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Keeping us short of water

Sunday 13 May 2012

Booker has been in Australia, only returning to the great water shambles this week, just in time to tell the real story of how the water supply industry has been transformed.

From a publicly owned, if undercapitalised operation, that was actually set up to provide water for its customers, it has become a series of disjointed, profit centres, some foreign-owned.

As an industry, its current task is to implement a government-mandated rationing programme, enabled by artificially-induced shortages and officially sanctioned price rises, all driven by EU-originated policy, distorted by climate-change ideology.

From my laborious working out, culminating in this post and this, Booker's column is a masterpiece of compression, so I will let him tell the story.

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Richard North 13/05/2012

Swallowing it whole

Sunday 13 May 2012

The Times rubbished the story, telling us that Hague was going to deny any intention to include an EU referendum in the next Tory manifesto. And so it has come to pass. In the Sunday Failygraph, he declares that a referendum now on leaving the EU is the "wrong question at the wrong time - partly because we don't know how Europe will develop over the next few years".

The gullible Hannan, however, has already swallowed it whole. Believing the prattle from the clever Mr Forsyth and others, he is now entertaining the troops with his belief that there is going to be a referendum. In so doing, he has yet again nailed his colours to the Cameron mast, demonstrating hisfaux euroscepticism and the lofty disdain for which he is so loved. "A referendum within the next five years is now overwhelmingly likely", he says.

Well, we shall see – but I wouldn't put money on it.

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