divert foreign aid to flood-hit British families

We shouldn't have to rely on fundraising by charities for help - that's what we pay our taxes for.

Nobody is saying that those flooded shouldn't be helped - quite the opposite in fact - but to take the money from other folk whose life experiences none of us will experience or could imagine lessens us as human beings

I was quite badly traumatised by the 1953 floods although I did not realise it until where I worked was flooded in 2000 in Lewes.
There will be many children uprooted by these events but I don't see any of the UK charities fund raising to help them.

I won't be signing either.

The concept is ridiculous. Why do people assume that the government, for all its faults (and they are legion) can just swap money from place to place? It is almost childish in its naïveté. It's not a household budget!

Certainly the government must get its house in order; certainly it must find money to restore people's lives and livelihoods, but not, even if it were possible, at the expense of others.

And, while I have the utmost sympathy for those in flooded areas, and agree that their needs are great, few of them thank goodness, are dying from water borne diseases, or are starving, or will die before that are in their forties etc. etc. there are emergency services and NGOs ready and able to help; there are medical services available. It is impossible to equate what, for us, is a disaster, with the many, many worse situations around the world.

No ninny I won't be signing.

If money can be found for wars and billions wasted on failed NHS computer systems, there should be no need to raid the Overseas Aid budget.

Nasty little campaign.

How can one newspaper print a story like this one and then print crap like that!

There is no comparison in the plights of well to do families who chose to buy properties on flood plains, and people living like this

And they are not called the Somerset LEVELS for nothing.

Oh yes. Go ahead and sign the petition. You all will.

NO! Far too simplistic, there is a lot of nonsense being talked about the weather/flood defences at the moment, both by some of the media and politicians. You certainly can't accuse them of being too cerebral quite the opposite in fact.

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