Quote of the day 24th May 2018
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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Certainly with government there is too much of the nanny state involved who look after peoples "best interests"
A classic example of course is that of Chancellor "he whom shall not be named" You see in his opinion people did not really want to spend a whole load of cash to somehow boost the economy, so he did it for us, to take us where we ought to be, with a booming economy. of course it actually did not quite work that way and we ended "up the creek without a paddle"
Though to give credit where its due, his plan was 50% successful, see he had always promised to end "Boom and bust", and his plan certainly stopped the boom bit
I took it as meaning that a great leader persuades people to follow him or her to places where they ought to be but had not previously wanted to be.
It is certainly dangerous for anyone to imagine they can force people to go somewhere - and likely to have counterproductive results.