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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from the guardian we have this story.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/17/theresa-may-cap-eu-migration
yeah, it funny on the part of the guardian that it takes nick clegg to tell them "it would be illegal" then they can report it as news.
readers of comments on this very blog right here, have known for months and months that meaningful negotiation without a major treaty change can not happen.
due to a principle of the EU, "a power handed over can never be handed back"
so i dont quite get why the torys are pushing EU immigration so much, that is even harder, ammending one of the core 4 freedoms on which all eu treaties are based, without a major treaty change, I get they want to silence the UKIP vote for the next GE, but why use a promise they can not possibly keep?
I am still trying to make sense of that bit, so for this round, Check.
(if you never played poker, "Check" means i am still in the game, i have not been forced to raise my bet by another player yet so i am letting the betting go on for now without raising but watching you all, if the betting continues to "check" by all following players then cards are on the table face up, if someone raises then i can match it or raise it.
Introducing a waiting period before migrants can qualify for benefits almost certainly does not.
Furthermore, for all the sound and fury from certain quarters including one or two EU Commissioners when Britain agreed (with support from all three parties for the principle) that we will do this, it is something that other EU member states have already done.
He was a small-government libertarian, and a sceptic - in the proper meaning of that word - about government programmes and about politicians.
I see my message on DC's proposed renegotiated EU (i.e. powers returned to the UK) without the required time for a treaty change is getting through.