UK bathing water ranks next from last in EU beach table
Alain Quay
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"UK bathing water ranks next from last in EU beach table
20 sites fail safe bathing criteria stoking fears UK will once more be ‘dirty man of Europe’ after Brexit"
"And with Brexit casting doubt on the future of EU regulations that staunched runaway coastal pollution in the 1970s, some influential Brussels figures are warning of retaliation if the UK lowers environmental standards to allow the export of dirty factories, practices, or waste across the Channel.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/23/uk-bathing-water-ranks-next-from-last-eu-beach-table
Strong and stable shite to swim in.
20 sites fail safe bathing criteria stoking fears UK will once more be ‘dirty man of Europe’ after Brexit"
"And with Brexit casting doubt on the future of EU regulations that staunched runaway coastal pollution in the 1970s, some influential Brussels figures are warning of retaliation if the UK lowers environmental standards to allow the export of dirty factories, practices, or waste across the Channel.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/23/uk-bathing-water-ranks-next-from-last-eu-beach-table
Strong and stable shite to swim in.
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De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
UK bathing water ranks next from last in EU beach table
we will solve that problem soon!!
Maybe we can suggest an alternative headline from th efacts provided
96.4% of British beaches were found safe to swim in last year
IMHO - the Guardian really is a pile of sanctimonious, unreadable sh1te
I am sure that qualifies you for a prize but as nobody has previously reached the last sentence of a Guardian article I can not confirm this.
Skip to the conclusions.
I am not sure. You have no chance.
Or perhaps the elevation of standards overall has been something that would have happened with or without the eu across all aspects of the modern world.
sure we might be in second to last ... but some one always has to be second to last .... if the top 10 countries are all at 96.8% and we are at 96.4% .. then its no real biggie
Pride in mediocrity - that's the spirit.....
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
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Personally, I think multi-national agreements are a good thing for the environment.
I excel at mediocrity. .. NO ONE is more average than me !
if it is a bad rule it comes from Brussels if not then it is a good British rule. The beauty of this is that two people can believe the opposite and both be equally unhappy
sort of;
some on here blame "elf and safety" some blame Brussels meddling
Others think our beaches will be sewage farms without Brussels
others (correctly) think it is because we stopped pumping sewage into the sea a hundred yards off the beach
Dundee has a lovely beach at Broughty Ferry, the mouth of the River Tay - but it's only 20 years or so since they built an actual sewage plant (for a city of 150,000).
Before that, we used to say we were swimming, but really we were just going through the motions.
So, it has a disproportionate number of cities on the coast. It is not a like-for-like comparison, unless of course you are smug, French, disgustingly over paid and happy to be anonymously quoted.
What about the Channel Islands, Sicily, Sardinia, all the stuff around a Scotland and not forgetting the MIGHTY Isle of Wight? Aren't the islands in Europe as well?
If I remember rightly, the Channel Islands have lovely beaches that aren't affected by the fetid miasma drifting off Britain.
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
My limited kayaking experience off the west coast of Scotland suggests that the water there is pretty damn clean.