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Is that from Ian MacWhirter’s daughter? If so, another apple not falling far from the tree. Shameful nonsense!
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With few, if any, exceptions, the buildings in Glasgow which have fallen into dereliction leading to demolition or damage by fire are all privately owned, including the School of Art. The media and opposition politicians immediately and mendaciously blame Glasgow City Council implying that it has omnipotent powers. Since they know these properties are privately owned they are inviting readers and listeners to infer that the fact that ‘nothing was done’ is because Councillors and officers are, in some way, corrupt and ‘in cahoots’ with the property owners.
They do not provide evidence of corruption nor do they explicitly identify the responsibilities of the property owners. They fail to maintain their properties – it is the fault of the Council for not enforcing it, but seldom mention of owner responsibilities. They, allegedly offer corrupting bungs – blame Councillors and officers not those allegedly offering the bungs.
Look at the size of the declared ‘donations’ to Labour Party funds. All ‘perfectly legal’ – because politicians legislated to make ‘donations’ legal.
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About 50 years ago there was a fire in a basement flat in Melrose St near St George’s Cross in Glasgow. Two students who were renting the flat died because the windows had steel bars across them and they could not escape. The flat owner was prosecuted and fined.
Earlier this week, there was a report that the building where the flat was is to be refurbished. It has been unoccupied and progressively decaying for almost 50 years. It is privately owned.
Often such premises are part of a portfolio of properties and by keeping some off the market a false shortage of property is created thus forcing up the price and rental incomes of other properties – this, we are told, is just the operation of the principle of ‘supply and demand’, which is presented as a ‘natural law’ similar to the First Law of Thermodynamics or the Law of Gravitation, etc. These latter are descriptions of how nature operates. Supply and Demand is the creation of rent seeking, heartless profiteers.
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