Christ. Listening to #MagnusPod no. 169: Fire Escape, the day after the #BuildingSafetyBill passes, is harrowing. Every politician, especially @RobertJenrick @ChrisPincher @team_greenhalgh should listen to the first 10 mins. https://play.acast.com/s/themagnusarchives/mag169-fireescape
@TheRustyQuill @EOCS_Official

Please remember #MagnusPod is a horror podcast, and this thread contains words that are intended to unsettle people. Unfortunately, it hits way too close to home at the moment. But be brave. Face your fears. #MakeYourStatement. #EndOurCladdingScandal

@mhclg @UKHouseofLords @CommonsHCLG. Read. Listen. Reflect. #EndOurCladdingScandal

"Home. Such a simple word. Home – not house, not dwelling, not residence or address, not domicile or flat or lodging or abode or apartment or property or accommodation. Home."

"A structure of brick or wood or concrete or canvas. A box in which you pack yourself away when the long day is done. A book neatly closed and placed snugly on a shelf.

There’s no place like home. An Englishman’s home is his castle. Home is where the heart is."

"And home is where that heart can be hurt most severely, because within that place of safety, the warm and welcoming embrace of the cramped and well-trod floors whose layout has ingrained itself into your soul, there you are most vulnerable." #mentalhealth #EndOurCladdingScandal

"Your home is an extension of yourself, as much as you will let it be, and the place and the people and the things that form it and fill it are as much a part of you as your blood. As your bile. As your tears."

"Perhaps you know the feeling that comes rushing over you when your home is compromised, invaded, corrupted. Perhaps a burglary gives lie to the promise of safety you took from a flimsy front door and a cheap lock."

"Maybe the dirt and grime builds up to such a degree that the stench begins to infect your soul, or an infestation of moths or ants or bed bugs stretches itself throughout the very structure of your home until it feels like your skin is squirming with them."

"You may even find yourself living with a hostile, toxic presence, whether they be family, friend, or stranger, that poisons your home, turning blessed relief and rest from the tribulations of the world into a choking fog of anxiety and fear."

"Such are the dangers of a rotten home."

"But how many truly control their home? How many have extended their soul into the walls of a place that exists only at the whim of those who would let them die in the street were it not for the gain that can be squeezed from them." #MagnusPod #EndOurCladdingScandal

"A home that you can not control, that you cannot even be sure will exist with the turning of the seasons. Where stability and peace rot in calamity, exist only at the behest of faceless names that lace themselves throughout labyrinthine paperwork." #EndOurCladdingScandal

Do you smell smoke? Do you smell the creeping ruin of a life, a stalking creature of unmaintained electricals, of cheap insulation, of cutting corners and missing fire alarms and unenforced safety regulations?
#EndOurCladdingScandal #BuildingSafetyScandal

"Do you see it creeping under the door to your bedroom as you sleep, the burning coals of its eyes regarding you in the supposed safety of your home, not indifferent but hungry, eager to take everything from you, to burn down your life in any sense it can reach."

"Can you hear the crackling promise of kindled despair that it whispers into your uneasy, dreaming ear?"

#EndOurCladdingScandal #notjustcladding

@TheRustyQuill Our homes, our safety, our minds, our health, are all affected. The Governement @BorisJohnson @RobertJenrick won't act to protect leaseholders. We are all victims of the Desolation. But we will #FaceOurFears. We will fight on. We will #EndOurCladdingScandal

Thank you @jonnywaistcoat for your words. They convey the horrors of the #BuildingSafetyCrisis and #BuildingSafetyScandal far better than I could. I hope that those affected read this and find strength. I hope that those in power read this and understand our fear. @RobertJenrick