Today, the LibDem's Tim Farron put forward New Clause 91 that would create a new criminal offence for "failing to meet pollution performance commitment levels" 17 MPs voted for 262 MPs voted against 260 of the MPs that voted no were Conservative MPs They did this on that day it was revealed that 10 million litres of sewage had been dumped into lake Windermere
@implausibleblog The 265 Tory MPs on the following list - voted to continue dumping raw sewage in their constituent's waterways. Are you going to vote to return any of these to Parliament? express.co.uk/news/politics/…
@implausibleblog @PatrickHanrahan The question is where were all the other MPs. 279 MPs voted. 371 MPs did not vote. Why? they are paid to attend & do a job. All that is wrong with our country and it's parliamentary system.
@implausibleblog Is Labour undecided about whether polluted water is a good thing or a bad thing? Where the hell were they?
@implausibleblog So.... How many Labour MPs voted?
@implausibleblog @Beany_1 Disappointing that Labour seem unable to ever support an initiative from another party.
@implausibleblog Roll on the GE...
@implausibleblog AND ALL of Labour ABSTAINED!!!! Don't trust Labour on the environment.
@implausibleblog Down here in Brixham, South Devon, we are now being told to boil drinking water due to contamination with cryptosporidium southwestwater.co.uk/household/help…
@implausibleblog No one wants to burn bridges with privately owned water companies. Certainly not close to redundant Tory MPs looking for cushy directorships.
@implausibleblog Where were the remainder of the MPs? Didn’t they consider this to be an issue of national importance?
@implausibleblog Perhaps the drinking water in Parliament should now come from A Devon reservoir ?
@implausibleblog Voting to allow the continued dumping of human faeces in our rivers, lakes and sea. Dangerous to sensitive ecosystems and a threat to our health. Allowed by MPs. Not representing their constituents’ needs are they?
@implausibleblog And the other two who voted no were @ABridgen and @Bob4Beckenham, former Conservative MPs.
@implausibleblog Labour abstained en masse, which is pretty much the same as voting with the Conservatives. What is the point of a right wing opposition when you have a far right government?
@implausibleblog @EuropeanPowell Simply ridiculous, because 68% of all tap water in England comes from a river.
@implausibleblog So Labour were conveniently absent. What is the Labour leadership’s policy on the appalling state of the water industry? Do they even have one? They seem to think that if they carry on keeping shtum on the whole issue it will go away….
@implausibleblog How many of those MPs have links to Water Companies, I wonder!
@implausibleblog 10 million litres of sewage into a lake where drinking water is abstracted!!! 😳
@implausibleblog So, the water company pollutes the very water it must then treat so its drinkable instead of treating it before dumping it into lakes and rivers?
@implausibleblog Flying tipping rubbish on land is a criminal offence so why isn't pumping sh*t into Lake Windermere or the Thames also criminal?
@implausibleblog Every scumbag Tory MP should be made to bathe in the polluted rivers, streams, lakes & seas they have caused. Why are we putting up with these useless corrupt grifters being in power. They should all be in prison; oh wait, there are no prison places even for convicted criminals!!
@implausibleblog WTAF how can not a single Labour MP have voted?
@implausibleblog @PeteWTMk2 Where was Labour? Siding with the water companies?
@implausibleblog I do have a feeling that the answer to everything has become ‘make it a criminal offence’ which no one then prosecutes. BUT UK law firms use the threat of private prosecutions to scare people right now & the thought that Greenpeace & a law firm are coming might focus minds.
@implausibleblog Is this their greatly promoted "Change"? Labour - what are they now? The party of no change
