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Ofwat to be abolished as ministers look to create new water regulator

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Davriellelouna@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/18/ofwat-to-be-abolished-as-ministers-explore-creating-new-water-regulator

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Couldn’t they just make off what less crap, like give them some actual authority or something. Why are they burning it down and starting again?

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Probably a good thing that will benefit us.

    The problem is, like with most things this government seems to be doing, we won’t feel the benefit for a long time. People are impatient and they want results now.

    Whether that’s reasonable or not doesn’t matter. It’s the reality, it affects polling, and will affect the next general election.

    Things like this, the planning reforms, the infrastructure spending they’re doing, SureStart 2.0, NHS improvements, green subsidies, etc won’t start to bear fruit until Reform are in, and they’ll benefit from it, only to then tear it all down so the next government inherits the same poisoned chalice this government did last year.

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    • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Why are Reform an inevitability? They couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

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      • JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Doesn’t matter what they can do, just what they promise they will do, and when one side (Labour) gives up on taxing the wealthy and improving life and instead is parotting the same anti-immigration drivel while the other is promising to make people richer and better by blocking immigration why would people vote for Labour again when they can vote for the easy win promise of the latter?

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  • sploosh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Y’all used to be an empire but you haven’t been keeping sewage out of your rivers?

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nah, that’s the problem.

      The empire were the ones that built the sewage network.

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