Moral Pressure

In the face of Team Starmer's reluctance to inconvenience the moisture provision profiteering industry (beyond threatening to give it another half-decade or so to think about things), a handful of expenses claimants have taken decisive action by urging Thames Water to do better; and in writing to boot. Twenty-seven MPs whose constituents are in the company's sewage distribution and bonus payouts sponsorship area have delivered a letter to Thames Water's director of executive motivation to demand that the private corporation behave like a public utility, or else suffer continuing disapproval. Given the famously tender conscience of private corporations in general and of the moisture provision profiteering racket in particular, this will doubtless prove almost as effective as such gestures usually do.