The Grenfell
Tower Fire had all the threads:
·
Huge inequality in the
country’s richest borough.
·
Emergency services cut to the
bone by ideologically driven austerity
·
Emergency workers who hadn’t
had a pay rise in years but still ran towards danger
·
Work that used to be done by
the public sector contracted out to private sector (with shareholders demanding
a profit)
·
To save a few pounds the
council fitted flammable panels that looked better to the tower’s wealthy
neighbours
·
A government that repeatedly
kicked into touch better building regulation as ‘unnecessary red tape’
·
A party with over 70 landlords
also voting against making homes ‘fit for human habitation’
·
A PM who looked cold an callous
at the time and who’s since turned her back on the victims
·
To date many are still in
“temporary accommodation”
·
The prospect of anybody ever
being held to account is, at best, years away but more likely will never
happpen
