Somerset now under water

[doodab]

There own fault for building farms on a flood plain then !!!!

I do wonder if you realise that food doesn't actually grow in the refrigerators in tesco.

Like the slopes of a volcano, the soil tends to be very fertile on a flood plain, flat land is much easier to work, and of course you need to be near fresh water if you plan to grow crops. That's why you don't see a whole lot of arable farms at the top of mountains and other flood resistant places.

[cojak]

There were TEN THOUSAND homes in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire flooded in 2007. There are fewer than 50 after weeks more rain than then.

Whole villages in the East Midlands flooded in 2003 haven't been touched at all in these floods.

If you want to jump on the Bash the EA bandwagon, then go right ahead.

[ASB]

That's why you don't see a whole lot of arable farms at the top of mountains and other flood resistant places.

You don't see a whole lot of arable farms on the levels either. Probably about 20%. Most of it permanent pasture for grasskeep and grazing.

[Bacchus]

There own fault for building farms on a flood plain then !!!!

That's like 1 house on the Thames value, Somerset should be abandoned to save London.

Although it's all flooding, there are two very different problems going on here, neither of which has a solution for an acceptable amount of tax-payer's cash, and neither of which have much to do with dredging (well the dredging that the EA control, as ASB pointed out)

Dredging is a political football, as is the EA at the moment, and whilst many criticisms could be aimed, they shouldn't be aimed by the likes of that imbecile Eric Pickles

[ASB]

ah, the twisted ramblings of a loser who can't afford a house by the river!

I think I read somewhere that Berks had to borrow a pump because they had lent theirs to Somerset. Oopsy.

[tarbera]

???

I do wonder if you realise that food doesn't actually grow in the refrigerators in tesco.

Like the slopes of a volcano, the soil tends to be very fertile on a flood plain, flat land is much easier to work, and of course you need to be near fresh water if you plan to grow crops. That's why you don't see a whole lot of arable farms at the top of mountains and other flood resistant places.

It will actually save money, government is probably paying them large subsidies not to grow anything anyway.

Won't get any action until anything serious is flooded

[doodab]

It will actually save money, government is probably paying them large subsidies not to grow anything anyway.

What will save money? Doing **** all? It might save a little bit I suppose but it's going to piss people off.

[ASB]

It will actually save money, government is probably paying them large subsidies not to grow anything anyway.

Won't get any action until anything serious is flooded

You are amazingly well up to date as to how the subsidy schemes work.

[tarbera]

Thankyou

You are amazingly well up to date as to how the subsidy schemes work.

It is fat farmers in land rovers that are millionaires getting my tax money to fill there fat faces with pie ?

I see one fat farmer might need to come back from the Caribbean to tend his flock

[ASB]

It is fat farmers in land rovers that are millionaires getting my tax money to fill there fat faces with pie ?

I see one fat farmer might need to come back from the Caribbean to tend his flock

That is a completely different thing. That is, in effect, a statement that you do not approve of subsidies. That is absolutely fine (and something I largely agree with).

However, what you said was rather different. If was:-

"It will actually save money, government is probably paying them large subsidies not to grow anything anyway."

As I said, the statement is bollocks and demonstrate you have approximately zero knowledge of any of the system you are so robustly criticising.

The SPS replaced all production/set aside schemes in the substantial CAP overhaul back in 2005. Can't remember the rates since I had to go through a fairly major registration exercise, but if I recall correctly it ended up being about 20 quid a hectare.