How a sensible revision of flood policy was sabotaged | Simon Jenkins

The government is chaotic. It has resorted to a blame game, and allowed Somerset farmers to write the story

Where is God when He is needed? In the old days, floods were called "acts of God". He has now been supplanted by Lord Smith, the environment agency, the Treasury, Owen Paterson, the National Farmers Union (NFU) and global warming.

The current floods have shown British government at its worst, reaching a nadir yesterday in an "apology" slung in the face of the Environment Agency (EA) by th...