EU solidarity fund debate exemplifies UK political divisions

摘要

The floods across Southern England are developing into a "perfect storm' of their own, with politicians desperately wading around in Wellingtons seeking media attention, while the many landowners and householders affected accuse them of policy drift and dithering.Alan Bullion writes: Much of the outcome has been an unedifying spectacle of blame-shifting between various government ministries and agencies, local government officials, and house-builders, each quick to pass the buck on the flood plains, while the public hardship deepens.