Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
For me, Grenfell was a consequence of thirty eight years of doing things on the cheap by Conservative and Labour Governments in terms of the quality of work being done and the trimming of things like Health and Safety Regulations. It could and should have been a wake up call which might have led to a more effective response to the virus, but, typically, it produced nothing but sympathy and hollow words at the time and was then, effectively, booted into the long grass.