Get your rocks off Ventnor roads now

#Ventnor on the #IsleOfWight is a beautiful, unique Victorian #seaside resort much loved by locals and visitors alike.

Currently six of #Ventnor's #roads are blocked unnecessarily by minor rock debris that take a distressing average of 14 months for #PFI (for profit, contracted #corporation) Island Roads/County Council to clear.

#Petition

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/get-your-rocks-off-ventnor-roads-now?source=Fediverse

#Privatisation #PrivatisationFail #PublicOwnership #WeOwnIt #PeoplelNotProfits #ToxicLabour

#England can learn from #Scotland's population #health plan

The framework is important guiding light over next 10 years in recognising what determines the Scottish population’s health and wellbeing is more than health care: that sectors and approaches need to work together to improve #health (working well in their own silos is not enough), and that living a good life matters as well as length of life

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25318069.england-can-learn-scotlands-population-health-plan-says-think/

#PeopleNotProfits #NHS #SaveOurNHS #PrivatisationFail #LabourFail

#UK Farmers’ fury over #ban on watering crops during heatwave

#Farmers have been banned from #watering their #crops during the #heatwave.

Growers in East #Anglia are facing an ‘abstraction ban’, which prevents them from irrigating crops despite no other water restrictions being imposed in the area.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/farmers-fury-over-ban-on-watering-crops-during-heatwave/ar-AA1ItNhe

#Food #Farming #water #PrivatisationFail #privatisation

#IsleOfWight councillor: Military Road’s Cliff Waring System failed over decade ago

She was prompted to act after noticing the flashing cliff warning lights along Military Road have not been operational for years

She was told that the early warning system installed in 1997 became failed sometime before 2013

These were never reinstated under the #Highways #PFI contract, it has been revealed.

https://www.islandecho.co.uk/councillor-reveals-military-roads-cliff-warning-system-failed-over-a-decade-ago/

#CutsKill #IOW #ToryScum #roads #RoadSafety #PrivatisationFail

Why Privatisation Keeps Failing Us: Healthscope’s Collapse
#HealthscopeCollapse, #MonetarySovereignty, #PrivatisationFail, #PublicServices

Healthscope’s downfall reveals the full cost of privatisation in Australia. Discover how public services are suffering and what we can do to reclaim them.

https://socialjusticeaustralia.com.au/why-privatisation-keeps-failing-us/

Same driver, 26 years apart in China.
Meanwhile, countries like Australia and the USA are in the same boat when it comes to trains. Rail doesn’t suit the interests of private trucking companies, airlines, and bus operators — so it’s been left to decay. When nations let big corporations call the shots on public infrastructure, everything starts to fall apart.

#publictransport #railfail #privatisationfail #corporategreed #australia #usa #infrastructuredecay #trainsmatter #lobbying

Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten UK scientists warn

The government promised to learn from the #pandemic but appears to be suffering from #Covid amnesia, forgetting devastating cost of an underfunded #health service & public services cut to the bone

There's no evidence the health service would be any better prepared today should another #lethal #virus appear in the near future, scientists said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/23/key-lessons-of-covid-are-being-forgotten-uk-scientists-warn

#NHS #SaveOurNHS #PrivatisationFail #PeopleNotProfits #HealthCare

Two #posties deployed to Harray amid delivery disruption - The #Orcadian Online

Two postal workers have been deployed to Harray to “return deliveries to normal” after some residents reported not receiving any letters or parcels for over ten days.

#RoyalMail shared this update with The Orcadian today (Tuesday), amid serious concerns around a lack of #deliveries — and communication regarding the #disruption.

https://orcadian.co.uk/two-posties-deployed-to-harray-amid-delivery-disruption/

#PrivatisationFail #Orkney #mail #postal #post #Scotland

Private Equity #Fire Truck firm worsens LA Fires

Increasing prices caused by #private #equity firm American Industrial Partners consolidating fire truck industry. forcing up prices

#AIP bought multiple #FireRruck manufacturers & rolled them up into conglomerate called #REV Group

AIP made show of allowing these manufacturers to continue operating independently, in fact it quickly moved to operate them as a single firm

Not competitive

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll

#PrivatisationFail #firefighters

I can't believe the government are letting our #water bills go up by as much as £220 a year

I've just emailed my MP asking them to intervene. It only too about 30 seconds.

Use this link:

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/stop-the-bill-hikes

#WaterBills #PrivatisationFail #PublicOwnership #WeOwnIt #PeopleNotProfits #CorporateGreed #corruption

NHS email accounts hijacked for phishing campaign

Over 130 NHS email accounts were hijacked for a credential harvesting phishing

The phishing campaign started in October 2021 & escalated in March 2022

All of #phishing emails passed email authentication for nhs.net, & were sent from 2 IP addresses used by the NHS, which confirmed that the 2 addresses were relays within the mail system used for a large number of accounts

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252516702/NHS-email-accounts-hijacked-for-phishing-campaign

#security #cyberattack #NHS #PrivatisationFail

Jeremy #Corbyn warns against return of Labour’s expensive PFIs

It’s like doing a bad deal with a pawnbroker & never getting out of it

It might give us a shiny new hospital, but will give us debt that goes on forever

When PFI was first proposed in 1994 or 1995 as Labour policy, there is a bit of TV footage of me standing outside my house explaining to TV journalist that #PFI would cost us all a lot of money in the long run

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24484096.jeremy-corbyn-warns-return-labours-controversial-pfis/

#scams #Labour #PrivatisationFail #funding

Buy back British Gas

Under #Labour plans, #GreatBritishEnergy won’t sell direct to UK households - this is a missed opportunity

Please buy back British Gas as the retail wing of the new company, so it can give us cheaper bills.

63% of the population want to buy back #BritishGas. It is normal for households to be able to buy energy directly from a publicly owned company in other countries like France and Sweden.

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/buy-back-british-gas

#PrivatisationFail #energy #benefits

Privatisation promised savings and better services. Instead, we got higher costs and crumbling infrastructure. 🚆💧

By Kate Moore

Time to take back control? 💥 #PrivatisationFail #RenationaliseNow #UKPolitics

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/finance/privatisation-promised-prosperity-but-delivered-decline/

How much does your water company profit from pollution?

This is a scandal. Every day, private English #water companies are dumping huge amounts of disgusting raw sewage into our rivers and seas. #Privatisation has been failing since 1989.

The shareholders receive £1.6 billion a year on average - that money could be invested in water infrastructure to stop sewage. 69% of us support public ownership.

Stop #sewage

Sign #petition

https://weownit.org.uk/privatisation-profits-from-pollution/home

#PrivatisationFail #ToryCorruption

Fresh crisis for Thames Water as investors pull plug on £500m of funding

Decision raises concerns about financial future of UK’s biggest water firm and increases prospect of nationalisation

The beleaguered utilities company announced this morning that its shareholders had refused to provide the first tranche of £750m funding set to secure its short-term cashflow, after the company had failed to meet certain conditions.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/28/fresh-crisis-for-thames-water-as-investors-pull-plug-on-500m-of-funding

#PrivatisationFail #ToryFail #water

@Knitronomicon I am so sorry. This turned out to be much more effort than expected. You are a star.
#LowCarbBiscuits
#PrivatisationFail

Watching a fantastic #Channel4 doc on the #privatisation of the railways. So good that the problems with this plan are being highlighted by a national broadcaster, more people need to see this. #BritishRail #PrivatisationFail #Railways

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHjPeC1dGv4&t=2179

‘The entire #Sydney rail network went down this afternoon, causing transport chaos for millions. The cause was the failure of a digital communications system (the Digital Train Radio System).

I've seen comments online from someone claiming to work at #SydneyRail that responsibility for DTRS has recently been privatised by the #Coalition NSW state government under Premier #Perrottet.

Can anyone clarify?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/08/sydney-train-network-trains-down-rail-delays-halt-communications-fault-update

#NSWpol #PublicTransport #PrivatisationFail

#SaveOurNHS #NHS #Helthcare #PublicHealthcare #PrivatisationFail #CapitalismFail