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It's been two years since the UK's poop-engulfed beaches became a scandal (cnn.com)
5 points by peutetre 13 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments





How are Thatcher's kleptocrats supposed to make a profit if they don't pump shit into the sea?

Its still going on!

I remember when Margaret Thatcher, you know her.

Espoused the Pro capitalist free market fantasy.

All it does in reality is to make rich people richer and poor people poorer.

Yet there are working class people who vote for these peopole thinking they are one of them because they have a good middle class job and salary. Idiots.

oooh! look I'm a Tory, I have a huge mortgage, I have a huge car loan, my life is lived by constantly living off bank loans. I own nothing, Oh yes you are so tory.

Another example of the failure of privatisation here in the old UK.

Since privatisation, our, My, yes my, water, I paid taxes for clean water, clean rivers and beaches to take my kids to swim.

Water companies are now owned by foreign entities like the Saudi's and the French government. Vast profits are paid to share holders all the while the water companies are borrowing billions and still paying out huge dividends. Obscene amounts of money.

All the while spending sweet FA on cleaning up our water and sewage

All with the help of the pro business Tory government who have disabled any safe guards that protect our rivers and beaches.

Dumping shit in our rivers and on out beaches.

Isnt capitalism wonderful




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