‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood death toll may hit 20k

Re:‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood dea... by pjc50 on Friday September 15, 2023 @08:29AM (#37521957)

It was remarkable how one of the first movements after withdrawing from the EU was to change the rules so water companies could dump sewage and render watercourses unsafe and polluted.

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Re:‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood dea... by mymac on Friday September 15, 2023 @09:12AM (#37522394)

The price for that will be felt decades from now. It also tells you something about how the anti-EU lobby was financed.

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Re:‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood dea... by theshrike79 on Friday September 15, 2023 @09:28AM (#37522641)

But the people who supported Brexit will be dead or close to it when that price will be paid, so they don't care.

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Re:‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood dea... by IG_Semmelweiss on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:04PM (#37526922)

Sounds like regulatory capture was already deeply burrowed in the UK.

This doesn't sound remarkable in the sense that you could play industry roulette, and its just another industry could have bought what they wanted instead of the water lobby. The y seemed to bet on brexit and won big. There were likely EU lobby losers on the other side, likely buying influence for years for EU rules to favor them, and we don't know them because they did not happen overnight or they were bigger in scope.

So the questions are,

1) what are the flipsides ? Which EU regulatory captures became undone as a result of brexit , and are massively benefitting the brits ?

2) regulatory capture is not new. So what are the brits doing about it ?

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