"Government can just nationalise it. But then taxpayers will not only face years of legal cases and end up paying the fines owed to themselves; they’ll also still have to find billions to fix leaks, stop sewage dumping and build drought-proof infrastructure".
The LIE, the damned lie that's told over and over and over.
Over the next 5 years 99% of the funding to fix the leaks, stop sewage dumping, build infrastructure is NOT being provided by shareholders, it's coming from you and me and everyone else via those recent bill increases. The shareholders' contribution is actually less than 1% of the total spend. You should know better @CitySamuel
PS. Water company "fines" rarely if ever paid, at all, and certainly not by shareholders.
https://t.co/pfYMssUYzL
Since Thames Water introduced a hosepipe ban 17 days ago they have now leaked 9,921,459,817 litres of water from their badly maintained, underinvested, cracked old network of pipes.
https://t.co/ZJfYyh3H5q
Yes, this is a real 999 call.
Do NOT dial 999 because you have not been given your takeaway!
Over 2.2million 999 calls come into the Met each year, but only around 15% are genuine emergencies.
For all the Brexiteers howling betrayal!
- You won!
- You've had 9 years to deliver a British economy outside the EU that's better for our country & failed
- You said immigration would be lower outside the EU - its rocketed
Even a child can see its logical and common-sense to plug the wholes in the pitiful deal Johnson and Frost negotiated. That closer relations with our neighbours is better for the environment.
On the ECHR - it is not part of the EU! It's a treaty that protects the human rights and fundamental freedoms of people, and has 46 members via the Council of Europe. The UK played an important role in the birth of the ECHR, with our lawyers and Churchill key drafters and advocates - in the spirit of 'never again'.
#Brexit
Don’t you want me by The Human League, one of my ‘80s fav, watch here the original synths https://t.co/oxPPT4FYTj, and here on GarageBand some 40y later https://t.co/4Us7qQjx8O . Shocking. #tech#iphone#synthpop
Italian political talk shows still are shamelessly embarrassing: in any other country (bar Russia and Fox in US, I think) it’s unacceptable to have a politically biased moderator -e.g. #4disera
@elonmusk Dear Elon, look into your own house, first . Begin with allowing extradition to Italy of those morons who killed 20 people playing Top Gun, to start with. Refresher here: https://t.co/j4w4MuqxwV