In a sign of the times you can’t even go to the bog any more in parliament. Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete strikes again…
It’s still coming up in the Commons. Raac was first discovered in “one area of the palace” back in 2023. It has since popped up around the place. Male residents of Upper Committee Corridor North have today found themselves barred from the bog thanks to “RAAC issues.” They’ve got to cart themselves down to the central lobbies for the loos there. What a stinker…
The cost of repairing crumbling parliament will overshoot the entire England and Wales police budget by quite some way, as well as taking 70 years. That’s a lot of extended trips to the working loos. Just in case you thought the place was glamorous…
UPDATE: Parliamentary authorities have got rid of the RAAC sign now. The bog is still locked.
Speaking on Times Radio, former Home Secretary David Blunkett spoke about overdiagnosis of mental problems:
“Let’s distinguish those who are really severely mentally ill, diagnosed with things that require prolonged medical and diagnostic treatment. My wife and I talk about this a lot, because she’s a retired GP, about the fact that you can be sad without being ill. You can be momentarily depressed because your boyfriend or girlfriend’s just thrown you and you’re not mentally ill. You can even have mild issues, which can be dealt with with the right kind of support, but it doesn’t make you mentally ill. So we’ve got a real task, I think, to get the psychology, if you like, of this over. But there are things where you definitely need medical intervention, and there are other things where you need good friends, you need good connectivity, and you need a job.”
