I’m all for nationalised industry, it just seems we’re fucking shite at it in Scotland.
All of these problems vanish if we replace upper management with AI. The CEO of Scottish Water makes £300,000 per year. He makes much more than his predecessor and since his appointment in 2023 – all he’s done is increase the financial burden on the public.
Luigi Party 2025
Not to take away from it but count yourself lucky, it’s been hugely increasing over the years down south and they are going ahead with 30-40 odd % increases down there.
I know this is going against the grain here, but I think Scottish Water are one of scotland’s success stories. a 9.9% increase isn’t great but in real terms, what is that, an annual increase of £50 for a band D property?
Could be a lot worse, at least SW have mentioned some infrastructure improvements to combat the coming hotter, drier summers so now is the time to get some security in place.
We’re in real danger of Scotland becoming really fucking fantastic over summers.
I expect companies in England to charge more, not really build anything and continue to send dividends out to the shareholders.
9.9% reads worse then £3 – 9 per month depending on tax band. Not all that bad IMO
Honestly less than I would expect, 10x less than what’s happening in England in a privatised market.
I can accept this
I used to live in Glasgow – now down in London.
I just got an email from Thames water that our bills are going up 40% or so. Around £20/mo for the ‘average household’.
I wish it was only 9.9%
It should be more to allow for
* more monitoring – needs to 100%
* fixing the underinvestment and sewage spills
* preparing for more extreme weather events
* global inflationary pressures on supply chain
Another scare mongering headline 🙄 it’s like £40 depending on tax band. Wish all the bloody bills of the things we need were only £40/year. Power was over £1000.
Edited to add /year
That sounds reasonable tbh.
It might be a controversial viewpoint but sometimes to get a good service you have to pay for a good service.
That’s why councils are currently looking so bad, because we don’t pay enough council tax because of year after year freezes.
I just hope this results in less sewage overflows and not “profits” they had a record year using the discharge loophole last year…
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Eugh
Pathetic.
We’ve got to keep pay8ing for the jollies
A 5% rise, then 8.8% and now 9.9%.
Wankers.
I’m all for nationalised industry, it just seems we’re fucking shite at it in Scotland.
All of these problems vanish if we replace upper management with AI. The CEO of Scottish Water makes £300,000 per year. He makes much more than his predecessor and since his appointment in 2023 – all he’s done is increase the financial burden on the public.
Luigi Party 2025
Not to take away from it but count yourself lucky, it’s been hugely increasing over the years down south and they are going ahead with 30-40 odd % increases down there.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/dec/19/water-bills-england-and-wales-how-much-rise-charge
oh joy
I know this is going against the grain here, but I think Scottish Water are one of scotland’s success stories. a 9.9% increase isn’t great but in real terms, what is that, an annual increase of £50 for a band D property?
Could be a lot worse, at least SW have mentioned some infrastructure improvements to combat the coming hotter, drier summers so now is the time to get some security in place.
We’re in real danger of Scotland becoming really fucking fantastic over summers.
I expect companies in England to charge more, not really build anything and continue to send dividends out to the shareholders.
9.9% reads worse then £3 – 9 per month depending on tax band. Not all that bad IMO
Honestly less than I would expect, 10x less than what’s happening in England in a privatised market.
I can accept this
I used to live in Glasgow – now down in London.
I just got an email from Thames water that our bills are going up 40% or so. Around £20/mo for the ‘average household’.
I wish it was only 9.9%
It should be more to allow for
* more monitoring – needs to 100%
* fixing the underinvestment and sewage spills
* preparing for more extreme weather events
* global inflationary pressures on supply chain
Another scare mongering headline 🙄 it’s like £40 depending on tax band. Wish all the bloody bills of the things we need were only £40/year. Power was over £1000.
Edited to add /year
That sounds reasonable tbh.
It might be a controversial viewpoint but sometimes to get a good service you have to pay for a good service.
That’s why councils are currently looking so bad, because we don’t pay enough council tax because of year after year freezes.
I just hope this results in less sewage overflows and not “profits” they had a record year using the discharge loophole last year…
Water bills? I presume they mean council tax.
Why we pretending we have privatised water now?
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