http://www.nvcc.org.uk/2009/02/ccag-for-risk-management-read-mismanagement/ National Voice of Coastal Communities: giving coastal issues a voice Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:56:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.nvcc.org.uk/2009/02/ccag-for-risk-management-read-mismanagement/comment-page-1/#comment-20 doc Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:14:19 +0000 http://www.nvcc.org.uk/?p=313#comment-20 It is astonishing to see that Government seems willing and able to spend billions of taxpayer's money to bail out the banking sector whose own mismanagement has caused this chaos and financial disaster, yet the same Government has allocated a mere £800 million pounds for the total flood defence budget in Britain this year which, as we all know, is totally inadequate to deal with the situation ! Given that many coastal dwellers are presently at risk of losing their homes (or have already done so), due to failing sea defences caused by lack of investment from Central Government, it is difficult to accept that banks are given bail-out packages paid for by us – the taxpayer - , yet no social justice or bail-out package can be allocated from ‘taxpayer’s money’ when it comes to defending our coast or compensating those affected by Government’s mismanagement of coastal policies. If we, as taxpayers, would have had a say on how our money is spent , it seems pretty certain that most of us would have opted to protect our coastline and heritage rather than feeding our hard earned money to the loan sharks! Call that democracy?...!! It is astonishing to see that Government seems willing and able to spend billions of taxpayer’s money to bail out the banking sector whose own mismanagement has caused this chaos and financial disaster, yet the same Government has allocated a mere £800 million pounds for the total flood defence budget in Britain this year which, as we all know, is totally inadequate to deal with the situation ! Given that many coastal dwellers are presently at risk of losing their homes (or have already done so), due to failing sea defences caused by lack of investment from Central Government, it is difficult to accept that banks are given bail-out packages paid for by us – the taxpayer – , yet no social justice or bail-out package can be allocated from ‘taxpayer’s money’ when it comes to defending our coast or compensating those affected by Government’s mismanagement of coastal policies. If we, as taxpayers, would have had a say on how our money is spent , it seems pretty certain that most of us would have opted to protect our coastline and heritage rather than feeding our hard earned money to the loan sharks! Call that democracy?…!!

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