Thames Water
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Sep 12, 2026
Poppy CoburnHOST
... you've gotta be careful with the scam callers.
Poppy CoburnHOST
I mean, I, I remember getting, um, loads of phone calls from people that were claiming to be Thames Water, uh, saying that I had an unpaid bill.
Poppy CoburnHOST
And I was like, [laughs] "Yeah, sure I do.
Poppy CoburnHOST
Oh, what, you need me to urgently transfer you the money and give you all the bank details down the phone? Yeah, pull the other one." Turns out they did actually have my phone number.
Michael DeaconHOST
[laughs]
Poppy CoburnHOST
It was actually Thames Water.
Michael DeaconHOST
Oh, yeah.
Poppy CoburnHOST
They just didn't have my email address, and I very nearly got the bailiffs sent round to my flat.
Nick AbbottHOST
Anglian Water supplies part of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Suffolk, which sounds like everywhere apart from the Thames Valley to me.
Nick AbbottHOST
BEEP Meanwhile, the company that covers the Thames Valley, Thames Water, said last month that their hosepipe ban is expected to be in place until towards the end of the year.
Nick AbbottHOST
But don't worry, because executive remuneration will not be affected.
Nick AbbottHOST
Oh, fabulous.
Phil TinlinePANELIST
... territories, obviously.
Phil TinlinePANELIST
I think, you know, the chances of, uh, uh, some form of em- emergency nationalization of Thames Water seem to me relatively high, and I don't think anyone t- is to blame for that other than [laughs] the obvious people, right? I think energy is, is more complicated, and there's a lot you can do there in terms of the way the pricing is done and so on, which is, is more te- techy, but, you know, it doesn't necessarily involve public ownership.
Phil TinlinePANELIST
They have like, uh, to be fair to Starmer, did create GB Energy, which is sort of a sort of slightly abstracted step in this direction.
Phil TinlinePANELIST
Housing is really, really important, obviously.
Phil TinlinePANELIST
But if you've only spent, you know, like if you've been to business school and you've run a company for a few years, or you've, you know, you're a 25-year-old spad, or you've just come off working on Sophie Ridge, and you haven't really spent a lot of time, as is more normal, frankly, thinking about the ructions of the 1970s, this stuff will just seem like it's immovable.
Jason HazeleyPANELIST
Yeah.
Jason HazeleyPANELIST
I do think that Thames Water might be the thing.
Zoë GrünewaldHOST
Hmm.
Aaron BastaniGUEST
Well, I, I mean, I wouldn't even call it progressive.
Aaron BastaniGUEST
I mean, that, this sort of Frankenstein of s- Serco communism, which we had under the Tories for 14 years, was quite remarkable, um, where you have this expanding state, you're spending more, but it's to all these crooked outsourcing companies which, you know, offer, you know, appalling outcomes or, you know, Thames Water owned by-
Michael SimmonsHOST
But address the point, though.
Michael SimmonsHOST
They have-
Rory SutherlandGUEST
Pi- piped water is a commodity.
Rory SutherlandGUEST
I would incidentally pay a significant premium if I could get my water here from Wales rather than from [laughs] Thames Water, on the grounds that the water here is absolutely shit compared to where I grew up.
Peter HitchensGUEST
Yes.
Peter HitchensGUEST
[laughs]
Richard BenwellGUEST
Thanks so much, Sasha and Helen.
Richard BenwellGUEST
And I'll pick up where Helen left off, inspired by that mermaid's question earlier that reminded us that this isn't the Thames Water Financial Structures Summit, it's the River Summit.
Richard BenwellGUEST
That reminds us, doesn't it, to think about all those big threats to the future of our rivers.
Richard BenwellGUEST
And you can't get much bigger than climate change.
16 MINS LATER
James Agyepong-ParsonsHOST
But during his first address to Commons, Prime Minister Andy Burnham told parliamentarians that, quote, all possible solutions for the water industry should be looked at, including re-nationalisation.
James Agyepong-ParsonsHOST
So I wanted to know from you, Anne, if this was a realistic goal or simply a fever dream.
James Agyepong-ParsonsHOST
Okay, Ms Yang, I've just heard you talk a very passionate speech, lots going on with Thames Water, lots going on with the renationalisation as a debate on the water companies.
James Agyepong-ParsonsHOST
Do you think now with a new Labour government, that subject of renationalisation and the water companies is live? As you can tell, I caught her just before her next meeting.
Nicola ForwoodHOST
Yeah.
Danny NormanHOST
I think it's fair to say that Thames Water, Thames Water I think is one of the most infamous.
Danny NormanHOST
They serve the area that I'm in.
Danny NormanHOST
I come under Thames Water.
Danny NormanHOST
They are not looked at upon positively.
Danny NormanHOST
In fact, you can see that in all the comments on the recent PR spin adverts on social media that have been appearing in my feed.
Danny NormanHOST
Yeah.
Danny NormanHOST
So angry.
William CloustonGUEST
It doesn't matter who owns.
William CloustonGUEST
So, oh, okay, we just sell Thames Water to French, Chinese, or Canadian-
Winston MarshallHOST
The Gulf state
William CloustonGUEST
...
William CloustonGUEST
And, and it's, it's incredibly inefficient.
William CloustonGUEST
You, you just...
William CloustonGUEST
You know, Thames Water customers pay their money, uh, and they, they sort of use it as a debt mule anyway, so you've got massive tranches of finance, which are very, very expensive, which
Winston MarshallHOST
Yeah
Maxwell MarlowGUEST
Absolutely, yeah.
Maxwell MarlowGUEST
It's also the case with Thames Water as well.
Maxwell MarlowGUEST
So we hear quite a lot about, oh, the government wants to nationalise Thames Water.
Maxwell MarlowGUEST
It's actually putting our bills up at the moment if you look at the spread on credit that these operators are going to the market for.
Maxwell MarlowGUEST
But you can't nationalise this stuff because it's all tied up in international investment treaties.
AlexHOST
it might pers- p- it might, it might well be true, but how on earth anybody can then police it? It'd be impossible, wouldn't it?
MartinHOST
Well, having worked for Thames Water, I can say without any hesitation that no one has ever been prosecuted for-
AlexHOST
I have heard that
MartinHOST
... using a hose pipe when there's been a hose pipe ban.
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