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Surely if the repair cost to Westminster is £4 billion, which would no doubt rise during works

 

There must be a business case for repair to be untenable and a new purpose built parliament for even £1 billion proposed

 

Within this should contain the House of Lords being disbanded allowing cost savings going forward also

 

or maybe we should just repair it anyway without a seconds thought whilst austerity, restriction of doctors terms and conditions continue etc etc 

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31 minutes ago, biffer said:

There's an important point to be made here where we have to separate the argument for repairing and preserving a fantastic historic building from any political arguments about what goes on inside it. 

Who normally funds the upkeep of public historic buildings , is it our taxes or does it come from private donations, grants etc? I genuinely dont know. I agree that no matter how much you dislike what goes on inside it , there is no denying it is a magnificent building. If private donations nornally fund or part fund these things i cant see why some spectacularly rich folk cant stick their hand in their pocket. There is enough of them around. 

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If they turned it into a museum and charged for entry or even allowed it to be an exclusive party venue for the elite they could make some kind of business case for it.

Then build a modern parliament in Hull or somewhere.

But no. Tradition. Blighty. British. World Standing.

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Its a scandalous price to pay, and will no doubt end up being much higher than £4 billion.

However, the UK Government needs to be in London, and should be in an iconic building. London is on of the top 5 or so global cities, and not having our (:() capital there, and placing it in some (English) midlands location would be ridiculous.

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22 minutes ago, kumnio said:

However, the UK Government needs to be in London, and should be in an iconic building. London is on of the top 5 or so global cities, and not having our (:() capital there, and placing it in some (English) midlands location would be ridiculous.

It wouldn't be unprecedented...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_multiple_capitals

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sell it to a developer. could be a museum and hotel. building would be maintained. use proceeds of sale to build a new parliament building or better reconvert an existing building. you cant have Government imposing austerity cuts impacting on vulnerable members of society over the their term in office and then with the same breath approving a £4bn improvement project. shockingly hypocritical and the fact there is not yet any real anger about this just shows how subdued the electorate is and how the media on the whole are happy to be the mouthpiece for elitist, greedy, self serving arseholes.

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18 hours ago, kumnio said:

Its a scandalous price to pay, and will no doubt end up being much higher than £4 billion.

However, the UK Government needs to be in London, and should be in an iconic building. London is on of the top 5 or so global cities, and not having our (:() capital there, and placing it in some (English) midlands location would be ridiculous.

Billy Brit ^^^

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19 hours ago, kumnio said:

Its a scandalous price to pay, and will no doubt end up being much higher than £4 billion.

However, the UK Government needs to be in London, and should be in an iconic building. London is on of the top 5 or so global cities, and not having our (:() capital there, and placing it in some (English) midlands location would be ridiculous.

Plenty countries don't have their capital in their major city - Australia, Canada, Brasil, USA, Scotland. Probably loads more. 

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2 hours ago, Orraloon said:

Plenty countries don't have their capital in their major city - Australia, Canada, Brasil, USA, Scotland. Probably loads more. 

One thing all those countries have in common - with the exception of Scotland - is that they have a federal system.

Arguably, Edinburgh is Scotland's major city, not Glasgow.  It used to be said that Edinburgh had all the establishment functions, ie. Parliament and government, the legal fraternity and the professions.  Glasgow had the industry the trade and the money.

Following the Union of 1707, Edinburgh lost the government and parliament but of course that's now back again and getting more important by every week.  Glasgow lost the heavy industry and trade last century and while the transformation of Glasgow as a city has been fantastic, I can't see it has a claim to be Scotland's major city any more.

It is the largest city but even that is under threat as Edinburgh's population is likely to exceed Glasgow's.

I'll get the tin hat on, but Edinburgh, post devolution is way more important than Glasgow. 

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34 minutes ago, aaid said:

One thing all those countries have in common - with the exception of Scotland - is that they have a federal system.

Arguably, Edinburgh is Scotland's major city, not Glasgow.  It used to be said that Edinburgh had all the establishment functions, ie. Parliament and government, the legal fraternity and the professions.  Glasgow had the industry the trade and the money.

Following the Union of 1707, Edinburgh lost the government and parliament but of course that's now back again and getting more important by every week.  Glasgow lost the heavy industry and trade last century and while the transformation of Glasgow as a city has been fantastic, I can't see it has a claim to be Scotland's major city any more.

It is the largest city but even that is under threat as Edinburgh's population is likely to exceed Glasgow's.

I'll get the tin hat on, but Edinburgh, post devolution is way more important than Glasgow. 

:lol: You don't even have a underground FFS. 

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