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#TurdReich trends as sewage crisis floats around social media – reactions that won’t flush away

"The EU made our beaches clean. Let's paddle in sh*t instead," was not on the side of the red Brexit bus, pointed out one Twitter user.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2021-10-25 11:39
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The Tories have rejected efforts to place a legal duty on water companies to reduce raw sewage discharges into rivers.

With Cop26 around the corner and the fact that nobody in their right mind wants raw sewage on the beach and in the sea, it has, rightly, angered a lot of people.

MPs debated the environment bill on Wednesday, after clean water campaigners urged them to back a key amendment on sewage that had been agreed in the House of Lords.

Raw sewage was discharged into waters more than 400,000 times in 2020, over a total of more than 3.1 million hours.

The bill will govern environmental policy, from rivers to air, after Britainโ€™s departure from the EU. Campaign group Surfers Against Sewage had pushed for an amendment to tackle sewage pollution to be accepted by MPs.

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But George Eustice, the environment secretary, recommended that MPs reject the proposal โ€“ and it was voted down on Wednesday night.

Speaking ahead of the vote, Hugo Tagholm, of Surfers Against Sewage, said: โ€œIn this most important of environmental decades, itโ€™s shocking that the government is recommending that MPs reject progressive and ambitious amendments that would protect water, air and nature.

โ€œWhy wouldnโ€™t they want water companies to have a legal obligation not to pollute our rivers and ocean with sewage, for example? 

โ€œIt beggars belief and hardly shows a commitment to be the greenest government ever. Itโ€™s time for more ambitious thinking and law that builds protected nature back into public ownership rather than leaving it to the ravages of shareholder interests.โ€

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#Turdreich

Some sh*t just won’t flush and now #Trudreich is trending. Here are some of the stinkiest responses.

1.

Untreated sewage released into sea results in giant floater spotted off coast.#TurdReich #TorySewageParty pic.twitter.com/7nx34kcnAa

— Stu Robson (@Roppa77) October 25, 2021

2.

I didnโ€™t see that on the side of a bus#rawsewage #TurdReich pic.twitter.com/xKXytOJLmd

— Davenant ๐Ÿ“ธ (@MarcDavenant) October 25, 2021

3.

The UK should introduce a 'brown flag' standard for its beaches to replace the EU 'blue flag' scheme for clean beaches ๐Ÿ˜‰ #SewageCrisis #Sewage #TurdReich #RawSewage #Brexit pic.twitter.com/uBqEX55S9s

— King George VIIIIโ„ขยฉยฎ ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ˜ท๐Ÿ’‚๐Ÿ’ฉ๐Ÿฆ ๐Ÿ† (@GeorgeThe9th) October 25, 2021

4.

And now they have to discharge raw sewage into the sea because they cant get the chemicals to clean it up because of Brexit! So there solution is to legalise it! #BrexitReality #TurdReich #TorySewageParty #StoolBritannia pic.twitter.com/1iVXtdmOdP

— Grizabella (@Grizabella86) October 25, 2021

5.

Turd country status. pic.twitter.com/UJpfztvsA0

— THE SECRET TORY (@secrettory12) October 24, 2021

6.

This is the sea off the coast of your constituency @NickGibbUK Sewage stretching 2 miles from Bognor Regis to Pagham. Why did you vote against the amendment to the environment bill that would have outlawed @SouthernWater from doing this? #TorySewageParty #StoolBritannia pic.twitter.com/bPjMOy98AS

— MarkC ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ โ˜˜๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿป๐ŸŽผ (@mgacramer) October 24, 2021

7.

We the people do not accept this shitstain of a government any longer.#TurdReich #r4today pic.twitter.com/zOO5aKWLMQ

— ๐•ถ๐–†๐–—๐–’๐–Ž๐–ˆ๐•ฎ๐–—๐–”๐–œ๐–‘๐–Š๐–ž๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธ (@KarmicCrowley) October 25, 2021

8.

My timeline is filled with mugshots of Tories who think itโ€™s morally and environmentally savvy to pollute our waterways with raw sewage.

Absolutely vile #environment #TorySewageParty #TurdReich #StoolBritannia pic.twitter.com/v1pv7dDgwG

— Mark๐Ÿ•บ๐Ÿผ (@MWatts3376) October 25, 2021

9.

Britain's waterways and @michaelgove: both full of shit!#StoolBritannia #TurdReich pic.twitter.com/QWjdiOKDm7

— Colleen Hawkins (@Lady_Colleen) October 24, 2021

10.

Roses are red
Some rivers are blue
But not ones in England
They are filled up with poo#StoolBritannia #TurdReich

— Mark Davyd (@markdavyd) October 25, 2021

12.

A reminder that @SimonClarkeMP of the #TurdReich voted to flush raw sewage along with his integrity into the sea. #TorySewage pic.twitter.com/zSvnwgqO1o

— ๐Ÿ„ฟ๐Ÿ…๐Ÿ„ด๐Ÿ…ƒ๐Ÿ…ƒ๐Ÿ…ˆ ๐Ÿ„ท๐Ÿ„ฐ๐Ÿ…ƒ ๐Ÿ„ผ๐Ÿ„ฐ๐Ÿ„ฒ๐Ÿ„ท๐Ÿ„ธ๐Ÿ„ฝ๐Ÿ„ด (@PrettyHatMech) October 25, 2021

13.

Happy to support #StoolBritannia for some support for #TurdReich. https://t.co/kjLxZhzQDi

— Colleen Hawkins (@Lady_Colleen) October 24, 2021

14.

Happy to support #StoolBritannia for some support for #TurdReich. https://t.co/kjLxZhzQDi

— Colleen Hawkins (@Lady_Colleen) October 24, 2021

15.

Tories always prioritise money & power over everything else – including nature, health & democracy.

Fewer than 3 in 10 of the electorate voted Tory in #GE2019, & since then they've trashed our rivers & coastline, & overseen 150,000 avoidable deaths.#TurdReich #StoolBritannia pic.twitter.com/KDgYDSIopR

— GET A GRIP (@docrussjackson) October 25, 2021

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