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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Alternate quote of the day "When human societies lose their freedom, it’s not usually because tyrants have taken it away. It’s usually because people willingly surrender their freedom, in return for protection against some external threat, and the threat is usually a real threat, but usually exaggerated, and that is what I fear we are seeing now..................We are working ourselves up into a lava, in which we exaggerate the threat, and stop asking ourselves whether the cure may be worse than the disease."
Former supreme court judge Lord Sumption.
The full quote is well worth listening to and is here
Trouble is, it doesn't take too many cases of someone overdoing it and you start to damage the public support and trust which policing is based on.