If only their response to 72 poor people dying in the Grenfell Tower fire was as swift and wide-reaching as their response to a millionaire Conservative MP being stabbed.
Do you think the issues of Grenfell could have been solved by immediate action? I think an enquiry to figure out what went wrong was necessary.
You also seem to think there’s been a swift, wide reaching response to the MP’s murder. I’m not sure what that is, since this policy proposal has merely been mooted.
Or rather, not nothing. Live human watchmen are patrolling hundreds of buildings and will wake everyone up in case there’s a fire; because there are no fire alarms and if a fire does break out, you have no time to spare at all. Oh and the residents have to pay for this.
But the people who built these, designed them, accepted as safe, or indeed set the regulation, that’s all fine.
https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/insight/waking-watch...
So unless you can afford to abandon them, there’s no option but to pray and stay. Heck, you might be paying a mortgage on it!
Of course if you are a council house renter, as many inhabitants are, then you can’t move out anyway, you’re there because you have no other options.
Here[1] is the Director of Policy at the British Safety Council commenting "Even allowing for the tardiness of statute and government process, two years on from the catastrophic events of Grenfell, the lack of tangible change to the underlying root causes and systemic failures is quite frankly lamentable." and that was in 2019, two years after it and now two years ago.
Edit: My original comment was too snarky and politically aggressive for the HN guidelines, and it is the case that there were £200M allocated for building improvements and that a huge police investigation takes time and charges of corporate manslaughter may still be brought in due time.
[1] https://www.britsafe.org/publications/safety-management-maga...