Reply to: Somerset now under water

[doodab]

The river was quite high in Kingston earlier.

[zoco]

I am just glad that an offer we put in on a place in Burrowbridge about 12 years ago, was declined!!

F'kin 'ell - So am I!

I live just round the corner from there....

[shaunbhoy]

I am just glad that an offer we put in on a place in Burrowbridge about 12 years ago, was declined!!

[EternalOptimist]

How wet has it been ?

apparently the South has had double its normal rain in Jan, whilst Scotland had 83%
but the people in the know are saying the problem was there before january, with the aquifers and rivers being filled up.

[VectraMan]

There was a woman on the telly from one of those millionaire Surrey villages complaining about how they'd had no help and have had to "look after ourselves". She seemed to be standing in about 3 inches of water.

[mudskipper]

Put UK flood victims FIRST: As flood-hit Britons endure unimaginable hardship, the Mail launches a petition calling for cash to be taken from the £11billion foreign aid budget to help them | Mail Online

Lots of pics in today's wail.

Not sure I agree that raiding the foreign aid pot is the right solution.

[EternalOptimist]

How wet has it been ?

Not as wet as many would have you imagine.

There are parts of the levels that are outside EA control, they have been dredged and the flooding is much less severe. It's those sorts of comparisons that make it clear that the EA has fooked up,
probably deliberately.

Last year when the area flooded, Chris Smith blamed 'the wrong sort of rain' when he blabbered on about some sort of convective downpour dumping system, or somesuch.


FYI the EA spends about 600m a years on salaries and pensions, and about 3m on dredging.
They spend more on PR

[d000hg]

In the NE we have basically had none if this at all. It's been rainy a lot and there have been quite a few gales, but we just got greater quantity of what we normally get. The river didn't even flood in Durham, which it does quite frequently.

[tarbera]

!??

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.

It's like this farmer Giles ?? Have you ever seen a non millionaire farmer who got there thanks to the taxpayer ?

I thought not !!

[tarbera]

Wet in the south

This has been the wettest 2 months on record for the SOUTH.

Last time I looked, the East Midlands wasn't in the south.

How wet has it been ?

[cojak]

This has been the wettest 2 months on record for the SOUTH.

Last time I looked, the East Midlands wasn't in the south.

Amazingly it has been raining north of Watford. You haven't seen the Trent lately.

[Gittins Gal]

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.

This has been the wettest 2 months on record for the SOUTH.

Last time I looked, the East Midlands wasn't in the south.

[darmstadt]

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.

Well they are partly to blame but the government are more to blame, and not just this one: http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...ml#post1879676

[scooterscot]

WHS

[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.