27 Jun 2019,IT seems to me the case that the real criminals in our society get away with it – while the rest of us pay the price. I suppose that’s always been true.. This magnificently awful company provides water and sewage treatment for a vast area of South East England. It is singularly useless in this task.Credit: Alamy Live News
Ofwat won’t tell us where the spills occurred — it should do. It is highly likely, if not certain, that many of these spills caused untold damage to the ecosystem.. It “misreported”, as Ofwat gently put it, a whole bunch of stuff and in doing so avoided getting fined before. It lied, deliberately, knowing it was lying. OK, so the company will have to pay the fine and some of that money will make its way into the pockets of Southern Water’s benighted customers.
The boss of Southern Water, Ian McAulay, will continue to draw his salary, bonuses and perks. So how much was that package worth in 2017-18? Oh, just a meagre £1million. And yet the company for which he has responsibility cooked the books to stop Ofwat finding out what was going on. And made a monumental, criminal hash of treating the country’s sewage.If you committed a crime you’d be in court, pronto. If you lied to cover up that crime, your sentence would be a hell of a lot stiffer.
Hammering people with charges when they can’t pay by direct debit. The rip-off fees for unscheduled overdrafts. The private train companies who deliberately conceal the cheapest ticket prices so that you end up paying through the nose.
Red jezza no chance scruff.
Or Nigel Farage !!!
Because Corbyn has a grip on big business? Pull the other one
I would b more inclined to say the Brexit Party