@andrewhesselden Nobody's enforcing any of the EU regulations any more. Our own regulators are useless and fines are cheaper (if you get one at all) than doing the job. Investment was required but hasn't been delivered. Bonuses are paid for profitable performance rather than good results.
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RT @jarviboy1974uk: @andrewhesselden I do know someone who works in water Co, and it's Profit.
The chemicals used to treat raw sewage are now way more expensive, thanks to #torybrexitdisaster
It's cheaper to flush RAW SEWAGE and pay fines than purchase these chemicals.
#ToryGaslighting and GREED.
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RT @andrewhesselden: Can anyone who works in a water company explain to me why before Brexit they didn’t need to put sewage in the sea but now they do? Is this only about profit or is there more to it?
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RT @JolyonMaugham: “No one who followed the scandal that is Covid procurement will be surprised to learn a minister was directly involved in a huge contract award that failed to deliver. We desperately need an independent review into how this happened over and over again.” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/18/covid-contracts-messages-reveal-extent-of-tory-donor-access-to-matt-hancock
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RT @gullssinceaboy: None of your foreign wind here, oh no. Tossers. https://t.co/LCx7pAkLhq
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RT @Kit_Yates_Maths: The OSR has therefore spoken with officials at HM Treasury to emphasise the importance of consistently adopting a transparent and accessible approach to communicating statistics and data in line with our guidance on intelligent transparency.https://osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/transparency/
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@adamvaughan_uk What about resigning and going to prison?
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RT @ChrissieGrech: It seems the #ClimateActivists are right. https://t.co/61T6YL4NyV
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Yeah and then we had the EU which had regulations for clean water, and rivers came back to life again. But the cons wanted to be rid of those so that the water companies could turn more profits to the shareholders.
RT @itvpeston: "I remember as a child in South Wales swimming in sewage"
Conservative MP @DamianGreen says water pollution from sewage dumping has always been an issue, but it used to be perceived as more acceptable
#Peston https://t.co/386v3pltuJ
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@LindaHeyworth4 @Richard61982733 We need to asset strip those companies and restore the wealth that the public paid for in their water bills to the public. #NationaliseWaterInEnglandToo
Only with @TheGreenParty
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This country is riddled with influential people who spout neoliberal twaddle on the media day by day. Tufton street is riddled with it. Conservative party is riddled with it. Labour is riddled with it. We need to hear more real thinking about why that's destroying the UK.
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RT @JolyonMaugham: What @OwenJones84 says. There is no evidence - there is barely even rhetoric to suggest - a Labour Government will tackle the problems that really ail us. It's why I, too, want a coalition Government. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/17/hung-parliament-tories-keir-starmer-majority
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RT @Ern400: “We get it,” says Ruth Kelly, Chair of Water UK, having eventually been forced to apologise for the scandalous state of our rivers and seas.
What Ms Kelly should get is ‘fired’. https://t.co/XKN2P3OyRI
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RT @LindaHeyworth4: @Richard61982733 @catherinerowett To enrich the already neoliberal wealthy. They have paid out fat dividends to wealthy investors for years whilst putting little or no needed investment into the companies they own. It's aptly called asset stripping. Ruth Kelly, Tufton St 'Policy Exchange' is there to con us.
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RT @LindaHeyworth4: @catherinerowett She's just been appointed: senior fellow at Tufton St's right wing neoliberal think tank. Ex HSBC.
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RT @mootpoint_af: ⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/ojP7S8gn18
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RT @Jonathan_Elmer: 🤑1989 Thatcher sold English Water Authorities claiming it would raise private investment to tackle pollution.
🤢TODAY Water Companies apologise for pollution and offer to BILL US for cleanup.
✅🌍💚GREENS SAY time to take water back into public ownership!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65626241
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@WelchJacinta Yes, the water supply is something we can't choose another company for. So it makes no sense to privatise it, because there is no incentive to deliver good service. They have us trapped, as you say.
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RT @BritainElects: Painswick and Upton (Stroud) council by-election result:
GRN: 45.9% (+11.9)
CON: 32.1% (-10.3)
LDEM: 15.0% (+15.0)
LAB: 7.1% (-16.6)
Votes cast: 2,546
Green GAIN from Conservative.
https://medium.com/britainelects/previewing-the-painswick-and-upton-gloucestershire-by-election-of-wednesday-17th-may-2023-803dfb8fa230
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RT @SteveHyndside: Blue turning Green. This is the moment Gary Luff was elected as the 14th sitting @thegreenparty cllr on @strouddc - with 1168 votes (44.8%) with a decent turnout of 42.8%. A result of a lot of hard work! https://t.co/Q96TOvOyjl
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