Cameron Vows On Floods "Cannot Let This Happen Again"; FOIA Shows Climate Adaptation Funds Cut 40%
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The meeting came as the shadow environment secretary, Maria Eagle, said spending on climate change adaptation and mitigation had been cut by 40% in the past year, a figure that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs had revealed in a freedom of information request. The environment minister was forced to admit that spending had been cut in the UK from £29.1m to £17.2m this year.
In a round of BBC regional radio interviews on Thursday morning, David Cameron pledged that he would not let the current flooding situation happen again, saying Britain "has to do better" in the face of abnormal weather events.
With warnings of more bad weather on the way, the prime minister admitted the UK's preparation for the storms and response to the flooding had not been good enough. "We cannot let this situation happen again. Of course you get these abnormal weather events but we've got to do better as a country," he told BBC Somerset.
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The figure showing a reduction in spending on climate change adaptation was provided in response to a freedom of information request to Lord Lawson, a sceptic on climate change. But the environment minister Dan Rogerson said the overall figure, including spending overseas, showed an increase. Eagle also pressed ministers to stop the cuts in flood defence, but ministers insisted that over the past four years compared with the previous four years capital spending was on the rise.
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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/13/david-cameron-crisis-cabinet-floods-continue
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How many times do we have to hear them spew the following clap-trap:
Nobody saw this coming ...
Who could have predicted ...
Never again ...
Nobody expected this ...
I'm sick of it. They were warned, and we warned them (those of us on the left). How long before the people grasp this fundamental truth ...
[font size=4 color=red]Conservatives are wrong 90% of the time![/font]
-Laelth
