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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%

  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%
  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
sb_73 said:
Water companies planning to put bills up by 40% to pay for their lack of investment in infrastructure and dumping sewage in rivers and the sea.

This morning our water pressure has collapsed due to a burst water main a couple of hundred yards away, so I’ve got my credit card at the ready.

Now I’m not a massive fan of nationalised industries, at least not the way that the U.K. used to run industries in public ownership. But I’m struggling to think of any of the formerly nationalised now privatised industries that can be described as a success, certainly not for the consumer. They are either failed/failing and being bailed out by the taxpayer, long ago disappeared like British Leyland, or no longer actually British, like Jaguar and British Airways.

Still, we’ve had a lot of fun spending billions pretending to ‘regulate’ these industries and a few people have got rich through dividends and share trading, so it probably has worked exactly they way the policy intended.
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No natural monopoly should be in private hands but water is probably the most outrageously egregious of all the privatisations (at least until they work out how to privatise air). What possible justification can there be for a natural national resource being in private hands? These ****s have racked up £54billion of debt whilst paying £66billion in dividends to shareholders, many of which will be based overseas. Three billion litres of water lost to leaks every single day and not a single new reservoir in 30 years. Thames Water even pays for TV ads to tell us what a sound job they're doing. What the **** are the regulators doing?
 
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Stroller said:
No natural monopoly should be in private hands but water is probably the most outrageously egregious of all the privatisations (at least until they work out how to privatise air). What possible justification can there be for a natural national resource being in private hands? These ****s have racked up billions in debt whilst paying equal amounts in dividends to shareholders, many of which will be based overseas. Three billion litres of water lost to leaks every single day and not a single new reservoir in 30 years. Thames Water even pays for TV ads to tell us what a sound job they're doing. What the **** are the regulators doing?
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Under the EU it would be nigh on impossible to renationalise any industries like water, gas, rail etc………just reminding you of that ;)
 
Stroller said:
We're not in the EU. Anyway, how would they have prevented it?
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And that’s a good thing for Lefties like you and me…..under a more progressive, Left Wing government…..it’s much more possible (though almost certainly unlikely).
Plenty of info on the how’s and whys out there Strolls……
 
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Stroller said:
No natural monopoly should be in private hands but water is probably the most outrageously egregious of all the privatisations (at least until they work out how to privatise air). What possible justification can there be for a natural national resource being in private hands? These ****s have racked up £54billion of debt whilst paying £66billion in dividends to shareholders, many of which will be based overseas. Three billion litres of water lost to leaks every single day and not a single new reservoir in 30 years. Thames Water even pays for TV ads to tell us what a sound job they're doing. What the **** are the regulators doing?
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Land. Collectivise it!
 
qprbeth said:
Not one of the three executed in Burford Churchyard ?
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Corkbush Field near Ware in Hertfordshire. Cromwell and Fairfax were agitated by continued attempts by the Levellers to get the NMA to adopt their Agreement of the People manifesto, and ordered some troopers (not, noticeably, the officers who were Levellers like Lilburne) to be rounded up, identified three ‘ringleaders’ to be executed, drew lots to see which one would be and my alleged ancestor was the unlucky one, shot on the spot……by, in an especially cruel twist, the two who had been reprieved.

I really hope he was my ancestor, but it hangs on the different spellings of his surname used in different sources, and I’m a bit doubtful.
 
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