Booker on what we need to do to avoid causing more catastrophic floods.

Christopher Booker has an excellent article in tomorrow's Spectator which you can read at

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9137131/instant-wildlife-just-add-water/

(Thanks to Jim King for drawing it to my attention.)

in which he suggests some changes which need to be made in the policies of the EU and of the Environment Agency to reduce the chance of future periods of prolonged high rainfall doing as much damage as the present one has.

I don't claim to know for certain whether he is right, and now is not the ideal time for a dispassionate analysis for the reasons covered in some detail in the article. But the arguments are very persuasive and I hope that as soon as the crisis is past the government, the EA, and the EU give them very serious attention.

Comments

Jim said…
UKIP are really taking a new form with this one.

From the BBC question time last night, we had Lisa Duffy presented as Director of UKIP and head of campaigning.

this exchange followed.

Keith Vaz: “I’m astonished, actually, that Lisa hasn’t blamed Brussels for the floods coming from UKIP”.
Lisa Duffy: “Well it’s not Brussels fault is it”.

Now recently I have repeatedly accused UKIP of missing open goals, but this is the first time I have ever seen anyone score an "own hat trick"

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