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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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We have a system where by people create "money" from nothing, then lend it to others and charge interest, in the same money that has not yet been created, so it depends on an ever "growing" economy (i.e. more people "lending" money into existence at interest) to repay it, in a world of finite resourses?
erm, yeah, and some people say i am MAD, just look at that model.
then tell me you are happy the economy has "grown"
You are entitled to point out that comparison is not saying much.
I would disagree, i think it is "from nothing" and the limits are not real as such.
Pretty much as explained in this seris
The Positive Money campaign group which produced that video is campaigning for a particular set of changes to the way we organise currencies which amount to a far more restrictive state control of money. You can read their proposals at
http://positivemoney.org/our-proposals/
I don't agree with those proposals and I don't think they sit very easily with the Harrogate Agenda either though you may have a different view on that, Jim.
If that fact does not "fit" with something else then that is my round hole to square. Its a bit like thinking "this politician has nothing to add because he is in the Labour party" - of course a lot of them have addded a lot of value to many debates.