Better practices (from around the world, as well as Scotland or Wales) are ignored; the government will proclaim it a crisis and compare it to a historical moment of radical change, but insist that we couldn't do anything like that while brandishing nonsense costings from the water industry to justify inaction. Maybe once someone could have done something, but not anymore, not here, and not us. We're just too late. It's a disappointing model of government.

But we did interrupt the monopoly's profits for 86 years and built for the public good. Governments in 1902 pushed aside the lobbying from the people enjoying the rent from the New River and established the Water Board.  Scottish Water was protected from privatisation by mass campaigning. Welsh Water became not-for-profit after financial collapse. That means we can do it again! Support for nationalisation has grown hugely in recent years. It is possible to do better if politicians only have the courage.

If you haven't already, you can add your name to Compass' petition to back the People's Plan for Water here.

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 How else could the UK become more genuinely democratic? You said:

• "Get rid of public schools and the class system."
  
  
• "We need a more balanced media environment, although it is acknowledged this is difficult to achieve. We need more nuanced debate and genuine dialogue, rather than the short termism of current political point-scoring. Greater publicity given to the work of parliamentary committees with an emphasis on reaching joint, shared objectives and policies which are truly evidence based. Much of this cannot be legislated for, but a change in the culture of politics is required, to build trust between the electorate and our elected representatives."
  
  
• "Hereditary power and privilege must be ended , this is a relic from the unfinished republican revolution. It compounds the entrenched aristocratic wealth and justified the massive inequality in this country – indefensible!!"
  
  
• "Greater autonomy for Wales, proportional representation for all elections, local and national, an end to secretive donations to political parties, an end to all freebies for MP's, a law establishing the right of all citizens to call for a referendum on new national elections if sufficient support (a predetermined proportion of the electorate) support it. The call for a referendum would need something along the line of 200,000 - 400,000 to be successful."
  
  
• "Use of digital democracy and quadratic voting"
  
  
• "We need a written constituent stating our rights as citizens, not subjects."