Eric Pickles and the Floods

Eric Pickles appears to be doing what Eric Pickles does: undermining people doing hard work to cover up his own failings.  This time it is flooding, but he has essentially the same approach to everything: present some simplistic (non) solution, ignore your own undermining of services through funding cuts, and cast blame on whichever convenient scapegoat you can find.  All this with the standard Pickles mendacity.  I am glad that at least in this case his callous indifference to the people suffering from the floods has set off a counter reaction.