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00:04I'm not sure if I'm going to go in.
00:06Really?
00:07Yeah.
00:08You'll be fine.
00:09Be cold.
00:10Drowning.
00:13Or maybe you try it for a bit.
00:15I'll go first.
00:18Looking good.
00:19Looking rough.
00:21Scaredy cat.
00:23I'm not sure.
00:24That's you.
00:38Ready mate?
00:43Ready!
00:50No prints?
00:53Nothing taken?
00:54Or disturbed?
00:56No.
00:59Unfortunately, the blood sample wasn't big enough for the lab to get a full DNA read.
01:05It's disappointing.
01:08Well, I really thought it was enough for a full sample.
01:12Apparently not.
01:14What about the glove mark?
01:15Not enough resolution for them to do anything with.
01:18You know, I took photos of the house right after the break-in.
01:23And nothing was touched?
01:24No.
01:26Or they put everything back in its place, which is what you would do if you were installing a listening
01:31device.
01:32I've applied for warrants to do exactly that.
01:34You're a copper?
01:34Serious Crime Squad. Covert Surveillance Unit. Counter-corruption.
01:38I'm innocent.
01:41Well, I mean, as you know, we've done a couple of sweeps. Nothing.
01:50No, me neither.
01:52So, um, there's not much more we can do.
01:57Okay.
02:02So, I don't know.
02:03Oh, God.
02:04Oh, man.
02:18God.
02:19Oh, God.
02:20Oh, man.
02:27Oh, God.
02:27I don't know.
02:58Well, you've worked in surveillance, haven't you, for years, so you're telling me you can't actually see if they've got
03:05a new computer or not?
03:06No. I've done what I can to check, but you just can't tell now.
03:12You see, there's this incognito spyware runs a keylogger in the background, which means they can record every key you
03:18press, every mouse click.
03:19They can see the emails you write, your messages, your passwords, etc., everything.
03:24But they build it so you don't know it's there.
03:26What do the police say?
03:29Well, an officer came out. He took a sample of the blood. There was some blood on the handle downstairs.
03:35And he thought he could see a disposable glove mark in it, which means that whoever did it wants to
03:40make sure they're untraceable.
03:42He did think they could find a DNA result. And then nothing happens.
03:47What do you think this is?
03:49Anything they can find to discredit us. Something that would look good on the cover of the Daily Mail, for
03:55example.
03:56I mean, I can't think of anything that, you know, I mean, I'm...
03:59Well, you know what it is.
04:01What's that?
04:03It's the Free Jazz.
04:05If that gets out, we're fucked.
04:06Oh, fuck off.
04:08But who would want to discredit us, sir?
04:10I don't know.
04:11Could be a burglar who just got scared and legged it.
04:14Yeah, well, or he could have just seen Charlie's Hawaiian Cushions.
04:18Don't say that in front of Charlie.
04:20I'm not going to do that, aren't I? I want to hang on to my balls.
04:24You know, the other day when this happened, the first thing I did was pick up the phone to you.
04:31Yeah, no, I did see it, yeah.
04:33You probably saw it. I hung up. Just to...
04:36Yeah, I just think that what we need now is we need a whistleblower, don't we?
04:43And we need someone from inside the agency.
04:47And high up.
04:48From the top, you know.
04:51Eileen said that we must be making a difference.
04:53Did she?
04:54Yeah, she did.
04:55So, come on, let's...
04:57That's the point, isn't it?
04:58Yeah, we are.
04:58There's no point doing this unless we make a difference.
05:00No, let's keep going. Let's keep going and let's find that fucking whistleblower.
05:04Right.
05:06June 2019.
05:07Sir James Bevan Environment Agency.
05:10Dear Sir James, I'm writing to your office as I'm sure you will know where to direct the question.
05:14October 2019, dear Sir James, I wrote to you to raise concerns about a serious integrity issue involving the agency.
05:23Dear Sir James, 34 days have now passed since I sent you evidence.
05:27I've given up expecting a reply from you.
05:31Dear Ashley, I am in the receipt of your email to Sir James.
05:41Would you mind coming to our office and would the 19th suit?
05:55Is Sir James not coming?
05:57I'm afraid not.
05:58No, Sir James wouldn't routinely attend meetings at this kind of level.
06:02I'd hoped he'd be here.
06:04He's time for.
06:06He's aware of your work.
06:07Well, we're trying to find out what you're going to do about the illegal sewage overflow at Borton.
06:14The combined storm overflow, yeah.
06:16The combined storm overflow at Borton has shown no detectable effects on the water quality.
06:21The water quality is stable and not deteriorating.
06:24I mean, our data shows very clearly that we have the best quality water since the Industrial Revolution.
06:31The water's turned brown.
06:32Yeah.
06:33It's turned so brown that when it joins the Thames at Newbridge, it makes the Thames look like a Swiss
06:38mountain stream.
06:40The water is brown in places, but that's a natural phenomenon.
06:45It's caused by a geological fault.
06:46A geological fault?
06:48Yeah.
06:49Yeah.
06:49Sorry, a geological fault is millions of years old.
06:53We remember when the water was clear.
06:55No one remembers the good old days before the geological fault.
06:58In the last 12 months since we installed sensors, there's been no evidence of pollution.
07:03That's because you've installed the monitors upstream from the sewage pipes.
07:06Now, is that incompetence or an attempt to cover up a scandal?
07:10No, no.
07:10The agency would never position a monitor to achieve a particular reading.
07:14We are working extremely hard to transform the environment.
07:16We've improved and protected something like, I think it's 15,000 kilometers of river.
07:21It's like, but you've had 92 complaints from the general public about sewage pollution.
07:27Well, that's just the windrush.
07:29I've actually got the breakdown here.
07:32Yeah, yeah.
07:35In 36 of those cases, there was no offense.
07:39And in 39, there was insufficient evidence.
07:44And in 6, we were unable to identify the offender.
07:48Oh, what do you mean you couldn't identify the offenders?
07:51Why can't you identify the offenders?
07:52There's seven sewage works along the windrush.
07:55They're all run by Thames Water.
07:56I mean, you say you've got insufficient evidence, but we keep giving you the evidence.
08:00All we ever do is give you the evidence, and all we get back is it's under investigation.
08:04And then nothing, nothing, nothing ever happens.
08:09In exceptional circumstances, for example, after heavy rain, the sewage systems are allowed to overflow.
08:15No, no, no, no.
08:17You see, that's not the law.
08:18The law is that in all normal climatic conditions, including heavy rainfall, the water companies have to treat the sewage.
08:25They have to make it safe before they put it back into the river.
08:29The law is a grey area.
08:30No, no, it's not a grey area, with respect.
08:33It's the law.
08:33Sorry, can I?
08:35Sorry.
08:37Thames is that their own data, it shows they stopped treating sewage at North Leach for more than three months.
08:46Now, they told us that their senses have broken down, but we think they're lying.
08:54They're lying, so why would they do that?
08:58Why would they lie to you?
08:59Why would they lie to you?
09:17We're protecting regulators.
09:22Sorry?
09:25The regulation isn't real.
09:27The government want us to look like a regulator,
09:29but they won't let us do our job.
09:32OK.
09:34When Cameron and Truss gutted the agency,
09:36we went from regulating the industry to doing its bidding.
09:41Do you think we could take your number...
09:43No, just keep going.
09:47This is going to be the first government in modern history
09:50that at the end of its parliamentary term
09:53has less regulation in place than there was at the beginning.
09:56We've now identified those 3,000 regulations that we're going to scrap.
10:00Let's reduce the amount and the burden of regulation...
10:03Strangled by rotating back the health and safety mob.
10:06Cut guidance by 80%,
10:08and we reduce farm inspections by 34,000 every year.
10:12Regulations will...
10:13None of my ministers could introduce a regulation
10:15unless they abolished one at the same time.
10:17Massively reduce the number of rules, laws and regulations
10:21that frankly treat all of you like idiots.
10:27So, really, it's about stripping out
10:30as much unnecessary regulation as possible
10:33and taking responsibility for climate change
10:36and saying, what more can we do to get us to net zero?
10:41As you know, this is a passion project for Sir James,
10:44who feels that we can bring our car usage down by 70%.
10:51Yeah.
10:52It's, yeah.
10:53So, from next month, we're going to be taking the bold decision
10:58to cut back decisively on our car leases.
11:04Yeah.
11:05Sorry.
11:06Mm-hmm.
11:07Just like to clarify what you're going to get rid of our cars.
11:12So, it's about reducing the agency's carbon footprint.
11:16Just getting that, yeah.
11:18Go ahead, Hannah.
11:19The cars that we drive to the inspections in.
11:23Right.
11:24Yeah.
11:24So, self-monitoring and a more desk-based regulation
11:28is really, it's really helping us move the needle on climate change.
11:35Well, the remaining inspections, yeah.
11:40How do we get to those without a car?
11:43Yeah.
11:45It's a great question.
11:46It's a really great question.
11:47And we'll take that forward to the next discussion meeting.
11:51Thanks, Hannah.
11:53Yeah, lovely.
11:53Thanks, everyone.
11:54Not easy news to break, is it?
11:56It's a surprise.
11:57Debbie's got something to say.
11:58I know.
11:58I know.
11:59My car.
11:59Everyone's driving cars.
12:00Yeah.
12:00We're the Environment Agency.
12:02Absolutely.
12:02What's wrong with the train?
12:03I'll keep mine, I think.
12:04So, yeah.
12:05Mmm, coffee.
12:06How do I get a coffee?
12:09Does anybody know what we're looking at?
12:12Anybody?
12:14Okay.
12:15Could you tell me what the reactants are?
12:17So, if you move your head even slightly, the vertigo gets more intense?
12:21Yeah.
12:22And the attack's happening maybe twice a week?
12:24About that, yeah.
12:29The good news is that you don't have cancer.
12:32We actually think it's Meniere's.
12:34It's a disease of the inner ear.
12:36The main symptom is acute vertigo episodes, vomiting, tinnitus.
12:43It's a pretty neat fit with your presentation.
12:48They were dumping sewage in the water the last time before I got sick.
12:54Right.
12:55You know that from?
12:57The Surfers Against Sewage Act.
12:59Okay.
13:01Might that be?
13:02The causes are unclear.
13:04It's post-viral.
13:05This often starts with an ear infection.
13:07They're common in surfers.
13:08Yeah.
13:09Every surfer I know.
13:10Oh my God!
13:11Oh!
13:12What?
13:13This is a chronic condition.
13:16I'm afraid there's no cure.
13:18that hurt.
13:32Oh!
13:34Let's have a spills!
13:34This is so fatal.
13:35What are you doing?
13:39Why don't we shoot?
13:40Let's see.
13:42Just hold his back.
13:44Just hold his back.
13:48Just hold his back.
14:08So, by ending on-site inspections into categories 3 and 4,
14:13no or low-impact pollution events,
14:16and doubling down on the more serious Category 1 and 2 incidents,
14:22we think we can turn ourselves into a more effective fighting unit.
14:26Yeah.
14:27So, from today, we are ending on-site inspections for Cats 3 and 4.
14:32Any questions?
14:34Well, yeah.
14:37A Category 3 incident can be two kilometres of sewage.
14:42Mm.
14:43We want you to not inspect, to not spend time on these incidents.
14:49Except that since the water companies have been self-reporting,
14:54they almost always only report Category 3s and 4s.
14:59So, they're not actually reporting a serious incident.
15:01And so, if the water companies are only reporting 3s and 4s...
15:053s and 4s.
15:053s and 4s.
15:05And we're no longer allowed to investigate...
15:08So, what exactly are we going to be doing?
15:11I've told the government, you get the regulation you pay for.
15:14We no longer have the money to go on inspecting low-grade pollution events.
15:19We need you to shut down these reports as unsubstantiated,
15:22or to silently pass them,
15:25and to not report them as pollution incidents.
15:28Is that clear?
15:33Yeah.
15:34Yeah, thank you.
15:34Thanks, everyone.
15:35You're on with your day?
15:36Yeah.
15:47We had to fuck.
15:49Fucking wankers.
15:50How are you going to get to fucking work?
15:52Fuck nice.
15:55Horseback.
16:03What time did he call you?
16:05I passed 10 last night.
16:08Said he couldn't miss it.
16:20Oh, my God, look at it.
16:26I'll get some shots and we'll call the agency on the way back.
16:51I'll get some shots and we'll call the agency on the way back.
17:00Okay, so, let's get to go.
17:03I'll get a look at him.
17:08I'll get some shots.
17:09Okay, I'm going to go.
17:16I'm going to have to go.
17:18Bye.
17:27I don't know.
17:52Debbie, are you driving into work tomorrow?
17:55Yeah, obviously. How else would I get in?
17:56Well, can I borrow your car at lunchtime?
18:00What for?
18:02Someone keeps calling up and complaining about the same incident.
18:06It's near the bridge at Hawkrise, so I'm going to go and take a look.
18:11Okay.
18:12A bit of freelance investigation.
18:14A bit of freelance, and also he needs to be off the books.
18:17And I need you to promise me not to tell Sophie.
18:21I couldn't tell Sophie.
18:22I couldn't tell Sophie.
18:23I couldn't tell Sophie.
18:23You know what? I couldn't tell Sophie anything.
18:25I couldn't tell Sophie.
18:27I got a little bit of mail on you.
18:31Okay.
18:31Oh, my God.
18:37Oh, my God.
18:48What are you doing?
18:50Equipped by the moon.
18:52Okay.
18:53Hi!
18:54hi is that um is that justine hi justine um it's it's hannah from the environment agency
19:04listen it's about the um the pollution event at hawk rice um it came through the system
19:10at a duration of 1.34 hours and and i'm here now and it's it's still going
19:19yeah yeah i'm yeah i'm here now yeah the cso's still discharging untreated sewage i mean there's
19:27there's a section of the river that is covered over with dried sewage i mean these dead fish you
19:32can see them from the footpath i mean you're going to get more complaints you need to sort this
19:42can you prepare and cook a simple meal unaided yeah but not when i'm having an attack
19:51then i can't do anything i can't i can't move can you eat and drink unaided yeah but again
19:58not when i'm having an attack and i've been getting the attacks for every few days for the past six
20:04months but if if you're not having one of your attacks can you eat and drink unaided yeah but
20:10yes or no is fine yes can you dress and undress unaided
20:20it's the same answer moving on to the mobility section of this assessment
20:25can you plan and follow a journey unaided yeah but not when i'm having an attack
20:33stand and move for 200 meters not when i'm having an attack
20:38well you know can you move around walk for 200 meters of course i can but not when i'm having
20:43an
20:43attack okay thank you mr santa your total score for the daily living part of the assessment is zero
20:50points your total score for the mobility section is zero points when you're not having an attack you're
20:56able to do all the tasks they asked you about that's the thing is that sometimes you can i can
21:03do
21:03these things and other times i can't and when i can't i can't i can't i can't award you personal
21:07independence payment i don't know what to do if you need further guidance about how to appeal you can
21:13use the web chat to get some help if you cannot access the web chat you can contact the benefits
21:18appeal
21:19helpline on zero three zero zero
21:31hannah sorry to scare you um do you have a second can i have a word of course yeah okay
21:38so i've just
21:39i just got off the phone to justine wright phillips at the water company yeah yeah she said she said
21:44you
21:44called her yeah i yeah you did okay she said you called her from the site well i saw that
21:52it
21:52been logged on the system for the fifth time and people kept calling up complaining and nobody was
21:56doing anything about it so we don't have the revenue to be investigating category three
22:03it's not a category three sophie the river is dried over with excrement you can see it from that's that's
22:10what i wanted to talk to you about so justine says that the dispersal rate in that area is really
22:15high
22:16is it yeah she says she says there's like a strong current and a high dispersal the overflow pipe has
22:21been discharging for over 36 hours and it is still going all right that's treated that is the water
22:27company's responsibility to report to us you know this okay and justine says that actually really the um
22:35because of the high dispersal rate that the the it should come down to a category four
22:41be a category four yes right
22:46so no impact on the environment no action needed yes
22:56oh you want me to change it on the system could you could you yeah okay thanks so much thank
23:02you
23:02that's great lovely
23:12so you see now well we're doing yeah of course you're joking you're not joking you know stroik
23:19no what's that strategic review of incident charges yeah it's like what we charge the clients for
23:25permits so we don't have clients cheryl we're an environment agency yes sorry yes we don't have
23:31clients but sir james has put the prices up yeah and i'm talking like up up big time
23:39well he's charging the water companies more yep well they must surely they've gone down to the
23:44government like lobbying them going mad yeah getting the charges taken down no not peep not a not a
23:51so they're just paying it we've basically had such a high revenue spike yeah but we are on our way
24:00to
24:01becoming a client funded regulator sorry wait hold on one minute this is going a bit so you're saying
24:07that the water companies are funding the environment agency that's what you're really you see you see
24:15issues there you can't be serious a client funded regulator amazing isn't it how can that even be a
24:24thing it's a thing well hold on because literally the other day sir james said that you get the
24:31regulation that you pay for yeah that we haven't got the money to do the investigations that we used
24:36to do nobody's paying for them okay that's your area isn't it i mean all i know is that we
24:43have got
24:44more cash than we've ever had before just making conversation i've got the job postman no did you
24:55yeah really good timing uh-huh because i did two pregnancy tests this morning and yeah i'm pregnant
25:08yeah what yeah bring that no yeah yeah i sort of just had a funny feeling and then yeah did
25:16one test
25:18two lines and then i did another test and it said two lines as well and i was like
25:32i'm susan davey i am the ceo of southwest water basically the wet weather events
25:39put a strain on our victorian networks and unfortunately we have a victorian sewage system which we have
25:48inherited and that means things do go wrong 12 12 12 12 what's 12 12 of the sewage system is
26:00victorian
26:00well what do they tell you that the whole of the system was victorian so that meant that
26:06the investment would be so high that it'd be impossible to to actually fix it all bollocks
26:12should i tell you what stopped it when privatization came in they just stopped spending
26:17after the war they kept upgrading then after privatization came in they just stopped not just
26:24thames all of them six percent new plants is privatization six percent six percent is that all
26:31you know it'd be good if we could maybe come and visit one of the works well i'll have to
26:37see
26:37but that's honestly because i even just doing this i feel a bit nervous look in london stadium
26:43that's not a proper stadium massive upton park now that was a proper stadium mate london stadium's
26:49too big you fucking binoculars you know yeah sorry pete did you want to see an edm oh yes yes
26:54that's
26:55fine thank you well remembered so this is an event duration monitor now we fitted one of these
27:01companies on every sewage pipe in england but in 2012 right the coalition government they ordered
27:07all the water companies to record how much time they spend dumping raw sewage these little units
27:13they measure how much poo goes into the river by hours management have been dragging their feet for
27:18eight years now but we're finally getting most of it in now and the agency they've got to publish
27:24the numbers they have to by law they're not going to like it but tough shit edm's yes uh so
27:36we are finalizing plans for the statutory publication of the edm numbers
27:44as you know there have been some technical delays but it looks like they're almost ready
27:51and uh they're going to come as a bit of a shock uh the data is going to show that
28:00the water
28:00companies discharged raw sewage 400 000 times in 2020 that's 1100 times a day
28:10for a total of 3.1 million hours
28:17it's a bit of a shocker can i just say that um since operator self-monitoring we've had to rely
28:24on the
28:25water companies to report back to us yeah i think that the key here is that this doesn't get framed
28:30as a failure of regulation that is that is that would be quite wrong and uh and i think managing
28:37comms on this is going to be key and we are working actively with the water companies to uh to
28:43to to
28:44bear down on the problem yeah and but that's 1100 criminal offenses a day well that's actually
28:51that's debatable because that depends on the terms of the permits and the circumstances around each spill
28:57yeah and we know the legislation permits discharging after heavy rainfall
29:01no no it doesn't sorry hannah the law doesn't say that you can just dump sewage after heavy rain
29:09it says that in all normal climatic and seasonal circumstances the water companies have to treat
29:14the sewage not just dump it it's not the agency's job to adjudicate legal matters i mean this is actually
29:21a matter for the courts no no no this is this is our job it's our job to enforce the
29:27law yeah that's
29:29what we're here to do can you um you did you want to no no you you finish off here
29:39sophie thank you
29:43so we've identified the problem and now we work on the problem yeah which is reframing and owning
29:47the narrative yeah we we don't want this to get misconstrued as some sort of failure on our part
29:51because it just isn't thanks thanks so much thanks cool lovely thanks thanks so much by the way um
30:02so i've heard you're going to give evidence in parliament yes yes amazing yeah i think you're bad
30:09what does that mean thinking about he's uh he's nervous i'm not nervous he's nervous no it's not
30:15well i'm nervous i want to do it it's just it's difficult don't worry about it yeah we're counting
30:22on you we are really counting on you and you can explain it in the scientific way you're going to
30:26come across brilliantly they're going to believe you mate well it it's it's not really as simple as
30:31that i mean the boys from ogden called me earlier right they told me that they dumped two billion
30:36liters of sewage in the thames over two days environment agency haven't got scooby
30:42did they send you the data i've got the data can you send that to us i will send it
30:46to you
30:46we're not going to let you down please you could do this come on pete you're a legend mate come
30:53on
31:04we now have the lowest number of serious pollution incidents from water companies that we have yet
31:10recorded and more water companies are now at the highest level of performance what we call four
31:18star performance i mean we now have the lowest number of serious pollution incidents from water
31:24companies that are now at the highest level of service companies that we have yet recorded
31:54i'm an environment officer at the agency i investigate sewage pollution
32:01when i first joined it wasn't a job to get rich on you know i could see i was i
32:09was making a difference
32:11you know corporations want to make money we make sure that they don't poison the rivers doing it
32:16we could investigate prosecute whatever it took but then they told the companies that they could
32:25regulate themselves let's operate a self monastery exactly then came the cameron cuts then the trust
32:34cuts they laid off investigators slashed prosecutions i mean they even took our cars off of us so we
32:41couldn't visit pollution sites all these cuts meant you couldn't do your job properly that's not it
32:49in 2021 sir james hiked the prices the water companies paid for their permits
32:55it was called charge funded regulation we get 96 million from the government we are now pulling in
33:04411 million from charges all these cuts they're just a smoke screen we're swimming in cash
33:13i am doing this because i know that it is wrong and it has ruined my whole working life
33:23good luck
33:49the environment agency has refused to comment on whether agency directors currently hold shares
33:57in uk water companies the agency claimed it would break data protection laws if it
34:02disclose the information environment agency chiefs secretly held a series of private
34:07dinners with water company bosses at the royal automobile club in central london documents released
34:12under the freedom of information act showed the meetings were held to discuss how to quell
34:18public anger over sewage as the sewage scandal deepens environment agency ceo sir james bevan
34:24has been called to give evidence to a parliamentary committee well we need to talk about what we
34:29say in public and the responsibilities we have you have a duty not to openly criticize or discredit the
34:38organization in the media or on social media or to disclose confidential information to anyone not
34:47you have a duty not to be authorized to receive it if your comments inside or outside work impact on
34:54the
34:54agency's reputation by making derogatory comments about the organization or your managers or you make
35:01comments that bring the organization into disrepute you may be subject to disciplinary action and in more
35:09serious cases dismissal thank you
35:2710 years i don't think i want to do this you'll be fine leave the toilet
35:34i'm all right i need a bloody toilet do you want a pie what does that mean
35:42well um my garden is a an island which the wind rush wraps around i've watched it closely for 18
35:54years and i watched the water turn brown i led a team of scientists using
36:01a machine learning analysis one of those works the environments agency said over 10 years only two
36:14pollution incidents have been reported our machine learning analysis uh it showed hundreds of illegal spills
36:24uh more than 300 lasted 24 hours and some uh longer than 10 days
36:34and some for a month have you shown this evidence to the environment agency uh well we are i've shown
36:41the evidence like many times what usually happens is that they uh they say that uh they show a sign
36:50of
36:50interest but then nothing happens we work very closely with professor hammond of uh windrush against
37:00sewage pollution we have a regular and very fruitful dialogue with him you worked closely with professor
37:08hammond uh he and ashley smith sent you at least 13 emails detailing evidence of illegal sewage dumping
37:17he published five evidence reports documenting water company criminality all of which were sent to
37:24you or your senior colleagues they invited you to come and look at the river in 2019 and the following
37:33year sent you an email with the heading environment agency complicit in law breaking
37:45they never heard back you never once replied in five years
37:51how did you manage to work so closely professor hammond when you never once spoke to him
37:56at the thames water modern treatment works there was a spill of 240 olympic swimming pools of sewage
38:06in a single day the existing monitoring failed to pick that up now why was that there will always be
38:14times when uh something happens usually accidentally but if we find that a water company has breached its
38:23permit we will take appropriate action does appropriate action include prosecuting water company executives
38:30prosecution is a very high bar but uh where we think that's appropriate we wouldn't hesitate
38:38did you prosecute in this case no have you ever prosecuted any water company executives no but
38:47if we thought the evidence warranted it we wouldn't hesitate
38:58yes but three weeks after that you told the committee that the water companies were improving
39:03and that more of them were getting four out of four stars why were you telling the committee that
39:10the water companies were doing a four-star job well you've quoted everything i said i think i i stand
39:21by
39:22everything i said i think you'll find them mutually consistent
39:28the agency's job is to make sure water companies obey the criminal law but it doesn't do it and the
39:35water companies do whatever they want the alleged crimes of their directors are never prosecuted
39:43they've built criminality into their business models because pollution is highly profitable and repeat
39:50offending has no consequences therefore in the light of the remarkable absence of any counter
39:57corruption measures we demand an investigation into the environment agency
40:05the key test for me on regulation less regulation is it something that enables the builders not
40:11the blockers cut guidance by 80 percent we've also got to look at regulation regulations will go
40:16and where it is needlessly holding back the investment reduce the amount and the burden of
40:21regulation rip up the bureaucracy that blocks investment northumbria and water recorded 30.1 spills
40:27per overflow over the course of 2023 280 000 hours and change in total um the chief executive heidi
40:37mottram received a bonus of 234 000 pounds that year um why did you take for alter kits from the
40:46parent
40:46company well i didn't okay ck hutchins holdings owns 75 of chong kong infrastructure holdings the owner of
40:55northumbria and water and you declared two thousand pounds in football tickets and hospitality
40:59on on that occasion there was nobody from a water company that was involved in uh offering those
41:05tickets there was nobody from a water company at that event well i wouldn't have known that they
41:10were you said that these sort of people should potentially be in the dock uh if they have been
41:16willing to break the rules you took two thousand pounds in tickets and hospitality for a football
41:21match from bosses linked to that company that polluted that water why should people in northumbria
41:26think that you're fit for me well i certainly wouldn't know that and judge me by what i do
41:30why not judge me by what i do that is what you did
41:45environment minister steve reed is pursuing legal action against a group of anglers trying to restore
41:51the ecosystem of their local river on the grounds that cleaning up individual rivers is administratively
41:58unworkable concerns are being raised about the number of leading labor figures with links to
42:03lobbying firms working for water companies among the invited guests at the government's international
42:08investment summit was macquarie bank described as the vampire kangaroo by critics macquarie presided over
42:16the near collapse of thames water leaving it 10 billion pounds in debt after having illegally dumped
42:21billions of liters of raw sewage
42:40reuben
42:47i know i know i can't be left alone with her
42:54privatized water is a better deal than nationalized water
42:59that the water privatization i believe will go very successfully indeed
43:04that will go very successfully indeed and perhaps therefore we have better wait and see
43:12how did it come to this how did it how did it happen that that england is it's the only
43:22place in the
43:23whole world whose water system is wholly privatized that our seas and our rivers are full of shite
43:35i just feel like we're trying to bring down england's biggest organized crime syndicate
43:43i mean they're not the mafia these water companies they're not a drugs cartel but they do
43:49dump sewage a thousand times a day and almost all of those are illegal and the cash they've accumulated
44:01145 billion pounds since privatization and they've got that because they seem to have built criminality
44:08into their business models so they are like an organized crime syndicate and the ceos
44:18and the owners are like crime bosses i mean they don't murder people obviously they're not assassins
44:28but me and peter are sitting here waiting for these crime lords to put things right
44:36and if we leave them to their own devices they never will
44:43they never will we've put the things that we own and care about together we've put them into the
44:53hands of financial speculators whose job it is is just to make money we need to put the people who
45:00care
45:01in charge
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