• IT was inevitable someone would complain that, despite all the works on the Hampstead Heath dams this last couple of years, there were major floods at South End Green.

But with a month’s rain in a few hours I think we all agree that it was pretty exceptional weather.

And did your letter writer E Johnston (So much for the dam-building, July 15) not think how much worse it would have been if the dams had burst as well?

Mind you, I am happy to blame the Tories for privatising our water supply system (and gas, and electricity, and railways, and…) and the subsequent neglect of drains and supply systems, leading to the infamous fat-burgers.

Uncannily this is a new word coined to describe the problem which has only happened since the system was privatised. Nothing to do with low maintenance, I am sure they will tell us.

So if E Johnston wants to take their complaint further, they should go to Kemble Water Holdings Ltd of Reading, who have been running the Thames Water system since 2006. The address of their secretary Sonia Billett is: Kemble Water Holdings Ltd, Clearwater Court, Vastern Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8DB.

Currently Wikipedia tells me, the largest shareholders are Canadian pensions group OMERS (23 per cent), BT pension scheme (13 per cent), the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (9.9 per cent), the China Investment Corporation (8.7 per cent) and the Kuwait Investment Authority (8.5 per cent). Isn’t it nice to have a government boasting about taking back control?

Kemble currently has 15 active, and no doubt highly paid, directors to keep happy as well as that list of shareholders; replacing closely regulated civil servants, undoubtedly costing much less and, apparently, doing a better job.

And half or more of you out there still vote for the Tories, so it’s your fault.

DAVID REED, NW3