It’s just our drinking water…..Brexit was worth it wasn’t it? www.theguardian.com/business/202... - ThreadSky

mrrobertbob.bsky.social • 79 days ago

It’s just our drinking water…..Brexit was worth it wasn’t it?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/07/brexit-problem-uk-tap-water-safety-at-risk-after-testing-labs-shut-down

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tjrh.uk•79 days ago

Why aren't the water companies paying for the lab which tests their stuff? It's a privatised industry. It's not up to us to pay for it.

cwadeevans.bsky.social•79 days ago

You think they give a fuck about the quality of our water? It’s not like we can boycott them exactly is it?

Re-nationalise the lot of them. Then throw the bosses into prison for fraud and the destruction of our rivers and seas. Along with putting people’s health at risk

tjrh.uk•79 days ago

If everyone cancelled the Direct Debit taken by their water company...

haggismaker.bsky.social•79 days ago

Direct action is a fine idea which rarely works. There needs to be a long-term solution, which in my view means bringing public services back into public ownership.

chrisba60.bsky.social•79 days ago

But we are free to drink it now …ffs

ledredman.bsky.social•79 days ago

It was worth it for fascists. In 2015 they were a political irrelevance. Today they are threatening to take power. It was the whole point of it.

ali-jr.bsky.social•78 days ago

Bathing in sovereignty whilst drinking my own urine, what’s the problem 🤯

fra9k7.bsky.social•79 days ago

Can't put a price on sovereignty, you know!

Just use your imagination when you sip your expensive brown water!

strontium90.bsky.social•79 days ago

A certain type of person will be happy that 'Brussels' doesn't have a role in the safety of water in Britain even if it means that water is less safe. It's what years of media brainwashing does.

ascottsview.bsky.social•79 days ago

Except for viewers in Scotland where it’s sovereign people owns the water and water company and voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU.
My tap water is lovely.

lindywilliams3.bsky.social•79 days ago

Of course, what with that and blue passports, filthy rivers, businesses going bust, billions lost and bloody sovrinty 'n all......

🙄🙄

matt66.bsky.social•79 days ago

Locked on this island with no FOM , a declining economy, and poisonous drinking water ( well you can't tell me it isn't )

bridget1965.bsky.social•79 days ago

Not 'our' water:
https://bsky.app/profile/para-handy.bsky.social/post/3lay5lmwik227

lindaler.bsky.social•79 days ago

The government's solution will be to drop standards, won't it. An essential of life in the hands of rapacious profit gougers.
Scotland did not vote for this.

bravehoundgabby.bsky.social•78 days ago

England and Wales NOT UK!

brids.bsky.social•79 days ago

This is what the water from our tap looks like for the past week. It’s easier to speak to lord Lucan than to Thames Water. I’ve no idea what’s going on but I’m not drinking that

lchaim.bsky.social•79 days ago

If you leave it for about 30 seconds, does it clear? I had this and my plumber said it was trapped air and fine to drink.

scribblegurl.bsky.social•79 days ago

It is trapped air if it clears.

drmarkd.bsky.social•79 days ago

Very similar here. Advice given is to run the tap till it clears before drinking. Not as reassuring as it is intended to be.

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