(17-06-2017 14:54 )wackawoo Wrote: ... this is not about politcs.
You are being deliberately obtuse. It is absurd to say that this is not a political situation. You are casting aside all context to make an utterly spurious argument.
It's about politics because remarkably similar fires, one in another London borough, had claimed lives in recent years. Changes to regulations were supposed to be made at Governmental level and were not. Austerity and a certain pervading political ideology encouraged the local council here to, reportedly, cut corners in specific areas of the refurb whilst holding back an enlarged warchest against even harder times. May might not have been the figurehead behind these things and, I agree, it is disingenuous to blame her specifically for this incident, but she is part of the overall problem with her indifference to these issues just as she is to yours with your struggles to keep your benefits.
(May has also not helped herself with the inhumanity she has exhibited in the aftermath to this event, and her inability to stray from the script in response to questions about the same.)
The point is that what we have all witnessed this week was NOT a completely natural disaster, nor a terrorist incident say, that can take any and all from this earth without fear or favour. This was not an indiscriminate act but had a specific 'underclass' in focus. It was a disaster that simply would never have come close to happening, in the way it did here, in any affluent area of this country.
The initial spark the other night looks to have been accidental but successive UK governments (shamefully of multiple hues) have been complicit in stoking its combustibility with numerous years of indifference, neglect and penny-pinching ways. The eventual death toll, whatever the sickening number we finally reach, was entirely avoidable. As such
a lot of the anger we are seeing from the locals is not engineered I feel but eminently justified.
Call out obvious political opportunism by all means but let's not cheapen these people's deaths by letting people wash their hands of enabling the situation which allowed it to happen.