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Re: Is inflation the key metric for winning the general election? – politicalbetting.com
Tens of billions have been sucked out of customers bank accounts and we get absolutely fuck all in return. The rivers are still polluted and the beaches still have raw sewage (a polite way of saying shit and piss) pumped into the sea on a daily basis even without rain causing overflows. Zero investment, tens of billions in leverage and tens of billions paid out in dividends.Even if Thames Water isn't fully nationalised - and to be blunt it should be - it is surely high time and long overdue that the government looked at the sort of debt for equity swap they did with RBS and HBOS.It absolutely is. WTF should the water customers of Thames have to pay for a wrong call on interest rates by people who have done very nicely indeed out of it to date? Its outrageous.
This is just ridiculous.
I'm a pretty right wing capitalist but the one area which makes me a raging lefty is the water industry. Bankrupt it all and bar any previous owner of any water company from owning UK infrastructure. They need to be turned into forced sellers of anything else they own too, literal fucking parasites sucking the blood out of the country.
MaxPB
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Re: Is inflation the key metric for winning the general election? – politicalbetting.com
Even if Thames Water isn't fully nationalised - and to be blunt it should be - it is surely high time and long overdue that the government looked at the sort of debt for equity swap they did with RBS and HBOS.It absolutely is. WTF should the water customers of Thames have to pay for a wrong call on interest rates by people who have done very nicely indeed out of it to date? Its outrageous.
This is just ridiculous.
DavidL
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Re: Is inflation the key metric for winning the general election? – politicalbetting.com
Quite right! The Government then buys the assets from the Receivers for £1.00 That's how it's supposed to work.Just let them go bust. That's how it's meant to operate.I'm thinking of renationalisation without compensation....Mine has increased from £846 to £1,164 38%Just had my water bill.25% increase here.
Huge increase.
I reckon 17%.
WTF?
Thames Water
I'm thinking of getting a meter.
Re: Is inflation the key metric for winning the general election? – politicalbetting.com
Is the US really more dangerous to visit than during the Bush extraordinary rendition era?Yes, you absolute melt.
Your spinning for the evils of Trump makes you an absolute bellend.
Sorry to be so brutal but that's the truth.
Re: Is inflation the key metric for winning the general election? – politicalbetting.com
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Scott_xP
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Re: Is inflation the key metric for winning the general election? – politicalbetting.com
When you look like me and are a Muslim plus my criticisms of Donald Trump I am so ending up in an El Salvador prison the moment my feet touch American soil.Totally.I cancelled my trip to Vegas Grand Prix that was due this November.Foreign students in US are this afternoon receiving emails revoking visa due to social media record.That’s it. We are not going.
I cannot take the risk.
Re: Is inflation the key metric for winning the general election? – politicalbetting.com
I had a really nice chat today with a lovely lady on my route
We've had a few brief chats before, but since I last saw her a couple of months ago I noticed on one of her letters that she has a CBE
I looked her up and found she was awarded it for services to health care. She had a long career in the NHS, and after retirement (which she told me today was forced on her by a reorganisation) she had a few other positions including working with the Red Cross in Moscow
She's big into wine; I delivered her a bottle from Hard To Find Wines last week (a NZ pinot noir from a vineyard called, I think, Remarkables, that she and her husband visited 30 years ago when it had first opened)
AND she's big into walking. She's going away on a walking holiday for a week in a fortnight. And the reason she bought the house in Ogbourne is because she walked past it on a Ridgeway walk many years ago
She's a soul mate from a different generation
We've had a few brief chats before, but since I last saw her a couple of months ago I noticed on one of her letters that she has a CBE
I looked her up and found she was awarded it for services to health care. She had a long career in the NHS, and after retirement (which she told me today was forced on her by a reorganisation) she had a few other positions including working with the Red Cross in Moscow
She's big into wine; I delivered her a bottle from Hard To Find Wines last week (a NZ pinot noir from a vineyard called, I think, Remarkables, that she and her husband visited 30 years ago when it had first opened)
AND she's big into walking. She's going away on a walking holiday for a week in a fortnight. And the reason she bought the house in Ogbourne is because she walked past it on a Ridgeway walk many years ago
She's a soul mate from a different generation
Re: Is inflation the key metric for winning the general election? – politicalbetting.com
Just let them go bust. That's how it's meant to operate.I'm thinking of renationalisation without compensation....Mine has increased from £846 to £1,164 38%Just had my water bill.25% increase here.
Huge increase.
I reckon 17%.
WTF?
Thames Water
I'm thinking of getting a meter.
Re: Is inflation the key metric for winning the general election? – politicalbetting.com
Foreign students in US are this afternoon receiving emails revoking visa due to social media record.That’s it. We are not going.
DavidL
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Re: Is inflation the key metric for winning the general election? – politicalbetting.com
I'm thinking of renationalisation without compensation....Mine has increased from £846 to £1,164 38%Just had my water bill.25% increase here.
Huge increase.
I reckon 17%.
WTF?
Thames Water
I'm thinking of getting a meter.