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Swimmers avoiding the water over fears of raw sewage on UK beaches
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
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TL;DR: English water and sewage is handled by private, for-profit, companies that have majority ownership outside britain.
Furthermore the current chairman of the regulatory comission has previously been accused of misusing funds for Network Rail, abusing staff, accepting what amounts to bribes, etc.
Or in one word: capitalism.
What's so bad about private, foreign owned companies managing public utilities?
13 years later Oh...
Also when the UK brexited they also left the EU regulations on water quality (including the well-known "blue flag").
I mean, what did people that voted for the side who very overtly wanted to "burn EU regulations" expect it would happen???!
Abusing funds of network rail explains why our train network is absolutely piss poor.