Sewage in the sea and bias at the BBC
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Former Environment minister Rebecca Pow joins Christopher Hope to discuss the topic taking the Telegraph comment section by storm this week - sewage pumping into our waterways. Rebecca says that "the whole sewage issue is being completely blown out of all proportion" but that she does understand concerns, plus the MP for Taunton Deane suggests some unusual ways you can make the most of water you use at home.
Also on the podcast, former BBC reporter Lewis Goodall talks about his new podcast with ex-Newsnight host Emily Maitlis and her recent comments about a 'Conservative agent' on the BBC board, tells Tories to stop being so thin-skinned about criticism and points to Nigel Farage as someone who can handle it well.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Chopper's politics. |
| 0:05.0 | And just finally the question for me Rebecca Powell, |
| 0:07.0 | is it time we all started sharing a bath? |
| 0:09.0 | Not you and me, not you me personally, obviously that's it that's inappropriate even on a |
| 0:13.5 | podcast. I'm Christopher Hope the Telegraph's Associate editor for |
| 0:19.9 | Politics and this is Chopper's Politics and today on the podcast we're getting our teeth into two very meaty subjects for you listeners |
| 0:29.3 | media bias and yuck sewage in our waters. |
| 0:33.4 | Don't say we don't treat you. |
| 0:35.6 | Lager will speak to former news night reporter, Lewis Goodall, |
| 0:39.6 | about the BBC, impartiality, and whether, well, whether his critics are a bit too thin-skinned. |
| 0:48.8 | But first, water quality has been making waves this week. See what I did there? |
| 0:54.0 | With people posting videos of what seems to be sewage pouring in volume |
| 0:58.0 | into our coastal waters |
| 1:00.0 | and turning them into stinking saspits. |
| 1:03.4 | It's causing quite the concern on social media and in the comments sections of many newspapers |
| 1:10.1 | including the telegraph and it seems to have caused anger across the political divide. |
| 1:15.1 | So I thought I'd give Rebecca Powell a ring, an old friend of this podcast and a former |
| 1:19.8 | Environment Minister to get to the bottom of it all. |
| 1:23.6 | Rebecca Power, welcome again to Choppers Politics. |
| 1:26.6 | Very delighted to be here as ever, Chris. |
| 1:28.8 | You were the Environment Minister from September 2019 until July this year when you resigned along with |
| 1:34.3 | dozens of other colleagues of yours which forced a resignation of Boris Johnson |
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