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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rumour has it there was a tv debate last night, I missed it as i was watching something more educational instead. but for those who missed my choice of viewing and caught the debate, then a day of recovery cant be a bad thing
I've been sent some quotes from David Cameron's contribution to the debate which I like and will be using because I agree with them
Since I have not watched the debate myself I have nothing constructive to add to the large numbers of people commenting on social media about the debate, except to note that many of them were evidently political activists claiming that the leader of their own party was miles ahead of all the others.
Many of whom would obviously have posted the same thing if the leader concerned had just stood up and recited the contents of "The Ladybird Guide to Politics."
If someone as dedicated to a political position as I am can spot what a pointless waste of time that kind of automatic praise is, I shudder to think how off-putting it must have been to floating voters.
I was amused to see that if you try to get a slightly more objective view of who won from opinion polls, it depends entirely on which poll you look at.
Survation had a tie between Miliband and Cameron with Farage one point behind. YouGov had a clear win for Nicola Sturgeon. ComRes had a three way tie between Cameron, Farage and Miliband with Sturgeon a point behind, ICM had Miliband one point ahead of Cameron. And if you do a "poll of polls" and average or add up the points the leaders scored in all four of those polls, David Cameron scores a very narrow victory over Ed Miliband with Nigel Farage a close third and Nicola Sturgeon a close fourth. I'll post the table tomorrow morning.