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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to get this we need to vote Conservative in 2015, then we need to fight the campaign, not against the other side as it were, but more against certain people who are assumed to be champions of the No side. - Well, yes this second paragraph is dangerous, but you all saw what Niccoló said
thing is we know its coming and fore warned is fore armed.
But, this is the key, so tightly had he pinned his colour on the referendum that he has painted himself into a corner, he has to call it, or he wont survive.
Leaving Nigel and UKIP as the main hurdle