Your argument is again one of use taxation to pay, this means either taking money away from struggling state run services or worse still, increase taxation yet again, this is a common theme with many arguments, and the easy option, but I am sure if you thought about it you could come up with something a bit more imaginative?

So let’s assume we use taxation to pay for it, but what happens when middle England gets fed up we being squeezed till the pips squeak? There has already been a report out by STEP (I think it was them) that middle England is rebelling, albeit through taking a bit here and there when completing insurance claims, but hey it has started.

For once I don’t propose taxation is used (well not as a whole), I propose those responsible, i.e. the builders, as a collective not individually, be made to make a 65-75% contribution to the pot with the rest made up from central government coffers (I know I said not to use taxation but hey it always gets used at some point).

For once can’t those who supposedly run this crumbling country actually have to B@*LS to make those responsible pay, and that is not those poor soles who have bought the houses, on which they can now no doubt get insurance, which will heap more misery on them in the future!

If the builders pay will they increase prices on future houses? Well as we are seeing in many parts of the country with prices at the height they are I doubt there is room for them to make the buying public pay more, but just maybe in future builders can be forced to be more socially aware!

So who pays for past errors Jason? Your logic does not answer that question.

If its the government, how do they do this but by taxation? If not them, then who?

I can’t sqaure your argument

Richard

Firstly floods are not the result of global warming, but the increased rainfall may very well be according to latest thinking.

The floods are in fact the result of building on flood plains and other once open land. And it is successive governments that have allowed this, so why should the tax payer yet again be faced with the burden?

All future builders should be made to pay towards flood defenses, together with paying towards building more dams to catch rainfall (this will help with water shortages), this together with paying for increased drainage to cope with land being built on. For too many years builders have got away with it, they have got away with not being held liable for the infrastructure their buildings put a strain on, maybe its time they were held accountable and made to pay, and not the poor tax payer or home owner!