Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
It seems to me, there's plenty of "dredging" going on amongst ALL parties concerned with this issue ... in the sense that, each of them is "scraping the bottom of the barrel" - looking for excuses to apportion blame to the other(s) - when, truth be told, the excessive flooding has most likely arisen from the consequences of extreme climatic changes affecting the lowest lying, predominantly flat areas - a "natural phenomenon", previously unheard of (in these parts) in living memory.
Good post and very true.

The political blame game is very tedious and diverts attention away from the real issues. Chris Smith is a gay former Labour cabinet minister, so it's no surprise that the Tories are trying to blame everything on him.

The dredging issue is something easy to campaign for, but would have made little difference to this flooding event. With all the criticism of the EA, they have successfully prevented flooding in places like Taunton and Bridgwater. Unfortunately, some rural communities have paid the price for this.

There are some difficult decisions to be made, and despite David Cameron's rhetoric, money will be an issue. But the flood experts are the people we should be listening to, not the politicians.