people who ve made off with £72 billion worth of our money, instead of investing it in the sewerage system, instead of investing in making sure london is supplied with water, because london s now on the verge of running out of water for the same reason lack of investment in infrastructure. what i said was the legislation already exists for the secretary of state to actually resolve and move this forward this afternoon with nothing more than a stroke of a pen. government in the secondary state has the power and authority to issue what s called enforcement orders, which allows government to effectively take control of those companies whilst they remain in private ownership, and government can order those companies this is what you re going to invest in infrastructure, and this is what you re going to pay your shareholders, this is what you re going to do to pay down your debt, and this is what you re going to do to pay your chief executive. government has the power to do that this a
is they ve also taken out £72 billion in dividends out of those companies, that s our money, they ve left these companies now sitting on £60 billion worth of debt to such an extent that one of them almost toppled a matter of weeks ago. you re talking about thames water. indeed. ..which serves, what, 15 million customers and has a debt of some £14 billion. actually, if you look at their balance sheet on thames waters, it says 14, but if you go looking through the broader group of companies, you ll come to one called kemble water financing, and i think you ll find kemble is sitting on £21.7 billion worth of debt. now, when it comes to the water quality, there are two stretches of river in england right now designated as bathing water. this morning, both of them have no swim warnings posted. in 2009, 24% of our rivers met good ecological status. that has now dropped and the current projection is by 2027, that will be down to just six, and as we speak,
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