage dumped in rivers.
Privatisation is a scam.
Ofwat £22m fine proposal for South East Water for repeated supply failures.
"Proposal" = companies with criminal convictions negotiate, may never pay.
Thames Water to pay 2024 fines by 2030 or never.
2024 fines on Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water quietly waived.
Execs never fined or prosecuted.
Lois speaks truth to power!
Last year she challenged Steve Reed to meet her at the football.
This year she's calling out Emma Reynolds on the lie that we need private investors to deliver our water.
Public ownership now, starting with Thames Water vist.ly/4tt7z
✨Yesterday was incredible ✨
100 people and 💩 14 giant inflatable poos 💩right in the heart of Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds' constituency
Ofwat and the Environment Secretary must say NO to 14 years of illegal Thames Water sewage pollution
Take 2 mins to email Ofwat now: vist.ly/4ttyp
Picture of Hugh Grant, with a quote of his from X: "Dirty Business on Channel 4. Brilliantly made, devastating. Water must be nationalised now. The owners of the private water companies jailed."
Hang it in the The Louvre! *
Hugh Grant is right - the privatisation of water is a scam, and it's a Very English Scandal that no-one has been brought to justice for the destruction of our rivers and seas.
We need public ownership, and oversight, now.
* (with extra security)
Ash Smith, the campaigner behind Channel 4's Dirty Business docu-drama, tells the government - get a grip!
Private profiteers can't be trusted any longer with our water - it needs to be in public hands, starting with Thames Water.
Act NOW - sign the petition: vist.ly/4tq48
Dirty Business on C4 was absolutely brilliant and fucking terrifying. It’s imperative we re-nationalise our water companies otherwise the greedy bastards will kill us all.
💯If Dirty Business has enraged you, channel that anger! We fight for public ownership, and winning campaigns for people not profit.
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🚨Exciting news! Peter Hammond & Ash Smith, founders of Windrush Wasp & the inspiration for Channel 4's 'Dirty Business', will be at our protest in High Wycombe this Wednesday.
If you agree Thames Water can't be allowed to pollute illegally for the next 14 years, join us: vist.ly/4tdnf
And why is there no pushback? The water companies are paying the Environment Agency!!
Enough of this farce. Public ownership of water now.
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Take 2 mins now to to write to Ofwat and demand that they say NO to the Thames Water creditors' demand to pollute illegally until 2040 - https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/email-ofwat-the-public-have-said-no-to-illegal-sewage-until-2040
❌This government is telling us that regulating water companies is the answer to the sewage crisis...❌
....Yet regulators are more toothless than ever. The environment agency is writing off serious sewage spills without even visiting sites, because water companies won't let them.
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Infographic of a YouGove poll showing that voters across party lines primarily want to see railway companies and utilities run in the public sector.
👍Your regular reminder that public ownership is popular. This is a poll by YouGove taken just before the last General Election
🤮 Channel 4's 'Dirty Business' exposed how filthy and corrupt privatised water is.
🤯 Yet Ofwat still hasn't rejected the Thames Water creditors' request to pollute illegally until 2040 ?!?!
✍️ Take 2mins now to send our latest email to Ofwat and tell them how FURIOUS you are about this deal.
Corruption in England's water industry and its regulation
2,778 serious pollution incidents reported in 2024.
Officials downgraded 2,735 (98%) to minor incidents.
Only 496 attended before downgrading; the rest were deemed minor.
Regulators collude with industry, inflicting harms to people.
Angry after watching Dirty Business on Channel 4?
Channel it! 👇👇👇
📢 @ashsmith43.bsky.social @windrushwasp.bsky.social
will be at our protest against illegal sewage Weds 4th in High Wycombe 🤩 - join us!
Can't make it? Write to Ofwat weownit.org.uk/act-now/emai...
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