The English water companies have told the govt that to fix the infrastructure problems they will have to increase prices to customers.
Just worth remembering that Scottish Water – which is publicly owned – has invested nearly 35 per cent more per household in infrastructure since 2002 than the privatised English firms, charging 14 per cent less and not paying out dividends.
Conclusion ….Nationalised water works better!
@MarkHoltom but luckily for us, here in England we have a really tough regulator to make sure these companies don’t get away with this kind of profiteering and piracy - said nobody.
And they are about 70% foreign owned (come on Farridge, Poxley Lemmon and other gammons - protest that) so it’s reassuring I. This unstable warmongering world to know that our infrastructure is in safe hands.
Thatcherism coming home to roost