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Top City Homo posted:so when is THeresa May going to start a war to maek all this go away? have you not been paying attention to her efforts in northern ireland?
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Vermain posted:anyways the landlords should be imprisoned for life and have all of their assets seized and disbursed Problem is most large scale properties are owned by a huge number of stakeholders and an even huger number of financial products will have assets directly or indirectly linked to the performance/projected earnings of the property, and the same will be true of the management company. It's not like there's one sleazy guy rolling in his money pile and sneering at the poors, although don't get me wrong there might well be a few particular CEO and figurehead types that fit that bill, a not insignificant slice of the entire capitalist class will have had a financial stake in the circumstances of this and similar properties but will also have a shitload of protections keeping them from any legal culpability for it. Justice here is impossible, the best that can be hoped for is a systemic change focusing on people as people instead of people as profit extraction units, but honestly that ain't likely as the afformentioned capitalists have more social and political clout than you or I could ever dream of.
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Condiv posted:also, i hope you guys enjoy the troubles 2: dupple trouble The ultimate example of Holywood remakes that nobody wanted.
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quote:Yet in London these disasters seem to affect only social housing towers: the collapse of Ronan Point in 1968, the fires at Lakanal House in 2009, Shepherds Court last year and Grenfell House this week. Clearly cost has something to do with it, but the irony is that it seems this latest tragedy was exacerbated by spending. The block had just undergone an £8.7m refit — but to what end? The cladding that is now under such scrutiny was fitted partly to improve insulation but also to encase the concrete façade in a smooth simulacrum of the commercial private towers rising across the city. The dangers of flammable cladding materials and the cavities behind them in which fire can spread unseen have been known for years. These cheap and nasty, and perhaps even lethal, panels represent an attempt to screen the original nature of the architecture of modernist social housing.
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a substantial number of tory mp's are landlords which is why they consistently vote against such things as forcing all landlords ot make their properties livable
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gently caress. Even the ft are going after them? Call another election to let the absolute boy in, Teresa. It's the only way to end the pain.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The Troubles 2: Contrived Sequel Joke
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:It will be fought with memes Me n da boys are crossin the peace line tonoight ta paint Union Jack Pepes all over the fookin Sinn Fein murals
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Pinching from UKMT:goddamnedtwisto posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/15/experts-warned-government-against-cladding-material-used-on-grenfell Whimsicalfuckery posted:May isn't going back to the site of the disaster, she's going to the hospital to meet victims who hopefully are unconscious and won't be able to ask any difficult questions.
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"Strong and stable" as the PM hides from the public after 100+ burn to death in a tower. Which by the way, is a disaster that strikes right at the center of the UK's housing crisis, and is an outcome of the same forces (and the same people) which created it.
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Was having a look around twitter and found several Tory supporters (The pro-brexit/anti-UKIP, "not racist" but need to do something sensible about immigration types) are very anti Sky News because they think it has a pro-labour and even pro-Corbyn bias which confused the hell out of me. Is this a thing? Has it ever been a thing? I mean obviously always plenty of complaints about Sky having a right/tory bias, hadn't seen this before though. Edit: Possibly because they're not as overtly anti-everything/all Muslims are terrorists as right wing print? Also guardian posted:Jeremy Corbyn to appear on Pyramid stage at Glastonbury festival 2017 Gravy Jones has issued a correction as of 12:20 on Jun 16, 2017 |
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I don't watch Sky so I don't know where it lies on the relatively neutral - Tory propaganda outlet scale, but it's a Murdoch outfit and that's all you need to know it isn't pro-Corbyn and would only be pro-Labour if it saw an angle to promote New Labour. I think broadcast news is under heavier regulation than print so it wouldn't surprise me if it isn't as vile as the Tory press.
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Paul Mason and Owen Jones, who are pro-Corbyn, are sometime Sky News contributors. The main hosts like Adam Boulton and Kay Burleigh not so much.
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The Grenfell blaze is a disaster that rivals third world factory fires. I dunno how people can still contort themselves into claiming pro-Corbyn bias without eating their own rear end in a top hat.
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j. corbs will be introducing run the jewels at glastonbury this year i can only hope that he fills in for zach de la rocha's on 'close your eyes and count to gently caress'
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Jose posted:have you not been paying attention to her efforts in northern ireland? the tribe of brityish israel will take its rigteful place among the nations as holy people *shits pants starts civil war* theresa may "heh strong and stable, lads"
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PST posted:May's visit to the church shows she, nope, wait, she really doesn't give a gently caress Heyyyeyyy... ...smoke poors everyday!
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Taintrunner posted:Heyyyeyyy... it's not going well https://twitter.com/HannahAlOthman/status/875752423238881280 it's very much not going well https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/875752135346049026
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Peel posted:it's not going well  https://twitter.com/evertonfc2/status/875662965839724545
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BiohazrD posted:spin mode: ACTIVATE https://twitter.com/cushbomb/status/875770247256711169
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Peel posted:it'd say this could bring down the government but we don't even have a government lol Lol
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