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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The UK's national debt is currently £1,256,261,000,000
Thats huge, that would make us like even more of an enemy to some people than Ming the Merciless was to flash gordon, or even worse than Darth Siddius in the eyes of Yoda.
You see it only takes into account the amount the UK government owes to creditors, it makes no account of the huge amount the UK goverment still owe to former public sector workers in the form of pensions and liabilitys, also to the rest of us in the form of old age pensions (but then they should not need that, as there is a fund we have been paying into for years called national insurance which is ringfenced for this purpose) - allegedly.
The present government is trying to reduce the terrifying and rapidly growing burden of debt which they inherited in 2010, and indeed and has significantly cut the deficit, but it is still much too large - dangerously large.
It is essential for Britain's long-term sustainability that the deficit is cut further, and if we had a sane and responsible opposition they would be criticising us for not cutting enough instead of the reverse.
There will be a few more "Quotes of the day" on the subject of debt this week.
STOP SPENDING
Look if, you come to power and the economy is in such a dire state, and the deficit is huge, then it should have been stopped in 2010. simple - how much money have we got, ok. how much shall we spend, oh but that is more than we have! looks like we will have to prioritise our spending then. so we only spend that which we have.
that's right, there is no need to raise more in tax and hope the economy will grow if you just don't spend it in the first place.
ce n'est pas sorcier.