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Threat of non payment forces water charges retreat
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Friday March 16, 2007 09:31 by .................. - We Won’t Pay Campaign wewontpay at btconnect dot com PO Box 994 Belfast, BT1 9BU 02890311778
Water charges may be deferred The We Won’t Pay Campaign last night claimed that ‘the threat of mass non-payment has forced the DUP, Sinn Fein and the British Government to negotiate deferring water charges for another 12 months.’ Secretary of the campaign, Gary Mulcahy claimed an announcement on the deferring of water charges would be a humiliating climb down by the Government. “The reason the MLA’s are desperate to have the introduction of water charges ‘dealt with’ is they know that people will not pay this double tax. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2E U Water directive requires water metering and domestic charges by 2010 and we have election in May down south and no pols being asked the hard Qs !
Have had this out here and elsewhere. Water meters are being installed in all new housing developments as we speak. Politicians in the south may well hide behind this EU water directive and say it some kind of monitoring initiative but they are sleepwalking our resources into the hands of private companies.
I have been told by politicians to my face not to worry that Privatisation is not in the pipeline, that a water Bill is in comittee stage and that privatisation is not even being considered.
Either their heads are in the sand with this kind of breathtaking Naivity or brown envelopes have already exchanged hands.