Flushing One Million Toilets
30 August 2007
As a green campaigner, I am delighted by the response to last month’s London Flushathon in which an estimated one million Londoners flushed their toilets for the environment. Such unprecedented mass participation is far more than The Right Path Party and myself could ever have hoped for.
The event took place between 8pm and 9pm on Saturday 14 July and was jointly coordinated by Green Piss.
To read more, go to the full press release. Download Flushathon2.pdf
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who took part in the campaign. Here's hoping the water companies - finally! - will begin to take water leakage as seriously as we all do.
Watch this space and keep clicking on Environment Now for future campaigns and events.
Best wishes,
Jeremy McClintock.
Who is that girl? She's so fit she gets me thinking vertebrates.
Posted by: Floatah | 15 September 2007 at 19:39
I just heard someone outside honk his Dukes of Hazard horn. Excellent
Posted by: Big Little Man | 04 September 2007 at 21:37
This was the most fun I've ever had since I let my neighbour's car tyres down when I was eleven.
Posted by: T Boyle | 31 August 2007 at 20:51
If you think the Right Path Party can make a breakthrough in the southeast then think again. I see very little concrete proposals whenever I visit the site.
Posted by: Ron Cowdery | 31 August 2007 at 14:37
It looks more likely today from the news that Brown is thinking very seriously about an autumn election and Cameron heading for a landslide defeat. There are many people who don't like Cameron and I am one of those people. At this moment you and your party look more in touch with old Tory voters like me.
Posted by: David Grimley (east London) | 31 August 2007 at 12:38
Yes, if they call an election I think you could defeat both the Labour and Tories and good luck to you. I do not know if you can win in Dartford and we need to hear some of your policies especially on local crimes and yob culture in the streets that are out of control.
Posted by: D Rutherford, Dartford | 31 August 2007 at 12:27
If they call an election this side of Xmas then I hope you're putting up enough candidates in the south east. Because this suggests you could pinch a few seats from Mr. Cameron, providing he keeps leaking votes.
Posted by: Doug Chapel | 31 August 2007 at 11:28
As long as it don't eefect the taste of my tea you can flush anytime
Posted by: Grrrr | 31 August 2007 at 11:11
Terrific news, what can we say except that's the stuff we need from you
Posted by: | 31 August 2007 at 10:30
Don't desert those who put you where you are!!!!
Posted by: Bryan Small | 31 August 2007 at 10:29
I will support The Right Path Party through thick and thin and will never tire of supporting you, Mr. McClintock. My mother and I saw you speak at a DUFFF conference in April and since then I have followed (or tried) to follow your example. Thank you.
Posted by: | 31 August 2007 at 10:14
If it can do some good in my neighbourhood it would be smashing. We had two huge increases in water rates just after they privatized our local water company. The bill in Barnsley is double what my cousin pays in Newcastle, despite all the rain we get. It's a disgrace.
Posted by: Gran Chambers | 31 August 2007 at 10:12
Whoever said Jeremy McClintock can't get things done? This must surely disprove all the rubbish that's been said and written about him. I don't know where the 'Charlatan' tag came from. The guy might not be 100% straight all the time but I know who I'd trust to run the Department of the Environment.
Posted by: DD | 31 August 2007 at 10:04
Ditto previous comments ad nauseum -- but I'm still none the wiser about the football result. Is it half time yet?
Posted by: lett Fruret | 31 August 2007 at 10:03
Is it my imagination or has your political agenda taken a sharp lurch to the left lately? Something very Cameronesque about all this.
Posted by: Big Ben | 31 August 2007 at 09:55
Water spectacle! you gots to lose some H20 to preserve some more. Thames Water watch out!
Posted by: Mike Tander | 31 August 2007 at 09:48
Make the most of it, young man - a lavaTORY seat is the only one you're ever likely to win.
Posted by: Trevor Trevor | 31 August 2007 at 09:16
Tick tock McClintock the clock's running on your autumn policy schedule. You'll need more than this pathetic little publicity stunt to get elected.
Posted by: Ronah H | 30 August 2007 at 23:12
Alice here, thought the bloggers might like to hear about our Flushathon Party. Yep, that's right, we had a party, or rather we had a theme for our party on 14 July. Everyone had to flush the toilet six times, and if you had a poo you left the taps running and had a bath. We must have got through a swimmng pool worth of water (we got a little drunk, too).
Posted by: Alice in Waterworld | 30 August 2007 at 23:10
What positive comments can I add except I think this was a superb initiative.
Posted by: Helen Oliver | 30 August 2007 at 22:54
I was delighted to see people start talking to each other in the run up to your flushathon. Think what a difference it would have made it people had sponsored each other. The money raised could have made a big difference to water leakage. Look forward to supporting you the next time.
Posted by: | 30 August 2007 at 22:14
"You were wet, jez but you're getting dryer"
Posted by: Badja | 30 August 2007 at 22:10
I can't for the life of me imagine how you thought this was going to achieve anything other than a small, local publicity stunt. Some former activists from the seventies might have been aroused but the overall impression is of something desperate and calculating. Yuk!
Posted by: | 30 August 2007 at 22:06
Let's hope the reports in my street about a problem with water pressure following the event were not too serious. But I was broadly in favour of this.
Posted by: H. Whelan | 30 August 2007 at 22:04
Harriet can you phone me I've broken my wrist shaving (if I don't pick up use the cup with the string)
Posted by: Phil Childs | 30 August 2007 at 22:00