Water bosses taking home millions.
- Thread starter Dogberry
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No new reservoirs in 30 years. How many new houses? How many more people? Great isn’t it.
ks.234
Half way to Infinity
We live in a Free Market economy the purpose of which is to ensure the interests of big companies. Social purposes are at best secondary and in practice only considered in so far as they do not interfere with the interests of business.
The market is only one component in the realm of human affairs, and if it is given primary purpose, will fail to meet human needs on a wider scale.
If we want social considerations to be met, we need the primary purpose of government to be moral and aimed at human need, not aimed at the amorality of the competitive self interest of actors in an unregulated market.
The market is only one component in the realm of human affairs, and if it is given primary purpose, will fail to meet human needs on a wider scale.
If we want social considerations to be met, we need the primary purpose of government to be moral and aimed at human need, not aimed at the amorality of the competitive self interest of actors in an unregulated market.
Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
There's a very fundamental point here, I think, and it relates to the question 'what is a country for?' and 'what is a government for'. My long standing view is that the primary purpose of government is to ensure the safety and security of its citizens, and the role of a country is in defining who those citizens are, to differentiate them from the global population. So a government which promotes the market, rather than promoting wellbeing and human needs, is neglecting its primary duty. To argue that 'the market' is the chosen mechanism to assure people's needs are met, is to let the tail wag the dog.
ks.234
Half way to Infinity
Yes. In short, government should be first and foremost for public purpose, not private interests. Private interests can still be served, if they first address public need, which water, gas, and electricity companies clearly do not.
It's hard to imagine anything of a decent size being built in UK; a significant reservoir would be a planning nightmare.
We've done a few little ones but they're no use for drinking water supplies.
Gingerbeard
Ayup Me Duck
Or anything that tells you it just 'broke the internet'
klfrs
chill out
On the contrary we live in a rigged economy aka crapitalism.
Joe Hutch
Mate of the bloke
Or anything that tells you that someone who was young in the 60s/70s is a lot older now, and how they look will ‘break your heart’.Or anything that tells you it just 'broke the internet'
ks.234
Half way to Infinity
Well, the “free” market is far from free. Labour for example is tightly regulated. So yes, the economy we have is rigged.
miktec
retired
skelton
pfm Member
- YOU ARE HERE:LATEST
11 JUN, 2021 BY CATHERINE MOORE
Portsmouth Water’s £100M Havant Thicket Reservoir has been given the go ahead by Hampshire councillors.
It will be the first major new reservoir in the UK for decades, after East Hampshire District Council’s planning committee resolved to grant planning permission.
The project is an environmentally-led scheme which will secure vital water supplies for the future, while protecting world-renowned chalk streams.
Planning applications for the reservoir and its associated pipeline were submitted to the local planning authorities in late 2020.
The decision comes after elected members in neighbouring Havant Borough gave their support to Portsmouth Water’s proposals last week, along with plans for the pipeline.
Legal commitments will now be finalised with the local authorities, before full planning permission is granted, potentially this summer. The reservoir is due to be completed and operational by 2029.
Dogberry
pfm Member
Gingerbeard
Ayup Me Duck
Nothing new, sadly! Ofwat seem to be about as useful as Ofgem is and the sh*t that they are polluting our rivers and seas with! No consequences = no care = carry on regardless
calorgas
Generic middle-aged man
This article was a good read about two ordinary guys who uncovered just how bad the water companies have been behaving, whilst the toothless regulator simply looks the other way.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-slow-dirty-death-of-welsh-and-english-rivers
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-slow-dirty-death-of-welsh-and-english-rivers
wulbert
pfm Member
Austerity wasn't for you. It was for all the less-well-off people who depend on public services to keep their lives tolerable; Sure Start for young vulnerable parents and their kids, youth clubs to divert teenagers from trouble, addiction services, child and adolescent mental health services, day-care centres for old folks to get a heat and cheap hot meal, outdoor and outward-bound centres, food standards, environmental protection agencies, GP and primary care services.......closed, cut back, outsourced, reduced, centralised, staff laid off, pay and conditions "modernised".....Gone.
Congratulations, you accumulated enough wealth to insulate yourself from the effects of socially cruel government policy and ideology. Be smug. Be proud.