They haven’t done “nothing”, they have been extremely active in creating the problem. Well done that lady.
Here’s the full MacTaggart Lecture. It’s a long watch, but Maitlis’ contribution to the debate on media impartiality is 46 minutes of undiluted brilliance. She explains that attempts by broadcasters like the BBC to show balance often actually lead to outright bias, by displaying false equivalence. Emily comes on stage at 9:55.
So Truss mouths off that the jury is still out on the French. That idiot is going to be the next PM - I thought things couldn`t get worse after May and BJ, but I was wrong. I despair.
Water companies given the go ahead to increase bills to pay for the changes needed to end pouring sewage into our rivers and coastal areas. Yet again the Tories are putting the profits of companies and shareholder dividends above the need to help the public. When will the voters learn not to elect them? “ALL this week greedy, shameless water companies have been dumping raw sewage into our seas and rivers. This is not a one-off. In the last year they discharged filthy water over 400,000 times. After a public outcry, the Government has published a plan to clean up our waterways. This could have been a moment to force com-panies to start putting people before profits. But the proposals let the privatised firms off the hook. They will continue to be allowed to discharge sewage into bathing waters for another 13 years and will not be forced to totally end the practice till 2050. Ministers have also given bosses the green light to raise bills to pay for the improvements. This means shareholders will continue to be quids in while taxpayers will be worse off. Households shouldn’t have to pay more because rapacious companies failed to do the job they were entrusted with. And we shouldn’t have to wait for more than a quarter of a century for our rivers and seas to be free from sewage.
That number is bandied about all the time and it's lost its meaning so let's take a look at it another way. That is roughly 1,100 discharges of raw sewage into rivers or the sea every single day. Eleven hundred. It's 45 an hour. Every 80 seconds there's a dump of untreated waste into the waters around us. Horrific.
Boris special 2nd September 21:30 UK. I'm sure he'll be given the tribute he deserves. The video clip rolls back the years for Ian Hislop and Paul Merton https://www.facebook.com/HaveIGotNewsForYou/
