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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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In the end you have so many people dependent on stolen fish, and all who remember how to fish, fishing elsewhere.
You use state fishing boats, but they run on fish to no net gain. So the only way to keep them running is to continue to take ever increasing amounts of fish from private fishers. So even more go to better fishing waters.
You need to start to borrow fish, but then anyone who loans 5 fish wants 6 fish back. You can't repay that as your state boats don't gain any fish and you have no private fishers left. You have a nation now dependent on state fish, but no one remembers how to fish.
Oh dear.