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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Next time it may be an option to bring down the entire system, and in a way, that is not so unappealing.
DC's hand on the EU will cost him heavily in 2017, even it goes his way as we have discussed it can only lead to a second referendum, his negotiation is in tatters, and he has to go for associate membership and try to sell that as his victory, though he cant, he can only sell the promise of that as his victory.
He was really banking on article 48 and the simplified procedure, but the EU shot that down. Some fun times ahead I see.
which in turn would make the conservative party unelectable as they can't be trusted and could allow the election of Corbyn as PM in order to crash the current system.