Nationalisation doesn't clean a single drop of water. Look at Scottish Water - huge executive pay, widespread pollution, much less monitoring than privatised water companies do in England, much less scrutiny because it's public. Please stop pretending nationalisation is a silver bullet.
This is all true. I am an ecologist who spends a lot of time in rivers amongst the shit, the wet wipes and other unspeakables. SEPA are seemingly muzzled by Scottish Government to prosecute Scottish Water (one fine of £6000 over the past five years) www.sepa.org.uk/regulations/...
Seriously, are you trying to suggest these 2 things things are remotely equivalent? From a couple of years ago, so Thames even worse now. Like every org Scot water has issues but because it’s not perfect doesn’t mean it’s not good. Part of the reason less monitoring etc - vastness of area it covers
I support nationalisation but frankly tired of all the sloganeering around it, wish someone would explain how it would be managed, the operating model, improved productivity etc etc
Modern privatisation was pioneered by the Nazis in pre WW2 Germany. As a way of buying off the elites.
The reckless financial engineering that some (but not all) English water companies have carried out is a governance challenge that nationalisation would solve (but there are much cheaper ways we could solve it). 1/2
The actual infrastructural challenges that are causing the leaks and the discharges though – those are primarily the result of the regulator having held water bills down below the rate of inflation for 15 years. 2/2
Exactly. It's not a silver bullet & it will cost millions to buy the companies back. The tax payer having been raped for profits for decades will become liable for all the ££ repairs. Offwat is going, the real solution is a well fanged regulator & an end to the water boss/regulator revolving door.
We don't have to give them a penny
It's fascinating that none of the angry fans of water nationalisation who were so incensed by my original reply have responded to this.
Nothing I wrote is disproved by what you quote.
Absolutely desperate propaganda from Duncan the Labour shill again CEO Scottish Water salary £483k Thames water CEO £1.35 million 87% of the water environment as high or good quality 4500 monitors in place and another 700 being added this year
It’s always desperate propaganda from that account.
Desperate stuff, that and that and Labour believes they can fix a broken privatised industry is just the most naive thing in their playbook. It needs to be taken off the corporate crooks not handed to the next shower of blood suckers.
You can't even accurately copy the numbers you're punting. But thanks for clarifying that you don't think half a million quid a year is a high salary.
