🔥 Grenfell Fire

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I’m re-warching The Thick of it for then umpteenth time.

There’s a great scene in series 2 where the Minister, Hugh Abbot, thinks he’s about to lose his job and he’s waiting for Malcolm Tucker to finish discussing his future with the PM.

Tucker comes out and says “there’s going to be a public inquiry”.

Hugh Abbot falls to his knees, punches the air and shouts yes, yes, thank you, thank you !

The implication being thst all the pressure will go and a friendly judge will exonerate him.

And so it is with Grenfell with one exception - the obfuscating and water-muddying inquiry will trash the lives of people whose only crime was turning up to put out a fire that behaved like nothing they’d ever seen before.

At the end we’ll have 80 odd people dead, and councillors and corporations whose decisions made it impossible to save more will walk off to their detached houses with a slap on their wrists.

It’s not right.

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And she’s only one of 7 that have pulled this shit. Truly depressing.

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She had done the same in another work place before!

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https://twitter.com/Toxic_Shop/status/1057368290304184323

https://twitter.com/fbunational/status/1062295037109813248

https://twitter.com/PeteApps/status/1070645821958443008

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https://twitter.com/UCLan/status/1086199337741414401

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/grenfell-cladding-removal-tower-blocks-time-scale-government-response-a9012941.html

https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1180378767736365056?s=09

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It was ever thus. We deserve better, but i won’t be holding my breath. Brexit is a golden opportunity to bury a multitude of sins. I would guarantee that the end of October will be used to cover up all sorts.

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So it seems the fire service is being thrown under the bus. More people would have survived if the fire service had acted differently, in a situation that is unprecedented due to a lack of safety standards and use of improper building materials.

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It’s a disgrace that this has been leaked and a disgrace that the Telegraph see fit to publish these allegations.
Did the fire brigade clad the building?

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I know. If we are looking for cause and effect surely you need to look at the deaths that could have been avoided if correct materials had been used. Maybe that is covered in the report too just not being mentioned by the MSM? I won’t hold my breath.

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I have read that the building cladding etc will be in a second phase. Some say that should have been done first. Now we will just have thr firebrigade are at fault and the rest will either ot happen or be v quiet about it and we will all move on.
Building next to us is apparently having their cladding changed. It is not a v high building. It is built just like ours. So no flames on our balcony and we should be good…

I’d be one of those people.

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