Blindly refusing to acknowledge that if you import 10 million people you need more infrastructure, including water!! Typical liberal politician. You’ve got to wonder about his intellect if this hasn’t occurred to him, and clearly pompously refusing to listen to ordinary people who have been pointing it out for YEARS. 🤬
@@davidbarlow350 I Yes. I do need to enquire. I have known a number of very capable, honest, hard-working politicians; few of whom possessing political views even remotely-congruent to my own. It's easier to name the exceptions, actually. (I wouldn't wish to expose the nice ones to perusal by any Brexidiots that might read this.) Thus: 1) Johnathan Aitken was pretty ghastly. 2) Portillo? A bit errr... ghastly, too. But I didn't know him as well. 3) My wife can't stand Blair but I've managed to avoid conversing with him, directly. 4) Johnson is the only dreadful one - with no discernible admirable qualities - though. He was a w*anker thirty years ago and seems to have declined. The rest have been ok, though. Best wishes.
@@gen_x_dadthe schools, hospitals, housing and prisons wouldn't be over capacity if there was less people, so yes, there would be way less problems that government is responsible for. If you can't see that then you're just not opening your eyes.
Julia gets better and better, and seeing Sir Vince squirming on the ropes over the illegal immigration which his party supports, was a delight.........
This div was put into power by the Conservatives in their coalition with Lib Dems. He has not been in government since May 2015, over 8 years ago. The Conservatives have been in power for THIRTEEN years and are still blaming everyone else.
We elect them! We have to show some balls when we vote. Stop thinking about short term gains but the long term of the country, but it's too late I fear.
Vince the leader of the pro EU Lib Dems who said we should have a referendum on brexit and because he didn't like the result wanted another referendum- Michael Gove speach sums it up.
I loath Cable..... I was in his constituency! What he did to the Royal Mail was disgusting, and he had the cheek to call himself the 'Business Secretary'.
@@commandingjudgedredd1841 his trade mark hat made him look like grandad from only fools and horses ... he doesn't have the presence to look like a gangster.
I don't believe that the liberal lefties would ever have flogged off ,on the cheap publicly owned assets and utilities . Ironically much of it to the French Germans and spiv conglomerates with registered offices in jersey who are in it for the money and have a proven track record of asset striping. Thatcher's privatisation was an act of corporate vandalism and a dereliction of responsibility.
How is Thames Water's inefficiency the fault of liberal lefties? Thames Water choosing to concentrate on providing dividends to their share holders instead of building better water infrastructure for its customers is GREED, PURE CAPITALIST GREED. How is that the fault of left wing politics?
The simple fact that the Australian bank was allowed to strip Thames Water assets and load the company with debt should be a criminal act and the Australians thrown out. Also it is an act of tyranny on the politicians part in allowing it.
Do you think none of OUR politicians had not fingers in the pie but both fucking hands? Corrupt from top to bottom with big business and EU/WEF telling elected MP’s how they want things. Our votes mean nothing and haven’t for about 50years but recent years has shown us what these bloated ponces REALLY do with their power. One of them is to block Brexit on every occasion (hello Civil Service and most of parliament) and slide us back in bit by bit. We need a revolution against them AND their globalist masters.
The thing is, you can't build a load of reservoirs when the land is needed to build homes for the extra 10 million people (a lot of which weren't invited, they just rocked up without even asking if they could come!)
Yea dig up all the land for houses we don't need extra water or having a large percentage of our self sufficiency in food,we will just have to hope we don't fall out with any countries or get involved in wars think we will starve all the past government's have just sailed through life never thinking long term problems
In 1997 there were 1,926 reservoirs in the UK ..... in 2014 that number was down to 1,912 ..... they even FILLED IN some reservours to make way for housing estates ..... and the population has increased by over 13 million . Figures provided by the Office National Statistics
Independent studies have shown that Britain has 91 million people, based on effluent flows, food consumption and housing demand. So since the time of Blair that’s an increase of at least 20 million. These clowns need stringing up for treason and incompetence.
@@alexanderbalcombe4207 Number of reservoirs in Wales /population of Wales = ? Number of reservoirs in England / population of England = ? Were you being deliberately obtuse? Surely not...
Absolutely right Julia, once again areas of the UK have hose pipe bans but they keep letting these economic migrants in by the million. Then there is the matter of electrical supply, gas supply. People want to go net zero (joke) and yet continually increasing population makes that nearly impossible.
Market forces, unfortunately. Sad fact of capitalism. One can one do? Some of my less comfortable extended-family members emigrated to the colonies during the Victorian era - so it's always been a fact of life. I met one of their descendants who came back from Australia to stay with us, sometime in the late 60s. He was quite civilised, actually. Things would have been tough for them in the early days. But again, migrants do tend to work hard. Plus, they - literally - have 'get up and go'. Had you considered migrating in search of a better life? One of my sons has pretty much decided on relocating to the EU. I'll be heartbroken to see him go. But there are far fewer opportunities now, post-Brexit, for the educated-young so I can't blame him. Salaries, relative to living expenses are higher. But he does seem to have prepared for it: he's gained (worked hard to achieve) fluency in Spanish on top of the more traditional French, German and Italian offered at his school. So fairplay. Where there's a will and all that. Hope things work out.
@@robertcottam8824not so easy for people to migrate from uk since brexit really , unless you have money for most £250,000 to buy a house to get residency. Or remote work. And a lot of EU having similar problems. Young would be better to go east.
How is Thames Water's inefficiency the fault of migrants? Thames Water choosing to concentrate on providing dividends to their share holders instead of building better water infrastructure for its customers is GREED, PURE CAPITALIST GREED. How is that the fault of migrants? so you are a thames water apologist
@@mel4856 Brexit has indeed made a sow's ear of things, particularly with residency. I understand the elderly Daily Mail readers. But what were the young Brexity-folk thinking of? It's been Götterdämmerung. It really has. All they can hope for is that the forthcoming rejoining of the Customs Union will require free movement to and from the EU. Best wishes.
@@robertcottam8824Brexit could’ve been a once in a lifetime chance to stand out from the crowd and expand but because of our politicians (of all colours) incompetence, basically lining their own pockets and being part of the old boys (and girls) club, they won’t act for the people who pay their wages, it’s become a part if the bigger globalist agenda.
Vince Cable is another example of automatic unthinking racism. We can expect him to be blind to the consequences for the existing population of massive immigration - many years ago at a conference on something like the future of Britain, he said that his children were very proud of their Indian heritage. Despite the fact that they are equally English, it would never cross his mind, nor would he dare, to say that they are proud of their English heritage. He only grudgingly said so when challenged on his bias.
what are the reform party going to do? nationalise the water industry like the lefties you hate so much. lol reform party will just continue the tradition of poor water regulation
@Candolad. * Absolute agreement. Go independent candidates. Vote reform. Or let the country be taken over by foreigners. BBC already by the look of things.
It was delicious watching him squirm wasn`t it . What part of that was nonesense SIR Vince ,what part of that don`t you understand SIR Vince . He hasn`t improved with age has he ?
Politicians complete incompetence, always results in a huge win for them selves!! Top pensions, huge payoffs/ benefits/ pay rises, golden handshakes for no matter how bad/incompetent they are!!
@@timcomley5948 millionaires only look after there own interests and most have had little to do to earn that money they live in a different world they don't know the value of many things.
It's not debt. They made enough money for their shareholders without putting anything into infrastructure, name another country that would allow this sort of vandalism?
Well said! They use double speak once again... they'll say "a loss in profits" and call it debt... although its still enough of a profit loss to pay bonuses ànd dividends!
Exactly. Its just like our political class: they make an absolute fortune off our backs every single year, squander every penny and then say there just isn't enough money.
Because the government do so well running things? What’s needed is caps on cost and regulations for infrastructure, however, it still needs to be private and profit run. It makes companies work harder.
Are supermarkets profiteering? Look at the tesco club card situation and tell me they're not deliberately ripping off customers who don't sign up. Those who do sign up become a product tesco then sell to advertisers. It's totally disgusting and should be illegal.
@@richardbartlett6932 but don't buy their petrol , they have gone from one of the cheapest to the most expensive in my area surrounding their recent takeover.
This is really clever, create a problem (while making a huge profits and little investment in the infrastructure t), then charge more to solve it and divert some of that extra money to increase bonuses, profits and dividends. And the government encourages it.
No tax payer money should be allowed, to bail out what belonged to them in the first place, and has been run into the ground, so as the rich can get richer, jail time is the solution, soon stop then
Just because someone is well educated doesn't mean they are right or have common sense. Unfortunately most these people can't see past their own self-righteousness to he able to see they are dragging the country down in their never ending need to invite every man and his dog into this country for their own nefarious needs that have nothing to do whats best for the country.
The problem with this countries disastrous immigration approach is we accept millions of immigrants with low wage expectations that don't add much to the economy, put pressure on home office, social and NHS services and don't produce much tax revenue.
Yes - we have the worst of both worlds Julia. Profits are privatised, losses are nationalised i.e. paid for by the tax payer. That is - us. The profits are trousered by a few lucky people in the right place at the right time. Usually these people have no talent beyond knowing the right people to get the job.
Of course, lest we didn’t consider it, the 10M more people perhaps don’t wash? So, where’s the problem? Of course, Julia is absolutely spot on. Shame on Sir for not accepting that obvious fact!
I'm glad you persisted in getting Vince to clarify why he thought it was silly, he used a typical political trick to focus on a turn of phrase (enjoy the water) in an attempt to discredit your entire point. Because you didn't let it slip, we got to see that his position was quite feable. I hate these people. The guillotine is too good for them.
An entire system of millponds and lakes with locked rivers, built in old Victorian stone and iron, lays disused and overgrown near me, it's quality is far beyond what we build now, we live among the ruins of a past superior infrastructure. The weirs and falls still flow cleanly, the metalwork rusted but strong regardless of being unmaintained for centuries, the roots have found no gaps in the stonework even after hundreds of years slow work.
That said it all when he uttered "we don't regulate it cos we have other priorities". Yes that would be 💰 money hey Vince? In 32 years & not one reservoir built!!!!! 😮😮😮
Didn't take you long to put that old clown in his box Julia , incidentally what did he get the '' knighthood '' for ? Didn't the queen give Jimmy Saville one of those ?
Should have encouraged our own population to increase population if that's what was required, to increase migration on the pretext of population growth to pay for an ageing population is ludicrous considering all the costs of migrants. We've had migration for years and very high migration for 30+yrs and apparently we still need high migration to help pay for everything, its not working is it.
as soon as she in a roundabout way mentioned immigration he went on the offensive, it was him and his ilk who welcomed them all, him and smiley Blair!!
That was brilliant, only been watching you for the past week but liking your style more and more. Julia for PM we need somebody that talks sense like you. 👍👍
Amazes me how the politicians want to be in public life but as soon as there is a conversation about adverse affects of immigration they don't want to address it
Very good Julia! Its getting a little tiresome the way the politicians blame things on climate change, its all nonsense. The climate at the moment is perfectly fine, stable and unremarkable at this point in history.
complete rubbish and you misunderstood what she was saying, she was saying this particular problem wasn't climate change related, but climate change is still a problem, and saying that our climate is "stable" is utterly ridiculous and just needs calling out for the BS it is.
@@Justin-yt8zv No mate I already called you out, no data supports the idea that the climate is in 'crisis' the idea is ridiculous. Has everyone forgotten about the climate gate scandal and the hockey stick graph debacle?
@@hayleylongster4698 not necessarily about catastrophic events, water and food yields will become more unpredictable, if the current rate of yield loss from farming continues it's estimated that the last harvest will be in 100 years time.
We are concreting over our food production land, with all the water attenuation issues that go with it at a frightening rate because 'we need more houses'. Rather than oppose it on environmental grounds, or suggest more control on greedy developers and where they build, Labour have boasted they will build more houses than the Conservatives and that 'they are unashamedly on the side of the companies that build them and not those that oppose them'. As well as the permanent environmental damage, how many reservoirs will have to be built to deal with all this new housing?
One of the problems with services is that it's impossible for government to plan for the future when it doesn't know how many people are going to need them
Flogged our gold at the worst time and handed over control of interest rates to the Bk of England. Now look,millions up to their eyes in debt whilst savers are penalised.
"Who will pay for the Thames Tideway Tunnel? The tunnel will cost £3.8bn to complete, and an additional £1.1bn has already been spent by Thames Water for preparatory works. The cost of the project is being paid for by Thames Water’s 15 million wastewater customers through their bills." Increasing the capacity of our infrastructure will cost a lot, which is why our politicians would rather these costs go under the spreadsheet heading of 'climate change preparations' than subtract from their economic case for having increased the population size. So well done to Julia for getting Mr Cable to at lest acknowledge some statistical causality (existing capacity Vs increased demand).
Using various factors such as the rate of house price inflation, sewage outfalls and the amount of food supermarkets sell, it is reckoned that the true population of the UK is around 92 million. This is well over 20 million more than the 2021 census suggested. It would also go some way to explaining why areas of the south east already have hosepipe bans due to 'unprecedented demand'.
To many immigrants. Getting to see a dentist or a doctor is getting harder and harder. Kids having to go to school in different towns because there are no local places, potholes, crime...
And then the investment in water services comes from….TAXATION. We are full circle: the reason for the privatisation 40 years ago was because the infrastructure was archaic, we were in recession that had Denis Healey asking for a bailout from the IMF, top-rate tax at 80% and rising unemployment. Where will the money come from this time - when we have drastic and nearly un-repayable public debt?
I had respect for Vince being sensible and sound thinker until he sold off the post office for next to nothing....another short term gain and lookmhow that turned out particularly for the postmasters...
And who allowed this situation to happen? We need REFORM and the sooner the better. They are the only Party to clearly define their strategy as to how they would address major issues where the present Government have totally failed.
Should of never been privatised in the beginning, as shouldn’t oil, gas, electricity, telecommunications, coal, etc. we messed up by selling them of all down to Maggie.
And now the tories are promoting institutions to be the landlords of the future (look at lloyds bank as one eg) rather than the small scale landlord saying it will be so much better. Sound familiar? Thats what they said abour the privatized utilities. Not gonna be good once the small landlords are gone for the renters.
I have always found the term "privatisation" to be a very ill fit for these industries as they are nowhere near the status of "free market". They are all still heavily regulated and controlled by the government and as such can never be subjcet to true competition. The fact that the government is still so involved with these industries is what makes them a mess. The answer is certainly not to give the government even more control!
@@cjbram1 O. Absolutely I agree but that sophisticated stuff compared with how base the polical news is. It will be amusing to see how many people stay by the stand by the state owned utility company labour say they will have. I bet hardly any after a year.
Ye because they were really efficient when they were state owned 😂 Look at the state of the civil service, DVLA is a shambles nhs is an embarrassment, Ye I'm sure it would be much better run by the state 🤦♂️
A wholly accurate and rational criticism of policy is responded to with "That's complete nonsense." "Which bit was nonsense?" is responded to with an attempt at a long winded non-sequiter "Which bit was nonsense?" is ignored and the filibuster attempt continues. "Wait, stop, which bit was nonsense?" is responded to with "The fact that people are being invited into the country to enjoy our water." "You were a government minister, did you not think well if we've got more people coming in maybe we need more infrastructure?" "No, that wasn't an issue that came across my desk." (35 years of inaction and the summary is "We haven't got the balance right". And mental buffoons like that have the NERVE to call the criticism they received "nonsense". He's EVERTHING that's wrong with politicians.....no results....no accountability....no sense of shame. WHAT have you been doing for 35 years??)
That was a very educating video, the subject of water companies and greed, taking but not putting back in to system completely upended into the migrants fault, wow it doesn't get any better than that, a absolute stunner of a deflection 10 out of 10 best one I've seen.
Thames water has not given out dividends for the last six years. As usual, a larger company takes you over, they strip the company to he bones of assets, then leave the tax payer to pick up the pieces
BRITISH tax payers have now got to pay for the bailout for yet another foreign owned business. If you think british people own the utilities....you don't know what your talking about and you should keep your uneducated mouth shut.
@@royjacobs1204 So do I! I recently read (Lord) Matt Ridley's excellent book called How innovation works, in which he points to lots of examples of how government involvement or ownership nearly always stunts innovation, progress and even positive competition. His conclusion seemed to be, healthy private competition in most fields gave the best outcome, but it needed to be properly regulated. Not over regulated, just well thought out, socially advantageous regulation.
LOL. Poor memory, perhaps? I remember water shortages, power cuts, no choice in telephones - it was standard or 'trim', miners' unions holding the government to ransom, buses that never turned up or went where they were needed, ad nauseum. The State is a poor manager.
What should be done about water companies?
It should belong to us.
Not private companies bribery , and corrupt political share holders.
Nationalize all of them without any compensation!
They have already stolen more than enough from all of us!
@@alanbraham3981we did vote brexit meaning the water companies here don’t need to follow EU rules anymore
Re nationalise them👍
Blindly refusing to acknowledge that if you import 10 million people you need more infrastructure, including water!! Typical liberal politician. You’ve got to wonder about his intellect if this hasn’t occurred to him, and clearly pompously refusing to listen to ordinary people who have been pointing it out for YEARS. 🤬
Another example of how useless and stupid our politicians are....
Really? In what way?
@@robertcottam8824in every way
@@robertcottam8824
Seriously,you have to even ask that question?
@@mickduffy9068 Lets see how long it takes before migrants, minorities and the left are blamed for thames Waters problems
@@davidbarlow350 I
Yes. I do need to enquire.
I have known a number of very capable, honest, hard-working politicians; few of whom possessing political views even remotely-congruent to my own.
It's easier to name the exceptions, actually. (I wouldn't wish to expose the nice ones to perusal by any Brexidiots that might read this.)
Thus:
1) Johnathan Aitken was pretty ghastly.
2) Portillo? A bit errr... ghastly, too. But I didn't know him as well.
3) My wife can't stand Blair but I've managed to avoid conversing with him, directly.
4) Johnson is the only dreadful one - with no discernible admirable qualities - though. He was a w*anker thirty years ago and seems to have declined.
The rest have been ok, though.
Best wishes.
It's not just the water being taken out of the system by 10 million extra people, but the 10 million people putting sewage back in.
Carrying multifarious diseases and parasites from every corner of the planet.
Nobody knows what the true population of this country is anymore. How can they plan without the data
Good point 💩
and the diseases the UK had long since eradicated.
Extra stinky too.
As with most problems in this country, the ever increasing population is primarily to blame...along with politicians like Cable.
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I would go further and say ALL the countries problems from crime to sewerage
You believe everything would work just fine if only there were less people? 😂😂😂
@@gen_x_dadthe schools, hospitals, housing and prisons wouldn't be over capacity if there was less people, so yes, there would be way less problems that government is responsible for. If you can't see that then you're just not opening your eyes.
@@davehunter9342Absolutely spot on.
Julia gets better and better, and seeing Sir Vince squirming on the ropes over the illegal immigration which his party supports, was a delight.........
Vince Cable got a "SIR" ship and done f....all to better out country retired with a huge pension they are all the same!
Yep he couldn’t care less, he’s going to be absolutely fine and will still tell the peasants how they they should be living from his ivory tower
He was / is awanker full stop😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😅😅😅😅😅
artrandy. Illegal immigration is not the problem. ALL immigration is the problem.
Is JHB still telling everyone she’s ‘had her jabs’?
No wonder this country is in a mess with people like this div running it ..🤦♂️
Cable is not running the country. The mess that the country is in is down to the right-wing retards that Talk TV supports.
This div was put into power by the Conservatives in their coalition with Lib Dems. He has not been in government since May 2015, over 8 years ago.
The Conservatives have been in power for THIRTEEN years and are still blaming everyone else.
We elect them! We have to show some balls when we vote. Stop thinking about short term gains but the long term of the country, but it's too late I fear.
Vince Cable continues giving,one of our worst generation of Politicians
Never mind Vince Cable he should be connected to one
There’s far worse
Liberal ideology is destroying the fabric of the UK it really is a out of touch and dangerous ideology
Vince the leader of the pro EU Lib Dems who said we should have a referendum on brexit and because he didn't like the result wanted another referendum- Michael Gove speach sums it up.
Don't be unfair to Diane Abbott !
Congratulations Julia on winning best radio breakfast show yesterday at the TRIC Awards 🎉
Farage is better 😊
Pity shes married
@@rfurdaylee Different kinds of shows. Julia is a trained journalist and does breakfast with great expertise.
@Candolad Yeah she seems pretty capable.
@@rfurdaylee Just as long as it's not that LBC cretin O'Brien.
I loath Cable..... I was in his constituency! What he did to the Royal Mail was disgusting, and he had the cheek to call himself the 'Business Secretary'.
Yes, Cable another useless, stupid politician
And his trademark hat made him look like some sort of gangster. In this case, he's a big business mafia made man.
I agree with his policy to tax second homes, but he claimed his other homes were his wife's and exempt.
@@commandingjudgedredd1841 his trade mark hat made him look like grandad from only fools and horses ... he doesn't have the presence to look like a gangster.
I totally agree about the Royal Mail, but I also hate his stupid face.
Our mps and leaders are so out of touch with most people's lives.
lets go get them like they used to in the good old days
Not out of touch Wayne.
Deep State player's.
They make profit selling us out
Back handers and shares.
Insider trading.
We are run by crooks.
You shouldn’t have trusted Tories
@@run2cat4run never trust any of them.
They are all run by the same masters.
Not us.
They are in on the con, line their pockets, and let tax payers bail it out, not fit to govern
Thank you for standing up against the liberal lefties , and being persistent with evasive politicians 👍
I don't believe that the liberal lefties would ever have flogged off ,on the cheap publicly owned assets and utilities . Ironically much of it to the French Germans and spiv conglomerates with registered offices in jersey who are in it for the money and have a proven track record of asset striping.
Thatcher's privatisation was an act of corporate vandalism and a dereliction of responsibility.
How is Thames Water's inefficiency the fault of liberal lefties? Thames Water choosing to concentrate on providing dividends to their share holders instead of building better water infrastructure for its customers is GREED, PURE CAPITALIST GREED. How is that the fault of left wing politics?
What's the ultimate source of the policies which've led to utility companies failing and fleecing us?
Sorry to disappoint you but the Tories are also liberal lefties .
Don't look at what they say , look at what they do in practice .
cable is a awkward pratt julia got him on the ropes
it's like the country is in a managed decline
The simple fact that the Australian bank was allowed to strip Thames Water assets and load the company with debt should be a criminal act and the Australians thrown out. Also it is an act of tyranny on the politicians part in allowing it.
The politicians allowed it to happen because they were given backhanders !
Do you think none of OUR politicians had not fingers in the pie but both fucking hands?
Corrupt from top to bottom with big business and EU/WEF telling elected MP’s how they want things.
Our votes mean nothing and haven’t for about 50years but recent years has shown us what these bloated ponces REALLY do with their power.
One of them is to block Brexit on every occasion (hello Civil Service and most of parliament) and slide us back in bit by bit.
We need a revolution against them AND their globalist masters.
Wow didn’t know that an Aussie bank took control of Thames water .and fleeced it
@@richardwells4370 McQuarrie has form.
I'm an Aussie but I agree 100%. This is predatory capitalism. It's disgusting.
The thing is, you can't build a load of reservoirs when the land is needed to build homes for the extra 10 million people (a lot of which weren't invited, they just rocked up without even asking if they could come!)
Yea dig up all the land for houses we don't need extra water or having a large percentage of our self sufficiency in food,we will just have to hope we don't fall out with any countries or get involved in wars think we will starve all the past government's have just sailed through life never thinking long term problems
In 1997 there were 1,926 reservoirs in the UK ..... in 2014 that number was down to 1,912 ..... they even FILLED IN some reservours to make way for housing estates ..... and the population has increased by over 13 million .
Figures provided by the Office National Statistics
and Wales does all the heavy lifting
Independent studies have shown that Britain has 91 million people, based on effluent flows, food consumption and housing demand. So since the time of Blair that’s an increase of at least 20 million. These clowns need stringing up for treason and incompetence.
@@celtspeaksgoth7251 in what way?
Wales has 90 reservoirs and England over 400. Heavy lifting?
@@alexanderbalcombe4207
Number of reservoirs in Wales /population of Wales = ?
Number of reservoirs in England / population of England = ?
Were you being deliberately obtuse? Surely not...
After listening to Vince Cable, you understand why there has never been a Liberal Government in the UK since 1916.
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Why would anyone allow an Australian bank to buy an essential business? Who got kickbacks for that? That should be a crime!
Exactly follow the money whoever allowed this to happen need to be in court then prison
Exactly. Bribes and kick backs.
They also owned Stagecoach bus in London for a while too
Absolutely right Julia, once again areas of the UK have hose pipe bans but they keep letting these economic migrants in by the million. Then there is the matter of electrical supply, gas supply. People want to go net zero (joke) and yet continually increasing population makes that nearly impossible.
Market forces, unfortunately. Sad fact of capitalism.
One can one do? Some of my less comfortable extended-family members emigrated to the colonies during the Victorian era - so it's always been a fact of life.
I met one of their descendants who came back from Australia to stay with us, sometime in the late 60s. He was quite civilised, actually. Things would have been tough for them in the early days. But again, migrants do tend to work hard. Plus, they - literally - have 'get up and go'.
Had you considered migrating in search of a better life? One of my sons has pretty much decided on relocating to the EU. I'll be heartbroken to see him go. But there are far fewer opportunities now, post-Brexit, for the educated-young so I can't blame him. Salaries, relative to living expenses are higher.
But he does seem to have prepared for it: he's gained (worked hard to achieve) fluency in Spanish on top of the more traditional French, German and Italian offered at his school. So fairplay.
Where there's a will and all that.
Hope things work out.
@@robertcottam8824not so easy for people to migrate from uk since brexit really , unless you have money for most £250,000 to buy a house to get residency. Or remote work. And a lot of EU having similar problems. Young would be better to go east.
How is Thames Water's inefficiency the fault of migrants? Thames Water choosing to concentrate on providing dividends to their share holders instead of building better water infrastructure for its customers is GREED, PURE CAPITALIST GREED. How is that the fault of migrants? so you are a thames water apologist
@@mel4856
Brexit has indeed made a sow's ear of things, particularly with residency.
I understand the elderly Daily Mail readers. But what were the young Brexity-folk thinking of?
It's been Götterdämmerung. It really has.
All they can hope for is that the forthcoming rejoining of the Customs Union will require free movement to and from the EU.
Best wishes.
@@robertcottam8824Brexit could’ve been a once in a lifetime chance to stand out from the crowd and expand but because of our politicians (of all colours) incompetence, basically lining their own pockets and being part of the old boys (and girls) club, they won’t act for the people who pay their wages, it’s become a part if the bigger globalist agenda.
Vince Cable is another example of automatic unthinking racism. We can expect him to be blind to the consequences for the existing population of massive immigration - many years ago at a conference on something like the future of Britain, he said that his children were very proud of their Indian heritage. Despite the fact that they are equally English, it would never cross his mind, nor would he dare, to say that they are proud of their English heritage. He only grudgingly said so when challenged on his bias.
Unthinking racism. You're right. If in doubt bring out the race card.
Nothing to do with race perhaps, may he's just not proud of his children being British..
Vote Reform Party at every election now. It's the only way to reform all this stagnant politics we've had in the UK since New Labour.
what are the reform party going to do? nationalise the water industry like the lefties you hate so much. lol reform party will just continue the tradition of poor water regulation
You need to push for proportional representation or it's a waste of time.
@@drummingtildeathif labour get in which is inevitable they will bring in pr to ensure conservatives find it more difficult.
@@kylestanley1160 I hope so. Have they pledged to?
@Candolad. * Absolute agreement. Go independent candidates. Vote reform. Or let the country be taken over by foreigners. BBC already by the look of things.
No new reservoirs in thirty years and an extra 12 million people here.
You've got to love Julia Hartley-Brewer. A true Heroine!
I love Julia’s truth telling. Old Vince on the spot looking very uncomfortable. 😢
It was delicious watching him squirm wasn`t it . What part of that was nonesense SIR Vince ,what part of that don`t you understand SIR Vince . He hasn`t improved with age has he ?
Politicians complete incompetence, always results in a huge win for them selves!! Top pensions, huge payoffs/ benefits/ pay rises, golden handshakes for no matter how bad/incompetent they are!!
This is what happens when millionaires become MPs and haven't a clue about common sense and take us all for fools.
Like the PM we have now
Or like Blair who became a millionaire after becoming a genocidal war criminal.
Really is that your argument ffs
@@alanfrost4661what rubbish
@@timcomley5948 millionaires only look after there own interests and most have had little to do to earn that money they live in a different world they don't know the value of many things.
It's not debt. They made enough money for their shareholders without putting anything into infrastructure, name another country that would allow this sort of vandalism?
Lots of ex Australian politicians on board of Macquarie Bank. The darling of the share market, at one point.
Just robbery, all should be jailed
Well said! They use double speak once again... they'll say "a loss in profits" and call it debt... although its still enough of a profit loss to pay bonuses ànd dividends!
@@davidfarrell4829
_No, hanged for crimes against the people!_
Exactly. Its just like our political class: they make an absolute fortune off our backs every single year, squander every penny and then say there just isn't enough money.
Every Liberal's reply when you point out that high immigration affects the NHS, The Housing Stock and general infrastructure!
Water should not have been privatized in my opinion.
Stop voting Tory then.
Because the government do so well running things? What’s needed is caps on cost and regulations for infrastructure, however, it still needs to be private and profit run. It makes companies work harder.
@@garyh1572We can’t vote Labour as they are worse. Let’s vote Reform UK, give them the opportunity to see what they can do…..
@@msbecks7004That is true but surely we can’t let private finance companies asset strip our businesses. It’s OUR money….
@@garyh1572all tye parties are the same. In it for themselves...on the gravy train. Totally unfair to the people.
A good example of a metaphor being taken literally. Sir Vince completely misunderstood.
Misunderstood on purpose.
These people ALWAYS do this. They focus on it like it was the main point to deflect from the real things you were saying.
He didn't misunderstand it was the usual sidestep and divert tactic to avoid an inconvenient fact.
Nonsense and Narcissism is what he displayed
The smug twit NEVER changes. Still nothing to say worth listening to?
As always, a Prophet of Pomposity.
Hand cranker.
Vince Crowbar's arguments dont hold water.
Nice one. 🤣
Are supermarkets profiteering? Look at the tesco club card situation and tell me they're not deliberately ripping off customers who don't sign up.
Those who do sign up become a product tesco then sell to advertisers.
It's totally disgusting and should be illegal.
Shop at Asda etc. It's not difficult
@@richardbartlett6932
Generally, a very good supermarket chain.
Exactly...the price IS the price, it should be the same for everybody.
@richardbartlett6932 you must b an mp profiting from Tsco's obvious profiteering racket
@@richardbartlett6932 but don't buy their petrol , they have gone from one of the cheapest to the most expensive in my area surrounding their recent takeover.
When we were locked down and couldn't go to the pub/kids couldn't go to school.........hundreds of thousands were still allowed to fly in.
This is really clever, create a problem (while making a huge profits and little investment in the infrastructure t), then charge more to solve it and divert some of that extra money to increase bonuses, profits and dividends. And the government encourages it.
No tax payer money should be allowed, to bail out what belonged to them in the first place, and has been run into the ground, so as the rich can get richer, jail time is the solution, soon stop then
When will the electorate realise all these regulator, of-this and of-that, are there for the benefit of the industries and NOT the consumers.
Everything that was worth something was sold off years ago..
Did all he could to deflect but Julia skewered him
The smug twit NEVER changes. Still nothing to say worth listening to?
Just because someone is well educated doesn't mean they are right or have common sense. Unfortunately most these people can't see past their own self-righteousness to he able to see they are dragging the country down in their never ending need to invite every man and his dog into this country for their own nefarious needs that have nothing to do whats best for the country.
Usually look after them selfs😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
You are spot on people like Cable are running this country into the ground wait till his mate Ed Davy gets in with labour
Directors should be prosecuted.
Our completely incompetent politicians who no doubt earned plenty from the water company profits etc. should be dumped for real people.
The problem with this countries disastrous immigration approach is we accept millions of immigrants with low wage expectations that don't add much to the economy, put pressure on home office, social and NHS services and don't produce much tax revenue.
And send any money they have back home ; so put zero back into this country
Wtf are u talking about you knob
Listened to this live absolutely well done Julia you didn’t let him squirm off the hook👏🏻👏🏻
The more you here about what government allows to happen and it’s negligence the more one despairs.
Well done Julia you are absolutely bang on 😊😊😊
Brilliant woman, doesn't take any guff 😊
best breakfast show on tv.... she chewed him up and spat him out! Go Julia!!
Yes - we have the worst of both worlds Julia. Profits are privatised, losses are nationalised i.e. paid for by the tax payer. That is - us. The profits are trousered by a few lucky people in the right place at the right time. Usually these people have no talent beyond knowing the right people to get the job.
Of course, lest we didn’t consider it, the 10M more people perhaps don’t wash? So, where’s the problem? Of course, Julia is absolutely spot on. Shame on Sir for not accepting that obvious fact!
I'm glad you persisted in getting Vince to clarify why he thought it was silly, he used a typical political trick to focus on a turn of phrase (enjoy the water) in an attempt to discredit your entire point. Because you didn't let it slip, we got to see that his position was quite feable.
I hate these people. The guillotine is too good for them.
These politicians are two bob
An entire system of millponds and lakes with locked rivers, built in old Victorian stone and iron, lays disused and overgrown near me, it's quality is far beyond what we build now, we live among the ruins of a past superior infrastructure. The weirs and falls still flow cleanly, the metalwork rusted but strong regardless of being unmaintained for centuries, the roots have found no gaps in the stonework even after hundreds of years slow work.
Vince… was always someone who showed a quite ridiculous understanding of whats being said to him
That said it all when he uttered "we don't regulate it cos we have other priorities". Yes that would be 💰 money hey Vince? In 32 years & not one reservoir built!!!!! 😮😮😮
That ridiculously naive man should never have been anywhere near government. What a waste of space!
He fits right in with the other MPs and lords idiots😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
100% correct ❤ 10 million more people 👏
Being well educated or being an mp or being knighted, is no guarantee of having common sense
Great interviewing! Keep it up, Julia.
Didn't take you long to put that old clown in his box Julia , incidentally what did he get the '' knighthood '' for ? Didn't the queen give Jimmy Saville one of those ?
And the liar Blair.
Don't talk logic and facts to politicians does not compute
Should have encouraged our own population to increase population if that's what was required, to increase migration on the pretext of population growth to pay for an ageing population is ludicrous considering all the costs of migrants. We've had migration for years and very high migration for 30+yrs and apparently we still need high migration to help pay for everything, its not working is it.
You got it right on.
as soon as she in a roundabout way mentioned immigration he went on the offensive, it was him and his ilk who welcomed them all, him and smiley Blair!!
That was brilliant, only been watching you for the past week but liking your style more and more. Julia for PM we need somebody that talks sense like you. 👍👍
Amazes me how the politicians want to be in public life but as soon as there is a conversation about adverse affects of immigration they don't want to address it
10 million more people to many that all need sending back.
Utilities were set up as not for profit organisations, service for customers not profit for shareholders, surprisingly it’s all gone wrong, Maggie.
I find 'not for profit' a misleading term, as if the executives worked for free
Hmmm. Nobody works for free - unless they can afford to.
Get rid of 10 million people and stop letting anymore in !
Its not just water, nhs, roads schools green areas food dentist , room 😢
Very good Julia! Its getting a little tiresome the way the politicians blame things on climate change, its all nonsense. The climate at the moment is perfectly fine, stable and unremarkable at this point in history.
complete rubbish and you misunderstood what she was saying, she was saying this particular problem wasn't climate change related, but climate change is still a problem, and saying that our climate is "stable" is utterly ridiculous and just needs calling out for the BS it is.
@@Justin-yt8zv Mate, when was the last time you died in a flood, tornado, or landslide?
P.S. Climate is not weather.
@@Justin-yt8zv No mate I already called you out, no data supports the idea that the climate is in 'crisis' the idea is ridiculous. Has everyone forgotten about the climate gate scandal and the hockey stick graph debacle?
@@hayleylongster4698 not necessarily about catastrophic events, water and food yields will become more unpredictable, if the current rate of yield loss from farming continues it's estimated that the last harvest will be in 100 years time.
@@Justin-yt8zv10 years to save the planet, (repeat every 10 years ad infinitum)
Thank you for raising this obvious issue
Don’t knock immigration to Vince ! He doesn’t think we have enough !
It's about time someone said it how it is
We are concreting over our food production land, with all the water attenuation issues that go with it at a frightening rate because 'we need more houses'. Rather than oppose it on environmental grounds, or suggest more control on greedy developers and where they build, Labour have boasted they will build more houses than the Conservatives and that 'they are unashamedly on the side of the companies that build them and not those that oppose them'. As well as the permanent environmental damage, how many reservoirs will have to be built to deal with all this new housing?
Cable proves that for years we’ve been voting for people that are completely useless.
One of the problems with services is that it's impossible for government to plan for the future when it doesn't know how many people are going to need them
Government does not plan for the future beyond the next election.
He mocked Gordon Brown but Gordon gave us bus passes Cable is basically only interested in profit.
Marvellous I know,except that buses no longer run in rural areas in the dark anymore.
and taxed everyone into polluting diesels - 'following the science'. 😆
Flogged our gold at the worst time and handed over control of interest rates to the Bk of England. Now look,millions up to their eyes in debt whilst savers are penalised.
@@michaelscales5996 He also destroyed the pensions of millions of people.
"Who will pay for the Thames Tideway Tunnel?
The tunnel will cost £3.8bn to complete, and an additional £1.1bn has already been spent by Thames Water for preparatory works. The cost of the project is being paid for by Thames Water’s 15 million wastewater customers through their bills."
Increasing the capacity of our infrastructure will cost a lot, which is why our politicians would rather these costs go under the spreadsheet heading of 'climate change preparations' than subtract from their economic case for having increased the population size. So well done to Julia for getting Mr Cable to at lest acknowledge some statistical causality (existing capacity Vs increased demand).
Great ! Well done Julia !
He doesnt care, forget trying to poke political grifters its a waste of everything water included
Good on you Julia, I love the way you hold your own. It's a joy to listen to you.
Yeah 10 million is a lot of increased water demand.
Good on you Julia tell them as it is.
Using various factors such as the rate of house price inflation, sewage outfalls and the amount of food supermarkets sell, it is reckoned that the true population of the UK is around 92 million. This is well over 20 million more than the 2021 census suggested. It would also go some way to explaining why areas of the south east already have hosepipe bans due to 'unprecedented demand'.
yep I agree because these 'refugees' won't be filling a census form out !
To many immigrants. Getting to see a dentist or a doctor is getting harder and harder. Kids having to go to school in different towns because there are no local places, potholes, crime...
Let them go bust and just take it back for nowt.
I don’t generally agree with nationalism but in the case of water, it must come back under control of the government, water is life
And then the investment in water services comes from….TAXATION.
We are full circle: the reason for the privatisation 40 years ago was because the infrastructure was archaic, we were in recession that had Denis Healey asking for a bailout from the IMF, top-rate tax at 80% and rising unemployment.
Where will the money come from this time - when we have drastic and nearly un-repayable public debt?
That's socialism. You mean Nationalisation.
@@gdfggggg
No poppet. :Nationalism' and 'Socialism' aren't synonyms.
Where on EARTH did you school?
@@robertcottam8824 I didn't say they were.
@@gdfggggg
Thank goodness for that. Apologies if I misconstrued.
Best wishes
Spot on , too many people , not enough holes in the ground
I had respect for Vince being sensible and sound thinker until he sold off the post office for next to nothing....another short term gain and lookmhow that turned out particularly for the postmasters...
And who allowed this situation to happen? We need REFORM and the sooner the better. They are the only Party to clearly define their strategy as to how they would address major issues where the present Government have totally failed.
Should of never been privatised in the beginning, as shouldn’t oil, gas, electricity, telecommunications, coal, etc. we messed up by selling them of all down to Maggie.
And now the tories are promoting institutions to be the landlords of the future (look at lloyds bank as one eg) rather than the small scale landlord saying it will be so much better. Sound familiar? Thats what they said abour the privatized utilities. Not gonna be good once the small landlords are gone for the renters.
I have always found the term "privatisation" to be a very ill fit for these industries as they are nowhere near the status of "free market". They are all still heavily regulated and controlled by the government and as such can never be subjcet to true competition. The fact that the government is still so involved with these industries is what makes them a mess. The answer is certainly not to give the government even more control!
Bullshit. You were either not alive or you have a poor memory of when these industries were under the control of the State. They were abysmal.
@@cjbram1 O. Absolutely I agree but that sophisticated stuff compared with how base the polical news is. It will be amusing to see how many people stay by the stand by the state owned utility company labour say they will have. I bet hardly any after a year.
Ye because they were really efficient when they were state owned 😂
Look at the state of the civil service, DVLA is a shambles nhs is an embarrassment,
Ye I'm sure it would be much better run by the state 🤦♂️
Brilliant! Go girl!!👏👏👏👏👍
A wholly accurate and rational criticism of policy is responded to with "That's complete nonsense."
"Which bit was nonsense?" is responded to with an attempt at a long winded non-sequiter
"Which bit was nonsense?" is ignored and the filibuster attempt continues.
"Wait, stop, which bit was nonsense?" is responded to with "The fact that people are being invited into the country to enjoy our water."
"You were a government minister, did you not think well if we've got more people coming in maybe we need more infrastructure?"
"No, that wasn't an issue that came across my desk."
(35 years of inaction and the summary is "We haven't got the balance right". And mental buffoons like that have the NERVE to call the criticism they received "nonsense". He's EVERTHING that's wrong with politicians.....no results....no accountability....no sense of shame. WHAT have you been doing for 35 years??)
That was a very educating video, the subject of water companies and greed, taking but not putting back in to system completely upended into the migrants fault, wow it doesn't get any better than that, a absolute stunner of a deflection 10 out of 10 best one I've seen.
Thames water has not given out dividends for the last six years. As usual, a larger company takes you over, they strip the company to he bones of assets, then leave the tax payer to pick up the pieces
And more come in illegally every day. What a joke the UK is. Government to blame on all levels.
Spot on JHB
Another Spin Doctor. Everything you say is nonsense and everything he says is divine revelation. Basically 'Gas Lighting'.
Tell it as it is girl good on you.
I can't remember anything going drastically wrong when water, gas and electricity was nationalised.
Things got done when councils ran the water, now everything has literally gone to s**t
Really, I remember homework by candle light very well
BRITISH tax payers have now got to pay for the bailout for yet another foreign owned business. If you think british people own the utilities....you don't know what your talking about and you should keep your uneducated mouth shut.
@@royjacobs1204 So do I!
I recently read (Lord) Matt Ridley's excellent book called How innovation works, in which he points to lots of examples of how government involvement or ownership nearly always stunts innovation, progress and even positive competition.
His conclusion seemed to be, healthy private competition in most fields gave the best outcome, but it needed to be properly regulated. Not over regulated, just well thought out, socially advantageous regulation.
LOL. Poor memory, perhaps? I remember water shortages, power cuts, no choice in telephones - it was standard or 'trim', miners' unions holding the government to ransom, buses that never turned up or went where they were needed, ad nauseum. The State is a poor manager.
How is it even legal to strip it of its assets and the just walk away 🫣
Good for you Julia