{"id":9494,"date":"2007-07-23T11:55:43","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T17:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9494"},"modified":"2007-07-23T11:55:43","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T17:55:43","slug":"gordon-brown-to-irish-accept-more-rain-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9494","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Brown to Irish: Accept More Rain [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Thousands of people in Britain were left stranded in villages and towns Monday during the worst flooding in 60 years, which Prime Minister Gordon Brown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=070723152859.ryzjm23g&amp;show_article=1&amp;cat=0\">linked to climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Swathes of central and western England were submerged as rivers swelled and burst their banks during four days of heavy rain, leaving thousands without clean water or electricity and facing the prospect of more rain.<\/p>\n<p>The largely rural counties of Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Oxfordshire were the worst hit, forcing Royal Air Force (RAF) helicopters to evacuate around 150 people in the RAF&#8217;s biggest-ever peacetime rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after a helicopter visit to the area, Brown linked the floods to climate change and pledged 200 million pounds (298 million euros, 411 million dollars) extra funding, plus a review to address future issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like every advanced industrialised country, we are coming to terms with the issues surrounding climate change,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Traditionally, Brown added, Ireland absorbed much of the rain that is now affecting the English countryside, but with a burgeoning economy &#8220;they are apparently less likely to accept rotten weather as a fatalistic matter of course,&#8221; and are instead &#8220;deflecting unwonted quantities of rain to England.&#8221;\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 He accused them of having become a &#8220;race of mollycoddled shirkers&#8221; with &#8220;no sense of responsibility to the European community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brown appealed to Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern, who succinctly replied, &#8220;Bollocks,&#8221; and ordered another pint, heightening tensions between the two island nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0(Cross-posted from Bloody Scott)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people in Britain were left stranded in villages and towns Monday during the worst flooding in 60 years, which Prime Minister Gordon Brown linked to climate change. Swathes of central and western England were submerged as rivers swelled and burst their banks during four days of heavy rain, leaving thousands without clean water or electricity and facing the prospect of more rain. The largely rural counties of Gloucestershire,<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9494\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}