SIR – In many parts of this country, areas have been subject to severe flooding, some areas for a second or third time.
In the last week or so, just in time for a minister’s visit, huge pumps were installed in the Somerset Levels which are merely transferring water from the flooded areas to already heavily overloaded rivers.
The consensus of the locals who have lived there many years seems to favour the dredging of rivers for their full length thus increasing their capacity to carry the water to the sea, this seems a highly logical solution.
While our ministers and Environment Department continue to do little or nothing to give meaningful long-term help to these areas, we continue to send huge amounts of foreign aid which seldom if ever reaches it’s intended recipients.
We should suspend foreign aid with immediate effect until our own people have been helped. The amount required is tiny compared with the money we give to foreign governments in South-East Asia and the Middle East.
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