I’m without a meter (can’t have one). Strange we pay such different amounts.
Shareholders and the bosses for the bonuses are delighted I’m sure.
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Given it is a human right as such, it shouldn’t be charged anything near the current models.
The gov should do better, same goes for energy pricing.
But as you say, shareholders…
How many have to pay for the brown bins to be emptied?
And do you pay it?
With a fortnightly collection that’s a max of 26 if you were an eager beaver and did gardening even throughout winter.
So at £70 yearly that’s a min of £2.70 a collection. 
And if you manage to get 10/26 like I suspect most that’s seven quid a pop. 
Time to organise a fuck you petition between local residents and just take garden waste to the local tip.
Just checked our (Affinity) water bill. Don’t have one for this year yet but in 2024 it went from £500 to £580! 16% in one year is insane, but feels lucky compared to 24%.
Anglian Water are increasing ours by ~19% in April. They are also changing our tariff to one which is more expensive in summer and cheaper in winter to discourage too much lawn-watering (which we don’t do anyway). I think we’re part of an A/B test for this new tariff.
Hope Wessex don’t follow then, we’re astroturf. R-
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Wait, tariffs for water now? 
If you have a meter then you’ve always been on a tariff, i.e. so many pence per m^3 for water and sewage.
I meant the ability to choose/change a tariff.
Or do they do that?
They told me mine was going to be like this but I got charged the same every month still, unless I misunderstood how it was going to be billed.
I don’t know if anyone does this but I just pay Thames Water a bill of exactly what I’m using each quarter rather than fixed monthly debit.
I do the same with Fuse with my electric, you just get a bill of exactly what you used. Though that’s via a variable monthly Direct Debit.
I’m not giving services a fixed amount, rather keep it in my account in a pot than theirs.
Ah, I see what you’re getting at. No - it’s Anglian Water who have unilaterally decided to switch us to that tariff.
I’ve edited my post to make that clearer.
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Ahh ok, not sure I’ve ever heard of it, thought it was just a fixed rate whatever time of year.
Having said that, I’d probably never notice unless they intentionally notified me of it, I check the costs on my bills (paid 6 monthly now) which I wholly disagree with but as for the rates changing I’d be clueless.
Yes, the letter they sent me said that they would still divide the estimated annual bill by 12 so the monthly payments would be the same.
So - email from Anglian Water this morning and it’s going up from £29 to £34 per month. That’s around 17% and less than their average increase of 19% for the coming year.
I’m not usually one of the “Billionaires are bad” brigade, but I’d really love Musk to have a lot less money and thus power
This just seems like a sketch. Naming a goverment dept after a meme, doing White House interviews in a cap and with his son on his shoulders, admitting that he’ll post things that are wrong with zero fact checking and just throwing out other things.
And this…
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There was an interesting discussion on Reddit that I only half understood (that I can’t seem to find now) from people who have work/ed with the data and explaining how wrong he is.
And then this response?!
It makes me so glad to not be American/living in America, but we’re not safe from him or Trump!
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That’s populism for you. We’ll get to find out in 4 years time when Reform UK win the election.
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It blows my mind that Americans knowingly voted for this.
Elon is a charlatan when it comes to the actual machinations of government and he seemingly has free rein to do what he wants.
The best that can be hoped for is something super important actually breaks and that they’re held accountable.
This isn’t even to get into the huge conflicts of interest where he is disbanding agencies that are actively investigating his companies (something along those lines).
And this constant yapping bout the “deep state”, as if it some sinister terror organisation.
It’s fucking tiring and I’m so glad I can mostly ignore it.
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It’s like our Brexit bus, you say something with enough confidence and people will believe it.
Plenty of people do it in the work-place unchecked, but you’d like to think at these levels you can’t get away with it. Evidently you can.
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