Looks like a Sea around the Mump

My road tax demand made it here ok.

 

Its on the news now, a Dutch company has arrived to pump out the flood water. The man in charge is apparently an expert in the subject of sorting out flooding. The reporters were a few feet away from the man, but he didn't say anything. Why? Apparently the government have instructed him not to speak to the British media. I wonder why that is. I wonder if they don't want him to chastise the government or mock them for their response so far, or maybe they don't want him to tell the public what options there might be that might cost more than the allotted budget.

 

Have the EA run out of pumps?

Will they need to divert pumps from Somerset to areas that now have worse household flooding levels?

Who's telling the truth about numbers of flooded homes, cost of flood prevention and maintenance, etc.

P.S. I've no longer believed a single word uttered by Pickles after he promised 'Localism' with Communities supposed to be able to choose their own levels of development, then reneged and allowed developers the right for unfettered development.

 

If you're in government, you can afford to take a massive gamble with anything you like. If it goes your way, you win, you stay in power at the next election and continue to earn stupid amounts of money for doing very little. If it goes wrong, you lose, you get booted out at the next election and get a highly paid job as some sort of consultant or, as in the case of tony b'liar, become an unelected person in charge of something your own track record proves you are absolutely abysmal at, and still get paid stupid amounts of money.

There was a lot of kafuffle just after the last foot and mouth outbreak, after it emerge that a bunch of students and their professor had run simulation after simulation of the spread of the disease and how to curb it, and had repeatedly told the government of their findings. They were ignored, and it spread through the whole country. Lessons were very definitely not learned. I can't see this being any different. Just a few minutes ago, that chap from the environment agency was on the box, saying how all the flooding is just down to unprecedented weather. Unprecedented means there is no precedent, ie it hasn't happened before. Well it did, it happened last year in Somerset, and in several previous years in other parts of the country, so it is not unprecedented at all. Once again, as david cameron keeps saying "there are lessons to be learned", well the lessons keep coming, over and over, and have been doing for a good few years now, if you haven't learned them yet, then sorry Mr Cameron but you clearly don't have the mental capacity to learn.

 

Can we not move this subject over to the MORE important flooding of the Thames and the playing fields of Eaton

Jack McH

 

Good idea, as there will be some Thames' side, flooded out barrister from Berkshire who will sue/take out a High Court Injunction against the Government Environmental Agency for breaching their legal obligation to protect homes in preference to farmland. This is true - check out what the EA's primary legal obligations are, it's homes, not farmland.

 

Now he has admitted he isn't qualified or educated enough to run the country, we should be calling for him to step down.

 

Zigs.......I don't know whether you know this house or it's owner, but I thought you might like to see these pictures.

Sam Notaro is one of the few people left. He is continuing his desperate efforts to save his one million pound new build house from the floods.









Will he win the battle?

 

I'll vote for that, as long as I can Minister for Justice. I would like to introduce the chopping off of hands for anyone looting the flood victims houses.

 

Whatever works on the low life scum bags is fine by me!