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Defiant.one
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Defiant.one
   Old Thread  #5 18 May 2023 at 7.46pm  2  Login    Register
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I meticulously remember when Thatcher privatised the Water Industry in 1989, it was done on the guarantee that when privatised they would invest into replacing the old Victorian Water & Sewage systems. Now it’s blatantly obvious to anyone with even a miniscule bit of intelligence that these guarantees have not been fulfilled – no matter how you look at it, that's a “Blatant Fraud!”

It's way over due that all the Water Companies were prosecuted, they truly have taken the p out of the customers for 34 years, I think the politicians who's job it was to monitor them over those years should also be prosecuted for sheer incompetence in office too!

Goose
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Goose
   Old Thread  #4 18 May 2023 at 7.24pm  0  Login    Register
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Feargal Sharkey has been active for some time and was a politician in Ireland, I'm glad to hear him speak out as I've said before the water companies have been milking it for too long, paying big dividends to wealthy share holders that should have been invested in modern plant and expansion of existing plants. Sadly these companies won't pay the price it will be the working people yet again .same with the energy companies blaming the war in Ukraine, coved blah blah when it's our government that sold out to french who keep our prices high to subsidise theirs.
finbob
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finbob
   Old Thread  #3 18 May 2023 at 12.51pm  0  Login    Register
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Good shout Dave. Another river guardian not afraid to speak out.
Baitman
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Baitman
   Old Thread  #2 18 May 2023 at 11.05am  3  Login    Register
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Fergal has certainly given a higher profile to the many existing campaigns.
I started to become more aware of the issues when I followed Ray Walton on Facebook.
He has been brilliant at unearthing the info on the water companies, their pollution incident histories, chief executive pay and bonuses, shareholder dividends, foreign investment fund ownership of the water companies, etc...
Ray deserve's a medal for his tireless work on this
finbob
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finbob
   Old Thread  #1 18 May 2023 at 8.05am  5  Login    Register
Has anyone seen the latest on this?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65626241


Thanks god Feargal Sharkey acts as the sensible voice of reason!

Environmental campaigner and former Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey said people had put their trust in the regulators, the government and the system to do the right thing, but instead they had "poisoned our rivers and taken our money".

Calling it a "half apology", he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The whole thing is utter chaos. What we need is somebody in charge to simply enforce and hold these companies properly to account - not more vacuous, empty promises about putting our bills up and punishing the customers."

"They are now suggesting we should pay them a second time for a service we haven't had. We should have an apology for the suggestion they are going to put bills up by £10 billion for their incompetence and their greed."

Well said Feargal
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