Absolutely Lincs. And that’s also true of Royal Mail, British Telecom and British Gas etc,etc,etc…
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We need to make Britain Great again!
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We just need to get rid of the thieving ruling classes - all across the world not just here - they’re a scourge on humanity and the planet 
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Or ensure that the rich are not also the rulers
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Class is a very British phenomenon.
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Being rich isn’t though Bruce, and just because they’ve got a few bob they think they own the planet…
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Yes, its complicated and the old class splits seems to be eroding in the UK. But its kept alive by private schooling, unequal access / enablement / leg-ups, inherited wealth, utter snobbery by some and terrible chips on the shoulder by others.
Nonetheless the primary problem is the influence that excessive money buys. That surely is the opposite of democracy, whether its family money or recently acquired money.
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So true and it starts by buying British. I do.
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Sadly, it isn’t. There are age old caste systems in places like India, ‘royal families’ and their puppets all across the world, and more recently, greedy billionaires. These people fall into the ‘ruling class’, those that wield all the power and inflict it on the masses:
In sociology and political science, the “ruling class” refers to the social group that holds the most political and economic power in a society. This group typically sets the agenda, makes decisions, and controls the resources that shape the lives of other members of society.
If your a grafter, and don’t reach for the sky, it don’t really matter what the elite are doing, you need them, they need you 
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I disagree, the caste system is nothing like the British class system where you are defined by the way you speak.
However I agree about the wealthy
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How you speak is a side effect, money, power and the family you were born into are much more critical measures.
Either way, while there is obviously some crossover, the ruling classes are specifically as above:
In sociology and political science, the “ruling class” refers to the social group that holds the most political and economic power in a society. This group typically sets the agenda, makes decisions, and controls the resources that shape the lives of other members of society.
You see the British caste system in their military as the poor wind up in infantry , artillery and the sons of those with some means in office jobs .
After the draft in the USA was abolished those who go infantry , artillery , tankers and other combat occupations is because they want the bonus or some simply want to try it but in UK where you have mandatory service the poor get the worse and amazed it isn’t talked about there in news , etc .
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23% increase 2024/2025
What’s in the “Pipeline” (pun intended) 2025/2026?
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There is still a hosepipe ban here in Yorkshire Spitty.
They are appealing on the telly to everyone to save water and are showing depleted reservoirs, I have driven past them recently and they are overflowing.
You don’t suppose the half a million new houses built here in the last year has anything to do with the shortage do you?
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Wow, Yorkshire must be doing something special as there was about 200,000 new houses built in the UK last year. Which means, according to your data, that Yorkshire contributed 250% of these. Hats off to Yorkshire. (Oh, I checked the actual number and its about 20,000. You were only x25 out.)
I’d have thought that the problem created with more demand from additional houses is much more down to the appalling performance of the water companies to manage their infrastructure, reduce leakage and prepare additional demand. Or do you think we should limit the number of new dwellings because a wet and high rainfall country like the UK can’t provide sufficient water?
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Nothing like a bit of exaggeration to get a reply from you Lincs… 
However, there are several new housing estates recently been built within a five mile radius of where I live. 300 - 400 houses, and some in between, any patch of open ground is being built upon. And that’s just here…
200,000 homes each year…An average of 430,000 homes since 2005…
In Yorkshire alone the house building has been furious, and not a mention of Doncaster…
You don’t think they are deliberately hiding the actual number of houses being built in Yorkshire do you?
Despite this deviation away from my original post about water supplies…Just with the houses mentioned here, how much extra water do you think they will need?
Considering that no new reservoirs have been built in Yorkshire since 1919
So in reality, I could have quoted houses built since 1919…
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WOW . I know people need to live in homes and being a hypocrite as I live in one I still hate seeing nature devoured .
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It’s criminal what the government are doing here NCS. The local councils are overruled and powerless to prevent it…We have got plans going through for Huge solar farms, massive lithium battery storage facilities and even more country being approved for housing estates, despite large protests from the local residents.
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