Stormy Weather

[BBMmk2]

Well, I am surprised that 'git' is showing his face!!

Anyway a lovely day today, although may be a mixed bag tomorrow? :(

[amateur51]

it is my impression that Chris Smith did not cut the EA budget, rather it is the work of George O ..... - Chris Smith spent the budget but clearly not on the Somerset Levels but likely on highly populated urban areas at risk from flooding that did not flood last time round .... no one expects the Spanish Inquisition eh ....

beautiful light today in the middle kingdom

In a televsion interview a few days ago, Chris Smith was at pains to point out that the budget had indeed been cut by the Treasury and that the priorities for spending it had been set centrally.

In which case, I don't blame him for not wanting to be keel-hauled by a local Tory MP

[amateur51]

Well, I am surprised that 'git' is showing his face!!

Anyway a lovely day today, although may be a mixed bag tomorrow? :(

Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't eh Bbm?

[BBMmk2]

Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't eh Bbm?

I would send the whole government to The Tower by now!!! (if it were 800 years ago!!

[amateur51]

I would send the whole government to The Tower by now!!! (if it were 800 years ago!!

Chris Smith isn't in the Government, Bbm.

[BBMmk2]

Chris Smith isn't in the Government, Bbm.

Well, he can go too!! :)

[amateur51]

Well, he can go too!! :)

Poor bloke - vilified for not being in the Government

[BBMmk2]

Poor bloke - vilified for not being in the Government

.........and he would be too!!

[Serial_Apologist]

Poor bloke - vilified for not being in the Government

I think BBM may have made the mistake of doing his top shirt button up today, Ams.

[french frank]

Ironic to think that the -ny, -y on the end of so many place names in the Levels (including Muchelney) means 'island' and goes back to the times when they were permanent islands.

[Richard Tarleton]

.........and he would be too!!

Releasing your inner Plantagenet, eh, BBM? - that poor Chris Smith, the most cultured and civilised Culture Minister we've ever had - he shouldn't be mixed up in this!

[Serial_Apologist]

Releasing your inner Plantagenet, eh, BBM? - that poor Chris Smith, the most cultured and civilised Culture Minister we've ever had - he shouldn't be mixed up in this!

Part-responsible for Britpop, if my memory serves me...

[BBMmk2]

In that case yes most certainly!! :)

thank you FF, for that info there. The whole of the Somerset levels is a floodplain?

[Pabmusic]

Can I send my best wishes to all who are (or might be) affected by the gales that I have just read about. Is there a disaster appeal?

(We have no electricity tomorrow. Goodness knows what's happening. It can't be that anyone's attempting to improve the electricity supply. Can it?)

[BBMmk2]

Ah, that's the one thing that's not been organised, as far as I am aware, Pabs. The government are always quick enough to send aid out to other countries, but when it co0mes to their own, they just seem to bury their heads in the sand!!