Is This Why It Is Not A Good Idea To Use Foreign Aid Money To Help With Our Flood Problems?

[anotheoldgit]

Well apparently Mr Pickles does, because he says "aid abroad helps towards the battle against global warming".

/// http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2555438/Fury-Pickles-says-aid-abroad-stops-floods-Minister-claims-cash-helps-battle-against-global-warming.html ///

/// The Mail revealed on Saturday that Tory MPs are demanding cash from Britain’s £11billion-a-year aid budget is diverted to help people stricken by the floods. ///

[youngmafbog]

Easy to say that from the comfort of your armchair Steve.

The problem is, what to do? You can't blame the coalition, any thing requiring doing will take years so labour should have started it, but there again labour could not forsee a freak set of weather conditions.

The problem is it is simply nature at work. OK there are elements on all sides compounding it but the bottom line is; stop building on flood plains and if you do dont expect everyone else to bail you out.

We are an Island, you would never run out of places to defend and plugging one place could well just shunt the problem somewhere else.

There is no simple answer apart from what I said above I'm afraid. So far no Government has managed to do what King Canute failed to do.

[Gromit]

Instead of Defra wasting £3.4million on a pointless badger cull last summer, they might have better used the money towards flood defences.

[Gromit]

Is there any news on the Somerset Badgers?

It would be ironic if they survived the £4,000 bounty the Government put on there heads a few months ago, only to drown.

[sir.prize]

Despite Eric Pickles and his poor argument - I still feel that UK Aid to finance an Indian space shot is wrong.

[mushroom25]

//The Welsh seem to be working well with the Environment Agency and EU. In sharp contrast to the Coalition shambles.

January 2014 Wales

The initial picture appears to be that coastal defences around Wales performed well, protecting thousands of properties. There has been damage to structures but the majority are serviceable and most local authorities report that they do not anticipate a need for Welsh Government flood and coastal erosion grant funding support to restore the damage.//

if that's true Gromit, how is it that the Cambrian coast line became devastated back in January, and (at the latest estimate) will remain closed until May, thus losing the area thousands in tourist dollars from the Easter and may-day periods?