True.

And a quick March towards Tory governments ever since!

After Yoss march comment above.

Absolute cunts. If they won't make the twats who put it there in the first place pay, then the Government must shoulder all costs

If Keith wants the votes of all the people living in these flats he'd promise to do that, and to expedite the replacement of all of them.

I'm fine with protestors attacking anything with a stake in Bad. If you smash an empty bookie's or bank's windows or cosplay Assault on Precinct 13*, that's obviously very different to trashing a regular cafe or cornershop.

*I'll only join in if someone brings a stereo and plays the theme.

Theres ya PS5s.

Spot on

Right up there with the Two Ronnies’ fork handles sketch and Monty Python’s argument for me.

The current.

Bob wrote:

Hydrodynamics.

Roujin wrote:

I'll say this, if I get a bill for 40 grand through my letterbox if the cladding on my block of flats needs fixing off the back of these Tory fucking cunts voting down the amendment to the fire safety bill to make building owners and the manufacturers responsible for the costs, you won't see any peaceful protesting from me.

On one hand I really don’t get this but in the other of course I do, because money. 
But if I bought a flat and it has dangerous material on it surely the builder of that flat sold me something illegally?
Why the duck should I be paying for new cladding.

pantyfire wrote:

Roujin wrote:

I'll say this, if I get a bill for 40 grand through my letterbox if the cladding on my block of flats needs fixing off the back of these Tory fucking cunts voting down the amendment to the fire safety bill to make building owners and the manufacturers responsible for the costs, you won't see any peaceful protesting from me.

On one hand I really don’t get this but in the other of course I do, because money.  But if I bought a flat and it has dangerous material on it surely the builder of that flat sold me something illegally? Why the duck should I be paying for new cladding.

Why indeed? If your car has a fault, it is recalled and fixed by the manufacturer.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with companies like Kingspan being tory party donors, and the number of MPs who sit on freehold management company boards, or have investments in the companies who would be negatively affected if they were required to correct their mistakes. 

These are buildings where architects select materials, which are certified by privatised inspection boards, which are built by contractors who then value engineer jobs by cheaping out as much as possible on every product they can manage to save costs during construction and generate more profits, which are then inspected and signed off by local authorities. I'm not sure that after that chain of events, it is somehow down to the leaseholders who have been missold their property to pay for the works for the building owner.

I'll just sit quietly outside Westminster until the MPs realise their mistake and change the bill back to have the amendment the lords (how the fuck has it come to the point where these hereditary bastards are seemingly always the ones trying to protect the public) made put back in.

Well we won't get our survey until sometime later this year at the earliest, we're crossing our fingers because we have brick facing rather than cladding panels, but the insulation boards behind them are still a concern. 

In the meantime, I'm lucky this building is owned by a housing association and not a private company I guess because if they do come around with the bill I'll tell them I can't afford to pay it and they won't drag me through the courts for it with any great urgency. 

It sucks though, because I would like to buy more equity in my flat, but I can't because I need the certificate to say the building isn't a flammable death trap and because there are so many buildings, and only a few surveyors who are qualified to do the inspections, the waiting list is stupid. Other people in the block want to move out, and they're stuck because you can't get a mortgage unless the building has the certificate. So the building owners get to cream off extra rent from everyone while they drag their feet getting the surveys done because we can't increase our mortgage amounts and decrease our rental amounts.

There’s a proper, authoritative report on the stuck ship in the Suez Canal here: https://www.vesselfinder.com/news/20456-Suez-Canal-Blocked-by-Huge-container-ship-Ever-Given

Worth a quick read, now that everybody from The Guardian to Vice are weighing in with their hilarious takes.

Also worth a gander, this video from VesselFinder that tracks the ship’s pre-crash movements as it actually really genuinely does draw a giant cock and balls in the ocean for the global tracking app: