Grand Union Canal at Stoke Breune

There are pros and cons. Inevitably it will be to the benefit to some at the expense of others, but when national governments become subservient to globalisation and multinationals and are unable to control them, those governments may cease to defend the rights and serve the interests of the people who elect them.

There are plenty of people today, living in older houses, whose drinking water passes through lead pipes. But the insides of those pipes are coated with limescale which keeps out the lead.