Victims of the “Storm of the Century” want practical help and not more hollow words from Tory ministers who have so often failed flood victims.
Defences need strengthening urgently. There must also be cheaper insurance for homes at risk of being swamped.
Finally generous grants should be made
available to help heartbroken householders and tenants to clean up and repair damage.
We’ve heard much “People’s Government” propaganda from Boris Johnson and talk of “levelling up” England’s North, yet in a crisis, when people crave a government on their side, the Tories, as usual, fail to deliver.
There’s no doubt climate change is creating wilder swings in weather patterns.
However ordinary families wouldn’t have been left so at risk if Tory austerity hadn’t disastrously delayed the building of proper flood defences.
Empty promises won’t hold back anything – even the tide of contempt they deserve.
Cut the cronies
Unelected peers should be forced to agree that the bulging House of Lords will be dramatically reduced before pocketing inflation-busting allowance rises of 3.1%.
Members of London’s most exclusive club will shortly enjoy a tax-free £323 per day.
With another 30 has-beens and party donors set to join 800 jobs-for-life, the chamber is past a joke. Shamefully only the Chinese National People’s Congress is bigger than the ermined House of Cronies.
Electing a much smaller revising chamber would be democratic. Until then let’s thin out the burgundy benches.
Oscar triumph
The obscure film Parasite has made history as the first non-English language movie to win top prize at the Oscars.
The best thing to come out of South Korea since Gangnam Style will have us flocking to cinemas to read the subtitles.
