Ilderton Road flooding: time to ban bonuses and introduce a regulator with teeth

Cllr Adam Hood, who has been campaigning to hold Thames Water to account over their shambolic management of works, has reacted to the latest flooding on Ilderton Road from a burst pipe. 

Cllr Hood had previously hit out at disruption caused to busses in March due to emergency works from Thames Water, which reportedly left people stranded due to poor communication. Luke Taylor MP, who is the Liberal Democrats' London spokesperson in the House of Commons, had also raised Thames' Water's incompetence in Parliament.

Cllr Adam Hood said:

"Even with all these hugely disruptive ad-hoc works, Thames Water clearly is failing to manage its infrastructure properly, leading to severe incidents we've seen today. There's no long term planning, emergency works that are supposed to stop exactly this sort of thing happening are poorly communicated, and residents are still expected to cough up sky-high bill increases for the privilege in a cost of living crisis. We look forward to the council tackling this once Labour have finished playing musical chairs with their leadership

Meanwhile Thames Water executives are pocketing massive bonuses. The arrogance is astounding. This is why Liberal Democrats are calling for bonuses to Thames Water executives to be banned, and for Ofwat to be scrapped and be replaced with a regulator that can actually hold these companies to account for their incompetence"