Flood Off! - BBC ruin the “feel sorry for us” vibe…
Remember how bad you felt for those poor folks in New Orleans when they were hit by the flood? No, me neither, but say you actually had a heart and gave a rats ass about anyone other than yourself then the fact these people were largely below the poverty line, in an area of the US where an imminent flood would desecrate an entire state and then then US Government do absolutely nothing to help for the first few weeks would’ve maybe inspired you to donate some money or try and do something to help.
Well, for those of you who don’t live in the UK and couldn’t give too fucks what happens in this stupid island, we were hit by some of the worst flooding in 90 years in the south of England. The banks of the Thames and Severn have both breached and whilst not anything of the scale of New Orleans, its leaving about 350,000 in the UK without power or running water for a few days, maybe even weeks!
And I’m trying to feel bad for these people when I spot the following picture and description on the BBC News Website.
In case you too had to double take, that says and I quote:
Oxford residents have been using their boats to get around
Their boats?? THEIR FUCKING BOATS?! A day ago on the news these people who’ve been effected were saying “what’s the Government going to do about our homes, we don’t have insurance for this”, expecting Joe Public to foot another bill and some people in Oxford have their own fucking boat to swan around in?!?
Well they can fuck right off is what they can do… if aid comes out of anything other than local constituency council taxes there will be uproar in the Delmorpha household and I will be rallying the troops in protest.
Usually I have a bit of a rant and go back to sleep after I’ve worn myself out but this shit is ridiculous. Most of the world knows Oxford is a rich county full of poncy twats with bags of spare cash and it should be up to them and their council tax to bail people dumb enough not to have house insurance out, if they bother at all.
This is a known about localised problem, not some completely unheard of event. Their councils should have made adequate preparations for this event and as they haven’t, it shouldn’t be down to UK tax payers from unaffected area’s of the country to pay for.
Their own fucking boats indeed…
Boris said
am July 26 2007 @ 9:08 am
A couple of things:
1) It was the people round Sheffield who wanted our money because they had no insurance
2) many of the floods in the south are pretty much unprecedented events, hence why everyone is so surprised and there weren’t reports of flooding last year, or the year before, or the year before, etc.
Having said that those in group 1 should have paid for an insurance policy like the rest of us do cheap Yonner gits.
Those in group 2 probably have insurance but we’l still be paying for it because the insurance companies will put everyone’s premiums up because they’ll have had to pay out and rather than take it out of their profits they’ll charge us more (which should be illegal imho).
So those of us who have the good sense to live at the top of a hill and insure our homes will be paying for this (like our taxes from work paying for dole scum and scally baby factories).