A single Chinook dropping sandbags while enthusiastic, but largely clueless, squaddies take the poor saps on boat rides through the streets as their properties and livelihoods are destroyed around them. This tells you everything you need to know about this Government's response to the devastating annual floods and how much action has gone in to countering the threat. Never mind all this North versus South bollocks, this is the epitome of Civil preparedness at its absolute worst.