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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But the council of despair - to say everything is broken and nothing will ever change - is a recipe for ensuring it will indeed to change but in the wrong direction - if we all give up hope of ever fixing things it will only guarantee that things will indeed never improve and things will only get worse.
There are plenty of countries where the facts of these cases would never have been allowed to come out at all.
Britain is better than this, we can learn from this awful mess and move forward with a plan for positive improvements.