So, Labour has held on to one of its most safe seats. The BBC seem thrilled. UKIP came second with “only” 20% of the vote and the LibDems lost their deposit.

The BBC appears to have overlooked what the MET OFFICE told us the weather was going to be like but for your information here is what they said… SUMMARY – PRECIPITATION: Confidence in the forecast for precipitation across the UK over the next three months is relatively low. For the December-January-February period as a whole there is a slight signal for below-average precipitation. The probability that UK precipitation for December-January-February will … Continue reading →

Welcome to a sodden Friday. I see the BBC continues to do ALL it can to link the floods to man made climate change. If it rains it is AGW, if it doesn’t, it is AGW. An agenda is pursued at all costs and with scant regard to facts. Here is an Open Thread for the weekend!

  This from Bishop HIll: EA working with Labour against government? Feb 11, 2014 Bureaucrats Environment Agency Labour Inside the Environment Agency is reporting that he has received a letter from a potential whistleblower who claims to have evidence that Agency officials are conspiring with the Labour party to undermine the government. I have been following your blog for the last few months. You make some truthful claims but they are … Continue reading →

  The Environment Agency Chair, Lord Smith, has lied twice when talking about flooding and his agency’s reaction to events. Once when he claimed the Agency had no policy to deliberately flood the Somerset Levels, and again when he claimed Eric Pickles was wrong when he said the Agency had advised the government wrongly about dredging. The BBC has ignored the huge inconsistencies in his story and continues to report … Continue reading →

  Name: Lord Smith Rank: Incompetent Number:  Well, his number’s up.   Or his number should be up if the BBC were doing its job properly and fully investigating Lord Smith’s role as Chair of the Environment Agency and its policies.   Lord Smith has made two statements today which can unequivocably be called lies….about issues that go right to the heart of the flooding in the Somerset Levels.   … Continue reading →

You would have needed a heart of stone NOT to laugh at Evan Davis this morning when he was advised by Ed Davey re the floods  “It’s been 300 years since there were floods like this, it’s unprecedented” Haha! New open thread for you.

    Same story…..completely different take:   From the Guardian 13 Sept. 2013: Ofcom could easily regulate BBC, says chief executive Ofcom boss Ed Richards says it would be ‘comparatively easy’ to oversee corporation, but parliament has ultimate responsibility       From the BBC Sept. 13 2013: Ofcom ‘should not govern’ BBC, says regulator     Here’s another story that you might keep an eye on to see the … Continue reading →

    Amazing what a difference a month makes. One month ago: Storms’ link to climate change uncertain – Met Office   One month later: Met Office: Evidence ‘suggests climate change link to storms’     Originally they told us: The recent storms that have brought heavy rain and floods to much of the UK cannot definitely be linked to climate change, the Met Office has said. A spokesman said … Continue reading →