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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I was not really a fan before hand though I was proven correct and never did forgive him or he whom shall not be named for either the raid on pensions or the stand they took over the fuel crisis (remember that?)
well, it was really the fuel crisis that lead me to think there has to be a better way, and started me off on the long road towards direct democracy. Something that followed on and has been the case really since 1997. So I guess in a rather perverse sort of way, if it had not been for Blair and HWSNBN, then some parts of Harrogate may well be different.