Jul 21 2007
What the Enivronment Agency reported last year - not ready for floods
Target - “Increase from 50% 2004-5 to 56% 2005-6 percentage of urban flood defence structures and linear defences in good condition or better”
Result - not achieved for 3rd party maintained defences (42%), achieved for EA ones. Target is low.
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John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
There’s a good post by Ralph at “Some Stuff” blog. He provides the link between the Met Offices warning;
Ministers were warned months ago that the country faced heavy flooding this summer but too little was done to protect vulnerable towns and villages, The Observer can reveal.
And compares it to Gordon Browns reported statement that;
Mr Brown claimed that the flooding was an “emergency that no one could have predicted”. But forecasters had warned officials at the Environment Agency, which is responsible for co-ordinating flood response, about the risk on Wednesday - two days before the first downpour.
You get a mention is dispatches there also.
No doubt you are all over this anyway. But its a great example of misdirection and incompetance by the Labour government.