Ash Tray Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 We are the a wealthy country. Lets find the extra cash for the repairs out of the 99.3%of our national budget, not the 0.7% that gets used for overseas development Yes but do tell us how much in that 0.7% is in actual money and not try and hide behind a percentage figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 How much did Sheffield and Rotherham get during the bad floods, especially after they emptied Ulley reservoir? I'm not sure how much we got, but I do remember it took months to get the A61 fully opened at Grenoside. Instead of going through a tender process to get best value and prove accountability, the Council/Government should have thrown money at it to get the problem sorted ASAP......I suspect that's what will happen down Sarf. Regards Doom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 We are the a wealthy country. Lets find the extra cash for the repairs out of the 99.3%of our national budget, not the 0.7% that gets used for overseas development Cameron said "money is no object". Great, no more austerity Britain. It all comes down to choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I1L2T3 Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Of course it isn't idiotic. Make overseas aid voluntary and see how little they'd collect, go tell the flood victims that overseas aid is more important than their welfare, even worse tell them that is quite acceptable for money from their taxes to e sent to despot/space age/nuclear powers. I'd like to see you tell them that to their faces. ---------- Post added 11-02-2014 at 17:21 ---------- And have you asked British tax payers like the UKIP have if they're happy with overseas aid coming before UK needs? Nope it's idiotic. It makes no sense to distill thing down to a choice between foreign aid and flood defence, because quite simply that is not a precise choice that is being made. If you had said something like flood defence spending needs to be reconsidered as part of as wider review of government spending that would be better. The extra money for flood defence could come from savings in a multitudr of other things other than foreign aid. Quite simply UKIP and some right wing Tories have had a beef with foreign aid spending for a long time. They're using the floods to make a political point about that which is pretty despicable really given the suffering and stress people are under. It's a pretty low form of politics that does absolutely nothing to help at the present time. It's retarded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 It's a pretty low form of politics that does absolutely nothing to help at the present time. It's retarded. Lowest common denominator. X amount goes to "bongo bongo" land, X amount is needed in Somerset it doesn't take Jeremy Kyle to do the the maths. Except it does....because X to the power 10 is being pished up the wall on Trident, HS2, failed computer systems, defunct weapon systems, bank bail outs etc etc We are, despite what some people still say, one of the richest countries on the planet. Our defence budget is the fifth biggest in the universe. So to moan about austerity and bemoan a few million in foreign aid is like complaining that a millionaire has paid a hundred pounds for a car yet not given £50 to a begger. The Govt chose to cut the Environment Agency budget and chose to cut the workforce, because their priorities are elsewhere. I'd love to see the political party who wouldn't have done the same.....maybe the Greens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I1L2T3 Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Lowest common denominator. X amount goes to "bongo bongo" land, X amount is needed in Somerset it doesn't take Jeremy Kyle to do the the maths. Except it does....because X to the power 10 is being pished up the wall on Trident, HS2, failed computer systems, defunct weapon systems, bank bail outs etc etc We are, despite what some people still say, one of the richest countries on the planet. Our defence budget is the fifth biggest in the universe. So to moan about austerity and bemoan a few million in foreign aid is like complaining that a millionaire has paid a hundred pounds for a car yet not given £50 to a begger. The Govt chose to cut the Environment Agency budget and chose to cut the workforce, because their priorities are elsewhere. I'd love to see the political party who wouldn't have done the same.....maybe the Greens. They took a risk that they could cut the EA budget. It backfired on them in the worst possible way. Maybe people might cut them some slack based on the fact that cuts have to come from somewhere but there is a clear ideological angle to this - Tories are generally climate change deniers and Cameron himself wants to 'cut the green crap'. Now climate change has bit them on the backside, and they may need a whole load more green crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosxuk Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Nope it's idiotic. It makes no sense to distill thing down to a choice between foreign aid and flood defence, because quite simply that is not a precise choice that is being made. Except these people honestly believe that some people in the Government have actually sat down around a table and gone "Right, there's £11m here, shall we spend it on flood prevention or shall we give it to the African's to buy some more guns with?", and as long as you're dealing with logic like that, you're never going to get them to see sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butlers Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 The EA are now pumping 3million cubic metres of water a day off the Levels..thats astonishing. The Britsh Geological Survey run a series of boreholes, 9/32 are at record levels..the oldest one is 190years old. Worcester looks next likely trouble spot, the Seven is running at 20feet higher than normal,with a record flow predicted for tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukdobby Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Watching the news it does look awfull down south,in the summer when they have their barbies nextto the river it looks good then they have to take the rough with the smooth,they should be insured for this kind of stuff and if they can't afford it shouldn't live there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scallyboy Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 forget scottish independance,build a wall to keep the south out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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