Compass

"Mutualisation sounds great but when you lift the veil… it’s a cop-out."

Clive Lewis MP, Norwich South SERA - Labour’s Environment Campaign

“Workers have been at the forefront of making sure we have decent water”

Clive Lewis MP MP for Norwich South SERA - Labour’s Environment Campaign

"This is a negotiation and it takes political will. But this Labour Government needs to show it can do difficult things."

Lena Swedlow, Compass Deputy Director SERA - Labour’s Environment Campaign

"Our campaign has grown from a handful of MPs up to 70-80 MPs now willing to stick their heads about the parapet to support public ownership."

That's not enough, but it shows we're growing momentum fast.

Clive Lewis MP MP for Norwich South SERA - Labour’s Environment Campaign

"Andy Burnham wants to end neoliberalism. What’s more neoliberal than privatised water?"

So why are we kicking public ownership down the long grass?

Clive Lewis MP MP for Norwich South SERA - Labour’s Environment Campaign

"We're late to the transition to public ownership. Across Europe, there's been so many examples of water being brought back into public ownership - in many different ways.

And they've told us: we'll help you get there."

Lena Swedlow, Compass Deputy Director SERA - Labour’s Environment Campaign

We're speaking about public ownership of water at w/ SERA - Labour’s Environment Campaign, Surfers Against Sewage and Clive Lewis MP.

Our privatised water system is broken. 92% of Labour members back public ownership.

Lower bills, cleaner rivers, real accountability, and a break from 40 years of neoliberal failure.

Just like Andy Burnham promised.

"People in Caerphilly were determined that Reform would not win there … In expressing that determination, they didn’t vote for us.

We need to be authentically Labour, to say the sort of things and stand for the sort of things that people who’ve voted for us for 100 years believed they were voting for."

Mark Drakeford, Former First Minister of Wales

"If we don't genuinely empower local councils, whatever we do at a national level will fail... People don't feel control over their daily lives and there is no way for people to express that."

Elly Baker, London Assembly Member

"Labour has been the party of devolution throughout the country, but we don't have devolution within our own party."

Mark Drakeford, Former First Minister of Wales