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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I try to attend each remembrance day parade, using the memorial of the town I'm in at the time. Some times that cant be so I will just obay the silence (shift work was an example of that one)
Brave men and women died for our freedom, died to protect our democratic system. To allow us to vote from power a government who we each as individuals think fail us, regardless of the governments colour.
To give us our free speech and freedom to peacefully march and to protest.
Freedom such as this, is not god given, it is hard won by real people, who had real lives.
Mourn them, remember them, and the sacrafice they made. Exercise the rights they won.
But please, dont abuse the freedom for which they paid the ultimate price.