Crumbling Westminster = £3bn +. What should we do ? Poll..
Poll: Crumbling Westminster = £3bn +. What should we do ? Poll..
Total Members Polled: 470
Discussion
Watching the story on Newsnight last night that the Palace of Westminster is crumbling away and will cost over £3bn to restore.
The scale of the work needed to bring it all back up to spec, seems insane, but the Newsnight report also makes it plain that the whole building is absolutely stunning....the bits that are used that is. Plenty of it is locked up for safety or budget reasons.
Its iconic and historical status means it absolutely must be restored. The question is how ?
I see this as a unique opportunity to modernise the way UK politics operates. I think its obvious that what UK politics needs is a total overhaul and what better way to do it than getting Sir Norman Forster etc to build a new modern Parliament designed to cope with the way we work and make decisions in the 21st century.
With one decision we could get rid of all the old sheeite rules, pomp, procedures, ceremonies and folklore.... 90% of which exists solely to re-inforce the boundarys between the ruling class and the rest of us proles.
Westminster is stunning and would be a massive tourist pull. The money made from visitors would go to pay for the top quality, total restoration that it deserves. Id love to go see all the hidden parts that scum like me have been barred from since 1847. Politicians don't own Westminster. The country does.
The Palace of Westminster is an amazing asset to the UK. Its far too important to be bodged just so politicians can continue to feel special. They aren't and shipping them out of Westminster into a modern workplace, might begin to make them understand that.
What do you think ?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/21/palace-wes...
The scale of the work needed to bring it all back up to spec, seems insane, but the Newsnight report also makes it plain that the whole building is absolutely stunning....the bits that are used that is. Plenty of it is locked up for safety or budget reasons.
Its iconic and historical status means it absolutely must be restored. The question is how ?
I see this as a unique opportunity to modernise the way UK politics operates. I think its obvious that what UK politics needs is a total overhaul and what better way to do it than getting Sir Norman Forster etc to build a new modern Parliament designed to cope with the way we work and make decisions in the 21st century.
With one decision we could get rid of all the old sheeite rules, pomp, procedures, ceremonies and folklore.... 90% of which exists solely to re-inforce the boundarys between the ruling class and the rest of us proles.
Westminster is stunning and would be a massive tourist pull. The money made from visitors would go to pay for the top quality, total restoration that it deserves. Id love to go see all the hidden parts that scum like me have been barred from since 1847. Politicians don't own Westminster. The country does.
The Palace of Westminster is an amazing asset to the UK. Its far too important to be bodged just so politicians can continue to feel special. They aren't and shipping them out of Westminster into a modern workplace, might begin to make them understand that.
What do you think ?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/21/palace-wes...
Update here:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/02/jo...
Bercow said:
“Yet I will tell you in all candour that unless management of the very highest quality and a not inconsequential sum of public money are deployed on this estate over the next ten years that [moving out of the building] will be the outcome.”
“management of the very highest quality" & £3bn..... neither are available at the moment. So lets just do it properly and build a new parliament.....
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/02/jo...
Bercow said:
“Yet I will tell you in all candour that unless management of the very highest quality and a not inconsequential sum of public money are deployed on this estate over the next ten years that [moving out of the building] will be the outcome.”
“management of the very highest quality" & £3bn..... neither are available at the moment. So lets just do it properly and build a new parliament.....
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