Quote of the day 20th February 2023
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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Good riddance to the lot of them, I say.
Sun Tzu, a 6th century Chinese general and military theorist, who is usually credited with the quote above (which I posted on 20th Feb) and as the author of "The Art of War," was born in the same century (about 27 years later) and in the same country, but is not the same person.
And I am fairly sure that, if reports that the people listed in your post are not re-standing at the next election are correct, it is in most cases not for the reason you appear to be trying to imply.
As you're not even sure that the people I've listed are not intending to stand for re-election (hint: they're not), you're in no place to make assertions as to their possible motivations, are you?
As it happens this is one of the weeks when I selected and advance scheduled all the "Quotes of the day" entries the previous weekend.
Evidently search engines can't tell the difference between Sun Tzu and Lau Tzu either: I was looking for a particular Sun Tzu quote and a wealth of insightful quotes from both Sun Tzu and Lau Tzu came up, so I decided to use a selection from each of them this week.
So far as the MPs who you mentioned in the first comment above are concerned, I do know the current intentions of quite a few of those MPs, but not all of them, which is why I was careful not to use language which might appear to confirm that they are all standing down and wrote in terms of "most cases" rather than pretending to knowledge about all of them.