#grenfell tower
There has never been a hypocrisy in modern British politics as tragic as the Tory response to the Grenfell Tower fire.
While Theresa May assessed the situation in private - no chance for her to be jeered at there, eh? - a certain Minister for Policing and Fire was receiving a very interesting assignment.
Yes, Nick Hurd, MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner, is now the Chair of the Response Committee for the Grenfall disaster.
Why should you care?
Nick Hurd was also one of the 71 MPs who voted against legislation requiring landlords ensure their properties are fit for human habitation. The legislation that could have saved 17+ lives had it been passed and enforced,
Yeah,thatNick Hurd.
Hyprocrisy, thy name is Tory faux-compassion and thy ain’t wanted here thanks very much.
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I want to apologize for my absence recently. In the past two weeks I’ve gotten some more bad news in an already difficult time. This week especially. So I will be absent for a while to spend some time coping and making a game plan.
I do want to say one thing: I know I’m not in the U.K. but it is the island of my ancestors.
I want to send each every one of you Brits my deepest condolences and also my love in regards to the tragedy at the Grenfell tower. Seeing what was once a home to so many and is now a tomb has gutted me and so many of my fellow Americans, especially because it was something that could’ve been avoided.
But seeing so many of you out helping and supporting your communities is so wonderfully uplifting, especially in light of what you’ve been put through this year alone.
You’re good eggs, my British friends. Take care of yourselves and I’ll be back soon.
Some of the many graffiti murals seen around the UK since the Grenfell Tower fire on the 14th of June 2017, which killed at least 72 residents of the social housing block.
The blaze exposed deep corruption and indifference among Britain’s richest people and the millionaire politicians who do their bidding in Parliament, from the fact that the highly flammable cladding responsible for the blaze was added so that the building would be more attractive to rich people in nearby luxury tower blocks, to the fact that Tory politicians (overwhelming landlords themselves) had voted down a bill to require landlords to ensure that the properties they rented were “fit for human habitation”, to the fact that local Tory councillors had deliberately chosen a more fire-prone cladding to save money – the same local government that forced Grenfell survivors to bid against each other for new homes and then paid the same company that installed the flammable cladding to replace it.
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