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Government faces defeat in House of Lords over clean water regulations | Tom Harwood

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GB News Political Correspondent Tom Harwood brings the latest on the Government’s clean water regulation plans, as the Prime Minister is facing a rebellion from within his own party.

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  1. @Enl1thened1

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    Some seriously bad figures here, however, the guardian is not a credible source, I think most people know this

  2. @RobertMcNair-vt1ex

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    We should all possibly look into installing our own filters and use bottled water where possible.

  3. @alexandraathay

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    WITHOUT PREJUDICE
    De-privatise ALL water companies, especially Anglia Water who one of the biggest perpetrators!

  4. @alexandraathay

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    You should be asking exactly how much in fines have these water companies actually paid? And as importantly, if not moreso, where did this money go and how was it used for public interest in cleaning up and reversing the damage done!

  5. @warnz9701

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    The problem with utilities being foreign owned, the profits go abroad and no incentive for spending here. All UK utilities should be UK owned, simple.

  6. @hectorshouse7348

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    Your water owned by foreigners…your country ran by globalists…think about that

  7. @run2cat4run

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    Odd to think there been issues with clean water happen after Brexit since the water companies don’t need to follow EU rules anymore

  8. @swellerbunion8867

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    Rip GB News

  9. @alanavery2002

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    LETTING THERE WARER COMPANY MATES TAKE THE PISS

  10. @rontaylor995

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    Let's have a election and get rid of these morons.HS2 and we have S/T running in to rivers and sea. No fine lock them up.

  11. @PapaTube-ep1nk

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    This sewage discharge is easy to work out its the progress of new builds in towns, cities and rise in population, demand for Sewage Works will be above their capacity. The additional new town or street storm drains are only going one way into rivers and our seas. This will only get worse and worse as immigration and population rises. We were warned we did not listen, we will keep taking greenbelt till there is no more poluting killing wildlife and fish. Greed greed greed.

  12. @UKSkateboarding

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    The fines mean they will charge more for water. The water belongs to us all. It should be free

  13. @2aph0d_b33blebr0x

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    He's probably bought shares in Water companies, now their prices are about to rise.

  14. @sjaakmcd1804

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    Who is this gobby know it all? Ahh GBN is now GBMSM. BYE

  15. @clarky109

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    Tories pumping shite into the rivers

  16. @mauricetucker8754

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    Privatisation with unelected quango has failed this conservative party decisions of selling of

  17. @amandaburns4568

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    sorry im switching to talk tv this morning… whoses bright idea was it to bring in saira khan?? 🙈

  18. @davidoldham8951

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    I live next to a small river near Nottingham city centre. I moved in around 2001 and there is a large sewer overflow outlet that runs out under my garden and into the river. There were several occasions where raw sewage was being discharged and I made Severn Trent aware. My constant reports to them made what was one of their least known outlets to one on top of their list. Investigations led them to finding a major sewer was getting blocked but because of this overflow they were not aware of the problem. Over the last several years they put up booms to stop effluent going into the river and performed operations to suck it out whilst they worked on putting in sensors in the main sewer to alert them when it was running high and needed attention before overflowing. That work was completed around 2016 and since then the discharge into the river has been minimal. Their teams now come to check the outlet around 6 times a year. During Covid I entered the river to do a clean up of tyres and other items and ended up filling two large bins full of wet stinking rubbish. Contacting the environment agency to ask if they would take it away I was advised I should not have been in the river without a permit and that they regularly check the river for cleansing which is not true. Additionally, as the rubbish was now out of the river it was not their responsibility to take away. The council would not take the bins either. A few weeks passed and the guys from Severn Trent came for one of their regular visits and all was clear as normal from the outlet. I mentioned the problem I had with the rubbish and they said they would take it there and then! I can’t vouch for all the water companies or indeed the whole of the Severn Trent area but I can say in this instance the water company has done incredible work to stop major sewage outfalls into the river. Also where government run bodies have turned their back where a member of the community has taken their own time to make things better for nature and the neighbourhood it was Severn Trent that took it away without question. Things aren’t always as clean cut as we hear in a headline and I’m pleased to say the wildlife in the area is thriving with fish, ducks, moorhens, swans, canadian geese, kingfishers, herons and egrets.

  19. @markscript5746

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    Foreign owned companies allowed to poo on the UK with Government assistance

  20. @stephfoxwell4620

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    Who is this pushy, annoying woman?
    Yet another gobby south Asian.
    What is wrong with polite indigenous Britons?

  21. @sal1681

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    It was privatisation that’s done that. Bring the water back under the control of the government invest in the people it’s only the price of 1 Ukraine jet

  22. @straightforward7964

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    Good

  23. @efinna4004

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    GB news goes from bad to worse who is this overpowering self opinionated women? She’s a bit heavy for morning television.
    What a turn off.

  24. @songscoops4205

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    And the naive blame farmers 😛

  25. @-Calling.It-

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    This seems quite simple, without clean water regulations this will lead to water companies and any normal company being able to give backhanders to mps and government to dump sht in our waterways and not clean our water.

    There is no way people can let this happen.

  26. @martynblackburn9632

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    "Regulations are against the free market. Let's cut them."

  27. @michaelathanasiou2030

    December 30, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    The Labour party are on the media today with Rayner's new policy as to how they will deal with the water ( they will do things better ) she said on GMB—LOL

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