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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They both had lovely treble voices and now have beautiful tenor and baritone ones respectively.
Im not having a go or a pop at Alad, by the way, just pointing out how simple it can be to change history.
And you are right about how easy it can be, in the eyes of many people, to change history.
In "1984" George Orwell has "Big Brother's" regime writing people out of history This was presumably based on Stalin's propagandists but there have been a surprisingly wide range of attempts to wipe people from history, going back from ancient history and up to modern times.
Both the Egyptians and Romans practiced "Damnatio Memoraie" - trying to prevent people from being remembered. By definition we don't know of any completely successful attempts to expunge someone from history, because if there were any, we wouldn't, though one or two got very close as you can read at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae
In particular as I think we have discussed before, Pharaoh Horemheb managed to come very close indeed to destroying the records of the entire Armana period covering more than thirty years and the reigns of about five of his predecessors, and did so with such thoroughness that it was not until the 19th century and particularly the discovery of King Tut's tomb that archaeologists and historians began to rediscover the period.