Water Utlities blaming the weather for floods

I was in a Kent village last weekend and there was a flood right across the road. A local resident got a pole, found the drain cleared some leaves and it was gone in a couple of minutes,
The thing is, the locals should not be having to keep the drains clear themselves when they are paying so much (£4 per cubic metre on average) for water, and a load of council tax on top of that.
They are charging for services that they simply do not deliver. It's a scam.

How do reckon we can keep greed in check, because that is what it is?

It is the local Council who have stopped clearing drains because it is an easy way to save money. That coupled with the Environment Agency preventing landowners from dredging rivers and clearing gullys (in the name of 'saving the planet') means that flooding will be more common.

What do you expect when they are not accounrable for their actions?

I gotta say it

They have a point.

It’s the shittiest time of the year in a country renowned for the several FEET of cold wet shitty stuff that falls out of the skies annually.

How is this NOT the cause of tbe floods

The EA sold off their dredging equipment when the EU basically made dredging uneconomic because the EU declared dredgings as hazardous waste that had to be taken to a tip, rather than left on the river banks.

The water companies haven't built any new reservoirs for over 30 years now - but they have sold off some for development - which is a recipe for flooding.