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Campaign to renationalise Thames Water needs your support

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Campaign to renationalise Thames Water needs your support

Thames Water is one of the most scandal-struck companies in the UK. The good news is it’s so in debt that the UK could use special measures to take it into public hands without paying them out. Unfortunately, though, the government doesn’t seem to have much interest in doing so. This is why We Own It is encouraging voters to write to their MPs: Regulation hasn't stopped scandal after scandal at Thames Water. But their PR war to keep their hands on its assets continues. Write to your MP: Angela Eagle must reject the creditors' last-ditch attempt to keep Thames Water…

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Burnham slammed for saying he won’t renationalise Thames Water

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Burnham slammed for saying he won’t renationalise Thames Water

It’s been widely reported that Andy Burnham wants to ‘renationalise’ vital public industries and utilities. This sounds good, because people hate privatisation, and they want the UK to once more own its own assets. The problem, of course, is that Burnham isn’t planning to renationalise anything, as he keeps admitting: Andy Burnham says we could have a "localised public control option" for Thames Water What does that mean? Who is in charge? Where do the profits go? We need nothing less than permanent PUBLIC OWNERSHIP of Thames Water with households, workers and anti sewage groups on the board pic.twitter.com/0s1OT1mMzz — Cat…

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