Quiet day yesterday in the world...

[WTFH]

Some of that rainwater came from clouds that started outside UK territorial waters. We must join the KIng Kanute campaign to stop this. Or the more extreme version - UKIP.

Foreign water, coming over here and interfering, trying to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

As for UKIP, with Searle being convicted of murdering his wife, there can't be many of them out on parole right now.

[OwlHoot]

Some of that rainwater came from clouds that started outside UK territorial waters. We must join the KIng Kanute campaign to stop this. Or the more extreme version - UKIP.

It's not just water. Actually the dastardly Dutch are happily pinching literally square miles of our land each year!

All that land washed away by the sea along the East Anglian coast (which has eroded a good five miles inland since Roman times) ends up deposited on and expanding the Dutch coast.

And it isn't just the Dutch at it. I'm sure the Frogs are gradually pinching bits of the south coast and the Isle of Wight!

[LondonManc]

What a lovely circle jerk from the regular libtards.

For those living in the North West, an impending hosepipe ban is bigger news than a chat behind close doors between two people they'll never meet.
Brexit bumblings and mumblings mean nothing until something actually happens - near misses don't count.

Tug on comrades!!

[NotAllThere]

...For those living in the North West, an impending hosepipe ban is bigger news than a chat behind close doors between two people they'll never meet...

It's true; international affairs have never affected the lives of ordinary people in the North-West as much as being unable to water their dahlias.

[LondonManc]

It's true; international affairs have never affected the lives of ordinary people in the North-West as much as being unable to water their dahlias.

Correct. But you're clearly a bit too dim to realise that people are far more concerned about what affects their day-to-day life in the present rather than what might affect them down the line. Having to get water from a gurney rather than the tap, limiting cooking options because you've only got so much water, etc. Things we generally take for granted. That's without gardening and landscaping businesses struggling because things aren't growing so don't need cultivating, particularly lawns.

It's largely due to United Utilities' inability to fix leaks in a timely manner which is driven by their complacency because the Lake District has traditionally been a nice wet area with a relatively constant water supply. We had a spokesperson on last night claiming that they were hitting targets - no doubt these targets were set by someone used to playing video games on novice difficulty!

We've faced hosepipe bans in the past, but nothing like this since 1976, which I'm too young to remember.

[original PM]

Yeah - the Uk's water management is just crap.

As soon as we get any decent rain we have floods because we cannot cope with the extra water.

Then a few months of sun and we have no water left.

We get enough rainwater in the Uk for this never to be a problem we just need to get our act together.

(it's still the fault of the EU for stopping us dredging anyway apparently or something.)

[NotAllThere]

...We've faced hosepipe bans in the past, but nothing like this since 1976, which I'm too young to remember.

I do remember 1976, where in some areas you had to go to the stand-pipe on your street with a bucket. Not much fun, but way more serious than a hosepipe ban which is all you're facing now.

In 1995 there were hosepipe bans in the North, despite record rainfall earlier in the year. That was also due to the leaking infrastructure. Seems nothing has been done about it.

[WTFH]

Correct. But you're clearly a bit too dim to realise that people are far more concerned about what affects their day-to-day life in the present rather than what might affect them down the line.

So you mean that all those DM stories about how wonderful things will be in the future as long as the saboteurs, traitors, etc, don't get their way are just rubbish because they do not affect the day-to-day life in the present?

[GreenMirror]

It's true; international affairs have never affected the lives of ordinary people in the North-West as much as being unable to water their dahlias.

Are there any ordinary people in the NW without flat caps and whippets?

[LondonManc]

Are there any ordinary people in the NW without flat caps and whippets?

Are there any stereotypers from down south who aren't utter bellends?