The government has got a plan that will make flooding even worse

‘Not only are the Conservatives guilty of slashing funds for flood defences, their blueprint for the countryside is likely to only increase the risk of floods.

We saw just how seriously the current government takes the issue of flooding with the Prime Minister’s abject refusal to deal sensibly with questions about it in parliament. Cameron seems to think he can solve the problem simply by turning up and pointing at it. Of course, with natural disasters such as flooding, prevention is infinitely preferable to cure. But how do you hold back the forces of nature?

Fortunately the government’s farming champion, Liz Truss, has the answer. She announced on 6 January to the Oxford Farming Conference that an additional 1 million acres of farmland would be protected from flooding by 2021. She also declared her intention to decentralise drainage policy, allowing farmers to “manage the land to stop it getting waterlogged”.’

Read more: The government has got a plan that will make flooding even worse

The post The government has got a plan that will make flooding even worse appeared first on David Icke.