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UK university libraries ‘£51 million worse off than last year’
Cuts to library budgets of up to 30 per cent have seen journal subscriptions cancelled and opening hours slashed, says librarians’ association ow.ly/tLQh50V1hOZ
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This only has fewer than 800 signatures. Surely there are more non qualifying #leaseholders (and even if you are qualified you should sign to help out) - Remove non-qualifying status for #leasehold flats - #Petitions #BuildingSafetyCrisis petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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✍️EOCS written evidence to PAC inquiry into dangerous cladding remediation
“..shocking to hear politicians & officials categorising people who have lost their homes, been forced into bankruptcy, or taken their own life as "edge cases."
⚖️ @mhclg @AlexJJNorris @AngelaRayner
ALT Since 2017, countless examples of the devastation wrought on ordinary people have been ignored. We have found it shocking to hear politicians and officials categorising people who have lost their homes, been forced into bankruptcy,10 or taken their own lifel as "edge cases." The lack of humanity or care for victims of this scandal has severely impacted the financial and mental health of leaseholders and residents across the country,12 and caused untold damage to the lives and life choices of people who thought they would be protected by the Government from issues they played no part in causing. We need a human-centred approach, with leaseholders and residents truly at the heart of decision-making.
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📣 “Really disappointed by what we’ve seen of Labour so far.. after all the support we saw in opposition..
Too
▶️ many issues
▶️ many to barriers to remediation
▶️ many people ruled out of help (#nonqualifyingLH )
⚖️ @AngelaRayner @mhclg @AlexJJNorris need to do a whole lot more”
📢 ICYM BBC News yesterday 👇🏼
“It’s now approaching eight years since this disaster, itself the result of decades of failure. Years more safety improvements are needed. A building safety scandal which now spans a generation."
@UKLabour needs to do a whole lot more.
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British maths…
“I’ll be there in a minute”
I’ll be there within half an hour.
“I stayed for a couple”
I had 9 pints.
“It was a while ago now”
Anything from a few months to a decade.
“I was in the queue for hours”
I was in the queue for over 8 minutes.
“The queue was a mile long”
The queue had over 6 people in it.
“Give me a sec”
Give me 15-30 minutes.
“I’m just around the corner”
I’m three bus stops away.
“A bit of a trek”
Could be half a mile, could be 100 miles.
“I saw her the other day”
I might have seen her a few days ago, you might have seen her a fortnight ago, nobody knows.
“I’m doing it now”
I’d forgotten about it so I’m about to start doing it in a panic.
“See you later on”
I’ll see you later today.
“I might see you later on”
You won’t be seeing me again today.
“See you later”
I’ve no intention of seeing you again for at least six months.
CarpE retweeted
We are delighted to announce the publication of the 3rd ed. of A Classification for Medical and Veterinary Libraries (2024, LSHTM Press) doi.org/10.56920/lshtmp-1. Originally published in 1936, the scheme has been extensively revised to meet health-focused collections requirements.
ALT Book cover: A classification for medical and veterinary libraries (LSHTM Press)
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Amanda’s experience of coming up against what appeared to her to be a largely unknowing and uncaring wall of political obfuscation should weigh heavily on everyone in Parliament. Thank you Glenda for telling her story. @mhclg @EOCS_Official
bbc.com/news/articles/crmn4j…
CarpE retweeted
Why is this a battle?
Why is everything building related a battle?
Why doesn't @Keir_Starmer have our backs?
Why doesn't @AngelaRayner have our backs?
Why doesn't @mtpennycook?
Why don't @UKLabour have our backs?
Residents of luxury central London flats win battle to remove Grenfell-style cladding standard.co.uk/news/london/g…
CarpE retweeted
I feel like I've been punched in the gut.
@Keir_Starmer stated the "social contract has been broken... by politicians who promise change and never deliver"
@AngelaRayner was emphatic that "no one is written off or left behind "
Neither of which, apparently, apply to us.
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It's not good news if you are a shared owner *and* trapped in the building safety crisis.
@AngelaRayner @mtpennycook @AlexJJNorris this is a crisis made in Whitehall. What are you going to do to fix it?
Why London’s property market is stagnating on.ft.com/49oVx2n
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Pennycooked - to be torturously extorted your home by corporations over a long period of time, leaving you penniless and mentally fried, particularly whilst under the watch of government officials ...
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⚖️@GOVUK Remediation Acceleration Plan announced & per our statement earlier:
“There is nothing on non-cladding defects, nothing for #nonqualifyingLH, nothing for innocent LH’s in buildings under 11m…”
👇Consequences @mhclg highlighted by @k_petrakos & @theipaper today.
Residents in buildings under 11 metres with unsafe cladding have been charged over £50,000 for fire safety repairs
@k_petrakos reports
🔗 trib.al/nbywRRM
ALT Text: ‘We’re trapped in our flat by cladding – it’s 2m too small for government help’
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📢 @UKLabour has announced its Cladding Remediation Acceleration Plan.
The "plan" looks extremely disappointing. Innocent leaseholders and residents across the country need and deserve much more.
Our statement 👇🏼
#EndOurCladdingScandal
ALT A screenshot of our statement on Labour's Remediation Acceleration Plan. We think the Remediation Acceleration Plan is extremely disappointing and the proposals will only make a horribly complicated process worse with further layers of bureaucracy. We will publish the full statement on our website shortly.
CarpE retweeted
So anyway, we'll still all be saying the same stuff we've been saying for years to a government with different coloured ties. Which is a familiar feeling in the country at the moment, I think
CarpE retweeted
If you live in one of the affected buildings, I don't think life will feel particularly different after this announcement. The problems of non-qualifying leaseholders, non-cladding defects, orphan buildings, insurance costs, interim measures etc etc still stand
CarpE retweeted
They've literally rebuilt Notre Dame quicker than getting the cladding off my building #endourcladdingscandal
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LSHTM 1899-2024: 125 years of Library services. Come and see this new exhibition in the @LSHTMlibrary foyer. View monographs from the Historical Collection alongside 3 posters detailing the history of @LSHTM and @LSHTMlibrary collections. shorturl.at/aMwOu
ALT Poster 1. LSHTM 1899-2024: 125 years of Library services
ALT Poster 2. LSHTM 1899-2024: 125 years of Library services
We're waiting @mhclg, or are you no better than your predecessors? Protect all leaseholders @NonQualifyingLH
Our statement on the National Audit Office report into dangerous cladding 👇
The Labour government must now get a grip and take control of this living nightmare. The “merry-go-round of buck-passing” must end.
#EndOurCladdingScandal
#NotJustCladding
ALT Full statement will be made available on https://endourcladdingscandal.org/category/posts/ or please contact us at the email address in our bio for a copy
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Our current @UKLabour leaders know everything about the #BuildingSafetyCrisis, because in the shadow cabinet we've been speaking to them for 7 yrs.
They know what to do to solve this. Yet in govt they procrastinate as they try to woo the companies that caused it.
“It is unacceptable that so many buildings still have unsafe cladding…I will make sure action is being taken.”
Deputy Prime Minister @AngelaRayner at her first #PMQs
