Floods are natural disasters. Britain is a member of the European Union.
It is entitled to claim from this fund.
However Mr Cameron has decided not to ask for any help. (Fair warning: This link is from the Daily Express, a UKIP newspaper, and the article is fiercely anti-Europe.)
I'm pretty sure Scottish taxpayers flooded out of their homes, and the Scottish government, on a limited and fixed budget, would appreciate any help from Brussels that could be made available. However, as Scotland is not a member state, the Scottish government cannot apply for this money.
Given that the Tories appeared to laugh at the plight of flooded families at today's PMQs, it is understandable that they wouldn't want to be bothered applying, but the Scottish government does care, so perhaps someone in London could give us permission to ask for help to dry out our people?
This is not the first time that Britain has refused help from the EU (which it then whines costs the country a fortune). £22 million was set aside by the EU for Britain, to help feed people who were in extreme poverty.
I'm sure that beneficiaries and benefactors of food banks alike would have welcomed the EU taking some of the strain.
But it was declined by the Tories who though it was better for the British government to deal with poverty! Presumably they deal with it by leaving it to charities and having a laugh about hungry kids.
All this from a country (with 1 million plus people using food banks) which insists on giving foreign aid to countries which don't need it, despite, in some cases, that country begging the UK NOT to give them money.
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