It’s not climate change, it’s mismanagement

I was watching the floods in Ironbridge and Shrewsbury on TV, when the regional director for the department for the environment came on to tell us it was all down to climate change. Rubbish!

I grew up over there in the 1950s, and floods were a regular feature, as they have been for hundreds of years. Trouble is, the authorities have never addressed the issue.

We are shown pictures of properties built on flood plains, with no defences or precautions taken, under water, and they tell us: climate change.

There are demands for the government to spend billions of pounds on a bigger Thames flood barrier, when the existing one has never been used for the purpose intended. Coastal erosion, that has been with us since time began, is now a result of climate change? The department of the environment can’t believe its luck as decades of their mismanagement is now blamed on climate change.

Under this budget heading the government is giving it billions to undo what it has been doing, and start redoing what the activists have stopped it from doing. These activists haven’t a clue what they are on about, and are costing us billions in increased taxation, and living costs.

Every bright idea they have come up with has been a total disaster, yet they still have the ear of the politicians, as illustrated by the United Nations appointing Greta Thunberg to its Covid policy committee.

They now tell us we have a water shortage problem, due to climate change, more fake news, it’s because they object to new water storage facilities being built, and the government has caved in to their demands. They also object to hydro electric power, of which we could have an abundance in this country. And as for nuclear, say no more?

When are our politicians going to stop playing to the gallery , and wake up and smell the coffee; oooooops, sorry (they tell us), coffee is bad for the environment and climate?

Steve Vickers,