Why is sewage not the talk of the town? | James O'Brien - The Whole Show

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[@wayneford2481]

If we the customer will have to pay to bring the service up to proper standard Then we need ownership and benifits of ownership.

[@uksubversion]

This show is worth remembering. Well done.

[@shaunmartin1335]

The sewage has ruined the rockpools and shore ecosystem in hastings.

[@steve5473]

Take one look at the surfers against sewage interactive map on a day when it rains and it will show you that it is not safe to swim in the sea around the country.

[@margaretalice6343]

The utilities should never have been privatised. The companies have millions in dividends. They are now expecting tax payers AGAIN to pay. Shame on companies/conservertives😂

[@Dynasty1818]

Blaming government for a private company's actions. LBC stupidity as usual.

[@belindamay8063]

@margaretalice. We only have ourselves to blame. ‘We” elected these brigands -of our own free will. And we knew full well what they believed in - and what they were going to do. We weren’t paying attention.

[@Phi1l]

Basic public services shouldn't be subject to market forces, but with an average final salary pension of about £66k in the public sector & about 200,000 employees in the water industry, 1.4bn in dividend payouts LY look a cheaper tradeoff.

[@roelkomduur8073]

@@belindamay8063 With the "help "of an antiquated electoral system.....

[@Gph0367]

Keep exposing the truth James.

[@jeffsimon9594]

And the bald spot

[@scottholle8872]

Shhhhocking amounts of sewage, I see what you did there. 😂😂

[@IntelligentArtefact]

How did you spot the one he did, amongst all that sludge?

[@user-dr7by9dx8l]

Big fan of James.

[@infinitel00p94]

lol

[@leecoping8114]

From river to the sea our sewage will be free

[@susannaselmin4496]

I giggled...I shouldn't have, but I did😮

[@mattydare]

Got me too👍🤣

[@belindamay8063]

Thank you James. Both for the sewage story ( shocking) and the term ‘client-journalist’. The latter will be a game-changer in all those fruitless arguments about the sanctity of free speech and the freedom of the press.

[@gavinsmith9564]

Just make MPs and Water company directors drink a random glass of river water each month, problem solved.

[@powerline301]

The problem with the Sewage, is Too many across the country Dwell on the Outdated & worthless Monarchy rather than ensuring sanitation is disposed properly. Environmental hazards will continue to mount & place lives in jeopardy until accountability is front and center.

[@equaliser2265]

Correct Sir, oh the poor Royals, no waiting lists for them, jump the queue, hard work is called cutting a ribbon or going on a state visit/ holiday.

[@Dylanesque]

Privatisation is a scam. Profit is all that matters to these people.

[@Dynasty1818]

Wake up, without profit you don't have a job at any level.

[@Dylanesque]

@@Dynasty1818 Essential services should never have been privatised. Wait until they get their hands on the NHS in its entirety. Where will they be patient dumping when when the NHS is fully privatised?

[@thomaswikstrand8397]

​@@Dynasty1818wake up, profit has nothing to do with employment.

[@Khalkara]

Agreed. We need to run society for people's well being, not profit. We should all do away with private ownership and embrace social ownership.

[@neilthomas6459]

Northern Ireland and Scotland were not Privatised - same or "worse" there.

[@DennisMoore664]

"He's not the messiah! He's a very naughty boy!"

[@margaretalice6343]

What party decided to privatise the utilities

[@margaretalice6343]

I’m appalled that again the waterways are in such terrible condition. Is this cos it was privatisation. Under privatisation we have poor infrastructure

[@billysastard8779]

For your info on main news last night in our state TV channel in the middle of Europe there was a short report about risks of ecoly infection from water in UK rivers and problems for organisers of traditional rowboat races of one famous english university. My question is simple. Can we count rivers full of raw sewage as one of the Brexit benefits? Cheers from Czech republic.

[@hughurquhart4917]

Looks like we've landed right in IT , mate !!!!

[@aidymcgrath4197]

Ding Ding!

[@louieberg2942]

I'm very much looking forward to the full interview with the Archbishop. I hope to hear him say things I haven't heard before, but I genuinely worry they will be variations of the standard spiel. I hope to be surprised.

[@katienordwind2463]

I listened on globalplayer on my commute home after work, when the question from a fellow Hamburgian came up. Still laughing about the mono nostril. Love mysteryhour so much.

[@stephendavies8510]

This is what you get because of privatisation accountability only for profit and the shareholders not for the environment and consumers this is a national scandal.

[@My_HandleIs_]

Correct! Only strictly regulated and monitored companies should be allowed to handle anything that causes pollution, emissions, impact on nature, etc. Unregulated businesses, not paying the cost for their filth, will cost taxpayers and citizens infinitely more.

[@wayneford2481]

The answer to your question is the news providers won't make profit from outsourced water assets as profit can be taken instead of providing a service .

[@dekone5758]

With regard to the question about coins and why they’re called a quid, isn’t it an abbreviation of ‘queens head’ ?

[@greamespens1460]

I like that

[@IntelligentArtefact]

if it isn't, then it certainly should be.

[@infinitel00p94]

can we talk about angela rayner more!! that is news

[@IntelligentArtefact]

If our politicians were as professional, thorough and straight-up decent as James O'B we'd have a better-run parliament. The occasional J O'B-haters here couldn't last two minutes in a debate with James.

[@PlatonsArm]

But James, it does set our world on fire. Literally.

[@kevinwolfenden4685]

The funny thing is, is that it's totally "wrong" to sell hot cross bun flavoured cheese but totally "ok" to sell $60.00 knock off bibles.

[@andrewstevenson118]

I don't like it when people compare Trump to Satan - Satan can quote Scripture. 🤪

[@SteveLaw-UK]

Or, in fact, hot cross buns.

[@TheLucanicLord]

The amounts are that big you'd have to plot it on a _log_ scale.

[@IntelligentArtefact]

Every one a Maserati.

[@marblackCanada]

I would say ,they should be called a sewage company not a water company.

[@SonnyR4K]

If you use your theory of the 2 nostrils in case one gets blocked, then why do we have 1 mouth?????

[@SteffBrockley]

Red Dward reference? Okay, you’ve got my attention now.

[@xchallengerxl6590]

Follow the money, I reckon alot of companies are giving hush money to alot of mainstream news outlets.

[@markrymanowski719]

I smell in my dreams. Only if i haven't had a shower.

[@coppershark1973]

Anyone living near a river IS talking about all this.

[@IntelligentArtefact]

...and employing pegs over noses.

[@annemoncrieff3875]

Rf is actually a nationalised outgit whereas sewage is privatised. So it is the companies who r meant to be updatung sewage schemes r not doing their joobs that u need to blame oh and thd tories for privatisating the process.

[@socialgadfly5305]

This has been going on for years, supposed it’s taken this long for the penny to drop

[@genesis1765]

To save us we need more fish and chips shop

[@LeeCharles90]

Talk of the town 😂😂 no one’s talking about that t because it’s been happening for decades. Willen lake in MK was being filled with toilet waste for years before finding the pipe work was fitted wrong at a private care home. Can’t change and it won’t change

[@thedudeabides97]

Corbyn was going to nationalise water rail and mail. Not voted in.

[@johngamble967]

Have you been to Bradford, obviously not 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@lenwilkinson672]

As we have become a third world country why worry,it’s all the norm now.

[@McCloudious]

Didn't expect a red dwarf reference but I'm all here for it lol can we have an hours call in about how awesome it is?

[@exdoode]

56:00 this is a great example of an ingrained white supremacy complex. It's clear to me that this individual [Archbishop of Canterbury] at the time didn't realise that Africans are people too. Expecting that the mans humanity "came from his faith" and not expecting him to love children, have wisdom, be spiritual as well as be philosophical. It's really sad!

[@joil6649]

They do it on purpose, Lynn.

[@Loneman_OG]

3.6 million hours of sewage is too difficult for me to comprehend; tell me how many p00ps that equates to and I might be able to envision it! 💩 😆

[@SeRoAnthem]

if you average each pooping session as about 7 minutes, it is about 310 million poops

[@WarrenElliott-rh3zt]

The sewage might be used as a deterrent to people in boats

[@IntelligentArtefact]

Sledgehammers and Nuts come to mind

[@dismalfist]

Mogg can claim it's a brexit benefit.

[@Hermothersdaughter665]

Western countries are losing themselves . Europe need to leave America alone and get the best graduated civil engineering students in their country to solve infrastructure problems instead of following America into wars. it's 2024, forcthe most part the internet is helping people create communities globally. I have friends in places I will never be able to go. we are video chatting with people in Yemen and the North pole. It's time to stop the wars and focus on making home livable. Your countries are falling apart.

[@MrG.42]

I heard that he signed the Magna Carta at the bottom. Hope this helps.

[@oliviadibden5687]

Unfortunately if the water and sewage problems aren’t addressed we will see the reemergence of Cholera. A really scary prospect.

[@IntelligentArtefact]

At 12 minutes it's already HARSSSSSSHHHH

[@hahanah1463]

Bit embarrassing for LBC as it was THE TALK OF THE TOWN on gb news like all day

[@ceesjanmol]

How much lower can you poor sods sink?

[@FionGunn]

I do recall smells from dreams and often wake up because of them!

[@greamespens1460]

QUESTION Where does the Arch Bishop if Canterbury live ? A In a house B In a Palace

[@margaretalice6343]

Chilli & cheese makes everything better 🤣🤣🤣

[@siddharthdesai117]

LBC, Can you add Chapters to your videos please

[@neilthomas6459]

Surely the number of hours of discharge comes from adding up the hours that each individual storm overflow discharged.

[@neilthomas6459]

A proper informed debate about this issue is required. It is not an easy problem to address. If the public want higher standards then they will have to pay for them - sorry.

[@neilthomas6459]

It would cost a huge amount of money. A cost/benefit analysis should be carried out - there may be better ways to spend our limited money.

[@Unchainedboar]

I am willing to entertain the religion is useful argument i just see no evidence for the religion is true argument

[@louieberg2942]

Same. There are different ways of getting what religion offers you, but it doesn't commit you to all sorts of claims that are pretty tough to defend.

[@gailforce]

I'm not going to preach from a point of atheism towards the religious sorts because I know for a fact that bingo did more to disempower the church than any atheist ever could.

[@TheStonesQT93]

I think one of my issues with atheism is this attitude. I could be mean and retort in kind by saying that suicide did for religious sorts more than preaching ever did. That level of argument isn’t going to help anyone and is just nasty. Best thing to do is to live and let live. Most likely, these things go through cycles in society.

[@Khalkara]

@@TheStonesQT93 The problem is that religious people won't let you live and let live. We shouldn't ignore societal problems, we should deal with them.

[@TheStonesQT93]

@@Khalkara Sure, that’s what you believe. I can’t change your mind that not all religious people are like that. As for society problems, I completely agree. I was only giving you an inane example to highlight the inanity of your statement.

[@Khalkara]

@@TheStonesQT93 I didn't mean that all religious people refuse to live and let live, I meant that plenty of religious people refuse to live and let live. And they do so because religion is a poison to their minds. We should as a society recognize this poison for what it is (bad for people) and seek to suppress it.

[@markkelly3507]

If the authorities wanted to, the water companies could be prosecuted: section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 empowers local councils to prosecute individuals or organisations "for the promotion or protection of the interests of the inhabitants of their area"; Public Nuisance is a common-law offence and would normally be a police/CPS prosecution. Case law for both incudes prosecuting people for causing pollution. It just takes some individual in a position of power to have the cojons to take on the likes of Thames or Southern Water.

[@Metonymy1979]

Hey, that's me!

[@RobertJones-ku4fg]

People only care about things when the media tell them to

[@robertlonsdale5326]

Is it true that a Roman Catholic can't be priminister this country?

[@margaretalice6343]

Our water is murky out of our tap. Suspect water quality in Northumberland

[@IntelligentArtefact]

And it's full of microplastics if you buy bottled water! The answer has to be Filtering your own drinking portion of it.

[@DH-nq1mu]

Skip to 1:28 if not interested in the religious conversation.

[@upsidedownnoise]

Two nostrils...Two lungs.

[@greamespens1460]

One oesophagus

[@andrewtim1989]

Why would you make something awesome taste like something awful? 😳

[@jamesnurgle6368]

I feel like james is having too much fun with his sshhocking comments

[@StratsRUs]

Feargal never wrote his own hits, James. Nice voice though

[@Scottie444]

Jesus is the Whey, not the Curd

[@IanMartin-vb3im]

The sweg is turning male fish into female fish fun fact

[@joegooner3563]

Because you dont want to solve it by reducing immigration, sewers are being built, but increased population means the ayatems we had for over one hundred years are strained, battersea will be done in 2025....

[@thomaswikstrand8397]

Is there anything you won't blame on immigration, you silly right wing thing? It's capitalism, the never ending extraction of profit to benefit a select very few at the direct and acute expense of everyone else.

[@atrution]

I normally see James O'Brien as someone who considers context, but thinking that people who are religious feel happier or less stressed in societies structured to have religion either enshrined or at least embedded in the power structure should maybe give pause to attribute that happiness to the religious beliefs over the societal acceptance.

[@user-ns5rc5oz8n]

Putin's Jesus!

[@owenmcghee1666]

WHY won't you stand to be the next Pope? WHY?

[@3wishStudios-de4hw]

Hey, you can get much better quality out of that mic, something is off with your gain staging. fyi.

[@greamespens1460]

In his interview with the Arch Bishop will he question the simple fact that in the bible homosexually is a sin, why is a book allowed to exist in its form with such remarks.

[@IntelligentArtefact]

I am surprised the Conservatives haven't banned the bible, with all that talk of camels, needles and rich persons.

[@greamespens1460]

@@IntelligentArtefact True I believe however the rich man and camel parable is about if wealth is holding you back then you should dispense of it. There is a misnomer that the Camel is a miss spelling. All the best

[@belindamay8063]

@greamespens. The New Testament (Part Two of the Bible) is where Christianity began. The Old Testament is mainly pre-Christian History. That’s where your story comes from.

[@LC-vo5xv]

As was probably said during the live show it's another gift of Brex$hit...

[@christopherwhittaker2620]

This is by far the strangest James O’brien show ever. His deference to Christianity is absolutely bizarre. How about stop pushing religion please James. And of course the arch bishop has a way of talking about Christianity that can seem “ incredible or authentic “ My goodness ? And what does “ it is Easter after all “ even mean ? Wow. Definitely gone down in my estimation here mr O’brien 🙄🙄🙄

[@louieberg2942]

It shouldn't surprise you so much. It is a massive part of his life and, but this is armchair psychology stuff, a link to his father. I think he feels embarrassed when he admits to sometimes turning to religion, but I'm sure some voice nags at him when he says he DOESN'T believe most of the time. Of course, being raised in a religious household does not have to have this effect, but I can understand where JOB comes from. I share your puzzlement of feeling anything positive when people discuss acting on the basis of faith, mind you, but that is very much because religion has never been a part of my life. I feel like a blind person who is having people explain to him what the colour blue is.

[@belindamay8063]

I think that pumping sewage into the water supply is a sin. Or is this “pushing religion into things”?

[@belindamay8063]

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[@belindamay8063]

@christianity isn’t about absolute obedience. The Christ of the New Testament often refused to give definite answers to his followers. He encouraged them to think - to examine their most private thoughts. Truth is often something that we learn and discover. He was humble among men and women : he knelt and washed their feet. He publicly honoured the woman who deserted the kitchen in her eagerness to learn about Truth. We understand these things today. They were pretty revolutionary then.

[@christopherwhittaker2620]

@@belindamay8063 pumping sewage into the river’s and sea isn’t a “ sin “ it’s just wrong and disgusting. The word sin is a religious thing. Come on now even my grandkids know that.

[@whovotedforthat]

Over population

[@TheMatthooks]

Sorry mate. What you're describing is the very human desire to be a child. To have a big clever adult to look after you and take responsibility for your actions. I don't get the "sense of wonder" thing. What's more amazing? That some omnipotent being designed the universe around us, or that the universe formed by chance. That we are a huge set of coincidences beyond imagining?

[@mangledskateboarding1553]

33:47

[@MrMillez]

James mate you are pushing it with this one. Thames water is a worthy news pice. However I’d say there is something wrong with you for bringing up Brexit and illegal imitation. This is about corruption and neglect mate so try concentrating please chap. I’m very worried about you.

[@-silkman-3573]

Sorry, tried the religion segment, utter nonsense.

[@ejc636]

It's the waffle show.

[@user-wq6sz7vt3w]

London sewage, London labour and LBC!? It’s all the same!

[@VeritySnatch]

England voted for this

[@Loneman_OG]

I didn't.

[@IntelligentArtefact]

Only 37% of the electorate (about 35% of the CURRENT electorate) voted to leave the EU. It was a fundamentally undemocratic exercise in Self Harm for the next generation to suffer.

[@BILLVANNER]

I have heard sewage mentioned a lot lately. It is generally known as LBC

[@avalanche816]

Aww bless.

[@margaretbloomer9001]

They walk amongst us.@@avalanche816

[@IntelligentArtefact]

@@margaretbloomer9001 Sadly, they also have a vote.

[@matthewstrange3778]

Adding 700,000 people each year must really help with regards to the infrastructure capacity. James really can't discuss this glaring elephant in the room.

[@ianhunter2374]

People have better things to do in life than talk about lbc radio aka j.o.b

[@TheExcessus]

you don't, it seems :)

[@ianhunter2374]

@@TheExcessus I really do and would never listen to his left wing sewage

[@saxman1276]

​@@ianhunter2374 Guessing you had the show on mute then?

[@IntelligentArtefact]

@@ianhunter2374 Sewage has no party affiliation, but it's rampant discharge into our waterways is the result of Greed and Capitalism... which are right wing characteristics.

[@ianhunter2374]

@@IntelligentArtefact I would rather be right than not