Year in, year out, hundreds of square miles of flat water tight surfaces are built. House roofs, driveways, sheds, garages, pathways, roads etc, throughout the length of the UK. 

No new infrastructure to relieve the existing waterways in place. Let’s just keep adding to the old network.

The Government has this policy in place of build, build, build. Build our way out of the homeless problem. Look at the consequences. 

Rishi Sunak has just announced a further 50,000 asylum seekers are to receive citizenship. So thousands more houses have to be built just to satisfy that demand. What the hell are the Government thinking. 

I propose that a new building development, solely for the purpose of housing ministers, be constructed on the flood plains in Somerset. This would be a fraction of what is required for our new British Citizens. After being flooded out year after year Ministers might begin to realise a problem exists. Unfortunately, if they are not personally affected they just don’t fully understand how the poor affected people are suffering.

All new houses should have a boat and mooring as standard in the driveway if this mentality continues.

David Brown,
Station Close,
Wickham

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