The Official Nonsense Thread

[Minty]

There was a good laugh on TV where some government spokesman was blabbing about how dredging doesn't help because it means the river can hold more water but it won't push it out any faster.

The farmer from Somerset being interviewed pointed out that rivers don't hold water, they move it, & if you make them deeper, more volume of water is being pushed out to the sea per second in the same way a bath fills faster with two taps running instead of one - it's because they're silting up that they can no longer cope with the amount of rain we get. Not astrophysics is it?

It's the stupidity of those in charge that is most frightening, the lack of basic common sense. They have now said that they haven't the money to do the dredging because it will cost about £5 million, the same day they announced they're spending more than that to repair a single bird sanctuary hit by the flooding. I get the impression they want locals to pay for their own dredging so they can use their tax money for more tax cuts for "wealth creators" (their old school tie mates).

Rant over! On a happier note, Hearts won again - first home win since August & against the hated St Midden too.