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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Labour's debt ideas on spending are insanity at the highest level.
though its other areas of labour policy that i find so insane too.
one was the recent opening to the roma of the uk. everyone panic.
the guardian told us - labour says "that the government has failed to introduce measures to protect the rights of low-skilled British workers whose jobs may be threatened by the new migrants."
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/01/immigration-british-workers-romanians-bulgarians
then, we hear in the mail the same day, that Keith Vaz as labour chairman of the home affairs committee, goes to the airport to greet and welcome the new migrants on that first morning, buying coffee, asking why they had came, (like its not obvious) and blatantly trying to position labour as friends of the migrants in the hope of future reward at ballot boxes.
though i dont think that was quite the result labour planned :)
The next thread concerns immigration.