Why stop at that incident when you could have compared it to the Holocaust? What's the point of such comparisons?
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Think of this when communicating with Sludge!!
https://youtu.be/zP8V0k4wRrk
Maybe not, but it is an interesting comparison nevertheless.
Even one day on it looks as if the government and donor response to the (state owned) Notre Dame fire has been much greater than to Grenfell Tower where 72 innocent people died in horrific circumstances.
Heritage valued more than lives?
It is very sad to see the destruction in Paris, and I hope the building can be restored. But there is always a choice about how resources are used and what is a priority. Grenfell survivors would have had a much easier life in the last 22 months if they had been given 400m euros by billionaire well-wishers, and I bet the French government will be quicker and more effective than Theresa May's useless administration has been.
Knock it down and build a block of flats for the homeless.
Funny how they have been donated all this money to rebuild a decking church ......which if god existed he would have saved from the fire ....yet thousands of the city's poor are struggling in run down housing estates on the fringes of the city
And god fearing right winger Theresa may has decieded all the churches in this country will ring their bells in support of Paris this Thursday , the start of holy week
What a load of utter cobblers religion and state symbolism is
Think of what could be done to help those in need with all that money pledged
What a fecking disgrace
I am surprised they aren't all wearing black and having a funeral
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-t...-idUSKBN15E2QL
What a waste of money.
The thing is the place is owned by the french state not by the church.
Let them pay for it themselves, maybe put up taxes to pay for it and see how the "Yellow vests" like them apples.
This is a country that dislikes us, the British because we beat them so often and saved them from the peril of the hun twice. They have not and never will forgive us.
They declared war on this country 6 times in less than 100 years, and lost every one. some of those wars were instigated in the name of the church who originally owned the place. The last time they declared war it was with the clearly stated intent of wiping the British nation and it's way of life from the face of the earth and from history. Feck their monument!
Even in the 2nd WW we weren't 'allowed' to bomb the Germans in Paris in case we damaged their precious buildings. I don't ever recall reading anything about them protesting about the Germans bombing Buckingham Palace or St Pancras, or the poor buggers in the East end, or trying to demolish St Paul's.
I also don't recall them rushing to offer funds to rebuild Windsor castle when that caught fire!!!!
Euros mate? Couple of Sovs. Sod your euros. 😆
It wasn't a bad rant off the cuff was It? 😁
Dislikes us???? I’ll take issue with you on that one. Didn’t you go to Euro16? The ceremonies displaying thanks to British forces were humbling. The huge ‘Merci’ & ‘Thank You’ murals near Amiens station looked superb. The immaculate way the graves of the fallen of all nations, but particularly ours, are tended. Don’t know if you’re on a piss take but a few days in Northern France visiting museums, cemeteries etc would change your mind on the French nation’s attitude towards us.
I agree with you thwre. It's the french political aristo cracy that dislike us. The average french guy is a sound as you or I
Quasimodo and son have already got their bids in
They said they’d fix the bells, the bells first
It's not their aristocracy, it's their political 'aristocracy' or political elite if you will. They cut off the heads of all their aristocrats and a few thousand others people just didn't like and accused of being anti-republic in the great Terror. Nice peeps the french. :hehe: