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We all lose as water companies line the pockets of shareholders
Labour’s plan to nationalise utilities is the only way forward and best evidenced by private water companies which bleed us dry
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It was recently revealed that the privatised water industry has shelled out over £13bn in dividends since 2010.
For those of us who opposed Thatcher and the Tories’ privatisation drive, including water, initiated in 1989, and the love affair of all governments with privatisation and linked policies such as PFI and outsourcing ever since, the findings may not have come as a surprise, but the findings of Labour’s recent analysis are still shocking.
Access to water is a human right, it is essential to our day-to-day lives, yet the current “market” is clearly failing.
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