🔥 Grenfell Fire

No surprises there. Fucking shameful.

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Even more so in the wake of the relevations last night. It is a great shame that we live in a society where so much time and effort is spent in ensuring the rich get richer whilst the disadvanted are buggered. Can only hope that the floating voters who have been proping up the Tories are getting the picture now.

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Is this still being covered up, or have we been sufficiently distracted by Strictly and Panorama so that the guilty can now walk away untroubled by the law?

Despite the initial outcry I fear there will be little justice here.

Not surprised at all.

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Lives lost/preventitive expenditure…government has obvoiusly worked out the figures. :lou_facepalm_2:

And people still vote for the Tories?

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(No I’m not saying any of the rest are any better btw)

Absolute scum - the Govt that is

These fuckers cannot be serious?

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https://twitter.com/benmckenna/status/995294498942083072

https://twitter.com/Gian_TCatt/status/1007334592175591424

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One year on. It’s frightening how people forget. This should have been a game changing moment, a wake up call.

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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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