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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what shocks me though is hearing that some stores have banned their staff wearing a "poppy with pride" as some people may be offended by it.
Now i can understand a store not wanting to be involved after all "I dont agree with what you say, but died for your right to say it" would blurt from the graves.
But to stop the staff, that is an insult to injury.
Many brave men and women died to ensure our freedom, whilst i extend that to the store as a business, i do not expect them to lay on views to their staff. Sounds too much like the brave men and women died in vain
at the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.