There's a metaphor here. I'm just having trouble finding it:
The Palace of Westminster, Britain’s gorgeous seat of Parliament, is crumbling, with leaky pipes, hazardous, antiquated wiring and roofs that threaten to collapse. It is slowly sinking into the banks of the River Thames. And then there is the asbestos, and the rats.
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The mechanical and electrical infrastructure is “no longer fit for purpose,” the report said, and the risk of a “catastrophic failure” is increasing. The heating is bad, and even the clock tower that houses Big Ben leans 18 inches from vertical.
It'll come to me.
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