I don't really get this one
the ABI were banging on about working with the government to ensure that everyone can get flood insurance. Why? if you're daft enough to buy a house on a flood plain, or not check that you can insure it before you do buy it, why should the rest of us stump up so you can replace your sofa every 6 months? Isn't it a bit like saying "it's every 17 year old boy's right to be able to cheaply insure a Porsche" ?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:47, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

^ this
cf living under the flight path of an airport and then crying about the noise, having paid fuck all for your house for that very reason, as if it was some kind of fucking surprise to you.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:49, Reply)

yeah, I don't understand that either
but I have to keep quiet about it in case I start to become a tiny bit Tory.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:50, Reply)

EMBRACE YOUR LATENT NAZISM
It's so liberating.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:54, Reply)

Or buying a house next to a cricket pitch that has been there since 1853
and complaining when cricket balls rain into your garden all summer*

*Not while I'm batting, obviously.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 26 Nov 2012, 11:36, Reply)

I think it's to do with the fact that if that was the case, tens of thousands of people would have to move house
and a number of villages and towns would have to be moved up a hill.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:51, Reply)

I don't believe anyone's refusing to insure homes that have been flooded this time
or occasionally, or even a couple of times in the last couple of years

It's the "everyone should have it including idiots that bought on bogland that's underwater 3 months out of 12" that annoys me.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:54, Reply)

The real problem here is that developers are allowed to build houses
on said bogland.
( Kroney, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:57, Reply)

Well,
Yes, but you still bought it didn't you, and should have done the research. I bought a house in a flood risk area, (admittedly my house hasn't flooded in 30 odd years, but we are very close to the river) and so got specialist insurance. It's not a whole lot more if you shop around a bit. People need to take responsibility for what they choose to do/buy or where they live.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 26 Nov 2012, 11:00, Reply)

I do agree
I just think a lot of this, including the insurance business, would be unnecessary if developers were only allowed to build on sites that weren't liable to require a boat.
( Kroney, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 11:02, Reply)

true.
There was much hilarity a few years ago when a new hotel was built on the flood plane near me, and they had made great promises about storm drains, and run off and redirecting the water. That winter, about 150 houses got fucked when the water went round the hotel and flooded all the local streets. Oh the fun they had.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 26 Nov 2012, 11:07, Reply)

They built a shopping centre in Winchester in the late 80s, which fucked up the water table so much
the 900 year old cathedral nearly fell down.

It's so ugly half the units in it are vacant.

GOOD ONE GUYS!!!!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 11:38, Reply)

Like the Dutch?

(PsychoChomp, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:58, Reply)

Your man is entirely made of straw.

( Kroney, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:59, Reply)

he's a bit wet, though. Probably won't light.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 11:00, Reply)

The Dutch seem to be remarkable adept at not redecorating the ground floors of their houses using sewage
So it's not really a reasonable comparison.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 11:00, Reply)