What reasons have been given for not helping the thousands left homeless by flooding?

Question

In addition to this year's hundreds, several thousand were left homeless (now living in caravans or families' houses) after the floods which hit Britain every summer. Most were not living on floodplains; the rainfall was the heaviest for 60 years last year, and is this year so torrential that barriers are being broken, while flood absorbent land is used for supermarkets and housing.

What reasons have the government given for not helping them, when it would cost only a few thousand pounds, at a time they are dispensing millions abroad and spending billions on bombing people?

Answer 1

They assume the insurance companies will actually pay out, which is fallacy really.  Insurance companies exist to make money which means not paying out if theres any possible way the avoid it.  Which is what the Insurance Companies have been doing to the flood victims.

Answer 2

Total incompetence by the government and their pals the insurance companies, simple as that.

Answer 3

Insurance companies own the world,  and the governments therein.

In the US they are still witholding payment for Hurricane Katrina.

That was in 05.  Government do what they can and mess that up too.

but a few thousand pounds, or dollars here, aren't going to help that.

Not building on swamp will, but the greedy developers don't care and local governments look the other way.

The more we go out of our way to change Mother Nature the worse she treats us.

Levees fail, sea levels rise, and no one says "Enough".

Answer 4

Scared they'll  be flooded with claims?

Short-sighted thinking...

cos if they got their thinking right re: affordable new homes,

they could build safely on flood plains,

plus the new water / weather proof homes

could also help all the homeless -

models could be sold to other governments...

thus SAVING tax-payers precious money

and lives, improving the quality of life - ending untold misery

experienced every year by 1,000's of Human Beings.

Answer 5

They expect us all to have adequate house insurance. When my business was flooded we claimed off our insurance, we didn't expect the goverment (tax payers money) to help.

Answer 6

Fecking good question, can they really have a reason? Maybe someone ought to ask them.