"Spending on flood and coastal erosion risk management has nearly doubled in cash terms, from £307 million in 1996-97 to an estimated £600 million in 2007-08. The Government will further increase spending to £800 million in 2010-11." DEFRA.
The government has thrown £24 billion - 24 thousand million pounds sterling - at a demutualised north -eastern building society posing as a responsible bank over the last two months.
Presumably the people of Norfolk and Suffolk are not "ours"; nor the land, settlements, infrastructure, culture, history, nor 'entitlement'.
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3 comments:
If they aren't ours now - they certainly weren't in 1997
No votes in East Anglia Hats!
Leysdown will probably sink, but there's a prison close by, so who cares.
I hope the House of Lords gets a good gushing from the Thames though! That'll curb their enjoyment of £308 per day expenses.
Northern Rock will bite Brown's backside and Darling will really get his come-uppance; there are loads of guns aiming at his poor performance.
Cameron can use this - but not just now; in a few months, when the new poll tax bills hit the floor with a sickening thud.
I was just looking at food price rises , imported and home-produced, to producers. National Statistics say that the
cost of imported food materials rose by 1.7% during October to an annual rate of increase of 6.9% - the greatest since June 1996.
And the cost to manufacturers of home-produced food materials rose by a further 0.5% an annual rate of increase of 14.8% - the highest since May 2004.
And the regime allows some of the best managed, most fertile land in the country to turn into saltmarshes. That'll teach everybody who is unhelpful to the realisation of the Leader's vision.
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