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Thames Water only supplies water to 15million people.

Only 9 million.

It has 15 million customers but 6 million are waste water only. Up here in Barnet I send my shit to Thames Water while getting my drinking water from Affinity Water and their aquifer full or bromate.

It’s a fucking scam. The water companies had no debt when they were privatised, now have something like £53 billion worth, and have paid out dividends totalling £72 billion since privatisation.

25% of water is lost to leaks, no new reservoirs have been built since privatisation, sewage dumping is standard practice and aquifers are over extracted causing many streams and rivers to dry up.

This. It is such a huge scandal.

Almost like privatising basic necessary shit (sorry, water, but UK water is mostly shit) isn't a good idea.

I think any privatisation where the actual market competitiveness aspect is false; so water, railways, gas, probation (still a case of what the actual fuck?) probably electricity, maybe others, is just a scam.

How can water companies compete against each other? They are just regional monopolies.

Surely they're only competing to increase desirability to shareholders, at the expense of -literally everything they exist to provide-

Well, I use more water now than I did when they were privatised, so they must have done a good job of making their product more desirable. Or I just wash more than I did in the 80s.

Stop working from home then.

Nothing to do with the UK getting hotter every years, oh no.

Yes but imagine the chaos if Corbyn had won and nationalised them as he suggested

And we'd all be posting in here using free broadband. Total fucking shambles it would be. Lynchman would probably have come back.

Don't say his name thrice, or He Shall Appear....

But will he have lost his cock in a bike crash? That’s the real question

I don't remember reading 'There will be sufficient drinking water' on the side of a red bus.

But some people got richer, and I guess that's what counts.

In news here…

Luxembourg legalises cultivation and consumption of cannabis at home

Almost like people privatising essential utilities dgaf about the utility and actually only care about $omething e£se. (Irritated tone not directed at you, but rather the circumstances)

Measured by the objectives it was meant to achieve, it’s a fantastic success worth replicating and improving upon.

Great morning for the Government; their flagship immigration policy is ruled illegal by the Court of Appeal, and a number of their MPs and Lords, including a government minister, are accused of being in contempt of parliament for the comments they made following the Privileges Committee report into whether Johnson misled Parliament.

Better get that dead cat ready…

They'll milk it for the 'lefty lawyers' angle, I reckon.

This was probably the plan all along. You can already imagine the daily mail headlines tomorrow

I'm sure it was the back-up plan, yes. If you can't get your dreadful policy through, make sure you can pin it on someone.

There was never any real intention to send anyone to Rwanda. It's always been an unworkable, impractical and unaffordable 'plan' that appealed to the racism, nastiness and cruelty of their base, and whose failure could be laid at the door of their culture war enemies. And the fact that it was put into the mainstream shifts that fucking Overton Window a bit more so other cruel policies seem that little bit more conscionable.

Also, they're cunts.

Could there be a possibility Sunak will use this to get shot of Braverman?

There was never any real intention to send anyone to Rwanda

There was a plane full stopped on the runway at the start of all of this though right. So they would have at least sent some people if they weren't stopped at the eleventh hour

PSA: Reminder - Don't read the comments.