At the last count, our generous government has offered £14m flood relief for tens of thousands of people who have effictively lost their homes in the north of England. The insurance valuation of the damage stands at a hundred times as much as that.

We, the people and government representatives of the U.K., kicked up such a fuss when GW Bush and his cronies left the people of New Orleans in the lurch not long ago, that it seems unbelievable that this. our new government, is doing the same thing to our own people. What hypocrisy! There is talk of plans to spend billions of pounds on a submarine based nuclear deterrent but we can't spend the money on recovering the normal lives of thousands of our citizens. It's sickening.