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"Mr President, Commissioner, as you know the south of England and Wales have, since Christmas, been hit by storm after storm. Indeed, this has been the case across the whole of the South. Farmland is under metres of water, rail lines have been washed away or covered by landslips, trees and power lines are down and thousands of people have been forced out of their homes and businesses. This week I visited a family in my constituency that have for two weeks had raw sewage in the whole street, in their houses and in their gardens and there is no sign of this going down – the drains are collapsing.
Yet we have a Minister who is in denial about climate change and dithering about whether they dare call on the European Solidarity Fund. When the Lib Dems wrote to point out that the money was there, first they were not going to claim for it, then they were, and last week I was notified by Twitter that they had decided that they would not be claiming. We have to campaign hard to make sure that our Ministers claim what is there for the taking. Time is running out and we need you, Commissioner, to help encourage them to work on the preventative work on floods, so that we can build up flood defences. We also need restoration – especially of our cultural heritage – and accommodation for those people who are out of their homes. We need a lot more information getting down to the regional governments so that they can also assist in claiming.
We cannot allow Euroscepticism by my government to get in the way of claiming what is rightly there for our European citizens and my constituents to help them over this terrible time and build preventative systems for the future, because we know that we are going to get more storms in the future."@en1
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