Windrush WASP

We have to campaign for what the environment and people need, not what our government and the polluters have said they might let us have - if we play nicely and let them keep milking our bills. Channel 4's #DirtyBusiness has put us in front of the goal. Let's not waste that. We don't need 'campaign victories', we need an end to the privatisation scam. Real fish WERE killed by Thames Water pre the making of this video. Thousands of them

"The chief executive of one of the world’s largest water management companies has said it drives her “nuts” that England’s privatised utilities fail to use new technologies to reduce leaks, sewage outflows and water shortages." Water UK the water industry's lobbyist mouthpiece and Ministry of Truth says she's lying. Hmm, who do I believe? 🤔 ft.com/content/4aa7c4…

"Sewage pollutes beach for more than two weeks." South West Water up to their usual tricks again and the EA's response? Blah, blah, blah. Nothing changes. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@MartinCypher Needs wider circulation now that bit is done. That is coming and btw please share widely

@WindrushWasp Why have petition signatures come to a stop?

When do we stop describing water company shareholders that invest nothing but extract our cash and drive our companies into the ditch as 'investors' and start using the more accurate term, 'parasites'? Do we want parasites in our water? Sign the petition to get the choice. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7626… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@sally_finance Privatised water cost us £85billion and will cost us much more. Just saying as there is no other wsy to stop it right now

@WindrushWasp The Brexit referendum in 2016 cost £129m and about £180m now. There are better ways of spending the money. Public ownership of water should be part of any election manifesto but at least the petition will get Parliament talking.

#BottomTrawling is also allowed in Crown Estate Marine Protected Areas. Is the king aware??? I'm sure he'd be horrified.

Yorkshire Water s rivers have three out of the top five most polluted rivers in the country.

"Bottom trawling is taking place in our waters everyday. Does the Noble Lady agree time is of the essence?" Well done Baroness Liz Sugg for keeping bottom trawling top of mind in the House of Lords. The govt must act to #BanBottomTrawling in #MPAs!

We have known the damage bottom trawling causes, destroying entire marine ecosystems and undermining future food security. The government must act to protect our seas and end practices that harm our natural world.

"Families left vomiting over horrendous stench caused by 'sewage issue'." I'm going to be speaking at the @SOSWhitstable protest in Whitstable next weekend, Saturday 25th April. I'll see you all there... mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/c…

@ashsmith43 Thanks for the reposts, and the signatures of course!

Just passed 50K . This is about the public having a voice to end the water scam. Please sign and share widely - and shake things up a bit. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7626…

I witnessed a miracle of nature when I filmed Atlantic salmon spawning on our Norway fishery... youtu.be/1AKm9etmqwI?si… My latest vlog premieres tonight at 7.00pm. Incredible underwater footage from the Gaula River plus first outdoor cooking of 2026, our cockerel thinks that he is Eric Cantona, our hens are laying like crazy and we have some new rabbit babies! If you have ever wondered what its like to live in rural Norway, this is for you!

🎣"We're emptying our seas. The ocean has an incredible ability to bounce back but that resilience is finite, & as overfishing, the climate crisis & pollution converge, we cannot afford to wait. The govt must urgently create a strategy to end overfishing." express.co.uk/news/uk/219438…

@NeilPithouse @EmmaforWycombe @Keir_Starmer @thameswater Absolutely. A ridiculous pay day loan. Fiscal competence has left the building

@WindrushWasp @EmmaforWycombe and @Keir_Starmer - How is increasing the debt of @thameswater a good idea? Isn't the amount of current debt one of the reasons it's in the mire and running out of cash despite captive billpayers. Nationalise now... like you promised at the general election.

Let's be clear - This is not a rescue deal for Thames Water. It is the attempted hijacking by clever financiers of 16 million captive customers that the government is leaving to 'market forces' because it seems to lack the competence to use the law designed to protect the public from this very serious threat. @EmmaforWycombe @Keir_Starmer reuters.com/sustainability…

🥳 .... and we're over halfway there!!! 🥳 Sign and share. Let's make sure that the public has a say on the future of our water vist.ly/4ym2f

All hail @PrivateEyeNews Brilliant story about how one of the proposed new owners of Thames Water is offering up a £25 million "Community Benefit Trust" (CBT) to "support" local environment and community groups but only on condition that TW are exempt from environment law and any threat of prosecution for at least the next 5 years. In other words we'll pay a £25 million bribe to local river groups and charities to shut them up, it's hush money, it's blood money, it's a bride. The Evenlode Catchment Partnership (ECP) knows better of course, they've already handed back £135K to Thames Water after they realised they were simply been used and the only people benefiting from the arrangement was Thames Water. Other river charities would do well to follow ECP's example, don't accept the hush money, don't accept the blood money, it is after all nothing more than a bribe.

We're supporting a petition asking the government to hold a referendum on public ownership of the water industry, created by the incredible @WindrushWasp The difference between this petition and our own is that this one is an official parliamentary petition and, if we can get it past 100k signatures, it will be considered for a debate, a potentially seismic moment. We have 47k already, an amazing start, but we want to go much further. Please take 1 minute today to sign and share this as widely as you can ⤵️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7626…

A holiday from fines. How privatised water seeks to legitimise the organised criminal pollution from which it profits. If Ofwat allows this scam, it will soon spread across the entire sector under the guise of the new supervisory regulators that government is trying to sneak in while waving cash at NGOs to take their eyes off the ball. Apart from that ...