Labour abstain on bid to criminalise water companies for sewage pollution
Labour abstain on bid to criminalise water companies for sewage pollution
Under Labour water companies and shareholders will continue to make eye-watering sums while polluting our rivers and the sea
So, this isn't particularly difficult to investigate.
The Criminal Justice Bill has already passed the committee stage, see here:
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3511
Amendments of the sort the Lib Dems tabled here are outside the scope of the bill, as described. See New Clause 91, just below division 152 here:
Unlike the USA, tacking unrelated stuff on to bills is not how our system works, especially at the final reading, which is why loads of members abstained (all of Labour, all of the SNP, even 6/15 Lib Dems, etc).
Now, do I want it to be a criminal offence to pump literal shit in to our drinking water? Of course I do, fuck the bastards.
But please don't let yourself be tricked by this political gamesmanship.
I'd say The Canary should know better, but this sort of thing is why they are an absolute joke.
Edit: added link to clause and fixed typos
Y'know, I understand why the Canary publish this kind of misinformation. Their whole business model is based on inciting directionless outrage. What I can't understand is why people, like everyone else in this thread, keep falling for it.
tacking unrelated stuff on to bills is not how our system works
Parliament has exclusive cognisance, it works how the members want it to work.
Yes, and the members overwhelming rejected the attempt to add unrelated clauses to a bill in the final stages, thus keeping with convention.
The LibDems knew this would be the case, so it's cheap posturing and point scoring aimed at people who don't understand how the house operates.
This would have beem a straight criminalisation, id rather see the environmental agency given the powers and motivation to deal with the water companies.
The EA has largely been defanged by the tories and it shows very little interest in pursuing these issues
From the outside looking in, it would appear that Labour is yet another pseudo-progressive party that got addicted to corporate cash during the late 1990s flowering of neoliberalism ans aren't willing to let go.
It's the same thing in most western Nations, and it has the awful side effect of making what were previously "reasonable" right wing parties into proto-fascists put of self defense.
This is "New Labour", which systematically purges traditional Labour/leftist members from any position of power or leadership e.g. Corbyn.
Oh FFS.
Spineless fucking shits! This is LITERALLY your entire job!
We need to replace Starmer ASAP, having him leading the party is going to be a complete waste of our chance to make some positive change in the UK.
The bar is set so low for Starmer's Labour and yet they refuse to walk over it. It's like they're trying to break the world record for the world's lowest limbo.