After8
4:17 Wed Dec 30
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Just going to point out that no conservative minister was sunning themselves in Barbados. It's a total lie.
The head of the environment agency was though. Thats not a ministerial position.
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Mike Oxsaw
3:33 Wed Dec 30
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A few years ago I would have expected the country to rally as one and demand all foreign aid be stopped until flood damage restoration and flood prevention work is up to adequate standards (that's adequate as determined by the people who know about these things, not the government), but, today it appears there's a "fuck everything that's not going to leave me out of pocket or otherwise inconvenienced" attitude to everything.
I see the government response is to do everything EXCEPT suspend foreign aid payments and slap an Ayrton on everyone's annual insurance bill instead.
Nailed on UK flood defence work won't get a sniff of a single penny thus raised. India, Pakistan & Israel very well might, though, because they DO have floods too, and we're all in this together, remember?
Someone really needs to stand up and get Cameron to justify every penny going on foreign aid and why it has preference over necessary spend in the UK.
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paulon
3:25 Wed Dec 30
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Some insurance companies are apparently sending some flooded families off to to Spain for a couple of weeks due to the lack of available accommodation up here, supposedly cheaper option than putting them up in British hotels.
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Dapablo
3:21 Wed Dec 30
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mashed in maryland wrote...
"Trying hard to do what?"
It's called being cryptical, offering opinion to those who can read it and bypassing those not able.
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mashed in maryland
3:05 Wed Dec 30
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Dapablo 2:49 Wed Dec 30
Trying hard to do what?
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Johnson
3:04 Wed Dec 30
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Are people who work hard for a living not allowed holidays, Dapablo?
If you could afford one, or even worked hard, maybe you'd understand.
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Dapablo
3:01 Wed Dec 30
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I think the Tory environment minister turned up with the sand from his holidays in the sun whilst half the country was drowning.
..but no you pick on the little people why don't you!
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Nurse Ratched
3:00 Wed Dec 30
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Would somebody punch Gruesome Dump, please?
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2:55 Wed Dec 30
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Did those Syrians bring their own sand?
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Gruesome Dump
2:53 Wed Dec 30
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..."Bracing stuff, having the tide break/spray over your train carriage."...
**bites fist**
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Dapablo
2:49 Wed Dec 30
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trying far to hard mashed
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mashed in maryland
2:47 Wed Dec 30
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Fair play to those Syrians. Brilliant show and the sort of thing we all like to see.
Problem is that the lefties out there will use this as more leverage to let in that pack of savages at Calais and seal our fate (ie being blown up while being called racist)
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Toe Rag
2:46 Wed Dec 30
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Syrian refugees ending up in Rochdale?
LOL!
The poor cunts, as if they haven't suffered enough!
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Dapablo
2:46 Wed Dec 30
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Syrian refugees turning up in Rochdale to offer help to the community by filling sandbags as a thanks and payback. People power.
Environment Minister off sunning in the Caribbean has just got back.
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Nurse Ratched
2:43 Wed Dec 30
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Mashed, I used to commute to work along that line. Twice a year, during a week or so of high tides, you could be stuck for over a hour waiting to go through Dawlish. Bracing stuff, having the tide break/spray over your train carriage.
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ray winstone
2:39 Wed Dec 30
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POWER TO THE PEEEEEEEEOPLE!!!!!!!
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mashed in maryland
2:37 Wed Dec 30
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kirok1 2:00 Wed Dec 30
The train line running along the estuary/sea front between Exeter and Teignmouth used to be regularly out of action when the storms kicked up, basically meaning no train travel to the far south-west.
Only in this country would we scrap all rail links to our main domestic holiday area except the one running literally feet away from the fucking sea under a cliff in an area known for its freak weather!
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charleyfarley
2:37 Wed Dec 30
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Nothing to do with his politics couldn't stand Major, boring fart could send you to sleep after the first sentence. On a political note only cos i couldn't stand the son of a circus performer/ ex bus conductor,
wasn't it him who wanted to start a moral crusade and introduced 'back to basics' whilst shagging Edwina 'salmonella' Curry
You couldn't make it up
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Nurse Ratched
2:28 Wed Dec 30
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We have all had a varied and eventful life. Almost nobody on this website is a stellar success in life. Difference is, who do you blame for this? I tend to blame myself for my failings and am remarkably cheerful about my craptitude. No-one to blame but myself. You, on the other hand, appear to think you are the victim of a conspiracy of toffs and rich folk. Time to grow up, Wolfie Smith.
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ray winstone
2:22 Wed Dec 30
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Nurse, I know you have a preoccupation with my 'career', maybe you're bitter because I've managed to have a pretty varied and eventful life, one other than a dried up old bint who finds great pleasure in digging out middle-aged men who haven't quite 'made it'....
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