As well as new things coming out about local councils there now appears to be a very old thing rearing it's butt ugly head.
Now I remember when this sort of thing first came into being and we are taking decades ago here. I would say close to three whole decades.
Now between then and now I don't know if things had changed but from what I've just read .. no it seems it has not.
Now this is an old thing which has now become a new thing. A new old thing.
This has also become a prime example, maybe, of my argument about things taking forever, public service wise, or just being ignored by the public in general.
Local councils were quick years ago to sell off their properties to the tenants that live in them. My God my mother still moans about it today because my father wasn't interested in doing that. She harps on about what this house would be worth today. Unfortunately she didn't live in the same reality as others. She ignores the fact it's riddled with damp, has been for years and that all the work they have done to the block would have ended up with bills of tens to hundreds of thousands of pounds.
For four weeks they have complained about our inheritance, complained about what each of us should and shouldn't have done with it. But not once has she talked about a certain someone's cancer. When it had been mentioned she starts talking about how the same had happened to her and others. Nope, it has not. She's talking about abnormal cells. The only person she knew that was anything like this died a couple of years ago. Oddly she talks about herself dying from epilepsy, yeah that's what it's like.
On her dying bed her friend says she had tachycardia and her reply to her friend of 40 years was "Oh I've had that". To which her friend dying of cancer replied "Is that another one to add to your list?" When this was divulged to me it was clear it was totally missed. She started on this hypochondria like trip in her late twenties to early thirties. Attention seeking. Forty years later and at nearly 49 I'm not allowed to speak about a registered disability that causes an early death according to recent reports or cancer. But we can talk about epilepsy, oh and no grand mal here either, for hours. Just like we can talk about the same stories from up the forty years ago over and over and over again. But don't care tell them a story for the second time though.
Telling something for the fiftieth time is OK but being told something for the second time .. ooh noo!
Also you get your head chewed off if you forget something where they are concerned but .. of they forget .. oh it's because their life, no threats of being homeless or death, is far worse than anyone else's.
Sorry .. had someone boring into my brain this morning .. but I just realised I'm going through this hell because of the public services! Lol, so it is kinda indirectly related?
So this gentleman who lives in a tower block with the same cladding as Grenfell Tower received a bill. Because he bought his home from the council ..
He has been told he has to pay a share of £2,000,000. Yeah that's £2 Million.
To make matters worse the property was going to be sold to pay for care?! Well that's now not going to happen because first off there is this bill and secondly .. who the fuck is going to buy a high rise flat with a share of a £2 Million bill looming?!
I thought that these forced bills had been sorted out years ago? You would think that after forty years that at some point something would have been sorted out?
You would also think that it would have turned out that local councils had hidden something in the small print about these forced costs? You would therefore think that this would have been a huge story and a landmark case in changing the laws over small print?! But noooo!
A share of £2 Million?! Staggering.
There is also something else to consider in all this ..
How many properties are there throughout the entire country that has to have the cladding changed? A lot. It also then begs the question; How many more people are going to get bills of this size?!
The poor bastard also had to be taken to hospital after he was received the bill.
It's being heard in court and something many people should keep an eye on.
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