Private companies exist solely to make a profit for their owners/shareholders does anyone really think the water companies owners are in it because they have a passion for water cleansing? If they are making a profit by neglecting to fix leaks then that is fine by them. Another Tory flagship policy of selling off the utilities (which were in effect owned by taxpayers) coming home to roost.
I thought the CCW, Obudsman for the consumer's was a waste of time. This is when they should be taken action, like all ombudsmen, just a waste of time, or in this case ****e
Rachel Reeves saying banks should be forced to help people struggling with mortgage payments. Not sure how good an idea that is tbh. If individuals want to go nuts deep on a maxed out mortgage they can only just afford during historically low interest rates and have now gotten caught out, isn't it their individual responsibility to sort out? Forcing the banks to help will raise costs in the long run, because they'll build it into their packages.
It seems nobody is to be blamed for their own actions anymore, always someone else’s fault so let them pick up the tab for it.
Boris Johnson February 2020:: "I am drawing a clear line under the mismanagement of the past – HS2 must be delivered more efficiently and cost-effectively so that communities feel its benefits more quickly, particularly those in the North." June 22 2023: "Delays to HS2 announced by the government earlier this year in order to help ‘balance the books’ are likely to cost the taxpayer at least £366 million, according to new analysis exclusively leaked to Sky News."
One of the primary reasons cited for leaving the EU was deregulation. ..that's working out well for us
"Hey chaps, here's an idea. Let's sell our electricity production to France, Spain and Germany ... ... then leave the EU, no one will be expecting that!"
This is really worrying in my opinion. Kids coming into schools now have little to no resilience, expect everything to be done for them. That's because their parents take no responsibility for anything. "Ooh, they're 4 but they're not toilet trained because of lockdown". What?! You were stuck at home with them for 6 months, how did you not find the time? Not everything is the fault of Covid/the government/"society"/religion/the military-industrial complex/freemasonry/the illuminati/the lizard people at the centre of the earth. When did people stop taking responsibility for themselves? And when did they become so self-absorbed?
It was covering both mate, but I agree maybe that’s where it should be as well. I try to agree with most things if I can but I am sorry but sympathy is not high on my list for them in the sub.
The regulation part of the word deregulation being the operative word. It is the Wild West without it. The neoliberal argument for deregulation is that the market will regulate by customers choosing another "provider". Water is a monopoly so the providers just do as they like.
You're not supposed to say that but I agree. On ITV Breakfast News, this morning, they followed a report on the sub with a bloke in the studio going on 'the most dangerous canoe trek in the world'. It's 1000 miles from Canada to Alaska in areas frequented by grizzly bears and wolves ffs. The fella was saying 'it's a three day extraction if he needs to be rescued'. But it's for charity so we all have to admire him
Here's a worthy charity cause . . . . without the obvious danger, and closer to home https://www.not606.com/threads/sponsorship-for-kids-with-cancer.407422/
What really baffles me is how do they get to be that rich when you have a brain that allows you to take your son onto a known death trap, and then people expect you to give them sympathy. If that was five normal working lads and they got them out safe, they would end up in court and probably jailed for being so stupid.
I was stopped by the Cannes coastguards for leaving port without a flag on the boat. They'd have fined me if it wasn't that I dropped the name of a local polis I'd worked with. Yet these people go out in what's a actually a home made submarine and the world stops for them.
As always the devil is in the detail. Reeves is only calling for banks to allow borrowers to temporarily switch from repayment to interest only mortgages, it is the Lib Dems who are calling for the creation of a £3bn mortgage protection fund.
