Thames Water explains why nationalisation is suddenly popular | Nils Pratley

Privatised utility was seen as a financial instrument paying fat dividends to offshore owners while short-changing customers. Its new boss seems to think that game is now upHang out with executives from water companies and you’ll quickly learn than everybody loathes Thames Water. Insiders blame the firm for spoiling the reputation of the entire industry. They wonder if Labour’s calls for re-nationalisation would score so well in opinion polls if Thames hadn’t so precisely fulfi