Did Damian Green just explain what made him want to be a politician?
Former Cabinet minister Damian Green has tried to justify all the sewage the water companies – privatised by Tories in the 1980s, remember – have been dumping in our rivers by saying he used to swim in it when he was a child:
"I remember as a child in South Wales swimming in sewage"
Conservative MP @DamianGreen says water pollution from sewage dumping has always been an issue, but it used to be perceived as more acceptable #Peston pic.twitter.com/386v3pltuJ
— Peston (@itvpeston) May 17, 2023
Did he really?
I remember being warned not to swim in rivers as a child (I’m 13 years younger than Green), because of pollution. Maybe it had become worse in the intervening decade or so, but I still find his confession that he swam in other people’s excrement utterly remarkable – and revolting.
It has attracted exactly the kind of response one should expect:
So Damien Green lives up to the part I have always thought he occupied.
— Gary Bowman. Against Uniparty Politics (@GaryOpinionated) May 19, 2023
Yes indeed – although we should remember that he was sacked from his Cabinet position for having filth of a different kind on his Parliamentary laptop (computer).
My personal opinion was that, having swum in … that as a boy, it explains why Green wanted to be a Tory politician in later life; he enjoyed the experience so much, he wanted to repeat it on a long-term basis.
And it has spawned a new strand of satire:
📞"I gargled sewage as a boy and it never did me any harm🇬🇧"
"It shaped me and a generation of Conservatives. Me. Damian Green. Matt Le Tissier."
Colin from Portsmouth says that clean water is not a basic human right. pic.twitter.com/BP7mz17QAJ
— The Exploding Heads (@Exploding_Heads) May 19, 2023
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Just another lying tory toerag!