counter offensive against russian forces. in a rare interview, oleksiy danilov describes the planned assault as an historic opportunity . now on bbc news.political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. every so often there s an issue that bubbles up. if you ll forgive the metaphor, and reaches beyond the westminster bubble. the issue we re talking about today is the issue of sewage, the quality of our waterways, our rivers and our seas. my my guest this week is the man who is insured that no political figure can and should ignore the question of the waterways. he is keen angler, campaigner, and original lead singer with the undertones, fergal sharkey, a man who left the stage in order to campaign for musician s right before taking up his current position another one of the country s leading environmental campaigners. he b
the son of a republican irish family and the duke of wellington on the same side of an argument. that s a genius move. utterly brilliant. well done. and that was the alliance that produced some change in the regulation of the water companies and maybe led up to this moment that we had the other day in which the water companies issue this apology and promised to spend ten billion. now, i spoke to you on the today programme that morning. thinking you d be very political. and you blew it up. maybe this is what that thing about being a punk campaigner. you basically said you didn t really believe a word of it. they should give the 10 billion back to ordinary people. well, as we now know, it s less than in fact, it s a week ago today that they made that apology. and as it turns out, it didn t even take a week before united utilities, severn trent water, two of the biggest sewage dumpers in the country, have now announced in the last 48 hours they are going to pay
the same side of an argument. a brilliant move, well done. that was the alliance brilliant move, well done. that was the alliance that brilliant move, well done. that was the alliance that produced - brilliant move, well done. that was the alliance that produced some i the alliance that produced some change, in the regulation of the water campaign. and may have led to the moment the other day where an apology wa5 the moment the other day where an apology was issued by water companies and promised to spend £10 million. i spoke to you, thinking you would be pleased, do you blow it up. maybe this is what that thing about being a punk campaigner means, you basically said he didn t believe a word of it and that they should give the 10 billion back to ordinary people. pl. give the 10 billion back to ordinary eole. ~ ., ., give the 10 billion back to ordinary eole. ~ ., ., ., , give the 10 billion back to ordinary eole. ~ . ., ., , ., people. a week ago today they made that apo