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1 hour ago, Al666 said:

Just that the reason for the "Tory Au8sterity" that the left keep banging on about is the total and utter f**k up that Labour made of the economy during the Blair Brown years.

Oh, and remind me again how many millions of pounds your beloved Tories gave Big Liz to renovate her central London digs not 8 months ago? Austerity my arse.

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4 hours ago, Jacksgranda said:

A "competent and experienced" contractor should have pointed out the inadequacy of the proposed cladding. Whether he should have then installed what was proposed would be between his conscience and his bank balance, unfortunately.

No doubt but those seeking and taking public office are supposed to protect the public from morally bankrupt individuals. 

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Fire breaks out at high-rise flats in Glasgow

Fifteen people had to evacuate their homes after a fire broke out at high-rise flats in Glasgow.

Emergency crews were called to the 24-storey Cheviot Court building in Knightswood at about 05:50.

One man was treated for concussion at the scene but did not require hospital treatment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-40315393

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3 hours ago, Zen Archer said:

Fire breaks out at high-rise flats in Glasgow

Fifteen people had to evacuate their homes after a fire broke out at high-rise flats in Glasgow.

Emergency crews were called to the 24-storey Cheviot Court building in Knightswood at about 05:50.

One man was treated for concussion at the scene but did not require hospital treatment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-40315393

It's scary how these things can happen with just the wrong set of circumstances.

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On 6/14/2017 at 12:18, williemillersmoustache said:

Quite, anything to kick the can down the road. Despicable

Wonder if this has any bearing on today:

Full list of landlord Tory MPs who voted against making properties 'fit for human habitation'

A proper who's who of who's a b*****d that list. 

Just to expand on that list of landlord MP's, here is the full list of MP's who voted. Scroll down.

Every single member*  of the current Cabinet voted against forcing landlords to ensure that properties

they rent out are fit for human habitiation.         *bar Liam Fox, not present (?)

https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmhansrd/cm160112/debtext/160112-0003.htm

That is...

Theresa May, Damian Green, Philip Hammond, Amber Rudd, Boris Johnson, David Davis, Michael Fallon, Jeremy Hunt, David Mundell, Alun Cairns, James Brokenshire,

Pritti Patel, Karen Bradley, David Gauke, Patrick McLoughlun, David Lidington, Justine Greening, Greg Clark, Michael Gove, Chris Grayling, 

 

 

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9 hours ago, dorlomin said:

She was home secretary for 6 years. She will have attended many training sessions for incidents like this, she will have been involved in the planning for them. This is her bread and butter. Yet the site of the relief operation was chaos for days and mostly dependent on volunteers. She could have been onsite early on then hauled the council head to the site with a phonecall to get him cracking at organizing the relief and been making it blindingly clear that if something was needed she would bulldoze the obstacles. 

 

This should have remade her reputation.

Her looking like an out of touch tourist seeking to do the minimum to mollify the press has instead been the breaking of it. 

She is a career politician. Doesn't make her stand out from the other 317 Tory MP's (or indeed the rest of Parliament). Yes, she's inept as Prime Minister, but given the damage limitation that had to be done after the Brexit referendum she was the only choice for leader as far as her party was concerned. And of course her days as Prime Minister are numbered, and she won't be remembered fondly.  

Absolutely no sympathy for her, but she's just the current incumbent, towing the party line. Anything to cling to power (D.U.P.) and anything to save and accumulate money. 

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9 minutes ago, oldbitterandgrumpy said:

She is a career politician. Doesn't make her stand out from the other 317 Tory MP's (or indeed the rest of Parliament). Yes, she's inept as Prime Minister, but given the damage limitation that had to be done after the Brexit referendum she was the only choice for leader as far as her party was concerned. And of course her days as Prime Minister are numbered, and she won't be remembered fondly.  

Absolutely no sympathy for her, but she's just the current incumbent, towing the party line. Anything to cling to power (D.U.P.) and anything to save and accumulate money. 

Glass cliff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff

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16 hours ago, Al666 said:

Just that the reason for the "Tory Au8sterity" that the left keep banging on about is the total and utter f**k up that Labour made of the economy during the Blair Brown years.

Better than being an utter c**t who try s to make political capital out of a tragedy.

And they're dealing with it, they are not however responsible for it, no matter how hard the snowflakes and sjw's try and claim that they are.

Not only are you a horrendous human being who constantly spouts Olympian levels of absolute shite on Pie & Bovril, your avatar is absolutely bollocks as well.

In short, f**k up.

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10 hours ago, beefybake said:

Theresa May, Damian Green, Philip Hammond, Amber Rudd, Boris Johnson, David Davis, Michael Fallon, Jeremy Hunt, David Mundell, Alun Cairns, James Brokenshire,

Pritti Patel, Karen Bradley, David Gauke, Patrick McLoughlun, David Lidington, Justine Greening, Greg Clark, Michael Gove, Chris Grayling, 

These people have blood on their hands.

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Interestingly Hammond told Marr that those cladding tiles were banned in the UK as well a saying he hadn't voted on the amendment.

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24 minutes ago, ayrmad said:

Interestingly Hammond told Marr that those cladding tiles were banned in the UK as well a saying he hadn't voted on the amendment.

Really?

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7 hours ago, ayrmad said:

Interestingly Hammond told Marr that those cladding tiles were banned in the UK as well a saying he hadn't voted on the amendment.

He is wrong.  Flammable materials are banned above 18m.  In any logical sense this was a flammable material, but under British standards (and other countries too!) it was an 'inflammable material' and hence allowed to be used.

See this for an explanation http://www.impact-solutions.co.uk/pe-cladding-and-fire-ratings-what-does-it-all-mean/

 

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