Law and Ordure

In order to shelter the taxpayer from higher water bills, Her Majesty's Government is resolved to continue allowing water companies to pump raw sewage into rivers and the sea. Since heavy rains are expected to increase thanks to the climate change which Her Majesty's Government has done nothing to prevent, Her Majesty's Government has done much the same sort of nothing to strengthen the country's sewer systems. The water companies have done a similar nothing, because reducing shareholder profits in the public interest is against the national religion. The prospect of building back better with a cesspit as the foundations has caused vague disquiet even to a few Conservatives, so Her Majesty's Government is open to the idea of letting water companies come up with a plan to reduce their sewage discharge at some point in the next quarter-century.