Zip2@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 months 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 · 3 months agomessage-square24linkfedilink
minus-squaredeadcatbounce@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·3 months 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-up3·3 months agoPrices cannot be increased to cover it.
minus-squaredeadcatbounce@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months 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-up2·3 months 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-up1·3 months 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.