Flux in Business

Despite having elected a Conservative MP, and a lockdown-libertarian face-mask-freedomising high-body-piler at that, it appears that part of Devon has fallen victim to a dirty little parasite. South West Water, whose last seven-figure fine for illegal sewage dumping was positively months ago, extruded a charmingly-misnomered spokesbeing called Flowerdew to pin the blame on a faulty valve, which doubtless went unrepaired because of insufficient shareholder dividends and miserly boardroom pay. South West Water did its bit for the national character by offering derisory levels of compensation and by advising Devon's brightest not only to boil their drinking water, but to cool it before consuming. Whatever one's opinion of moisture provision profiteers, one cannot help but admire the cess-pit depths of Britishness involved in causing an outbreak of diarrhoea just in time for the tourist season; to say nothing of making the water so dirty that every water drinker in the county may be obliged to dirty it more.