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Post by jonksy on Feb 17, 2023 11:54:50 GMT
One lump or two in your morning cuppa....Maybe some of the boat people are plumbers........Not really a shock when there is 49 million pounds being spent weekly on hotels and spending cards. Britain's crumbling NHS: SEWAGE is leaking into cancer wards, maternity units and A&Es, shock audit reveals Investigation found 55 NHS trusts have reported incidents in the last 12 months Leeds Teaching Hospital reported highest number of sewage leaks with 105 The Liberal Democrats said its discoveries were 'a national scandal' www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11762393/Britains-crumbling-NHS-SEWAGE-leaking-cancer-wards-maternity-units-Es.html |
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Post by jonksy on Feb 17, 2023 11:58:45 GMT
Profits up at South West Water owner after outcry over sewage pollution The water industry is being told to reduce storm discharges of raw sewage into rivers and seas The parent firm of South West Water has reported a rise in profits just days after a warning from campaigners about raw sewage discharges in bathing waters and the announcement of a nationwide investigation into pollution from treatment works. The Exeter-based Pennon Group reported a pre-tax profit of just over £90million in the first six months of the 2021/22 financial year - up by 4.3 per cent from the year before, partly due to the takeover of Bristol Water. The update on Tuesday (November 30) came the week after Cornwall-based campaign group Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) published its 2021 Water Quality report, which said water companies spilled raw sewage into coastal waters 5,517 times over a 12-month period.
EDIT: South West Water boss trebles pay with huge bonus as beaches are shut due to raw sewage pumped into sea
Susan Davy is chief executive of South West Water’s parent company Pennon and has boosted her £456,000 salary with more than £1m in bonuses, incentives and benefits
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Post by sword on Feb 17, 2023 18:10:37 GMT
I am talking about British Gas taking us for a ride like the other privatised utilities,thats what you were complaining about,you are probably one of those responsible with your voting history,maybe someone told you about Sid and you bought some shares? Centrica are certainly taking us for fools. Corbyn tried to but we saw through his manifesto. There, we can talk about how great Corbyn isn't, if you like. I'll start - his beloved Labour party ousted him because he's a no good anti-Semite. Corbyn tried nothing he was never prime minister,Corbyn anti semite? any evidence other than the grotesque smear campaigne? he should have sued anyone who accused him of that,oh and stop complaining about energy costs people like you are responsible. |
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Post by jonksy on Feb 19, 2023 13:30:29 GMT
Governments won't allow us to use Wood Heaters, drive petrol or diesel cars, turn on our heating or lights but they are allowed to destroy OUR environment, and they claim they are trying to protect it. The problem is they mix Storm water and Grey water into the same pipe and it all is supposed to be treated. A two pipe system has to be put in place so storm water just goes out to sea and sewerage gets treated...........Did you know... The Scottish leader of the tory filth, Douglas Ross ( AKA Dross), voted in Westminster to allow companies to pump raw sewage into Englands rivers and beaches. So did the other 5 Scottish tories. Nice. By the way... The SNP abstained as this was an English issue.........Net zero is for the Plebs Watch as 'raw sewage' including wet wipes, toilet roll and sanitary products flow out of a water pipe and into two popular lakes - as campaigners slam 'vile' stench they fear will impact wildlife Freeman's Cut and Brookfoot Lake in West Yorkshire are latest pollution victims The neighbouring River Calder was UK's second most polluted waterway in 2021
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Post by seniorcitizen007 on Feb 20, 2023 4:57:14 GMT
There were advantages working for state run industries. I worked for North Thames Gas Board in their lab. The amount of time alloted to complete my work was ridiculous. It took me no more than an hour or two ... so I had the rest of the day to myself. Senior staff (who also had time on their hands) often came for a game of chess. To while away the time I did my own experimental research ... I was even able to order equipment that wasn't needed for my work ... no questions asked. One of my roles involved travelling to gas works to supervise the collecting of samples of the paint used there (to check if was up to scratch) ... a nice day out for me.
Later in I worked in a hospital running the cleanng stores. This involved spending an hour or two delivering cleaning material to the wards ... then, again, I had the rest of the day mostly to myself (with occasional visits from nurses when the wards needed something not normally provided).
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Post by johnofgwent on Feb 20, 2023 8:32:32 GMT
Centrica's profits are all coming out of the pockets of the ordinary people, many of them pensioners struggling to make ends meet. Covid - the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. Energy Crisis -the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. Bring on the next crisis for the sake of the idle rich! I have to laugh,many people who now moan about this are the same people who voted for Thatcher and every other Tory Government since,then when we get someone like Corbyn who would have brought these Companies back under State control the same people slag the guy off and work to bring him down,sorry but they asked for what they have got. The problem of course is that Corbyn promised much on reversing privatisation, and used the example of the company that was formed by the government to run the great north east line abandoned by Virgin / Stagecoach - who bid insane amounts of money for the operating license and then found themselves losing money as a result - as a shining example, his other polices on stuff like removing our nuclear deterrent, welcoming everyone who could paddle a dinghy to collect a free British passport as they walked up Dover’s beach, and of course his love of the mosque that empowered captain hook, were all pretty good reasons to keep him well away from the door of number ten. But that isn’t sn excuse for holding up his one and only good idea as a shining example of how the other guy should have gone about stuff Whats Captain Fence Sitter the prosecutor of Asian Rapists (not) said about rail privatisation Anything believable |
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Feb 20, 2023 10:41:16 GMT
Well previously we had endless strikes, 3 day weeks and power cuts. We've not seen those since privatisation. Plus, you can buy shares in all of the companies that send you bills. I do and my dividends are higher than the bills, so it works for me.  |
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Post by bancroft on Feb 20, 2023 12:37:12 GMT
All arrangements like political systems serve their usefulness after a period of time.
I think the government needs to get tough over the sewage problem and if they say it is too expensive then the arrangement ends and we look to find another owner and if necessary re-nationalise. There should be legal jargon they have to provide a decent service and that can't include letting sewage into rivers and or beaches except in an emergency certainly not on a regular basis.
Surely if they are failing regularly then they lose the right to own.
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Post by jonksy on Feb 20, 2023 12:48:41 GMT
Well previously we had endless strikes, 3 day weeks and power cuts. We've not seen those since privatisation. Plus, you can buy shares in all of the companies that send you bills. I do and my dividends are higher than the bills, so it works for me. Not everyone has the extra cash to invest.....And no I am not having a go at those who are lucky enough to purchase shares. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2023 18:37:07 GMT
I believe Southampton and Eastleigh have been without water for almost 3 days. It has now been restored, but to think Southern Water have such weak infrastructure for breakdowns to last this long is disgusting.
It will cost them millions under the compensation scheme.
My last water bill was free owing to a long water cut in the heat of the summer 2022.
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Post by jonksy on Feb 23, 2023 8:25:33 GMT
It never stopped raining in October, November and December. Fears grow for another drought this year after England sees its driest February for 30 years as experts warn new restrictions on water may be needed A dry February so far means 63 per cent of rivers are below normal levels The National Drought Group has warned the UK may need further hosepipe bans
The NDG said: 'Members are planning for the worst case scenario of another hot, dry summer and are managing water resources to reduce the risk of drought measures being required.' Pictured: Dry cracked earth in Ripponden, Yorkshire, August 12, 2022
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Post by Pacifico on Feb 23, 2023 8:28:10 GMT
Water shortages and still we have record immigration with some saying that we need even more migrants..
Not a lot of joined up thinking around.
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Post by jonksy on Feb 23, 2023 13:15:08 GMT
Water shortages and still we have record immigration with some saying that we need even more migrants.. Not a lot of joined up thinking around. Our infrastructure has never been big enough since victoirian days. it is bursting at the seams now whith our own population let alone those who are unwelcome coning here for their freebies. |
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Post by oracle75 on Feb 23, 2023 21:10:53 GMT
If the government takes over a public utility it has to buy it...ie pay every shareholder the reported value of their share holdings.
IMO it also allows a government to make rules about standards and prices with no acknowledgement of the public it is supposed to serve.
I find it intensely uncomfortable that a political party controls my services.
Additionally no on outside the country would invest in them.
I think the days of state owned services are over. Unless the people want to pay a huge amount of taxes in order to but them out.
On the other hand I think the sale of utilities and services to foreign investors is difficult. It is directly contrary to national sovereignty and allows the company to be resold anywhere.
Ideally British companies should ATTRACT foreign investment to companies run under British regulations. However since most important companies have already been sold and British regulations are still a pack of cards up in the air, many British investments are in foreign companies.
The magnetic poles have reversed.
The very biggest companies, RR and BAE are too big to fail and work happily with many alliances. But the public services are a mess. And no one can afford to fix them. Especially when the NHS is a monster with an unending appetite and so many demands on it. It will soon cost 200 billion pounds a year with no evident improvement.
That is obscene.
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