Wizaard
Well-known member
Minus 4 and still no gas and water for suburbs of Sheffield for 8 days and counting. Can you imagine that situation continuing in a suburb of London and it not being updated on the national news?Anyone lucky enough to have a pension linked to the CPI should perhaps think twice before criticising those having to cope with spiralling costs, along with the knackered infrastructure that ensures things don't function properly and getting to and from work is pure misery more often that not. Seriously, what's it coming to when a part of Sheffield is cut off from water, heat and power for five days and it only just makes the national headlines? When a nurse has to visit food banks to feed their family? It's only early December and already it's looking bleak for many. Maybe they should just go and get a better paid job? Or, maybe seeing as it's now the season of joy and goodwill, just do as Scrooge suggested and “If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
The local news says the water main that burst into the gas main was made of concrete and asbestos. What does that say about the state of the infrastructure and the investment by the privatised water companies.
London centric doesn't come close.