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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.
00:38Clever!
00:42Clever!
00:50No prints?
00:53Nothing taken or 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.
02:02Oh, man.
02:26I don't know.
02:59You've worked in surveillance, haven't you, for years, so you're telling me you can't
03:03actually see if they've got a new computer or not?
03:06No.
03:08I'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
03:17they can record every key you press, every mouse click, they can see the emails you write,
03:21your messages, your passwords, etc., everything.
03:24But they build it so you don't know it's there.
03:26What did the police say?
03:29Well, an officer came out, he took a sample of the blood, there was some blood on the
03:34handle downstairs, and he thought he could see a disposable glove mark in it, which means
03:39that whoever did it wants to make sure they're untraceable.
03:42He did think they could find a DNA result, and then nothing, nothing happens.
03:47What do you think this is?
03:49Anything they can find to discredit us.
03:52Something that would look good on the cover of the Daily Mail, for example.
03:56I mean, I can't think of anything that, you know...
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?
04:10I don't know.
04:11Could it be a burglar who just got scared and legged it?
04:14Yeah, well, or he could have just seen Charlotte's Hawaiian Cushions.
04:18Don't say they're in front of Joe.
04:20Fuck, I'm not going to do that, I don't know, 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
04:30to you.
04:31Yeah, no, I did see it, yeah.
04:33You probably saw it.
04:34I hung up.
04:35Just to...
04:36Yeah, I just think that what we need now is we need a whistleblower, don't we, and we
04:44need 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.
05:01Let's keep going and let's find that fucking whistleblower.
05:04Right.
05:05June 2019, Sir 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
05:14question.
05:14October 2019, Dear Sir James, I wrote to you to raise concerns about a serious integrity
05:21issue 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.
06:05He's time poor.
06:06Yeah.
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
06:13at Borton.
06:14The combined storm overflow.
06:15Yeah.
06:16The combined storm overflow at Burton has shown no detectable effects on the water quality.
06:21The water quality is stable and not deteriorating.
06:23I mean, our data shows very clearly that we have the best quality water since the Industrial
06:28Revolution.
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
06:37like a Swiss mountain stream.
06:40The water is brown in places, but that's a natural phenomenon.
06:45It's caused by geological faults.
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.
07:03Well, that'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.
07:22It's right, but you've had 92 complaints from the general public about sewage pollution.
07:27Well, that's just the wind rush.
07:29I've actually got the breakdown here.
07:31Let's see.
07:33Yeah.
07:33Yeah.
07:35In 36 of those cases, there was no offence.
07:39And in 39, there was insufficient evidence.
07:44And in 6, we were unable to identify the offender.
07:48Well, 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 wind rush.
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.
08:16No, 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.
08:31No, it's not a grey area with respect.
08:33It's the law.
08:33Sorry.
08:34Can I?
08:35Sorry.
08:37Thames is their own data.
08:40It shows they stopped treating sewage at North Leach for more than three months.
08:46Now, they told us that their sensors have broken down, but we think they're lying.
08:54They're lying.
08:55So why would they do that?
08:57Why would they lie to you?
09:12Don't let them come.
09:18We're pretend clean regulators.
09:22Sorry?
09:25the regulation isn't real
09:27the government
09:28want 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
09:38to doing its bidding
09:41do you think we could take your number
09:43just keep going
09:47this is going to be the first government
09:49in modern history
09:50that at the end of its parliamentary term
09:53has less regulation in place
09:54than there was at the beginning
09:56we've now identified those 3,000 regulations
09:59that we're going to scrap
10:00let's reduce the amount
10:01and the burden of regulation
10:03strangled by retaining back
10:04the health and safety monster
10:06cut guidance by 80%
10:08and we reduce farm inspections
10:09by 34,000 every year
10:12regulations will gut
10:13none of my ministers
10:13could introduce a regulation
10:15unless they abolished one
10:16at the same time
10:17massively reduce
10:18the number of rules
10:19laws and regulations
10:21that frankly treat
10:22all of you
10:23like idiots
10:27so really
10:28it's about
10:29stripping out
10:30as much
10:31unnecessary regulation
10:32as possible
10:33and taking responsibility
10:35for climate change
10:36and saying
10:37what more
10:38can we do
10:39to get us
10:40to net zero
10:41as you know
10:41this is a passion project
10:43for Sir James
10:44who feels
10:45that we
10:46can bring
10:47our car usage down
10:48by 70%
10:50yeah
10:51it's
10:53yeah
10:53so
10:54from next month
10:55we're going to be taking
10:56the bold
10:57decision
10:58to cut back
10:59decisively
10:59on our
11:00car leases
11:04yeah
11:05sorry
11:06just like to clarify
11:08what
11:09you're going to get
11:10rid of our cars
11:11so it's about
11:13reducing the agency's
11:15carbon footprint
11:15just getting that
11:17yeah
11:17go ahead Hannah
11:19the cars that we
11:20drive to the inspections in
11:23right
11:23yeah
11:24so
11:24self-monitoring
11:26and a more desk-based
11:28regulation
11:28is really
11:29it's really
11:30helping us
11:30move the needle
11:31on climate change
11:35but
11:35the remaining
11:37inspections
11:39yeah
11:40how do we get
11:41to those
11:41without a car
11:43yeah
11:45it's a great question
11:46it's a really great question
11:47and we'll take that
11:49forward
11:49to the next
11:50discussion meeting
11:50thanks Hannah
11:52yeah lovely
11:53thanks everyone
11:54not easy news
11:55to break is it
11:55surprise
11:56Debbie's got something to say
11:58I know
11:58I know
11:59but my car
11:59everyone's driving cars
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
12:05I'll cough for you
12:06how do I get a cough for you
12:08does anybody know
12:09what we're looking at
12:12anybody
12:14okay
12:14could you tell me
12:15what the reactants are
12:17so if you move your head
12:19even slightly
12:19the vertical gets more intense
12:20yeah
12:21and the attack's happening
12:23maybe twice a week
12:24about that
12:25yeah
12:29the good news
12:30is that you don't have cancer
12:32we actually think
12:33it's Meniere's
12:34it's a disease
12:35of the inner ear
12:36the main symptom
12:37is acute vertical episodes
12:40vomiting
12:41tinnitus
12:43it's a pretty neat fit
12:44with your presentation
12:48they were dumping sewage
12:51in the water
12:51the last time
12:53before I got sick
12:54right
12:55you know that from
12:56the surface against sewage app
12:58okay
13:01might that be
13:02the causes are unclear
13:03it's post-viral
13:05this often starts
13:06with an ear infection
13:07they're common
13:07in surfers
13:08yeah
13:09every surfer I know
13:12this is a
13:14chronic condition
13:16I'm afraid
13:17there's no cure
13:38should we leave the table
13:40just hold us back
13:44just hold us back
14:08so by ending
14:09on-site inspections
14:11into categories
14:12three and four
14:13no or low impact
14:15pollution events
14:16and doubling down
14:17on the more serious
14:19category one
14:20and two
14:21incidents
14:22we think we can
14:23turn ourselves
14:24into a more effective
14:25fighting unit
14:26yeah
14:27so from today
14:28we are ending
14:29on-site inspections
14:30for cats three
14:31and four
14:31any questions
14:34well yeah
14:35um
14:37a category three
14:39incident can be
14:40two kilometers
14:41of sewage
14:43we want you to
14:44not inspect
14:45to not spend time
14:46on these incidents
14:49except
14:50that
14:50since the water
14:51companies
14:52have been
14:53self-reporting
14:54they almost always
14:56only report
14:57categories
14:57threes and fours
14:59so they're not
14:59actually reporting
15:00serious incidents
15:01and so if the water
15:02companies are
15:02only reporting
15:04threes and fours
15:05and we're
15:06no longer allowed
15:07to investigate
15:08so what exactly
15:09are we going to be
15:10doing
15:11I've told the government
15:12you get the regulation
15:14you pay for
15:14we no longer have
15:15the money to go on
15:16inspecting low-grade
15:17pollution events
15:19we need you to
15:20shut down these
15:21reports as
15:21unsubstantiated
15:22or to
15:23silently pass them
15:24and to not report
15:26them as pollution
15:27incidents
15:27is that clear
15:33yeah
15:34thank you
15:34thanks everyone
15:35you're on with your
15:36day
15:36yeah
15:47we had to fuck
15:48fucking wankers
15:50how are you going to get to fucking work
15:52fuck nice
15:54horseback
16:03what time did he call you
16:04I passed ten last night
16:08he said he couldn't miss it
16:20oh my god look at it
16:26get some shots and we'll call the agency on the way back
16:29get some shots and we'll call the agency on the way back
16:36get some shots and we'll call the agency on the way back
16:42I don't know.
17:19I don't know.
17:56I don't know.
18:11I don't know.
18:12A bit of freelance investigation.
18:13A bit of freelance.
18:15And 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.
18:22You couldn't tell Sophie.
18:23Within our waters.
18:24There's nothing.
18:52Hi.
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 at a
19:11duration of 1.34 hours and and i'm here now and it's still going yeah yeah i'm yeah i'm here
19:20now
19:21yeah the cso's still discharging untreated sewage i mean there's there's a section of the river that
19:28is covered over with dried sewage i mean these dead fish you can see them from the footpath i
19:34mean you're going to get more complaints you need to sort this can you prepare and cook a simple meal
19:46unaided yeah but not when i'm having an attack then i can't do anything i can't i can't move
19:53can you eat and drink unaided yeah but again not when i'm having an attack
20:00and i've been getting the attacks every few days for the past six months but if if you're not having
20:06one of your attacks can you eat and drink unaided yeah but yes or no is fine yes
20:15can 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
20:37not 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
20:56you're able to do all the tasks i asked you about that's the thing with my condition is that sometimes
21:01you can i can do these things and other times i can't and when i can't i can't i can't
21:06i can't
21:06award you personal independence payment i don't know what to do if you need further guidance about
21:11how to appeal you can use the web chat to get some help if you cannot access the web chat
21:17you can
21:17contact the benefits appeal helpline on zero three zero zero one
21:31hannah sorry sorry to scare you um do you have a second can i have a word of course yeah
21:37okay so
21:38i've just i just got off the phone to justine wright phillips at the water company yeah yeah she said
21:44she said you called her yeah i yeah you did okay she said you called her from the site
21:51well i saw that it been logged on the system for the fifth time and people kept calling up
21:55complaining and nobody was doing anything about it so we don't have the revenue to be investigating
22:00category threes it's not a category three sophie the river is dried over with excrement you can see it
22:09from that that's that's what i wanted to talk to you about so justine says that the dispersal rate
22:14in that area is really high is it yeah she says she says there's like a strong current and a
22:19high
22:19dispersal the overflow pipe has been discharging for over 36 hours and it is still going all right
22:25that's treated that is the water company's responsibility to report to us you know this
22:32okay okay and justine says that actually really the um because of the high dispersal rate that the the
22:38it should come down to a category four be a category four yes right
22:45so no impact on the environment no action needed yes
22:55oh you want me to change it on the system would you could you yeah
23:00okay thanks so much thank you that's great lovely
23:12so you see now well we're doing yeah are you joking i'm 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
23:30yes we don't have clients but sir james has put the prices up yeah and i'm talking like up up
23:37big time well he's charging the water companies more yep well they must surely they've gone down to
23:44the government like lobbying them going mad yeah getting the charges taken down no not a peep not a not
23:50a
23:51peep they're just paying it we've basically had such a high revenue spike yeah but we are on our way
24:00to becoming a client funded regulator sorry wait hold on one minute this is going a bit so you're saying
24:07that
24:09the water companies are funding the environment agency that's what you're really you see you see
24:15the issues 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 yeah really good
24:59timing uh-huh because i did two pregnancy tests this morning and yeah i'm pregnant
25:09what yeah bring that no yeah yeah i sort of just had a funny feeling and then yeah did one
25:17test
25:18two lines and then i did another test and it said two lines as well and i was like
25:32i'm susan davy i am the ceo of southwest water basically the wet weather events
25:39strain 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 in london stadium that's not
26:44a proper stadium massive upton park now that was a proper stadium mate london stadium's too big
26:50binoculars do you know what i mean yeah sorry pete did you want to see an edm oh yes yes
26:54that's fine
26:55well remembered so this is an event duration monitor now we fitted one of these on every sewage pipe in
27:03england in 2012 right the coalition government they ordered all the water companies to record
27:08how much time they spend dumping raw sewage these little units they measure how much poo goes into
27:14the river by hours management have been dragging their feet for eight years now but we're finally
27:21getting most of it in now and the agency they've got to publish the numbers they have to by law
27:26they're not going to like it but tough shit edm's yes uh so we are finalizing plans for the statutory
27:40publication of the edm numbers as you know there have been some technical delays but it looks like
27:49they're almost ready and uh they're going to come as a bit of a shock uh the data is going
27:59to show
27:59that the water companies discharged raw sewage 400 000 times in 2020 that's 1100 times a day
28:10for a total of 3.1 million hours
28:17that's a bit of a shocker can i just say that um since operator self monitoring we've had to rely
28:24on the water companies to report back to us yeah i think that the key here is that this doesn't
28:30get
28:30framed as a failure of regulation that is that is that would be quite wrong and uh and i think
28:36managing comms on this is going to be key and we are working actively with the water companies to uh
28:43to
28:43to to to bear down on the problem yeah and but that's 1100 criminal offenses a day well that's
28:51actually that's debatable because that depends on the terms of the permits and the circumstances
28:56around each spill yeah and we know the legislation permits discharging after heavy rainfall no no it
29:03doesn'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 what
29:29we're here to do can you um you did you want to no no you you finish off here sophie
29:40thank you
29:43so we've identified the problem and now we work on the problem which is reframing and owning the
29:47narrative 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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