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Saints Fan4Life said:
Don't normally post on this thread, but I need to rant;

For the 2nd time in a year, my area has been left without water. This is now the 2nd day. Last time was 4 days.

Meanwhile, I hear of southern water bosses getting pay rises, huge bonuses and making billions of pounds worth of profits, whilst our monthly fees are rising. The infrastructure is crumbling, not up to standard and keeps failing. We cannot be left without water multiple times a year. It's a ****ing joke.

I'm currently sat in a 1 mile queue barely moving, moved probably 500 yards in 50 minutes, just to try and get some bottled water to tie us over. Ironically, I'm trying to get to Staplewood to collect, because the priority register (of which we are on) hasn't been utilised for us.

Utter ****ing joke the state of this country, it really is.
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That's shocking. Absolutely unacceptable, these water companies have been robbing us for years and getting away with it. There is simply no excuse for them to leave people without water, barring the very occasional Act of God.
 
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Archers Road said:
That's shocking. Absolutely unacceptable, these water companies have been robbing us for years and getting away with it. There is simply no excuse for them to leave people without water, barring the very occasional Act of God.
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Apparently Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, has the power to simply strip water companies of their licences and put them into special administration. This would be a much cheaper way of renationalising the industry. However, he has ruled out any form of renationalisation, despite polls showing 82% of the public being in favour.

Maybe a campaign of refusing to pay bills might have an effect?
 
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ChilcoSaint said:
Apparently Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, has the power to simply strip water companies of their licences and put them into special administration. This would be a much cheaper way of renationalising the industry. However, he has ruled out any form of renationalisation, despite polls showing 82% of the public being in favour.

Maybe a campaign of refusing to pay bills might have an effect?
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Wish the British public would take that stance at times. The French probably would.
 
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ChilcoSaint said:
Apparently Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, has the power to simply strip water companies of their licences and put them into special administration. This would be a much cheaper way of renationalising the industry. However, he has ruled out any form of renationalisation, despite polls showing 82% of the public being in favour.

Maybe a campaign of refusing to pay bills might have an effect?
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Leaving a pile of **** on the director's doorsteps sounds good to me.
 
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ChilcoSaint said:
Apparently Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, has the power to simply strip water companies of their licences and put them into special administration. This would be a much cheaper way of renationalising the industry. However, he has ruled out any form of renationalisation, despite polls showing 82% of the public being in favour.

Maybe a campaign of refusing to pay bills might have an effect?
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Trouble is the water companies are all saddled with massive debt. So if the companies are stripped of their licenses, what happens to the debt?

A mass campaign of withholding bills would only work if enough people did it. There was a grass roots movement called Can’t Pay U.K. which tried to organise something similar over fuel bills recently, but in the end not enough people were willing to stop paying, and the organisation folded.
 
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ImpSaint said:
OK guys. been a nice few years but I will call it a day for good now. Last few pages says this is not the place for me:
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While we can all agree war is horrible, leaders make some nasty decisions there does seem to be some over simplification of some of what happened above and straight lines drawn. Anyways. Enjoy the season. Its been a fun couple of decades :D
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11 dead and at least 60 injured as a terrorist drove full speed into a Christmas market in Germany.

I wonder if it was another quiet lad from Wales?
 
ChilcoSaint said:
An appalling act, thoughts and prayers with those affected.

Can’t find anyone describing it as a terrorist attack though.
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Seems likely it is though and they've said they're treating it as an 'attack'.

Feels like there's been a few similar incidents in Germany before? Not 100%
 
Osvaldorama said:
11 dead and at least 60 injured as a terrorist drove full speed into a Christmas market in Germany.

I wonder if it was another quiet lad from Wales?
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Not saying you're wrong regarding motives, but there's only 2 confirmed dead right now (though of course that may go up), so I'm not sure where you're getting 11 from?
 
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Point scoring off the death of innocent people, Os? Stay classy.
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When will you accept that mass undocumented immigration is causing serious harm to society?

How many people have to die before lefty’s wake up and realise that we have a huge (self inflicted) problem?
 
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That's awkward. If (IF) the identity of the attacker has been correctly confirmed, he seems to be an AfD supporter, atheist and anti-Islamist.

Seems life isn't always quite as simple (dare I say black and white?) as some people might claim.

https://bsky.app/profile/ramijarrah.bsky.social/post/3ldrotuqo6s2t - background here. However, it's early days and I suspect it will turn out to be even more complex as things develop. That's how life is.
 
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Osvaldorama said:
When will you accept that mass undocumented immigration is causing serious harm to society?

How many people have to die before lefty’s wake up and realise that we have a huge (self inflicted) problem?
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How many times do you need to say this, before you wake up and realise that everyone accepts that there is a problem?
 
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