Thread by @RachaelLoftus

For just over a year now I’ve known the building I live in is dangerously unsafe.

I’ve spent £8k for people to be on site but not make it any safer.
I’ve spent £3k on a temporary alarm.
I’ve spent £1k on additional insurance.

I’ve spent countless sleepless nights.

I’ve spent countless hours learning about fire safety and leasehold law.

I’ve sent countless emails to my freeholder, managing agent and to government. Most without reply.

I’ve met fellow leaseholders.

I’ve heard how their lives are being disrupted, their relationships strained and their hopes for the future threatened.

I’ve not met anyone who hasn’t paid a high price - personally and actually - already.

I go to bed every night wondering if it would be worse to wake up to an alarm, or to not wake up at all.

I wake up every morning wondering if there’ll be another twist, another problem or just another bill.

I spend my whole day working, knowing I have earned nothing.

There is consensus that the buildings our flats are in have dangerous materials and deadly faults.

There is consensus from everyone that I *shouldn’t* have to pay again (and again) for my flat to be as safe as the developers and building control promised when I bought it.

I have no options open to me. I’m completely at the mercy of the terms of my lease that promise I’ll pay “maintenance”.

This isn’t maintenance. It’s fatal defects on an industrial scale.

Only government can put that common sense reading of the situation into law and help to pursue those who profiteered from cutting corners in the first place.

We need @GOVUK to understand, to care and to vote to #EndOurCladdingScandal