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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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There was a debate today on BBC radio cumbria about matters EU.
sorry i forget the names of those taking part.
However,
there was a Lib dem
there was a BNP
there was a Conservative
there was a UKIP
now this may not seem at all strange but what spoke volumes to me is
There was not a Labour
there was not a green
There were pre recorded segments form both of those, but they both refused to come on live and share a stage with a member of the BNP.
In my veiw that makes green and labour both unelectable, this is the UK, a nation where we do have freedom of speech. I am not generally a fan of the BNP, but i do believe they have the right to state their case.
In fact the BNP member was the calmest of all of them, often having to but in when the ukip member and the lib dem were entering a slagging match, to remind them we are trying to have a debate here.
the whole thing was pretty shambolic, but the refusal of the greens and labour to attend i think does them more damage than any of the other candidates would have done.
Because Darby was present, Labour and the Greens refused to attend, although they were allowed to do a pre-recorded response.
Now I disagree with Chris Davies MEP on many things, but I thought he was absolutely right when he pointed out that the European Parliament contains a wide variety of people including some with very extreme views, all the way from fascists to communists.
If Labour and the Greens are not prepared to turn up to a meeting if someone with offensive and extreme views is present, does that mean they are not going to turn up to the European Parliament if elected to it?
If it does mean that, there is no point in them standing. If they are prepared to attend a meeting of the parliament despite extremists being present, then refusing to take part in a debate during the election campaign is a pointless and misleading piece of tokenism which insults the electorate.
I am due to do a debate at Liverpool Edge Hill University tomorrow - Labour and the Greens are due to be there as it appears that the BNP will not.
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