On 11/07/2012 19:34, Baz wrote:
Martin Brown wrote in
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The LSE assessment of the state of the "Gentlemens' Agreement" on
flood insurance in the UK is even more scathing in its assessment. The
government has actually been cutting its spending on flood defences.

Those of us not in serious flood zones will benefit from the removal
of the insurance cross subsidy to seriously at risk homes. People
living in flood prone areas will have to pay a lot more to stay
insured.


Well, not so in my case. I will never get "stitched up" . Erm, unless I
have had surgery, then I will insist upon it.
How many times does one person have to say I DO NOT LIVE IN A FLOOD ZONE.

Perhaps not according to the official maps today, but they will be
updated to reflect newer observations like flooded twice this year.

It is the blah blah....who are responsible....blah blah blah.

Good luck proving that. It is notoriously difficult to prove negligence.
I expect the water board will point to the unusually wet summer, all the
cancelled national events and claim "Act of God".

They may also point to most of your neighbours contributory negligence
paving the entire of their front garden to park cars on leading to much
more rapid ingress of water into their drains and causing the flash
flooding. I am assuming here as a gardener that you have not paved your
front garden over in its entirety.

If you want to see how David v Goliath typically goes in the courts look
no further than the recent surface to air missiles in London.

Bloody hell, the London School of Economics........"Gentlemens' Agreement",
nothing will surprise me.
I am happy with what has gone on today, and if my solicitor is wrong then
we will just have to go along with it and then chase him up too. We will

Good luck finding a solicitor to sue another one. Been there done that.

not lose any sleep until the writing is on the wall. So many scares in the
past when we DID lose sleep about the mortgage, our jobs, schooling, our
medical care etc. etc. etc.
Oh! and by the way thanks for the advice. I mean it and I will first thing
tomorrow clarify this, if I can.

One thing that the odious Steerpike has got right is you must get
everything in writing and keep contemporaneous notes of who said what
and when with date and time of every phone call and who you spoke to.

That way you will at least stand some chance of success in future.

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Regards,
Martin Brown