Oh well I wonder if they thought voting for a government which doesn’t believe in the regulation of water companies is necessary was a good idea.
Can you remember during first lockdown how all the canals and rivers etc cleaned themselves and looked absolutely stunning?
Pollution was clearly at unacceptably low levels so they needed to offload all the stored waste and get back to the “acceptably high levels”.
You’d have to be daft to read all the headlines about water companies releasing shit into the rivers, and head out into the river for a swim. This doesn’t excuse the water companies, however.
Perhaps the residents of Oxford could start by simply not voting for the shit-spewing Tories
What is the alternative exactly? Is this something they have no control over or is it just for cost saving?
I’m pretty confident that every lake and river in the UK is heavily polluted, as are many beaches. Wild swimming may be fun but it is going to be harder and harder to find safe places to do it, pollution is certainly not getting better any time soon after all. Water is our most valuable resource, we should be doing all we can to preserve it and keep it clean for the future. Any government with teeth would be introducing heavy sanctions for companies caught doing this. Sadly, we are stuck with a government who is happy to let companies pollute for a donation to the party.
> Dr Tolan said: “Every week we have to check for notifications of sewerage releases before being sure that it’s safe to swim.
Why would you even need to check? How is it an option anymore?
I imagine Tory voters will be furious that their government is doing fuck all about this? Nope, they don’t give a flying fuck about how much you trash this country and punish its people. Tory voters are cancer.
A metaphor for living in the current UK – swimming in shite.
We are prepared to waste money on a “high speed rail” line that cuts 5 minutes off the journey time from London to Leeds but continue to do nothing about our crumbling Victorian era sewage system. I guess dealing with shit isn’t a vote winner for the Tory MPs who pop off to the Maldives or Seychelles for a dipmin the sea and worry not about the state of our rivers and coastal areas. Something has to change.
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Oh well I wonder if they thought voting for a government which doesn’t believe in the regulation of water companies is necessary was a good idea.
Can you remember during first lockdown how all the canals and rivers etc cleaned themselves and looked absolutely stunning?
Pollution was clearly at unacceptably low levels so they needed to offload all the stored waste and get back to the “acceptably high levels”.
You’d have to be daft to read all the headlines about water companies releasing shit into the rivers, and head out into the river for a swim. This doesn’t excuse the water companies, however.
Perhaps the residents of Oxford could start by simply not voting for the shit-spewing Tories
What is the alternative exactly? Is this something they have no control over or is it just for cost saving?
I’m pretty confident that every lake and river in the UK is heavily polluted, as are many beaches. Wild swimming may be fun but it is going to be harder and harder to find safe places to do it, pollution is certainly not getting better any time soon after all. Water is our most valuable resource, we should be doing all we can to preserve it and keep it clean for the future. Any government with teeth would be introducing heavy sanctions for companies caught doing this. Sadly, we are stuck with a government who is happy to let companies pollute for a donation to the party.
> Dr Tolan said: “Every week we have to check for notifications of sewerage releases before being sure that it’s safe to swim.
Why would you even need to check? How is it an option anymore?
I imagine Tory voters will be furious that their government is doing fuck all about this? Nope, they don’t give a flying fuck about how much you trash this country and punish its people. Tory voters are cancer.
A metaphor for living in the current UK – swimming in shite.
We are prepared to waste money on a “high speed rail” line that cuts 5 minutes off the journey time from London to Leeds but continue to do nothing about our crumbling Victorian era sewage system. I guess dealing with shit isn’t a vote winner for the Tory MPs who pop off to the Maldives or Seychelles for a dipmin the sea and worry not about the state of our rivers and coastal areas. Something has to change.