Zip2@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 months agoThames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penaltywww.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down10
arrow-up175arrow-down1external-linkThames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penaltywww.bbc.co.ukZip2@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square24linkfedilink
minus-squareNaich@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down1·2 months agoSo they recoup the fine from customers and carry on as before? Fuck, just nationalise it already.
minus-squarejonne@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoThey’ll nationalise it and make the government pay the fine to itself.
minus-squareOfficer_Pickles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoThey can’t increase prices to pay off the fine.
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThey aren’t allowed to raise their prices.
minus-squarecook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThey’re not allowed to raise prices, so they’ll just get in more debt and we’ll have to bail them out again, giving a bunch more UK taxpayer money to US hedge funds.
So they recoup the fine from customers and carry on as before?
Fuck, just nationalise it already.
They’ll nationalise it and make the government pay the fine to itself.
They can’t increase prices to pay off the fine.
They aren’t allowed to raise their prices.
They’re not allowed to raise prices, so they’ll just get in more debt and we’ll have to bail them out again, giving a bunch more UK taxpayer money to US hedge funds.