Years they have gone on, years and boring years about climate change and leading the way in responding and pointing at global warmers as baddies (like China and India busy overtaking every measure of economic efficiency and growth we could think of).
Tony Blair prides himself on being the pathfinder for responsible and green behaviour; spine chilling warnings issued from his Labour lips for a decade. His mad chancellor issued scottish -accented reproofs about us driving Land Rover Defenders.
Nick Drew says it all - where was their money when they were mouthing-off? Putting in place flood defences? Ensuring a properly funded catastrophe service? Appointing professionals in the Fire Service, rivers authorities, water supply firms, electrical power generation and delivery companies, committing reserve funds to highways and rail links for extreme conditions? Too costly for poor England? Then surely Labour and its nomenklatura-staffed agencies was cleaning out the drains, repairing river banks, providing alternative water courses for flood waters?
After all, this is seventeenth century technology - ask the Dutch, ask Cambridge historians: The Draining of the Fens provides an excellent account of how to cope with flood plains and marshland in rainy weather.
The English don't even have wellington boots.
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They demand an immediate summit conference of something called a daft name like 'The Gold' committee.
More timewasters, hangers-on, 'experts' and specialists in doing bugger all.
The Environment Agency has a lot to answer for this time. They are the Government's arm in dealing with crises as well as pissing about with stupid websites covering spurious flood plain levels, and whinging about things they don't understand.
They're all on good pension prospects though so where can Joe Public go eh?
Insurance claims will form a big swing to the political party which has the balls to face up to responsibilities.
I can't hear many whooshing noises from nulab, or nucameroons either...can you?
I am sorry to follow my earlier rather obvious comment with another: but you have truly to marvel when we are told today by la Cooper-Balls that we mustn't use the evidence of our own eyes and sodden shoes to oppose building new houses on flood-plains.
This is just surreal ! What new thought-crimes are being defined ? Orwell - himself a Blair, but of an altogether higher order - must be chuckling heartily.
(PS this Croydonian was in Witney [!] at a wedding on Saturday . . . had to ford our way out, army training to the fore: I think we were the last to leave before even that exit became impassable.)
If the people who have betrayed their party to vote themselves into Labour tax-funded salaries and pension provisions seriously believe now that those pensions will be paid (as they sit in their ruined, flooded houses, being offered bottles of mineral water by passing newsmen in rubber dinghies) they have another horrible awakening, after this abandonment, coming towards them.
In the national interest pensions for local govenment 'employees', quango 'employees', 'civil servants' and all the rest of the Labour nomenklatura and bought-and-paid-for will be told their pensions will be redesigned. Later, smaller, subject to extravagant levels of claw-back taxes, they are going to be left as high and dry, poised over the flooded ruins of their hopes as they are now.
It was fine to ignore Hull, all those benefits dependents etc. Now they know how they count in Labour's esteem - benfits as wages dependents, bought votes.
All they are worth is to be overflown by a Scotsman picking his nose in a helicopter.
They wre warned on numerous occassions HG . I have blogged on this myself
You can't want me to go and be venemous on yours too N.
I'm not venemous by nature, or upbringing, or spirit - but those poor people, hundred of thousands of them, in quite desperate circumstances, because Gordon Brown cut the flood defence and civil defence funding for a decade, to use the money to buy votes (their votes, in many cases).
Imagine, though, in the cold, usable water -less soaking dark, thinking "I didn't understand; I sold my vote for this.".
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