Playing politics? I don’t buy it. The people of the UK are angry and will no longer be ignored.

One can’t help but look at the Grenfell Tower inferno and ask why.  Why was this allowed to happen?  Both sides of the political spectrum have had their input although with the Conservatives being the ruling party for seven years they’re obviously fighting a difficult battle.

Labour, on the other hand, are the ones that are able to point the finger at their political opponents when it comes to looking for blame.  In fact, some say Labour may have gone too far and are now entering the realms of gaining politically for this.

I refuse to accept this argument from anyone that blames Muslims for terrorism and looks to automatically put that responsibility at the door of every single Muslim.  The Sun’s front page following Hillsborough looked for blame, trouble is it looked in the wrong areas.

Following a disaster, it is a natural reaction to look for someone to blame.  It’s also the best time.  Right now, since when it was first safe to do so, I shall imagine police and fire officers are raking through the debris looking for clues as to how the fire got to be so bad.  They’re looking for blame.  Investigative journalism should be the same.

I like everyone else first heard about the fire when I woke up on Wednesday morning.  I put the radio on at 7 am Central European Time and heard that there was a fire at a tower block in West London.  It sounded like they were giving it wall to wall coverage. 

I drifted in and out of sleep but when I finally woke up properly I took a look at Twitter and it was full of the news.  One thing that I saw being shared a lot was screenshots of a blog called the Grenfell Action Group.  The post in action was dated on 20^th of November 2016.

The first sentence reads thus “It is a truly terrifying thought but the Grenfell Action Group firmly believe that only a catastrophic event will expose the ineptitude and incompetence of our landlord, the  KCTMO, and bring an end to the dangerous living conditions and neglect of health and safety legislation that they inflict upon their tenants and leaseholders.” How prophetic.

The strong language goes on, you can read it for yourself if you wish but the last words of the blog are “They can’t say they haven’t been warned!” True enough.

If there are any positives to come out of this it is that the media aren’t telling the people what is going on, this is run by the people and you can’t hide from them, they are everywhere.

The people that you’re seeing on social media sharing their anger are the people that live in the area.  I saw Andrea Leadsom being heckled, at least she had the guts to go there, by a local resident.  These are the people who have every right to be getting angry over this.  They’re politicising it and quite rightly.

Theresa May has handled this appallingly.  Oh, how I bet she wishes she could go back a week when she was only a laughing stock for giving up her parliamentary majority.  Now she’s a laughing stock for refusing to meet survivors due to security concerns.  “Hold my crown” joked one Twitter correspondent as he commented on how the 91-year-old monarch showed no such cowardice.

Obviously, Jeremy Corbyn has come in for a bit of stick for also politicising it.  The people of that area are feeling like no-one is listening to them.  Corbyn visiting them at the very least has given them hope.  He has only echoed their concerns.  People have died, the survivors want answers.  Corbyn telling them that he will strive to find those answers is what they want to hear.

Corbyn’s record speaks for itself, he’ll support these people and he’ll get the answers they seek.

Early indications show that the cladding is responsible for why the fire spread so quickly.  The reason why the cladding was necessary is because the building looked “ugly” for those that had to look from their £2 million “pad”.  I wonder if they’re enjoying the view today?

Someone has already done a bit of investigative journalism on this and apparently each piece of this cladding cost £2 less than its less flammable equivalent, making a total saving of £5,000.

£5,000? Is that the price of safety? Is this the price of life? I wonder how much per person that will work out to be once the final death toll is announced. The death toll currently stands at 58 so at the moment it’s a saving of about £86.20 per person.