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Dreadful Fire in London tower block!
Dreadful Fire in London tower block!
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you do wonder who advises her
the tory lot are so far apart from these sort of residents they won't have voted for them anyway barwell or whatever his name is, walked straight past the cameras - hasn't got the guts to face the music - and he was housing minister previously they make me puke ps can kicked down the road - you just watch |
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It's the way it works, if anybody was directly responsible for anything they wouldn't do the jobs.
We've seen how council officials turned a blind eye to the child abuse issue. The same with the BBC over Savile. The care home scandals for another. No one is accountable on the public sector payroll. They should call public sector workers ''the untouchables.'' |
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Do you think this will be a game changer Dr C.
I'm not a Royalist, but the Queen has been brilliant throughout her reign. What a woman. |
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As was her mother
https://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t-903&p=queen+mother+in+blitz#id=1&vid=85c2ed7fbedd101f6afe91919a7d3c04&action=click |
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Yes I do boxingthefox.
I think the only thing to do about those with single stairs is to knock them down. The cladding is a major issue as well. I don't like the idea of that at all. |
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I am not a Royalist either but I like the Queen, Top Bird imho!
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Again Polotics of envy. I see people banging on about greedy landlords. I'm a landlord, the property I rent is in top condition. Before my tenant went in it was decorated top to toe, new carpets throughout. New oven and hob. Washing machine provide with a service agreement. As the girl didn't have much I left her to fairly new leather sofas, a wardrobe that cost me £900. My first tax year I was told I could write of the paint ! Now personally I wouldn't do anything different but sadly there are some landlords out there who don't do fu ck all. Usually the ones with loads of properties
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Top bird.............not often one hears the monarch being referred to as that
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it will be in the interest of london landlords not to increase their costs
is it a coincidence that the 2008 review was sat on and not published? and there would not be a conflict of interests in parliament either - would there? however - think about who are landlords??? Dare I say more? |
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https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/jan/14/mp-landlords-number-risen-quarter-last-parliament-housing-bill
strangely enough it was lily allen who made the comment last night about a certain party that had a lot of landlords!!! and she even said she had to be careful what she said ALLEGEDLY!!! |
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yes an awful lot of tory MP"s
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OOOOPS!!!! Prepare for the knock on the door.
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a small snippet from the above article
The government was further criticised this week when Conservative MPs threw out a Labour amendment to the housing and planning bill designed to ensure all rented accommodation is safe for people to live in. |
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its no secret surely
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look at the SNP landlords!!!
and the party of the people LABOUR!!! |
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Conservative MPs threw out a Labour amendment to the housing and planning bill designed to ensure all rented accommodation is safe for people to live in.
The legislation already exists that's why they threw it out. As we've seen, it's enforcing it that's lacking. If a council if found guilty of renting out dangerous properties as was the case here. Are we going to stop them from renting out properties? |
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theresa may pushed into going to hospital to see injured is there a more false person then her she is clueless
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Unbelievable
May gets dropped directly outside the chosen hospital that has 8 people in, 6 of which are in a coma. Runs in and runs out. What a specimen. Tactically managed politics front and centre |
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It's almost as if someone is deliberately trying to make her look bad!
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Lily Allen clearly upset and speaking out, because diffusing anger by drip feeding information is frustrating and pretty patronising, when it is without question a much higher number of dead, she said could even be 150.
"It's giving people false hope and denying them the chance to start the grieving process. I'd say it's really psychologically damaging." To smear her for caring is actually quite depressing, total respect for her. |
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That could very well be a factor, but if you look at the way she 'ran' the home office with a small circle of 'trusted advisers' and continued this in Government, then I have to conclude this is her modus operand, and she should be replaced asap. Clueless and out of her depth.
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^^@ Whisperingdeath
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may out boris in could be the plan Whispering, he"s a real yes man to anything the yanks want
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there is a lovely list of 71 tory mps
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Boris being shown up for the boorish buffoon that he is. This won't be forgotten anytime soon.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3811359/boris-johnson-slammed-over-footage-of-him-shooting-down-labour-rival-who-quizzed-him-on-fire-service-cuts/ |
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a horrible joke is boris
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dustybin 16 Jun 17 12:46
Unbelievable May gets dropped directly outside the chosen hospital that has 8 people in, 6 of which are in a coma. Runs in and runs out. What a specimen. Tactically managed politics front and centre Purely conicidenatl,she only stopped off for a p1ss... Like most of these tory MPS completely soul less,cold individuals completely out of touch with reality and no understanding of ordinary people,fortunately most people are not like them.... |
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dustybin 16 Jun 17 12:46
Unbelievable May gets dropped directly outside the chosen hospital that has 8 people in, 6 of which are in a coma. Runs in and runs out. What a specimen. Tactically managed politics front and centre Purely conicidenatl,she only stopped off for a p1ss... Like most of these tory MPS completely soul less,cold individuals completely out of touch with reality and no understanding of ordinary people,fortunately most people are not like them.... |
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boris would never never be voted in as prime minister by public hes a CLOWN
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Im amazed May didnt opt go to the morgue instead, shes clearly s hitting it and wants to limit exposure to real people.
No cameras inside the hospital and all choreographed to limit confrontation. Nobody would even have known she went if there wasnt a fast shutter camera outside, she was inside 45mins and by the time she left word obv got around and people started arriving, but she darted straight for the car that couldnt physically have been parked closer to the exit. |
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that barweell bloke was far worse than may when sky camera,s tried to get a comment of him this morning,wouldnt be surprised if he tops himself if what he knows in the report is dynamite,
if the councils are like this with public buildings imagine the regulations getting bent,avoided in the private sector housing stock especially in the big cities,even those dwellings which have safety regs they wont be covering the over occupancy ,rubbish piled up everywehere etc,firebombs waiting to go off |
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this staying in your flat rule till help arrives seems madness,if you can safely make the fire stairs which should be safe from fire ,what sort of loon advises people to stay put,talking about in general not just this case ,where it seems the fire stairs were no such thing
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Standard advice from Local authorities 1st time. the reasoning is the 1/2 hour fire door will keep you safe, until the fire is dealt with, we now know how moronic that advice is.
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so in effect the safety fire escapes stair are only built for 1 flat in every high rise,everyone else told to stay put except the flat where the fire starts,a chip pan goes up you phone the fire brigade on the way to the stairs but no point warning the rest of the block bec,knocking on doors because they,ve all been advised to stay put,must be the worst advice ever issued to anyone ever
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All that advice worked well until they wrapped a wick round the outside, which rather changed the game. The advice needed changing, but that would have meant acknowledging the risk.
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didn't work well in cambelwell wherever in 2009, your all in on the firebrigade getting there and sorting the fire out in 20 mins,as no one can predict the type of fire till it happens your gambling your life on the toss of a coin
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is this the same insulation they are putting on normal houses as well.
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woman just been on the BBC (dont know what capacity she was speaking from) but she suggested the £10million in effect was badly spent and could have included a sprinkler system and was asking the question whether there was a case of profiteering.
You know where this is going, somebody will get dug out for charging extreme amounts for nothing. |
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does anyone actually think anyone is going to be brought to book over this
and how can they if the regs have sort of been followed because one or two say they have or will they catch out one person at the bottom of the chain who was told to sign off on building checks the ones who have sat on the reports/reviews are one lot to lock up but then how about the councils that have been warned previously one councillor was branded a trouble maker for continuously bringing it up on behalf of her constituents |
