Zip2@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 8 days agoThames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penaltywww.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down10
arrow-up171arrow-down1external-linkThames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penaltywww.bbc.co.ukZip2@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square23linkfedilink
minus-squareNaichlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down1·8 days agoSo they recoup the fine from customers and carry on as before? Fuck, just nationalise it already.
minus-squareOfficer_Pickles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 days agoThey can’t increase prices to pay off the fine.
minus-squarecook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoThey’re not allowed to raise prices, so they’ll just get in more debt and we’ll have to bail them out again, giving a bunch more UK taxpayer money to US hedge funds.
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoThey aren’t allowed to raise their prices.
minus-squarejonne@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·8 days agoThey’ll nationalise it and make the government pay the fine to itself.
So they recoup the fine from customers and carry on as before?
Fuck, just nationalise it already.
They can’t increase prices to pay off the fine.
They’re not allowed to raise prices, so they’ll just get in more debt and we’ll have to bail them out again, giving a bunch more UK taxpayer money to US hedge funds.
They aren’t allowed to raise their prices.
They’ll nationalise it and make the government pay the fine to itself.