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Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16518

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 25 7:58 am Post subject:

I agree that water needs to be generally privatised again, but it is a bit more complicated than that. Some companies; the one that supplies our water (but doesn't deal with sewage) has always been private and they are very good. We didn't even have a water shortage in 1976, and in fact they were exporting water to Gibraltar in new unused tankers. The only reason for a hosepipe ban if we have one is so that we are in line with the rest of the country. Another problem is who has invested in the water companies. It should never have been allowed to happen, but some pension companies own quite large blocks of shares, and privatisation without any compensation would affect their pensioners, who would have no way of preventing it. No utility should be privately owned as we need them to keep the country running, and if the shareholding owners suddenly decided they were going to pull out of this country, someone, almost certainly the government, would have to step in at a moments notice.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 44431
Location: yes

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 25 1:17 pm Post subject:
dont care, they have robbed us since 1990 and are at the late stage of asset stripping by debt no compensation for rogue traders

Florence

Joined: 15 Mar 2025
Posts: 144

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 25 5:41 am Post subject:
Looking at the NHS and HS2, am not sure government will do better with water.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 44431
Location: yes

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 25 10:43 am Post subject:
different government, the last ones were deeply corrupt ,arrogant and incompetent it would be hard not to do better but there is a lot of damage and neglect to repair the full hs2 would make sense in a national rail network if it did passengers and the existing lines did freight, double win

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