Flooding - Cameron and Paterson - too little and too late

                  The disaster that has hit Somerset!

Yesterday as the floods across England led the news once again, Westminster journalists were told: "The Prime Minister thinks that Owen Paterson does an excellent job."As a rule, if the Prime Minister's spokesman has to tell the press he supports one of his own Cabinet, that minister's job is on the line!

It has been a tough few weeks for Paterson, who served as Northern Ireland Secretary from 2010 until David Cameron promoted him to Environment Secretary 18 months ago.

With floods bringing misery to dozens of constituencies across the Tory heartlands, he is under pressure over whether the Government has done enough, and spent enough, to prevent them.

This week, with some homes having been under water for a month, Cameron has had to step in and take charge as the press upgraded the deluge from news to national crisis.

A full month of being deluged for thousands of people in the South-West will little or no effective Government help apart from Cameron and Paterson getting a lot of TV time by wearing life belts and yellow coats.Defra, - the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which Paterson runs, have been told for some years that

and therefore Paterson, had "made a mistake" by not dredging the flood-hit Somerset Levels.
It has been raised year after year by Somerset citizens that unless the dredging takes place then what has happened will happen.

Once again, our totally useless government are now stuck with a problem that will cost many, many millions more pounds than the original dredging - which they ducked out of.

Houses ruined, farms ruined, people homeless, the Royal Marines called in as the emergency situation gets out of control......

....we are sick of Governments that just will NOT listen to sensible and sound advice from the people they are supposed to be representing.

Now there is a threat in the Thames Valley, another area of neglect and it might come nearer London with the Thames Barriers having to be raised.

David Cameron was made aware of the urgent need to dredge the rivers Parrett and Tone twice last year.
The Western Daily Press alerted him in April in an interview when he came to Somerset on the election trail. The Prime Minister said he was “happy to look at how we set out the Environment Agency’s priorities”.
Then in August with no more money forthcoming from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Royal Bath & West Society decided to launch an appeal fund, and shame the Government into match- funding.
But first Edwin White, former chairman of the Royal Bath & West Society, wrote a letter to the Prime Minister. Here was a local farming expert pointing out the facts. We now need the national action that should have ben in place two and more years ago.

Meanwhile as our own citizens lives are ruined - foreign aid to Third World flea pits goes on!

The National Front condemns Cameron, Paterson and his whole mess of a government step down and give way to a Party that can make things happen - the NF!