FORMER Undertones frontman-turned-rivers-campaigner Feargal Sharkey brushed off “finger-pointing” by the boss of Wessex Water as he argued at the GMB conference today for a public inquiry into Britain’s polluted waterways scandal.

Mr Sharkey told a fringe meeting that the government had been fined in the European courts in 2012 for allowing water companies to dump sewage into rivers in breach of environmental laws.

“I think it’s time for a public inquiry … into the water industry and how the British public has been screwed and lied to,” he said.