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(Not satire – it’s the UK today!)
The most amazing thing about London’s fire engines being sold off for £2 to a firm run by just one man* – a fellow old Etonian of David Cameron and Boris Johnson – is how nobody seems all that bothered by it.
Maybe most people haven’t heard about it.
Maybe people have got so used to our country being turned into some kind of banana republic, where everything’s owned by the leader’s circle of friends, that they don’t think it’s news worthy any more.
Or maybe people just don’t care about what happens to our essential services like fire, police, health?
I don’t know. But, maybe it should be repeated just one more time, just in case it’s the first reason.
London’s fleet of fire engines have been sold off to a private company for just £2. The company was only created one month ago, and has one sole director, Sir Aubrey Thomas Brocklebank (I assure you I’m not making this up – that’s his real name).
Nobody knows what Sir Aubrey is planning to do with his fire engines. His previous business experience consisted mainly of being chairman of a company which owns and runs bingo halls so maybe he’s going to put them to good use as mobile bingo calling centres, to replace the mobile libraries we used to have.
Or maybe he’s going to use them as ornamental fountains on his vast estate?
The weird thing is that no-one seems to know.
Does anyone even care any more?
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*Some people have pointed out the contract is for maintenance of the fire engines. However, the maintenance contract includes ownership of the fire engines themselves.
Here’s a letter with more information about the case from London Assembly member, Andrew Dismore:
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What the Fuck!!
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omfg
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WTF and OMFG indeed!
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This stinks,how much will he charge to lease them back to the fire service?
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what a disgrace
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He collects classic cars as a hobby. Indeed his family built them in the 1920’s. Maybe he would like to extend his collection – for the future Brocklebank museum of interesting vehicles. (or maybe his grandchildren have said they don’t want a toy fire engine)
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Yes – I noticed he likes cars. Maybe he’s going to start racing them?
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Yes, maybe he’s bored with his 2CV racing team. But we shouldn’t worry too much; around 40% of his 70 odd companies have not been dissolved or gone into liquidation. I’m sure the government got the best deal on offer…….
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Well, if Shirley Porter could sell off Westminster’s cemeteries for a few pence, it’s only a matter of time before this bunch of welfare wreckers sell off all our means of safety. No doubt they’re selling off our blood banks to their vampire friends.
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Yes – I’m old enough to remember the Porter/cemetery scandal too – very similar to this crazy fire engine business.
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ah boris boris boris isn’t life strange when you sold off the fire engines and sacked most probably the firemen firewomen closed the stations who put out that fire in pudding lane now jeff3
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