"We have to join together as one, and stop this from going any further." Laura Reineke of Henley Mermaids reacts to today's £3 billion bailout. Thames Water limps on, leaking cash, and failing its 16 million customers. It's privatisation, and it's rotten to the core.

The facts: almost £1 billion of bill payers' money spent just so that Thames Water can carry on ripping of its customers and polluting our rivers and streams. Water needs to be taken into public ownership. Ash Williams of Windrush WASP outside the High Court this morning.

£3 billion loan approved for Thames Water £3.4 billion, the cost to renationalise Thames Water Why isn't Labour pushing to renationalise Thames Water?

Today, our courts sided with the model of profiting off pollution by permitting failing Thames Water a £3 billion bailout. And we are furious. 😡 We believe this judgement is a massive missed opportunity for making an example out of our failing water industry and taking a step

I've cancelled my Direct Debit to Thames Water. I'll just have to pay when they ask nicely for it.

Are you happy that the Canadian, Qatari and Saudia Arabian owners of Thames Water are using their £19bn debt to move £3bn a year straight out of the UK into their tax havens without paying any tax? It is literally your money being stolen from you to fund foreign billionaires.

Cancel that direct debit! If we all followed Jenny’s lead, it would be an incredibly effective & legal way to hold TW to account. The Labour Party Ireland & Ofwat conspicuously absent once again from any kind of regulation and leadership #boycottwaterbills

"Southern Water asks investors for a further £900m rescue." And just incase you thought @Thameswater was the only financial basket case think again, Southern Water is in really desperate need of money, debt downgraded to 'junk' status by the credit rating agencies they also

"Six utility firms are taking the settlements to the competitions regulator, with some demanding increases of up to 83%." Oh, by the way, if you want to gauge just how badly water companies are screwing govt and the regulators right now just wait until you see the size of year's

"Approval for higher bills and loading more debt begs the question: who is Thames Water serving anymore?" Now there's a good question, a damned good question. news.sky.com/story/approval…

Dear Steve Reed why did YOU decide to waste @ £1billion of customers' money on avoidable fees when you could have taken over Thames Water for nothing and spent that billion on fixing something important? BBC Politics Financial Times Sky News Feargal Sharkey youtube.com/watch?v=iOnOoP…

Dear Steve Reed Why is it OK for customers to throw £1billion away to parasite water companies, adding to the £85Bn that didn't go towards doing their job? People are getting even angrier. Here Ewan Mcgaughy explains how we can fix the problem. youtube.com/watch?v=iOnOoP…

Seriously… Why don’t we all just do this? Remind them of our people power. Jenny has…

Thames Water got their £3bn bailout approved at the High Court, but where was the Environment Secretary? 🤔 The judge slammed Steve Reed for not attending. 😡 Governments should govern. Sleepy Steve needs to wake up, sort this mess and take back Thames! tinyurl.com/yxht3p94

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Increasing your Water Bills 44% ABOVE inflation in the next 5 years isn't enough for the Water Companies, they have appealed to Ofwat to let them increase them up to 83% ABOVE inflation. Like if they can get stuffed. RT if we should nationalise the lot.

Judge who gave Thames Water £3bn bailout was partner at law firm who USED TO WORK FOR THEM Judge Leech was a partner in a firm linked to #ThamesWater. However, this is just the tip of the corporate-corrupted iceberg. HT Damian from Brighton #YourParty. Steve Topple reports: thecanary.co/uk/analysis/20…

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