Dripping With Moderation

As the moisture provision industry watchdog makes ready yet again to apply its toothless gums while enthusiastically humping corporate leg, the profiteers' trade union has kindly provided some friendly advice. Since three and a half decades of private ownership have led to rotten infrastructure, polluted waterways, rising bills, astronomical levels of corporate debt and seventy-eight billion in dividends, the obvious solution is to pay out more in dividends. On the other hand, any funds to repair whatever infrastructure the shareholders permit us will have to come from somewhere; and in accordance with the national religion, that somewhere will not be the rich. Accordingly, the watchdog is seeking to raise water bills in order to throw money at corporate gamblers in the vague hope that they might feel disposed to spend some of it undoing their achievements of the past thirty-five years. It all sounds jolly sustainable.