Gareth Picton

[Gareth Picton @gazpic]

Not seen this method before !

[Gareth Picton @gazpic]

Always good to clarify a point 🤣🤣🫣

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: Drugs coming by sea meaning coming by water. A lot of people don’t know what I mean by sea. They think I mean vision. I’m talking about sea like the sea.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Did your water bill go up again today? Of course it did, and no, it's not an April Fools Day.

Time to end the fraud that is the water industry. Time to take our water companies back into public control.

[Gareth Picton @gazpic]

@YorkshireWater @Buckmyold47 We don’t want reduction, we want CESSATION. Reduction is you still dumping 💩 into our rivers, onto our beaches, across paths and roads. I’m not paying you to reduce I’m paying you to STOP. You’re not doing enough, do more & do it at your own expense not mine.

[Gareth Picton @gazpic]

@YorkshireWater Just words… a decade of words while faeces keeps flowing.
Perhaps you need to focus on changing the word “reducing” to “stopping”….. but you won’t will you, certainly no evidence to suggest you will anyway ! 💩💩💩💦

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

Our privatised water industry is not just dirty, not just toxic - it’s lethal. We need to take it back into public control. Decades long failures to invest what is needed, despite constantly rising bills - prioritising dividends to foreign shareholders instead - and now this. It's criminal neglect. Putting money before people - looks like this.

Privatisation looks like this.

https://t.co/FNARdXkhi0

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

In the more than decade I have had the privilege of serving as your MP for Norwich South, I don’t think I have ever attended a meeting quite as moving as the one we held in Parliament this week.

We hosted the people behind Channel 4’s Dirty Business. It tells the true story of campaigners and families who have spent years fighting not just water companies, but a system that was meant to protect us and has too often failed.

Many of you will know that since introducing my Private Member’s Bill to bring water back into public ownership, I have been raising these issues in Parliament and beyond. I have heard the evidence. I have read the reports. I have listened to accounts of pollution, regulatory failure, and companies putting profit before the public good.

But nothing prepares you for sitting in a room with people who have lived the consequences.

The most difficult moment came when we heard from a mother who lost her daughter after exposure to polluted water. Her story is part of the series, but hearing it in person was something else entirely.

To hear her voice break as she described the moment she lost her child is something I will not forget. There was no anger in her tone. No performance. Just grief, dignity, and a determination that no other family should go through what she did.

At the end of the meeting, she came over to speak to me. She gave me a hug and thanked me for the work we have been doing to bring water back into public ownership.

I have to be honest. That meant more to me than almost anything else I have experienced in Parliament.

Because in that moment, this stopped being about policy, or process, or politics. It became about something much simpler.

What kind of country allows this to happen?
And what kind of country decides it will not allow it to happen again?

For years, we have been told that this system works. That it just needs tweaking. Better regulation. Stronger oversight.

But when a system allows pollution on this scale, when it fails families in this way, when it continues to reward failure with profit, we have to be honest about what we are dealing with.

This is not a system that is broken.

It is a system doing exactly what it was designed to do.
That is why I believe there is no alternative to bringing our water back into public, democratic ownership.

Not as an abstract idea. Not as ideology. But because it is the only way to align this essential service with the public interest.

The people I met this week are not politicians. They are not lobbyists. They are ordinary members of the public who have given years of their lives to holding power to account.

They are the ones who have tested the water, gathered the evidence, fought the legal battles, and refused to be ignored.

They are the ones who have carried this issue when others would not.

They are, quite simply, the reason this fight continues.
And it will continue.

Because water is not just another commodity. It is something we all rely on, something we all share, and something that should belong to all of us.

So we keep going.

[Helen the Zen (reboot) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🍉 @glaisian]

I watched Dirty Business and expected the sort of outcry that followed the Post Office Scandal. Tumbleweed.

The water companies are stealing from us and poisoning our environment. Where’s the outrage? #C4News

[Gareth Picton @gazpic]

🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻

[The Left Bible @theleftbible]

The most entertaining two minutes I've watched today.

[Barry Gardiner MP @BarryGardiner]

Since privatisation water companies have taken more than £85billion in dividend and piled up more than £60billion of debt.

Yet all capital and operational costs are covered by bill payers.

So why keep a privatised structure for a natural monopoly like water?

[Barry Gardiner MP @BarryGardiner]

The Office of Environmental Protection says the Environment Agency (EA) broke the law by failing to regulate Water Companies properly.

I asked the Secretary of State if she agreed.

She said she would have to write to me!!

[Gareth Picton @gazpic]

A petition truly worth signing and sharing. The absolute trashing of our waterways & beaches, the health risks and human harm being caused and the profiteering racket stemming from it has to stop.

[SOS Whitstable @SOSWhitstable]

Crikey. We got to 300,000 signatures! What a milestone.

Thank you to absolutely everybody who has repeatedly shared this petition, we are so grateful and will deliver it to Downing Street on your behalf.

If you haven't signed yet: https://t.co/QXLPJyn7re

[Gareth Picton @gazpic]

@YorkshireWater @_Brian_Hunter You truly think we are all absolutely blind to this chaotic, corrupt profiteering at our expense don’t you.
Decades of your abuse & mismanagement are the evidence. It really is a filthy #dirtybusiness that only nationalisation will solve.

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

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

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Fujitsu has earned over £2.5 billion from Post Office contracts since the Horizon system was introduced in 1999.

Water companies have paid their shareholders £85 billion since privatisation.

[BirdGuides @BirdGuides]

An estimated 726,000 migratory songbirds were illegally trapped and killed in Cyprus during autumn 2025, according to a new report: https://t.co/GwF1Zmjxy4

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And there you have it, welcome to the water industry.

South East Water get fined £22 million which I guarantee will never get paid and certainly not by the shareholders and meanwhile they've put up water bills by 7% which will generate £42 million this year alone.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Call me Mr Bastard, but might I suggest a prison sentence would be more of a deterrent than a fine the consumers will inevitably end up paying?

[Gareth Picton @gazpic]

What indeed !!🤷

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak."

Meanwhile South West Water, no relation to the equally hopeless South East Water, have admitted to poisoning the town of Brixham and making 150 people sick.

I'll ask the question again, what the hell is it that a water company has to do to lose their operating licence?

https://t.co/YVnnWEUkhF