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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You see persistence in the wrong thing is often much worse than giving up on the right thing.
Once there was a Chancellor of the Exchequer, who used this idea to push the wrong idea, he went on and, rightly or wrongly, became the Prime Minister. Thanks to his persistence we ended up in one heck of a mess. His name was "He whom shall not be named"
You see my problem there :)
I accept that perseverance in a disastrously bad cause will exacerbate the harmful effects of the fact that you have chosen the bad cause to work.