Quote of the day
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always rely on the support of Paul."
(George Bernard Shaw)
(George Bernard Shaw)
Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
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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Thing is when it becomes a government who robs Peter to pay Paul, Frau, Mohommad, Joli, Mark and Rita. then Peter is going to get pretty sick and leave this island,
Peter gets a little sick, so rebelles but then he is called a Yuppie, or a rich man living off the benefit of the poor, or at worst they say he is a capitalist.
A capitalist totally sums up who I am. I really do belive in true free market capitalism, it is the answer, we dont have it and the US do not either, we have crony capitalism and that is as bad as the failed socilism idea.
With little or even better no regulation, than that is the path to full employment, ok it may be a low wage to srart, but thats it, you work up the ladder.