SOS Whitstable

14/10/2026

Huge thanks to Danny Dyer, Priory Hill Caravan Park and Kevin McKenna MP for helping take our SOS Whitstable petition to Downing Street — with a giant poo floating down the Thames! 🚤💩

Nearly 350,000 signatures demanding the return of our water industry to public ownership.

If you haven’t signed it, why not? Link in bio.

24/09/2026

THE PR DOESN’T WASH. 🌊💩

The timing of this sponsored Southern Water article is something else.

Just days after a £2.4 million criminal fine over pollution offences involving Swalecliffe and Whitstable, following another £7 million fine in July.

Over £9 million in fines in two months — and now we get a glossy article telling us how brilliantly they’re protecting Kent’s beaches.

Then comes this:

“We’re continuing year-round monitoring… and trialling real-time water quality monitoring at locations such as Tankerton.”

Really?

SOS Whitstable was involved in the water-testing project. It was stopped.

Canterbury City Council says the citizen-science sampling programme is currently suspended.

And the Tankerton buoy?

Launched in July 2022, with promises that real-time water-quality results would be shared publicly.

Four years later…

WHERE ARE THE RESULTS?

Every time we ask, it’s apparently still “calibrating.”

Four. Bloody. Years.

What exactly are they calibrating — the buoy or the excuse? 🤔

Then there’s the carefully selected 12% statistic.

That does not mean storm overflows caused only 12% of pollution. It means 12% of less-than-satisfactory samples fell within the particular three-day window being analysed.

So:

Where’s the Tankerton data?

What happened to the citizen-science testing?

What did it find?

After five years of campaigning, pollution incidents, criminal prosecutions and millions in fines, we’re not interested in glossy PR.

You don’t get to mark your own homework.

If the data exists, PUBLISH IT.

And if that buoy has really been “calibrating” since 2022…

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, CALIBRATE THE BLOODY THING. 😂

Clean seas. Open data. Accountability.

The PR doesn’t wash with us. 👀🌊💩

17/09/2026

🚨WHO’S COMING TO STOP THE SEWAGE?🚨

We want to know who’s joining us on Sunday 20 September in Leysdown.

Because this isn’t just about water companies.

It’s about our rivers. Our seas. Our communities. Our environment.

And quite frankly, we’ve had enough.

We’ll be joined by Danny & Dani Dyer, Becky Hill, Ash Smith – Windrush WASP campaigner, and more guests.

📍 The Garden Café, Shellness Road, Leysdown-on-Sea
⏰ 11am

We’re asking everyone to:

🪧Bring a placard
🎭 Dress up
🥁 Make some noise
🥰 Bring your friends and family

👇 NOW LET’S SEE WHO’S ACTUALLY COMING!

Comment “I’M IN” if you’ll be there.

Tag the person you’re dragging along with you. 😂

And if you can’t make it, SHARE this post. You never know who might see it and decide to come along.

Let’s fill Leysdown with people who are sick of sewage pollution being treated as business as usual.

Who’s coming? 👇

14/09/2026

14/09/2026

Parliament

e-petition 762640 relating to a referendum on public ownership of the water sector.

03/09/2026

We’ve had enough.

Enough sewage in our seas.
Enough pollution in our rivers.
Enough excuses.
Enough being told to wait while the water industry puts profit before people and the environment.

So on Sunday 20 September, we’re heading to Leysdown — and we want you there.

STOP THE SEWAGE

We’ll be joined by:

• Danny & Dani Dyer
• Becky Hill
• Ash Smith – Windrush WASP campaigner
• More guests to be announced

📍 The Garden Café, Shellness Road, Leysdown-on-Sea, Sheerness, ME12 4RH
🗓 Sunday 20 September
⏰ 11am

Bring your placards.
Dress up.
Bring the kids, your mates, your neighbours — whoever you can get along.

And make some bloody noise.

This is about all of us who are sick of seeing our water polluted and being expected to just accept it.

Tag someone you’re bringing.

Share this and get the word out.

Let’s make ourselves impossible to ignore.

STOP THE SEWAGE.

SOS Whitstable

19/08/2026

🚰 PUBLIC MEETING: WATER LEAKS & CUT-OFFS

Kent is being left under constant threat of water cut-offs while vital water is lost through leaks every day.

This is affecting our health and wellbeing, tourism and local jobs — and it simply isn’t good enough.

📣 Come and tell the CEO of South East Water what their failures are doing to our town, and discuss what must change.

🎟️ Tickets NOW SOLD OUT
📅 01/09/26
🕐 6:30PM
📍 The Horsebridge, Whitstsble

03/08/2026

Yet again, sewage pollution has forced the Environment Agency to shut another beach during peak summer season.

We can't see anything on Thanet District Council socials advising of no swimming at Ramsgate. Let's hope there are signs on the beach.

This pollution incident is next to a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)