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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a couple of bits i would disagree with but nothing too major, and the dreaded diesel tax never came to be really, so all in all yeah that will work.
not a bad one.
The two previous posts for 22nd November were written beforehand. I was originally intending to write a post on the budget when I arrived home.
However, when I eventually arrived home I felt that the disruption which the weather has caused to our county was a more urgent situation for a Cumbria County councillor to post about than the budget, so this was the first subject I wrote about when I got to my desk.
That does not mean that the budget is unimportant or irrelevant.
I do ikntend to post about the budget tomorrow (well, actually later today now.) IN the meantime it's high time I was in bed.