What a withered country we will be if wasteful privatised water companies manage to persuade customers to grass on neighbours watering their lawns.
Hosepipe bans and restrictions on filling paddling pools are an indictment of profit-hungry companies funnelling money into dividends rather than plugging leaks.
True, droughts and the climate change driving them are deadly serious and require some uncomfortable shifts in our behaviour.
However water companies in England are driven by profits and are more concerned about the bottom line than our showers, gardens and clean cars.
If hosepipe bans are inevitable, the immediate blame isn’t with bill payers who take pride in their gardens.
It lies with the corporations failing to deliver the water we pay handsomely to be delivered.
Rich get Rishi
When a candidate vying to be the next PM is caught bragging about diverting public money from deprived areas to well-off parts of the country, the nasty cat is truly out of the dirty Tory bag.
Levelling Up was always a deceitful lie from a party that rules for a well-heeled elite and is determined to Level Down most families.
Rishi Sunak’s secret boast to Tory zealots in Tunbridge Wells exposes the party’s true purpose. Rival Liz Truss is part of the same conspiracy against most of the nation.
Tory voters, particularly in red wall seats, should ask themselves why they buy this transparently fraudulent propaganda.
Britain deserves better than a party of self-serving charlatans robbing the hardworking majority to further bloat the cosseted few.
Bully for her
Princess Charlotte wants to play hockey like mum Catherine when she grows up.
A future match in which these royal favourites bully off would sell enough tickets to fill Wembley or Twickenham, never mind the back garden of Buckingham Palace.
