Well done England
Congratulations to the England football team for their 6:1 victory over Panama in the World Cup.
Fantastic result.
Fantastic result.
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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They've beaten two teams who you would expect they should be able to beat, and thereby qualified for the next stage.
However, there have been plenty of World Cup contests in which under the pressure of events, previous England squads have failed to do that much.
I was amused recently to see a twitter exchange between Piers Morgan and Gary Linaker - the latter now joined by Harry Kane as two of the three England players ever to score a hat-trick during the world cup, the first being Geoff Hurst.
Linaker said that it's difficult for people who have not been members of a world cup team to appreciate how involved to appreciate how great the pressure is.
Morgan asked if he would apply the same principle to those who have never been a politician or stood for public office who regularly make public statements about how rubbish our politicians are!
For the avoidance of doubt, in a democracy with a healthy respect for free speech anyone should be entitled to criticise either footballers or MPs and explain why they think either is rubbish, but not all the criticisms made of either will be justified.