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 @ChrisMayLA6 All good synoptic points. Maybe whatβs missing is the malicious change in responsibilities when the National Rivers Auth & the Pollution Inspectorate were combined into the Environment Agency *and* their legal powers were curtailed in the Act. But the main thrust - the utter stupidity of expecting merchant banks to not securitise and debt-load govt-backed assets - is spot on. Chuck Ofwat on the fire next to Ofgem.  @ChrisMayLA6 The big takeaway for me from this article is that the worst excesses were instituted in the 2000s under Labour governments, who appeared to do nothing to restrict the water companies. @ChrisMayLA6 to answer his final question in the article, ofwat must ban any bonuses or dividends in any company where debt exceeds 20% of its capital assets, ( not the stock market price!) After the increasing trouble in Book Festival sponsorship, Tom Gauld looks to their future.... and its not a pretty sight Perhaps sponsorship is not so bad? David Osland (at the other place) offers a wonderfully concise critique of the utilisation of the private sector to deliver public goods.... 'We're told pensions are 'unsustainable', the Post Office is 'unsustainable' & now that the NHS is 'unsustainable'. They were all entirely sustainable before the private sector starting looting the public sector'! Yup, that's about it....
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@ChrisMayLA6  @ChrisMayLA6 all the indicators of civilisation are apparently unsustainable, so perhaps we need to go back to the stone age Wes Streeting's position, it seems (as told to the FT) wants the NHS to utilise private healthcare while it straightens itself out, so that in the long run it won't have to... I mean its cute that he thinks that's possible; 'my ambition... to make the NHS so good that no one feels forced to go private'! However, misunderstands how the private sector cherry picks medical treatments to ensure that the NHS never gets the easy to do stuff; so never 'gets better' just challenged  @ChrisMayLA6 The same approach worked rather well during the Blair/Brown years. Using private entities in the short term to clear the backlog was however accompanied by significant NHS investment to in the longer term to remove the reliance on private support. Streeting wants that outcome but hasn't committed to the spending to get there yet β which is a legit area of concern β but I've not seen anyone serious argue that using private capacity to reduce the backlog won't work. A year or so back I treated myself to an original of a @tomgauld cartoon, and each time I look at it (above my desk) it still makes me smile.... so I thought I'd share it with you all. Enjoy!
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 @ChrisMayLA6 @tomgauld @bookstodon wow hahaha i also sort of treat daydreaming or just thinking about my art like mental work i do behind the scenes xd when you put a slice of pizza in the microwave you need to wait 3mins for it to get warm & it's the same with art kinda .. sometimes you have to "do nothing" & wait for your ideas to cook  |
