I know that polls here and on my YouTube channel are not statistically valid. The sample is bound to be biased, but last night I posed the same questions on both sites in response to a video on the nationalisation of water.
These were the findings:
They're not statistically valid, but the mood music is evident, and Labour is missing the mark by a mile, again.
And that matters.
If any political party ever set out to get everything wrong in government, Starmer's Labour Party appears to be it.
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Lino is not setting policy on this, the finance parasites are. They have a nice little ££££ extraction game going and they do not want it spoiled by any political rabble. If uk serfs ever wake up, the end result will not be pretty.
Mike, Scottish Water are in public ownership.
Not for business usage
Your claim is too simple to be correct
That isn’t quite correct. All business water in Scotland is supplied by Scottish Water, BUT you have to pay for it via a commission agent (in our case a company called Clear Business from Manchester). However, the pipes, actual water, meter reading, etc is all Scottish Water. It is ludicrous as the commission agent contributes nothing – this system was put in place by Blair when Labour were wanting to privatise Scottish Water. The SNP should abolish this, along with the bloated fat cats at the entirely irrelevant Scottish Water Regulator.
Agreed
Apologies if my post was english centric. We need to ask and answer the question, what are we looking at? Shortly before water privatisation, camelford happened. The ghastly tories thought it would make water LESS ATTRACTIVE, to the FINANCE SECTOR. So they fixed the enquiry (appointed a pliant imbecile to head it) and lo! Privatisation was a success and continues to be from the pov of the finance sector as something that generates good returns. Plenty of RM blogs have charted a way forward. Wont happen whilst at least two parties are owned by finance.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/petition-steve-reed-come-clean-on-the-true-cost-of-publicly-owned-water
82% in a yougov poll wanted water to be nationalised. That was last year. Can’t imagine it’s gone down this year.
https://weownit.org.uk/why-public-ownership/support-public-ownership
I suspect it has risen.
I can see Reform adopting this as it’s popular, I don’t think they’ll do it but if Starmer is going to leave a hugely popular and simple thing like this as an open goal they will take it just like the winter fuel payments.
Do all shareholders for water companies live abroad?
Do they not remember being able to paddle or swim in the sea without looking for signs saying they can’t?
We were in the lake district a few weeks ago, and there were signs around Windermere saying don’t let your dogs go in the water and don’t go in yourself because of blue-green algae.
Do shareholders never go to places like that and wonder about what they are doing?
They’d don’t want to be where we are…
The state of our water is a crime. The lack of foresight, even now, should have people marching on Westminster as an angry mob because let me spell it out.
Extreme weather is only going to get worse. That means longer periods of “less rain” with other periods of incredible amounts of rain causing flash floods. We need 2 things:
1. More water storage, significantly more for when it does not rain as much.
2. Better infrastructure to carry rain water and other water that needs minimal treatment away. Arguably a complete redesign of our water systems.
You will not get this with private companies, who’s sole purpose is to extract the most profit for the least spend.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2025-07-23a.245.1&s=speaker%3A25956#g253.2
Prem in the Lords. He could do with being in the House of the People, even though he is a lord.