Quote of the day 10th June 2022
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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Tory smartness might be defined as knowing the difference between "new hospital" and "refurbished ward" - but never, ever having the integrity to admit it.
The sort of smartness that would fail you in any English comprehension exam.
0/10, Whiteside.
But anyone who visits our hospitals regularly - as I do - can see that a massive amount of building and redevelopment is going on. We have one project in Cumbria which is one of the 40 new hospital projects - the magnificent new Cancer Centre in Carlisle.
There is also a £40 million second stage of redevelopment at West Cumberland hospital funded and taking place under Boris Johnson, continuing on from a £90 million first stage of redevelopment started and funded under David Cameron and Theresa May. This has not been claimed as one of the 40 but it is still a massive investment in our local NHS.
There are also some major new hospital projects being planned in the Morecambe Bay Health Trust area which will help improve services for patients in South Cumbria and Lancashire.
In much of Cumbria and many parts of the country the investment in new hospital facilities is not a slogan and or a statistic but a fact and you can go to those hospitals and you will see brand new facilities which have recently been opened and builders who are at work right now building the next wave of new hospital facilities.