This is privatisation in action.

@Azureecosse

3 ай бұрын

You can thank Margaret Thatcher for that she privatised everything that was important in Britain, that's why we all pay through the nose for Utilities ,Public travel Post and telephones. Tories ruined Britain and wont stop until its destroyed and they have the barefaced cheek to call themselves Conservatist's, asset strippers would be more accurate.

@TheDSSlayer

3 ай бұрын

the most truth of truths

@1inchPunchBowl

3 ай бұрын

& a government that is happy to allow it. These Corps have legal obligation to their shareholders to make a profit. It's on the gov to protect us, not them.

@andybrown4284

3 ай бұрын

Privatised into a monopoly, english customers have no choice but to be ripped off by the water companies.

This is disgusting. But it just about sums up a country where nothing works properly and where greed is rampant. Sad and shameful.

@name-vx1od

3 ай бұрын

United Kingdom of China vs Londonistan, who takes over? You decide. Vote now

@gmanlee575

3 ай бұрын

A banana republic truly

@jonathankennedy1715

3 ай бұрын

Greed, price of privatisation

@name-vx1od

3 ай бұрын

Yummy now we competing with china's gutter oil

@Brazen1234

3 ай бұрын

exactly... i say double down on the toxic waste and just call it a day

Get them to pay back the 60 billion they took out in dividends over the last 30 years before they put our bills up

@kurtgodel5236

3 ай бұрын

Fat chance!

@kerryfry1857

3 ай бұрын

People keep voting for this. tory propaganda media controlled by billionaires. We need change.

@zapre2284

3 ай бұрын

We've spent that on importing the 3rd world and housing them. The rest went to Ukraine

@kingayman5225

3 ай бұрын

@@kurtgodel5236of course, they will say they need to increase bills to “modernise” the system.

@gmanlee575

3 ай бұрын

They got the cheek to say they wont cough up the initial half a billion. Private companies have impunity in the uk especially under its front mens the Tories

Britain... prices like Switzerland, sewage like Albania...

@donaldurquhart8092

3 ай бұрын

I think you've mistakenly used the word 'Britain' when you mean England. In Scotland water is in public ownership and I'd have no qualms drinking water directly from my local river.

@teebeedahbow

3 ай бұрын

@@donaldurquhart8092 That's a fair and important point. I often visit my home town Edinburgh and am very confident in the water.

@kerryfry1857

3 ай бұрын

@@donaldurquhart8092 yeah great point, English water sucks.

@Frederique41

3 ай бұрын

🎉

@lunchkit35

3 ай бұрын

70% are foreign owned. It doesn't effect them.

Feargal Sharkey is absolutely 100% spot-on. Hold the water companies and shareholders responsible. It's completely absurd that water should be a privatized utility.

It’s an absolute disgrace

@kurtgodel5236

3 ай бұрын

It's typically British !

@gmanlee575

3 ай бұрын

Plebs voted for the Tories consecutively and brexit this spillage is nothing

@TimeForJesus.

3 ай бұрын

@@gmanlee575 sorry, shouldn’t worry about it then

@gmanlee575

3 ай бұрын

@@TimeForJesus. yep we in managed decline mode should feel lucky we can even flush the toilets

@georgedawson235

3 ай бұрын

If there's a way of making this country these numpties in parliament are all over it Make the country better? Not interested

Open sewer Britain. Brown flag beaches. What a way to run a country.

@VeritySnatch

3 ай бұрын

England and Wales.

@jonathankennedy1715

3 ай бұрын

Price of privatisation, rationalise asap

@Geffo555

3 ай бұрын

@@jonathankennedy1715 Fine them broke then nationalise it for free.

Take Action. Refuse/Delay paying your water bill. Get off your knees.

@user-wc2xf3fj6l

3 ай бұрын

Never had one😮

@jean2740

3 ай бұрын

I've said our country has turned into a third eord country . There you go there's the proof 8bmillion extra people in our tiny little island all pooing its yo much strain on our sewers ??

@coppershark1973

3 ай бұрын

And?

@gmanlee575

3 ай бұрын

Are you going to pay for people's fines or consequences of having a bad credit score, very easy to say these things armchair warrior

@denism8494

3 ай бұрын

@@gmanlee575 yes and the more people say these things, the more people do these things. The concept of a credit score needs to go too along with every other way people collect information on the masses and use it to exploit.

Do the Tories actually do anything? They seem to be extremely good at doing absolutely sweet F.A

@HungryOctopus

3 ай бұрын

Did you vote Tory?

@larrydickman5936

3 ай бұрын

The corrupt elite look after the wealthy elite, ordinary people not so much

@tubecated_development

3 ай бұрын

@@larrydickman5936The corrupt and wealthy scumbags look after each other

@jameschamberlain5817

3 ай бұрын

@@HungryOctopus unsurprisingly, no. I voted Labour

@jameschamberlain5817

3 ай бұрын

@@larrydickman5936 I absolutely agree 👍

The less they treat sewage the bigger the profits and dividends...

@LoneSheWolf09

3 ай бұрын

Higher their debt then tax payer bails then out as usual

@Hiibors

2 ай бұрын

The sewage has increased due to third world migration

I don't get it people should be going to prison not getting a massive bonus and a gentle slap on the wrist . PRIVATISATION IS GREAT WORKS EVERY TIME FOR SHARE HOLDERS AND GOVERNMENT BACKHANDERS.

@squeemlives

3 ай бұрын

It's the same story every time. Privatisation initially results in an uptick in quality as startup capital pours in, but eventually it always leads to an endless search for profit and growth, which leads to cutting corners and dodgy semi-legal practises, until the business collapses and taken back in by the public But of course it makes *some* people a lot of money in the short term, which is all most of ruling class really cares about

@paulnew8745

3 ай бұрын

Every body should not pay there water bills they cannot cut people off and how much they charge people for water its disgusting

@JackTurleyDrums

Ай бұрын

I 100% concur.

We have been paying water bills since They have been privatised and they have done nothing with the money what we paid them apart from paying the shareholders. They should have their license took off and put back into public.hand

@user-wc2xf3fj6l

3 ай бұрын

Too true. And be fined for not doing the job they've been paid for?😮

@knightsnight5929

3 ай бұрын

​@@user-wc2xf3fj6lAnd the fines are added to the bills.

@benghiskahn3673

3 ай бұрын

Not only that.. They've loaded the companies with tens of billions of debt! They're taking the same approach as the banks - "too big to fair, vital utility" - they think they can do whatever they want without any consequence, running the company into the ground only for the tax payer to pick up the bill. The Government will eventually take over, reimburse shareholders, then expect tax payers to pay to upgrade the infrastructure and once that's complete they'll hand it bac over to the private sector to destroy again.

Well, start to cut and clawback the millions paid in bonuses to the incompetent ceos and shareholders and sack them all.

@martinlund7987

3 ай бұрын

So a lot of the dividends have been to foreign shareholders, such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. Has the loan-based dividends are legal, those money will not be coming back. Other shareholders are UK pension funds, which took greedy gambles, but are still peoples pensions. Do you think it will do England a ton of good if the Universities Superannuation Scheme is tanked and scientists, doctors etc. starts migrating to higher paid positions in the states or elsewhere to have a chance at recouping their pensions?

disgusting!!!!!!

It's nothing new, 30 years ago my daughter then a toddler became very ill after paddling in the sea at Porthmadog. When we go to Bangor hospital she was put on a drip, a Doctor asked if she had been in the sea, there were other victims. Back then sewage in seas and rivers was lack of investment, today it's pure greed.

Didn't have this problem a few years back!!.

@maszlagma

3 ай бұрын

This has been a problem for decades, but little to nothing has been done to prevent this. What a disgrace.

@tubecated_development

3 ай бұрын

Yes we did. It’s also getting worse now

@keithsunderland8839

3 ай бұрын

Yes we certainly have!

@martinlund7987

3 ай бұрын

The piece litterally mentions a EU court judgement aginst the English government lack of regulatory oversight from 2012....

@Kan23666

3 ай бұрын

Because we're full as a country maybe....

The fix to this is to increase bills and pay shareholders more

@knightsnight5929

3 ай бұрын

And not do the work. So situation normal.

@gmanlee575

3 ай бұрын

What a lovely fair syste

Thank you for covering this

Change the law, the fine is so small. I know someone who works in industrial cleanup and the water discharge is a loophole. They even fitted early warning alarms for them but now they just dump when those go off instead of being reactive with tanking it out which is expensive. Criminals.

Wake up people, stop paying for water bills. You are not contractually obliged to pay these greedy corporate businesses, who obviously don't look after the environment, they just look after their own pockets. If you haven't signed on the dotted line, which none of us have done, then you don't owe them a penny.

@davecooper3238

3 ай бұрын

There hasn’t been a need for a ‘wet signature’ for years. The water companies terms are such that by using their product you have agreed to their terms. If you have paid them any money it proves you have accepted their terms.

the only swimming i will do is in the swimming pool, the water companies should be in prison

@jamessmith84240

3 ай бұрын

People pee in the pool though. And little kids drop their dukes in there sometimes 💩🏊

@knightsnight5929

3 ай бұрын

​@@jamessmith84240It's like comparing champagne to cat p1ss.

@lizdocherty3067

3 ай бұрын

Why do you think Sunak has his own swimming pool doesn't want his family swimming around the British coastline and can't allow his children to visit a local swimming pool where they might meet working class people.

@thomass3036

3 ай бұрын

But the swimming pool is chlorinated too a really high degree to deal with that, unlike rivers@@jamessmith84240

Why didn’t channel 4 push back on WHY failing water companies are PAYING OUT RECORD PROFITS at the expense of environmental collapse???? Come on man PUSH BACK!

@valhelluva

3 ай бұрын

Dont rock the ..Boat ! Dont push back,! Dont expose corruption,! Govt or Private, & Heaven forbid DONT point Fingers Where Needed or Toes.....Shamelessly Discracefull...!?!?

EU has the strictest water purity laws in the world. Must be one of the laws the UK scrapped when they took back control

@skycloud4802

3 ай бұрын

People in Venice tell you that most sewage goes directly into the canals without treatment.

@samuelloification2749

3 ай бұрын

This isn't a new problem. It happened the entire time we were in the EU

@OllieX123

3 ай бұрын

@@samuelloification2749and, as the video stated, the EU took us to court in 2012 to force us to improve our waters. But now we’ve left the EU, we no longer have them to rely on.

@samuelloification2749

3 ай бұрын

@@OllieX123 what were we relying on? Nothing improved before or after we were taken to court by the EU. Great, the EU said we were breaking the law and nothing got improved. Water companies still are breaking UK law, Water companies are taken to court and fined now when there is a pollution. It's made no difference whether we were in the EU or not they were not regulating our water companies.

@OllieX123

3 ай бұрын

@@samuelloification2749 we were relying on their incentives, since clearly national incentives have been essentially empty. The hard truth is water companies aren’t gonna change unless they are incentivised. The EU doesn’t have the power to physically force governments to create incentives, they can only do this financially such as through fines. So this is what they did. But we decided we’d prefer to leave the EU rather than hold our government accountable to preventing further fines.

They really don't care.

Water companies are squeezing profits and not investing. The goverment / regulators dont do anything. And expect them to act responsibly. Disgusting.

@Relugus

3 ай бұрын

The government and regulators are in bed with the water companies.

25 extra years to fix the problem that he claims we have been dealing with for 60 years and he personally has been working on for five years so far and it's only got worse. Hope he remembered that at current rates, there could be extra 25 million people in the UK in 25 years. Thats more than 2 times the current entire population of London sewage that we will need to treat and dispose of EVERY DAY. But they have planned for all of that right?

@davecooper3238

3 ай бұрын

Yes not only has London sewage been thought about. An erking big sewer has Just been opened carrying London sewage to a treatment plant in the east.

@vonnikon

4 күн бұрын

Sure, it might take 25 years to build a storm drain system which is separated from the sewage system on a national scale. But come on, surely major improvements could be made in just 5 years. If someone actually cared.

the Conservative Government with Thatcher sold England's ' water by the 1989 Water Act it raised £7.63 Billion for the Treasury. Thames Water alone ( worst job I ever had!) has paid out £7.2 Billion sin dividends since then. In 2016 98.5% beaches passed minimum EU standards . How many today?

@mikeandrews2782

3 ай бұрын

EU standards? We don’t want those pesky foreign euro types making our laws!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Private Water Companies 1989: "What a shambles nationalized water is. Give this to us, we'll put it right. We're super efficient!" Private Water Companies 2024: "Give us more money or we'll kill all the rivers."

@Lenny2Lux

3 ай бұрын

So true

Another Tory caused issue to add the many.

@davidadiwego4608

3 ай бұрын

Labour won't seriously attempt to fix though. Rachel Reeves has made it clear Labour will be friend of big business.

@tubecated_development

3 ай бұрын

@@davidadiwego4608England is done. Finished. Shall it take the rest of the Union down with it?

@davidadiwego4608

3 ай бұрын

@@tubecated_development Riiight, 'cause Wales is a roaring success?

@tubecated_development

3 ай бұрын

@@davidadiwego4608 Wales got its Brexit benefits. But, the UK government (AKA England) determines overall public expenditure and thus the size of the Welsh Government's budget

@SenzoTanaka

2 ай бұрын

Replace Conservative with British Government - and you have a point.

Bet the CEOs got healthy bonuses and eye watering pensions!!! All while MPs looked away!!

Now the English can't make fun of the Ganges River.

Companies that provide any type of public service should by law be made to provide an adequate service to the public, with any maintenance or repairs being paid for out of profits before any dividends are paid to shareholders.

You can re-use that and serve it as British food, nobody will notice the difference.

@kurtgodel5236

3 ай бұрын

Arguably, it may be even better ...

@user-wc2xf3fj6l

3 ай бұрын

What the f#ck would you know? 😮

@davidadiwego4608

3 ай бұрын

That British food is especially bad is a myth. Personal/national preference/taste doesn't count; e.g. escargot/calamari/grubs/crickets? British food is hardly culinarily unique either. Easter Lamb roast dinner soon! Also featuring curly kale, long-stem broccoli, crispy roast potatoes, swede & carrot mash, yorkshire puddings, stuffing, all drizzled in gravy made with lamb and veg juices. A delicious, wholesome Brit's meal.

@Kan23666

3 ай бұрын

Better than some disgusting curry 🤢🤢🤢

**me cancelling my water direct debit**

Same with the energy companies, we've all been paying higher taxes and higher bills for the sake of future, greener energy. Now they want more? Bring the full force of the law, and apply it fully. Where's our money? Why aren't these people in prison? Why is the government not fully supporting and funding the watchdogs? How is it that we have all just been turned into cash-cows for the greedy, lazy elite?

Put Feargal Sharkey in charge. Sorted.

We have enviromental laws. Why aren't water company exec's being prosecuted? If i dump rubbish i would be prosecuted

Keep going Fergal !!!

Privately owned utility businesses and their regulators seem to be partnerships. That would explain this sort of problem.

Why would we sell off our water supply to foreign companies?

i live in a state with a main waterway that used to catch fire annually, so i can't point fingers, but--well, i think you fellas ought not to accept this. love always, the Americans

this is totally unacceptable . Needs to be fix immediately

Good old Feargal

@mikeandrews2782

3 ай бұрын

Top man! He’s like a dog with a bone.

The Water Regulator stated today "That Water Bills have been too low, and because of this, did not Allow? Water Companies, to Invest in its Infrastructure"

@lewisg7614

3 ай бұрын

Share holders dividends??

@johnrussell3961

3 ай бұрын

We were told privatisation would bring private capital. They have taken too much out in profits. So put it back via a rights issue!

@Setinmywaysalways

3 ай бұрын

@@johnrussell3961 They state it will require Billions more than the cost of Londons new Pipeline, going live in a few months. 16 Miles cost £50 Billion!

@user-wc2xf3fj6l

3 ай бұрын

They make around £250 million a year? They should put some of those yearly profitst to the side? You know, for a rainy day? Government will bail them out. Using OUR money? No deal but!

@shaunjones6049

3 ай бұрын

2007 to 2017 water companies took 60 Billion after tax . 75% of British water companies are owned by Americans . The Environment Agency (the government ran agency) has turned a blind eye to pollution because it’s big business and money 💵💵. Any small business or farm that accidentally pollutes is prosecuted by the Environment Agency and could face imprisonment. Yet the EA have failed to notice pollution on a daily basis, on an industrial scale, in dry weather conditions 😳😳?? It’s like paying for your bins to be emptied Only to find the company who does it is fly tipping it in the field down the road.

'...but no-one was available'. But there's never anyone available when there are awkward questions to be answered! Basic #1 corporate image survival techniques!

Privatisation of all the essential industries has been an abject disaster. Anything short of full renationalisation would be shameful.

As a chairman of a sewer authority in Pennsylvania, I can see a few sides in this. One is the reporters, one is the general public being concern, Greens flipping in GLEE over this, the companies getting marching orders from stock holders, the stock holders, the enforcement agency, the elected officials , and the customers. 1. enforcement agency my have reduced fines or gave none for a plan to invest to solve the problem, I have seen it work over here in the US. 2. elected officials, what can I say to help get me elected again. 3. customers- still screwed even if the stock holders are forced to pay the 71 billion pounds in dividends they got since the 1980's.4 Reporters- this is great for a story and lets try to make someone slip up. 5 stock holders- forget any dividends or the stock price. 6 general public- just remember people are cowards and they will try to pass this hot potato along and hope that you forget. 7. the Greens, never let an opportunity to make a name for yourself go to waste and if it solved quickly it is an opportunity lost

World class, again. Put Mr Sharkey in charge, if he'll accept...

Nationalise nationalise. These privateers have taken out more dividends than actually investing in the country.

Private making a fortune, then public will pickup the bill.

4:25 record rainfall!? Stop spraying the fookin skies then!

This shows the water authority have failed. On Good Friday the south west say our reservoirs are nearly full. Nearly, after all the rain we have had, this is crazy. In the west the authority has stopped for many years the clearing of streams and other smaller water ways which feed our reservoirs to save money for the shareholders. This means instead of filling reservoirs and catchment tanks it is overflowing into our drainage systems. Purely the incompetence of the authorities which must be in breach of their regulations. In the UK our rainfall if managed correctly is sufficient for the manageable population. If population rises over this figure, that is the failure of governments.

They’re all just talking. NOTHING is ever done except protecting companies. The public is only ever an afterthought.

We pay for this ? I complained but was put on a carrousel ride !! Stop Charging for Shat service ,

The money has gone on profits and dividends, instead of infrastructure

The companies have their priorities backwards when they care more about shareholders than the environment. What a disgrace, those profits should be spent on cleaning up the damage they’ve inflicted on the environment. They shouldn’t be allowed to operate or claim any profits until they do. If we don’t bring companies to account this will only get worse and there won’t be a world worth living in.

The spokesman said this problem has been with us for sixty years and No government has sorted this out. Well 35 years ago they privatised the water to raise investment to do just that. But little work on infrastructure whilst 6 billion paid out to shareholders. The Tories have cut regulations. Cut funding to the Environment Agency. Remember Liz Truss was head of the EA which showed how she cares for people. Cut inspections not just on sewage but on farm discharges. (15 years ago a farm could expect to be inspected once every two years. Now it’s down to once in over 200 years! At a time when animals are being put into giant sheds and their waste finding its way into rivers. And it’s the same with industrial discharges) So privatisation, deregulation, paying bonuses based on share dividends instead of performance has all led to this. But they (politicians, companies executives and shareholders) don’t care. They get richer and fly abroad to swim in the Caribbean, they aren’t swimming amongst the sh£& on our beaches. 🤬🤬

The UK never stops surprising us ! The UK has pledged almost £12 billion in overall support to Ukraine since February 2022, of which £7.1 billion is for military assistance. £2.3 billion was provided in each of the financial years 2022/23 and 2023/24 and on 12 January 2024, the Government announced a further £2.5 billion of funding for 2024/25......

Feargal sharkey, well said! We’ve all been taken for a big expensive ride. Only the shareholders are happy. Make them pay. We already have but have in our high bills since privatisation of water!

If the water companies spent some of the money they collect in bills rather than overpaying board members and holding onto profit to boost their share prices, we'd have less pollution and a healthier ecogolical environment.

What hilarious is that all these water companies, combined with all the other things we have to pay hard earned money for. And not the water companies nor our government can get there s**t together. But they certainly are efficient at taking our money.

I use to be on the board for a water company for a fairly big city here in Sweden 30 years ago. We almost had no houses with combined sewer and rain water pipes and it was high priority to find and fix them. I was just single houses built very long time ago but fixing this was a priority. Overflow by rainstorms was never a problem but the cost and effort to clean also rainwater is high and you are not having a system that can focus on maximise cleaning...but hansle overflows. To have any spill of any spill of sewer water shoukd be seen as exceptional and a catastrophic event. Not in Britain???

Minister, have we also decided that investments and loans taken on by water companies won't be handed out as dividends to shareholders or excessive bonuses to executives any more. The "criminal" diversion of investment over many years is basically the cause of the current woeful performance of these companies.

Truss let the UK sewage works owned by Indian companies drop their standards -for money to the Tories.

@user-wc2xf3fj6l

3 ай бұрын

Surprised they haven't set up a contract to feed the ulysium sneakers! They like curry don't they. Last time I tried samalian food you'd never notice the difference! 😮

The Government- "Damn you Mother Nature". Pathetic.

Wild swimming anyone or how about some Gastroenteritis.

@user-wc2xf3fj6l

3 ай бұрын

We'll. If that's how they treat our rivers! What exactly is the quality of our drinking water? Sh#te! 😮

@UserAK89

3 ай бұрын

😂

A good spokesperson for the British public these days is a brilliant find

Criminals poisoning our rivers, our streets, our people, evil is killing this land

It’s just not acceptable and disgraceful . Maybe stop paying our water bill until they sort the problem out. I’ll bet it would be done ASAP

Every British utility company in 2024: well yes we're in a recession and cost of living crisis, and yes our bills are insanely high, and yes we have billions in profit a year, but we simply don't have enough to do any of the things we said we would, so we need to raise the bills more to do these things (we promise we actually will this time, u can trust us) What a well run country we live in

My parents were like “we just flicked it out the way” they seem to believe that it is acceptable

All these new visitors building up the all the shi*****

@davidadiwego4608

3 ай бұрын

can't mention that

Pity Channel 4 is the only DECENT TV broadcaster in the UK.

Do you think a million extra adults every 2 years might have something to do with it?

Breeeeexit !!!

@user-wc2xf3fj6l

3 ай бұрын

Never happened!😮

@danielcraig4974

3 ай бұрын

​@@user-wc2xf3fj6lDon't be daft. We left. Stop being in denial brexitard

We have to stop these private companies from stripping profits over what they are actually meant to be doing!

That's what happens when Thames Water is no longer owned by British.

I remember years ago our beaches were the worst in Europe and they had a massive clean up campaign and they improved. But in the last decade or so we have literally gone back and past square one!!!! They have paid billions in dividends for years and here we are.

Saying that successive govts. have failed to sort this out may be true, but wasn't the water privatised??? Wtf does privatisation mean, if not taking over the running of the industry? This is a sad and unfunny joke

"Maybe you should focus on getting your current assets working properly". Was the content of an email response back in 2014 by an Australian Engineer on secondment to the privatised water company that took over North East Water. It was in response to the "Vision of the future with Water Factories generating energy from waste and feeding the electricity and gas grid with huge potential profits" By that stage the Australian Engineer with 30 years of experience in wastewater management was fed up with the distractions and diversions and excuses and was ready to go home. He was a troublemaker in any case. He had the temerity to insist that essential works necessary to maintain systems were implemented. Kept raving on about stupid things like responsibility and integrity. 10 Years on.. What were you expecting? Little note to Phillip. Australia has storm events too. We rarely have spill overs as we installed a series of emergency storages to cope. You are being told a pack of lies.

CRIMINALS! This is beyond disgusting. They must be held accountable. Prison time should not be out the picture.

Absolutely disgusting in this day and age, there is no excuse for dumping raw sewage into our rivers, shame on all the water companies responsible.Also why is it raining so much in the UK ? I reckon geoengineering could be part of it,I’m convinced that they are playing with our weather.. good Video, let’s hope there’s change soon 👍

Just tell the water company’s that you no longer put your waste water or toilet waste down there drains and that you put it in drums and tip it into the sea and rivers so do not bill me for it .And when the water company’s get fined why don’t the people who pay water bills get a rebate on there bill instead

This the tory legacy..corruption and compliance..

@SenzoTanaka

2 ай бұрын

Two wings of the same bird. British Government. Baaaaaa.

Blue skies sun glissens on the river but a breeze tells one the air is not quite right, from a pole or pipe comes this murky trail of greyish water mixing with the blue sea gulls fighting to pick up floating human body waste, this is my towns promenade once the towns pride to walk along walking, this is at high tide, but when the tide goes out the beach is covered in off white gunge of stains, where once one bathed and could watch silver paper slowly float to the bottom clear enough to depth of four foot, sad days are hear. For our next generation.

Get these tories out. The water should have never been privatised in the first place. Thatcher is responsible for most of the country’s problems.

I wish I was a billionaire, I’d buy all the UK water companies up, take full control, revolutionise it so it’s ran with green energy and can handle all the sewage and have excellent water processing facilities and then invest the profits into remediating the damage that’s been done to the environment, the aqua life, the ecosystem over the last century

My dream is to one day visit the English Lake district and swim in the open water. Does this means it is no longer safe?

@aa-xg3ct

3 ай бұрын

yes

"Take back control" "We have a plan" Stop the boats" "Back to square one"

STOP VOTING TORIES

@zapre2284

3 ай бұрын

He thinks Labour will be any different LOL

@davidadiwego4608

3 ай бұрын

Is Labour going to nationalize? Did Rachel Reeves say she'll be tough towards big business or friendly? Q 1 = no Q 2 = friendly

@Davserban

3 ай бұрын

​@zapre2284 you're completely crazy if you want this to continue. You'll be run to your knees

@DukeofBlasphemy

3 ай бұрын

@@zapre2284Did I say that you stupid AI generated troll?

And the tories have a nerve to add green taxes to the working class in the name of being "green"

The U.K. could do away with 50% of its sewerage systems in housing areas. Open bottom soakaways are the answer. Set to a certain depth within the boundaries of each property. This works very well in many countries and is no harm to anyone.

The guest is trying to deflect talking about how this problem has been going onm for 60 years. 10-15 years ago you could look from a bridge over many of England's rivers and see fish. Now you see none. Somethings changed more recently.

Keegan, Minister MP wife of the Fujitsu UK Chief during the Postmasters scandal. The same people keep cropping up, or their relatives.

Fergal Sharkey is correct

We had filthy water in the seventies and eighties, unusable beaches,polluted rivers and canals. Then the European law forced us to clean it all up. Lo and behold, we leave Europe and almost instantly we have poo everywhere again. Not really a coincidence is it.

Failure of privatisation as with trains, fuel, utilities get them all renationalised

And the shareholders refuse to invest to keep the companies afloat because they see a government buyout as easy money

It’s almost as though Tory promises don’t mean jack isn’t it?

Feargal should be Knighted for his relentless campaigning on this issue