Working Class Getting Hosed by the Victim Class Politics of the Hosepipe Bans
It’s that we’ve spent decades failing to build the infrastructure to collect it, store it and move it around the country. We’re only now discussing the first major reservoir in around thirty years.That isn’t an environmental crisis, it’s a managerial disgrace. There is now a risk of drought in East Anglia, Devon and Cornwall.Our Ebola*, stationed there in that 'third world country' as he calls it, has found that his water company is going a different route.
- ▪It’s that we’ve spent decades failing to build the infrastructure to collect it, store it and move it around the country.
- ▪We’re only now discussing the first major reservoir in around thirty years.That isn’t an environmental crisis, it’s a managerial disgrace.
- ▪There is now a risk of drought in East Anglia, Devon and Cornwall.Our Ebola*, stationed there in that 'third world country' as he calls it, has found that his water company is going a different route.
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Working Class Getting Hosed by the Victim Class Politics of the Hosepipe Bans Beege Welborn 11:20 AM | July 14, 2026 AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file There's a mouthful, huh?What I'm referring to are the 'hosepipe' or garden hose bans recently put into place across much of Southern England in the areas surrounding London, as they experience a triple whammy of warm weather - three successive heatwaves that rolled across the country in the late spring. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); Britain has done basically what California has done as its population has burgeoned with newcomers, and water usage skyrocketed - nothing.This was kind of entertaining, and you could literally do…
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