Oh god yes. Some upmarket new buildings only have one emergency staircase, no sprinklers, very little redundancy for adverse loads or earthquakes.
My most recent Asian case was in Bangkok where a skyscraper had to be dismantled. Corners had been cut and it turned-out to have been built to lower earthquake protection standards and didn’t have a fire-proof escape stairwell (like the old Twin Towers in NYC) or enough of them (like the old Twin Towers in NYC), back-handers were involved (like the old Twin Towers in NYC) and we kicked the $65m claim out because of the blatant corruption.
Which is exactly what I suspect with that latest tower collapse. Government building, government contracts…
HMRC: So you’re saying Farage is above board and we should spend our time targeting low income households with dubious claims of unpaid tax and burying anyone who objects under a mountain of jargon. That’s just what we were thinking!
What she has been done for does sound like the type of thing politicians have routinely done with EU and national money for decades. Unless I’m misunderstanding something which is possible given i wasn’t aware there was a trial.
The moment he started using his audience-reach to become a conspiracy theorist it was clear he was doing the groundwork in readiness to dismiss any serious allegations as being the “deep state”.
It’s a common tactic. See Andrew Tate, Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein et al.
EDIT: I see he’s in hiding in the USA. Trump protects sex pests, so long as they support him.
So the bin strike in Birmingham could apparently be solved for a fraction of the cost that the council are spending on security, agency fees and other fees to fight the strike lol.
There is such a strong resistance to just pay people more money for the work that they do it’s unbelievable.
I’m glad the workers continue to strike and hope the strike continues for as long as it needs to until they’re paid more money.
Of course. It’s like this with a lot of industrial action.
I guarantee the council are thinking that it’s cheaper to fight in the long run, because if they give in to one strike then they believe there are more on the horizon.
