Yesterday I was delighted to vote in the Third Reading of the Water (Special Measures) Bill to support Labour’s plan to clean up our rivers, lakes, and seas after years of Tory negligence.
By placing water companies under special measures with new powers to ban bonuses & bring criminal charges against polluting bosses, we will address the record levels of sewage currently polluting our water and hold those responsible to account.
I have long championed campaigns to improve water quality, clean up our waterways, and ending the disgraceful behaviour of water companies and their bosses, both locally and nationally. Last nights vote is a step in the right direction to protecting the environment and ensuring corporate responsibility.
My constituents in Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton deserve good quality drinking water, clean rivers and streams where they live, and not to fit the bill of corporate greed. That is why I was proud to I vote for these amendments.
Jim McMahon OBE MP 