Referendum for water! Please sign.
- Ash
- 2 hours ago
- 2 min read
The government has said we can't take our water industry out of the hands of the private owners who have made such a mess of it. Owners who have extracted over £85 billion from our bills in exchange for putting in nothing, while loading companies with debt they did not need.
According to our government, we have to keep playing their game and paying for it and bail the companies out when they fail.
The government has told NGOs they can't even talk about it because it is not on the table, for reasons that have been shown to be untrue.
That cannot be right, so it is time to shine a bright light on the water scandal.
Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership
Either before or after reading the rest, please sign, share, and ask your friends to share, and ask their friends to share, and so on.
But we want over a million signatures because we want the government to understand we have had enough of being ignored, and we want our MPs from all parties to listen to their constituencies and to represent them in the fight for healthy water and a healthy water industry.
This petition has a map so you can see how your constituency is doing for signatures, and so can your MP.
We have held back any promotion of it until now because we wanted to launch it in the media today. We expect to see this figure climb rapidly with your help.
We need to show our government we are sick of being fobbed off and told that we don't have a say by a government that in 2024 met with fund managers who told the Environment Secretary that they wanted the government to change the water industry regulations to be more attractive to shareholders.
And what happened next?
The Secretary of State , Steve Reed set up the Cunliffe review into regulation and its brief was to do just that - find a way to make regulation more attractive to shareholders! And that is exactly what Sir Jon Cunliffe did.
The results of that review threaten to bring that favourable regulation into real life, and if that happens, and the industry stays privatised, we will be in real trouble with the profit-first principle embedded in law.
The petition is foremost about giving the public a voice. The arguments for and against privatisation are more important than ever and we want this to ensure the debates and arguments are based on fact not fiction. So let's make ourselves heard.
It is time to start this ball rolling.