An image of a table from Take Back Water’s event showing the campaigns various flyers and a QR code to join the pledge to fight.
Audience and panellists at the Take Back Water event last weekend at Pelican House in Hackney.
Audience and panellists at the Take Back Water event last weekend at Pelican House in Hackney.
On the weekend I attended Take Back Water: What if we refuse to pay💧🌊
My notes from the event include:
We must shift our thinking away from the consumer narrative - WE ARE ENTITLED TO WATER - it makes up over 60% of our bodies💙
Continued below🩵
21.07.2025 08:47 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0
TODAY: What if we refused to pay?
Join us and an incredible line up of experts from think tanks, trade unions and local anti-sewage pollution campaigns to discuss how we take back water from the profiteers and polluters 👇
19.07.2025 07:47 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Abolish private ownership of water next.
18.07.2025 15:11 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Last chance – register now!
Join our event tomorrow: What if we refused to pay? buytickets.at/takebackwate...
18.07.2025 12:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tired of reading about Water Boss’ Bonuses? Reading about Fine’s that do fuck all? Seeing Sewage increasing?
What if we refused to pay our water bills?
Join Take Back Water tomorrow for the first event of many on politics of refusal and common ownership.
18.07.2025 08:09 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Secure your spot – Take Back Water: what if we refused to pay? – Pelican House
From the Poll Tax to Don’t Pay, student rent strikes and beyond — mass refusal has a powerful history in the UK. Millions have ...
What will it take to end the failure of private ownership of water?
This Saturday, join us and an incredible line up of experts from think tanks, trade unions and local anti-sewage pollution campaigns to discuss this question👇 buytickets.at/takebackwate...
17.07.2025 09:58 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📍 Johnbosco Nwogbo – Lead Campaigner at @weownit.org.uk. He previously campaigned for renters' rights as part of ACORN the community union and helped lead winning campaigns on the NHS.
16.07.2025 16:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
📍 Sophie Flinders – a senior data analyst at @cmmonwealth.bsky.social, a think tank that advocates for democratic forms of ownership. Her research interests include healthcare, forensic accountancy and private equity in social care.
16.07.2025 16:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
📍 Frances Northrop – a co-founding Director of @abundance-org.bsky.social and Head of Community Economic Power at @neweconomics.bsky.social. From a place of practical experience, Frances advises on generative local economies.
16.07.2025 16:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
📍 Ash Smith – founder of the @windrushwasp.bsky.social team of professionals, known for its data analysis and evidence-based exposure of water company criminality and regulatory capture.
16.07.2025 16:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Speaker line-up | Common ownership
For our first session on Saturday, we're excited to be joined by a series of excellent speakers from the water and common ownership movements.
Check it out 👇
16.07.2025 16:16 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Secure your spot – Take Back Water: what if we refused to pay? – Pelican House
From the Poll Tax to Don’t Pay, student rent strikes and beyond — mass refusal has a powerful history in the UK. Millions have ...
Three days to go!
Join us on Saturday to discuss what it'll take to end the scandal of private ownership of water with experts from think tanks, trade unions and local anti-sewage pollution campaigns.
Register for event now 👇 buytickets.at/takebackwate...
16.07.2025 09:37 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Joining us for the event is:
👉 Frances Northrop, @abundance-org.bsky.social
👉 Jim Morris-Knight, @unison.org.uk
👉 Sophie Flinders, @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
👉 Johnbosco Nwogbo, @weownit.org.uk
👉 Ash Smith, @windrushwasp.bsky.social p
👉 Seth Wheeler, Agit Press
And more!
13.07.2025 14:48 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
What will it take to end the failure of private ownership of water?
On Saturday 19 July, we're inviting you to join us and an incredible line up of experts from think tanks, trade unions and local anti-sewage pollution campaigns to discuss this question👇
13.07.2025 14:48 — 👍 19 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
Secure your spot – Take Back Water: what if we refused to pay? – Pelican House
From the Poll Tax to Don’t Pay, student rent strikes and beyond — mass refusal has a powerful history in the UK. Millions have ...
❓ But what makes for an effective mass non-payment campaign?
🌊 Join us on 19 July to explore these questions through the framework of refusal and the crises currently facing the private water industry in England and Wales.
Secure your spot now 👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/takeb...
04.07.2025 08:36 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
🎳 What if we refused to pay? 🎳
✉ From the Poll Tax to Don’t Pay, mass refusal has a powerful history in the UK.
Millions have come together to oppose unjust taxes and soaring bills through the act of refusing to pay.
04.07.2025 08:36 — 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2
Should we prioritise ensuring water is used to irrigate fields for crops
...or for cooling data centres?
Thames Water might soon be brought into a Special Administration Regime, but public ownership alone won’t fix a system rigged for private profit.
Without real social control, we risk repeating the same mistakes.
26.06.2025 10:20 — 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 3
The Government said it’d cost £99bn to publicly own our water.
But this drew on calculations by — drumroll — water company lobbyists. The true cost is closer to zero.
Here’s why. 🧵
09.06.2025 07:28 — 👍 98 🔁 53 💬 2 📌 4
It’s always the same - privatise the profits, socialise the losses.
They spend decades siphoning wealth off-shore and then everyone else has to bail them out so they don’t run any risk.
08.06.2025 10:01 — 👍 15 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
Like only they can do, Labour and Starmer have made an already bad situation a lot worse 👏🏼
07.06.2025 19:18 — 👍 28 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 0
What other industry could so brazenly demand immunity from the crimes they commit?
If Keir Starmer won't stand up to this blackmail, it's up to us to act.
Join the pledge to strike and help put the criminal Thames Water out of business for good 👉 takebackwater.uk
07.06.2025 18:52 — 👍 43 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 1
Take Back Water
Take down the profiteers, end the scam. Turn the tide on 40 years of privatisation and failure.
It couldn't be clearer: the future of Thames Water is either as a publicly-owned utility or a privately-owned criminal organisation.
Yet Starmer will keep doing all he can to keep the firm in private hands.
It's time to put Thames out of business for good 👇 takebackwater.uk
07.06.2025 18:48 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Keir Starmer could've taken Thames Water back into public hands months ago.
Now he's being blackmailed by the only remaining bidder willing to rescue the utility before it runs out of cash at the end of the month.
Their terms: don't prosecute our crimes.
07.06.2025 18:38 — 👍 41 🔁 26 💬 6 📌 3
Water firms have already said they'll increase bosses' salaries to get around any ban on bonuses.
The only way to end the profiteering is to take water out of private hands.
06.06.2025 12:37 — 👍 24 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
it will never not astound me how little you can buy a labour politician for
05.06.2025 12:52 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
