FURIOUS Voters SLAM Labour MP's SHOCKING Flood Comments!

With a major incident declared in South Wales due to flooding, the local Labour MP decides charity rather than government should step up.
Right, so when disaster strikes, that is the time for a government to rise to the occasion, the time for MPs to stand up for their communities and demand the government of the day, especially when that is their own party to help their constituents in their time of greatest need. Not if you are Rhondda MP Chris Bryant though. After Storm Bert rolled through South Wales, including Bryant’s Rhondda Valley patch, a major incident has been declared across Rhondda Cynon Taf, it was Bryant’s time to shine, time to go to government and demand their help for his flood stricken communities, that is what any normal MP would be demanding.
Not Bryant it seems. He’s taken to social media to announce that he has set up a Go Fund Me to help flood victims, apparently choosing the way of charity, rather than the government supporting their own people in a time of greatest need is his preference, but even that doesn’t appear to be true, so what does Bryant think he’s playing at and what exactly has he done? Is this all a stunt for some brownie points or a total dereliction of duty because people who voted for him need help now.
Right, so across South Wales in the wake of Storm Bert, there has been absolute devastation left behind. It is an area prone to being hit with flooding, between 200 and 300 properties it has been reported have been flooded, both residential and commercial and so as we’ve witnessed year on year in news reports covering such incidents, we see cars underwater, residents and business owners dealing with the aftermath, with one business owner interviewed by Wales Online saying it was like a scene from Titanic. Another article covering the floods from the same outlet described schools being shut, bridges shut and that there had even been a landslide. When compared to the last major storm flood to hit the area back in 2019 courtesy of Storm Dennis, this has been described as worse.
So where is the government then first of all, they are responsible for flood management, it falls under the remit of DEFRA, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Minister for which is Steve Reed and under him within the department is a bespoke Floods Minister, who these days is the MP for Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice, Emma Hardy, not that you’d know it, she is completely invisible it seems on such matters. However, here’s what Reed had to say about the floods in a piece of footage released by DEFRA themselves just yesterday:
Ah so a quick opportunity to acknowledge the devastation, express sympathy, put the boot into the Tories and remind people that Labour are putting £2.4bn into flood defences because of the state the Tories left them in.
That £2.4bn is a two year investment, so £1.2bn a year for arguments sake, which is an increase on the Tories 6 year plan with a budget of £5.2bn which they announced back in 2020, around £800m a year, so it is an increase, a slight one. Putting money in is all well and good, but where it gets used, who benefits from it when numerous parts of the country are prone to flooding, is the bigger question – all of this money appears to be in the pot for flood defences, but floods ruin lives, so where is the assistance for that?

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