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‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2024
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So there's a whole year where brexit is irrelevant?
Honestly the article doesn't do a good job of explaining the problem, or how it's going to be fixed.
They've basically just shoehorned Brexit into an article about governmental incompetence.
As if being in the EU saved us from our useless politicians.
The water system is a business. The labs are businesses. A competent business shuttering when the market shrinks to avoid making a loss is an effect of Brexit.
The fact our water infrastructure is run as a business is an effect of Thatcher selling it.
We need to vote for a government to reverse Brexit eventually. But we're also still waiting 35 years to reverse the privatisation of the 80s.
The problem with voting for destructive Conservative governments is it costs a lot of money to replace the things they've given away or destroyed.