The Ghost of Sven 9:38 Wed Jun 28
Thames Water
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£14bn of debt, Chief Exec quits, pipes leaking like a sieve , enormous dividends paid out and endlessly pumping shit into rivers.
Will have to be nationalised again so that taxpayers can stump up for another fuck up
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Mike Oxsaw
6:45 Sun Jul 2
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..."the posh nobs don’t want extensions of works affecting their home life"
Experienced plenty of that attitude when I lived in Radlett (well-to-do-on-steroids).
If it were down to me, any householder/owner who objected to improvements/enlargements of the local sewage treatment plant would be told that they are being taken off-grid and need to have a suitable septic tank installed and maintained on their property at their own expense.
Enough like-minded people doing the same and the sewage works won't need to expand.
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RM10
6:32 Sun Jul 2
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A big problem for Thames is that most of our treatment sites are in well to do areas and the posh nobs don’t want extensions of works affecting their home life. Believe it or not we get complaints from people who just moved in around the corner. We have the worst customer complaints in the UK because of London life.
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Mike Oxsaw
2:48 Sun Jul 2
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In an effort to please Greta, I've heard that there are plans to convert the new Thames super-sewer into a cycle path on dry days.
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Willtell
12:32 Sun Jul 2
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I suspect you are correct comma. Well for once anyway...
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,
11:55 Sun Jul 2
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Right now it is less financially onerous for the water utilities to run the risk of polluting, paying the fine etc than it is to develop the infrastructure so it’s fit for purpose.
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RM10
11:47 Sun Jul 2
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Mike- brexit had no impact on sewage treatment at times of high flow it gets diverted to storm tanks, settled and overflow into the river/sea, happens more so because of our freak rainfall and added concrete run off. Pollution from industry and people is far worse.
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Darlo Debs
11:44 Sun Jul 2
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Will well.apart from.the fact that privatising a natural.monopoly is about as anti-capitaliat as you can get....but crack.on.
They won't be nationalised anyway. As I.pointed out earlier the trains probably will over time as their contracts come up.for renewal, but water etc won't be.
They'll be brought back.into.nationalisation if they fail. I suppose but otherwise the cost of buying back.the companies would be too high and the time it would take to.put things right would take too.long. They'd just get accused of wasting tax payer money by the press.
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Darlo Debs
11:34 Sun Jul 2
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They did Mike and were about to be taken to. Court for it. Unlike our spineless regulators, they'd have actually got properly fined for it.
Liz Truss also.relaxed rules for farmers to dump their waste in rivers since leaving the EU
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Willtell
11:31 Sun Jul 2
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In the theoretical world it always makes sense to nationalise services.
Unfortunately in the real world it never works.
The loss of purpose and drive at the very top filters down so that the sense of purpose and drive gets lost to skivers and those that work the system...
Corporate decisions become political rather than business wisdom. Clearly Thames water have been taking the piss but capitalists do find a way of doing that with weak politicians and government officials getting themselves tied up in knots.
London Stadium is a classic case of Brady tying amateur council staff in knots so that the tax payer ends up footing a huge portion of West Ham's costs because of Lord Coe's athletics bollocks...
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eusebiovic
11:08 Sun Jul 2
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Since Thames Water was privatised back in the 80's they only averaged ploughing 5% of profit back into the infrastructure while giving shareholders the rest. They have lent money for the super sewer currently being built rather than doing the obvious thing from the beginning.
Hmmm...what's the worst that could happen?
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Mike Oxsaw
11:05 Sun Jul 2
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Is the claim that shit & sewerage was never (NEVER) dumped in our rivers & coastal waters before Brexit?
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Darlo Debs
10:48 Sun Jul 2
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* dump
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Darlo Debs
10:47 Sun Jul 2
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Yes their water might be mire expensive but they are in the EU so won't allow their water companies to.mump raw sewage into their rivers.
Obviously we could have been better at doing that ourselves outside of the EU. Our lot can't be trusted to do the right thing outside of the EU though.
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goose
10:42 Sun Jul 2
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Water is more expensive in Germany than the U.K., but cheaper in France, Spain & Italy.
Unemployment absolutely agreed that it’s better here.
Cost of living index? U.K. is more expensive than France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Wages? Data Dates don’t all line up but it looks like the U.K. is ahead of Spain & Italy but behind Germany and France.
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Darlo Debs
10:25 Sun Jul 2
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I don't think this is as much about cheap water and more to do with the investment in the infrastructure which would come with privatisation. ....as you so eloquently put it......it was bollocks.
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Willtell
10:19 Sun Jul 2
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This is one of those conversations where the left wing fundamentalists compete with right wing fundamentalists and it makes no difference at the end of it.
It's like an atheist trying to persudae a Muslim fundamentalist that it is a crime to chop off disbeliever's heads...
If you believe you'll get cheaper water from nationalisation good luck with that bollocks.
If you believe that it's cheaper under privatisation good luck with that bollocks too.
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Darlo Debs
10:17 Sun Jul 2
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I never wanted this lot of goons in in the first place.
Never have.
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RM10
10:09 Sun Jul 2
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Debs- I just want this corrupt govt out asap and so should you and many others. Taking it up the arse isn’t very British.
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Darlo Debs
10:02 Sun Jul 2
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RM10 well you just want to hope Labour get in because they'll be repealing anti strike legislation and putting through a bill that gives us back.the workers rights being stripped by the EU Retained Laws Bill.
Remember when they promised that leaving the EU wouldn't mean us losing our employment rights. Guess what, they were lying.
Also I'd be very sceptical.of Hermits employment stats . If he w
s using ones used by Rishi in Parliament recently he was made to correct the record.
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RM10
9:46 Sun Jul 2
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Blimey hermit hardly major positives there🤣
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Hermit Road
10:38 Sat Jul 1
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https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264185715-10-en.pdf?expires=1687980882&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=9EDF78471BCA82C20BEB4E548EEF2767
Household water in London is half the price of than in Germany and favourable to most European cities.
Another win for Thatch.
Food here is 7% lower than the EU.
Employment is much higher.
Our kids leave school and employers are fighting over them. In Europe, this definitely is not the case.
Stop moaning and thank your lucky stars you live in a country that has these benefits. Or move and pay more for your water while you’re struggling to find work
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