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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The lights go out an hour earlier in the morning, then they come back on an hour sooner in the evenings. In the spring they will go an hour later both sides. The total insanity of it beckons, What difference does it make? why bother?
We all know the so called arguements, but there is not one that actually amounts to anything. Which ever way they go, forward or back, not a single nano second of extra daylight is created.
Its as mad as trying to solve the nations energy problems by building subsidy sucking wind turbines. I mean, who on Earth would do that..........
The trouble is the force of inertia tends to stop that happening, so since WWII governments have used the blunt instrument of fiddling with the clocks.
I have some sympathy with your view.