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[steven collis 📸 @tintininkent]

Think @Feargal_Sharkey will like him 👍🏼👍🏼

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Feargal Sharkey: Burnham’s water plan won’t fix the sewage crisis."

The problem with the water industry is ownership, fix that you fix the issue. Anything else, is irrelevant.

https://t.co/KkaVoITw6A

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"A map of all the discharges by Thames Water has revealed untreated sewage travelled 80 miles earlier this week."

One of the great untold stories of the sewage scandal, cumulative impact. The more downstream you are the worse it gets.

https://t.co/X67A7vJqvn

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

“River sewage is becoming a serious public health concern, Prof Sir Chris Whitty has warned, as he demanded that water companies do more to keep effluent out of Britain’s waterways”.

https://t.co/tHvmc3o4Oh

[Essex Man (Reform Member Free Speech Union Member) @EssexMan312]

Martin Lewis, there is something very, very, very wrong in the system... 😡

So … let me get this straight:

* British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June

* BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone

* Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year

The MEN at the top:

* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary

* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits

* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m

* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.

* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m

* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m

* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m

* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package

* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000

* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m

* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary

Meanwhile there are...

* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.

* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.

* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.

* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.

* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.

* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.

* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.

* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!

* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.

* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!

All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...

THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others.

Something needs to change.

Why is customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?

I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....

COPIED AND PASTED FROM OTHERS :
PLEASE KEEP IT GOING SO MORE AND MORE GET TO SEE IT .

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Thames Water will have incurred almost £2bn in financing costs and advisory fees over the 18 months to the end of September".

So here's what it's come to, it's now being demanded, not asked but demanded, that Thames Water's customers are being forced to fund their continued exploitation and abuse at the hands of American vulture capitalists.

What a world. Time to put an end to it, time to put Thames Water and its customers out of their misery.

https://t.co/l03FA3QO3J

[∼ @richardmeredith]

@CryptoTaxJme Hi Jamie, dm’d you

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"A group of sea swimmers have said they are 'furious' after multiple sewage spills left their club's regular bathing spot 'dangerous' and 'unusable'."

Wessex Water up to their old tricks I see.

https://t.co/9bAIjnZvCY

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

United Utilities fined £964,225, pleads guilty to dumping raw sewage in seas. Crimes date back to 2023.

Fined at least 223 times since 2010, paid £8m. Still committing crimes, bosses rewarded, shareholders enriched.

Revoke its licence. Nationalise water.
https://t.co/L7TDQP5l3V

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Just to make clear how dramatic these [E. coli] readings were, the level considered unsafe for bathing is 1,000 colony-forming units per 100ml. The group’s highest reading showed 370,000."

Christchurch Harbour everyone, Christchurch Harbour.

https://t.co/CH7nvPaAVr

[Fitzjimi @fitzjimi]

What is going on @BBCNews Angela Raynor paid the wrong stamp duty and you were on her like a dog with bone. Farage is on film accepting massive illegal overseas payments and you look the other way. WHY am I paying a licence fee for this rubbish?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Almost at 200,000 signatures and still 11 days left until the debate in parliament.

How fantastic would it be to that over 250,000 by the end of next week?

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

We are going to pass 200K signatures soon. You can be part of ending the privatised water scam; please sign and share widely.
This will be debated in Parliament on 14 September - is your MP going? This is the link 👇👇👇
https://t.co/p7dZoNJONr

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Water companies circumventing bonus rules? What did ministers expect?"

And here's the kick in the teeth, ministers did it in spite of for I for one told them, before the election, during the election and after it. They knew what they were doing and they also knew it was pointless.

Political pantomime.

https://t.co/KyCX6TkcEP

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"‘Tiny bit of rain and the sewage comes’."

If I remember correctly when they tested the DNA of the E. coli at Brighton Pier it turned out to be human. Yes human sewage in the water next to Brighton Pier.

https://t.co/JyMTal7Mhw

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

“Water company plans £89m shareholder payout despite sewage conviction.”

And that boys & girls is how it works

We can spend £91.6m fixing the sewage works or dump that sh*t into the nearest river, pay a £2.6m fine and give the rest to our shareholders.

https://t.co/ro7ZusRjnj

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"In the first five months of 2026, there were 7,280 incidents of water firms in England and Wales dumping sewage, chemicals, and other pollutants on days of little or no rainfall."

Oh look, they lied, AGAIN. "We only do it during heavy rain to stop sewage flooding into people's houses."

https://t.co/zH2O5Le5KR

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny."

"Exceptional weather", anyone?

When are we going to put an end to this farce, starting with Thames Water?

https://t.co/fBQ18eG0Ve

[Jonathon Porritt @jonathonporritt]

It’s shocking how water companies have gotten away with polluting our waterways with sewage.

That’s why more than 319,000 of us have signed the petition demanding an end to the sewage us. We’re pushing for 350,000 signatures. https://t.co/CNgcNEuhty via @38degrees

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

This is a huge human health issue, as well as an environmental crime.
The privatised water companies have failed us. Time for *renationalisation*.
(Not 'public control' as Burnham suggests.) https://t.co/ZGM32RDG2m