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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Neither party will break their earlier pledges. Hense the annouced pay cut and freeze.
This is a good thing for our area with its nuclear interest as you stated earlier in your blog, but its also a good thing for politics in general.
We are so tired of spin and misleading information.
I think the new government will deliver what the British people so badly wanted, and nationally voted for, that is change.
I understand that more people in Copeland voted labour than Tory in the last election, I don't much like that desision, but I accept it as the will of the region.
I only wish now that labour voters will accept that the Conservative party won the right to form a government with the most votes and most seats, they then looked at the national interest and worked towards a coalition to obtain a stable government.
It is early days and time will tell, though i do belive the coalition government will come good and deliver