I'm back! Interneted up and ready to go...

To start with, here's my controversial take on the floods:

It rained a lot.

And, er...is there anything else to say?

I'd love to launch a scathing attack on Baroness Young and the Environment Agency. She seems to represent everything there is to loathe about the Labour nomenklatura. Useless and ever present.

But I really can't see how even if the agency had had the greatest manager and deliverer in the history or management and delivery, it would have made the least difference to rain on such a scale. Baroness Young may be useless. But, in this instance, so what?