Sign our open letter to Angela Eagle

Steven Isle 1 day ago

Water companies should be fined for pollution into bankruptcy and then renationalised for nowt. The debts were incurred by the management and shareholders_ let them foot the bill!

Catherine Archer 1 day ago

I agree, wholeheartedly water company should be fined into bankruptcy, and then re nationalized for nothing

Margaret Thomas 1 day ago

Civilised countries have clean drinking water, clean rivers, clean beaches, clean seas. This country is civilised. American hedge fund managers are clearly not. Give us back our water .

Andy Stewart-Wright 1 day ago

Shut down Thames Water now!

Joshua Taylor 1 day ago

We had such hopes when Labour came to power with an enormous majority. Starmer has been a great disappointment, seeming to fiddle around the edges rather than making the bold changes that we had hoped for. My generation were enthused by Corbyn’s socialist policies; a proper Labour party. After the last two Tory-lite years, perhaps Burnham will have the courage of Atlee and Bevan and push through proper Labour policies. Why should a natural monopoly continue to be run for profit, after such obvious failings for decades? Why wasn’t money set aside for upgrades and repairs? Why should foreign firms extract and privatise profits leaving us to nationalise the debt? Some people are getting very rich, while we can’t even manage our capital’s water supply. It’s a shambles.

Alex Scott 1 day ago

The ‘deal’ of Privatisation was that the private sector would take on the responsibilities of public services, and could keep any profit they made after maintaining an acceptable standard. Instead, in sector after sector, we have seen 40-odd years of profit extraction being put ahead of unacceptable service. It is long past time that we called in the other side of that deal: just as they happily took all the benefits when times were good, so they must take all the hit when their failings come home to roost.

Roger Jackson 1 day ago

This would be a very strong signal from a new Government!

Mary Taylor 1 day ago

Water privatisation is theft.

Robert Curbishley 1 day ago

The utilities have been loaded with debt, and asset stripped by successive owners. To go from a debt free company to collapse is unforgivable and seems to promote a world where private commerce can do anything with utilities, with no recourse from government.

There would be no attempt to secure another deal if there wasn’t something worth fighting for. PROFIT! The people of all political persuasions are being treated as a cash cow for trust funds, pension funds, banks, and investors with scant regard for the service they are supposed to be supplying. It’s not a surprise that very few countries have privatised utilities because profit comes before the service. Stop this now and nationalise, or make it non profit making and cut the CEO’s and SLT pay as well.

David Hornsby 1 day ago

Water should be publicly-owned! Nationalise it ASAP!

Teresa cookson 1 day ago

We are the only country in the world who doesn’t own their own water . End it now

Simon Duquenoy 1 day ago

Water companies should never have been privatised. There is no competition and each one is a monopoly that has bumped up prices due their failure to invest in the infrastructure over many years when our population has increased and thousands more houses built. They have taken profits and paid themselves bonuses and ripped off the public.
Enough is enough. We must clean up their dirty situation and public ownership is the only way

Carole Meldrum 1 day ago

Margaret Thatcher sold the crown jewels when she privatised the utilities, selling them off at a knock down price and the services have got worse over time and costs have gone up. Privatisation hasn’t worked. Those utilities used to belong to us and the profits should have been going into the Government’s coffers not into some distant shareholder’s pockets who don’t live in this country. It’s a case of out of sight, out of mind.

Sally Teeling 1 day ago

Let’s try to bring Labour back to some semblance of the party it was. Stop these greedy corporations owning everything!

Mark Butler 1 day ago

Our water has become a matter of national security, it is unfathomable that we sold our infrastructure to profiteers who have allowed it to crumble and polluted our rivers and sea whilst taking huge bonuses. It’s criminal, those who’ve been running the boards should be jailed.

Jane Stone 1 day ago

Water is the very essence of life and should belong to the public not for a few greedy shareholders.

Alan Oliver 1 day ago

New Government or just new faces? Water is precious & it is about time this Labour Government acknowledged this & brought it all, not just Thames, under our control. Maybe they’re not up to it?

Jenny Templeton 1 day ago

Water is essential and should not have been privatised

Samantha Forbes 1 day ago

Privatisation has not worked once again.

Anthony Carter 1 day ago

This is quite correct. Enough profiteering at the expense of our environment!

Judy Thurlow 1 day ago

It’s shocking the way water is being weaponised in this way. It should never have been privatised.

Judy Thurlow 1 day ago

It’s shocking the way water is being weaponised in this way. It should never have been privatised.

Judy Thurlow 1 day ago

Shocking immoral privatism of a basic need.

Glenn Morris 1 day ago

I agree with the above gentleman, however those same should also not be allowed to increase their customers bills to recover those fines, for every £10000 of fine imposed, they should also be made to legally reduce their customers billing by at least 2% minimum.

Edward Winter 1 day ago

Neil McCart 1 day ago

Terry Gough 1 day ago

Dont let them back in , only wantiing bigger hand outs and dont want prosecutions for contamination of our water ways 😡😡

Jean McAulay 1 day ago

Water companies behave disgracefully & are all about profit & pollution, it has to stop now!

Rachael Sharples 1 day ago

Water companies should see clean Water as a basic human right and should be committed to this not profits

Miriam Margolyes 1 day ago

Thames Water is as dirty as the water of the rivers it has defiled. Nationalise please asap.

John Hinds 1 day ago

I agree, bankrupt the water companies by suing them the billions of pounds damage them caused in our rivers and coastal waters.

Tom O’Donovan 1 day ago

It’s high time we stop this exploitation of our essential utilities. We’ve watched as the profits have been leached away off-shore and investment has been entirely absent. They had one job, to manage and maintain the water network. They’ve completely failed. They don’t deserve to continue in control of such a valuable asset. They could’ve made a profit, continued with the operation and managed the infrastructure and avoided all of this, instead they got extremely greedy. We need rules against this and an example needs to be made. Get these utilities back into public ownership.

Chris Dale 1 day ago

Mr Simon Unwin 1 day ago

These water companies plead poverty yet pay massive bonuses to ceo/chairmen etc and continue to borrow to pay share holders. It’s a complete scam. As binface says make the head honchos swim in the sewage they discharge

Julia Smith 1 day ago

Water MUST be re-nationalised. The public are paying for leaky pipes and massive sewage spills while shareholders get richer.Its appalling.

Rae Lewus 1 day ago

Douglas Terry 1 day ago

The water industry is a scam and should be taken back into public ownership without compensation.

Chris Adams 1 day ago

It’s outrageous that England and Wales are the only countries in the WORLD that have privatised water, have allowed the deliberate polluting of our waterways with dangers to public health and destruction of wildlife, all for obscene amounts of profit.
Stop it NOW

Paul Taylor 1 day ago

This essential public service should not be used as a vehicle for what is effectively theft from its users.

Sue Rose 1 day ago

Fiona Mackay 1 day ago

Hayley Thomas 1 day ago

Stop using MY MONEY to line your pockets while you continue to waste our water and pollute our waterways!

Margaret Jones 1 day ago

Water should have never been privatised. Do the right thing and bring it back into public ownership.

brian keeley 1 day ago

All utilities should be state owned

James Ross 1 day ago

All water companies should be brought back into the public sector with no cost to the taxpayer.

Ghislaine Hull 1 day ago

The water companies (and others) have been profiteering off us for far too long – not maintaining the infrastructures whilst taking all the money out in dividends and bonuses and then expecting the government to bail them out when in trouble. It needs to stop.

Michael Heeneman 1 day ago

Thames is on such a low ebb, the interest on the bailout is far greater than the government can get which is furthered in keeping costs down by writing off a load of debt in administration or insolvency.

Sydney Meghie 1 day ago

They should be heavily fined I totally agree with the above statement.

Karen Chilver 1 day ago

Please re-nationalise water

Margaret Newbery 1 day ago

The water companies have got away with taking too much money for themselves for not doing an even second rate job.

Audrey Cowling 1 day ago

Water is a necessity for life. It should never have been sold off to foreign bidders. We warned that profit would come before quality of service and we were right. Whilst pocketing huge bonuses, the companies have neglected to invest in the maintenance and development of infrastructure resulting in polluted waters, parasites in drinking water and sky high prices for the customer. Enough is enough. Water is vital and should not be for profit for foreign investors.

Audrey Cowling 1 day ago

Take water companies back into public ownership.

Jon Tyrrell 1 day ago

Water privatisation has been a complete disaster. Nationalise it now with no compensation – they have already taken too much of our money.

Stephen Rowland 1 day ago

Dennis Gray 1 day ago

Good luck and public to own same!

Don Beattie 1 day ago

This has got to be taken back in to public ownership

Michael South 1 day ago

Thames water is a disgrace. I live close to the Evenlode River and it’s polluted. I cannot cross the road in my village without fear of twisting my ankle on a poorly constructed manhole cover. We pay for the water we use but Thames water is unable to produce enough for us to use as we wish.

Don Beattie 1 day ago

Public health is paramount

Philip Davies 1 day ago

David Bagnall 1 day ago

Water needs to belong to the public. This shouldn’t be about profit but a basic human need.

Furious 1 day ago

Absolutely NO, how dare they. The insolence and arrogant behaviour to even suggest this.

Stuart Pullan 1 day ago

All privatised utilities are a sin!

Kathleen Miller 1 day ago

Keep our precious water only for public, agricultural and wildlife benefit not for commercial greed.

Adrian Race Doran 1 day ago

How long, are we going to be blackmailed, by the water company’s, privatisation, was it is not good for the country,

Brian 1 day ago

No compensation required. They’ve been ripping us off for years.

Stella 24 hours ago

People and the environment before profit please.

Michael Leckenby 24 hours ago

They’re nothing but daylight robbers. The only thing they’ve excelled in is filling their own bank accounts… crooks

sarah chilton 24 hours ago

This is an important precedent: so not let them get away with this!

Mike Perry 24 hours ago

Water companies should be brought into public ownership without any compensation, as they have been mismanaged solely for the benefit of the shareholders.

John Vendy 24 hours ago

Public ownership is the only way to control this basic human right. Public control has already failed (OFWAT).

Nick 24 hours ago

Come on Angela, this is the moment, Andy Burnham has swept to power promising real hope and change. Please do your part in bringing our water back in to public ownership and let these dirty privatised creditors get not a penny more.

Helen Howard 24 hours ago

I agree wholeheartedly with StevenIsle above
Thames water also have blood on their hands as a child died as result of imbibing their filthy water containing sewage right into the river & eventually the sea The pollution they are causing is beyond despicable whilst the chief executive & her minions continue to walk away with vast sums & bonuses

Ronald Kraus 24 hours ago

They should take it out of their profits

Maryam Tierney 24 hours ago

Michael Laughton-Zimmerman 24 hours ago

Please do the right thing and take it into public ownership

Rodney Stanford-Beale 24 hours ago

Linda Thompson 24 hours ago

Water companies should have to foot the bill to make our waters safe and fined for pollyhem

Martin Walker 24 hours ago

Alexandra Gray 24 hours ago

Water should be brought into public ownership. We need investment into our national services and a stop to the terrible pollution of our rivers and seas. Water is a right not a money making opportunity for venture capitalists in far away countries.

Ken Harris 24 hours ago

When the bonuses are more than the debts they have accrued you should be able to see their business model

Stephen Gannon 24 hours ago

They’ve screwed the industry

Jennifer Dyson 24 hours ago

Let’s the shareholders pay for the mess not tax payers.

Alexander Blackburn 23 hours ago

An essential commodity such as water, which in any case will be a natural monopoly when supplied to a household, does not belong in the private, profit seeking sector. It should never have been privatised, and this piece of ideological fanaticism has produced a disaster in terms of pollution, cost of living to the public, and failure to anticipate the problems caused by climate change.

Sheena Langford 23 hours ago

Privatisation of the water industry has been a disaster – for customers & for our seas & rivers. Thames Water is just the worst of a bad bunch, and should be taken into special administration immediately, to prevent more harm.

Shaun Last 23 hours ago

The tax payer/customers should not have to bail out the water companies.

Nicola Hall 23 hours ago

The model the water companies have followed is corrupt and parasitic. I believe fines commensurate with their wrong doing could make it cheap to renationalise and that this is the correct route.

Hil Beavan 23 hours ago

As a Thames water customer this company is unfit for purpose. They whacked my bill up from £35/month to £220/month and were impossible to get any sense from. And they fill our rivers with sewage. Disgusting.

Louise 23 hours ago

Water Provirisation has been another unacceptable disaster thanks to Margaret Thatcher’s legacy. All water companies including Thames Water should be in public hands. These companies have had more than enough money to ensure our infrastructure is properly maintained. Instead they decided to be greedy giving a fortune to Senior staff and shareholders and allowing loads of water leaks. Sewage being the worst. Sort it out Andy Burnham

Teresa M George 23 hours ago

Piers Hogg 23 hours ago

Water companies should be fined at such punitive rates that they walk away from their contracts, taking their debts with them. Their manageeent should be imprisoned for persistent offending.

Teresa M George 23 hours ago

John Wyatt 23 hours ago

Renationalise now. Fed up with being fleeced by incompetent, corrupt CEOs.

Stanley Moore 23 hours ago

Leaving water in private hands is putting lives at risk, clean water is absolutely essential to human life and needs to be nationalised for public safety.

ann beddoes 23 hours ago

agree with the comments above

claire paylor 23 hours ago

Water is a basic human right and it should never be for profit – when irresponsible companies are allowing billions of litres of water to spill away and not fixing the leaks, or doing repairs, or necessary improvements but are gladly taking profits and bonuses, the system needs to be changed – billionaires and investors should be involved for public good, not their wallets and bank accounts, so if it’s taken back with them kicking and screaming, so be it, it must be an improved system where the public is protected and put first – for once!

James Richmond 23 hours ago

I disagree with lining the pockets of shareholders at the expense of the treatment of their customers.

Nicholas Heins 23 hours ago

Barry Hurst 23 hours ago

Water is a basic human right and should not be run as a profit for foreign governments. Revers the privatisation now.

W Adam 23 hours ago

Fed up of water companies ‘taking the piss’.

James A Carey 23 hours ago

The Water companies management and shareholders should be fined for the pollution they have allowed.

Roger Bannister 23 hours ago

All of them that have been pumping seeage in the rivers and streams should be put back into public ownership

Paul walker 23 hours ago

The whole privatisation scam has ruined many organisations which are supposed to
serve the public, the common good, and society as a whole – water chief amongst them. Bring the water industry, starting with Thames water, back into proper, full pubic ownership now

Dr F C Clough 23 hours ago

The sewage in our rivers & lakes is a disgrace to our country. The Victorian pipes need modernising & yet shareholders have been given massive payouts for years & not invested in more treatment works which are badly needed due to population growth. This has to stop. Water should be nationalised . No profits for shareholders .

Michael Knights 23 hours ago

Water services must come back into this countries ownership. The problem with Thatcher was she sold off all the utilities for a pittance. Burnham said on Monday, this country took a wrong turn in the ’80s. All utilities must become owned by the people for the people.

Michael Knights 23 hours ago

Arthur Wainwright 23 hours ago

Private water companies have a monopoly, Thames Water have proven time and time again they have put profits over customers, infrastructure investment and the enviroment. How is it Mr Weston and former CFO Alastair Cochran can get away with mass envirtomental pollution whilst if a member of the public dumped raw sewage you would be subject to unlimited fines and up to 5 years in prison under the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

Karen Cartwright 23 hours ago

Thames water are a bunch of crooks. People are getting really fed up with this the game is starting to be over for these criminals. As a single person with single use in London I pay £64 a month this is an absolute rip off. My neighbour in borough of Barnett Five bedroom house pays £30 a month what is going on with Thames water obvious scan and we the people are sick of paying the greedy crooks polluting and poisoning our water systems that affects all life .

Shirley Sampson 23 hours ago

Water is a public good, not a commodity and should NEVER have been privatised.

Raymond Brown 23 hours ago

Nationalising water companies is the only way to sort them out. The private sector has failed consumers over the years since the companies were allowed to be privatised. The shareholders should be penalised for their actions and the CEOs fined.

Jane Roderic-Evans 23 hours ago

all water companies should be taken into public ownership again – starting with Thames.

Anne Wyatt 23 hours ago

Renationalise. We’ve paid enough for incompetence, corruption and pollution.

Martin Palmer 23 hours ago

We have had enough of being abused by water companies not doing their job, but just finding ways to make even greater profits

Felicity 23 hours ago

Roger Newman 23 hours ago

All service utilities should be in public ownership without any private or union interference, run on a marginal profit basis charging a fair price with all excesses put back into the utilities. Legislation must be enacted to guarantee utility companies remain in public ownership in perpetuity, managed & run on the above stated basis.

Maggie 23 hours ago

40 years of focusing on shareholders profits rather than network management need to end

K J Ashton 23 hours ago

Self interest rules the world and there is no thought for the common good.
It would seem that very few realise that seeking happiness for yourself, has never worked.
It is is clear, that “True happiness (which everyone is seeking) lies in making others happy”
The best we can do here, for the common good and clean water – is to nationalise!

Siobhan Smith 23 hours ago

I think this company shouls be bought back by government for what it’s actually worth…how about £1.00. Shareholders have taken profit from a company that was not making any and made inadequate investment. Those in charge of water privatisation in goverment in the first place should also be named and shamed and never be allowed to stand for public office again. The dereluction of duty demonstrated by this nonsense is shameful.

Lynn Downing 23 hours ago

Thay have robbed the public for to long ,it’s time to put ALL UTILITIES BACK IN PUBLIC OWNERSHIP WE THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN ARE SICK OF BEING ROBBED MORE AND MORE EACH YEAR SO DO THE RIGHT THING AND GIVE BACK .

Lorna Burley 23 hours ago

If I had been as neglect in my job I would have expected to be sacked, so be it for these water companies.

Anita Tucker 23 hours ago

Such obvious criminal behaviour to callously put families at such disgusting health risks and relish profiting from it.

Jim Hines 23 hours ago

I think the idea of fining water companies into bankruptcy is a very appealing one. It may also depress the share values of other privatised utilities and enable further nationalisation.

Francis O’Leary 22 hours ago

The government has to wrest control of the water industry from greedy private hands. They have had years of exploitation to enrich themselves while the whole water system was systematically degraded. They get no compensation for this, they have extracted enough already. Time to take it back into public ownership at no public expense. Just vote it into law. You have a super majority. Just do it.

Peter Van-Stratten 22 hours ago

Be a politician that people talk about in a positive manner, because you did what was right not to benefit companies but people.

jane burkinshaw 22 hours ago

Water companies should be forever ashamed of polluting our rivers and coasts.

Stuart Smith 22 hours ago

Thames water have behaved appallingly

MR FRANCIS J MCENTAGGART 22 hours ago

Water should be renationalised.

Michael Kearney 22 hours ago

Water, the very essence of life, should never be a profit making exercise.

Tim Atkin 22 hours ago

Anna Somerset 22 hours ago

Drinking water is essential to life on earth. Privatisation was supposed to improve the quality of our water supply by investment, but we might as well have engaged highwaymen and fly tippers as we are being held to ransom and poisoned by chemicals and excretia. Our water situation is an international joke in the worst possible taste. Renatiinalise and recoup the ill-gotten bonuses!

Julian Sheppard 22 hours ago

We have been screwed for 30 years now it’s our turn.

Fiona Edge 22 hours ago

Water should never have been privatised. Don’t let them take more money from us and do more damage to the environment while we pick up the bill.

Richard Le Corney 22 hours ago

In her book, “How Not to Die (Too Soon)”, Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health at Edinburgh University, uses England as a case study in how NOT to organise water supply. The section is titled ” ‘Profit Over Human Health’ Systems”.

John fuller 22 hours ago

Alan Oliver 22 hours ago

Privatisation has been a disaster for the water supply industry in England, especially in the Thames region.

Peter Flack 22 hours ago

I agree fully with the above statement

Luisa Martin 22 hours ago

The entire Country should Stop paying the water bills until we start getting what we have paid for and it’s back to public ownership immediately

Gulsie Suleman 22 hours ago

Have a water meter but still sent an estimated bill. Yes get rid of them. Let’s hope our new P M makes a difference

Martin Smith 22 hours ago

Just nationalise water now the nation is with you.

Sylvia Crowe 22 hours ago

We were much better when our water was nationalised my father and my-ex husband Both worked for TWA less leaks now nothing seems to function properly except greed and neglect

John Magennis 22 hours ago

All basic facilities for living should be in public ownership.

Robert Adomaitis 22 hours ago

Recoup the funds from CEOs and shareholders

Robert Adomaitis 22 hours ago

Recoup the funds from CEOs and shareholders

Cheryl Fell 21 hours ago

Years and years of plundering our water for massive payments to shareholders and top tier staff = dying rivers / filthy seas / failing Victorian infrastructure – nobody else would be able to run a business in that way – disgusting greed without a care for customers or the natural world – we must take it all back – most other countries manage their own water – Maggie Thatcher and her ridiculous sell off has been a tragedy and a disaster.

Annie Dowling 21 hours ago

Time that shareholders and management of the water companies stopped leeching on the public.

David Jones 21 hours ago

Clean water is a basic human right. It should not be a monopoly where our nature is being destroyed whilst the profits are privatised and the losses are nationalised. I’m sick to the back teeth of corporate greed ruining the lives of ordinary people and wildlife. No more

Percival Carvello 21 hours ago

Ilana Cravitz 21 hours ago

Please stop this company profiteering at the taxpayers’ expense.

Catherine Whittingham 21 hours ago

I find it hard to believe that water companies have been allowed to get away with taking large amounts of money and not doing the job they are paid to do. Who wrote their contracts?

clive summerton 21 hours ago

There is only one solution to corrupt water companies public ownership, they have failed at the expense of people and failed to put all the necessary solutions to prevent pollution of our environment whilst taking money to fill their own pockets absolute parasites.

Janet Marks 21 hours ago

I heartily agree. Privatisation was and is the most unethical way of managing a national resource.

Azra Imam 21 hours ago

Ease the life of common people!

Madeleine Wells 21 hours ago

Water falls out of the sky onto the land we all live on. It cannot be owned by anyone. It belongs to us all and should not be commodified to make profit for the few at huge cost to everyone living here and to the detriment of all the creatures living in water courses and lakes. We depend on the natural world. We must care for the precious resource that is every drop of water. This has proved to be impossible when ownership is in the hands of private companies simply seeking profit.

Lee Green 21 hours ago

Absolutely silly price rises,going up ridiculously in past 2 years. Can’t shop around you just have to pay.
Water companies have been paying CEOs and shareholders and it’s the customers paying and they don’t want to pay fines for polluting. How is this a model for a company? How has this been allowed to happen?

Rhea Taplin 21 hours ago

We can’t let these greedy careless people strip the country’s assets.

Carole Faithorn 21 hours ago

Privatisation has done nothing, and never could do anything in the case of water, to increase competition which was *suppposed* to be the main benefit of this misguided policy. The only people to have benefited are management and shareholders. Reject the Thames Water deal in its entirety!

Helen Dean 21 hours ago

Shareholders know that they invest at a risk and should not be bailed out. Water companies have given bonuses for poor management and have decimated our rivers and coasts with sewage. Public ownership is the sensible and cheapest solution for the tax payer in the long term and is also in the interest of National Security. Allowing foreign ownership of a crucial resource is madness.

Jan Kaye 21 hours ago

The water companies have proved that privatisation was a life-threatening mistake. Water must be brought back into public ownership asap. Let the companies go bust and prosecute the bosses for endangering public health.

John Bailey 21 hours ago

This disaster has gone on too long. It is a legacy of Mrs Thatcher’s plans that took away so much of the public’s share of decision-making and gave it to the wrong people who have made off with the profits, or stayed here to laud it over those who remain.

Noeleen OReilly 21 hours ago

Water should never be privatised. It is a human necessity and should belong to everyone. Mrs.Thatcher has a lot to answer for.

Sue Steele 21 hours ago

I can see absolutely no reason for not nationalising all of the water companies. The latter have consistently failed to update the industry’s infrastructure whilst increasing our bills massively. In addition, they continue to pollute our waterways and, in some instances, are failing to provide customers with water at all. I have to ask what exactly we are paying for – it seems to shareholders’ f do dividends and not much else. It is tempting to suggest that the privatised water business as a whole looks remarkably like a scam…

Hazel 20 hours ago

I want utilities to be brought back into government ownership

Tony Wilkins 20 hours ago

Please Please let’s not mess about anymore. Let’s bring Thames Water back into public ownership where it belongs.
Then bring all the other water companies with it.

Janice Hukin 20 hours ago

Alicia Canavan 20 hours ago

Are water bill went up because of the likes of Thames Water,United utilities etc because all these companies only see is profit not the safety of the water environment.

Kathy Welham 20 hours ago

Water should be publicly owned and regulated for the public good as the elemental necessity it is. It is a travesty and an outrage the way it has been used as a means of profiting from a human need and not even keeping it fit for purpose. It is immoral and the failure to protect its cleanliness should be viewed as a criminal offence.

Catherine Jacobs 20 hours ago

Utilities need to be in public ownership to stop pollution and corruption

Margaret Adams 20 hours ago

Water is essential to life, is a natural monopoly, and used to belong to us all.
But unlike every other country in the world, these vital assets were sold off to asset-strippers who borrowed massively against their value to pay out millions to themselves and their shareholders.

While letting the infrastructure crumble, poisoning our environment, killing our wildlife. They can’t even keep the taps running.

Why should they keep the profits but the public take the losses?

Why should we pay for their mismanagement?

It’s a matter of national security: Water, a natural monopoly, essential to life.
It’s time we took it back into public ownership (not just “control”).

Margaret Malcolm 20 hours ago

We should never have thought for one second about privatising water like we have. It’s a natural source which is absolutely vital to life. Prime Ministers like Margaret Thatcher rode roughshod over us. Banks should not own our water. It shows the strength of the vicious predators who have been at the top stealing this precious resource for decades. They’re soulless and evil.

Margaret Malcolm 20 hours ago

Laura Swaffield 19 hours ago

This is a failed business. Those who invested in it made a foolish decision, so they should lose their money as with any other foolish investment. Simple

Vic Gammon 18 hours ago

It is time to end this disgusting blight on our country

Vivienne Walker 18 hours ago

The privatisation of the water companies was theft from the tax payer of a public utility.We have paid enough in order enrich investors.Please take back our property and ensure that we pay nothing more.

Sue Fenton 16 hours ago

Thames need to leave us alone

Jill 16 hours ago

Water should not be owned by companies making big profits and giving poor service.

Peter Amodio 16 hours ago

I live in Rotherhithe and there’s just been a major leak, flooding the road and cutting off our water supply! 🤬

Roland 16 hours ago

Public ownership is the only right thing to do.
The alternative supports the evil Thatcherism.

Rosalie Carew 16 hours ago

This needs to change. It’s beyond corrupt

Rosalie Carew 16 hours ago

This needs to change. It’s beyond corrupt

Caroline Stanley 16 hours ago

Water should not be for private profiteering

Richard Sawyer 15 hours ago

It should have never been privatised in the first place

Alison Armour 15 hours ago

Agree that the water companies should be fined for their pollution of rivers and beaches to the point of bankruptcy. The executives should lose their homes in partial compensation for their company’s loss, while they treated it as their own private piggy bank.

Sue Halket 15 hours ago

I’m fed up with Thames Water doing such a bad job.

Mikyla Limpkin 15 hours ago

I really hope you’ve watched the documentary ‘Dirty Business’ – it will tell you all you need to know.

I support Count Binfaces proposition that all water board executives should be made to swim in as British River – but I’ll add that it specific river should be chosen by water campaigners.

I also challenge you, Angela, to prep posted to swim by your decisions…

Gillian Shambrook 15 hours ago

Confidence in having a consistent fresh water supply to drink and services which look after our environment is such a fundamental need and expectation. I strongly believe this can only be achieved by public ownership. We have been very let down by these companies for too long.
Services integral to our society and daily lives should be publicly owned.

Maureen Peck 15 hours ago

It’s disgusting that this has happened. Profit should not come before putting your house in order. In this day and age you should have found away to dispose of waste properly. Just because it cost money you have not done this.

Janet Hall 15 hours ago

Heartily agree with statement above!

Ani Kerrigan 15 hours ago

Julie Warwick 15 hours ago

The shareholders have been priority so far with their huge profits while the rest of us struggle to keep them in that lifestyle. Any profits should go back into the system to improve it. No more sewage overflows into our rivers, it’s a disgrace.

John Savage 14 hours ago

The privatised water utilities are parasites. Water is the most essential commodity, the source of all life and essential for sustaining life. How can this be in the hands of private companies whose only objective is to screw the public for every penny they can get? Re-nationalise it now along with all other essential infrastructure.

Suzanne Williams 14 hours ago

This is the moment to do the right thing for people of UK. The privatisation of water companies has been a complete disaster….there is no benefit for people or nature. Please do not accept whatever deal the creditors are offering. It has to change..we all deserve clean water, rivers, services that are run for everyone: not to line pockets of a few.
Please…do the right thing for the people, for our waters, for our nature.

Mike Storey 14 hours ago

Water companies have made a mockery of customers and the government and particularly ofwat and EA who are clearly complicit and compromised. They should be allowed to fail and be renatofor nothing with the debts incurred by the management and shareholders with no thought to their duties to customers so they must foot the bill!

Lena Hamre 14 hours ago

For the public by the public

PHILIP GRISPO 14 hours ago

We need to stop paying millionaire foreign shareholders

charles jamieson 14 hours ago

Colin Savill 14 hours ago

The customers of Thames Water will have to foot the bill for infrastructure maintenance and improvements that have been ignored for years whilst shareholders have used this essential utility as a mechanism to extract public money and load the company with debt. If we are expected to pay for this, there is no way these vultures should profit.

Alan Kennerson 14 hours ago

Declare Bankruptcy in order to ensure public ownership.

John Mahoney 14 hours ago

Michael Ford-Cowie 14 hours ago

The continued privatisation of public utilities is the most obvious way that the public can see that members of governments during the past 45 years have taken payments – often in the form of highly paid “advisory roles” in the companies after the minister has left office in return for allowing private companies to provide terrible service at the highest price that they can get away with.

The growing understanding of this mechanism is part of what is making the conventional political parties unelectable. Whilst individual ministers early on this era got away with it, because so few people understood the wholesale theft from the people and their nation, the growing comprehension of this corruption of public life means that increasingly, current ministers do not, at least in terms of reputation and future career succeed – which explains the increasing turnover in high officials, and the fact that they are not missed by us when they have gone.

We know now that the private capture of public utilities is a robbery – the evidence is abundant. The situation with Thames Water is absolutely farcical, and anyone who helps to allow it to stay in private hands will be tainted by their actions. Please do not be a facilitator of it for hoped-for future reward. It won’t work for you.

Susan Winter 14 hours ago

It is time to return our water supplies to public ownership. This precious vital resource needs protecting not abused.

Aloysius Barody 14 hours ago

Hang your heads in shame…

Chris Voysey 14 hours ago

Yes water companies should be ‘fined’ for polluting our environment!

Paul Zvomuya 14 hours ago

Water companies should be public owned. We do not want the greedy American economic model when it comes to water and all other essential services.

Patrick Coyne 14 hours ago

Nationalisation is the only answer

Joanne Lee 14 hours ago

It’s scandalous that wealthy companies and individuals are making money out of our water companies while polluting the waterways and not attending to the systems in place to maintain safe water for everyone and clean waterways for the future of the planet!

Hazel Helm 14 hours ago

This is OUR water, it should not be owned or controlled by capitalists and hedge funds. Nationalise it.

MR S W Nicholson 14 hours ago

The general public should not be robbed by rich investors.
Nationalise when it goes bust.

Philip Scown 14 hours ago

None of Thatcher’s privatisations have been a success. It’s time to renationalise.

Benjamin Newton 14 hours ago

Privatisation has failed. It’s time for public ownership.

Angela Matthews 14 hours ago

Renationalise with NO compensation to shareholders. They have made enough profit to our cost.

Helen OBrien 14 hours ago

All UK water companies must return to full public ownership. In Deal where I live, Southern Water has poisoned the sea with regular sewage dumps. It’s so full of e-coli that we have not swim in it for two years and counting. In January at Camber Sands in East Sussex, Southern Water’s plant filter broke, releasing millions of plastic beads into the sea, a catasphrophe causing plastic pollution and untold damage to wildlife and it took Southern Water 2 weeks to admit it was their fault.

Marina Steel 14 hours ago

The water companies are a disgrace and do not serve the public, only their shareholders. Nationalisation is the only answer to save our seas and rivers from non stop pollution.

Paul-Francois Tremlett 14 hours ago

Privatisation hasn’t worked

Paul-Francois Tremlett 14 hours ago

The privatisation experiment failed

Barry Lawton 14 hours ago

We need to take back control Angela

Liana Turner 14 hours ago

What water companies and Thames in particular have been allowed to get away with beggars belief- please do the right thing.

Susan odell 14 hours ago

Please take it away from them

Ann Bennett 14 hours ago

Instead of letting Water Companies get away with not only being able to still operate after getting into so much debt, and allowing the continued pollution of our lovely waters killing fish and making people ill through using the water, plus giving the Fat Cat “Share Holders” even more money for doing so!!! Thames Water should be put into Special Measures in the first instance and then taken away from this US Company and brought back to Public Ownership. Please act in the interests of the Public and STOP THIS LUNACY. Thank you.

Daniel Rayner 14 hours ago

End the failed experiment of privatisation and bring water back into public ownership

Paul challenger 14 hours ago

Make this type of legalized theft illegal once more.

Matthew Griffiths 14 hours ago

Deborah 14 hours ago

Had enough of overseas private equity trashing our ecosystems and abusing its customers. Public ownership is essential now.

Bill Hughes 14 hours ago

How on earth is the privatisation of a monopoly utility supposed to work?

I have NO CHOICE with regard to my water supplier.

My water bill has increased by 50% since 2024!

Unsustainable. Unwarranted. Unfair!

Pietro Tolaini 14 hours ago

All water companies should be pushed to bankruptcy and renationalised. All fines should be given to customers and not to the government.

Michael Lyons 14 hours ago

Charles Healey 14 hours ago

Privatisation is always a disaster and a rip off.

Andrew honeywell 14 hours ago

Anything that’s is used by the public to survive should not be private owned

thomas jennings 14 hours ago

Full nationalisation now!

Brian King 14 hours ago

Any debts accumulated by the company must be settled by shareholders or written off. The tax-payers MUST NOT be saddled with debts accrued through financial mismanagement / over-paying bonuses and dividends.

Jane Ceresa 14 hours ago

The King of the North must take our water back! The people have paid too much for a poor service. The investors and poor management do not deserve to be compensated!

Alex Jowitt 14 hours ago

Kevin Pattison 14 hours ago

Annie McDonald 14 hours ago

Water belongs to us the people living here not some shareholders of a company we don’t trust and who have constantly poisoned our rivers etc. We need Water to be renationalised now!

John Lunnon 14 hours ago

Mary Bennett 14 hours ago

Make chief executives personally responsible for pollution and forbid bonuses.
The company will then be worth less and we can buy it.

William Embliss 14 hours ago

Nationalise all the water companies starting with Thames Water.

Martin Cray 14 hours ago

Withholding money remaining after that should be have been spent on delivering the services and goods is not profit; it’s extortion, or at best fraud.

Patricia Daly 14 hours ago

NO PROFITS SHOULD BE HANDED OUT TO SHAREHOLDERS AND INCREASES OF CEO ETC SALARIES SHOULD BE FORBIDDEN UNTIL THEY HAVE BROUGHT TW UP TO MODERN DAY STANDARDS. It’s daylight robbery and extremely unfair that WE have to pay! Shocking!

Tracey Neale 14 hours ago

I, and many others, are furious with the state of our rivers, seas and lack of confidence in our water companies, often worrying if our water is safe to drink! For too long there has been a culture of profits before quality of service and it is unacceptable. I pay a lot of money each month for water services and sewage services-Why? I’m fearful to drink the water out of my taps, I can no longer swim in our filthy seas and the state of our beautiful rivers makes me want to cry!! And I’m paying for this!!!!!

Wendy Wakefield 13 hours ago

Judy coleridge 13 hours ago

Sarah Young 13 hours ago

Getting back control of our water is incredibly important – it would make so many people proud to have a Labour government. Please make it happen!

Tom Athron 13 hours ago

The report on how at least 5 times more water than any hose ban is wasted every single day due to faulty water pipes all across the UK. Also, there have been no new water reservoirs built since the 60s. The water companies need to be in public hands so that the infrastructure is kept up. The private need to fix it all – and if they can’t then they must be disolved and come into public hands. We also need MORE RESERVOIRS! It is a joke that with the rainfall we have in the UK in the year we are stuggling for water. Plus, AI data centres need to have a water recycling structure to cool.

Patricia Keiller 13 hours ago

I firmly believe that all water companies should be nationalised. Privatisation of this sector has only led to companies putting profit over safety. This has resulted in higher prices for the consumer and increasingly polluted rivers and seas.

Barbara Newcombe 13 hours ago

This greedy, costly practice has to end

Diane Hodgkinson 13 hours ago

We need to get Thames Water in public ownership now!

Rosemarie Corscadden 13 hours ago

Thames Water deserves no more chances. This is Corporate Greed at its worst! No more deals – action – we have no choice – we need and demand that Thames Water and the rest of them are all allowed to go bankrupt. It’s been greed and nothing but greed at the expense of those who are held to ransom – their customers.

Brenda Parsons 13 hours ago

Stop the bonuses for the executives.

John Wadsworth 13 hours ago

Water should never have been privatised. The water companies have all put their shareholders and profit before customers and have exploited their position as monopolies. Nationalise them all now!

Irene Barrett 13 hours ago

They have abused their power allowing sewage into the waters all over our Country

Chris Williamson 13 hours ago

Water is an essential for life and hygiene- it should not be a vehicle for profit and wealth and should be considered a national interest. Thames Water is not fit for purpose.

Evey House 13 hours ago

Rowena O’Toole 13 hours ago

Our Water company, despite consistent pollution, will pay themselves handsomely but increase our bills by 30%.
Our pension increases each year but all our bills increase more!

Jenny Hodgkinson 13 hours ago

I agree that public services should be for people not profit

John w Griffiths 13 hours ago

Take water back to public ownership

Mary Weir 13 hours ago

Wholeheartedly agree! Our water systems were flogged off by Margaret thatcher for a fraction of what they were worth and, despite neglect, mismanagement, greed, corruption and shameful pollution, have made fortunes for individuals and foreign hedge funds. Clean water is a basic human need. Our waterways and seas should be healthy and protected. No one should profit from our water!

Sandra Pirolo 13 hours ago

Laura Adey 13 hours ago

As a Thames water customer my bill has increased by 50% in three years, in addition I am being expected to fund shareholders and fund a reservoir that will devastate the local area and I am being asked not to use something i am forced to pay for which is a fundamental human right. We are vastly losing control of what we pay for which is a human right. This must stop

John Kirkland 13 hours ago

It should be safe to swim in the Thames river with my family. Thames Water can not be trusted to ensure it is.

Anthony Mather 13 hours ago

Mismanagement should not be rewarded. Selling water must be the easiest industry to make money from…..they have no excuses.

Michael Perris 13 hours ago

This is what happens when you don’t keep up when you don’t put money back into the business and pay massive dividends to the shareholders.

Jane Booth 13 hours ago

Water is an essential not a product for profit.

Matthew Hutton 13 hours ago

Water privatisation has failed for sure. Let’s nationalise it.

Lynne Walker 13 hours ago

Bonuses should be abolished. Salaries are enough

Mr Alan Illingworth 13 hours ago

We must take back control, of all essential utilities, for us our children and future peoples.

Peter Owen 13 hours ago

let the shareholders pay for it

Susan Ekins 13 hours ago

Lost all trust in Thames Water. This needs to be sorted out

Lesley Kinney 13 hours ago

Surely, if it was a public utility, the profits could be used to improve the infrastructure, rather than enrich the shareholders?

Margaret Dunn 13 hours ago

I strongly object to Thames Water putting up prices , paying directors bonuses whilst the service deteriorates year on year through inadequate investment in infrastructure.

Deni Buckley 13 hours ago

Please put water companies into public ownership.

Carmen jackson 13 hours ago

Re nationalise this essential public service

Maureen Parmenter 13 hours ago

Water companies should be run by the government. Not in private hands.

Derek Reed 13 hours ago

Bring water companies back into public ownership.

Gayna Walls 13 hours ago

Should have been nationalised decades ago.

Terry Crew 13 hours ago

Renationalise the water companies (and all utilities) without any compensation. They were not Thatchers to sell off in the first place so, in effect, they were stolen from us. Give them back!

Mick Andrew 13 hours ago

This carry on has to stop.
Water companies have shown they cannot be trusted with this vital public utility.
Public control is the only way forward.

Julie Swift 13 hours ago

The water industry should never have been privatised. Making a profit to pay shareholders for something that everyone needs every day is wrong.

Louise Gallagher 13 hours ago

We cannot all water to remain privatised!

Emma Fletcher 13 hours ago

This is our chance to take back control of a natural monopoly which should never have been sold off. We need water to live and privatisation has utterly failed. There should be no more chances!

Barbara Bennett 13 hours ago

The utilities privatisation experiment has failed the public, especially the supply of water where the so-called advantage of competition is non-existent. Time to return water to public control.

Peter N 13 hours ago

Thames Water has been run fraudulently to serve the interests of the CEO, Executives and shareholders by paying them vast sums of money which should have been invested in the infrastructure; whilst feeling safe in the expectation that whenever the company repeatedly runs out of cash to pay the staff and deliver a basic service to the customers, the UK Govt. will have NO OPTION but to repeatedly bail it out by an injection of cash. The UK Water Industry is a mafia style operation, with the collusion of the regulator. People who worked for the regulator are later rewarded by being recruited into highly paid jobs in Water Companies. The regulator has allowed Water Companies to continue to dump raw sewage and breach their contracts with their customers, with impunity whilst allowing the Water Companies to increase the Customer’s Bills. ENOUGH is ENOUGH – Thames Water CANNOT BE TRUSTED and MUST BE TAKEN INTO PUBLIC CONTROL NOW. There should also be a criminal investigation into the Company’s operation and the collusion of the regulator’s staff (and former staff who now work in the water industry).

The Government MUST ENSURE that the Customers are NOT made to pay for the Water Industry’s fraudulent operations and the Regulator’s TOTAL FAILURE to control them.

TAKE Thames Water INTO PUBLIC CONTROL NOW, to send a clear message to all other Water companies to clean up their acts.

Water Companies can be left in private ownership – just make it illegal for them to operate without an annually renewable UK Government Operating Licence, with strict performance criteria attached and strict limits on when and how much can be paid in salaries, bonuses and dividends; strictly linked to the companies performance against strict criteria (sewage pollution, fixing leaks, maintenance and investment in new infrastructure).

When a Private Water Company fails to meet it’s set criteria, it’s Operator’s Licence can be revoked and all assets transferred to UK Govt. Water (without penalty). An under performing Private Water Company should be treated just like an unroadworthy / untaxed / uninsured car being driven on the road – it should be immediately confiscated and crushed.

UK Consumers have been forced to pay too high Water Bills and have been FAILED by successive Governments and the REGULATOR, who have allowed Water Companies to get away with fraud and asset stripping by borrowing large sums of money using the infrastructure as security and channelling that money out of the company to be paid as dividends.

You MUST ACT NOW.

Hazel Sharrad 13 hours ago

Investing carries the risk of losing one’s money. The creditors took that risk and must accept the consequences.

Gillian Davies 13 hours ago

Clean up the water and charge people for what people they use and STOP lining the pockets of the shareholders with OUR money

David Doodson 13 hours ago

Mike Thompson 13 hours ago

The huge majority want our national asset back.

Penny 13 hours ago

Water should never have been privatised. It’s a utility that needs to be in public hands. Not with shareholders taking profits. Surely the general public are the share holders of a necessary resource.

Timothy Pettican-Runnicles 13 hours ago

Water belongs in public hands

Janice Farley 13 hours ago

You have literally drained Thames Water from its ability to serve its customers – the public who owned it back in the day. We have already paid for your personal financial gains, why should we pay further for your insidious greed and lack of ethics and governance.

Michael Faulkner 13 hours ago

Stop the rot no one should profit from filthy water and environmental vandalism. Public ownership please

Michael Wright 13 hours ago

Colin Hargreaves 13 hours ago

Thanks for listening and taking action to take this essential service back into public control. Water management has to be the most important asset going forward and we will need every penny to rebuild the infrastructure necessary to supply clean water for all of us without damaging the land and waterways we live with. Please ensure that this is a cross party matter and ensure that this industry can never be a profit making machine going forward and all money paid by the public is used to maximum efficiency.

Patricia Romain 13 hours ago

Paul Bisson 13 hours ago

Water is too precious a resource for it to be in the hands of people simply wanting to make a profit. Water is needed by everyone and every creature and plant. It is the lifeblood of our planet and needs protection not wasting or polluting. Please help us to cherish it, for all our sakes.

Paul Hiley 13 hours ago

The water companies should never have been privatised – water is an essential for living and we have no choice in who we choose to supply our water. It is just a money making project for the rich at our expense. ALL the water companies should be taken back into government control and no compensation should be paid. The shareholders have been bleeding us dry for years.

Margaret Thompson 13 hours ago

Thames Water is a disgrace. All water should return to the nation

Holly Taylor 13 hours ago

Water is a precious resource and should be brought back into public ownership and never be in the hands of private investors who will not protect the interests of those who depend on it staying accessible, clean and affordable.

Paul Bisson 13 hours ago

Please protect our water, our most precious resource on this planet. It is for everyone, it is not a commodity to be bought and sold for profit, or wasted and polluted.

Sara Squires 13 hours ago

We need clean water without polluting our rivers with excrement, which this company is incapable of delivering – as their past record clearly shows.

Sara Squires 13 hours ago

We need clean water without polluting our rivers with excrement, which this company is incapable of delivering – as their past record clearly shows.

Adam 13 hours ago

tell these shady American hedge funds to get out of Britain

Moira Unsworth 13 hours ago

We were told private companies can run services better and cheaper than the government, this is not proven to be untrue. Costs have risen, profits have risen, but water quality and service have fallen. Our water is polluted or drinking water not secure, End privatisation, water is not for profit, it belongs to us all.

Anne Davies 13 hours ago

I agree wholeheartedly with Steven Isle’s comment.

Gina Stone 13 hours ago

Water should be for people not profit.

Kate Calvert 13 hours ago

Public services should be run in the public interest, not for private profit.

Norma Hunter 13 hours ago

Public ownership of utilities is the only way to guarantee security

Susan Wheeler 13 hours ago

Thames Water are a disgrace. They keep increasing our bills but the standards have gone down. Meanwhile shareholders taking millions off us.

Susan M Langham-Fitt 13 hours ago

Public Utilities should not be owned by private companies whose role is profit for shareholders. The history of the last decades since privatisation has clearly demonstrated this error.

Andy Little 13 hours ago

Labour must keep explaining to the public that Privatisation of any public service is a Lie. (Its good for a few rich shareholder parasites but at the direct expense of the general public) The water companies should be held up and publicly exhibited as the proof. Then look at the privatisation of the NHS. Eye services and ear services already gone to self interested private companies, among many others

Terence Martin 13 hours ago

Water is an essential for life and should never be organised for private profit.

Maggie Maguire 13 hours ago

Water should belong to the people

Jim Selby 13 hours ago

Water needs to be made public owned too much is going to share holders and not enough to environment
The standard has dropped and rivers are being poluted drinking water has been getting undrinkable

Roger Stone 13 hours ago

More broadly, in addition to the sewage discharge disgrace across all the water companies we have the loss of 15% or so of drinking water from leaking mains at the same time as hosepipe bans. Rather than fix leaks the companies have reduced water pressure so that our supply pressure is FAR lower than in other countries and we can’t have a decent shower. If British Gas can supply gas without leaking it every where it should be MUCH easier not to lose water.

Alice Stewart 13 hours ago

Private ownership of utilities should not be for profit or benefit of individuals.

Syed iliyas Hussain 13 hours ago

Couldn’t agree more
Public companies should not be there for purposes of profit

Tim 13 hours ago

The privatised utilities should all be fined in shares so we can take back ownership and control appropriately.

paul berthold 13 hours ago

Profits before services is their mantra. Water is a right, not something which can be bought & sold by billionaires to fund their increasingly extravagant lifestyles

Robin Ford 13 hours ago

Re-nationationalise the lot!

Colin povoas 13 hours ago

Thames water has failed to keep up with repairs and only increase prices above inflation for money orientated investors this should be a public service run by public all utilities should be

Mary-Anne Fiorini 13 hours ago

Water should NOT be sold at a profit, it is a basic requirement for life.

Natalie Bartlett 13 hours ago

We’ve got storm tanks overflowing in a heatwave, and the rivers are too full of phosphates to top up the reservoirs. Meanwhile shareholders and top execs are getting rich on dividends and bonuses, paid for by our sky high bills.

Daniel Abasolo 13 hours ago

It is about time that water is owned by all of us and not by companies profiteering and polluting.

Hazel Coey 13 hours ago

Our rivers have a voice! It is time to stop polluting our waters! We are killing the wildlife and our children are unable to enjoy the nature that they deserve!
I am ashamed looking at our dead dirty river, that I learnt to swim in, and catch sticklebacks as a child. What sort of country are we to continue to pour untreated sewage in our rivers and oceans? Profit before nature? How did this happen? Margaret Thatcher’s government had no right to sell our water! 💦 You can now put this injustice to rights if you wish to! Please do!!

James Ormiston 13 hours ago

Water is not a commodity it’s a neccessity! It should not be used to make profits.

Karol Steele 13 hours ago

It is quite clear that privatisation is a disaster (as all the intelligent and sensible people said when Thatcher started this appalling process). ALL public utilities should be back in public hands, not just Water.

Paul Durston 12 hours ago

We’ve drifted too far from the GROUP towards the INDIVIDUAL. We need to move back towards the GROUP.

John Cooper 12 hours ago

Current privatised water companies shareholders must now share the cost of their company’s failures.

Robert Kirby 12 hours ago

Utilities should never be sold off to the private sector

Kate Pellegrini 12 hours ago

The privatisation experiment has failed the users in many sectors: water, post, railways, energy. All investment ‘products’ come with a warning before an investor commits their funds: ‘the value of shares can fall as well as rise’. The UK is the only country with privatised water, a NATURAL RESOURCE. Missing this opportunity to renationalise Thames Water will guarantee a huge defection of Labour supporters to the Greens in the next election.

E. Courshee 12 hours ago

Who in their right mind allows FOREIGN investment companies to own a vital service like water without which we die!!!. Take back ALL services that belong to the public ultimately since they fund it through their bills. Thames waters owners have a shameful history with complete disregard for its customers and for the UK environment, their only goal, profit. For once lets put people first. But unless Thames water improves its infrastructure, builds new reservoirs, improves the ones already in service and stops giving itself massive pay rises and bonuses it is on a slippery slope with little chance of continuing. Already in debt by billions, Thames Waters foreign owners have fleeced the UK population without once putting back profits to benefit the people OF THIS COUNTRY. Don’t even question the ethics of taking back what rightfully belongs to the people of this country, it should not be used as a tool to make money for foreign investors!! Insanity

Robert Kirby 12 hours ago

Utilities should never be sold off to the private sector

Kevin Rowlands 12 hours ago

Long overdue to stop being mugged by these greedy parasites, who want more whether they’re in profit or, more likely, in self created debt. All while directors and shareholders continue to milk the public while allowing river lake and sea pollution without punishment.

David Saunders 12 hours ago

The behaviour of the management and shareholders of Thames Water has been predatory and venal. They are a disgrace and should no longer be allowed to pollute our waterways whilst constantly increasing their charges to consumers!

Carol Rodgers 12 hours ago

The water companies have proved themselves absolutely useless at protecting our waterways from pollution. How on earth have they managed to accumulate so much debt. They are not fit for purpose. Please don’t allow them any leeway. Take them back in to public ownership.

Julia Dean 12 hours ago

For this or any other water company to cling on for grim death to their autonomy simply because of their and their own shareholders interests is not only obscene but is a violation and destitution of their public trust and responsibility.

Susan Bains 12 hours ago

Clean water, properly managed, is a basic right and something I feel strongly should be in public ownership. An elite should never profit from other people’s suffering and poor health.

Karen 12 hours ago

Special administration now

Marion Kimberley 12 hours ago

Water us a necessity. It should always be publically controlled and non-profit making

Brian Barham 12 hours ago

After Water must come the return to public ownership all utilities stolen from us in the Thatcher years.

Dr Barney ROSEDALE 12 hours ago

This ‘neoliberal’ farce has gone on long enough anis a proven failure. Please take back the Thames Water disaster and recognise the folly of privatising monopolies.

Rita Farrell 12 hours ago

Dennis Ford 12 hours ago

Nationalisation without compensation

Carol Aviss 12 hours ago

Failed water companies have FAILED for too long. People before greed.

Phil Fairish 12 hours ago

The pollution created . And rising costs for the customers paying for it is fix is only one of the failings,.that is unacceptable while they are claiming huge bonuses for the share holders, that should have been spent on keeping the environment , rivers and seas clean , that create a health risk for the public that are expecting and paying for it .

Karen Berkley 12 hours ago

we want our utilities nationalised we are fed up with the exorbitant charges we are charged by private utility companies, the only care about their shareholders.

Edmond John Starkey 12 hours ago

The recent 2 part television expose about Thames Water titled “Dirty Business” said it all.

Vanessa Derry 12 hours ago

Why do these people expect bonuses and shares. It’s failing. The answer is No.

Nikki Sinclair 12 hours ago

There isn’t a single privatised utility that works better under privatisation. The public were conned and are being ripped off constantly. Take Thames Water back into public ownership and prove to all privatised utilities you mean business. Do not use taxpayer’s money to bail them out. Tie up public ownership so tightly that utilities can’t be sold off again once taxpayers’ money has improved them.

MARK RIDLEY 12 hours ago

All water companies should be brought back into public ownership,
I hope the current Labour Cabour party will do this.

Tj Chaudhry 12 hours ago

It’s about time the government did something positive for the people. Give them hope that we are not being ignored.

Mary Abi Antoun 12 hours ago

The regulatory body should be disbanded and their jobs given to people who understand how important their work is. As a member of the public I rely on appointed regulatory bodies to do the job for which they are appointed.

Brian Southern 12 hours ago

This industry needs to be cleaned up to one the public can trust without the pollution of our rivers.

Philip Fairish 12 hours ago

Not supplying the customers with what they are paying for . A safe clean environment that is not a health risk to them that expected it as they face increasing bills for a failed fix,

Sami Robinson 12 hours ago

Keep going Thames water can’t win this fight.

Kathy Fyffe 12 hours ago

It’s a disgrace. Poisoning our water supply should incur a life prison sentence. Making a profit from selling vital drinking water should be illegal.

Edmond John Starkey 12 hours ago

Privatisation of this essential utility has proved to be a complete failure.

Kathy Ludbrook 12 hours ago

There is no justification for private ownership of any public services, especially one as vital as Water. We cannot be held to ransom, be overcharged for a poor and dangerous service, and then be expected to pay more for it to be put right.

Anthony Rowe 12 hours ago

As an individual I contacted my water company ignored.

Dave Quayle 12 hours ago

Nationalisation is the only answer

Raynor Davie 12 hours ago

A utility service should not be an opportunity for profit making enterprise. Full stop.

Sandra Abrams 12 hours ago

Andrea Byrom 12 hours ago

For once, please strike a blow for democracy against the robber barons who have systematically asset-stripped an essential resource that should never have been privatised. Water is an essential to life and decency and cannot be entrusted to those who seek to exploit everything in search of more profit for the few.

Noeleen Grattan 12 hours ago

Clive Pritchard 12 hours ago

Water is a national treasure and should be under public control.

Roger 12 hours ago

As Mr. Spock once said,

“the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”

Joy McMahon 12 hours ago

Privatisation was always a scam! How can a utility that has to pay shareholders be cheaper? Just corrupt MPs taking bribes to sell us down the river! It’s got to be stopped now!

Meurig Jones 12 hours ago

A law should be passed to bring in auditors to discover if shareholders have made back their initial investments as shareholders, and if they have they should not be compensated.

Rob Billinge-Hall 12 hours ago

The current situation is ludicrous. Privatisation was about channeling money to the wealthy and wealthy corporations, many owned offshore. What is needed now is bold action to make water work for the people of this country, delivering significant investment in infrastructure, cleaning of rivers and the sea and reduced cost for consumers. Bold action. Management not oversight.

Alison Berry 12 hours ago

Water companies should pay such a high fine/penalty equal to at least the total dividends and bonuses paid out of their funds since they were privatised to put our money back where it belongs- investing in the infrastructure and new technologies.

Stephen Parkes 12 hours ago

Thames Water shareholders have milked the public for far too long with plenty of money going into their pockets rather than being used to improve vital infrastructure which is absolutely shameful.

Richard Wright 12 hours ago

Make the companies pay, now!

Carlos Rodoreda Torres 12 hours ago

We’re just sick of seeing the services and quality of the water worsening while the bills get higher and higher. Creditors deserve to loose control. They got themselves in a muddy ditch and it’s time they stay there. Let’s take back control!

Richard Wright 12 hours ago

Colin Ryan 12 hours ago

Privatised water companies should be the same as water companies in Scotland , owned by the people run as a private company so that profits go back into the company and not shareholders pockets.

Angie Whiley 12 hours ago

Time to take back control of our most precious resource, especially with AI needing so much of it.

Rosemary Humphrys 12 hours ago

Mismanagement and creditors’ greed should not be the driving force
for our utility companies.

Mark Birchall 12 hours ago

Renationalise all water companies

Elizabeth James 12 hours ago

Tired of the tax payers footing the bill to rescue private businesses. The rich get richer whilst the rest of us get poorer

M. Peters 12 hours ago

They made the problem so definitely fined a hefty amount & renationalised. They caused the problem with their greed and lack of investment.

Mary Birchall 12 hours ago

Shareholders must not be allowed to profit at the expense of the public

PETER THORNTON 12 hours ago

Currently not fit for purpose.

Graham Cook 12 hours ago

Water is a vital national asset and should be owned nationally.

Jane Lumkin 12 hours ago

Please do not allow Thames water creditors to retain control of water authority. They have forfeited the right to control a public utility by allowing the water supply to be polluted and without regular and necessary msintenance.

Diana Parsonage 12 hours ago

I’m fed up with big companies robbing the public. Taking out money and still poisoning the water.

Jane Carroll 12 hours ago

The behaviour of these companies is criminal. Or money has been taken and our environment has been devastated. Rivers are a danger to life and we now have a hosepipe ban because no provision has been made for the inevitable effects of climate change and hot weather. Managers should be prosecuted!

Lauraine McManus 12 hours ago

The water companies should not be allowed to continue polluting our rivers and seas. It’s a disgrace

Malcolm Charles 12 hours ago

Years of mismanagement and underinvestment, coupled with asset striping and environmental damage, of our water utilities & systems has to stop.

Judi Chrysanthou 12 hours ago

I support what you are doing

Michael Shears 12 hours ago

Southwest water is almost as bad with sewage spills ruining our beaches and the Brixham incident.
Our prices are astranomically high too

Anne Shears 12 hours ago

For too long water companies have been allowed to get away with horrendous pollution issues. I live in the South West where we already have the second highest water bills in the country but too few reservoirs. We used to have blue flag beaches but I believe this standard has now been removed. Water companies need to be held to account for causing illness ( and even death) to bathers using seas and rivers, lack of maintenance in treatment works, lack of building new infrastructure to cope with all the new housing developments and causing disruption to water supplies as in the Devon Brixham incident of 2024.

Catherine Margham 12 hours ago

The water companies have caused this problem so they should pay. The water companies should be brought back into public control and there should be strict regulations, to ensure thid pollution from sewers does not happen again.

John Taylor 12 hours ago

I very strongly agree that all water companies should be nationalised. Those that are profiting from their investments should loose their money when we run our water companies.

Barbara 12 hours ago

Water is the source of life. We should all own it. It should never have been privatised for profit.

Robin Hunter 12 hours ago

An absolute scandal, public services and utilities should never have been sold in the first place. Water companies are a prime example of this.

Penny Mitchell 12 hours ago

The behaviour of Thames Water is appalling

John Bevins 12 hours ago

Please take back control of of our utilities.
Private control has not worked.

Anne 12 hours ago

As part of an army of community water-testers, I’m fed up with seeing our rivers polluted over and over again, while the companies charged with protecting them treat the public as a cash cow, creaming off record profits and bonuses while neglecting the work we pay them to do.

Ursula Smith 12 hours ago

Thames water are polluting and loosing water while lining their own pockets. Water is a basic human right and they are contaminting it.

Jason Eyre 12 hours ago

I’m fed up of paying through the nose for water only to see the seas and rivers fill up with filthy effluent

Chris Mc 12 hours ago

These shareholders have milked privatisation to death by failing to invest in the necessary infrastructure and loading Thames Water with debt through pure greed. Such behaviour must have serious consequences. Re-nationalisation MUST be that consequence.

Emily Clark 12 hours ago

Shameful behavior that the public is paying for …

Gerald Samociuk 12 hours ago

It’s time that the water companies share holders and executives were brought to justice. The pollution and poisoning of customers needs to be paid for from their profiteering. Do not be fooled by whatever promises they make for the future – they need to be punished and pay reparations for their wanton actions.

Roger Blackburn 12 hours ago

Do what should have been done ages ago and return our natural resources to us.

Anne Whiting 12 hours ago

I don’t understand How a corporation, usually not British ,can take over a company ,load it full of debt, whilst paying executives,and shareholders vast amount in salaries and dividends, not fulfill their obligations to the customer
When tasked can say ” OK give us a pile of money ,take over the mess and we will go away “

Sarah W 12 hours ago

Water (and energy) companies should never have been privatised in the first place. You have an opportunity to right this wrong and national disaster – we urge you to please do the right thing.

Matt Grahame 12 hours ago

Privatisation of water was a disgrace. It’s a monopoly. The private companies are only interested in their shareholders. It’s racketeering at its best! Consumers, and the environment, are being fleeced to line the pockets of corporate big business. It must end!!

Russell O’Donnell 12 hours ago

We can’t keep talking about this. Action is needed now.

Katherine 12 hours ago

Privatisation hasn’t worked,take back control into public ownership

ML Cox 12 hours ago

Private Equity take risks & get rewarded. They’ve taken £Bn out to reward themselves & delivered year on year worsening services.
The current Ofwat monitoring framework is not fit for purpose.
Our rivers are dying, polluting discharges are not punished.
The whole system needs a radical rethink.

Mark Taylor 11 hours ago

Ash Smith 11 hours ago

Our privatised water industry has become a cash extraction device that is harming people, the environment and the legitimate economy. It could easily be turned from a liability in private ownership, to a valuable public asset, wisely spending bills from 62 million people to create a clean and healthy future. It won’t happen in private hands.

Paul Brant 11 hours ago

This disgrace has gone on for far too long!

Phil Kenyon 11 hours ago

Foreign ownership, foreign profits, foreign mismanagement and yet we pay their fines through our water bills. Get a grip government and protect your electorate from this foreign invasion. Do your job.

Robert Wood 11 hours ago

No to compensation for people who’ve already made plenty of money

Susan Noone 11 hours ago

Why would anyone be content to live in a country with dirty rivers and coasts when they have the power to reverse that situation?

Robin Blincowe 11 hours ago

Public ownership of water companies is the only way to control excessive sewage discharges and maintenance of clean rivers and waterways. Our health & environment are too important to leave to wealthy CEO’s who only care about money.

Janet 11 hours ago

Public ownership is the most viable option in terms of security, cost and can be a source of revenue for the state . Can you get back hold of the profit making land registry whilst you are at it please?

Patrick Bermingham 11 hours ago

Capitalism is supposed to reward success not failure. All of our water companies were handed over without debt and substantial assets . These have been stripped and sold with debt substituting real value.

Vivien Brown 11 hours ago

Water companies should not be given tax payers money, unless the taxpayers/gobernment are given a share of profits and dividends

Paul S 11 hours ago

Water – is an essential resource and shouldn’t be for profit.

Dr H V Andrew 11 hours ago

Public ownership is the only credible and honourable solution.

Jacqueline Campbell 11 hours ago

To many water pollutions across the whole country.

Peter Darnborough 11 hours ago

Utilities should not be privatised, experience has shown that it doesn’t work and that so called regulators are toothless. Bring back into public ownership and stop ruthless profiteering

Margaret Hobbs 11 hours ago

Water is a precious and essential resource. Private companies have been given far too long already to show their lack of commitment to the public who need this resource. Please put water back into public ownership.

Chris Salt 11 hours ago

After decades of prioritising shareholder dividends over essential infrastructure, Thames Water has collapsed into a cycle of systemic failure characterised by a staggering £15 billion plus debt mountain, industry-leading leakage rates, and the chronic discharge of raw sewage into the River Thames. Placing the utility into Special Administration is the only viable path to strip away the “brass neck” of financial mismanagement, ensuring that public health and environmental protection are finally prioritised over protected creditor returns and corporate negligence.

Peter Griggs 11 hours ago

Water companies are a disgrace, they should all be brought back into public ownership. The private sector has again emphasised that profits for shareholders is the priority and not providing their contractoral obligations , truly corrupt and disgraceful. The management should be stripped of the money they have paid to themselves for stealing from profits they never actually made, call it fraud or corruption it’s totally unacceptable.

James Brooks 11 hours ago

The UK was once widely know as the ‘dirty man of Europe’, then we joined the EU and had to stop the discharge of untreated sewage into rivers and onto beaches. Numerous ‘Blue Flags’ were earned in coastal resorts around the UK. Then we left the EU, investment fell, and the dividends to shareholders matched the sum needed for restoration of standards; about £76 billion. This is shameless profiteering. They had their chance and greed prevailed, now water must be returned to public ownership.

Richard Heath 11 hours ago

Water companies have syphoned our money into the pockets of their shareholders for too long.

Graham Hudson 11 hours ago

Water and Sewerage should be nationalised. Thames Water should be used as an example.

Olivia Agate 11 hours ago

Clean water is a basic human right, not to make obscene profits from

Keith Horkan 11 hours ago

I believe our water should be in public ownership.

Uzo Nwokolo 11 hours ago

Water should never have been privatised. What’s next? Air?

Lynn Drake 11 hours ago

I think it is now time to return this company to the public domain.
A sum of £20 billion debt is surely one step too far.
The share holders should not reap benefits from poor management and blatant disregard of the problems they are creating re the sewage discharges and pollution.
A government golden share is not an option.

Susan Eversfield 11 hours ago

Water is an essential for everyone and should not be owned or controlled by a private group of people. It must be controlled in the interests of the public by the government.

Mat 11 hours ago

I’d much prefer an inefficient public sector water corp, where PAYE staff pay their taxes than see that money being stripped out through dividends and debt structures (often offshore), by overseas private equity. Not only do UK customers benefit but also the the state & exchequer. Privatisation of monopoly sectors has failed, period. The debt these companies have racked up is a national disgrace. Prof David Hall from Grenwich University has publicly said that ALL the money invested has been raised by bill payers alone anyway since privatisation.

Dr Bernard Mooney 10 hours ago

Kirsty Newton 10 hours ago

It is important that as a country we have access to clean affordable water. Cholera and Malaria are not things we want to bring back to our land

Rosemary Golding 10 hours ago

It is frankly unbelievable that something as crucial to our continued existence as water should ever have been put in the hands of private companies who exist for the profit of shareholders. These companies have delivered nothing and been repeatedly bailed out at the public’s expense. All of them should be immediately nationalised

Martin lyttle 10 hours ago

Water is essential resource

Dol Gwilliam 10 hours ago

This greed and corruption has to STOP now

Jihn A Hamilton 10 hours ago

Public ownership — preferable to”extraction” of private profit.

Michael Juniper 10 hours ago

This is a big scandal and we have been lucky not to have a major health scandal.

olive wholey 10 hours ago

Words fail me – thankfully not those quoted above!

Nicky Bull 10 hours ago

Clean water is both a necessity and a human right. It should not be used to make profits for shareholders!

Kathryn Barber 10 hours ago

Thatcher and her greedy cronies didn’t ask the people of this country, could our precious publicly owned utilities be sold off. Our NHS is the next to go. I pray our new government puts a stop to all this. Bring it all back under one umbrella. Make the private companies pay, take it all back for nowt.

Tony Young 9 hours ago

Time to stand up for ordinary people and stop the dishonest profiteering. Renationalise the water companies!

Dominique 9 hours ago

Private companies should be nowhere near public services. The business aims are completely incompatible. It’s been shown in every sector that private companies siphon off public funds to line their pockets and the public is always worse off. Doing the same thing and expecting a different result is either insanity or wilful negligence! Reject the deal and bring TW into public ownership.

Marianne Brett-Tellick 9 hours ago

Water is a human right; not for profit! All the water companies should be dissolved and all water infrastructure taken into public ownership. Why should we take on their debts? We have been paying hefty bills all these years and they have been lining shareholders pockets with fake profits, while failing to invest in proper infrastructure to mitigate the effects of the climate emergency or even just deal with our sewage hygienically,

Harry Planche 9 hours ago

Jon Trigg 9 hours ago

I’m sure following the recommendations in this letter will not only lead to the best outcomes for customers of Thames Water and their future provision but will also reflect well on you as a new minister and the Burnham government.
A bold move and the right move.

Barry Watts 9 hours ago

I want profits from essential utilities to be used to improve those utilities – not paid out to hedge funds, shareholders and excessive management salaries and bonuses.

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