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[TheBoy]

I have little time or patience with people living near rivers, on reclaimed land, or in flood plains when they get flooded, then claim its the goverment's fault.

WTF should my taxes be wasted on people not bright enough to realise that living in these places will raise their risk of flood.

And breath...

[TheBoy]

I wonder how the Dutch manage? 

I suspect their welfare bills are not cripling them

[Sir Tigger KC]

I wonder how the Dutch manage? 

I suspect their welfare bills are not cripling them

Not just welfare but our tax pounds get sprayed about like they grow on trees!! 

Saw a report yesterday that DEFRA have spent £5 million culling Ruddy Ducks over the last few years!  Why?  Because apparently they migrate to Spain and mate with Spanish ducks and the Spanish don't like it!   

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/mar/08/ruddy-ducks-extermination

DEFRA should have told our Spanish friends to 'duck off' and kill them themselves!!! 

[05omegav6]

As predicted, Jeremy Whine is busy bullying Eric Pickles for being rubbish at his job because he is a bit podgy...

Given the fact that the Somerset Levels are actually below sea level, what is an MP supposed to do about the laws of nature? Water flows downhill, always has and always will... After all MPs and quangos are people not Gods or King Canute

I wonder how the Dutch manage? 

I drove up the M5 today and between Taunton and Weston-Super-Mud there are a few rivers and drainage channels heading towards the Bristol Channel from the Somerset Levels.  I expected them to be raging torrents taking all that water down to the sea, but all was still and calm.... 

The Dutch have a shed load of practice, and no significant hills.

That's the point I made elsewhere... rather than trying to keep the water back, open the sluices and let the rivers drain as intended...

Chertsey, Richmond and Reading wouldn't be getting flooded if the lock gates along the Thames were opened

[05omegav6]

I have little time or patience with people living near rivers, on reclaimed land, or in flood plains when they get flooded, then claim its the goverment's fault.

WTF should my taxes be wasted on people not bright enough to realise that living in these places will raise their risk of flood.

And breath...

Oddly enough I was thinking of the people who live near airports and bitch about the noise

[chrisgixer]

I have little time or patience with people living near rivers, on reclaimed land, or in flood plains when they get flooded, then claim its the goverment's fault.

WTF should my taxes be wasted on people not bright enough to realise that living in these places will raise their risk of flood.

And breath...

Oddly enough I was thinking of the people who live near airports and bitch about the noise

Is Reading Reading near an airport?

[ted_one]

Don't buy a house in Reading....2000+ new houses being built and will be virtually joining us to Bracknell

[chrisgixer]

Don't buy a house in Reading....2000+ new houses being built and will be virtually joining us to Bracknell

Can't get in and out of the place as it is. Heading south on the 329m from the m4 is a no no since the new road layout past Binfield.

They've cocked that right up. WDC are utterly useless. Utterly.

But its better than Reading. By miles.

[ted_one]

Agreed,and that project is not scheduled to finish until August.... PITA

[chrisgixer]

Taxes are to support the needy.
If your flooded out, your needy.
If you have pot holes on your roads they should be filled.
If your house is near a forest on fire in summer, it should be protected.
If you have cliff erosion, there should be sea defences.
If you live on a hill there should be grit buns in winter.

[chrisgixer]

Agreed,and that project is not scheduled to finish until August.... PITA

When the Lodden flooded Winnersh/Sindelsham/Arborfield, as it always does, there was only one way in to Reading. So naturally that was oppsed too.

The A404 regularly has issues displayed on the m4 matrix signs. The 329M has far more agro with jams, but do we see Matrix signs advising of conditions in the 329M ? No, do we bugger as like. Junction 11 is usually clear though.

[aaronjb]

Taxes are to support the needy.
If your flooded out, your needy.
If you have pot holes on your roads they should be filled.
If your house is near a forest on fire in summer, it should be protected.
If you have cliff erosion, there should be sea defences.
If you live on a hill there should be grit buns in winter.

They don't sound very tasty..

[chrisgixer]

Taxes are to support the needy.
If your flooded out, your needy.
If you have pot holes on your roads they should be filled.
If your house is near a forest on fire in summer, it should be protected.
If you have cliff erosion, there should be sea defences.
If you live on a hill there should be grit buns in winter.

They don't sound very tasty..

If a tree falls down and blocks your drive, the council should come and remove it. If Someone said tough luck, its your own stupid fault for living near a tree, what would you say?

[05omegav6]

Taxes are to support the needy.
If your flooded out, your needy.
If you have pot holes on your roads they should be filled.
If your house is near a forest on fire in summer, it should be protected.
If you have cliff erosion, there should be sea defences.
If you live on a hill there should be grit buns in winter.

They don't sound very tasty..

Somebody mention grits...

[chrisgixer]

If it snows, as it is in Cumbria on high ground, I don't expect people to say, tough luck we're not gritting your roads, you live on high ground you should expect this to happen.