I In this TV preview, I highlight two of the most controversial statements of my career. Put on your hat or hold on to your horse.cling something. Statement Her 1: I do not believe that sewage should be discharged into the ocean or waterways at all. “Oh, it’s actually fine,” you, a big name in the water industry, keep explaining to me in a condescending voice. “It’s not completely raw sewage. It’s been treated a little bit. If you have a problem with swimming in the ocean, please don’t swim in the ocean. No, thank you. We put sewage slurry into the water around the island. I don’t think it should be pumped. That said, both the action (flushing sewage into the ocean) and the reaction (broadly speaking, do nothing, say nothing) are probably the same as what we currently have. I think it’s one of the sharpest metaphors for the British state of mind. Please don’t make a fuss about sea sewage. It’s rude. It could hurt the profits of the water companies.
Statement #2: I don’t think it should be anyone’s job. Joe Lycett something has to be done about it. This is in no way meant to denigrate Lycett. I’ve enjoyed his career for a long time and his recent rise to fame on Channel 4 has been very entertaining and fun to watch. It’s just a matter of logistics and the current state of British politics. This seems like the job of a member of parliament. I feel like this is the whole reason we have governments, parliaments, etc. To prevent sewage from flowing into the sea. no? Okay, no, no. As you said, Travelman’s host should handle this for you. Perhaps after this John Bishop will be able to run the RNLI.
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That’s probably half the point of Joe Lycett vs. the Sewers (February 20, 9pm, Channel 4), but I recommend finishing your sandwich before watching this documentary. It’s ridiculous that we have water companies letting sewage seep into the ocean (point 1), and it’s completely ridiculous that apparently Joe Lycett is the only one trying to do something about it (point 2) ). But vs Sewage ends up being much better because it leans so thoroughly into its absurdity.
What’s very, very, very good about Joe Lycett is that he’s so charming and allays people’s anxieties that people break out of the solid character he was trying to do for the camera and replace him. to instantly become more fluid, human, and normal. He does it when he talks to wild swimmers on Bognor’s beach, and he does it at Cranfield University’s sewage treatment lab (“It stinks!” he says, zipping briskly past a welcoming sign). He teamed up with Gary Lineker and scouted him for intentionally stupid stunts involving podcasts, broken toilets and the Royal Albert Docks. He casts John Sopel (“Journalist and broadcaster John Sopel, what are you doing in the bath?”), Phil Daniels, and Deborah Meaden as commentators on bizarrely high-concept set pieces. This is accomplished by doing this. He points at a whiteboard, demonstrating the incestuous employment policies between water companies and water services regulators, and laughs like a clown’s horn. This is truly a new benchmark in documentary that “makes a point while making you laugh” and should be studied and promoted as such.
But I think it’s very hard to get over the fact that this even needed to be made in the first place. How does sewage flow into the ocean? The UK has a combined sewer system, where rainwater and wastewater flow into the same pipes, which can exceed their capacity during heavy rain. In such a situation, the system would overflow into the sea, where the sewage portion would theoretically be diluted by the heavy rain portion. It’s legal and built into the system design, but no, I don’t like it either.
The problem is that water companies pay dividends to investors, but reforming the sewer system would cost billions of dollars and reduce that dividend, so water companies have no incentive to do it. It means that it is not given. Lycett does all the right things to combat this – he downplays ridiculous infrastructure issues, does it with enough stupidity and frivolity to thereby bleed up the noses of water companies, and then calls you out. – “Yes”, sir, I’m sorry, but you need to be involved in order to take action. All of them are truly wonderful.It’s just: after the oil incident, the Truss incident, the Beckham incident, and the Braverman incident. thing Wouldn’t it be great if someone other than Joe Lycett actually sorted things out? Anyone? Is someone in charge in the first place?
