Quote of the day 24th April 2017
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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But also the man who makes a mistake and learns from it, and then puts up his hand to it is the better man.
or you could just just carry on as normal and openly state in the House of Commons that selling the nations gold for toilet roll, after advertising exatcly when and exactly how much was for sale before hand, was a good idea.
Ho hum
He said - "we were right to diversify our portfollio Mr Speaker"
He thought - "ha, the plebs won't understand that"
he thought wrong.
he went on to say as well as that we bought Euros, which no one will regret, 2 weeks later the euro and the pound plunged as gold re-rallied following the "brown botton"
"I am humble enough to know that I have made mistakes but politically astute enough that I have forgotten what they are."