Matthew Topham

It's our social security — our insurance.

Protecting those disabled people already on PIP is an important first step.

But it's our futures that are behind sold down the river.

Thames Water lenders demand government blocks campaigners from legal action Creditors owed £13bn say ministers should prioritise ‘environmental betterment over punitive enforcement’

Thames Water's lenders must not be allowed to bully the government.

It is in the national interest to end the farce and bring Thames Water into public hands.

It's cheaper. It's fairer. It's cleaner.
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Pass the Employment Rights Bill – in full, without delay The biggest upgrade in workers’ rights in a generation is within reach. But Tory peers and big business want to water it down. Add your name now to demand the House of Lords passes the Employment Righ...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/pa...

Clipping from a newspaper.

"Thames Water is sinking under a torrent of debt, fines, and pollution."

"The only way to stop this is nationalisation."

🎯 Gary Carter from @GMB_Union in the local paper.

I was a civil servant in the Dept for Transport in 1990s when the then Tory minister for London rejected extending bus deregulation to London, describing its operation elsewhere as "a pile of crap". Even Tories are right sometimes. @cathobbs.bsky.social @pedrojuk.bsky.social @mjhtopham.bsky.social

New US Study Finds Forever Chemicals in Beers A new US study has found PFAS in beers. Some of the beers had levels of PFAS that exceeded drinking water limits set by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

🍺 @acs.org recently published a study which found #PFAS in US beers.

⚠️ Scientists found that beers produced in areas with higher levels of PFAS in drinking water were more likely to be contaminated.

Read more in our latest news story ➡️ buff.ly/WCVR0kB

#WaterPollution #HarmfulChemicals

Delighted to join @cathobbs.bsky.social and @mjhtopham.bsky.social from @weownit.org.uk yesterday in @loisred.bsky.social search for her MP Steve Reed, Environment Secretary, to make case for public ownership of water. We didn't find him but will keep trying.

📣 We're currently running our April Bio-Blitz! 🌼

We need 100 people to make 10 observations each of plants and wildlife on the iNaturalist App 🌳

🏡 Make a difference from your doorstep and join us in helping Nature in Alwoodley 🐞

➡️ Follow this link to sign up: sites.google.com/alwoodley203...

🚨 JUST OUT — privatised water companies DUMPED sewage for MILLION hours in 2024.

Are you sick of this 💩? Do you want to end the profit from pollution crisis?

Sign our petition for public ownership, starting with Thames Water: tinyurl.com/cd9y2pf8

People living near a tram had a 65% lower carbon footprint. Britain Remade (2024) Back on track: how to build new trams in the UK and get Britain moving. Image of a tram.

Portland's tram helps slash emissions.

West Yorkshire had a HUGE network for over 50 years.

THIS is how we make transport work for everyone: people and planet.

Sign the petition: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/br...

🎉South Yorkshire buses are coming back into public control!

🚏🚍Next stop needs to be public ownership.

@mjhtopham.bsky.social on BBC Look North today, on ending the privatisation death spiral.

'Back to the future' - South Yorkshire buses back under public control South Yorkshire Mayor Oliver Coppard said that the region is going “back to the future” after making the landmark decision to take buses back under public control.

📣Win for public ownership 🥳

“It’s a testament to the people of South Yorkshire that the Mayor’s now delivering a reform that could over time boost reliability, integrate tickets and routes, and halt or reverse cuts.”

@mjhtopham.bsky.social in Yorkshire Post
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Public events coming up. Come and have your say on the future of our water. Free

YouTube video by Ilkley Clean River Group StopTheWaterScam

#StopTheWaterScam
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"[Our] analysis has not thrown a clear relationship between company ownership and performance." - Independent Commission "Not a single privatised water utility comes even close to their [best public operators'] performance." - Prof Asit Biswas, Water Prize Winner

❌ Jon Cunliffe of the government's supposedly 'Independent' Water Commission claims they can't find evidence that water OWNERSHIP matters.

✅ Glasgow hosts a 'universally acknowledged' expert who says PRIVATISATION is worse.

✍️ Ask them to look again: weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...

Fashioning a new future: Can you help Leeds Craftivists push for political change? By Laura Fetherston, Climate Action Leeds volunteerA Leeds group has invited local people to contribute clothes for a creative effort to protect the planet and the textile workers who supply the UK's ...

"If we want to build a world that is beautiful, kind, and fair, then our activism must be beautiful, kind, and fair too."

The latest campaign from the Craftivist at Leeds Sanctuary.

Check it out here 👇 on the Climate Action Leeds blogs.
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Generational divide over plans for trams between Leeds and Bradford BRADFORD Council will continue to push for a tram line that passes through Holme Wood and re-use old rail routes – despite that route not being…

The proposed Bradford-Leeds Tram line gets...
⏩ X2 the support from 18-35 year olds compared to those over 65
⏭️ its highest support from those studying, working or living on the route.

To get the FULL benefits we need a Full network. www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2497296...

Steve Reed: include public ownership as an option in your independent commission on the water sector. | We Own It Steve Reed must put public ownership back on the table.

🚨BREAKING - Steve Reed has just launched the biggest review into the water sector since privatisation.

But wait…..he says the commission can’t even consider public ownership. 🤯

We need to act quickly to change his mind. ⏰

Sign our petition now ✍️
weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...

“The public is being treated as a minor stakeholder by water companies, regulators and government…the public funds the water sector, are passionate about their local environment & have been the driving force for change in the water sector….” Prof malby www.thepeoplescommissiononthewatersector.co.uk

We're so close to hitting that target!

Do you agree with @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social that Thames Water should come into public ownership?

Nearly 35,000 people have already signed our petition calling for just that.

Help us hit that target — add your name here: weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...

🎉 We did it! 🎉

In less than 24 hours, campaigners across the country took our Thames Water petition from 25,000 to 30,500.

Do you agree with bringing privatised water companies, like Thames Water, into public ownership?

Sign ✍️ and share 🔁 NOW! weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...

Thames Water plans to hike bosses’ pay in response to bonus caps UK’s debt-laden utility warns it will raise salaries if bonus restrictions are enforced by regulator Ofwat

And there you have it.

For all the Labour government's noise about tackling the sewage scandal...

...their policies are designed to sound good but have no REAL impact.

e.g., introducing a bonus ban they know will be dodged.

⚠️ Public ownership NOW. ⚠️
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Say NO to a shareholder bailout: stop the water bill hikes!

✂️ Winter Fuel Allowance — CUT
📈 Bus Cap — HIKED
💡 Energy Bills — RISING

And now Ofwat could sign off up to 80% increases in water bills for some households in JUST 7 days’ time.

Privatisation is a rip-off.

Sign our petition to stop the hikes before next Thursday. weownit.org.uk/act-now/stop...

🔊 EXPLAINED IN 60 SECONDS 🔊

Have you heard about the secret Thames Water deal that could cost households £250+ a year?

@GraceBlakeley.bsky.social breaks down what's at stake — and how public ownership can stop the crisis.

✍️ Sign the petition to stop it here: weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...

Thames Water is after a £3 billlion bailout loan💰

The interest and fees alone will be £800 million 💸

The company only has one source of income - customer bills 🧾

What might happen to those bills? 🤔

We need Steve Reed to #BlockTheBailout ❌
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On Monday we attended a briefing for MPs with the formidable @windrushwasp.bsky.social, Stanley Root, forensic accountant & prof. Ewan McGaughey. All highlighting the scale of illegality in water companies. @labourlewis.bsky.social @annadixonmp.bsky.social

Sewage groups protest against Thames Water's call for steep bill hikes Anti-sewage groups from Oxfordshire protested against  Thames Water's plans for steep bill hikes to cover the cost of its temporary £3 billion…

Yesterday, campaigners from across the Thames region came together to demand Steve Reed protect them from a bad bailout deal.

Public ownership could save us BILLIONS. It's time.
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I've signed it. Don't sell off critical assets (again). They must be owned by and for the people, not profit.

Headline reads: Struggling Thames Water receives £5bn buyout offer from Covalis Deal would result in France's Suez Group being brought in to manage restructure of water Company

🤑 Plans put forward by potential Thames Water shareholders include a £4 BILLION asset sale.

🫵 YOUR bills built those assets. YOU should own them.

✍️✍️✍️ Sign our petition for Thames Water to come into public ownership NOW: weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...