Kensington Resident Says She Will Leave

[trt]

if the Grefell victims move in to her building.

Cant say I blame her, the properties will devalue enormously.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4633644/Kensington-resident-away-Grenfell-victims.html

[jim360]

Well, I suppose at least the value of my property would still remain slightly more than the value of anyone living formerly at Grenfell.

It seems pretty obvious that people's sympathy for the victims only extends as far as (a) the ones who died, and (b) not having to do anything about the survivors. Sure, their lives have been utterly ruined overnight -- so I guess they won't mind any further disruption really, by being moved out of the local area, forcing the children to change schools, obliging people to leave their jobs, and that.

If the property value being slashed argument holds any water, it seems to me to be saying that for some people it would have been better had everyone living in the place died in the fire. That way we could have had all the benefits of the disaster without any of the inconvenience caused.

[mikey4444]

Jim...100% correct !

I have been waiting for this situation since the morning after the fire....it was obvious that some peoples sympathy only extended so far.

For some on here, its now simply a case of removing these awful poorer people out of sight and out of mind.

[Baldric]

///I think we need to be a little more charitable, and goes especially to the more wealthy amongst the Kensington rate payers.///

Here we go again, soak the rich, they can afford to support us.

[gness]

Odd isn't it,Krom......and sad......but I guess if they are living in an investment rather than a home and the value of their investment is so very important to them they're not going to give a fig about others....

And while we're at it lets move children who've suddenly lost everything to a school miles away where they know nobody......so they have more to cope with...x

[mikey4444]

Gness...better still...lets airbrush these awful poor people out of history altogether !

[Kromovaracun]

//Here we go again, soak the rich, they can afford to support us.//

Yes, what an awful imposition on the rich. They have to tolerate some unexpected neighbours who are victims of a nearby tragedy. Oh and the terrible prospect that their property's value will not grow as much as they hoped.

My heart bleeds for them.

Let's start a crowd funding campaign for victims of the grenfell victims to offset the losses they'll be feeling from their property values. I'm sure they'd happily take it.

[mikey4444]

lol Kromo !

[Islay]

I find it sad that at this time of great loss and sadness there are people suggesting that we buck a load of people out of their area of safety just because their council tenants!!

[mikey4444]

Islay....I think its sad as well, but there is a very strong opinion here on AB, that that is exactly what should be done....social cleansing, on a grand scale.

[douglas9401]

There we go. We've reached the point past which rationality is impossible.

[naomi24]

Krom, //I find it extremely strange that people think it's fine and even desirable to treat the value of a property as equally important - or more important - than responding to a crisis and giving people who have been made destitute through no fault of their own a place to live.//

They don’t, but housing the victims doesn’t have to – and shouldn’t - impact so severely on the lives of other people. It’s not their fault either.

Jim, //it seems to me to be saying that for some people it would have been better had everyone living in the place died in the fire.//

That has left me practically (but not quite) speechless! What sort of mind is capable of even considering such an appalling suggestion? And Mikey is agreeing with you! You’ve written some claptrap in the past, but you’ve really excelled yourself this time! Absolutely sickening!

Mikey, //social cleansing, on a grand scale.//

Don’t talk rubbish! I doubt you’ve offered your spare rooms yet – just as you haven’t offered them to all those ‘child’ migrants you welcomed in from Calais. Sitting at your computer and making what you consider to be the right noises is easy – putting your money where your mouth is, is something else entirely!

[EDDIE51]

naomi , have you come up with an answer to the question I asked you at 23.43 yesterday?

[Zacs-Master]

Yes, can we stop calling this social cleansing. It's emotive and completely incorrectly being applied.

[jim360]

I don't think anyone really thinks that exactly, Naomi. But superficially it's obvious that some people are far more concerned about the inconvenience to themselves than to others.

And besides, is it that outrageous a suggestion to make, really? Katie "Tells it like it is" Hopkins, whose pox-pops often get some level of support on here, came out once with some hope or suggestion that she wanted to see more "bodies [of Syrian refugees] floating in water". The first named victim of Grenfell was a Syrian refugee/migrant, as it happens. Is it really so outrageous and appalling a suggestion that KH, and those who like what she has to say, might have shed rather fewer tears when they learned who the victims were?

I agree it's a sensationalist way of expressing my views, but still: anyone moaning about potential loss of house value has a seriously warped sense of priorities and morals. I make no apology for phrasing it that way.

[Zacs-Master]

Jim, I think you might have a different opinion if you had worked hard to accumulate wealth, buy investment properties, and face the issue of having to let tower block families move in.

[EDDIE51]

By the way 1 hour ago BBC news was saying another 34 tower blocks in 17 areas with defective cladding were identified yesterday.
So far EVERY sample of cladding tested has failed the fire test! , there are still another 600 to be tested! Testing labs are working 24/7 to get the tests done ASAP !

[jim360]

Very possibly ZM, but then I'd regard that as selfishness.

[mikey4444]

Eddie....(08:53)...I was just about to post that. 100% failure so far....so just how were these cladding materials ever allowed to be used in the first place ?

May be there are lots of private Tower blocks that would fail checks as well, to say nothing of any other building, such as hospital, hotels, etc, anywhere in the UK, over a few stories tall.

[naomi24]

Jim, //I make no apology for phrasing it that way.//

Well, you should. That accusation is utterly unacceptable.

Eddie, yes, I have answered your question.

Zacs, it’s not only those who have bought investment properties. Most people work hard to achieve, and many there will see their efforts – and their aspirations - thwarted overnight.

[mikey4444]

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