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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He has no children.—All my pretty ones?
Did you say all?—O hell-kite!—All?
What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam,
At one fell swoop?
If you and Dan Hannan think you know better than members of the Norwegian government how their relationship with Europe works you are entitled to your opinion.
You may even be right, although not even all "out" supporters agree with you - Douglas Carswell apparently doesn't, for instance. I presume you are not going to accuse him of lying?
So why cheapen your argument by accusing DC of lying because he repeats what his opposite numbers in Norway tell him about the experience of their government?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8GpzDDurR8