United Futilities

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A Disunited King-dom,
Socialism for the obscenely rich,
A United Futilities Turd-dom,
Sleep on the streets-or in a ditch,
Can't even heat water for a bath,
"Let 'em eat turnips" sez one fat bitch,
Homes for heroes? Yer 'avin a laugh!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/20/revealed-warning-to-ministers-over-privatised-water-kept-secret-since-2002

The 10 biggest water companies more than doubled their dividend payments to shareholders in 2022 to £1.4bn, despite an outcry over sewage pollution in rivers and a failure to invest in infrastructure.

A report prepared for the Competition Commission (now the Competition and Markets Authority, CMA) in 2002 has never been published in full. It should have been released under the 20-year rule last summer, but despite repeated attempts to have it published it is being kept secret.