British Prime Minister David Cameron was on Monday heckled by the victims of devastating floods during a visit to the worst-hit historic city of York in the UK.
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In 2014 the government was fiercely criticized after flooding in the country’s south. And as politicians begin returning from their Christmas breaks, the torrent of criticism was expected to return.
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The rain have been non-stop during the holidays which has caused rivers to overflow and waters to overwhelm the ground in Northern England, Wales and Scotland.
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About 3,500 properties in York were at risk of flooding and special shelters had been set up for residents fleeing their homes, the AFP news agency reported. 7,500 homes lost power in most parts of Lancashire and Manchester but workers are putting more effort in an attempt to restore power in such areas.
On Sunday, Mr. Cameron’s office said 200 military personnel were being deployed to flood-affected areas, alongside the 300 already there, with a further 1,000 being held in reserve in case the situation worsened. He called the rising waters “unprecedented” and promised a full review of contingency plans in the coming weeks.
“I think with any of these events we have to look at what we are planning to spend and think: Do we need to do more?”
The government was under pressure on Monday to review the quality of Britain’s flood defences.
This was supported by Environment Secretary Liz Truss who confirmed: “In Lancashire every single river was at a record-high and in Yorkshire we have seen some rivers a metre higher than they have ever been before”.
Speaking at the sandbag depot, Mr Cameron said: “We are spending more in this parliament than the last one and in the last parliament we spent more than the one before that”.
“Let’s have a look and see whether more needs to be done and whether the flood defenses need to be made even higher than they are already”, he told Sky News.
A thousand homes have flooded in Leeds, but the leader of the city council, Judith Blake, said the flooding had been a “preventable disaster”.
Rivers across northern England have burst their banks, hitting the cities of Leeds and Manchester as well as nearby towns and villages.
A picturesque 200-year-old pub, The Waterside, in the Greater Manchester area, collapsed and part of the structure was swept away by the River Irwell.
The Environment Agency urged residents to remain vigilant because more “severe” flooding was expected to continue today.
The agency used its Twitter feed to beg people to be cautious, tweeting that driving or walking in flowing flood waters could be life-threatening.
“When you say more than $2 billion, most of that is what the insurance companies will have to pay out”.
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“And we urgently need the government to adopt the policies that will ensure we play our part in restricting climate change to a total of 1.5 degrees warming”.
