This will rattle the lefties cage.

Since water privatization the UK invests more than any other country in Europe.  What's more, the investment brought in far outweighs the amount of dividends paid.  I've linked the report on this many times, but you always conveniently forget / ignore it.

For somebody that wants independence, you have a shit grasp on finance.  A company has to borrow money somehow.  It either gets loans and pays interest, or it issues shares and pays dividends.  But but but they can use their profits to finance investment.  That is complete bullshit, with nationalisation the prices become political, and everything ends up being loss making and relies on massive taxpayer subsidy.  Underfunding occurs, and you end up with a massive legacy problem like with our sewers, that will cost £600b to fix.

Are you going to claim the £600b sewer problems didn't happen under nationalisation? lol

Like all your posts, you point to problems and offer zero context or nuance.

Scottish water was never privatised and their sewage problem is worse than ours. 

I'm not convinced that it makes a blind bit of difference who actually owns the system (Wales has a government owned not for profit company which has the same problems as Scotland and England). What does make a difference is the level of investment and the whole reason that we privatised the system is that various governments going back over decades had refused to invest.

In theory the welsh system should be the best - it removes the political control under a nationalised system and removes the profit element under a privatized system. Unfortunately in reality it doesn't change anything..

Well one thing is for sure.  Your shit grasp on economics is that you pay to drink your own. It is 70% foreign owned that is where the profit goes.  And water is not privatised in the UK.  It is privatised in England. It operates on a not for profit basis in Scotland paid for by local authority rates. .  In terms of your garbage about investment.  As I type..  Every day England foreign owned companies supply   2.6 billion litres of water, . Nearly 25% of that  figure equates to 605 million litres of water a day, based on a three-year average is lost due to leaks. So stop ranting undiluted garbage about sooper dooper investment . And those companies do not giver a rats crap about sorting the leaks. Or you.  You are at the good bit matey. Within 25 years.  England is going to run out of water. You will have two choices.  Desalination.  Which going by cost in California.  You will get about 100 gallons for around $2 to $5.  To put that in perspective.  Cold storage in the attic holds around 60 gallons   You give me your figure. You are the self deluded expert with the answers to all the problems .  Or buy it from energy rich Scotland. 


And before you go on your idiotic rant about anti English. The prediction are from your own countrymen.  And for your information.  Re the most precious commodity in the universe.  There is more fresh water in Loch Ness alone.  Than the entire UK, that includes Scotland put together.  Take Loch Ness out of the equation and the same applies to Loch Lomond.  Take those two out of the equation and the same applies to Loch Katrine which supplies Glasgow. Now which part of that is zero context or nuance.  As you rant garbage about UK water. There is no such thing. And everything I post is wrong. Or have they offered zero context and anti English  as well.  I see absolutely no correction coming from you .  Stick to being a  apologist for the present wankers in government. Who are more interested in Shareholders, than you.  And with all this tooth fairy investment with 25% of the water being lost daily, you talk about.  You still have to pay to drink your own excrement. What ever spin you put on it. 

inews.co.uk/news/environment/england-run-out-of-water-25-years-scotland-is-the-answer-270651
www.heraldscotland.com/news/18890231.pipe-dream-ministers-block-boris-johnson-inspired-bid-export-scots-water-england/
www.seelochlomond.co.uk/discover/loch-katrine

     

Many, both on the Right and on the Left cannot see common sense

Too many people on the Left ( usually the Momentum types or Corbynites ) seem to think "profit" is a dirty word, and too many people on the Right fail spectacularly to see the JUST cause for limited or "one-off" Windfall Taxes.

Lets take the case of "Shell" which is on course to make record profits this year of £40 BILLION

Ben Vanbeurden, the Chief Executive of Shell has publically stated that it would be totally understandable if governments imposed a tax on excessive profits in order to help struggling citizens, in particular the most vulnerable in society.

When the next general election comes - I would like every elector to remember that instead of surcharging excessive profits in order to help people, the Conservative government decided instead to BORROW money to pay for tax cuts. The tax cuts which would offer little or no help what so ever to low income people and families, but the burdon of extra National Debt would no doubt have been put on their shoulders.

Same old Tories

Hahaha again with the zero context data.

Leaks are A THIRD less since privatisation, and far lower than many EU countries.

Oh dear look, Scotland loses 30.2% to leaks hahahahaha.

www.taxpayersalliance.com/renationalisation_of_water_industry_won_t_wash_away_problems



Scotland "way behind England" on tackling sewage leaks hahahaha:

theferret.scot/scotland-behind-england-sewage-leaks/