Current Affairs 2017 General Election

[orchard]

She wouldn't be able to get dressed without Velcro.

Yup. But anger over the tower should be directed at the council not the PM. She wouldn't get much done if it was her job to check every building in the country was up to scratch.

 

[Clint Planet]

 

[Minimeister]

So that's literally every Tory voter on GOT who's now moaned about politicising the tragedy. If I didn't know any different, I'd think they were worried that the greedy, selfish lizards they vote for have no regard for the common man.

 

[dandydan]

So that's literally every Tory voter on GOT who's now moaned about politicising the tragedy. If I didn't know any different, I'd think they were worried that the greedy, selfish lizards they vote for have no regard for the common man.

I take it you have been campaigning for a while about the safety of such buildings?

 

[orchard]

I take it you have been campaigning for a while about the safety of such buildings?

Christ on a bike

 

[dandydan]

Christ on a bike

Why do you quote me in the proper way and not others? It's giving me a complex.

 

[orchard]

Why do you quote me in the proper way and not others? It's giving me a complex.

They've probably given up on you tbf

 

[dandydan]

I think you misunderstood.

They've probably given up on you tbf

 

[orchard]

Really?

I think you misunderstood.

 

[Clint Planet]

I take it you have been campaigning for a while about the safety of such buildings?

Utterly pathetic. Crawl back under your rock, will you.

 

[mmmmsnouts]

So that's literally every Tory voter on GOT who's now moaned about politicising the tragedy. If I didn't know any different, I'd think they were worried that the greedy, selfish lizards they vote for have no regard for the common man.

This is exactly what American conservatives do after one of our many stupid preventable shootings. They play the "too soon" card and then wait for everyone to move on so they can continue doing nothing.

 

[dandydan]

Utterly pathetic. Crawl back under your rock, will you.

Another expert on building regulations and cladding.

 

[dandydan]

Thank you.

Really?

 

[hallamblue]

The general point is that if you keep cutting funding to Councils, safety will be compromised. Where I work, we used to work closely with the Licensing Department. We used to get regular visits from Licensing, The Fire Brigade and the council Safety Officer. Now we never see them. We are wholly responsible for the safety of our premises. This is ok when you work for a responsible company like I do, but others will cut corners and compromise safety, and they won't be picked up on it until there's an accident. Hopefully some good will come from this senseless loss of life, and Government will stop cutting Council funding.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

The general point is that if you keep cutting funding to Councils, safety will be compromised. Where I work, we used to work closely with the Licensing Department. We used to get regular visits from Licensing, The Fire Brigade and the council Safety Officer. Now we never see them. We are wholly responsible for the safety of our premises. This is ok when you work for a responsible company like I do, but others will cut corners and compromise safety, and they won't be picked up on it until there's an accident. Hopefully some good will come from this senseless loss of life, and Government will stop cutting Council funding.

That's kind of it though isn't it? Assuming that the state has to live within its means then it can't keep spending way more than it raises. To a large extent, politics has determined which areas have seen funding squeezed, as some departments are sacred cows, hence why the NHS has largely been untouched, or why the heavily voting pensioners haven't been touched via the state retirement age, a means testing of the various bungs they get or a questioning of the triple lock. When such a big department doesn't 'contribute', then it means cuts elsewhere have to be even bigger and it moves less away from budgeting on merits and more on political expedience.