🚨Andy Burnham is expected to take Thames Water into Special Administration today Bad news for those who have taken £12 billion out of the company in dividends. Wonderful news for ordinary households! Anything less than permanent public ownership as a next step would be a grave betrayal

Andy Burnham has just given his first speech as Prime Minister. If he does the right thing by Thames Water and take it into permanent public ownership, we would give him 10/10, no notes.

🤑Thames Water wants to put bills up YET AGAIN. Andy Burnham is promising action on the cost of living crisis. There's no way that that can happen while water is in the hands of US hedge funds. Special administration and permanent public ownership for Thames Water, without delay.

We're waiting for the new Prime Minister to clarify what he's going to do about Thames Water. In the meantime, here are some headlines about water bosses' pay that you may have missed...number 3 is a peach! Privatised water is a scam and we're all paying the price. We need it in public ownership.

We've had 4 Environment Secretaries in just over 2 years - Barclay, Reed, Reynolds and now Eagle. Why? Because despite the disaster that our water has been, they failed to do the obvious thing Angela Eagle must make taking Thames Water into public ownership should be her top priority

Thames Water's creditors have played their last card, but it's a Joker. They're not fooling anyone, & they deserve nothing. Sign our open letter to new Environment Secretary Angela Eagle & Ofwat & tell them to reject this last-ditch deal. Thames Water must be take into special administration now.

Sign our open letter to Angela Eagle

I’ve signed a letter calling for Angela Eagle and Ofwat to reject the last-ditch deal from Thames Water's creditors. Can you sign and share it as well?

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I’ve signed a letter calling for Angela Eagle and Ofwat to reject the last-ditch deal from Thames Water's creditors. Can you sign and share it as well? weownit.org.uk/act-now/sign...

Sign our open letter to Angela Eagle

I’ve signed a letter calling for Angela Eagle and Ofwat to reject the last-ditch deal from Thames Water's creditors. Can you sign and share it as well?

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No words!

List of MPs who have signed our letter calling for Special Administration of Thames Water. 3/

List of MPs who have signed our letter calling for Special Administration of Thames Water. 2/

Andy Burnham could announce the Special Administration of Thames Water soon. If confirmed, it couldn't have happened without tens of thousands of people asking their MPs to sign our letter. Did your MP sign? Find out below.

🚨BREAKING The Sunday Times is reporting that Andy Burnham is going to take Thames Water into Special Administration This is great news. But selling the company back to private hands after fixing it would be a betrayal. Andy Burnham explicitly said Thames Water should be in public ownership

Thames Water creditors are threatening to sue if the utility is taken into Special Administration But here is why this should absolutely be the end of the road for private ownership of Thames Water

No more Thames Water deals that allow them to dump sewage, just so they can make a profit 90% of countries in the world don't have to negotiate to keep their water utilities alive. Why? They are in public ownership

This is such an important question about what happens to Thames Water's debt under Special Administration It is time to end the charade! Take Thames Water into Special Administration, and keep it permanently in public ownership

Thames Water's creditors have told Sky News they will sue if the utility is taken into Special Administration Here is our message to privateers who may have their eyes on our public services

Andy Burnham has shown political courage before when he took on Manchester's private bus companies in court and won The truth is, if he really wants to take Thames Water into public ownership, nothing can stop him 90% of the world can do it, easily

The only reason Thames Water's creditors are threatening to sue is that they think Special Administration would mean THEY, not the public, would carry the utility's debt That's good. This disaster should be on them, not the public.

Water companies reclassify bonus as retention payments, circumvent rules. Anglian Water CEO gets £1.3m retention pay. AW won't meet its regulatory targets. 44% rise in customer bills, sewage in rivers, 182m litres a day lost to leaks, criminal convictions. Govt/Ofwat do nothing. archive.ph/kmZz8

Anglian Water hands chief £1.3mn in retention pay despite bonus curbs

Nearly two-thirds of £1.9mn pay package paid by parent company unregulated by Ofwat

ft.com

South East Water warns over survival as funds dry up. SEW has £1.7bn debt Pays interest at the rates of 6% - 10% 2011-2025, paid £947m dividends, £401m interest 104m litres of water lost daily to leaks Customers fleeced Takes bad management to destroy monopoly suppliers with captive customers.

South East Water warns over survival as funds dry up

Supplier to over 2.4m customers says it doesn’t have enough money to last beyond July 2027

theguardian.com

'Not-for-profit' water: same broken system, different name 'Not-for-profit' Welsh Water ❌Lines the pockets of faraway bondholders ❌Worst for sewage dumping in 2025 ❌No real public accountability Andy Burnham MP, you promised a break with privatisation Bring Thames Water into REAL public ownership

Thames Water increased its bonus payouts to £4.1m for senior managers. It has £19.7bn debt, fleeces customers, dumps sewage in rivers, loses billions of litres of water to leaky pipes. Numerous criminal convictions, licence not revoked. But bosses rewarded .. for what? Govt/Ofwat do nothing.

Thames Water increases bonus payments to £4m despite uncertainty over future

Annual results show struggling firm’s net debt has risen to £19.7bn, up from £17.7bn a year earlier

theguardian.com

Privatised water has failed. We're backing @labourlewis.bsky.social’s call to ensure Andy Burnham meets water campaigners - including We Own It - who’ve fought for years to clean up our water -not just the water bosses who’ve profited from failure. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

Dear Andy Burnham, meet with water campaigners to discuss bringing water back into public ownership

Privatised water is a complete failure. I’m backing Clive Lewis' call to ensure that Andy Burnham meets frontline water campaigners who’ve fought for years to clean up our water -not just the water ...

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Windsor MP Jack Rankin says when companies fail, investors & creditors should lose their money. That's what should happen with Thames Water. But Ofwat is still locked in negotiations with them. Keep the pressure on. Write to Ofwat and tell them to reject the creditors: vist.ly/5b9k4

👀You won't read about this in mainstream media. Water regulator Ofwat has rejected Thames Water creditor's rescue deal. "The London & Valley Water consortium is now revising its proposal for the 4th time following objections over customer costs & investment delays." 1/2

1/4 Over the last few months, Thames Water's creditors tried to make a deal with regulators that would have allowed them to dodge fines and environmental scrutiny for four years.

We Own It@weownit.org.uk · 3w ago

The public is clear what they want to happen with Thames Water MPs are clear too. And they are standing up and demanding that the government take it into special administration. Share this if you agree with them.

Thames Water's creditors have had their rescue deal rejected by water regulator Ofwat. 🙄Now they're preparing a fourth bid - even though the last deal was their 'best and final offer'! This saga has gone on long enough. It's time we brought water into public ownership - starting with Thames.

The Thames Water saga keeps rumbling on. Now the water regulator - Ofwat - has objected to the creditors' outrageous attempts to keep the utility privatised. And they're absolutely right. The public won't accept a deal which prioritises US hedge funds ahead of the households 1/2

🤑Thames Water CEO Chris Weston insists his 14% payrise this year is "absolutely deserved". And today Thames Water starts a campaign urging us to do our bit to save water this summer. This is their way of making us responsible for their lack of infrastructure maintenance & investment. And it stinks.

Thames Water has been pumping sewage into the chalk streams in Josh Dean's constituency of Hertford and Stortford all year. It's time to hold them to account. Join the 12,800 people who have written to Ofwat and keep the pressure up on Thames Water: vist.ly/5bc52