Grenfell Report

[sadoldgit]

Not surprising but the report is pretty damning.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2024/sep/04/grenfell-tower-inquiry-report-published-survivors-victims-government-latest-updates

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/04/world/europe/grenfell-tower-fire-inquiry-report-uk.html

Edited September 4 by sadoldgit

[Gloucester Saint]

Copied from another thread, didn’t see one had started here

Grenfell Inquiry report finally in. All the various deregulations of agencies have led to is an £170m bill paid for by us for the enquiry alone and 72 losses of life. None of the political parties emerge with much if any credit, and a lot of bullshitting and ‘that’ll do’ mentality without evidence and anywhere near sufficient testing leading to failure of the product markets and by the companies. This should lead to much better regulation of the construction and insulation industries but we know it won’t, the lobbyists and newspapers will be at it again.  

Not good for the council or fire brigade either. I can’t share it as seeing it on Apple News but The Telegraph’s article is very good and states that the chief fire safety officer or equivalent at the council was ex-fire brigade but seemingly falsified qualifications and was left with around 650 properties to oversee post-austerity. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c049yvrd5qxo

Watch the tail end of this documentary from 1984 which was primarily about the very poor construction of high rises which caused the likes of the Ronan Point disaster in 1968 but comes onto future risks from fire when the buildings were starting to be renovated

 

[Gloucester Saint]

One bit of learning from the Post Office Enquiry is that it shouldn’t be taking anywhere near as long as it does to make corporate manslaughter and other serious charges stick, especially when there’s just been a lengthy public enquiry. To say that the Met and CPS are needing to go through the enquiry evidence for a further 2-3 years simply doesn’t cut it. It’s just giving some of the parties a window to escape to somewhere without extradition treaties with their illegal earnings. Get the assets frozen.

Edited September 4 by Gloucester Saint

[badgerx16]

Surely there must somewhere be a mention of the immigrant's drug lab that burst into flames ?

[Gloucester Saint]

5 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

Surely there must somewhere be a mention of the immigrant's drug lab that burst into flames ?

Another GM gem, along with the predictions on Deutsche Bank, numerous elections etc. 

Difference was that this was in particularly poor taste when he posted it.

[sadoldgit]

There is a lot of derision at the so called ‘Nanny State.’ but this is where deregulation gets you.

Sadly the criminal prosecution will take time because they can’t use the information from the inquiry in the case. Starmer  made a strong speech just now and hopefully pressure will be applied on the CJS to bring prosecutions as quickly as possible. They are talking about 18 months to 2 years though.