Comedians raise awareness of sewage dumping at Lake Windermere protest
Paul Whitehouse, Lee Mack and Steve Coogan at Lake Windermere: the water won’t be magically cleaned just because they joined a protest – that is up to the rest of us.
This Site would like to add its praise to that already heaped on household-name comedians Steve Coogan, Lee Mack and Paul Whitehouse (plus any others who haven’t been named by national media) for raising awareness of sewage pollution.
They joined a protest against United Utilities’ pollution of Lake Windermere, giving it a mass-media boost that put the message onto TV screens across the UK.
And they said – well, hear it for yourself. Here are Messrs Coogan and Mack on ITV’s Good Morning Britain:
Some of the nation's best-known comedians are among campaigners warning of an ecological catastrophe at England's largest lake.
Steve Coogan and Lee Mack explain why they've joined forces with a campaign group to protest against untreated sewage which is discharged from storm… pic.twitter.com/mWwduC2Myj
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) May 29, 2023
And here’s Lee Mack on Channel 4 News. I include the tweet by Feargal Sharkey because the former pop musician turned environmental campaigner has himself done invaluable work in publicising this scandal:
What a fantastic event at Lake Windermere yesterday, huge well done to all of you for such a brilliant turnout.
Tip of the hat to @MattStaniek, Paul Whitehouse, @LeeMack, Steve Coogan, @Matthew_Wright et al, wish I could have been there. 👏👏👏 https://t.co/iXvKTHIo4L
— Feargal Sharkey (@Feargal_Sharkey) May 30, 2023
One well-publicised protest won’t clean up our waterways overnight.
As you can tell from the clips, United Utilities doesn’t really care. It’s happy giving £300 million to shareholders this year, while devoting just one-fifteenth as much to cleaning up its act. That’s the wrong way around, but it is the way chosen by the UK’s right-wing governments since 1989 – both Tory and Labour, who privatised our water and sewage services and kept them that way.
If you care about the country you live in, you need to kick up a fuss about this. Complain to your water company – demand a refund! And get on to your MP about it too.
Sewage dumping brings disease. The creek near Environment Secretary Therese Coffey’s own constituency home is full of e.Coli – but she couldn’t care less. You have to make her care.
Are you going to follow the example of Coogan, Mack, Whitehouse and the others? They can’t do it by themselves.
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