‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/07/brexit-problem-uk-tap-water-safety-at-risk-after-testing-labs-shut-down
Posted by BustySubstances
‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/07/brexit-problem-uk-tap-water-safety-at-risk-after-testing-labs-shut-down
Posted by BustySubstances
13 Comments
FFS just come back already…no more opt outs, but we could fix pretty much anything together
Can anyone point to anything good that has happened as a result of brexit?
Some people are obsessed with the perspective that as a country we can not solve things for ourselves. You need to grow up.
Well it’s moderately better than being force fed 3 Reich flavoured bovine effluent for 14 years solid.
Just copy the EUs homework and approve whatever products they seem safe. Let them pay for the costs of testing. Tons of smaller EU countries sponge off the larger ones. We should do the same.
Oh look, another wonderful thing we reap from Brexit.
Natural capitalist solution to this is everyone buys their own water treatment plant and sues the water treatment company. Easy.
*Laboratories have to be regulation 31 certified, meaning they carry out all the tests on chemicals, pipes or other items to a certain standard. There used to be three such laboratories in the UK, but since 2021 there have been none as **they all shut down because they are expensive to run.***
More expensive than hospitalising people? I suppose not because they’ll die waiting for an ambulance before the NHS has to spend a penny (not in the drinking water please).
The Brexit bonuses just keep on coming. But nevermind, I have a blue passport, so who cares if water quality decreases!
Water companies will just in-house these skills. It’s a pain, but nobody is going to be drinking unsafe water as a result.
“Did we say Brexit would make us more affluent, bc what we meant to say was effluent. Easy mistake to make”
NB the labs closed down under the Tories. Labour – as so often is the case – really need to fix this mess.
Again one of the predicted costs of brexit. “Independence” (if there is such a thing for countries) means we have to bear the costs of running all the services required of a state. Whereas the eu has economies of scale and a lot of those services can be centralised and collectively funded.
Add to that the delusional and incompetent government we had to take us through this transition and you see another reason why the UK feels so fucked.
The problem, just a lot of people, both in parliament and the general population, making decisions about something they did not have the intellectual ability to understand.