The shadow environment secretary says the Labour Party would pass laws to ban water bosses bonuses "if they are still allowing the extreme levels of raw and toxic sewage into our waterways". Steve Reed adds "it's totally wrong" for the polluter to pay themselves more with the innocent consumer "having to foot the bill". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 What really infuriates me about this situation is we've just had a year where we've seen
00:04 the worst levels of water pollution ever and the level of flooding that we're seeing at
00:10 the moment is also because a lot of the work hasn't been carried out. And yet the water
00:14 bosses who were responsible for that last year paid themselves nearly £10 million in
00:18 bonuses while putting up people's bills. It doesn't seem to me fair that water bosses
00:24 should be rewarding themselves while hard-working consumers have to pay more. It should be the
00:28 polluter who pays, not the consumer. So Labour will pass laws to ban water bosses' bonuses
00:35 if they're still allowing the extreme levels of pollution of raw and toxic sewage into
00:40 our waterways that we've seen at record levels over the past year. £10 million will go quite
00:45 a way towards starting to improve what's going on. And there's a point of principle here,
00:50 isn't there? Why should the polluter be paying themselves more and yet the innocent consumer
00:55 is having to foot the bill? That to me seems totally wrong. So with Labour, the polluter
00:59 will pay. That's an absolute.