Winklebottom posted:

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Hello and welcome to Stannington Ward Labour Party which is one of the 5 wards which go to make up Hallam Constituency Labour Party.

My name is Rosemary Telfer and I am secretary of the ward; Linda Daglish is our membership secretary and will also be contacting you shortly. As you can imagine we are all very pleased to have elected our first Labour MP in Hallam since its creation in 1885.

Obliterati posted:

Guys

Do we know what the Express thinks

feedmegin posted:

They think Incorrect thoughts comrade.

dex_sda posted:

I smell some reeducation coming

Gonzo McFee posted:

Have all the Tories just forgotten how to hide their true faces?

Graun posted:

Kensington and Chelsea council and tenants management organisation did not respond to more than 130 offers to put up displaced residents of Grenfell Tower and its neighbouring blocks, a volunteer who came to assist in the relief efforts has said.

Michal Nachmany, a researcher at the London School of Economics, told the Guardian that she spent hours on Wednesday compiling a list of people willing to provide a roof for families and individuals - with some even offering entire flats to the dispossessed.

She even offered to put up two families herself at her home in Chiswick. “My kids can fit into a single room,” she said.

Nachmany sent the list to senior workers at the KCTMO and the local council. However, as yet she has not received any news that any of the offers have been matched to families or individuals in need. It comes amid reports that displaced residents are still sleeping on floors and have not been housed.

In an email to the Guardian, Nachmany, 40, said:

I know that the emails were received (verified by phone), but I don’t know if any action has been taken. Hearing that people are still sleeping on the floor, rather than at least spending the first few days with host families is heartbreaking and outrageous. For example, I offered to host six people. Never heard from anyone, and I doubt if any matchmaking was done between the local offers and the people in need. There is no lack of volunteers or of offers to help - just lack of coordination and organisation. Would be happy if you could support any efforts to resolve this terrible mess and make sure everyone has a proper bed tonight.

Cerv posted:

Didn't she join the Lib Dems because of Brexit?

Tesseraction posted:

How are they so bad at this

Tesseraction posted:

How are they so bad at this

ronya posted:

liability liability liability

ronya posted:

liability liability liability

Guavanaut posted:

There is an argument that the combination of EU environmental targets and bans on certain halogen containing fire retardants promoted use of less safe materials in some areas, but we've largely got around that now with better fire retardants, and the existence of fire resistant cladding shoots down the idea that it has anything to do with Grenfell.

Ewan posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/16/sun-journalist-grenfell-tower-victim-hospital

What cunts.

King’s College hospital is to lodge a complaint with the press watchdog over a journalist who allegedly impersonated a friend of a victim of the Grenfell Tower fire in order to get an interview with him. The hospital is to file a complaint with the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) about the behaviour of the Sun reporter.

Gorn Myson posted:

£5 says that the Mail's outrage is mostly driven by the fire causing a decline in house prices in the area.

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

header taken from this

goddamnedtwisto posted:

AIUI (from chatter on my local FB group from understandably concerned people living in both new-build and renovated high rises) rock wool gives better performance than PU or PET insulation and is completely fireproof - and, notably, was being used on all the insulation/beautification upgrades to tower blocks in London from the mid-90s until about 2009, and nobody's quite sure if there was an actual change to the regs or not then, but everyone moved to plastic insulation.

I have the weirdest suspicion it wasn't actually a change to regs, just that the plummeting oil price made the price difference between the two much more distinct.

quote:

The European directive 97/69/EC replaced by the regulation (EC) n° 1272/2008 concerning the classification, labelling and packaging of the substance and the mixtures does not classify glass fibres as hazardous, if they are in compliance with the note Q of
this Regulation.

The note Q specifies that classification as carcinogenic does not apply if:
- a short-term biopersistence test by inhalation has shown that fibres longer than 20μm have a weight half life less than 10 days, or
- a short-term biopersistence test intratracheal instillation has shown fibres longer than 20 μm have a weighted half life less than 40 days, or
- an appropriate intraperitoneal test has shown no evidence of excess carcinogenicity, or
- a suitable long term inhalation test has shown absence of relevant pathogenicity or neoplastic changes.

happyhippy posted:

Milly Dowler? Nah, never heard of her.

Jippa posted:

https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/876083131572510720

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

drat, that's brutalist.

ronya posted:

possibly related to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLP_Regulation

Steve2911 posted:

It's been a bit mild and cloudy in London.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

When I was a postgrad in Manchester I lived in a refurbed tower block that had cladding on the outside. It didn't remotely look like the same thing as Grenfell but now I wonder what the gently caress it was made out of.

communism bitch posted:

gently caress the sun.

Mugsbaloney posted:

I'm so worried for this country I've been playing democracy 3 instead of going outside to see what a socialist government would look like. In 5 attempts I have been assassinated 2 years in by the battenburg group .

Mugsbaloney posted:

I'm so worried for this country I've been playing democracy 3 instead of going outside to see what a socialist government would look like. In 5 attempts I have been assassinated 2 years in by the battenburg group .

Skinty McEdger posted:

The Sun is going to continue on with the whole "none of our reporters were involved" argument, mostly because after the whole phone hacking thing they on the quiet moved a lot of reporters that previously would have been staff reporters onto freelance contracts so they could have deniability that anything illegal they did was at the orders of the editorial or the Sun in general. Despite you know them still having desks at the offices and Sun email addresses.

Spangly A posted:

taking on liability for people you already had liability for before you got their house burnt down, is not really a defence for deciding that they can just be homeless. They aren't being cautious, they're hacking away at the moral mandate for their own system of governance. Give it a week and the process wil self-organise out of sheer frustration; the government are still going to be accountable for anything that happens then, because they're the loving government, and it is both their fault and their job. All they're doing is making it clear they are not a legitimate council, or party of government, because the loving anarchists are about to just upstage them. If they try to interfere with, or delay, or fail to cooperate with the immediate rehoming of these people, they should be removed from authority with violent contempt.