Cameron - Money No Object Re Floods

[Zacs-Master]

I do hope he means for prevention schemes and not for Mrs Miggins to have her carpets renewed otherwise I shall be very very cross.

[mikey4444]

Nero ?

[giveup]

Agree wholeheartedly with Canary42, but who is Mrs Miggins?

[giveup]

Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

[ChillDoubt]

Thanks giveup.

Really didn't think I'd have to have that one explained......

[giveup]

mikey4444 questioned it ChillDoubt.

[ChillDoubt]

I know, I wasn't being facetious! LOL

[giveup]

I thought "fiddled" was rather appropriate anyway.

[Zacs-Master]

I can't wait for the repercussions of this hopefully, off the cuff, statement. Unbelievable.

[fbg40]

Zacs master
Your comment posted at 1714 - I only hope that you are never in the same dire straits at these people. Is it the "Put out the fire Jack, my toast is done" attitude ?
FBG40

[emmie]

giveup, no he didn't. sorry,.

[pastafreak]

I don't know how true this is,but someone told me that London is due to get more spent on it because more people are affected.
Is this so...*are* more affected? So the folk in Somerset,Cornwall,Devon are nonentities?

[Zacs-Master]

fbg, I would refer you to my OP. I have every sympathy with the victims, except those who want my tax to pay for their new carpets, where insurance should be forking-out.

[sandyRoe]

Are they having a rethink on this, 'money no object' promise? Radio 4 this morning seemed to suggest that.

[bazwillrun]

It never seems to be a problem to find millions upon millions to throw at overeas problems and thats without the "foreign aid budget "

make a nice change to put us first

[ludwig]

I suspect the 'money no object' promise is a way of heading off the argument that we should be spending the foreign aid budget to sort this out.

[aelmpvw]

money no object? does that mean people denied life saving drugs will now get them?

[jno]

only if they have to be delivered by boat, aelmpvw

[giveup]

On the news this morning the words "no blank cheques" was mentioned. I think they are having second thoughts. Time will tell.

[Zacs-Master]

Judging from the majority of posts, it's clear that there needs to be some quantifying of DC's comment. I think he said it to get everyone off his back and as a possible vote winner (election next yr let's not forget) but didn't think it thru and could have the opposite effect, on both counts.

[ludwig]

Money's no object but there'll be no blank cheques. That's clear then.