“Today’s Government-commissioned report, which contains 92 recommendations on how Britain can be better equipped for dealing with a similar crisis”

Do any of these recommendations include:
1. Do not buy houses next to rivers
2. Educate fools to look carefully at where they buy houses
3. Educate idiots to take responsibility for being stupid enough to buy houses where they will flood…. and not blame the developers (congratulations to developers for making money from the badly educated)

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Surely instead of building houses in the countryside – is’nt it about time that brownfield sites in inner city area’s were reclaimed ie Birmingham, Coventry, London etc

Of course developers are less eager to build new houses in those locations as it seems everyone wants to live in the countryside these days

These same people fail to realise that the countryside will soon turn into the towns and cities of the future if housing is constantly built on green field sites.

And the major question is why do we need so much more new housing to be built anyway?

most families are 2+2 children which does not result in a population boost

I see very few families made up of 3 to 10 children mainly as nowadays it is hard to afford to keep such big families

So where is the population boost coming from?

Could i be the Government current open door policy of letting anyone come into our country.

If we were as big in size as Australia or the USA it would not be a mjor problem

But for a very small country it is very hard to sustain such big increases in population

Housing, hospital facilities, education.

Surely it is about time that instead of spending huge amounts of money on papers which tell us what we already know on the flooding issues that the government look to controlling the current sham of our immigration system

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Big Matty I agree on many of the points you raised
but Telford does not have a large amount of single parents – I think that is being slightly unfair to telford.

You will find the same trend in all towns in the UK.

Again its down to bad parenting. Bad parents lead to bad children ie All the young yobs thinking they own the streets.

If the Government cracked down on bad parenting this would solve many of the social issues today.

By crack down – I do not mean more handouts – tougher fines for parents whose children cause mayhem on the streets etc.

This may be a bit draconian but people are required to have licences to breed dangerous animals – indeed even licences for guns. Bringing a child up badly with no responsible parental guidance is akin to the 2 examples above.

As such people should be required to have licences before they attempt to have children – they would be educated in the correct way to bring up a child.

Failure to obtain this licence would mean that said parents would be unable to claim for child benefits etc

A bit draconian but thought I would throw it into the melting pot

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