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On Tues I joined uk campaign groups from across the country to meet MPs to stop the Water Reform Bill that shackles us to private equity. Lobbying nearly 120 MPs and nearly all supported Public Ownership of Water. All photos & MPs will be on website sewagecampaignnetwork.org.uk soon
Help! I’ve just discovered that there will be yet another balloon release in Horsforth on 7th Nov. There has been a number of these over the last 3 years and we have stayed very quiet in respect and kindness to the situation. But really it’s time to stop petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Plastic free NW Leeds 🐟🌎🐝🇪🇺 retweeted
Can't afford to leave the privatised water scam?
A massive, high value, smart suited, fancy office, rogue trader operation propped up by lies and an outsmarted government promoting those lies..
westenglandbylines.co.uk/bus…
Plastic free NW Leeds 🐟🌎🐝🇪🇺 retweeted
Thnx 2 our September supporters - @Indiaexpress_ @CalFarCraig @PFreeNWLeeds @leedslassi @WLDispatch @ProjectFarsley @pudseylass
@rodleylife @Leedschappie4
See You Tomorrow!
Plastic free NW Leeds 🐟🌎🐝🇪🇺 retweeted
Public ownership of water is here for the doing if a big slice of the NGO world will just stop being scared to support it or wanting a slice of customers' money.
Forget new regulation, we need to end the incentive for criminal pollution and that incentive is privatisation.
Finally, the government dropped the pro private myths under a barrage of evidence from MPs.
windrushwasp.org/single-post…
Plastic free NW Leeds 🐟🌎🐝🇪🇺 retweeted
Sign the petition.
Let water companies go bust.
Ofwat approved 36% bill increases for 2025-2030, companies want more.
Prices doubled - in real terms - since privatisation.
We got sewage in rivers, water outages, hosepipe bans.
Need public ownership.
weownit.org.uk/news/were-tel…
Plastic free NW Leeds 🐟🌎🐝🇪🇺 retweeted
"Southern Water fined £2.4m over multiple incidents of sewage pollution in Kent."
That of course is on top of the £7.1 million they were fined back in July, the £90 million they were fined back in 2021, or the 107 environmental offences they've been found guilty of in the last 15 years.
Really, what is the point?
itv.com/news/meridian/2026-0…
Plastic free NW Leeds 🐟🌎🐝🇪🇺 retweeted
Our privatised water system is a disgrace.
In Parliament this week, I called for water to be brought back into public ownership.
A massive thank you to the 200,000 people who secured this debate by signing a petition - including hundreds from East Leeds who added their name.
Plastic free NW Leeds 🐟🌎🐝🇪🇺 retweeted
Yesterday was an absolute whirlwind.
We finally saw a record number of MPs step up and support public ownership of water, something I’ve spent years fighting for.
To top it off, I got to chat with @BeckyHill, who dropped by to show her support, look me in the eye, and say, “This is the Hill I’ll die on.”
Public ownership of water is closer than ever. Help us get to the finish line by adding your name 👇
Plastic free NW Leeds 🐟🌎🐝🇪🇺 retweeted
What is keeping privatised water alive?
Myths, lies, and a series of governments who hid the truth, but now it is out.
For 37 years, governments have presented billpayers as captive prey to the scam of the century.
Now it is time to end it
Today MPs will debate a petition of more than 200,000 signatures on holding a referendum to nationalise the water industry.
"Every year since privatisation has been another year of evidence to show that the industry has become a simple cash extraction tool," @WindrushWasp founder Ash Smith tells @BBCr4today.
I’ve written to my MP @KatieJWhite to attend this debate on referendum on 14th but had no reply. Please sign the petition to show MPs how constituents feel about #DirtyBusiness
Plastic free NW Leeds 🐟🌎🐝🇪🇺 retweeted
Please share my new article, it is damming on Yorkshire Water and Environment Agency yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/…
👇story based on Rob Forresters FOI @Feargal_Sharkey @sascampaigns @RiverActionUK @WatchWater60591 @leanahosea @RachSalv @AnglingTrust
Please share my new article, it is damming on Yorkshire Water and Environment Agency yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/…
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Please share my new article, it is damming on Yorkshire Water and Environment Agency yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/…
Please share my new article @CleanIlkley @WindrushWasp @saveourswale @UnderwaterMedia @watervole3 @HenleyMermaids
Please share my new article, it is damming on Yorkshire Water and Environment Agency yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/…
Hi @MayorOfWY I’m sure you won’t mind I changed the word 💩 in your speech to pollution for this article #DirtyBusiness
Please share my new article, it is damming on Yorkshire Water and Environment Agency yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/…
Please share my new article, it is damming on Yorkshire Water and Environment Agency yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/…
I’ve highlighted this for7 +years and absolutely zero has changed, I’m worn down now campaigning on this, if anyone fancy’s writing to MP or to Leeds council on why when they grant the fest permit they don’t enforce them to do better in encouraging people to take their stuff home
Plastic free NW Leeds 🐟🌎🐝🇪🇺 retweeted
"‘Tiny bit of rain and the sewage comes’."
If I remember correctly when they tested the DNA of the E. coli at Brighton Pier it turned out to be human. Yes human sewage in the water next to Brighton Pier.
theguardian.com/environment/…
Plastic free NW Leeds 🐟🌎🐝🇪🇺 retweeted
England's privatisation experiment is a historic debacle
Scotland has water in public ownership. They
- Invest 35% more into their infrastructure
- Pay £107 less on average for water
- 66% of their rivers have good ecological status, compared to England's 14.5%
Take action: vist.ly/5gmpb
