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Petition to nationalise water companies

Bob Edwards

Bob Edwards

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Already posted this in the Channel 4 Dirty Business Thread but feel it needs more exposure.




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534K views · 13K reactions | Feargal Sharkey is calling on everyone to sign the petition https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762640 to hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership. Don't be put off by the government's p

Feargal Sharkey is calling on everyone to sign the petition https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762640 to hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership. Don't be put off...
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Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership

Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it.
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Good old Feargal ,not all heroes wear capes some used to wear Doc Martins and cheapo snorkel Parkas. :)

Needless to say but I've signed.
 
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👍👍👍 Done ....can't see it happening though. There may be the will, but unlikely to be a way (to afford it). But, hopefully??......
 
Terry Simner said:
👍👍👍 Done ....can't see it happening though. There may be the will, but unlikely to be a way (to afford it). But, hopefully??......
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Wouldn't cost a penny Terry
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Hopefully the above youtube link works
 
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Would just like to add that i haven't posted this for likes gents ,just a long time angler and nature lover p***ed off with being legally robbed to line peoples pockets to the detriment of our waterways.
It may not happen as you say Terry but hopefully enough numbers will shake up the powers to be .
 
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Bob Edwards said:
Wouldn't cost a penny Terry


Hopefully the above youtube link works
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Yeah, it sounds good .... as a sound-bite. But the mostly likely outcome would be that the UK government would be saddled with (another) £60bn of (the water companies' present) debt, and several pension funds could end up near collapse. Otherwise this Labour government would have done it already. Plus the government would then be entirely responsible for the necessary improvements in infrastructure, which would necessitate large increases in water bills, and even more debt.
UK water is a 'poison chalice' in more ways than one. IMHO.
 
I've signed it, but not because I think public ownership is going to happen, or is necessarily the right thing.

Feargal only appears to have half an argument. If anyone has any link(s) to the rest of the equation - ie. what Feargal suggests we do once the industry is back in public ownership - I'd be interested to hear it.

I fear that Terry is correct. Once privatised do we really think that bills will come down, or that public money will be found to maintain the infrastructure, and that the industry will clean up its act?

Most of the water infrastructure is Victorian and highly stressed - in the 1870s the population of England and Wales was only c.20m. It's being replaced ad-hoc, as and when small but vital sections fail. Part of me feels that we should leave the industry in private hands, but draft and enforce much stricter regulations: from billing, to infrastructure improvements and waste water management.

A return to public ownership seems far too simplistic. Maybe Feargal knows this, but any pressure we bring to bear might help to force change anyway.
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Signed. And shared.

Anything and everything that sends out the mesage and raises awareness of this issue the better. If a million people signed this it wouldn't half out the wind up the wayer companies.
 
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