Someone is getting paid, and it is not us. In a move perilously close to making itself useful, Ofwat is investigating the water companies for spending many times more on refurbishment projects than operators in comparable countries, leading to much higher bills.
None of those countries has privatised water. Likewise, the standing charges on gas and electricity are 50 times the cost of maintaining the networks, and although they are supposed to protect the suppliers from going bankrupt, not only have they repeatedly failed to do so, but they have never come down when those suppliers have been eye-wateringly profitable. Someone is getting paid, and it is not us.
The whole thing is a racket to rank with HS2 and what must be its diamond-encrusted platinum tracks, with PPE, with the money paid to Rwanda to take absolutely nobody (having always said that it would take only 100 people per year), and with the top secret £1,593,535,200 to rent the Bibby Stockholm for two years. And there is more. So very, very, very much more. Never, ever, ever let it be said that there is no money. Someone is getting paid, and it is not us.
The property developers and corporate agribarons are paying the politicians.
ReplyDeleteI do not doubt it. Right-wing Labour machines are always hand in glove with property developers.
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