Is it me or is everybody slightly disappointed when they find that cobra stands for 'cabinet office briefing room A'?
Taken from another forum, it appears they can't do anything constructive even if they wanted to.
Flooding cause that the Government would rather keep to itself - Chronicle Live
It's what this country does well when there's big emergencies these days. The big wigs have meetings at cabinet office level, then at local government level, then at senior officer level (whether that be ambulance, police, NHS or fire service) followed by meetings at local area level to try and decide what's to be done.
Meanwhile the workers are getting on and doing it anyway.
Said meetings and full scale action would have been swifter if, for example, the gated communities of Surrey and the like were looking like flooding....
I don't think the Bullingdon Club give a rats *ss about flooding anywhere it doesn't affect them, theirs or their interests!
According to the today programme, while measly amounts have been spent on upgrading flood defences, with the exception of much needed upgrades recently in the south east, billions of our hard earned money has gone to corrupt countries in grant aid.
So I guess you wore the smug smile of satisfaction when Oxfordshire was flooded in 2007, 2012 and 2014?
And when Gloucestershire was flooded in the same years?
And when Surrey was flooded earlier this year?
Did it make you happier believing it was Tory voters whose homes and businesses were devastated on those occasions?
Flooding knows no boundaries - it's a disaster wherever it happens.