Colin, you seem to live in a very tunnelled vision of a utopian world at times..................I don't think any of us don't have sympathy for those suffering, whether they be in Somerset, Cornwall/Devon, the Thames valley or in the outer Hebrides.............it's the totally unbalanced way in which this government has suddenly sprung into action when prime voters houses are now being inundated, and the main man stands up on tv and says money is no object.......had he said this when the environment agency had asked umpteen years ago to spend more money on dredging, flood release channels and other methods........we as citizens wouldn't be in the mess that this government has cause by reducing Environment agency funding...............and yet suddenly there the money is...........sorry Colin, but on this as with numerous other stands you make on here your vision is very blinkered indeed, and that is fact, not fiction.
neil.