'Revoke licence' call by Lib Dem over Southern Water 'dry spilling' | Hampshire Chronicle
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23773607.revoke-licence-call-lib-dem-southern-water-dry-spilling/

#LibDems
#SouthernWater
#Sewage
#DrySpilling
#ThamesWater
#WessexWater

@tagesschau Wir haben das mit der #Privatisierung der #Wasserversorgung in Berlin glücklicherweise hinter uns gelassen. Und engagieren uns dafür, dass unsere Berliner #Wasserbetriebe (#BWB) nicht erneut an renditeorientierte Konzerne verscherbelt werden! #Veolia #RWE #ThamesWater #Daseinsvorsorge

Making a point...

#ThamesWater #Thames

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-66408546

@AnthonyFStevens I've now read your eighteen part manifesto, and while there are interesting ideas in it, it's still fundamentally neoliberal in outlook, looking to loans on international money markets (i.e. another way of ensuring the #plutocrats keep profiting).

The UK isn't "broke". Wages are not paid by the nation, but by corporations, which are raking in record profits. Anyone who believes in taxation as a social good who is not contemplating some form of #WealthTax probably hasn't really grasped the scale and nature of #inequality under capitalism (accelerating under its current neoliberal manifestation).

"Better links between universities and industry" entails further corporatisation of education and research (a neoliberal priority).

Why is the rail infrastructure so archaic and neglected? Privatisation, which has been a disaster, but was also a core neoliberal plank from #Thatcher onwards.

Public-private partnerships: not a solution, but another metastatis of neoliberal state capture, privatising much of the profits while effectively socialising losses and risks. Businesses often prefer this on risky infrastructure builds, so they can effectively walk away from the provision of critical needs once they've extracted maximum value (cf #ThamesWater).

Spent this evening dealing with #UKPowerNetworks I'm once again astonished how good their communication and response is. Hourly proactive calls or texts to me. Compare to #ThamesWater who do next to nothing, twice daily updates on their website if you are lucky. Also no charge for UKPN to visit to check if the fault is their or customer side.. compare to #Openreach #BT who smack the customer for £100+ if a fault is found customer side. We need to demand better from all other service providers.

It's not "poor performance".

It's criminal greed, deliberate decisions to spend money on shareholder dividends and executive bonuses rather than on fixing the infrastructure.

If the party in government were actually "The Party of Law and Order", then Thames Water executives would be facing jail time for this.

#ThamesWater #Corruption

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66174233

Le capitalisme continu de prouver son efficacité avec la faillite de #ThamesWater : la pdg a eu à son arrivée il y a 3 ans un « golden hello » (j’apprends au passage l'existence de tel mécanisme) de plus de 3M€ !
Elle a déjà démissionné, vu le résultat ça me parait cher payé.

#ThamesWater share holder are willing to spend £750 million to protect their privatised monopoly; because stealing from people what was once owned by them is so much more profitable.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66151519

#thameswater

Nobody tells it better than Led By Donkeys:

#thameswater

Private equity is the real problem. Listing Thames Water would actually help shaking it up. IMO, nationalising it when the Cons are in power is not gonna happen ..

https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2023/jul/05/the-best-way-to-save-thames-water-list-it-on-the-stock-market

#ThamesWater brought to near collapse by private looting https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/06/neay-j06.html

Thames Water has been fined £3.3m after it discharged millions of litres of undiluted sewage into two rivers, killing more than 1,400 fish.

#Politics #PoliticsUK #Water #UK #ThamesWater #TorySewageParty #SewageScandal #Sewage

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-66097906

At the GE, whenever it is, just remember that Tory MPs voted to allow water companies to continue to pollute our rivers and the sea. That includes the MP for #Henley, John Howell.

Tories apparently believe that profit comes before people.

#henleyroyalregatta #sewagescandal #gtto
#thameswater

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/04/henley-regatta-organisers-complain-of-sewage-pollution-from-thames-water?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The Home Counties voted for privatisation of their water supply and are now whinging about the obvious lack of care #ThamesWater have for the river.

They made their river bed, let them lie in it, and stink.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/04/henley-regatta-organisers-complain-of-sewage-pollution-from-thames-water

How #Privatisation Drowned #ThamesWater in Debt https://labourheartlands.com/how-privatisation-drowned-thames-water-in-debt/

Led By Donkeys exposing the rip off that was water privatisation. #ThamesWater #Privatisation #Water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui90HkEhvs0

So, should the University Superannuation Scheme (pension fund for UK academics) pump even more of its members money into #thameswater to stop it collapsing? Or should it write off its investment and let the Govt pick up the pieces? @ChrisMayLA6

BBC News: Big Thames Water investor backs turnaround plans

BBC News - Big Thames Water investor backs turnaround plans
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66079676

"#Privatisierung führte zu hohen Preisen". No surprise. Die Privaten wollen (und müssen) Gewinne machen. So ist das bei Kapitalorientierung. Darum darf man Infrastrukturen der Daseinsvorsorge auch nicht privatisieren, nicht mal teilweise (Stichwort: #PublicPrivatePartnership oder #PPP)... https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/wasserversorgung-england-100.html #ThamesWater #BWB #Veolia #RWE

Chairman of sinking #ThamesWater has beach pad with pool and penthouse apartment

Ian Marchant earns a fortune as chairman of the company that is leaking hundreds of millions of litres of water every day and has £14bn worth of debt

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/chairman-sinking-thames-water-beach-30370484

There's a new Led By Donkeys video out. It's predictably excellent.
#LedByDonkeys #ThamesWater #CapitalistBastards #UKPolitics #Sewage #Greedflation #Profiteering #Privatisation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui90HkEhvs0&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=LedByDonkeys