Steve Coogan Joins Lake Windermere Protesters Against Sewage Dumping
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- Опубликовано: 14 апр 2024
- Comedian and Actor Steve Coogan has joined protestors in a very high-profile fight to stop sewage being dumped into Lake Windermere in the Lake District by the local water company, United Utilities.
Susanna challenges Chris Matthews from United Utilities following data that the company dumped more than 27,000 hours worth of untreated sewage since 2020. Matthews also reveals what the return to shareholders was after the company had a net profit of around £300 million last year.
Broadcast on 15/04/24
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Time for water to be re-nationalised we cannot afford foreign interests being involved in a vital utility.
Ironic that several foreign, publicly owned, utility companies, own shares in our privately owned utility companies in order to keep costs down for their own nationals. Deutsche Bahn, for example, can charge 40% less for travel in Germany because we are subsidising them with our fares and taxes.
@@dolceanstar And that of course is our three main utilities water, electricity and gas. Surprise surprise France and Germany, ban their utilities being bought by foreign entities!....
-No wonder they run the EU.
Totally agree
doesnt matter who owns it, its not built for the current population number.
@@Withnail1969 The population is growing all the time 67 million at least so the forward and control needs to be upgraded and fit to purpose, it obviously is not at this time and it is critical.
This sewage dump should be classified as a hate crime, hate for our beautiful country, it's a shame. 😢
bet you wouldn't say that about the people invading here by dinghy.
Both are self inflicted. Don’t moan when you don’t like the outcomes yet still vote in the criminals..
You mean England Britain is not a country . Scottish water is nationalised
💯👍
@@Omegon8536This is a much more severe situation than a few dinghies!
The first question should be why sewage is going into Lake Windermere in the first place?
It's because our sewage system was built in the Victorian age and can't cope.
go and educate yourself then you;ll know
@@fionacarroll5562yep, and 10 million people who shouldn't be here.
Why not. It's going into everything else Thatcher's loose conditions for privatisation.
@@elainekerslake6865
Thatcher is dead.
Why not deal with the present?
Wishing UNITED UTILITIES all the legal disaster that it deserves.
Unbelievable that it is LEGAL to dump toxic waste into Lake Windermere!
Capitalism just keeps giving.
The Lake District depends on tourism. £12 billion should go into the Lake District clean up, directly from shareholders.
Stop paying your water bills. Legally these corporations cannot by law turn off your water
Why on earth are we having to protest over corporate misbehaviour, clean nature is a right not to be abused by these big companies, the utility companies minimum requirement is to be clean.
This is corruption
Not required by government though.
They should be fined or on prison
You'd think. Thatchers profit mind sickness infected almost all UK businesses.
@@unknownband1308 What fine them 1-5% of what they saved over the yrs. As for prison got no chance. The game is rigged. And ppl just really don't care. As long as they can watch programmes that tell them what think, their happy. Should of been outrage and more for what happened 2020-2022. Most ppl forgot that scam/test to see what the sheep would do. And the sheep done what they were told and now their just about to sign over british control to WEF and WHO.
The CEO’s contemptuous grin while waiting to speak speaks volumes.
And he's not the CEO: speaks volumes about you not being able to comprehend what you watch. Quite scary, really.
@@frontenac5083 bless your cotton socks
@@frontenac5083 Head of Regional Engagement then. Representative / mouthpiece for the company. Speaks volumes about the pedantry of your defence of this company, eh?
@@frontenac5083 Talk about fiddling with yourself whilst Rome burns!
Says it all really
Steve and Fergal, keep at them, its disgusting whats happening.
its pointless. the water companies arent doing this for laughs. its unavoidable unless the whole system is rebuilt which we cant afford.
So United Utilities can dump sewage into Lake Windermere but speed boats are banned unless they control speed to under 10mph because of pollution. Even the brown floaters United Utilities dump in the water break that limit as soon as they hit the water. It is an absolute disgrace.
Well said and agreed
@@unknownband1308
ferkn unbelievable!
Well done Fergal, Steve and co, absolute disgrace, ban them from paying out to share holders and take the profits off them to pay for the work.
Monopolies like water and trains shouldn't be in the hands of foreign companies or any for that matter.
Corrupt corrupt corrupt. Just like everything else in our world
When a politician or someone else in a position of power answers an awkward question with "SO", you just know you're not going to get a proper answer.
One of the drawbacks of capitalism, profits over everything
Socialist systems have an even worse record
It is more to do with very bad and crooked management at the very top plus a lack of proper oversight from government
Unlike Socialism, where eventually you run out of other peoples money to spend.
Worse than a politicians response! LIARS!!
Might as well just stop paying money and dump in the river.
Disgusting government end of allowing this from their friends.
How sad, why our government don't get the water companies to get the repairs cost from their shareholders? This is very sad
The water companies are probably owned offshore by Tory donors.
Vile disgusting behavior!
And the rich get richer at the cost to the people
You can buy shares and get rich too 👍🤦
The people really to blame for this situation are the government and OFWAT. They are the ones who make and enforce the regulations.
Very well said and amount of things, Ofwat & Government Grin at , is Unbelievable!!
OFWAT, like a majority of government regulatory bodies, always appear more concerned with protecting the commercial interests of the privatised companies than safeguarding the wider interests of the public and nation.
We should never spill sewage in our beautiful lakes. This is so irresponsible by the sewage companies.
My wife and I went there over 25 years and it is a beautiful part of England. These companies should be held responsible and we should not be forking the bill as tax payers!!
Uniteds shareholders must have their dividend. Our bills are to rise by 40% too. They are criminals.
The bank won't lend you cash for free why should share holders? Asking for a friend??
@@grahammawdsley4864 : why should we buy shareholder products by that same token.
Public utilities should not be vehicles for the parasitism of the pin stripe suit mob.
Dont pay
NATIONALISE water.
@@GraemeWight-wx3xz it's cheaper to use the shareholders money than to borrow from the banks . Borrowing from the banks would cost us all more 🤷
You drop a bit of paper on the floor accidentally and get a fine but water companies can legally dump sewage into lakes and rivers.
Yes and the same if you park in the wrong place
@@unknownband1308 That's why I don't drive they can't put a ticket on my bicycle.
Does anyone remember when Britain had the filthiest beaches/coastal water/rivers and waterways in Europe in the nineties? The Tories were in power then too. Coincidence?
Coincidence also that your probably not a Tori voter
@@suecaddickcoxhooker1159 Your comment contains the maturity of a 7 year old.
Russia and Bulgaria are in europe also so i highly doubt these european statistics
Blue flag beaches.😊
only because britain was the only country to bother checking its beaches/coastal water/rivers. everyone else didn't bother. don't trust anything the eu says.
🤢🤮absolutely disgusting. Don’t usually agree with his politics but 100% behind him on this 👏👏👏👏👏
How has it allowed to become a problem ??? United Utilities previously known as Northwest water have always been in charge, so why have they allowed these problems to arise and escalate? Sheer neglect and mismanagement but senior management and executives collect salaries, annual pay rises and bonuses regardless of performance. Returning the water utility back into public ownership is the only way forward.
It was better when it was still north west
and this is after they have diverted our water from Ennerdale to satisfy Mancunians etc.
that guy was trying so hard not to answer the question
We are with you Steve. Good man 😊.
We all need to STOP paying our water bills until these companies completely stop doing this. Never mind what the "system '. Cutting by fifty per cent is not good enough.
If only it was that easy
@@sunseeker9581 if everyone stopped paying they would soon take notice
Well, it's greed innit!
L.Windemere was a major beauty spot. It's unthinkable that they're able to do this.
I bet half the investors are MPs and they get a investors dividend thats why nothing is done about it !!!!
Anyone can buy shares including you
Susanna is on the ball this morning! Go girl!
Unable to give a straight answer.chris Mathews.
Don't visit Windermere sewage pond you may pick up a disease.
Good for you. Keep the pressure up. The name of the game is greed and profiteering. More dividends for all?😅
Letting so many extra people into the country isnt helping.
We are not allowed to talk about that tho 🤣
Yeah all those millions of people setting up in the lake district!! 🤦🏻♂️
Its actually disgusting what corporations are able to get away with in this country. And this is the first world, is it?
These people like politicians are well schooled in the art of never giving a straight answer to a question.
Same with Anglian water,worst for leaks and dumping sewage ,got fined and told to give every customer two or three quid and promptly put up bills 10.1 %,highest in country ,they are nothing but scummy thieves.
Leave this beautiful lake well alone. We swim in it!
🥔Captains log 2024: Now you are not swimming in it alone
Turds floating in our beautiful lakes and rivers, this is Thatcher's legacy - as well as being a perfect metaphor for Thatcherism!
😢PROFITS OVER PEOPLES 😢 ❤
All they think of is money 💰 that is worth more to them than life’s
The United Utilities spokesman should go into politics. He can't answer any of the questions.
How very disgusting.
I hope this destroys the tourism industry for a couple of years, and every business in the area sues the company for loses. See if that doesn't shake things up a bit.
And how would we sue anyone without the money from tourism 🤦
@@grahammawdsley4864 Well, usually a law firm puts together a pro bono class action suit at their own expense on behalf of a large group of plaintiffs and recoups their fees from the liable party if they win.
@@grahammawdsley4864 At the very least, it should make voters in the area consider the fact that all of this is the result of greedy Tories, privatising essential public services and turning the whole of the UK into a cash cow for themselves and their off shore Tax dodging cronies.
I’m not a big fan of Steve Coogan but he has my support over this, disgusting what’s happening.
I'm not paying more for my water bills, when it is been proven that the English have already paid enough to do these repairs, but what did they do with that money hmmm....... shareholders.
Why was water privatised, when there is zero competition? It should be publicly owned.
Thatchers legacy, and yeah ur right, they should pay it's their 'business'. You don't pay shareholders FIRST
Make them drink it !!!!!
Thats what he means about "needing the money up front"..... from us, the customers.
So what have they been doing with all the "up front" money we customers have been paying them over the last 10 years at least?...... Because the prices go up every year......where is the money ending up?
These greedy corporates need prosecuting to the hilt!
Customer s can go somewhere else, just all stop paying the bill,watch them clean it then
What is happening to this country. Ive never known such weak and useless politicians
Absolutely everybody stop paying your water bills. Starve United Utilities of money and they will either get the message or go bust.
United utilities Should be declared an illegal company and take them to court for the crime they are committing.
why would you clean it up, if your business model is to pollute it
good questioning at last
Step 1: Release sewage
Step 2: Tell public via the media
Step 3: Public get upset
Step 4: Labour promise to "nationalise"
Step 5: Company sell shares to government at a huge premium
He’s obviously a budding politician! Plenty of words and evasion of truth!
Thatcher's grift that keeps on giving...
this is totally unacceptable
Where do these shareholders live? Not in the lake district I bet.
In the last 30yrs our population has risen by 20million, that's the real problem
and the privatised water companies then get more income from a higher customer base which should have been invested to cope with the increased sewage from the expected population increase.
@@waltermcphee3787 exactly
Instead they just took profits for the shareholders @@waltermcphee3787
Gaslight ING at its best, the bloke who works for a polluting water company
*What about the sewage spilling into London's streets every weekend? Any plans to protest against that?*
London is not Britain, -sorry.
What about all the other lakes,rivers stream s canals,full of shi te not just windermere
Theres way too much poo poo in our rivers and lakes. Someone needs be held accountable. Stop putting poo poo into the water
All shareholders should be forced to swim in the lake regularly.
united utilities management should be prosecuted and jailed
for this deliberate environmental disaster.
Wow never knew about this absolutely disgusting behaviour where are the environment agency id get a fine £1000 fine for fishing without a licence, And the fishermen look out pollution for the waterways of the country Disgusting
Where does the drinking water come from in the North West?
It isn't rainwater that's polluting the lake...
As usual, it comes down to greed and a totally inept government. Gross negligence.
Give an inch take a mile springs to mind. Sewage dumping should never have been allowed full stop.
If you profit from this you are compliant. Time to name and shame their shareholders.
Isn't illegal to knowing dump sewage
Hmm... What?
English version?
@@frontenac5083 I thought is was illegal to dump sewage knowingly dump it in a a river, pond, lake ect.
Share holders r to blame 4 everything from water trains, gas electricity, ect, and United utilities should be sued so much that they r bankrupt, and the Share holders have to cough up
You can buy shares too
I thought we were going green in this country? Ffs
What country England you mean .Britain is not a country Scottish water is nationalised
Fact Check: Thames Water are the UK's biggest polluter.
Why dont they drill down to the old mine workings, pump out the water and put sewage down there theres millions of square feet of space down there half a mile deep.
Why is there a disgraced MP's expenses fiddler presenting GMB?
Absolute failure of privatisation of utilities.
Bill the share owners for the clean up aswell get rich scheme for some not the vast majority of us plebs
Everyone should cancel direct debits until positive action is taken.
Well said Steve!
What a disgrace keep our country clean
I went to Lake Windermere about 10 years ago and it did not look like England - it looked more like Calcutta.
I was in Windermere last summer, thought I was in the middle east with the numbers of niqabs and burkas.
Absolutely outrageous situation
I honestly don't see what this has to do with the pedestrianization of Norwich city centre.
It might help wheelchair access.
You're wrong!
@@briwire138 Its an Alan Partridge quote.
@@GG-ml3vr So was that, have a look at his party when he's got the staff in to say goodbye to the Travel Tavern.
The evasion of the spokesman is disgraceful. There should be no sewage being pumped into Lake Windermere. In addition we are finding that polluted tap water is causing infections and people are being told to boil the water in some areas. If this isn't enough reason to change the government, I don't know what is.
30 years!! And legally too. OMD😮
It's all about the money 🤑,,,why clean it up we making million,s 😮
This is in the middle of a national park and registered AONB. This should obviously be an untouchable.
If its happening here, it can be literally anywhere.
No care for environment only care shown is pleasing its shareholders 😢
You can buy shares
The power is with the people. The answer is stop playing in the rigged game, with the public just refusing to pay. The same goes for energy bills and council tax
Stop playing , stop paying
Agree we should clean up the lakes in total, not just Windermere. But get really nervous when bandwagon Coogan steps up. Opportunist to the end, doesn't do anything for anyone unless there's something in it for him.
Wish the campaign all the success...
What is important is what we get as customers.
Utterly sickening 🤒 We are Fffd.
Absolutely shocking behaviour !
I'm paying £625.00 a year for water what the heck are they playing at. It's disgusting. You pay your overheads before you pay shareholders.
The basic needs of the country should be nationalised like utilities and postal service.