It’s fraud, not business.
Steve Reed has launched the biggest commission into the failed water industry since privatisation. But he’s banned it from even considering nationalisation as an option.
“It’s a dereliction of duty not to explore all viable solutions.”
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/03/end-the-privatised-water-scam/
Steve Reed has launched the biggest commission into the failed water industry since privatisation. But he’s banned it from even considering nationalisation as an option.
“It’s a dereliction of duty not to explore all viable solutions.”
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/03/end-the-privatised-water-scam/
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He has made a complete hash of managing the IHT crisis
He has messed up payments
He has annoyed most farmers
He is failing badly over the water companies
He knows nothing about rural issues
Hard to think of something he has done right...
The value for money provision of a nation’s reliable water & sewage system is neither an appropriate task for private entities nor a viable business model.
Asked in the HoC last year to confirm the commission would consider the option of bringing water back into public hands, Reed replied that he’d ruled it out, claiming that nationalisation would not resolve the problems.