Thames Water boss and ex-Ofwat head refuses to apologise for letting companies increase debt

End this Neoliberal experiment and renationalise our public services!

This is absolutely criminal. Prison sentances have to be applied to deter this sort of behaviour.

This!! I want some of this please.

It’s all about bonuses and dividends,…it is no coincidence that raw sewage is being dumped to save money on treatment and spend it on personal rewards.

Whenever you hear anyone say 'i don't accept that characterisation....' you can be guaranteed that the characterisation is spot on and the person making the statement is lying.

Usual thing, no plain english. The language of Corporatese should be illegal because it is duplicitous and is not clear.

Just need everyone to not pay water bills,soon listen then

Why do i keep seeing OFWAT as OTWAT😂

Macquirie Bank (also known as the Kangaroo Vampire Bank) took £2.2bn in dividends while increasing borrowing to £10bn.

She obviously drinks Perrier water! Lovely

Hindsight is 20/20 obviously she needs new glasses

She must be lying because she would have seen the IBM zero trust accounts

Why would she apologise? She got a nice cushy job at Thames Water as a result of her actions as the head of the regulator supposed to oversee Thames Water; she achieved the goals she set herself.

It is insolvent, Liar.

The water companies are the epitome of selfishness and greed

How it is even legal to go from one position to the other is crazy

All the water companies should be nationalised 👍

We are crumbling under Criminal Corruption by powerful scumbags.

Put her in prison !

This criminal now works for Octopus. She should have regulated the industry but looked for employment

Lining her own pocket ????????

Oh, they don't apologise for anything; not for pumping raw sewage into our waterways, not for paying obscene dividends to their shareholders, not for massive pay and bonus increases to their useless CEOs and certainly not for a complete failure to invest in the ageing infrastructure of the water industry.

Lots of sighs but no shame.

Robbery!!!

Call it what it is embezzlement of funds

Why are people like that CEO?

Organized theft from the taxpayer!

Should be in prison but as this country is the most corrupt in the world that won’t happen.

Vennells all over again. It wasn’t me guv !!!!

It appears that the CV of so many business leaders on page one line one of thet CV they include " I have the ability to lie cheat decieve and bullsiht". Darren Jones is quickly becoming one of my modern heroes -- a man i would love to have a beer and chat with...

The UK seems infested with corrupt liars.

This whole thing stinks of incompetence and corruption. She shouldn’t be running any company by the sound of it.
The shareholders should be made to repay their dividends for a start.

Hang on, I seem to remember a few years ago that on returning from a trip to China Osborne announced that he'd sold Thames Water to the Chinese.

Chief of Ofwat becomes joint chief executive of Thames Water. How is this revolving door legal? 🤷🏼‍♂

This woman should go to prison for incompetents and being an industrial robber...

Watching the recent post office enquiry, there is a theme of lack of understanding and incompetence by the people employed to run our most important public services and when they are shown to have failed, the show not one ounce of of remorse. 😡

So sick of these self important, self serving executives.

Darren Jones is absolutely brilliant tells it like it is

There is a growing number of women ceos with failing organisations. Post office, now Thames water. Both massive bonus for CEO.

Disgusting.

Why can't any of these exec's be held to account for their actions? If I tryed to rob a bank of far less money I would be thrown in jail. The amounts they are talking about are eye watering!

she is a fraudster jail it.

Sieze her bank accounts and see her stocks and shares.retrieve all this money then jail it.

And the government see riots on our streets???????

Lets see what all these governments minister have been up to.People are fed up with these thieves.

59 percent rise in bill's disgusting stop giving bonuses to bosses who fail in there job

SO what happened, NOTHING.

Clearly not a regulated market then, is it?

Corrupt.

Surely paying out billions in dividends using borrowed money while running the company into insolvency has to be a crime surely? Its basically robbing the british tax payers, because they know the government would have to step in to ensure the water continues to flow.