Sean

Advice is helpful, when you use it !!!

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And here they are 👇 the men and woman responsible for dumping 14,027,654 hours worth of sewage into the environment over the last 5 years and helping pollute every single river in the country.

Ladies and gentlemen I give you the board of @Ofwat.

"In the name of God, go".

[Sean @swbartley01]

@robmcelnea1 Do you keep those #Tennisrackets in there 🤔😆😂🤣😂

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

You sitting down?

4,014,964 hours worth of sewage dumped into England’s rivers in 2023. An all time record. A massive 129% increase on 2022.

Exclusive by those fantastic people at the @guardian

https://t.co/xnSYkEmlun

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

They really have just given up haven't they.

Good old @thameswater "I know how to deal with this sewage thing, chuck it all into the nearest chalk stream, oh look, there's one over there, that'll do." 🤬🤬🤬

[Met Office @metoffice]

A combination of fast solar winds and the recent arrival of a Coronal Mass Ejection from the sun, could lead to the #aurora being seen tonight, especially across the north of the UK

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

On 18/11/21 @Ofwat and the @EnvAgency launched "A major investigation into potential widespread non-compliance by water and sewerage companies", it was / is apparently "the largest ever criminal investigation we have undertaken".

2 and half years later we wait, and wait, and...

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Meanwhile in the real world one full of cracked, broken, disjointed, badly maintained, underinvested sewage pipes.

"Water company profits 'almost double' since 2019 as firms rake in £4.2bn."

https://t.co/ornZmK0P1h

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Campaigners have blasted Thames Water for dumping human waste into the River Thames for a staggering 1,914 hours so far this year– equivalent to 79 days."

Has @thameswater gone bankrupt yet?

https://t.co/oFwg28xEOc

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Good God. How much money has been wasted by this shambles of a Tory government on PPE, HS2, housing asylum seekers, BREXIT and on and on and on...

https://t.co/akN3w3q6z6 https://t.co/hA0LiLcwI1

[Sean @swbartley01]

Steady 30+ miles today, shame about the #potholes They were #Awful 😕

[Sean @swbartley01]

@HantsPolRoads #26004 has it gone around the clock or been #Clocked 🤔

[Sean @swbartley01]

@YMUKofficial XRS900

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Sewage pumped into River Chess for over 400 hours".

The River Chess is supposed to be @thameswater's flagship programme, to prove that a water company can and would do the right thing, to make amends.

How's that working out then?

https://t.co/4D7M5TJBvU

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Water firms’ profits in England and Wales almost double since 2019."

Yep you read that correctly; doubled.

Now about that up to 70% price hike water companies are demanding? Remember that when you next find yourself standing at the ballot box.

https://t.co/bHgKSP5VNu

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"I’m a river keeper, our chalk streams are becoming like open sewers."

Let me remind you there are just 225 chalk streams on the entire planet and 85% of here, southern England

And this is what profiteering, greed and regulatory failure has done to them

https://t.co/iOhFIcNrK4

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

It came up yesterday at PMQs.

@RishiSunak refused to discuss how much of the public's money he's putting aside to fund @thameswater's bailout plan.

It's idiotic TW shouldn't get a penny of the public's money.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Thames Water declines to support new fund tackling sewage spills."

Question. This @thameswater financial nonsense has been going on since last summer. At what point do directors have to own up and declare the company insolvent?

https://t.co/88BgabtNmL

[Sean @swbartley01]

@YMUKofficial Local cuicuit only 8 miles but everyone has a huge #Smile 1982 #RD350lc

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

At least 72,000,000,000 litres of sewage has been dump into the River Thames near Twickenham since 2020

@thameswater has cut 105 projects totalling £1.134 billion that it was legally obliged to deliver before 2025.

And the @EnvAgency does what exactly?

https://t.co/leQqcrmWfR

[Surfers Against Sewage @sascampaigns]

📢We have gathered surfers, swimmers, paddlers, fishermen and business owners together tonight at parliament for our End Sewage Pollution event, to engage with our parliamentary representatives and present our end sewage pollution manifesto.📢
. Photo: Barry Macdonald