In England they tend to only blow up condemned building. But thanks for missing the point and providing no reasoning as to why landlords are being bailed out by the government when they have failed to take required action for years.

Yes, I suppose we are lucky the residents haven’t been misplaced.

@girlwithsmiles now there's wonderful projection! The point is that there are people living in inferior residences thanks to inferior Government, control of buildings regs, failure to adequately provide sufficient affordable dwellings for the population.
As to landlords benefitting it may well be you the taxpayer who is benefitting from not having to fund costly litigation due to thesesdefective practices.

@FrayedBear I neither installed the insulation that isn’t fit for purpose, nor supply the housing. It’s largely privately owned, hence my gripe.
It’s not the Midnight Oil debacle x 2. The installers should be accountable. The government are bailing out shonks.
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@girlwithsmiles what part of "the taxpayer who is benefitting from not having to fund costly litigation due to these defective practices." do you not understand?

@girlwithsmiles add to that the cost of people suiciding.

@FrayedBear On the contrary it is going to cost us,the taxpayer, much more to remedy the situation than if proper regulation had been carried out at the time. The govt. has just awarded another £3.5 billion to help remove the defective panels. There are at least three guilty parties here. The regulatory authority, the builders, and the makers and sellers of the panels. They should all be held to account.

@Moravian thank you.

@Moravian I'm not disputing that do it right first time is always cheaper. However what do you want? That thousands be driven to suicide or burnt in their homes because everyone fucked up in the past & are now selfishly saying "fuck you, die?" While you're at it blow up the chunnel & stop all those migrants, slave traffickers & smugglers? You could also Guy Fawkes Parliament House & put those MP's out of business? The list is endless.

@FrayedBear Didn't you read my post. I said I think that the manufacturers,builders and the regulatory authorities should be held to account.

@Moravian Fine, after the job is rectified but they are not totally to blame. Weak willed spineless or ignorant politicians allowed through inadequate legislation and inspection this cancer.

@FrayedBear But those buildings are only there to house poor people and immigrants so it doesn't matter

@Moravian After the WWII many eere housed in what we called prefabs

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Locally there were houses with corrugated iron sheet roofs that were simply domes .

@FrayedBear I remember them well. I think there are a few still around. I lived in one in Bristol in 1975/76. The walls and roof had the insulation properties of a paper bag.

@Moravian The ones I remember were in Marton, Blackpool.
Corrugated iron is still used out here in Australia because of its ability to give up the heat. Also cheaper than most material other than asbestos!

@FrayedBear there are still prefabs a few miles from where my parents live.

The word on the street is that Glenfeld was clad in substandard materials because the local wealthy didn’t like the look of the buildings.

Whoever put those materials through as fit for purpose should be out of a job, whichever company put it forward should be discredited.

None of the people responsible for the deaths and potential deaths have even been put forward in the media.

They tried to scapegoat the fire service!

It’s a nightmare that never should have happened. I resent paying for other people’s failures when they have already left with the profits and, as far as the public are aware, have never been held accountable for any part in the problems.

But if you’re a fan of bailing out the nameless as they leave with their swag bags!

@girlwithsmiles it is not landlords being bailed out but citizen tenants belatedly protected. If anyone should be paying it is the politicians who passed the inadequate legislation.

@FrayedBear people creating products should be experts in them. This cladding was not fit for purpose. There are all kinds of layers that should have stopped this ever happening; not least the consciences of the people that pushed it through as fit for purpose. The thing is people were at fault, but this is taking millions from infrastructure maintenance that our Country needs.

@girlwithsmiles So you believe that if the Jews of England decide that as they are God's chosen people they should start killing everyone else money should not be spent in preventing them?
That if applied in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland would mean that you would now be speaking German not English in Britain.

@girlwithsmiles oh aren't buildings for habitation part of a country's infrastructure?

I’ve made my point, ( it is exactly that landlords are being bailed out, upgrades from them would protect the tenants and they installed substandard products), and am not a believer in the endless intervention of state to protect the wealthy, (especially when they are willing to let the poor starve to death on the streets).
It’s not the protection of the people in condemnable buildings I’m talking about stopping, it’s the means of paying for that...as already discussed.
Your emotive points about would be religious murderers of any ilk are pretty random and surely just a plea for agreement, in spite of their irrelevance.
Much money is already spent on prevention of needless slaughter, more than will ever be declared.