High Society
The papers! I’ve no idea what’s been going on. In my absence the country has become a covid infested hell. But the worst story by a long way was the story of Southern Water which had been fined a record £90m for deliberately dumping billions of litres of raw sewage into protected seas over several years for its own financial gain.
The judge said, "These offences show a shocking and wholesale disregard for the environment" ...the company had a history of criminal activity for its "previous and persistent pollution of the environment. It had 168 previous offences and cautions but had ignored these and not altered its behaviour. There is no evidence the company took any notice of the penalties imposed or the remarks of the courts. Its offending simply continued."
And then what did he do - he gave them another bloody fine! A fine. They’ll write a cheque in some backroom operation. Where are the Senior managers? Why is the board not accountable? What a bunch of crooks, and yet they’ll be driving about in their big cars, yapping at their golf clubs and just breezing on, untouchable. How can we tolerate this?
Later, there was a social over at the yard. The race had been cancelled due to haar, but we gamely attended the BBQ anyway.
And much later a cracking film - Big Night, with Stanley Tucci. An absolute delight.
Comments
Sign in or get an account to comment.