Water rates reduction ? - What every rate payer should know !

[DNgroundworks]

Done

[flowjoe]

I have just been reading that united utilities are looking at up to 250 job losses due to Ofwats refusal to give them more funding, they say they should stream line their operations instead.

This is remember 15 months before the water companies take on an immeasurable amount of added risk and maintenance as part of the drainage transfer.

You couldn`t make it up :O

[Tony McC]

This'd be the same Useless Utilities, I suppose, that worked out my water bill of 460 quid could be paid in ten monthly instalments of 63 quid?

I've a few names to suggest for those redundancies, starting with the brain donors that took two and a half years to deal with my complaint.

[flowjoe]

They tried a different approach with me, they had worked out our payments based on a 13 month year. You were probably making up the shortfall

[flowjoe]

On the radio today, Welsh Water have to lose 300 jobs over the next five years.

Bit of a pattern forming me thinks !

[Tony McC]

I've just heard on the news at 7pm that the waxy cheese makers that bought out Cadbury are already closing a factory they promised to keep open. Quelle surprise!

And they've threatened to stop production of Curly Wurlies.

My favourite sentence in the Scot's dialect - "I could murder a burger or a Curly Wurly in a purple wrapper"

[rab1]

sorry to correct you boss but its pronounced "murdar". ???

[Dave_L]

Indeed, Hollow promises from Kraft. Very inderhand indeed.

[mickg]

hang on a minute, it was already earmarked for closure before kraft purchased Cadbury

plans put in place by Cadbury in 2007 to close the plant and transfer the work to Poland

Cadbury had already invested more than £100m in building new production facilities in Poland and the majority of the lines have, or are about to be, transferred by the middle of this year.

[lutonlagerlout]

I have followed the stock market for about 4 years
every publicly owned company has a duty to its shareholders to reduce costs and improve efficiency
this means if 2 similar companies merge or a HTO takes place there will be efficiency savings by rationalising staff,
effectively this means the likes of "me and you" get sacked
had a good day today lamprell went up 17.9% top riser on the ftse :;):
LLL

[flowjoe]