More Floods

We privatise the Water industry and instead of repairing our age old water courses and helping create work. Those privatised water companies shift their attention to the need for the shareholders to gain profits. We do not give the water industry the power to tell developers not to build in floodplains. Property developers can insist that wherever they build, they demand sewage and water access without thought of how this will effect the potential for future flooding. The government obsessed with the ideology that we must build homes everywhere, build on floodplains. The developer wants his profit and the government stand by hypnotised by the market and the price mechanism.

We even privatise the Environment Agency and limit its powers. We cut down trees that would absorb the water, we dredge rivers and straighten them so that the water flows more quickly to the towns. And now the North of England and parts of North Wales are under severe floods or threatened by the potential for floods. The list goes on and the daily mail and the Sun, those papers of great record now scream out that something must be done. Those rags are the papers that promoted the cut back of the state and argued for this obscene government .

They say we must concentrate on our home floods and yet they fail to realise that climate changes us a world wide phenomena. There will be a new migrants flowing to Europe soon, they will be climate change migrants and the Sun and the Daily Mail will urge us to close the boarders and never realise that in this world climate change threatens us all and we are all in it together.