Chris Stanley

Youth justice campaigner, Trustee Transform Justice, Michael Sieff Foundation, NAYJ and SCYJ. Retired Magistrate.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Truer words never said. 👏👏👏

Privatisation of the water industry has been a fraud, the greatest act of criminality ever perpetrated against the people of England and Wales.

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

Are we wakingup yet?
Privatisation - a crazy deal signed mostly against our will in 1989, where water company owners don't put put their money into fixing the business and just extract as much of our cash as they can get away with.

- and now our government is lying to us to keep it running.

You can fight back - sign and share - https://t.co/J5ADoh2hre

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

Dirty Business exposed a corrupted regulatory system that the Cunliffe Commission was not allowed to investigate.

It has not gone away and still plays a key role in pollution for profit.

Why is government still hiding the truth about the EA?

Some of you will know the answer.

WASP blog from the key whistleblower.
https://t.co/XqgZ06lwF6

[SOS Whitstable @SOSWhitstable]

18,000 properties without water in the middle of an extremely hot week is incredibly dangerous.

We already knew that @sewateruk were abysmal but this is outrageous.

Water is too important to be run like this. Unacceptable.

https://t.co/8GcyJGJTAs

[SOS Whitstable @SOSWhitstable]

This chart is a masterclass in how to make ordinary variation look like a crisis.

The biggest problem? The y-axis starts at 500 instead of 0. That massively exaggerates the height differences between the bars, making a relatively modest increase in water demand look dramatic and alarming.

571 ML/d and 670 ML/d are only about a 17% difference — but visually the red bars appear almost twice as large as the green one.

Then there’s the colour coding:
🟢 safe
🟡 warning
🟠 danger
🔴 crisis

Those thresholds are arbitrary, but the design makes the audience feel like demand suddenly becomes catastrophic at 650.

This is why data visualisation ethics matter. Charts shouldn’t be designed to manipulate emotion — they should help people understand reality accurately.

A simple zero-based axis and neutral colours would tell the story honestly.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Why is renationalising water not even being discussed by the present government? Even though nobody's sure who the government is.
https://t.co/hdt8kmsDgE

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

Fed up with the government feeding your bills to multi-billion £ financiers and dangerous hedge funds?

Get your sewage stories on the front page of your local paper, glaring out of the supermarket displays across the country.

Your government is protecting this scam; how about protecting the people?
@Keir_Starmer @EmmaforWycombe @RachelReevesMP

Well done @witneygazette

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And this is how the corruption looks on the ground, so called river charities living of the proceeds of crime.

For how much longer are we going to tolerate this?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Protesters criticise beach's water pollution."

Well done the good people of South Shields. Bravo. 👏

But have you signed the petition yet?

250,000 here we come.

https://t.co/kZz1cXBtz3

https://t.co/rJGyC0nB0P

[SOS Whitstable @SOSWhitstable]

Massive congratulations to @WindrushWasp for this important milestone 👏

Let's not stop there though, 100k isn't enough.

When this is debated we need to apply seismic pressure to all MPs.

They need to know that if they block this, they are going to be voted out.

[SOS Whitstable @SOSWhitstable]

You may think your signature won't make a difference to the petition on public water ownership.

But if everyone thought that, it wouldn't have reached 90k+ signatures.

Every signature helps, every share helps even more.

Please ✍️ & 🔄

https://t.co/XQ8RSHKLCC

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And as for the Flies ♥️ Sh*t.... protest amazing, just amazing....

[SOS Whitstable @SOSWhitstable]

Great picture of @Feargal_Sharkey!

[SOS Whitstable @SOSWhitstable]

What. A. Day. Seems like the sort of day for thousands of people to demand public ownership of this very water.

You ready @SouthernWater? We're coming for you.

[SOS Whitstable @SOSWhitstable]

The legend himself, @Feargal_Sharkey 🪧

[SOS Whitstable @SOSWhitstable]

We've got a couple of heroes on the stage 🪧

@WindrushWasp

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"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...

https://t.co/ZZocsuGlVD

[SOS Whitstable @SOSWhitstable]

It's protest week and we're delighted to announce our full speaker line up 🪧

Who is joining us this Saturday to make our voices heard?

[Ashley Smith @ashsmith43]

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.

https://t.co/Ydg9ei1qjz

[SOS Whitstable @SOSWhitstable]

It's time to protest 🪧

We've had enough. Enough of privatisation, sewage pollution, bonuses, dividends and bill increases.

Join us on the 25th for a march and words from @Feargal_Sharkey, @WindrushWasp and others TBA.