Gonzo's Erection Thread

See the Council still havent organised accomodation (even long term temp) for the families...after spending the entire day yesterday saying it was already sorted.

Sorry but put them up in the Hilton and bill the private housing association that ran the high rise.

 

Considering how close the margin was for labour in this month's GE in Kensington, I suspect they won't be re-housed in the area until after the next GE, if at all.

 

Btw, did anyone see Nigel's rant on US tv about Labour only doing so well because Marxist students voted twice? seriously? I mean my daughter was eligible to vote here in York Inner (at her mum's) or at Middlesbrough as she's at Teeside Uni. But she has to bring her voting card to whichever one, and you're obviously ticked off the list at the location you vote at. She DID, perversely, get two polling cards in 2015 (her first GE) at both mine (York Outer), and her mum's, but she voted at mine and handed back her unused card at her mum's polling station.

Otherwise, apart from that, plenty of people I know through the years (Labour/Tory/whatever) have been given two cards when they've moved. Just sounds like sour grapes, tbh.

Oh, and the latest figures I saw say that 48% of under 25's voted, not the 74% previously mooted, but the overwhelming majority voted Labour. That could be a positive though in that @ 100% increase in that sector did cause so much chaos to the Tories, imagine what another 30% could do? Just fear that if the Tories somehow drag out 5 years and slightly temper austerity for nurses, firefighters' and teachers' pay, then they may lose heart and disengage. Er, and hypocrite that I am I've rejoined the party and the daughter has promised to help me do the leaflets. Yeah, like she promised she'd walk the dog...

 

He obviously ignored the reports of hundreds of #legit registered students being turned away from polling stations in Newcastle and Keele, plus the disabled voters kept away by the illegal removal of wheelchair access.

 

No, he didn't mention that . I'll see if I can find the clip. Not sure if it was Fox, which would explain things.

 

yep, Fox it was:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/81...voted-twice-labour-jeremy-corbyn-young-people

 

Daily Fail...not quite doing the s*n but in that direction...found the name of the man with the faulty fridge, saw he was black, foreign so raided his social media for pictures of him drinking, named him in the article ...and under banner "The man who's faulty fridge started Greenfell tower inferno"

Absolute scum paper.

 

Lets get him, and the fridge manufacturers for making them flammable in the event of a fault.

 

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Shades of Hillsborough here in 'Blame the victims', and I don't say that lightly. There was a solicitor on Newsnight last night who'd represented families from a previous tower block fire in 2009 (forget the name of it), who quoted Hillsborough. She was adamant that an inquest, not a public inquiry, was the way to go in that an public enquiry can be controlled by the establishment and authorities, whereas an inquest can't. Ironically, the opposite of what we got really in that the Taylor Report was castigated by Ingham as a whitewash because they couldn't control him, but the inquest put that ridiculous, arbitrary nonsense of not allowing any evidence of what happened after 3.15 (and that WAS the hand of government on Popper's throat).

Good luck to them, but our whole system in this country revolves around paying various agencies (now more privatised than not) astronomical sums for their responsibility, that is then pushed back down to the lowest common denominator when asked to be held to account. You only need look at the difference between Belgium prosecuting authority figures for Heysel, and we held nobody to account for Hillsborough bar the fans.

Looking at the readers' comments on the article Frank quotes, and you cn see where this narrative is going. Some where even calling for them to be re-housed in 'Their own countries' and that they shouldn't have all been up cooking at that time of night. Yeah, blame the Paki and his Turkish fridge. Ask no questions why a fire in tower block is supposed, by design, to be contained in that flat. And certainly ask no questions why Tennant Management Managers were paying themselves £650k a ****ing year to do what a £30k a year council employee used to do, because it's not for bearing the responsibility - just watch as everyone involved, who were happy enough to take the cash from the public 'Magic money tree' that doesn't exist for nurses and firefighters, chuck the buck back down to the poorest and voiceless.

 

i was ranting similar to the long suffering wife last night. She expected someone to be held to account and i pointed out the system is designed to crete numerous layers to enable as many private sector administrators to take a cut whilst making clear responsibility for decisions almost impossible to pin down.

 

* Lackenhall.

 

Andrea Leadsome getting in her leadership pitch for taking over the Maybot.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ttacks-london-bridge-manchester-a7792431.html

Big of you, ****ing ****.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/shameless-tory-council-leader-blames-10631544

here's what we're talking about. And so it begins - wait until they start blaming the residents for the audacity of wanting insulation. 'It's their fault - they asked for improvements, so we got the cheapest, flammable version, cause it would have meant putting up rents by 5% - or not paying ourselves a full £650k sinecure).

 

Yeah... maybe 0.5% then...they can buy a coffee once a week to stay awake.

 

the building regs which allowed this need amending straight away & i doubt we will ever find out if they already knew for certain they constituted a fire hazard.

 

He needs to provide proof of that...how many exactly said "no" to sprinklers? In contrast The residents group has a petition signed by 90% of residents.

And yeah containment...great on paper until they decided to save 5k of 8M and pick the non fire ******ant insulation for the cladding. Use a planning policy that means the work gets carried out first before a visual inspection to sign it off. What did that entail...dude turning up outside building..looking up and saying "looks nice doesn't it!"

 

A public inquiry is just a way of saying "no criminal charges are needed, just some recommendations we are free to ignore thanks"

 

The difference is the majority of people like the Queen