UK Politics

4111 readers

112 users here now

General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both !uk_politics@feddit.uk and !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.

Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.

Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.

If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)

Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.

Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

tom@feddit.uk

GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk

flamingos@feddit.uk

frankPodmore@slrpnk.net

Water company sewage pollution to halve by 2030, minister pledges (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 2 weeks ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Just remember, this wasn't a problem pre-Brexit. We had world-class beaches.

top 6 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes let's privatise public services and not hold them to any standards. What could go wrong??

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

it's not like all the regulations were put in place because corporations were killing people or anything

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Funny how they can push through and intact anti-citizen policies within a financial quarter, but it takes n+1 years for anything progressive and positive

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

"Nationalisation would cost upwards of £100bn that we'd have to take away from the National Health Service and schools to give to the owners of the companies that are polluting," said Reed.

you know you could run a larger deficit, or cut wasteful military spending. i do not think this is about Brexit they don't want to invest, the private sector doesn't want to invest.

also it wasn't very good pre-brexit either.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 4 points 2 weeks ago

I remember things like this https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2016/08/22/new-water-quality-standards-are-in-place-at-bathing-beaches-so-whats-changed/?hl=en-GB

[–] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So they will allow pollution until 2030+.