Hi, and my apologies for essentially using this forum however which way I please with this bump. Something deeply upsetting took place here yesterday, and despite all those around me echoing the same frustrations I'm going to relay here, I feel like tftv is still the only space wherein I'm comfortable expressing such things.
It's been three years since I made this thread and the situation here feels abysmal and hopeless. Overdevelopment has been rampant. Property prices keep soaring. Wages are still as miserable as they were pre-covid. Despite all this, our economy appears to be doing splendidly (selling fucking passports for minimum 600K a pop helps). The goldrush to keep developers happy and in business has long surpassed its tipping point, and a complete disregard for structural regulations manifested itself in the form of an endemic of buildings collapsing.
Seven months ago, one such building collapse took the life of 20 year old Jean Paul Sofia. His mother has been pushing for an independent public inquiry into the cause of his death ever since. Yesterday, an Opposition motion introduced in parliament calling for such an inquiry was defeated, with every single government MP voting against the motion.
This was an opportunity for the government to possibly right the wrong of a series of systemic injustices that resulted not only in Sofia's death, but in the deaths of the many other lives lost in building collapses, and the potential lives saved in the future. Everyone around me is beyond furious. In a country where political culture is extremely black-or-white, even lifelong Labour voters have boldly and rightfully expressed disgust towards their government. To me, the motion's defeat signals more clearly than ever whose pockets are lined with the money and interests of developers...