Dirty Business- The Water Companies are profiteering lying bastards

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Dirty Business

Just watched it.

Raw sewage onto our beaches and into rivers.

A child died. That poor child, an awful death.
Children and adults ill.
Suicide
Lies
Profits
Misrepresentation of facts.
Overpaid executives.

Throughly disgusting. Executives that nake these decisions should be prosecuted. Shameful. How do they live with themselves profiteering like that.

I wouldn't be surprised if some politicians have shares in the water companies 🙄..

Something badly wrong…. They have been untouchable…

South East Water and Southern Water - enough said. We've only just cone out of a hosepipe ban.

I think of this in relation to the Epstein files and other high level scandals. There must be many, many people who know that they are complicit but somehow find a way to live with themselves. The power and reward... and being with people of a certain entitled mindset must help. And if they didn't do it, someone else would....

Also on telly addicts thread about the tv program.

I’ve signed the petition.

Surprised this topic hasn’t had more engagement - this should be a real ‘moment’.

Also surprised the Greens haven’t mentioned it with all the glowing publicity they are getting with the by-election success.

The renationalisation petition is getting a steady but slow stream of signatures but only 1700

The surfers against sewage petition is at 118,000

We need much, much more!

@Darker I totally agree. I wonder whether the subject matter - raw sewage, has put people off watching the docu-drama. It’s not as palatable as watching ‘The Post Office vs Mr Bates’ for example and certainly not something to watch with dinner!
I’ve told everyone who will listen to watch the programme and sign the petitions but in lots of cases the response is lukewarm.

I also agree with a PP that this would have had more traction on BBC 1.

I feel that we have become a nation that is tired of protesting and protesters… The environmental protests turned people off. Protesters are ‘activists’ and ‘eco-terrorists’.

Maybe it feels safer to grumble but carry on paying the bills and trusting that the government has it all under control.

I think less people overall are inclined to protest. Remember the Poll tax demonstrations. They were huge and created change.

It seems (to me) people think it's enough to talk about it online. To offload feelings, which at the time will feel better, and think it will make a difference.

Ive been telling everyone I know to watch it. Most people haven’t heard about it and I don’t think the title of the programme helped to attract viewers. Probably the same for the thread titles in that they aren’t very eye catching.

I think you are right. We may post on social media but mostly in echo chambers.

Bumping.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/757426

There’s one hell of a lot of anger in this country, but as the ‘why are people so rude’ threads hint we are no longer capable of organising and directing that anger. Most people are struggling to survive the next paymonth and there is no leadership. What there is is provided by the likes of Farage, and is part of the problem.

This has been coming for years, from the destruction of organised working communities with the Miners Strikes to the rise, reliance on and takeover of the internet by private companies and money making concerns, the takeover of all possible narratives by neoliberalism, the rise in immigration causing competing ideas and priorities and lack of cohesion necessitating ever more controlling laws, and I also think there’s been damage done by Covid.

It was all a deliberate set of individual choices that have added up to a takeover and systematic exclusion by an ever-more focussed and exclusionary elite. Social fragmentation by design, with a feedback loop.

Ps IF public utilities and resources are ever nationalised again this side of a dark age, we could campaign for a law which says something (in legalese) along the lines of ‘no publicly owned services or resources should ever be sold again except by lawful judgment by public referendum on a 60% turnout and 60% agreement.

Im very involved in the running of my local rowing club and we (plus all the other river user groups) have been fighting Thames Water for years regarding them discharging sewage into the river. They are just outright gaslighted liars.

I’ve seen comments on other platforms along the lines of ‘if we do anything, hardworking people will lose their pensions’.

The whole system is broken. Root and branch.

i saw this … 3 very intense and shocking episodes.
what shocked me was all these automated sewage plants , running unmanned , with failing parts, and then it turns out, since being bought by a us company , if something breaks, instead of a proper replacement/ part, engineers are being told just to fix it with band aid, knowing it will bust again…. All for millions in profits.
What if this gets into drinking water ?????

Watch out as well, in that instance, for the restriction of the voting class to ‘those who contribute’ ie the property owners. Victorian imperial Britain referred to itself as a democracy. I agree, the system is now totally broken from the roots. Various people were calling it broken and trying to raise alarms in the early 2000-2010s, with classics such as ‘Ill Fares the Land’ or a blog I used to follow was ‘Notes from a Broken Society’. Nothing changed, despite numerous big events and calls for wake-ups and resets. Congratulations to the many rich who have destroyed the foundations of their own society. I don’t know why they think they will survive it intact.

The only hope is the fact that societies do change, empires do collapse, and Britain has been rebuilt out of Old Corruption before.

We can prevail … look at the poll tax.

And cracks are appearing in the concrete sarcophagus that has been protecting Epstein and his web.

It wasn’t long ago that Andrew and his ilk were untouchable.

I think if we had 1 national water company people would feel they could club together and do something. The fact it is so fragmented means each area has similar but different issues and not potentially as many scientists gathering the actual data for those areas - making it unclear what battles to fight. We need to renationalise the water but as I said I don't think Starmer has the balls. If we sued for malpractice and threat to life we could use the money to put into the new systems and make them nationally accountable with annual £ ring-fenced for upkeep.

@Roselily123 sadly it did get into our drinking water in Brixham last year. Massive outbreak of cryptosporidium and we all had to drink bottled water for weeks. Shocking behaviour from these companies. 💔

I think we need to make it a non-negotiable election issue.

What also shocked me was the amount of sanitary products in the sewage. Who the fuck is still flushing that stuff?

I know!

Perhaps one positive of all this is public education about what not to do to put down the loo.