Chapter 696: Woe is me
On the matter of the transformation of London’s urban areas alone, the emergence of the smog incident is certainly a good thing. Just Alan Wilson can’t express it, or the families of the thousands of deaths won’t accept it.
London this time the alteration and resettlement provisions, almost one to one copy of shantytown renovation of the security provisions of the copy.
But there are no consequences for millionaires when the word demolition is sprayed. It is good to be able to replace the new house one to one! With the current UK finances, compensation payments and the like must not account for much.
House for house is the main resettlement method of this London remodeling, of course during this period of residential expenses, the City of London will give a certain amount of compensation at its discretion.
Without the expanded capacity of British Malaya to cover the bottom, with the United Kingdom itself is very difficult to do, not to mention the East End of London is an industrial zone, factory relocation will certainly affect the capacity of the.
Alan Wilson an overseas commissioner, and the local officials have obvious differences. If the most different places there are two main points, one is a strong backer, one is bold enough, both complement each other.
Because of the Mountbatten family as a backer, he dared to intervene in any risky matters, and the final result was not bad. Only then has not been considered stumbling to this day.
Has been defined as a major people’s livelihood projects in London reconstruction, he this time is extremely attentive, as well as the Cabinet Secretary Norman Brooke’s help, in the Cabinet Secretary before he is the Ministry of Reconstruction of the Executive Deputy Minister. In fact, it was the permanent undersecretary at the Ministry of Reconstruction!
Post-war reconstruction planning are from the hand of Norman Brooke, there is such a cabinet secretary in the field of construction is not less than the emperor of the apocalypse, Alan Wilson’s planning is naturally like a fish out of water.
“Never in the history of Britain has such a livelihood project been carried out.” Norman Brooke expressed his admiration for Alan Wilson’s house-for-house idea, and he now agreed that the smoke incident had indeed been a boon in this case.
“The countries of the Soviet system don’t seem to be unfamiliar with this model. Eastern European countries have allocated housing.” Alan Wilson turned the tables and did not forget that he was reliable, “Of course the country conditions are different, but for cost reasons, this is still profitable and should keep the construction real estate agents happy.”
After all, the integration from bungalow to building, a house into a seven-storey building, the land saved is still valuable, this is London, in the world speaking is considered a first-tier city, inches of land.
The policy of exchanging houses for flats can reduce the floor area of houses and give these lands to real estate developers for development, so that the real estate developers can make profits and the London Municipal Government can also have a free time, which is the best of both worlds.
In practice, as the value of resettlement housing in the Eastern District may be lower, the amount of compensation may also be pulled down. So, first of all, you should make sure that the house of your own that is categorized for demolition is a resettlement house.
This East London will ultimately save land area, but also conducive to the concentration of population, some places to learn a little bit of the Soviet Union is not a big deal, you can change a not so soviet say well.
If this matter can have a good result, it is possible that the East End of London will become the stronghold of the Labor Party for a long time. In fact, the East End of London is now dominated by Labor supporters.
“In case you don’t know, the Prime Minister has come down hard to support this program.” Norman Brooke mentioned Prime Minister Adderley’s kinks.
It was natural for everything to go well, but if there were too many constraints on the matter resulting in an unsatisfactory outcome? You know what it would mean to the ruling party if a traditional box office region were to fall on its sword.
“Honorable Sir, just leave it to me, didn’t the Prime Minister say that we need to combine the best of capitalism and socialism!” Alan Wilson patted his chest and snapped, stating that he would do his best to get this done.
At such a time, he still has time and Fei Wenli liaison, side question, about the new British national treasure Audrey Hepburn’s recent situation, bent to admit the mistake, this young actress is their own arrangements.
Look at the telegram Vivien Lei can think out, Ellen Wilson do thieves guilty look, but there is no way, the same in the return telegram among the implied that she did know Audrey Hepburn, the young actress, suspected of having a relationship with their own loved ones have not a clear relationship.
But she is still willing to give Audrey Hepburn a chance to Roman Holiday script to her, Fei Wenli hope that this telegram can make her lover understand, her good intentions.
Unfortunately, Alan Wilson did not have time to read, he is doing a, the previous life, but in the United Kingdom is very rare thing, flood relief.
The North Atlantic Ocean has the title of stormy ocean in February formed a huge storm, huge waves are wrapped by the wind, all the way towards the English Channel, typhoons against the waves towards the coastline of the coastal countries approaching the coastline.
Ferries between England and France have been lost in the storm, and the effects of the storm go far beyond that. Alan Wilson, who is in London, has gotten word that the sea has backed up from the Thames Estuary.
“Predictably, this flood is budding.” Seeing the =dark clouds of alcohol in the sky that would not dissipate, and memories of the European floods of 1953 coming to mind, Alan Wilson arrived in Whitehall in his raincoat.
After Norman Brooke expressed the seriousness of the situation, it is imperative that the dykes should be cast immediately in the Thames estuary, not soft now London has just suffered from the London smog event is less than two months, the impact has only just dissipated a little bit, for the citizens of London at this time, even worse.
“According to the shipping side of the news, we ship has been ferry lost in the channel, there are one hundred and thirty-three ferry passengers on it, I do not want to be too pessimistic, but they may be fierce.”
With wind and rain and turbid waves in danger of breaking, the waters of the Thames estuary have begun to back up. London was in danger of being submerged in seawater, and of course Holland was in greater danger, only he couldn’t care less about Holland right now.
“There’s only a national emergency now, and only the Prime Minister has that power.” Norman Brooke picked up the phone straight away, arranging a meeting between himself and the Prime Minister, then fluctuating the city council’s phone, “Arrange for the city council to rule the evacuation of citizens on both sides of the Thames.”
“Can’t we just actively fight this flood?” Alan Wilson suggested solemnly.
“Alan!” Norman Brooke looked straight at Alan Wilson, but the latter didn’t duck and didn’t see anything wrong with it, “Well, you can get involved if you can mobilize the citizens of London.”
“I’m always doing bad things in the colonies, I should do something worthwhile to make up for it too.” Alan Wilson readily accepted and left Whitehall straight away to report to City Hall.
Two hours later, Airdrie’s Cabinet announced over the radio that the North Atlantic storm had caused the waters of the Thames Estuary to back up. London was in danger of being submerged in seawater, and the government solemnly decided that Britain was in a state of national emergency.
It was in the afternoon, when the tide was at a low ebb, and it was estimated that the tide did not rise to its highest peak until four o’clock in the morning. As the wind grew stronger, gradually developing into a north-westerly, the sea became more and more rough and more ships were in trouble.
The expected low tide did not occur and the water had reached as high as at high tide, which had not yet arrived. It was therefore estimated that this would result in the water level rising even higher during the tide. So imagine what happens when a hurricane holds high water levels hostage.
London has never been so bustling since the war, with police in downtown London, blowing whistles to guide mobilized people to the Thames, and heavy trucks carrying tools to reinforce the embankment.
In the East End of London, the citizens of the East End, who had endured the tragic casualties of the smog incident over a month earlier, were mobilized.
Alan Wilson was among them, and he was now at the Thames, witnessing the flooding that he had not thought of until it was too late, which is to say that London was the center city of England, where all decisions could be made immediately, and where the war had not been over for several years.
Even the smog incident that had just passed had a positive effect, otherwise the citizens of London would never have reacted so quickly.
With the faint sound of thunder, heavy rain was still falling on people, but the whole Thames was lit up on both sides, and people along the river were carrying sandbags, not sparing any effort to reinforce the riverbank.
This is probably something that has never happened in London before, there are constantly people chanting slogans, and get a large number of people enthusiastically responded to, this day on the hundreds of thousands of British citizens, in the face of the sea water backing up the Thames, took to the embankment to fight against it.
The winds in the English Channel had reached force ten and the tide was rising. Radio broadcasts from all over London are informing every household in London about the situation on the Thames. At this moment, the attention of the eight million citizens of London is on the Thames.
The constant broadcasts from the government have brought the citizens of London almost back to the days of World War II, only now London is no longer facing German bombs, but a natural storm.
A steady stream of citizens came out of their homes and decided to join in this fight against the flooding, and throughout the day, the dykes on both sides of the Thames grew higher and higher in the face of the ever-higher waters pouring in.
Across the channel, the dykes along the coast of the famous Low Countries of Holland had been breached by the sea, and the coastal provinces of Holland were already in the midst of a sea of water.
The tide rose to its highest peak in the early hours of the morning, the wind was at its highest, and disaster struck, beginning with the breaking of the dykes and the breaching of the coastal dykes everywhere. Then the floodwaters flowed into people’s settlements with such speed. Countless people in their sleep were swept into the waters.
London was lucky compared to the Dutch, England was not a lowland country, and the sea water, although pouring in from the Thames. But it also happens to be the most important city of the United Kingdom invaded London, just after the smog incident of the Adderley Cabinet, also no longer want to once to let the support rate fell, took out the wartime measures to cope with.