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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
David Cameron COULD have done more to help, he could have authoised more help from the Army, to help out these people.
People are forgetting that as soon as there is a flood problem in other countries, David Cameron is the first to help to them.
BUT, we are talking about the UK here, everyone in the UK was effected by the flooding, residents were given the usual crap about we are doing what we can.
Mr Cameron went to one village and was confronted by angry residents, but this is NOT good enough.
We are talking about the UK here, not some bloody country overseas, If it was we would had the Army and Navy, and RAF flying stuff out to aid them. The UK, nothing apart from the local guys, who could not cope, some residents are still without power and still flodded. Is this an Arthur rant, yes, the government are simply not doing enough to help.
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Arthur, you appear to be comparing apples and hand-grenades.
In the recent bad weather in the UK, hundreds of thousands of people had short-term inconvenience, and a handful of people died due to the weather (which is bad enough).
In the recent typhoon in the Philippines, millions were affected and over 6,000 killed, and in the Syrian conflict, there have been 6 million displaced and over 100,000 killed.
What has happened to UK residents in the last week has not been nice, but to think it is comparable to some overseas disasters where we have provided aid is, at best, disingenuous.
Most people have now got their power back, but when over 100,000 homes were without power, it takes time to fix these things - the same with flooding; there are over 50 flood warnings still in force - we, as a country, can't fix everything immediately.
The problem is that the news focuses on the outliers - those people who haven't had a resolution to their problem, and not on the vast majority that have.