The great robbery

[ForssAwakens]

It feels to me private companies, especially ones that should be nationalised are looking to fill their pockets

This water announcement yesterday got me thinking, will annouce we’ll improve it, it’s an opportunity to get us to pay for it. It’s a robbery on us all.

All those utility companies that went bust, it’s been built into bills. The support we got it, we pay for it with in our bills

It’s a robbery. Capitalism has had its day, and this is it last attempt to get the rich, richer

 

[FabioPorkpie]

It’s a cancer and we all have to shut up and pay through our teeth for the medicine that won’t actually make anything better.
A real change is needed and the nationalisation conversation needs to be far more visible.

 

[Pak_Doo_Ik]

energy is the same, it feels to me like the energy companies used the Ukraine to see just how high they could push prices before they were stopped and now that ceiling has been reached they see no need to drop back down to the starting position.

 

[smoggs03]

Utilities are definitely the same. I spent just short of 20yrs working for a major utility company and all they care about is margins and customer retention. Forever pushed to get customer subscribing to plans they didn’t need and upselling products you know are way over priced and not necessary. Profits way before people.

 

[Linthorpe_Exile]

It is a scam - pursue profit to the detriment of everything else, get as much "offshore" for tax purposes, get the PR department to sanitise, rinse and repeat... (I am expecting my new washing machine in 20 mins ) .. these companies are just like oligarchs. Trouble is, I am not sure nationalisation is the answer - can you imagine the current lot making a success of anything ?? The problems have arisen because of totally inept regulation (maybe on purpose, who knows). This latest water lark is astonishing in its brazenness. The electric companies that went bust seemed to be simply let off the hook. Look at how the Post Ofiice utterly ruined the lives of so many of their shop managers - some of the directors should have gone to jail imo but as usual the can is simply kicked down the road. The country is an effin shambles.

 

[SuperStu]

Wonder if/when we'll ever get another opportunity to elect a left wing government. 34 year gap between Foots 1983 election and Corbyns 2017 one. 2051 if it takes a similar amount of time. I'll be in my 60s.