The Super Sewer - A Tax on the Poor for the Benefit of the Rich
There's been a few people saying that David Walliam's swim shows how badly the Thames Tunnel is needed because of the stomach illnesses he suffered. This proposal really just amounts to a tax on the poor for the benefit of the rich. Everyone will have to pay a flat rate tax through their water rates to pay for it. The main beneficiaries will be people living in river side flats and the almost universally middle class sports of rowing and sailing.Quite frankly I don't really care if lampreys or salmon appear in the Thames or new species of shrimp are thriving there. London became one of the world's greatest cities because it had a tidal river which daily would take all its effluent away. It's not a nature reserve, it performs important industrial and infrastructural roles. It is meant to whiff a bit and this only started to matter when the rich started to live in apartments by the river. The idea that we should spend billions to make the river clean enough to swim in is nonsense. If the project is going to be built then let the people who benefit foot the bill not the general population.
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