The Curmudgeon

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Friday, January 03, 2014

A Rising Tide

Given that various more or less expendable persons have been flooded out of their homes this winter, it's only natural that the Government should be eliminating waste and red tape; or, in Standard English, sacking people from the Environment Agency. The agency was cut by ten per cent in the Chancellor's rah-rah last June, on top of a previous cut in 2010; spending has been capped with no adjustment for inflation; and doubtless Daveybloke's anxiety to dispense with green crap will result in yet further economies. Fourteen hundred people are expected to lose their jobs, which will mean that, in the words of the agency's chief executive, "flood risk maintenance will be [further] impacted. All of our work on mapping and modelling and new developments in things like flood warning will also have to be resized. And we're looking at a proportionate reduction in the number of people in flood risk management." Britain's Head Boy did, of course, visit some of those affected by the recent flooding, to their incalculable comfort and joy; presumably others in vulnerable areas are feeling drier already.

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