Why would the nationalisation of Thames Water end up putting its debt on the public books? If a company goes bust, and the govt buys the remains, surely the investors simply lose their investment and the debt falls to zero?
They want water companies to operate as profit makers, so they should accept when they go bust too.
@localzuk I keep making this point. The banks who keep lending to these grifters can see the water company accounts, so they know they are already overloaded with debt. But they are counting on the "too big to fail" argument they themselves used in the 2008 financial crash.
I can understand taking on operating debt - I.e. paying what is owed to the companies supplying them so that there's no supply chain contagion, but the investors? The gamblers? Let them fail.
UK postal voting:
I applied for a postal vote, since I was away for the recent local elections and forgot until too late.
Seems easy to do and can either cover you for specific elections or for three years.
You have to apply at least 11 working days in advance, and will need to photograph your signature to upload. https://www.gov.uk/apply-postal-vote #UKPol
People are all about fact-checking their information until they see a 'poll' that has their favoured party ahead from Johnny's Polling & Wings Shack. Instant share
The problem with the Green Party is that they're either lying about how green they are, or they are a death cult. To get reliable power without burning dinosaurs and without an unprecedentedly fast and large roll-out of tidal power requires nukes. As they are against nukes, they must want a huge drop in living standards, and the associated deaths. Sorry, I can't find anything to joke about with the Greens. #ukpol
@DrHyde Please bear in mind that there are (at least) two Green parties in the UK—the English and Welsh Greens (transphobic, anti-high speed rail) and the Scottish Greens (being transphobic is grounds for being kicked out: also a sometime party of government).