So the policy is ignore all but the worst and potentially public cases, and basically be a government department with a ultra important role that is not fit for purpose.
Fucking Government, your a sham.
This is unacceptable
I wonder if there actually will be an adjustment where the British government is actually held responsible for its decisions, now it can’t just whinge about the EU? Or have they truly convinced Brits that things inherently suck and no one will even expect the government to do a good job of things? That’s ultimately been the goal of the right wing project since the 80’s.
CSO discharges without good reason have been happening for ages, doesn’t excuse it though
Red tape is just what businesses, and their mouthpieces, call anything that stops them doing whatever they can to make more money and dumping the cost on someone else.
Water, power, and gas should never have been privatised. Health should not have been privatised. Telecoms should not be privatised. Transport… You can see where I’m going.
All these things are public goods, and should be run as such. No need for anyone to be extracting wealth from systems that people rely on.
But, but… Think of the share holders annual dividends!
Theres a shortage of sewage treatment chemicals due to the supply chain crisis and brexit. This, combined with years of under investment means that there isn’t the capacity to process everyone’s sewage. So the choice was either to stop sewage processing resulting in sewers backing up, or to just dump partially/untreated sewage, and they chose the latter.
Rules are there for a reason. Mainly because something terrible has happened in the past and you want to prevent it from happening again.
If H&S regulations are said to be written in blood, then environmental regulations are written in oil, shit, and nuclear waste.
Reduce those rules and it’s like the Wild West, people will do what they want. In this case they’ll dump raw sewage into our waterways, all the while counting their increased profits.
Red tape is school places, its enforcement of laws like food and safety standards, its nhs beds and treatments, its workers rights and its a social net to ensure people don’t die from lack of necessities. What it definitely isn’t is just “waste” to the vast majority of people in this country.
Ah yes, deregulation. Cut back on all the government inspectors. The sincere, philanthropic company managers will make sure they don’t cut corners to make more money. This is not “free market” economics it is letting the (greedy) lunatics run the (country) asylum into the ground.
This is why we have burning residential towers – no local authority building inspector ever went on site. This is why we have the smallest domestic dwellings in Europe.
The water authorities were privatised to secure capital to repair our aging Victorian water pipes and sewers. £56 billion has been paid out to shareholders over the last decade. The water leaks are worse. The flood defenses are worse and the rivers are full of untreated sewage.
Government inspectors are not a form of socialism designed to strangle honest entrepreneurs. Their primary purpose is to stop industry from killing people with poisonous practices.
We took back control but gave it to entirely the wrong people. That ‘red tape’ was put into place to protect us from the greedy and the morally lax, the very sort we have given control to. The Tories are the party of money, power and big business, not the party of the public. The EU were far from perfect but they did more for the UK than some are prepared to admit and were more likely to have our interests at heart than the last few Tory governments have.
Who expected any different?
The Tories branded our safety and well-being protections as “red tape” and fucking morons voted for it.
You should read some of the utter bullshit the water companies are putting out, both for media and internal consumption. All of the internal statements I’ve seen from 5+ companies’ CEOs/directors/etcetera can be summed up as “ignore what you read from that nasty liberal media, the proles just don’t understand we *have* to keep doing this to keep sending nice healthy profits to our overseas owners”. It’s shameful governance by a fistful of millionaires at the behest of a handful of billionaires and investment funds. If anyone came to me and asked if the rivers in the business areas of the companies I’ve worked for or consulted with were safe to swim in, I genuinely wouldn’t be able to say yes with a straight face.
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So the policy is ignore all but the worst and potentially public cases, and basically be a government department with a ultra important role that is not fit for purpose.
Fucking Government, your a sham.
This is unacceptable
I wonder if there actually will be an adjustment where the British government is actually held responsible for its decisions, now it can’t just whinge about the EU? Or have they truly convinced Brits that things inherently suck and no one will even expect the government to do a good job of things? That’s ultimately been the goal of the right wing project since the 80’s.
CSO discharges without good reason have been happening for ages, doesn’t excuse it though
Red tape is just what businesses, and their mouthpieces, call anything that stops them doing whatever they can to make more money and dumping the cost on someone else.
Water, power, and gas should never have been privatised. Health should not have been privatised. Telecoms should not be privatised. Transport… You can see where I’m going.
All these things are public goods, and should be run as such. No need for anyone to be extracting wealth from systems that people rely on.
But, but… Think of the share holders annual dividends!
Theres a shortage of sewage treatment chemicals due to the supply chain crisis and brexit. This, combined with years of under investment means that there isn’t the capacity to process everyone’s sewage. So the choice was either to stop sewage processing resulting in sewers backing up, or to just dump partially/untreated sewage, and they chose the latter.
Rules are there for a reason. Mainly because something terrible has happened in the past and you want to prevent it from happening again.
If H&S regulations are said to be written in blood, then environmental regulations are written in oil, shit, and nuclear waste.
Reduce those rules and it’s like the Wild West, people will do what they want. In this case they’ll dump raw sewage into our waterways, all the while counting their increased profits.
Red tape is school places, its enforcement of laws like food and safety standards, its nhs beds and treatments, its workers rights and its a social net to ensure people don’t die from lack of necessities. What it definitely isn’t is just “waste” to the vast majority of people in this country.
Ah yes, deregulation. Cut back on all the government inspectors. The sincere, philanthropic company managers will make sure they don’t cut corners to make more money. This is not “free market” economics it is letting the (greedy) lunatics run the (country) asylum into the ground.
This is why we have burning residential towers – no local authority building inspector ever went on site. This is why we have the smallest domestic dwellings in Europe.
The water authorities were privatised to secure capital to repair our aging Victorian water pipes and sewers. £56 billion has been paid out to shareholders over the last decade. The water leaks are worse. The flood defenses are worse and the rivers are full of untreated sewage.
Government inspectors are not a form of socialism designed to strangle honest entrepreneurs. Their primary purpose is to stop industry from killing people with poisonous practices.
We took back control but gave it to entirely the wrong people. That ‘red tape’ was put into place to protect us from the greedy and the morally lax, the very sort we have given control to. The Tories are the party of money, power and big business, not the party of the public. The EU were far from perfect but they did more for the UK than some are prepared to admit and were more likely to have our interests at heart than the last few Tory governments have.
Who expected any different?
The Tories branded our safety and well-being protections as “red tape” and fucking morons voted for it.
You should read some of the utter bullshit the water companies are putting out, both for media and internal consumption. All of the internal statements I’ve seen from 5+ companies’ CEOs/directors/etcetera can be summed up as “ignore what you read from that nasty liberal media, the proles just don’t understand we *have* to keep doing this to keep sending nice healthy profits to our overseas owners”. It’s shameful governance by a fistful of millionaires at the behest of a handful of billionaires and investment funds. If anyone came to me and asked if the rivers in the business areas of the companies I’ve worked for or consulted with were safe to swim in, I genuinely wouldn’t be able to say yes with a straight face.