Thames Water



DaveH said:
They have said they want to, but recognise the funds are not there. They have talked about one possible penalty for under performing, is shares going back into public ownership, rather than issuing files that end up being paid for via bills.

In their first term I don't see much changing but some frameworks starting to go into place that would allow the transition of certain services in certain conditions back into public ownership. It might start to happen in their 2nd or 3rd term, depending on how things go

I'm fine with that. After 5 PMs and 3 different manifestos since June 2016, each with major policy changes and each trying to jump on what they think the burning issue of the day is, with little thought. I'm happy to see a government with realistic strategic planning than one who blunders into the next issue of popularist politics.
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I expect more of the same, but probably better managed and with less out and out corruption than the current bunch of shitehawks.

Similar to Blair, as more corporate donors switch from the Tories, policies that favour people over business will be watered down or scraped. Things will probably get a bit better, but if you're waiting for root and branch change in how things are done, you're in for disappointment.
 
Shandy drinker said:
You know who ends up paying for it
We do tax payers
Privatise the profits
Socialise the losses

If this happened in China the ceo would of been dragged off to penal servitude
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There's plenty of people in water companies who should have been/should be serving prison sentences for poisoning waterways and the sea, making people sick and causing significant environmental impact to our countryside, and lying about it and covering it up.

OFWAT and the Environment Agency have just been eunuchs for years, standing by and letting all this happen.
 
WashFTM said:
What evidence do you have that they will alter anything.
They had 13 years to do something and did sweet nothing apart from ripping off pension funds of workers with their tax grab.
They won't change anything.
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Introduced the minimum wage which you lot claimed would lead to financial Armageddon.
Blue Bell Lad said:
Who would own the infrastructure if they went bankrupt? Thames water wouldn't be anymore, so could the government not offer to take on the whole of it at a knock down price ? I'm no financial expert.
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They should be able to imo.
 
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Qwerty said:
Introduced the minimum wage which you lot claimed would lead to financial Armageddon.
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One positive out of 13 years of screwing the working class over with their tax raids, the foisting of pfi on an unsuspecting country where the buildings will need to be replaced before the country has finished paying for them.
Taking us into an illegal war.
 

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