We should be praising Lord Smith of the Environment Agency, not criticising him!

In 2012, the Independent newspaper wrote a grovelingly sycophantic article about Blairite crony Chris Smith – head of the Environment Agency.

The hopeless Indie wrote: “Lord Smith of Finsbury, the chairman of the Environment Agency, has a clear idea of what should be done about the chronic water shortage which is already affecting southern England, and may get progressively worse despite occasional days of rainfall”.

Apparently, the excellent Mr Smith had developed what he called “a flow of ideas” to solve the droughts that would be increasingly common due to supposed Global Warming. www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/lord-smith-the-man-who-hopes-his-flow-of-ideas-will-save-us-from-drought-7536464.html

Here’s a lovely picture from the Indie of the porcine Labour placeman Smith, clearly living well at taxpayers’ expense (click on picture if you want to see his impressive double/triple chin more clearly)

Well, as much of Britain now disappears beneath floods of almost Biblical proportions, it seems that Mr Smith’s “flow of ideas” has been hugely successful. In fact, the much praised (by the useless Indie)�”flow of ideas” has been so successful that there soon won’t be much left of Britain that isn’t submerged.

So,�let us all give praise to�Mr Smith.�Let us thank him�for solving the drought crisis with�his “flow of ideas”. But could�he please turn�off his�”flow of ideas” as we possibly have slightly more water than we need.

Did the EU prevent dredging?

As for the dredging that would have�avoided much of the flooding – if you dig deep enough (no joke intended), you’ll find that actually�the dredging didn’t take place because of EU directives discouraging dredging rivers and EU directives requiring lengthy and costly “environmental impact studies” to be carried out before dredging to ensure no snails or newts or worms or whatever would be disturbed by dredging. There are at least 3 EU directives inhibiting dredging – Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC, Waste Framework Directive 75/442/EEC and the Habitat Directive 92/43/EEC. Though, of course, no journalist will ever mention these, otherwise more people might vote UKIP.

So, just like with�selling off�the Royal Mail and legalising single-sex marriage, nobody�in politics or the mainstream media will dare to let people know�that a stop to dredging was forced on us by EU rules.

Is it only blogs like �www.snouts-in-the-trough.com that�are not afraid to tell the truth that our media deliberately hide from us?

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