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Don't come to me for flood hand-out

Aug 3 2007

HERE we go again as the flood waters subside.

The shrieks of outrage come from the uninsured, who claim poverty prevents them buying cover for their property and contents.

I fully understand that householders and business premises in some flood-prone regions cannot be insured because they are at high risk.

But these are in a minority. The moaners creating a fuss because they have found themselves out-of-pocket are all too often penny-pinchers who gambled on staying safe and lost.

We heard exactly the same pleas for financial help at the time of the Balsall Heath and Moseley Twister: householders simply weren't insured.

They all plead poverty, of course, but if they take holidays, run cars, own computers, DVDs and televisions, then why haven't they cut back on these non-essentials to render them weather-proof?

My charitable donations go to animals and Africa, not the daft and greedy British.

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