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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This is from Dune, of course, a proverb of the Bene Gesserit Order, a secretive pseudo-religious organisation which uses
genetic experimentation, political interference, and religious engineering to further its own agenda.
Sounds uncannily like today's Tory party to me.
I did think that publishing it was risking a comeback about Britain's environmental protection standards particularly in respect of water quality on our beaches and rivers.
I must admit I was not expecting a comeback like that one.
But all credit for your erudition on SF classics - anyone who can identify the provenance of a good quote from Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, or Frank Herbert can't be all bad!
"Last night a briefing document circulated among MPs setting out the case for why Johnson is now an electoral liability.
"The most damning line was that the booing of Johnson during the Queen’s platinum jubilee celebrations “tells us nothing the data does not” and that no social group polled says they trust the prime minister.
"Another point says the “entire purpose of the government now appears to be the sustenance of Boris Johnson as prime minister” – pointing to his personal negative ratings and saying that “defending the indefensible” is not to protect the party but one man."
C'mon, Chris, your readers (both of us), deserve better!
You seem to come up with all these strange theories about why I sometimes take a while to approve or respond to post and overlook the obvious explanation = that I am a busy person who travels round the country a lot for work and political reasons and does this blog in between other responsibilities.
So sometimes I do not have access to blogger to check what comments have come in and sign them off, or don't have time to look, or have time to release a comment but not to respond to it.
When I did a google search on the words you used I found a Guardian article which I presume you were quoting, as I have not seen any such document I cannot give you a meaningful response on it.
On a very bad day, the number of hits might be only a little over a hundred.
On the busiest day so far this month, there were 1,655 pageviews.
So unless you and another person are looking at fifty pages of this blog every day each, and usually rather more than that, I think I have more than two readers.