The Cunliffe report proves it: water must be nationalised

The Cunliffe report proves it: water must be nationalised

The Cunliffe Report is a joke. It protects water profiteers, screws over billpayers, and will do little to reduce pollution in our rivers and coastlines. The only solution is for water to be taken into public ownership – and run for the benefit of people and planet, not profit.This has been a dire year for the privatised water companies. Some, like Thames Water, have teetered on the brink of collapse; they have hiked bills by an average of 27 pe…

Labour’s arguments on water nationalisation reveal their total economic incompetence

This exchange took place in The Commons yesterday as Clive Lewis MP asked Steve Reed MP, the Environment Secretary, about nationalisation of the water industry: Clive Lewis (Norwich South) (Lab) I am afraid that the report feels like a missed opportunity for the Government to show the public whose side they are on. It entrenches a privatised model that has already failed economically, environmentally and democratically. With 20% to 50% of bills …

Cunliffe Report Fails to Tackle Water Privatisation Crisis

Share this post: The Cunliffe report into the state of England’s water sector fails at the first hurdle because it was forbidden from naming the real cause of the crisis: privatisation. Everything else in the report flows from that silence. Every reform, every regulatory shuffle, every local planning authority is built on the [...] The post You can’t fix a rigged game: privatisation is the problem with our water, and Cunliffe was gagged from say…