Local authorities will be able to order the demolition of buildings at the centre of coronavirus outbreaks under draconian powers to contain a potential second wave.Boris Johnson remains determined to avoid a second nationwide lockdown and has given a broad range of powers to local councils to contain outbreaks as soon as they are detected.
Given that Johnson and Cummings have had it, maybe we should bulldoze 10 Downing Street as well.
Please don't insult people's intelligence. Stupid headline!
eyemagistus eminent domain meets real estate opportunity
Can we start with No. 10 & Dominic Cummings's house in Durham?
Rubbish - total scaremongering as usual
They are draconian like the rules imposed during the plague in England or at least Scotland. The difference being the destruction of buildings whereas during the plague they buried places. Either way people were deprived of their homes and in the latter they lost their lives.
Perhaps there should be a protest about this... people aren’t seeing further than their next hair cut or pint... there’s barely any infrastructure to support people in as it is. This goes ahead there’ll be another crisis down the road for him to be hero of
This is all about control! Covid is an excuse for it! Read about the financial reset which many people are preparing themselves. It is global and it is all about control! Prepare yourselves
Oh god. This again?! Got to keep the fear and hysteria up though, haven’t we?
Like what would that achieve? Soundz like its from the Nazi playbook.
How long does Boris think a virus can survive, without a host..? Bulldozing buildings has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with covid19. 🤬
this is not new. i think this was set into law in 2015
This indicates that the Corona pandemic is more dangerous than it was to human lives and threatens their existence.
Is only me or this is beyond scary super powers government are giving to local authorities This is really scary!!
Our government, ladies and gentlemen
This sounds so stupid it could have be thought up by tRUmp. The virus does not hang around in buildings for weeks. Is this guy in competition for dumbest leader? He won't beat tRUmp but it's really something to watch him try.
My oh my ...the Telegraph is becoming DULL. You've trotted out this b*llsh*t everyday for a week ... Are you a Newspaper or an Oldspaper ?
The virus is not out of control, its the idiots who run the country and the world who are.
. What a joke
Do you think the property developers and fund managers might be behind this “initiative”?
Then we will have civil war.
Thats plain stupid. How does that sort out a fake virus.
Though, coincidentally, only on sites property developers want their hands on. Can see a few cosy dinners and political bungs.
😂😂😂😜
Why do you believe this fake news anywsy? More fools you.
Madness.... what’s wrong with a Rentokil deep clean and fogging Also, doesn’t this virus die after 72 hours on surfaces? The madness of group think.
Bollocks
There is no building more contaminated by agents harmful to the uk than the house of commons. It is overrun by kleptoparasites who have no intention of doing good to any but themselves. The Augean stables needs clearing. 3.5%
With the infected inside them?
Communist
Don’t be stupid. False story as usual.
This story is already a week old. It's not even yesterday's news ... it's an historical record. News ? My ass. 🙄
Why are you still peddling this fake sorry?
Utter madness ! The politics of the Madhouse !
Stupidity knows no bounds 😷
Bit of an over kill!! I thought soap and water kills the virus? 🤷♂️🤷♂️
More scare and diversion talk by the government- what are they asking you to hide for them today This story is behind a paywall that 98% of us are not going to pass thru - therefore we just get the headline - and that’s just designed to keep the narrative alive
Civilisations rise and fall .... we are currently in a fall.
This has nothing to do with coronavirus, and everything to do with Tories creating cheap land for their donors.
Be hopes they don't demolish the hospitals
Ridiculous.. Ever heard of cleaning?
God you talk a lot of bollocks. The fear mongering is getting embarrassing now. What about Mosques? How about if there is an out of control outbreak there? No didn't think so.
Can we start with the Guardian newspaper building always infected and virus super spreaders
The offices of The Telegraph could be bulldozed to make way for new apartment developments as a last resort if the virus starts to run out of control.
So you can’t decontaminate🤔 in the words of a famous philosopher “I don’t believe it”😂😂😂😂
Clearly, just a disguise to get rid of unsightly tower blocks, council houses etc. But this is a strange statement when the ever trustworthy BBC are saying UV light kills the 'virus'
Considering the number of government ministers that have become infected with coronavirus perhaps it would be wise to start with Number 10 Downing Street? 🤔
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What utter bollocks. Rope a building off for 3 or 4 days and it decontaminates itself.
So how does this go? A Tory donor says that he’d like to build a new development and the government knocks one down for him to then build over, all under the pretence of beating covid?
If this senseless stupidity is actioned then nearly all hospitals, nursing homes, food plants etc may be knocked down. Whoever thinks that this is logical might need to find work elsewhere.
Idiocy par excellence
Absolute rubbish! Does anyone believe this would ever happen? Grow up MSM!
How ridiculous!,
This will place huge powers in the hands of pro EU leftist liberals out to demolish the govt.
Sounds like a ploy just to build new properties, ie gentrification of the slums.
What a Brainwave! Knock every other house down and all the Pubs, that will solve the social distancing problem at a stroke! `Taxi!, Hell please, have you room for my Handcart?`
SyHawkes Which one of their best donaters gets the contract or which company they got shares in gets it...unbelievable corruption & capitalism & this regime is right in the centre of it & could of prevent it so quickly UTTERLY SHAMEFUL & DISGUSTING
julia13_julia13 First it’s statues now it’s buildings . People will be next .
Erm
wut........
If they're doing this with the homes... what do they plan to do to the people?
ahh taking tips from 1666
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allisonpearson crazy new rules
NickFerrariLBC GaryLineker TomSwarbrick1 sophieraworth JamesMelville
That won’t stop the virus, but it’s a good excuse to seize and reorganize resources. And by good I don’t mean moral. I suppose rounding up the single and older women and Gypsies for witch trials is next. This has happened before.
Since the virus doesn't surivive that long outside a human body, wouldn't simply leaving the premises empty and unoccupied for a week or two be just as effective and a bit less drastic?
How dare they Its their flippin fault that this should even be considered If Bojo/ Hancock had followed January g/ lines re Covid we wouldnt be in this mess They should both resign Catherine retired senior nurse 🌹🚩✊
Bulldoze your own house mate
Preposterous!
My sons are in lockdown in care homes, I virtually can't see them they have no life
Is this a joke
That's fucking insane.
Well some of the care homes I’ve need knocking down COVID or not
A fish rots from the head down says the proverb. Righty let's demo Westminster first then No. 10.
By this rationale we should be knocking down hospitals hand over fist. I wonder if newspapers like the Telegraph are happy to know they are aiding such corruption.
Thats ridiculous its transmission is via people too what we going to kill them as well
Erm, what? It's not novichok, the virus is destroyed by soap and dies anyway within a few days if the building is vacated.
Another money scam. Buildings can be seized (social housing in London for example) demolished and sold off. Redevelopment opportunities for rich investors.
That or cleaning
Bulldozers ha!
Huh?
Insane- bulldozing a contaminated building would spread virus particles far and wide. Not to mention it being about as stupid an idea as I’ve ever heard CaptainMonty69 brianLG95303116
Boris got a taste for the bulldozer last time then? What bs.
That's totally insane
Has April's Fools Day come early?
Why? The virus only reproduces inside people. Buildings are not a threat.
Jesus H. Christ, just when we think they couldn't stoop any lower.
It's becoming increasingly obvious that we could replace Boris with a headless chicken caught in a perpetual panic attack and be in safer hands. History will look back on that moment he was trapped on a zip wire as the pinacle of his political career.
Dramatic, highly unlikely headline alert!!!
In other words - Uses every possible option available to waste tax payers money on overpriced , friends , donors properties and shady construction companies without procurement tenders.
I wouldn't put it past them to do this with people still inside the buildings 😂
How about his property and the estate he run to
Contagious buildings.
This 'new' power has been around since 1984. Nothing new here.
It only rests on surfaces for 3 days. Yet more government madness.
It's a virus not the HS2
Will that included where Boris and Cummings have live.?
This fucker needs stopping by any means possible. We are at War....with our own fucking government
This is our PrimeMinister!!!
It's just Telegraph spin - councils told they can exercise existing powers under control of diseases law That law tries to cover every eventuality/disease Which means contained within it (for past 30+ years) is power to seize & destroy contaminated property *where appropriate*
Who is this man who speaks to me as though I need his advice?
😂😂😂 and who'd be rebuilding them? Companies who donate to the tories, obviously. No wonder you're championing bulldozing instead of cleaning
So it’s a property scam next then. Those Tories do love a scam.
Private property rights no longer exist in the UK
This buildings spreading the virus thing - I don't want to alarm anyone but I spotted a small cottage with Durham number plates speeding down the A11 yesterday....
How does a bulldozer get rid of a tiny virus?
This is just bullshit. Doesn't the virus survive for just 72 hours?
This is what happens when you don't pay attention to the scum you put in office.
That’s a tad extreme! How about appropriate decontamination and cleaning instead? BorisJohnson Covid19UK
Boris has completely lost the plot.
It only lasts 72 hours on surfaces and can be broken down using soap and bleach. Why are they talking about bulldozers? They need to fix track trace and isolate, along with associated financial support.
More Dog Whistling.
This is one of the most badly researched scare stories of the whole pandemic time. Utter bollox underneath a clickbait headline.
Disaster Capitalism as the final solution to kill off the elderly and working classes ...
This is NONESENSE.. a virus needs the host to replicate.. the longest the COVID-19 can survive is 3 days.. in perfect conditions. Tory diversion and smoke screen again..
Jesus what next burn the infected too ... This is all down to .BorisJohnson .10DowningStreet incompetence More interested in £££ and roubles than british lives
1st it was HandsFaceSpace now it's levelling whole buildings to kill and stop the spread of COVID-19 You couldn't make this shit up.
We've all had that moment when cleaning when we've just thought 'burn it, burn it with 🔥', but didn't think I'd ever hear the gov propose it! 😂
🙏
Are they insane? This isn't smallpox. What next - crosses on doors and lime pits? You enabled this. You paid him. You backed him. You and your so called profession own all the crap they dump on citizens - lock, stock and barrel.
Cummings
Or they could track and trace, conduct even a small amount of testing, where’s that app we were promised?
What utter bollocks.
How stupid can you get? Its a virus. Deep clean. Better ventilate. Redesign the layout. Better newer equipment or furniture - YES - bulldoze the building moronic and half witted
So you’ve given up on an app that works and on a functioning TrackAndTrace system. It’s easier to just tear down buildings.
Probably the best plan yet after keeping borders open 👌🏼
Can we fill the buildings with Tories before we demolish them please.......pretty please?
Who's more gormless for thinking there might be any point to this - Cummings, or your editor?
Use napalm. It's the safest option.
Tear up the roads and motorways, why don’t you? Bonkers Govt. Aided and abetted by the Telegraph, Mail etc.,
What shit is this? Honestly.
Huzzah Let’s really start destroying Britain!
I would start with 10 Downing Street....can't get more contaminated!
RossignolUK Can’t believe how much he fooled his voters
What? deprived of a host for replication, the virus only has a limited lifespan unless it's frozen. Is this yet another story to divert attention from yet another unspeakable act by this unspeakable govt?
WTf? Terraces will look weird if just one house in the middle goes, or do uncontaminated homes go too? Farcical.
JCB are Tory donors...
Don't be so bloody silly. FFS
They can be cleaned ? What is all this?
Who else smells a scam, this smells like a 6 days old fish crate on Brixham quay
Can we take a similar approach if (when/ retroactively because already has...) the government goes out of control?
that's not going to help. Covid isn't a bushfire. Stop talking rubbish.
Its a lie
Ohhhh, I wonder who’d get that contract. It would be a shocking surprise if it was a friend of a friend, Tory donor spec housing magnate.
agirlandme I thought things were bad here, in the USA!😵That's a trump level of craziness. I swear we're sharing 'brothers from another mother'🍀🎱😵🍀😶🎱😷🍀
Schools? 🤞
Oh they've finally gone full Nazi now!
What's the betting this happens to rented homes in the public sector where the private sector could do very nicely, thank you.
This is horrific.
Excellent. The DowningStDickhead claims he had it and he lurked around the House of Commons for weeks. As did Raab and Prime Minister Cummings. Send in the bulldozers!
Let me guess Manchester City Council (the worst in the UK) will now use this as a threat if you can’t afford your council Tax. The stupidity of these people really is disgusting.
VintiquesMark I assume they'll let the people leave the buildings first?
Literally insane.
Is that before Christmas or after when it's under control?
If you just left the place empty for a week, that would pretty much sort it ... this looks like the bunch of idiots have decided to throw an other 'dead cat' out ...are they hiding something worse
Cobblers. Who writes this Crap.
Presumably with the ppl in them because it seems bleach cleans surfaces and it’s the ppl that spread the disease.
This is an utterly bonkers proposal and they know it. It's just allowing developers to raze buildings to the ground.
Other than as another money making scheme for Tory cronies this makes zero sense. Just deep clean the places & leave them empty for a short period.
A Cummings deat cat.
This is actually fake news and a disgraceful headline designed to shock and enrage people. It's just one power in a raft of powers in existing legislation that may be enacted. It isn't far removed from claiming that shooting a Welshman after midnight in Chester is lawful.
That is one big dead cat right there.
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 Genius comment. Fauci where are u. This almost trumps Trump.
Wait, what ? Surely there are safer and more scientifically advanced ways.
What an utterly stupid idea and an even more stupid paper for reporting and propagating it.
jb_1969 Bit much. Just an excuse to give LAs powers to do what they like. What’s wrong with a high clean. piersmorgan queenchristina_
I know a contaminated House.
Are these the thoughts of Dominic Cummings, our true Prime Minister in the absence of the betwattled Bozo🤡👹😵
Oooh what a surprise!!! Just recently they talked about their Build Build Build bonanza (do some wrecking first eh!). Podgy fingers Stuffed in Pies! ‘Slums of the future’ may spring from relaxed England planning rules, experts warn
DanLeMac It’s a bit like Tory donors might own construction firms that build houses and other buildings. I’m sure Jenrick could broker a good deal to get tax payers’ money in donor pockets
Have you turned into the Sunday Sport?
This is utter madness
SandraDunn1955 How about 10 Downing Street? It is contaminated with this tub of lard.
Do they plan to vacate them first ? Or ....
What virus?
MarkHalliwell1 Would all these buildings be on the HS2 route by any chance?
Can anybody enlighten me on what sort of drugs the medics are treating our Crime minster with? I'm sure there are better anti psychotic meds on the market that actually work!
Any evidence this is necessary? Or just a chance of clearance for developer chums?
Well we can start with number 10🤔😡
And as our Tory Govt is delivering a ‘world beating’ response to COVID__19 , why would it suddenly run out of control? Or have we been sold yet another Pup? If only we had a ‘World Beating’ track & trace system!
How ridiculous is this going to get?
Do please add your premises to this list, right at the top. Let's see if the press (I am being generous here) running out of control can be stopped.
Surely the buildings can just wash their hands in soap and water while singing the National Anthem twice, or have we all been sold a Pup?
Oh wouldn’t it be a crying shame if it got into the Telegraph offices...
No other country is talking about demolishing buildings to contain corona That could be any building where someone who had covid19 was present So these powers will be used whenever some developer wants to build luxury flats
How about Cummings place - it was built without permission and it does need decontaminating
*The House Of Lords* overcrowded Places are dangerous and and riddled with Viruses *Amongst Other Things*
This is just nuts. Why bulldoze a building when you can just clean it?
Not very scientific. The reaction of a show-off trying to appear to be tough. Pathetic man
Let’s distract the nation from our abject failure to get track and trace sorted. I know let’s float some crazy idea .... we can always deny it afterwards.
Why not just clean them? Do they not understand?
Mmmm is there something they aren’t telling us about the virus? If buildings can become too contaminated to let stand, why can we go in a pub or a shop?
So, is washing hands effective; or is amputation now considered a last resort?
How long does it last on concrete?
Wow, that’s extreme measures. What happened to the good old deep clean?
the tory shitshow is out of control
Stark raving bonkers!
Bulldozed ., The virus will still be there .. what a stupid idea .. I’m sorry but is her an idiot just like Trump !!!
What on Earth are they talking about. Knocking down bricks isn’t going to kill a virus!
With people inside Nothing surprises me...
STEADY!!!!! Don't be alarmed BoJo himself will lie down in front of the bulldozers We have 'his word' on this
More business opportunities for big Tory backers JCB! BuildBuildBuild
And to think someone gets paid comes up with this crap.
Pathetic… I really hope your old readership wake up to you soon.
Build , build build. I mean , Demolish , demolish , demolish.
That’s one of the most over exaggerated nonsense I’ve ever heard. Mind you there’s a minute number of people who support Hancock & think injecting a virus into their bloodstream is a good idea 👀 Stockholm syndrome is going to kill so many people.
WHAT!!!
DamianGreen More space for Brexit lorry parks
WHAT! How’s that going to help? 🤷🏼♀️
Best bulldoze the hospitals then........ are these idiots for real?
Madness. Just empty the building, seal it for a while then deep clean it.
Aaah so that's what BJ meant by Build, Build, Build
What law are they pushing through now that they use this as a deliberate distraction tactic
Its time for this government to go. If they haven't learnt from the first wave that we must to learn to live with it, then we are all doomed. They will ruin our lives. I work in the nhs and we are constantly surprised by lower than expected covid numbers. Government must go
Your paper comes out with some amount of shite!
Paywall click bait. Anyone read it and able to précis the concept?
No 10 Downing Street has had a few cases within its walls so...
pdeppisch
😱😱😲😳😳😖😖😆😆
BettGunther So thats what he meant when he said he was gonna build build build.. hes gonna demolish and rebuild.. 🙈😡 🤷♀️
Actually it’d be easier and result in the same thing if parliament got bulldozed during a 3 line tory whip.
hipwiggler Why don't Conservatives just wait and isolate the premises for 72 hours instead? wouldn't that be much more cost effective? cc Keir_Starmer EdwardJDavey LaylaMoran
He wants you to think he's now taking the problem seriously.
Whaat?!
Ever seen those houses where people have left rubbish contaminated food and worse and they have to send the specialist cleaners in? Well they don't demolish those properties do they? What next?
Suppose this is one way you enable a private takeover of any business they deem profitable
This effin guy.......
You might want to consider other options before you start the wrecking ball.
I think to most people it is clear what the Telegraph has become… burn your own homes to the ground and leave the rest of us alone. Thanks.
You are kidding right...
Not sure how leaving people homeless when staying home works, is a good strategy
Isn't cleaning them less expensive?
See Johnson...Corona sees you for exactly what you are..and to be frank doesn't care..it will treat you with the same contempt as you have treated the majority of the population...
Claim that buildings can’t be ‘Cleaned’ so that their developer mates can get in. Perhaps they’ve got some cladded buildings in mind🤔
more utter rubbish from The Telegraph...
Crazy is as crazy does
Farmhouses near Barnard Castle ?
Are they really that stupid or desperate? I know they've messed up at every opportunity but please. It's just getting ridiculous now.
HOC better watch out 😂
What will you do with the residents?
I can’t read the article to fathom why anyone would suggest this were a reasonable plan.
lol , what ?
'Après moi, le déluge'
Barmy. I doubt Westminster is on the list.
Ppl are still too stupid to see the globalist agenda of complete destruction
Guessing some lucrative rebuilding contracts coming to a Tory fundraiser near you...
So what do we do. Burn every single building down where theres an outbreak?
Has the telegraph been hacked
This is just extreme scaremongering. If a twenty second hand wash can get rid of the virus then maybe just buy some disinfectant. Ridiculous.
Mousehole1 Oh that should get the public on side!
FFS who voted for these morons?
Not open to abuse at all! Cleaning might be the better option plus emptying the building of people for a week.
Click bait title, well done.
I understood the virus only exists on surfaces for a few days - it makes more sense to quarantine them
Didn't a load of people in Downing Street catch it?
The government have taken on such extreme powers they have become almost a totalitarian regime. Never thought I would see a U.K. government with powers to expropriate and demolish private property. People need to wake up this government is just bonkers
And what if Covid stands outside until it’s done.
And then what? It might be a better idea to prevent the virus getting out of control-or shoud that be “getting further out of control?
AgiBergman This government could watch a care home being bulldozed, while having no idea what to do with its living inhabitants!
Deflection nonsense article
Debbiejeannedb How about we start this process with 10DowningStreet & UKParliament - there’s been a nasty virus running through there for long enough now.
Could they not just vacate the premises for the three days it can survive on hard surfaces? Bit extreme like.
Utterly batshit
Build, build, build changed to Demolish, demolish, demolish?
mirabarhillel That would please his army of property developer donors🏠
Bulldoze them so you can build build build and you all get richer.
Sensationalist nonsense
Is Boris' brain okay?
Johnson said this would be all over by June now they’re knocking down every building going
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