Zip2@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 month agoThames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penaltywww.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down10
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minus-squareNaich@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down1·1 month agoSo they recoup the fine from customers and carry on as before? Fuck, just nationalise it already.
minus-squarejonne@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agoThey’ll nationalise it and make the government pay the fine to itself.
minus-squareOfficer_Pickles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoThey can’t increase prices to pay off the fine.
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThey aren’t allowed to raise their prices.
minus-squarecook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month 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.