Due to central government cuts, local authorities cannot afford to install sprinkler systems in tower blocks full of families.
According to experts, authorities with greater concentrations of disadvantaged population groups have suffered faster or deeper cuts to fire safety in the community, particularly those in urban areas.
The same government, however, thinks it’s very important that sprinkler systems are installed in their own workplace:
Despite austerity, the same government can find £1.3 million to install a sophisticated sprinkler system in parliament:
Because the government thinks some people’s lives are more important than others?
Namely, their own?
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If this is true, it’s truly shameful.
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a penny a penny for the guy bring back fawkes
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Not just social housing. Last year they decided schools weren’t worth sprinklers either.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-criticised-over-quietly-abandoning-requirement-for-new-schools-to-install-fire-sprinklers-a7219276.html
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Didn’t Theresa May’s opportunistic election cost 135 million?
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According to experts, authorities with greater concentrations of disadvantaged population groups have suffered faster or deeper cuts to fire safety in the community, particularly those in urban areas.
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So it is ok for them but not for everyone else, bloody check.
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Rich Lives Matter
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. . . and we’re all in this together, are we?
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