Red Ken's latest: don't flush your toilet

[darmstadt]

I remember being in Rhodesia some years ago visiting friends over Christmas (they had just bought a load of goldmines) and they hadn't finished building their house. The actual house was just the wooden frame with sacks used as walls which were coated with cement. The toilet and bathroom facilities were still to be built therefore to have a Richard you had to walk a few hundred meters from the house where a hole about 10 foot deep and around 6 foot by 3 foot wide had been dug. Over this hole were a couple of planks upon which you precariously balanced and did your stuff. For the poor unfortunate who fell in the bathroom was around 2 miles away which was just a big concrete circle filled with water which was used for irrigation purposes. :x

[Maximus]

Livingstone

Wasn't it Ken who recently vetoed plans for a desalination plant on the Thames that would've helped with the water shortages?

[Board Game Geek]

Re: Livingstone

What a load of cr@p, pardon the pun.

Water is a nearly limitless resource on this planet, which is made up of about 70% water. Red Ken's talking as if it was oil or something !

There is more than enough water to go round our little isle.

What I suspect has happened is that all the extra monies raised from increased water bills by the greedy and incompetent water utilities has been poorly spent on "bodge it and plaster it jobs", such is the attitude of the majority of the UK.

Now they are realising that the plasters are coming off the plasters which are coming off the plasters and are sh1tting (pun intended) themselves. They can't ask the government for money, they can't raise the water bills again, so they are spreading scare stories to the media, in the hope that consumption will ease off a bit. When it doesn't, then they can raise bills, on the justification that they told us so and we didn't listen and now have to face the conssequences.

For goodness sake, we are being manipulated once again.

Ok, reverse the question. How much can I pay in water bills, so I dont have to worry about hosepipe bans and all the other rubbish, and can just get on with using as much water as i like, since i'm paying for a service and hence it should be there on tap ? (pun intended)

[TinTin]

Great advert for London 2012

Only a few days before the vote in Singapore and Red Ken comes up with this. Oh well, you may say it was a foregone conclusion (Paris) but still it has done us no favours. Third world country image or what. Surprising really when you go to places like Cyprus that have no restrictions placed whatsoever with no rainfall at all and a huge no of tourists running the taps in the hotel rooms all day long.
BTW, was Red Ken who said that London needs another million or so new houses for the influx of newcomers ???

[WageSlave1]

Re: Great advert for London 2012

don’t flush the lavatory if you have just had a pee

The dirty fecker. Maybe that sort of behaviour is acceptable in Ken's socialist house, but in my house we thankfully still have standards and a sense of dignity.

Once this island successfully ruled a third of the globe and built roads and railways across some of the world's most extreme environments. Now we can't even afford to flush the toilet. I blame comprehensive education.