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aware, i have never acted as an advisor to the labour party, just to be clear where we are, i will repeat again, not a single river in england is good overall environmental health, every single river is polluted. you are an experienced campaigner because for years he did advocacy work for the music industry, and now you have obviously devoted so much of your time to cleaning up the waterways of britain. do you think you are cutting through? listen, how do you measure these things? on one level, i ve been incredibly fortunate. i ve been incredibly fortunate. i spent all of my adult life with random people in random places all over the world, walking up to me and wanting to talk to me about music. as a musician, what an extraordinary thing. here is the shift. 0ver thing. here is the shift. over the last two or three years people want to talk to me about effluent in rivers and that is beginning with a four letter word beginning with s. i think i know word beginning with s. i think i know
current protection is, by 2027, that will be down to just six, and as we speak, every single river in england fails the chemical test every single river is polluted and one of the biggest sources of that pollution. is the water industry. so with the lobbying organisation that uk water is like to qualify and actually tell me the single fact i have given you is wrong and i will happily withdraw it and apologise profusely. isn t the roblem apologise profusely. isn t the problem here apologise profusely. isn t the problem here that apologise profusely. isn t the problem here that to - apologise profusely. isn t the problem here that to fix - apologise profusely. isn t the problem here that to fix the i problem here that to fix the problems you have just outlined, and there is no doubt, there is a massive problem, syringes flowing into rivers and on to our uk coast. we see it every single day. isn t it problem that to really solve that problem, you need to spend enormous sums of money,
was on the verge of extinction through lack of flow, it had effectively turned into 2.5 miles of stagnant garden pond. when you say lack of flow, isn t that just nature when you say lack of flow, isn t thatjust nature telling us that the climate is warming, that here in the southeast of england, are getting drier, and the river is suffering? ida. england, are getting drier, and the river is suffering? the river is suffering? no, not in the least. the river is suffering? no, not in the least, and the river is suffering? no, not in the least, and i the river is suffering? no, not in the least, and i know- the river is suffering? no, not in the least, and i know the i in the least, and i know the environment agency would have you believe that, but that overlooks the fact that as we speak these most rarest of river ecosystems on the planet, according to the environment agency, are currently being over extracted by local water companies to the tune of about 1.2 billion litres of wate