Sounds outrageous at the first glance but they’re not wrong. It’s not a right, it’s a privilege. Though not like it’s a massive privilege to swim in a shit stained puddle but oh well
It doesn’t seem as though they have the right to pour shit into the sea either, mind you:
> Water companies are only permitted to discharge sewage into rivers or the sea if adverse weather conditions cause storm overflows. To do so in moderate weather conditions can be considered illegal.
Holy shit. We’re becoming the very thing we hate, the US. Fuck that water company.
Every day some **** makes me lose a little bit of what’s left of my hope for humanity.
Every day some **** makes me lose a little bit of what’s left of my hope for humanity.
Is this rage bait? It feels like rage bait… also the fuck?
I’m sure we’ll all be outraged and do something, at some point? Anyone?
I mean, that’s true. We don’t have a right to swim in the sea, but we’ve previously been able to because everyone had enough decency (or at least enough fear of punishment) to not dump raw sewage into the sea where people want to swim.
These are just your average capitalist corporation, and they’re as callous as anything you’d read about in a dystopian novel. This is our future, if we don’t change the way capitalism works.
I live in Devon and this is a massive issue at the moment. It’s quite scary how many touristy beach spots are not safe to swim at and hardly anyone realises. People and dogs are getting really sick.
Ok fine, they’re right. But let’s make it a right by enshrining it in law and holding water companies to account.
From as recently as 2016: “England’s bathing waters are the cleanest ever recorded thanks to a dry summer, tighter EU regulations and increased spending by water companies”
If only there was some way to figure out where it all went wrong in such a short time…
“Profit before Human Rights” just about sums up Westminster and the parties who dont support bringing water back into public ownership.
So the sea just belongs to sewage now? Fucking bleak as shit.
I bet the CEOs are going to warmer countries and swimming in their sea though
This kind of attitude from business will only get worse. And with governments weakening, the people will just have to suck it up. We deserve it really.
Yikes, dunno who has worse PR, these water firms or Boeing.
They’re only doing this because they’re being allowed to do this
God I fucking hate the way this country is right now.
I’m not normally political but the Tories have absolutely fucking pilaged this country.
We need a Malcolm Tucker to grab them by the balls and tell them,it’s your fuckin responsibility if you don’t do it I’ll rip out your arse and use it as a fuckin pinball table!!
While people wind themselves up about the supposed evils of foreign people this is what happens in your back garden
We’re a country that finds an answer to everything to justify shit.
Quite literally in this case.
I’m sick of it.
Does that mean we’re banned from surfing in the sea in the summer? As I love going to Cornwall in the summer and body boarding like I’ve always done for over ten years
What I don’t understand is why isn’t media asking them why water quality dropped suddenly after U.K. left eu
They all question the companies as if it’s always been like this
I wonder what the Cornwall and Devon tourist boards will do once word gets around that the Water companies are pumping sewage straight into the sea untreated?
“Come to Cornwall, enjoy the beaches and local food, swim in shit!” ?
We’re all born equal, fk these entitled fks that think they have power over us . We should all go medieval and shit on their doorstep 🤣
Like the Nestle guy said, “water is not a human right”. Everything is a commodity to be exploited
If there’s a court case .. water sewerage dumper against public right to swim ….who wins?
We’re ran by a bunch of self serving sociopaths. And as grim as it may sound, violence may be the last resort against these bastards.
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Sounds outrageous at the first glance but they’re not wrong. It’s not a right, it’s a privilege. Though not like it’s a massive privilege to swim in a shit stained puddle but oh well
It doesn’t seem as though they have the right to pour shit into the sea either, mind you:
> Water companies are only permitted to discharge sewage into rivers or the sea if adverse weather conditions cause storm overflows. To do so in moderate weather conditions can be considered illegal.
Holy shit. We’re becoming the very thing we hate, the US. Fuck that water company.
Every day some **** makes me lose a little bit of what’s left of my hope for humanity.
Every day some **** makes me lose a little bit of what’s left of my hope for humanity.
Is this rage bait? It feels like rage bait… also the fuck?
I’m sure we’ll all be outraged and do something, at some point? Anyone?
I mean, that’s true. We don’t have a right to swim in the sea, but we’ve previously been able to because everyone had enough decency (or at least enough fear of punishment) to not dump raw sewage into the sea where people want to swim.
These are just your average capitalist corporation, and they’re as callous as anything you’d read about in a dystopian novel. This is our future, if we don’t change the way capitalism works.
I live in Devon and this is a massive issue at the moment. It’s quite scary how many touristy beach spots are not safe to swim at and hardly anyone realises. People and dogs are getting really sick.
Ok fine, they’re right. But let’s make it a right by enshrining it in law and holding water companies to account.
From as recently as 2016: “England’s bathing waters are the cleanest ever recorded thanks to a dry summer, tighter EU regulations and increased spending by water companies”
[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/08/englands-beaches-at-cleanest-levels-ever-recorded](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/08/englands-beaches-at-cleanest-levels-ever-recorded)
If only there was some way to figure out where it all went wrong in such a short time…
“Profit before Human Rights” just about sums up Westminster and the parties who dont support bringing water back into public ownership.
So the sea just belongs to sewage now? Fucking bleak as shit.
I bet the CEOs are going to warmer countries and swimming in their sea though
This kind of attitude from business will only get worse. And with governments weakening, the people will just have to suck it up. We deserve it really.
Yikes, dunno who has worse PR, these water firms or Boeing.
They’re only doing this because they’re being allowed to do this
God I fucking hate the way this country is right now.
I’m not normally political but the Tories have absolutely fucking pilaged this country.
We need a Malcolm Tucker to grab them by the balls and tell them,it’s your fuckin responsibility if you don’t do it I’ll rip out your arse and use it as a fuckin pinball table!!
While people wind themselves up about the supposed evils of foreign people this is what happens in your back garden
We’re a country that finds an answer to everything to justify shit.
Quite literally in this case.
I’m sick of it.
Does that mean we’re banned from surfing in the sea in the summer? As I love going to Cornwall in the summer and body boarding like I’ve always done for over ten years
If only there was [something](https://www.agridirect.co.uk/category/pitchforks/1) we could [do](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdmy2uZUnkk)?
What I don’t understand is why isn’t media asking them why water quality dropped suddenly after U.K. left eu
They all question the companies as if it’s always been like this
I wonder what the Cornwall and Devon tourist boards will do once word gets around that the Water companies are pumping sewage straight into the sea untreated?
“Come to Cornwall, enjoy the beaches and local food, swim in shit!” ?
We’re all born equal, fk these entitled fks that think they have power over us . We should all go medieval and shit on their doorstep 🤣
Like the Nestle guy said, “water is not a human right”. Everything is a commodity to be exploited
If there’s a court case .. water sewerage dumper against public right to swim ….who wins?
We’re ran by a bunch of self serving sociopaths. And as grim as it may sound, violence may be the last resort against these bastards.