New Posts For Thread: Why did floods agency spend hundreds on 'equali-tea' gay awareness mugs...https://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/30202583/why-did-floods-agency-spend-hundreds-on-equali-tea-gay-awareness-mugsWhy did floods agency spend hundreds on 'equali-tea' gay awareness mugs... and £30,000 on gay pride marches? As Britain counts cost of shoddy defences, we reveal bizarre spending by quango bossesInvestigation shows the Environment Agency, headed bybut they can find 30 million for the birdies!!!!https://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/30202583/why-did-floods-agency-spend-hundreds-on-equali-tea-gay-awareness-mugs?post_id=538140377#538140377but they can find 30 million for the birdies!!!!Mon, 24 Feb 2014 14:46:37 -0600because they could?https://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/30202583/why-did-floods-agency-spend-hundreds-on-equali-tea-gay-awareness-mugs?post_id=538138807#538138807because they could?Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:01:48 -0600http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/flooding/10655005/The-flooding-of-the-Somerset-Levels-was-deliberately-engineered.htmlits issues like this that make politicians little blame games so disgustingthe EA has to take some share of the blame, but there ishttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/30202583/why-did-floods-agency-spend-hundreds-on-equali-tea-gay-awareness-mugs?post_id=538137327#538137327http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/flooding/10655005/The-flooding-of-the-Somerset-Levels-was-deliberately-engineered.htmlits issues like this that make politicians little blame games so disgustingthe EA has to take some share of the blame, but there isMon, 24 Feb 2014 10:56:25 -0600We have to agree to disagree subbie, my view is that judicious use of public money could have alleviated much of the flooding,not all but enough to make a difference. Why on earth ANY of it is spent on sponsoring one man's personal beliefs is a sackahttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/30202583/why-did-floods-agency-spend-hundreds-on-equali-tea-gay-awareness-mugs?post_id=538119569#538119569We have to agree to disagree subbie, my view is that judicious use of public money could have alleviated much of the flooding,not all but enough to make a difference. Why on earth ANY of it is spent on sponsoring one man's personal beliefs is a sackaSun, 23 Feb 2014 10:15:40 -0600Why do these kweers keep proudly outing themselves?Daly a diver not a muff diver.I declare on this thread that I am a very proud heterosexual!!!!!!https://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/30202583/why-did-floods-agency-spend-hundreds-on-equali-tea-gay-awareness-mugs?post_id=538116935#538116935Why do these kweers keep proudly outing themselves?Daly a diver not a muff diver.I declare on this thread that I am a very proud heterosexual!!!!!!Sun, 23 Feb 2014 07:53:16 -0600damn, you know you're in trouble when you are quoting that corpulent tw*t Pickles as some kind of authority. would you honestly expect a politician to say anything different? they are in witch-hunt and damage limitation mode, so they do what they dohttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/30202583/why-did-floods-agency-spend-hundreds-on-equali-tea-gay-awareness-mugs?post_id=538110329#538110329damn, you know you're in trouble when you are quoting that corpulent tw*t Pickles as some kind of authority. would you honestly expect a politician to say anything different? they are in witch-hunt and damage limitation mode, so they do what they doSat, 22 Feb 2014 16:44:21 -0600Eric Pickles stated quite clearly that the advice the government received did not seem to be sufficient. I assumed he was referring to the 'experts at the EA' when he said that. My limited dealings with them has underwhelmed me.https://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/30202583/why-did-floods-agency-spend-hundreds-on-equali-tea-gay-awareness-mugs?post_id=538109893#538109893Eric Pickles stated quite clearly that the advice the government received did not seem to be sufficient. I assumed he was referring to the 'experts at the EA' when he said that. My limited dealings with them has underwhelmed me.Sat, 22 Feb 2014 16:18:20 -0600treetop - the EA can propose solutions all it likes but it is up to government to fund them.as should be obvious, the decision was made to fund serious flood defences for London, but not Somerset. (and even Londons have been stretched to the limit byhttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/30202583/why-did-floods-agency-spend-hundreds-on-equali-tea-gay-awareness-mugs?post_id=538107051#538107051treetop - the EA can propose solutions all it likes but it is up to government to fund them.as should be obvious, the decision was made to fund serious flood defences for London, but not Somerset. (and even Londons have been stretched to the limit bySat, 22 Feb 2014 13:55:24 -060050 closures in a year is considered the recommended maximum operating threshold for the Thames Barrier apparently if even the Thames Barrier is being strained, what chance does poor old Somerset have?https://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/30202583/why-did-floods-agency-spend-hundreds-on-equali-tea-gay-awareness-mugs?post_id=538106985#53810698550 closures in a year is considered the recommended maximum operating threshold for the Thames Barrier apparently if even the Thames Barrier is being strained, what chance does poor old Somerset have?Sat, 22 Feb 2014 13:51:02 -0600That was an example of comparison, the locals on the Thames have also been vocal in saying that drainage elsewehere has aggravated their situation too but the whole point of having a quango like EA is to investigate measures to prevent,alleviate or phttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/30202583/why-did-floods-agency-spend-hundreds-on-equali-tea-gay-awareness-mugs?post_id=538106905#538106905That was an example of comparison, the locals on the Thames have also been vocal in saying that drainage elsewehere has aggravated their situation too but the whole point of having a quango like EA is to investigate measures to prevent,alleviate or pSat, 22 Feb 2014 13:45:25 -0600