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
arrow-up175arrow-down1external-linkThames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penaltywww.bbc.co.ukZip2@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square24linkfedilink
minus-squaredeadcatbounce@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·1 month agoThanks Water immediately raise prices to cover it. Ditto Anglian Water. Nationalise it, accounting for the infrastructure deficit rerouted to dividends. De-gravy train it.
minus-squareOfficer_Pickles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoPrices cannot be increased to cover it.
minus-squaredeadcatbounce@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoThose might be the rules, but I was a child when the rules last actually applied or were applied. No-one with any ability as a politician will go anywhere near politics this century. And when I say ability I mean moral compass.
minus-squareOfficer_Pickles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThe prices are only changed during the Price Review period. The next PR is PR29 during which business plans are submitted and agreed upon.
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThey can’t be raised to cover it.
Thanks Water immediately raise prices to cover it. Ditto Anglian Water.
Nationalise it, accounting for the infrastructure deficit rerouted to dividends. De-gravy train it.
Prices cannot be increased to cover it.
Those might be the rules, but I was a child when the rules last actually applied or were applied.
No-one with any ability as a politician will go anywhere near politics this century. And when I say ability I mean moral compass.
The prices are only changed during the Price Review period. The next PR is PR29 during which business plans are submitted and agreed upon.
They can’t be raised to cover it.