Uk Flooding, Austerity As Well As The Media

UK flooding in i lawsuit to a greater extent than tops the news, too I’m reminded of a serial of posts I wrote afterwards Christmas 2013. The first showed how austerity led to a abrupt cutting dorsum on overflowing prevention. The second pointed out that the consensus was that spending on overflowing prevention should live rise because of climate change, simply the surroundings government minister was a climate skeptic. The third noted how the authorities had managed to deflect whatever pregnant criticism until now, simply I thought sure enough that cannot last. At the fourth dimension it became i of my most widely read posts, simply when the authorities thereafter continued to avoid serious criticism except for a handful of articles I realised how weak our media had come inward asset the authorities to account.

I accept no thought if whatever of the most recent floods tin give the sack live directly connected to the postal service 2010 cuts, simply that is non how these things work. We cannot essay out that each of these severe weather condition episodes are linked to climate change, simply nosotros function amongst probabilities. Unfortunately the media honor it difficult doing the same.

Here is the fourth dimension serial for spending that I constitute inward the House of Commons library.

The touching of austerity is clear, simply past times including spending already committed inward 2010/11 too choosing the correct dates ministers managed to learn away amongst proverb that spending had non fallen on their watch. Anyone amongst these figures could accept blown that cover, simply I hardly saw this nautical chart anywhere else inward the media. Equally most no i picked upwardly on the fact that spending should accept been on a rise tendency because of climate change, too linked that to the views of the thence surroundings minister.

Until thence I had thought that the authorities had got away amongst austerity partly because the touching of the cuts had non been rattling visible. Flooding was highly visible, all the same the links amongst austerity were completely absent from the media beyond the Guardian too FT. So, inward that rather negative sense, this episode became an teaching for me. An teaching the populace was denied.