Tom Killick

Water bills: millions of households in England could face even bigger rises CMA poised to give verdict after appeal by five firms for permission to increase bills higher than allowed by Ofwat

Are they actually joking ⁉️

5 private water companies want permission to raise your bills EVEN HIGHER

💧Bills already went up £10/month in April💧

There is no market, the rip off won't end until we end privatisation

Start by taking back Thames Water

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Water bills: millions of households in England could face even bigger rises CMA poised to give verdict after appeal by five firms for permission to increase bills higher than allowed by Ofwat

In December, Ofwat approved average bills going up 36% by 2030 - that's £597 a year.

🤑But for the water companies, that's not enough! Shareholders want more of your money, so they're appealing for even bigger bill increases.

END THE SCAM. Public ownership of water, starting with Thames Water.

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

"Not only the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves, without records, as if they had never existed – so many other things have been hollowed out: basic conceptions of morality, decency, compassion, humanity, hope, future." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This war of revenge has lasted two nightmare years. There’s only one hope for peace: Israel recognising Palestine | Raja Shehadeh Donald Trump’s proposals are in play, but here in the West Bank we live in fear that the devastation of Gaza is coming our way, says writer and lawyer Raja Shehadeh

"Israel must choose between perpetual war or living in peace. This can only happen if the country recognises Palestinian self-determination – a prospect that, at present, seems remote." #FreePalestine #StopArmingIsrael www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Email your MP: unfreeze housing benefit Ask your MP to tell to the Chancellor to unfreeze housing benefit to prevent homelessness.

Housing benefit is failing to cover the true cost of private rent, forcing people across Britain into poverty, ill health and homelessness. I’ve asked my MP to urge the Chancellor to fix this at the UK Autumn Budget. Will you join me? @crisis-uk.bsky.social‬ campaigns.crisis.org.uk/page/176493/...

Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040

Thames Water's bidders ask to be excused from fully complying with rules on pollution until 2035-40.

Rule of law?

Anything given to TW can't be denied to others. Sewage will be dumped. Customers will be fleeced. Returns will be extracted.

One law for corporations, another for lesser mortals.

Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040

Thames Water creditors offering to save their own skins with 25% debt write off while carrying on polluting your rivers for the next 15 years?!

NO NO NO

Special Administration NOW. Cut the debt by 50%, invest every penny of your bills in stopping sewage

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Thames Water lenders submit new rescue plan to stave off collapse Creditors in control of firm say they will write off loans, invest more and commit to paying pollution fines

We need public ownership of Thames Water NOW!!! @weownit.org.uk @riveractionuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ring-fence our NHS from new PFI - take action now Rachel Reeves can protect our NHS from private finance in her Autumn Budget.

🔥28 good Labour MPs have already signed the Labour Manifesto Board, standing for a publicly funded NHS.

If you have a Labour MP ask them to sign now.

If you don’t have a Labour MP email Rachel Reeves directly. 👇

£500m Thames Water desalination plant has provided just seven days’ water over 15 years Plant in Beckton has run only five times and has been beset by multiple problems since it was built

"That puts the lifetime bill at about £518m, or about 7p for every litre the plant has ever produced, which is 28 times more than customers usually pay for their water." We need public ownership of water NOW!!! @weownit.org.uk @riveractionuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Say no to new PFI in our NHS - take action The government’s new 10-Year Plan for Health is proposing to bring disastrous private finance deals back into our NHS.

😡This must be stopped!

Labour's 2024 manifesto promised our NHS would always be "publicly owned and publicly funded".

Now they are talking about reintroducing PFI into our NHS.

PFI would set a ticking time bomb under our NHS that will blow up in patients' faces - ACT NOW.

⌛Time's running out for Thames Water.

The failing company will likely be put into a Special Administration Regime, a form of temporary nationalisation.

The government must then keep Thames in public hands.

Great support from @stevewitherdenmp. Get your MP to sign the pledge today 👇

Lewisham Greens are bringing a Council motion to demand public ownership of Thames Water.
Alongside @compassoffice.bsky.social, we're working with Councils in the Thames Water region to to make their position clear.
Listen to @liamshrivastava.bsky.social talk about why he's bringing the motion here'

🚨Thames Water is still in crisis! 🚨
82% of us want publicly owned water. If MPs truly represent us, they must reflect OUR views.

It's great to have @iqbalmohamedmp with us in this fight.

Take 1 minute to get your MP to pledge to make Thames Water public. 👇

Fears of new PFI-style ‘disaster’ as firms handed £6m to advise on using private funds for NHS clinics Exclusive: Consultants and lawyers hired to advise on using public-private partnerships to build ‘neighbourhood health centres’ in England

The PFI disaster

Wes Streeting readies more of the NHS for privatisation. Hands £6m to advisers.

NHS will be a shell doling out contracts to private equity and corporations. Profits guaranteed.

Money will buy less. Higher taxes, lower value.

Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.

The consensus is clear: it’s genocide. Now will international law die in Gaza too? | Raji Sourani The clue is in the name: the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. When will we act?, asks Raji Sourani, the coordinator of the Palestinian legal team at the internatio...

"Despite the killing of many brave journalists, others have continued to show the reality: the genocide has been broadcast straight to your screen at home. Still, governments around the world haven’t stopped it." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky&

Government doubles down on £100 billion water nationalisation price tag – but are they coming clean on the true cost of publicly owned water? The current cost is based on a discredited report funded by the private water companies.

Defra's new statement about the cost of nationalising water fails to recognise

💧1/3 of water bills goes to debt and dividends
💰buying a profitable asset = you get a profitable asset
⚖️parliament can decide on appropriate compensation

@leftfootforward.bsky.social

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'We cannot allow the immense, unfathomable suffering of the Palestinian people to be ignored for a minute longer' BRITAIN’S involvement in the Gaza genocide was condemned in a new report by Amnesty International UK, which today highlighted 15 companies profiting from and fuelling Israel’s mass atrocities.The gove...

“... states and companies are aware that their revenues come from death, destruction and immense suffering of Palestinians, yet they have decided to look away, maintain their business models regardless of the human cost, and indulge in their wealth." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/we-c...

Keir Starmer - don't promise Trump more giveaways for US Big Tech We the undersigned call on Keir Starmer to resist Trump’s pressure, and put the interests of the UK before those of US Big Tech.

Please sign the urgent petition to Keir Starmer - don't offer Donald Trump more giveaways to US Big Tech companies: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ke...

Government's worst case scenario for nationalising water still leaves households better off If the government took water into public ownership, it could save customers £3 billion a year. Research shows that debt and dividends is crippling the industry’s ability to fix the sewage crisis.

The government has published its explanation of the £100 billion estimate for nationalising English water

There are many reasons why we wouldn't have to pay that much but EVEN IF WE DID, Greenwich University research shows it would be a good deal 👇👇👇

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“The ‘true cost in law’ of nationalising the UK water sector is far lower than the government’s figure and is in fact ‘closer to zero’, according to a report from the think tank Common Wealth.”

Our briefing with @ewanmg.bsky.social featured in @social.newcivilengineer.com 🔗👇

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010

"... the privatised water industry, which has run up long-term debts of £73bn and paid out dividends of £88.4bn in the past 34 years at the same time as overseeing record sewage spills." @weownit.org.uk @riveractionuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thames Water paid £1m-plus to corporate spooks firm part-owned by Starmer adviser Exclusive: Hakluyt – formerly run by Varun Chandra – has been advising utilities company as it tries to avoid renationalisation

Revolving doors.

Thames Water paid £1m+ to corporate lobbyists part-owned by Starmer adviser.

The aim is to reach policymakers, keep TW private.

TW pays £200m a year to various advisers, cost borne by customers.

Public ownership would end this chicanery. No need to pay dividends, lobbyists.

Revealed: sewage overflow in English and Welsh national parks twice outside rate Exclusive: Campaigners attack ‘outrageous’ situation, saying waters in protected areas should be cleanest

We need public ownership of water NOW!!! @weownit.org.uk @riveractionuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Public health catastrophe or upset the financiers? From a confidence in government point of view, can it get any worse than this?Water Minister Emma Hardy was speaking at the cross-party Efra Committee hearing in Parliament on Tuesday 9 September, exp...

"The Minister [Emma Hardy, DEFRA] was talking hesitantly about statutory duties and enforcement orders, missing crucially important insolvency issues and stumbling unconvincingly through a distorted interpretation that defies logic and common sense." Agreed! www.windrushwasp.org/single-post/...

Thames Water paid £1m-plus to corporate spooks firm part-owned by Starmer adviser Exclusive: Hakluyt – formerly run by Varun Chandra – has been advising utilities company as it tries to avoid renationalisation

"A corporate intelligence company part-owned and formerly run by the prime minister’s business adviser has been paid more than £1m by Thames Water as the utilities firm tries to avoid renationalisation." @weownit.org.uk @riveractionuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Unions come together to protest visa rule changes threatening migrant workers in rail and DWP RMT, with the support of PCS, will protest outside the Home Office on 17 September against skilled worker visa changes pushing migrant rail and civil service workers into crisis.

Unfair visa rule changes. "The demonstration will take place at the Home Office, 2 Marsham Street, SW1P 4DF at 8am on Wednesday 17 September and is expected to draw support from across the labour movement." @pcsunion.bsky.social @rmtunion.bsky.social More info: www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...

A wonderful start to Your Party Lambeth last night with 150 people gathering to discuss and begin the process of building our Lambeth branch. Lots of great discussion, ideas and excitement. Here we come!

To find out more visit: lambeth4yourparty.uk

This time last week we brought together over 40 MPs and rail experts in parliament to push for a railway that works for passengers, not profit.

The railways bill is a huge opportunity to finally kick out private profiteers from the system and bring down fares.

Get your MP to read our report 👇