Campaigners to protest outside the High Court over £3 billion Thames Water bailout plea
Interest and fees related to the loan ‘could easily approach or exceed £1 billion’
We Own It
Water firm given £450m subsidies at same time it paid £1.5bn to shareholders
The news has triggered renewed calls for public ownership.
Anti-privatisation campaigners launch campaign, asking canvassers: “Do you support ending NHS privatisation?”
With the health service losing £10m a week to private profits, the campaigners warn that the NHS is being converted from a “health service for all, to a wealth service for a few.”
EXCLUSIVE: Over 250 parliamentary candidates pledge to push for £40bn per year extra funding for NHS
Two thirds of those who have signed the pledge are standing for the Green Party
Labour has ‘historic opportunity’ to reverse NHS privatisation, says campaigners
Labour called on to pledge to take outsourced NHS services in-house during first term
Public ownership campaigners urge Labour to go further and commit to renationalising rolling stock companies
The highest-paid directors of these private companies earn almost twice as much as the chief executive of Network Rail.
Celebrities slam privatisation as campaign calls on election candidates to protect NHS
“The spirit and the idea of the health service is important and alive today as it ever was, unless we allow it to be run into the ground. So let’s fight for it.”
Demands for public ownership as water bills set to rise above inflation
Average bills are expected to rise by 6% from April
New polling reveals why people fly rather than take the train
This indicates what steps may be needed to encourage people to travel by train
Revealed: Where up to a quarter of your water bill is really going
It’s been branded ‘daylight robbery’