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Starmer is absolutely determined to follow in the US Democrats footpath. He won't fix or actually actually address the problems this country faces and the dissatisfied and dis​il​lu​sion​ed public will turn to the madness of Reform and their version of Trumpism.

Why are we continuing with this Thatcher privatisation disaster? Expected better from this government.

He’s not allowed to change his mind on that. The people in government have been paid off. They represent business and corporations, not the people.

Done

Signed

It's not a review if it has such a huge qualification. Perhaps it can be renamed? Steve Reed's Rip Off Support Report, perhaps.

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A review that can't consider public ownership? When the public are overwhelmingly pro public ownership? Starmer's Labour are a complete joke and are clearly serving lobby groups not the public.

Steve Reed is not our friend.

Is Steve Reed a Trumpite?

Steve Reed is part funded by the TetraPak family. Do they have any water interests? I wish this lot would just wear their sponsors names on their shirts.

All fines should be taken in share holdings. Dividends blocked until infrastructure reaches acceptable standards. At the rate they are being fined, won't take to long to get to 51%+

Tried repeatedly

Worryingly, this just send back "error" when trying to sign.

Every bill payer should withhold payment until they make the changes. Money is the only thing they understand. We make payments on the understanding they provide a service. That service isn’t being provided so why should we pay it.

It will cost billions whoever owns it. The difference is that private ownership will include billions in profits for shareholders. They don't do it for free.

Short termism is what's driving so many of these problems. Always looking for the cheapest easiest answer and ignoring all the long term impacts.

In the real world privatisation has been a complete disaster. That's the facts.

To avoid jitters in the financial sector.

Nationalisation without compensation is free.

Remember 30 years ago when Blair insisted that better regulation could solve all privatization-related problems? (Even at the time, a lot of people recognized this as wishful thinking...)

There's this thing called borrowing

It's not expert knowledge to know a *government* has access to, for all intents and purposes, unlimited money.

its not exactly giving independent is it

Totally don't agree with this! Nationalising water would be the BEST outcome. We are currently paying higher bills because they borrowed money to pay to shareholders, disgusting! Why should I be subsidising some fat cat? #NationaliseWater

Yes, and watch out for the next deal—they’re trying to sell the NHS to the Americans.

Signed.

Signed, those vultures need bringing back to public ownership, not rewarding their shareholders

Restricting the terms of reference prejudices the work of that commission, and makes unlikely the cleaning of rivers, coasts and beaches fouled by private water treatment companies.

We'll be waiting a long time

Absolutely right. We should never have allowed these things to be sold off

There's no point running a commission when you already know the answer. You can just run it through ChatGPT for 15 cents, because that's what the outcome is worth.

Steve Reed was in Portsmouth yesterday at the south east Labour regional conference. Wish we protested. Found out through my local mp Stephen Morgan. Thankfully I posted the petition telling reed to consider public ownership in this new commission. Let’s hope Stephen Morgan doesn’t delete the link

I didn't accept any money.

Signed and shared. My water bill is increasing by 64%, Thames Water. This is their response to me: Thank you for the details. The direct debit payment plan amount increased by the system to cover up present and future bills. If any carryforward amount in the account is adjusted in the account.

Have you considered reminding him of his antisemitism?

Signed! After the shocking failures of water privatisation & the crazy increases to our bills coming in April which will just go to paying off their debts and dividends why is nationalisation not even being considered as an option!?! 🧐

Reeves won’t accept the financial burden on the government finances.

And there’s more…. yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

If Steve Reed MP sets up "the biggest review into the water sector since privatisation" and disallows any consideration of ownership, then HIS ALLEGIANCES ARE WITH CORPORATE POWER. There is no possibility of any "market" in water provision to the public. This is a Neoliberal rip-off! Corruption?

Signed.

He's already bought and paid for.

Not quite correct: the word 'review' doesn't define the parameters of the review per se, and these can be as broad or narrow as the group commissioning the review decides. If the review isn't open to covering public ownership, there won't be anything in it that would allow govt to go that way.

Another open goal missed. Idiot.

What it all comes down to is that privatization was bad for the people, but re-nationalization would offend the Big People! (Guess which group holds greater sway with today's Labour Party?)

Signed.

I would sign on the petitions site. But I don’t know that my data is safe on the one offered here. So, not.

Without inclusion of a renationalisation option, the review's completely pointless. The Government know this, but simply don't care. Once again, putting on public display their ideological bankruptcy.

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This kind of thing is what drives people away from politics. Despite evidence that privatisation has been a disaster, the Labour minister refuses to recognise it.