Post

ENGLAND'S tap water...so sick of this deliberate British English nationalist cr*p in attempting to tar Scotland with same brush as Eng...Scottish water is NOT privatised & our water is not being loaded with sh*t!!!!!! Get it right or yr integrity is zero.

Actually there are labs in the UK, but they are in Scotland (where water is separately administered) and the writer seems to have forgotten that Scotland is still part of the UK. Would that it were otherwise.

The bottom line is that the water companies won't pay. Everything they use to build infrastructure (hah!) or treat the water has to be known to be safe before it's used. And they wouldn't pay the labs so they shut down. If this was really a Brexit problem, the regulation would have been scrapped.

An old Soviet anecdote comes to mind: Frenchman, American and Russian working out who a piece of💩belongs to. Frenchman says, not us, ours smells better, American says, not us, ours looks better, Russian says, not us, ours has the Soviet quality mark stamped on it. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

As an American, resolved to paying $300US per year in water filters in order to avoid drinking the shit-flavored river sludge they call tap water here, it’s at least comforting to know we’re not alone. Brexit was the second-worst blunder of the western world in the last 10 years…sorry, third-worst.

Utterly fed up seeing this reported as a UK issue. When will Guardian get its head round UK, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland. England does not = UK!!!!!! I only swearing internally at the mo. STOP IT!!!!!