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  1. dutchman

    General Election

    Or end of the week even!
  2. dutchman

    London fire

    Grenfell Tower victims 'given £10 a day to live on' - BBC News Some Grenfell Tower fire survivors have been given just £10 a day to live on by the council, Kensington's MP said. In a letter to Home Secretary Amber Rudd, Ms Coat Dent wrote: "I have been told that some people who have lost their...
  3. dutchman

    London fire

    Twenty four, according to the Telegraph and Whitefriars: Grenfell fire: Housing group reassures city high-rise residents I think that excludes private rented accommodation though?
  4. dutchman

    London fire

    Local councils are still failing to carry out emergency tower block inspections Despite assurances from cabinet ministers that “teams of people” are urgently inspecting tower blocks across the UK, some councils have so far taken little action, the Observer has established. Of 10 local...
  5. dutchman

    London fire

    This wouldn't be so shocking but for being the most Tory newspaper in the country! Theresa May is slammed for 'inhuman' Newsnight interview | Daily Mail Online
  6. dutchman

    London fire

    Yes she did, how very convenient!
  7. dutchman

    London fire

    150 dead according to unofficial reports, massive cover-up by the government: Lily Allen pulled from Newsnight at last minute
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    Heresay !!

    She would say that to them though wouldn't she?
  9. dutchman

    London fire

    The buck won't stop anywhere. An official inquiry will conclude after many years that it was all due to an 'unfortunate series of coincidences which no one could possibly have foreseen' just like every other disaster inquiry we've had over the years.
  10. dutchman

    London fire

    Or else someone who lives in one!
  11. dutchman

    London fire

    But Whitefriars DID have the money to tart up the OUTSIDE of their tower blocks with blue and white tiles, spotlights, uPVC window frames, etc. The total cost of purely cosmetic improvements (inside and out) was between £3m and £6m per block. High life to reach new level in Sky Blue City – WM...
  12. dutchman

    London fire

    So have most of the tower blocks in Coventry owned by Whitefriars. I think they all have external cladding too? Glad I don't live in one.
  13. dutchman

    London fire

    A chief fireman told me during a visit to the central fire station in the 1960s that they had asked Coventry city council not to build anything higher than six stories because they couldn't rescue anyone from higher up than that. In the early 1980s most of the ten-storey tower block in Coventry...
  14. dutchman

    Hilarys Blinds

    A 'bit of money'? It would be cheaper to hire a prostitute for the night and ask her to put the blinds up! I'm sure they've had stranger requests.
  15. dutchman

    Hilarys Blinds

    Am I the only one here who can't believe non-gay blokes are discussing window hangings in a footie forum?
  16. dutchman

    General Election

  17. dutchman

    General Election

    People weren't voting on Brexit, they were voting on which party they wanted to run the country. Many Brexiteers will have voted Labour.
  18. dutchman

    General Election

    They certainly do, and to live with the consequences of doing so.
  19. dutchman

    General Election

    Poison Chalice mate, Poison Chalice. Gove is May's worst enemy, she's decided that if she's going down, he's going down with her.
  20. dutchman

    General Election

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