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February 12, 2014
The Daily Mail today launches a petition to urge ministers to divert some of the UK’s £11billion foreign aid budget to the floods crisis.
As thousands are driven from their homes, there is growing anger that Britain is spending billions on foreign development projects, and so little on flood relief at home.
Last night Mark Kirby, his wife Kate and their three children, from the devastated Somerset village of Moorland, said simply suspending aid for a brief period could raise enough money for UK families.
Mrs Kirby, 44, a teaching assistant, said: ‘We have always given to good causes when we could afford it but now we and other people who have been flooded out need help.’
The petition, which will be presented to the Prime Minister, says: ‘I strongly urge you to divert some of the £11billion being spent on overseas aid this year to ease the suffering of British flood victims and to build and maintain flood defences to prevent a repetition of the current crisis.’
Last night Conservative MP Ian Liddell-Grainger, whose Bridgwater constituency has been devastated, said: ‘We could do a lot of good work with not very much money here.
‘We need the money now to repair this – if we can sort the system out, dredge the rivers, we won’t need it again. So many millions of pounds of our foreign aid budget are just wasted.
‘At the moment we really are up against it down here. Well done the Mail for raising this issue.’
Philip Hollobone, MP for Kettering, added: ‘Charity begins at home. There’s a real emergency. The overwhelming majority of my constituents would like to see this money spent on alleviating the misery of the people in the West Country.’
On another dramatic day:
- Parts of the Thames Valley were declared a ‘major incident’ by police as hundreds fled their homes;
- The disruption is expected to last for months with thousands more homes still at risk from ‘extreme weather’ as ministers argued at Westminster over who was to blame for the crisis;
- A councillor in Wraysbury, Berkshire, claimed there had been looting from abandoned houses and called for military help to deter further crimes;
- The Queen’s trusted housekeeper at Windsor Castle had to be evacuated from her cottage as the floods engulfed the royal gardens;
- Experts say the equivalent of almost 300 Lake Windermeres’ worth of water has fallen on Britain since the storms began;
- It emerged the Thames Barrier has closed 29 times in the past six weeks – almost as many times as in the whole of the 1990s.
David Cameron, visiting flood-struck Dorset yesterday, has rejected calls to raid the overseas aid budget.
