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"Political correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up."
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
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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Seriously, if you think about it. A religion never provides an answer, it just stops you asking the questions.
Q - Where did the world come from?
A - God did it
Q - Where did god come from?
A - god always existed
Q - what existed before that?
A - Don't ask questions you can't understand, just have faith.
A truly horrible idea.
But to be fair, the best known such list - the one put out by the Roman Catholic church - was scrapped by Pope Paul VI nearly fifty years ago, and at least two people whose books were once on it have more recently been made saints or beatified.
These days it is more often followers of political fashions who try to silence those who disagree with them.
I don't think I would want anything to do with any creed, either religious or secular, which tried to stop people thinking.
Even the supporters of the most horrible ideas are better taken on in open debate, and hopefully defeated in open debate, than gagged.
I just used the religion as one example, it sort of sprang to mind. But yes you are certainly right that generally these days it is political.
One of the things that I highly commend yourself and this blog on is that you don't tend to gag. You tend to openly publish and present your side of the argument.
In short, we don't always agree on things, but hey, at least you practice that which you preach. That alone is a sign of a good blogger.