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Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb, "I'm afraid it's the government I don't trust. I didn't trust the last Conservative government and I don't trust this Labour government either" @GreenJennyJones "Who doesn't want regulators of a public service to work in the interests of the public?" "Over the last 14 years we have had huge growth in sewage and pollution, well done guys.. And it is a growth in sewage that has had an impact in Gross National Product.. It's so gross that other countries see this as indicative of the UK's approach to running privatised services i.e. not very good" "Because when we have a river full of dead fish the authorities go out and buy more fish to replace them, that's economic growth, a huge success" "When e.coli is found in our water system we get a double hit of economic growth. There is extra spending on the NHS treating patients with gastroenterologist, and all the money spent on plastic bottles of water when you can't drink from the tap" "We even have the prospect of a rain soaked country like ours spending millions on tankers importing drinking water from Norway" "That's extra spending, extra growth, so I can see growth is a success factor in the previous government's estimation" "Of course we can't forget the staggering growth in shareholder dividends and CEO salaries, when these private water companies take money out of the hands of bill payers and help the companies to buy new private jets.. That also adds to GNP" "My problem is that this particular type of GNP adds to most people's unhappiness.. That's why the promotion of growth for growth's sake is actually complete nonsense, and I don't understand why anyone would advocate that" "The more that rivers are polluted the unhappier the lives of everybody using that particular space. Whether its dog walkers, anglers, wild swimmers, nature lovers" "And the more money shareholders get the less happy bill payers are for 40% of their money to be spend on debt repayment and dividends" "So growth is not an indicator of happiness or the economy being run in the interests of the many.. It's a nonsense soundbite for the economically illiterate.. And needs to be deleted from this legislation" "If Ofwat was given the duty to clean up the environment when it was set up, we wouldn't be i the mess that we are in in the moment"