This country is a joke. Everything goes up while all of these services we pay for decline. Why anyone wants to come here is the biggest shock to me at this point.
So the poor old captive household taxpayers are going to have to stump up more money so that the incompetent CEO’s of the water companies can get bigger ‘fat cat’ salary rises are we? That is where a lot of the money will go. I bet the lowest operative at any water/sewage plant could say how to fix the pollution problem! But no, we will have to employ expensive ‘experts’ and ‘advisors’ - just like the ones the incompetent governments use, to show them what to do. It is easy, just enlarge the sewage collection ponds temporarily!! And design systems to neutralise the sewage and perhaps sell it to farmers to spread on the land. It is not rocket science surely? I thought were supposed to be a nation of innovators?
Jeez,our country is so desperate for a change of direction. Never have i seen such a depressed society in almost sixty years. One thing after another and as Labour are our current crop of liars, I'm laying the blame firmly on them
@snowbind Him and his liars have done more self inflicted damage to our country and themselves than any other generational party in my lifetime. They disgust me to the pit of my stomach
Wow, so Ofwat can actually monitor the companies after all, to check that the money is being invested? Who'd have thought that? Nothing different under Labour then? Private companies skimming off the money, and the rest of us paying for other people's bills.
Unintelligent drivel then. Check your facts and ask why we failed to meet even the EU standards of the 80s. Water companies and bosses from the 60s to the 80s failed. Fact. The costs to modernise the infrastructure were huge hence finding alternative sources of capital. Now we have over population. Thanks to Labour so now its catch up time. The foolish Rayner hasn't got a water plan for these "extra" houses to be built either.
Privatisation is the root cause. The sewage system is mostly Victorian, but London was more densely-populated at the start of the 20th than it is now, yet Thames Water is the worst performing. These are natural monopolies: they never should have been privatised.
Water Is a basic need and they are making is a commodity. The all concept is wrong. Tories are responsible for this private deal. And Labour is unable to undo it. Some services are not to be set up for profit but for social use.
@@pinkpanther7030 Naive nonsense. Water companies and their bosses during 60s to 80s did not maintain the infrastructure. Harold Wilson and Callaghan jusr paid off the Unions.
@@paulfitzpatrick954 Labour came to power with plans to invest in their ambitious projects and don't give a toss about what Tories had done to this country.
@@T5Zplayer how is it childish to point out that a Water company in Scotland that plows profits back into infrastructure is superior to the Privately owned English companies that are changing a fortune and polluting the rivers their water is supplied from . Is it childish to point out that Scottish people refused to have their water companies privatised when John Major wanted to ?. I do worry for the English people though because of the sewage dumping in the rivers and I believe sooner or later London will be hit with a foreign disease that is waterborne.
At The 2024 International Water Association Awards Publicly Owned Scottish Water was 1 of 12 winners globally of its Climate Smart Utilities Recognition Award.. Scotland also won the bid to host the 2026 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition. At the 2024 UK Water Industry Awards Publicly Owned Scottish Water won Asset Management Initiative, Digitalisation Project and Apprentice of the year. At the 2024 Women in Utilities Awards Publicly Owned Scottish Water Business Stream won Best Employer for Women and its chief executive won Woman of the year.
No we are not happy paying more for energy , mps gets free energy we pay for that and don't forget the guest in hotels, free energy ,we pay for that . Paying for fxxking everything no money left to enjoy for ourselves.
Fuming about this, hope someone judicially reviews this decision. How could they allow these rises when it is the water companies that failed to invest. Ofwat is a disgrace.
That works out at 6.3%pa, which in the context of the min wage going up 6.7% and doctors' wages by 22% is relatively reasonable. Especially if it comes with onerous targets to cut sewage outflows & buried pipe leaks.
Wasted money as shareholders,bosses pocketed all the money , so why not give them big pay cut and make them pay for it , why does the public have to pay twice. Water is polluted, who's fault is that . Public pay for someone else's mess again. Pay, pay ,pay , its a disgrace. Will are illegal guests in hotels be paying?????
@@LunarBuzz Wasting my time then. How about an intelligent analysis of the state of the water companies before privatisation. Oh, hang on, I said intelligent analysis.
Were the Tories stopping Ofwat from doing it’s job? How the hell can they increase charges based on no longer being able to practice corporate negligence - it’s a core part of their bloody role!!
I seem to recall the nationalised water boards never invested, Unions drove up costs and no government from the 60s to the 80s could afford the astronomical investment needed. But do tell why nationalising now would work?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣........before 89, the water companies did nothing, governments did nothing, Industry and farmers continue to believe they should be allowed to pollute.
first SCRAP OFWAT they are compromised and corrupted by the water companies requires restructure reform and change in practices driven by parliament Second TOP BONUSES for bosses & shareholders before money spent on infrastructure and maintenance Third REFORM through parliament the business and financial practices of water companies
Fourth use the fines on sewage and bad practice for repair/replacement & upgrade of infrastructure, legal prosecution of senior management who make the decisions on sewage 'spillages'
Return to shareholders…..
Return the bill to sender!!
This country is becoming one big scam.
Becoming ?
This country is a joke. Everything goes up while all of these services we pay for decline. Why anyone wants to come here is the biggest shock to me at this point.
They come here because all they need is supplied and they don't have to work! The country my friend is far from a joke, its depressing and despicable.
Illegally dumping sewerage and we have to pay?!
Absolutely disgusting
Love naive stuff like this
no mercy for leasholders,is going to be social collapse.Who is next?
But my wages haven't increased 36%, it remained stagnant for 20 years and declined when adjusted for inflation
So the poor old captive household taxpayers are going to have to stump up more money so that the incompetent CEO’s of the water companies can get bigger ‘fat cat’ salary rises are we? That is where a lot of the money will go. I bet the lowest operative at any water/sewage plant could say how to fix the pollution problem! But no, we will have to employ expensive ‘experts’ and ‘advisors’ - just like the ones the incompetent governments use, to show them what to do. It is easy, just enlarge the sewage collection ponds temporarily!! And design systems to neutralise the sewage and perhaps sell it to farmers to spread on the land. It is not rocket science surely? I thought were supposed to be a nation of innovators?
Jeez,our country is so desperate for a change of direction.
Never have i seen such a depressed society in almost sixty years.
One thing after another and as Labour are our current crop of liars, I'm laying the blame firmly on them
Which is odd given they've been in power for 6 months.
@snowbind
Him and his liars have done more self inflicted damage to our country and themselves than any other generational party in my lifetime.
They disgust me to the pit of my stomach
This country delights in keeping the citizens poor
Wow, so Ofwat can actually monitor the companies after all, to check that the money is being invested? Who'd have thought that? Nothing different under Labour then? Private companies skimming off the money, and the rest of us paying for other people's bills.
Starmer made sure he turned the party into Tory Lite before the election, they're both the same just one is less extreme
Don't worry, Aussies..no billionaires or their corporations will be harmed by this increase.
I guess few years later we can't afford both electricity and water.
I don’t pay for water anyway as it should be free.
Ya salty water
Rachel sustainability program
Thank the tories for privatisation. Working out really well,competition means lower prices ,fantastic job😂😂😂😂
Unintelligent drivel then. Check your facts and ask why we failed to meet even the EU standards of the 80s. Water companies and bosses from the 60s to the 80s failed. Fact. The costs to modernise the infrastructure were huge hence finding alternative sources of capital. Now we have over population. Thanks to Labour so now its catch up time. The foolish Rayner hasn't got a water plan for these "extra" houses to be built either.
Someone should sue them! Personally! For damages!
Ofwat and water bosses must be laughing all the way to there holiday homes abroad
More houses, more sewage, more pressure on infrastructure...Why not concentrate on the root cause of the problem, unsustainable population growth?
Privatisation is the root cause. The sewage system is mostly Victorian, but London was more densely-populated at the start of the 20th than it is now, yet Thames Water is the worst performing. These are natural monopolies: they never should have been privatised.
Population growth ---- Try greed
Yr letting these bleeders off the hook or yr just not paying attention mush
No. The problem is lack of reinvestment of 'profits' into the infrastructure.
All countries grow without problems
The UK must learn how to use its money in improving its infras like the rest of the world
Ofwat need to be sacked and disbanded. Money will go straight to the executives and shareholders. What an absolute disgrace to the country they are.
@@leemicky6348 just a face on the corporate piracy that’s been going on. What a country 😮
I'm not here paying for sewage tap water, whilst the investors profit from this.
Water Is a basic need and they are making is a commodity. The all concept is wrong. Tories are responsible for this private deal. And Labour is unable to undo it. Some services are not to be set up for profit but for social use.
Drinking water quality is not the problem
@@pinkpanther7030 Naive nonsense. Water companies and their bosses during 60s to 80s did not maintain the infrastructure. Harold Wilson and Callaghan jusr paid off the Unions.
@@pinkpanther7030so why is Labour 'unable to undo it'. Pray, tell
@@paulfitzpatrick954 Labour came to power with plans to invest in their ambitious projects and don't give a toss about what Tories had done to this country.
Scottish Water is not perfect but it's head and shoulders above the English water companies.
Also no direct bills as are within council tax.
Because it does not have the population density that the rest of the country has. It is comparing apples and pears. It is frankly a childish argument.
@@T5Zplayer
The UK is not a country.
Ofwat is not the regulator in Scotland.
@@T5Zplayer how is it childish to point out that a Water company in Scotland that plows profits back into infrastructure is superior to the Privately owned English companies that are changing a fortune and polluting the rivers their water is supplied from . Is it childish to point out that Scottish people refused to have their water companies privatised when John Major wanted to ?. I do worry for the English people though because of the sewage dumping in the rivers and I believe sooner or later London will be hit with a foreign disease that is waterborne.
Tell us something that we don’t already know? It needs renationalising
Silly idea
Fat chance with blulabour and their mates in 'the City'. Meet the new boss (same as the old boss)
@T5Zplayer why so?
At The 2024 International Water Association Awards
Publicly Owned Scottish Water was 1 of 12 winners globally of its Climate Smart Utilities Recognition Award..
Scotland also won the bid to host the 2026 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition.
At the 2024 UK Water Industry Awards
Publicly Owned Scottish Water won Asset Management Initiative, Digitalisation Project and Apprentice of the year.
At the 2024 Women in Utilities Awards
Publicly Owned Scottish Water Business Stream won Best Employer for Women and its chief executive won Woman of the year.
@@paulfitzpatrick954 Before privatisation it was worse. Fact.
Corruption at its finest
United Utilities water prices went up 6.4% this year and 2.1% in the previous year. How can this person say (twice) that prices haven't gone up?
people are more than happy to pay £100s more a month for energy but a £100 a year extra for water is unacceptable? so weird
Get a meter installed and you end up paying less
Wrong and wrong again. U need to get out more
No we are not happy paying more for energy , mps gets free energy we pay for that and don't forget the guest in hotels, free energy ,we pay for that . Paying for fxxking everything no money left to enjoy for ourselves.
Interesting how the number of 36% translates into a 5.6% annual increase. Why not let people know their rate increase on an annualized basis?
There making huge profits already . Yet the working class have to pay more for the bosses can buy another private jet
Fuming about this, hope someone judicially reviews this decision. How could they allow these rises when it is the water companies that failed to invest. Ofwat is a disgrace.
That works out at 6.3%pa, which in the context of the min wage going up 6.7% and doctors' wages by 22% is relatively reasonable. Especially if it comes with onerous targets to cut sewage outflows & buried pipe leaks.
Life under Labour. Just keep paying the shareholder!
So will my pension go up by 36% I don't think so?
*in England & Wales only. Ofwat is not the regulator in Scotland.
Don't rub it in Ross
This bloody Country is a bloody joke!🤯
This is because of middle class women of a certain age
Wasted money as shareholders,bosses pocketed all the money , so why not give them big pay cut and make them pay for it , why does the public have to pay twice. Water is polluted, who's fault is that . Public pay for someone else's mess again. Pay, pay ,pay , its a disgrace. Will are illegal guests in hotels be paying?????
Oh well,Energy is also going up again next month as well,Great start to the new year
It seems all these companies are making a Mint NOW
Proof positive that privatisation was ideological claptrap!
A lie
Excellent news
Thatcher
The only PM who could sort out the mess left by socialism.
Get a water meter installed then
No need for water metres in Scotland.
@@ScottishRoss27 Scotland doesn't have the issues we face
@@T5Zplayer
No to unnecessary water meters in a country with over 30 thousand freshwater lochs.
This is on tories
This on Labour government paying off the Unions in 60s and70s and ignoring the lazy man agent of the water companies
It was labour who originally privatised water
@@LunarBuzz Wasting my time then. How about an intelligent analysis of the state of the water companies before privatisation. Oh, hang on, I said intelligent analysis.
@@oceanblueavanue Stop lying
No need to worry ,, RoBo Rach will sort it out !! and get our money back
every thing is going up all the time to pay for Migrant hotels,Migrant houses,Migrant every thing......ect
Please don't fall for this scam. I for one will not be paying these any more. Disgusting state of our country.
So where are you dumping your sewerage?
Oh right so recidivism pays dividends
Thanks Labour.
Nothing to do with the Tories then?
Still think Corbyn was the bad guy?
Absolutely , still.
Privatisation 😂😂😂
Just keep paying the shareholders 😢😢billions WOW
We need our Luigi
don't worry the starmer gang will stop it
Can't wait til freemason burley is off this programme!
Were the Tories stopping Ofwat from doing it’s job?
How the hell can they increase charges based on no longer being able to practice corporate negligence - it’s a core part of their bloody role!!
Nothing to do with Tories. Just remind what a success nationalised water was.
@In the old days dumping sewage in our waterways hundreds of thousands of times a year didn’t happen. was part of the job see….
twerp!
Randomly watching this in Japan as an American lol
✨️ Healthcare insurance ✨️
If the government had any sense it would renationalise water and throw the bosses of these companies in prison, but they won't.
I seem to recall the nationalised water boards never invested, Unions drove up costs and no government from the 60s to the 80s could afford the astronomical investment needed. But do tell why nationalising now would work?
Ofufuk
Absolutely disgusting.....what are our MPs doing for the people? We should not allow this . Nationalise now!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣........before 89, the water companies did nothing, governments did nothing, Industry and farmers continue to believe they should be allowed to pollute.
Blah blah blah
u r woke
first SCRAP OFWAT they are compromised and corrupted by the water companies requires restructure reform and change in practices driven by parliament
Second TOP BONUSES for bosses & shareholders before money spent on infrastructure and maintenance
Third REFORM through parliament the business and financial practices of water companies
Fourth use the fines on sewage and bad practice for repair/replacement & upgrade of infrastructure, legal prosecution of senior management who make the decisions on sewage 'spillages'
Brexit!!!!
Socialism!!!!
Robery
Wankoff useless crap tripe companies laughing their socks off ..done f all for years then dumped it the customers again