Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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Shops are trying to make money but in doing so are offending your sensibilities. If you're that bothered you could always ask Super Dave to bring in a law to outlaw such practices, or perhaps just act locally and have Copeland BC introduce a byelaw just for Whitehaven.
Nor would I want DC to pass a law to change it. That's the sort of job-destroying nonsense which socialist cretins like the last government get up to.
What too many left-wingers don't get, unfortunately for them and for the country when it is unwise enough to elect them, is that it is actually possible to disagree with something without wanting to pass a law to ban it.