High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England’s great artificial water crisis of 2025.
In its refusal to renationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/17/water-bills-filthy-rivers-drought-water-crisis
@politicalgadgets Growing up we were all conned into hating public servants — told they were lazy, inefficient, a waste of money. The private sector was supposedly leaner, smarter, better. So we outsourced and privatised everything.
Now look at it: $1.18m in one day to consultants. What a rort.
How wrong they were.
Inside story #PrivateSector feasting on #Scotland's #nationalised #trains
The notion Scotland’s #railways are fully nationalised is a mirage
#Scottish Government taken over ScotRail, but the trains are leased from private sector at eye-watering cost
An obscene 25% of every ticket sold goes to private companies leasing rolling stock
#ScotRail needs to replace 69 trains
Abandoning the leasing system would save £362 million
New ‘powerful’ water regulator to replace ‘failed’ Ofwat in drive to ‘reset’ sector https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/21/new-powerful-water-regulator-to-replace-failed-ofwat-in-drive-to-reset-sector #EnvironmentAgency #Economicpolicy #Waterindustry #Privatisation #ThamesWater #JonCunliffe #Environment #Regulators #Waterbills #Utilities #SteveReed #Business #Politics #UKnews #Water
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/567501/poor-access-to-patient-notes-makes-outsourcing-risky-say-doctors Rather than expensive outsourcing, the public system should be resourced properly to look after public patients, she said.
"We see this as a work-around rather than a permanent solution." I don’t think the bank clerk has thought this through #nzpol #health #privatisation #worstgovtever
« Dans l’épisode L’#IRIS: à contre-courant du discours néolibéral, Camille Legault Thuot et Julia Posca s’entretiennent avec Martin Petit et Simon Tremblay-Pepin sur la manière dont le #néolibéralisme a contribué à redéfinir le rôle de l’État québécois au cours des 25 dernières années. »
v. la série complète : https://www.mixcloud.com/irisrecherche/
#polQC #servicesPublics #droitisation #austérité #privatisation #inégalités #santéQC #soinsDeSanté #transitionÉcologique @quebec
£18.5 bonuses essential for 21 Thames Water Senior Staff to ‘retain talent’
It is not just the greed, and the arrogance, but the delusions that these senior staff deserve bonuses - let alone employment that leaves me gobsmacked.
Le “cercle extinctif” : comment la crise écologique sert la relance du capital selon Stéphanie Lamy @stephlamy
Stéphanie #Lamy décrit le “cercle de l’extinction” : l’#effondrementÉcologique, loin de freiner le #capitalisme, devient le nouveau carburant d’une #accumulation pour les #élites. L’#effondrement n’est plus une #menace, mais une #ressource pour l'#extraction, la #privatisation, la #fuite en avant #technologique et la mise à l'écart des #droits humains et de…
LA MORT EST DEVENUE UN BUSINESS ? 
#obsèques #privatisation
“Thames Water spent £136m on securing emergency funding, leaked document suggests.” This really can’t be a sensible way to run our public utilities. #Water #Privatisation #Capitalism
Over one quarter billion on #strike over Indian government's pro-employer attempts to bust unions and worsen working conditions
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Privatisation du rail : premiers retards pour Transdev dans la région PACA RP #Privatisation #Transdev #SNCF #BatailleDuRail #TransportPublic
Privatisation du rail : premie...
Revolut°Permanente Privatisation du rail : premiers retards pour Transdev dans la région PACA: Depuis le 31 Juin 2025 la ligne Nice Marseille est passé sous l'étendard de Transdev, mais les premiers retards sont venus gâcher la fête « historique » pour les capitalistes.Notre Classe / SNCF / Bataille du rail / Privatisation / Transdev https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Privatisation-du-rail-premiers-retards-pour-Transdev-dans-la-region-PACA?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon RP #Privatisation #Transdev #SNCF #BatailleDuRail #TransportPublic
La mise à mort programmée du système ferroviaire français
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie-et-social/090725/la-mise-mort-programmee-du-systeme-ferroviaire-francais
À la différence de la SNCF, ses concurrents exploitant des grandes lignes n’auront aucune mission d’aménagement du territoire et seront exonérés d’une partie de l’entretien du réseau. L’entreprise publique, privée d’une partie de ses recettes, va devoir assumer seule toutes les charges.
Thames Water paid almost £2.5m to senior managers from an emergency loan that was meant to be used to keep the failing utilities company afloat – and has refused to claw back the payments.
The managers are due to receive the same amount again in December, and a further £10.8m collectively next June.
Nationalise Thames Water now.
Forgetting what #democracy is for & all about
"Poland's post-communist economic record was remarkable.. But te full #socialcosts of tis #economic #transformation hv been underappreciated.. (w) radical #freemarket reforms, #inequality soared.. While #privatisation & #deregulation lifted GDP, te same processes also fractured te body politic.. #Wałęsa helped usher in #Poland's democratic era, but recently conceded: "We did one thing wrong. We forgot abt te #people"" #lessons
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3066520/forgetting-what-democracy-is-for-and-all-about
“Thames Water paid almost £2.5m to senior managers from an emergency loan that was meant to be used to keep the failing utilities company afloat – and has refused to claw back the payments.” We are a private profit making enterprise not a public service. Get over it. #Privatisation #Capitalism #Water
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