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Shades of Hillsborough here in 'Blame the victims', and I don't say that lightly. There was a solicitor on Newsnight last night who'd represented families from a previous tower block fire in 2009 (forget the name of it *), who quoted Hillsborough. She was adamant that an inquest, not a public inquiry, was the way to go in that an public enquiry can be controlled by the establishment and authorities, whereas an inquest can't. Ironically, the opposite of what we got really in that the Taylor Report was castigated by Ingham as a whitewash because they couldn't control him, but the inquest put that ridiculous, arbitrary nonsense of not allowing any evidence of what happened after 3.15 (and that WAS the hand of government on Popper's throat).
Good luck to them, but our whole system in this country revolves around paying various agencies (now more privatised than not) astronomical sums for their responsibility, that is then pushed back down to the lowest common denominator when asked to be held to account. You only need look at the difference between Belgium prosecuting authority figures for Heysel, and we held nobody to account for Hillsborough bar the fans.
Looking at the readers' comments on the article Frank quotes, and you cn see where this narrative is going. Some where even calling for them to be re-housed in 'Their own countries' and that they shouldn't have all been up cooking at that time of night. Yeah, blame the Paki and his Turkish fridge. Ask no questions why a fire in tower block is supposed, by design, to be contained in that flat. And certainly ask no questions why Tennant Management Managers were paying themselves £650k a ****ing year to do what a £30k a year council employee used to do, because it's not for bearing the responsibility - just watch as everyone involved, who were happy enough to take the cash from the public 'Magic money tree' that doesn't exist for nurses and firefighters, chuck the buck back down to the poorest and voiceless.
