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Cameron - Money No Object Re Floods
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I do hope he means for prevention schemes and not for Mrs Miggins to have her carpets renewed otherwise I shall be very very cross.
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Ed gave dave three opportunitie
14:32 Wed 12th Feb 2014
Was tempted to post this on the other thread, but this one's more relevant.
Here's a nice collection of politicians trying to look important when there's not much they can really do about a flood:
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Here's a nice collection of politicians trying to look important when there's not much they can really do about a flood:
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Also, does the cut the government introduced on flood defenses look a bit silly now?
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" If they stayed in Westminster everybody would be moaning about them being aloof and uncaring, "
That's because large numbers of the electorates are idiots. I appreciate what you're saying, but there's really nothing that standing around in wellies and pouting will do about the problem.
Voting for flood defense before we had the problem might have done something, though.
That's because large numbers of the electorates are idiots. I appreciate what you're saying, but there's really nothing that standing around in wellies and pouting will do about the problem.
Voting for flood defense before we had the problem might have done something, though.
Ed gave dave three opportunities to answer the question about the 550 forthcoming redundancies in the Environment Agency. But he sidestepped each time. If "money is no object", why are these 550 front line staff in the Agency going to lose their jobs ? What happens next winter, when we have serious flooding again ?
Me again Zacs master
Here's a story for you. Last Sunday, the son of a friend, a serving policeman in the Met, went off to work a night shift, returned the following morning only to find his house waist deep in water, his partner and two year old son moved out. To answer your question that I have no doubt you will ask, yes, he does have household B & C insurance and no doubt will get paid out. However, with all the hundreds of thousands of claims that are no doubt going to hit the insurance companies soon, somebody is going to have to pay. Who is that someone ? You, me and everybody else who has household insurance, who no doubt will see an increase in their premium the next time it is due for renewal. So whether it comes from our taxes or a rise in our insurance premiums, we will have to pay. What would you rather have ?
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Here's a story for you. Last Sunday, the son of a friend, a serving policeman in the Met, went off to work a night shift, returned the following morning only to find his house waist deep in water, his partner and two year old son moved out. To answer your question that I have no doubt you will ask, yes, he does have household B & C insurance and no doubt will get paid out. However, with all the hundreds of thousands of claims that are no doubt going to hit the insurance companies soon, somebody is going to have to pay. Who is that someone ? You, me and everybody else who has household insurance, who no doubt will see an increase in their premium the next time it is due for renewal. So whether it comes from our taxes or a rise in our insurance premiums, we will have to pay. What would you rather have ?
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And if the rivers had been dredged it might not have been so bad. That's not the point. This money is purely to help the victims of this dreadful flooding – no more than that. The rest is a separate issue, which, fine, discuss, but let us not be disingenuous. The money isn’t intended to resolve the matter of people losing their jobs and neither is it intended to resolve the problem of potential future floods as Mikey seems to expect.
Zacs, I think it's obvious. Mr Cameron has made it clear that this money is intended solely for the victims of flooding so where Mikey gets his ideas from is anyone's guess.
//If "money is no object", why are these 550 front line staff in the Agency going to lose their jobs ? What happens next winter, when we have serious flooding again ?//
Mikey needs to listen a bit more carefully to what's being said.
//If "money is no object", why are these 550 front line staff in the Agency going to lose their jobs ? What happens next winter, when we have serious flooding again ?//
Mikey needs to listen a bit more carefully to what's being said.
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