Ferocious Aardvark wrote:People should just agree en masse not to pay the increase. Pay the same as this year, and leave the balance outstanding on the final payment.
Everybody should send a standard letter back when they get their water rates demand, saying in effect "No, i don't agree to the new prices, I can only afford to keep it on at the existing rate, and I'll adjust my last payment accordingly. Hope this is OK".
If everybody or the overwhelming majority agreed to do it, then the water companies couldn't do anything about it. They are hardly going to spend a few hundred quid on enforcement costs per person to possibly recover no more than fifty quid. They are hardly going to cut off the whole country.
However nearly all of those who have to pay will moan but will still pay. The water companies know this, and so can do whatever they like.
Everybody should send a standard letter back when they get their water rates demand, saying in effect "No, i don't agree to the new prices, I can only afford to keep it on at the existing rate, and I'll adjust my last payment accordingly. Hope this is OK".
If everybody or the overwhelming majority agreed to do it, then the water companies couldn't do anything about it. They are hardly going to spend a few hundred quid on enforcement costs per person to possibly recover no more than fifty quid. They are hardly going to cut off the whole country.
However nearly all of those who have to pay will moan but will still pay. The water companies know this, and so can do whatever they like.
I'm going to empty and then refill my pond every Saturday morning in protest (not on meter
) or if not in protest then at least to get my money's worth - and I'll use the toilet a lot more next year too.
Or you could write and say, for a small discount of say, oh, 8%, you won't?