COLUMN: Taking action to restore our rivers
Horsham District’s rivers are our heritage and responsibility, and our legacy must be to correct failings and find alternatives to damaging practices.
The NHS is in an almighty mess but a surprising amount can be achieved at relatively little cost. First, we’ll fix the front door by cutting GP waiting times, which is causing dangerous delays in diagnosis. Secondly we’ll fix the back door, our social care service, so patients can benefit from residential care costing £700 a week instead of occupying a hospital bed costing £700 a day. We will also put mental health on the same footing as physical health.
Soaring food, energy and housing prices have pushed households to the brink. We urgently need to take the pressure off.
For decades, water companies have been allowed to pile up debt while paying excessive dividends to their owners. As a result, raw sewage discharge into our rivers and seas is breaking all records. Outright renationalisation is too expensive, given all the other demands on the public purse. But, by converting water companies into Public Benefit Companies, we’ll ensure they operate in the national interest. At the same time, we’ll replace Ofwat with a tough new regulator with new powers to prevent sewage dumping.
Horsham District’s rivers are our heritage and responsibility, and our legacy must be to correct failings and find alternatives to damaging practices.
A recent claim by Horsham's MP Jeremy Quin that Horsham District Council is using an unachievable target for water usage has been slammed by the Lib Dem administration.
Farmers from across Sussex came together at Trenchmore Farm near Cowfold to discuss the Lib Dem approach to farming and rural communities with Stuart Roberts, the party’s national spokesman and former deputy president of the National Farmers Union (NFU).