So the people who are being rehomed in the luxury flats have been told that they will not have any access to the VIP features in those flats.
Got to have some way to remind them they aren’t worthy of living there i suppose…
So Kensington Row have said they can’t use the cinema and pool facilities unless they pay the annual fee… I wonder how much that is..? Would you not think that given the circumstances would waive that. I mean Jesus Christ, give these people a break!
aye from what I’m reading they were never actually going to be rehoused in the luxury building, it’s a completely different adjacent building, just built by the same company? It’s like it was deliberately mis-reported so that people would think the state was doing them this massive good turn, when actually they’re just being put in ordinary social housing they would have been rehoused in anyway – they’re just getting bumped up the cue, which they’re obviously entitled to be… the whole thing is dodgy as fuck
JFC this is DISGUSTING, trying to villainize this man for having a faulty fridge when the quality of housing is what let the fire get so big and deadly. The point is that a building that is well-made according to reasonable regulations wouldn’t become an inferno due to one faulty fridge. It doesn’t matter what started the fire, it’s the fact that it grew so big because corners were cut in making the building safe and livable. Fuck DailyMail and anyone blaming this man for what happened.
Like I’ve said in loads of other posts, this is a coordinated attack by the government AND the media.
The media are the ones that shape public perception and find excuses for every catastrophic mistake the Tory government makes. It is the media that has turned people in the UK, although it’s far worse in England, against immigrants and the disabled and everyone they disagree with.
The Tories are a massive bunch of wankers but it’s the media that cosy up to them and will publish any perspective to get a story. That’s ‘journalist’ opinion pieces where they criticise the working class for being lazy or when they publish the endless streams of shite as they follow Theresa May around the country to repeat what she’s said everywhere.
We then get this ridiculous notion of ‘media impartiality’ where ‘all sides must be heard’ so they can drag some arsehole UKIP representative to comment on something. UKIP have been represented on hundreds of BBC Question times despite never having MPs or anything. The BBC giving airtime to twats like Nigel Farage or the EDL has shaped public opinion over the past 10-15 years.
Now we’ve got the scum at the daily Mail attacking a guy for something that could have happened to anyone rather than on the fucking incompetence of a corrupt local council and a government-enforced austerity policy.
Most people are beginning to click that the media isn’t some random channel where we’re told what’s going on. It’s just a bunch of perspectives and it’s mostly the perspectives of total arseholes.
The rise of different media is changing things. Blogs are changing the way the public has access to information.
Fuck the mainstream media as it doesn’t do anyone any favours.
Seriously. I spent the morning after Christmas sitting outside my building on a cold sidewalk wearing pajamas and a bathrobe because someone had a small kitchen appliance fire, praying we weren’t about to become a newspaper headline.
BUT our landlord hasn’t skimped on fire safety. Fire alarms got us all out of bed and outside. Sprinklers contained the damages to one room in one apartment – the fire Department didn’t even need to bring in their own hose. Only that one tenant even had smoke damage. After the drywall and neighboring carpet was replaced, you probably couldn’t even tell it happened. The rest of us could laugh it off and go back home.
What we went through is what kitchen fires in large multi-family buildings in the developed world OUGHT to be like.
JFC this is DISGUSTING, trying to villainize this man for having a faulty fridge when the quality of housing is what let the fire get so big and deadly. The point is that a building that is well-made according to reasonable regulations wouldn’t become an inferno due to one faulty fridge. It doesn’t matter what started the fire, it’s the fact that it grew so big because corners were cut in making the building safe and livable. Fuck DailyMail and anyone blaming this man for what happened.
Like I’ve said in loads of other posts, this is a coordinated attack by the government AND the media.
The media are the ones that shape public perception and find excuses for every catastrophic mistake the Tory government makes. It is the media that has turned people in the UK, although it’s far worse in England, against immigrants and the disabled and everyone they disagree with.
The Tories are a massive bunch of wankers but it’s the media that cosy up to them and will publish any perspective to get a story. That’s ‘journalist’ opinion pieces where they criticise the working class for being lazy or when they publish the endless streams of shite as they follow Theresa May around the country to repeat what she’s said everywhere.
We then get this ridiculous notion of ‘media impartiality’ where ‘all sides must be heard’ so they can drag some arsehole UKIP representative to comment on something. UKIP have been represented on hundreds of BBC Question times despite never having MPs or anything. The BBC giving airtime to twats like Nigel Farage or the EDL has shaped public opinion over the past 10-15 years.
Now we’ve got the scum at the daily Mail attacking a guy for something that could have happened to anyone rather than on the fucking incompetence of a corrupt local council and a government-enforced austerity policy.
Most people are beginning to click that the media isn’t some random channel where we’re told what’s going on. It’s just a bunch of perspectives and it’s mostly the perspectives of total arseholes.
The rise of different media is changing things. Blogs are changing the way the public has access to information.
Fuck the mainstream media as it doesn’t do anyone any favours.
We’ve got people being offered housing in Manchester, a man that just lost his wife being forced to put his terrified children in another high rise, a man that lost his wife being shunted into an old folks home and case closed. And they’ve got no choice or they get this “walked out of the system voluntarily” label and that’s that.
Enough is enough, this is sick.
I’ve know the trap of ‘intentional homelessness’ make people suicidal in this country. It sends people mad. They can’t do this to them
How to Gentrify:
Destroy working class lives and homes through decades of tactical neglect;
Deport working class survivors away from their jobs and support networks after their homes finally burn down;
Presumably build new homes for the “productive classes” (i.e., real estate speculators and Russian gangsters);
Get your boot-licking peons in the media to call anyone who objects a Bolshevik
the people in grenfell died because they were poor.
the people in grenfell died because their landlord chose to spend money on flammable cladding because rich tenants in nearby penthouses didn’t like the ugly council building ruining their view.
the people in grenfell died because their landlord chose not to spend money on a centralised fire system or sprinklers or an additional fire escape.
the people in grenfell died because the tories voted against a law that would force landlords to make their buildings inhabitable and safe for their tenants.
the people in grenfell died because of the privatisation of social housing.
the people in grenfell burnt to death with their children in their arms because they were poor.
📣📣📣 this is a public service announcement for those following the grenfell tower story abroad 📣📣📣
a lot of the foreign press seems to ignore the main tenents of the story so if you may here is a brief breakdown of why it’s shaping up to be a defining national moment in the uk:
***the housing tower is located in north kensington. it is social housing for poor and working class londoners of which a huge number are BME. the borough of kensington and chelsea is the richest in london and marked by devastating inequality and gentrification that some poorer residents describe as social cleansing. non-luxury housing in london is generally a huge issue that has gone unaddressed for decades now, and privatisation of social housing provision has meant that profit motive and cost cutting have been strongly featured in poor people’s housing. race, housing and poverty are also tightly linked in london; this was a poor and ethnically diverse community as you can see if you watch videos from the scene. first victims we knew that sadly perished were a black british female photographer and her mum, and and a syrian refugee.
***the council is tory and they have done less and less for the housing of its poorer residents and more to accommodate wealthy people. for example, the council is sitting on 300 million in cash reserves yet somehow didn’t find cash to install basic fire sprinklers that the residents asked for? not only that but the 8 billion refurbishment that included the now notorious cladding was partly done for insulation but partly also to make the ugly 1970s council estate look more aesthetically pleasing for the swanky neighbourhoods nearby. the more flammable material used in the cladding saved the building contractor a whopping £5000
***government has been tory for the past 7 years and the order of the day has been austerity. public services have been cut to the bone and so has local authority funding. social housing managers who often work for subcontracted private providers paid by the council have a huge case load. they are encouraged to spend less and less time on health and safety (including fire safety) and more on asking intrusive questions about people’s jobs and incomes because of the tory culture of dividing people into the “deserving and undeserving poor” ie those who work and those who don’t. people on benefits are not prioritised when it comes to housing despite individual circumstances, which is why in grenfell you had 70 year olds with limited mobility living on the 22nd floor.
***uk has probably the most entrenched class system in the world and trashing of the working classes and the poor is almost a national hobby for some people. right-wing tabloid media is extremely powerful and they paint a picture of benefit cheats and non-working immigrants even though most poor people in britain work (they are the new working poor who have terrible wages and live in squalid and unaffordable housing) and most BME people were born here, they’re not immigrants
***if you are poor you are largely voiceless and meaningless to this neoliberal tory government. the tenants had written letters raising concerns about fire safety and in response were threatened with legal action. of course they couldn’t respond because tories have cut legal aid because of… yes, austerity. meanwhile tory ministers have been sitting on reports about fire safety in council flats including one from a coroner of a case where six people died in a housing block in south london in 2009. the prime minister didn’t meet the people affected at the scene and the response has generally been very poor. local council has been nowhere to be seen and the donations have come from ordinary people – proper working class solidarity in the face of state that treats them with utter contempt.
TL;DR: austerity kills, gentrification kills, indifference kills. people want justice, they are angry. why did up to 150 people die? this was preventable – it’s scandalous, horrific. it’s like poor people’s lives don’t matter in britain – a hurricane katrina moment for the uk. so please watch videos of THE PEOPLE, poor and working class londoners, who are suffering and expressing anger. don’t listen to theresa may, tories and the bbc trying to sanitise the story. this has everything to do with inequality, poverty, race and most of all CLASS. make those people visible again and help us change things because honestly this is the breaking point and we don’t need people spreading a false narrative abroad. cheers, peace out
Armed with signs stamped with “JUSTICE FOR GRENFELL” and “NEVER AGAIN,” protesters took to the streets of London on Friday afternoon to call for justice for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.
The blaze, which began in the early hours of June 14, claimed at least 30 lives, with dozens more reportedly still unaccounted for.
On Friday, protesters flooded the streets to demonstrate against the British government’s response to the disaster, with particular ire reserved for Prime Minister Theresa May. Read more (6/16/17)
Other tower blocks nearby are in need of ‘refurbishment’. Watch this fire be used an excuse to tear them down and gentrify the area instead with platitudes made about ‘affordable housing’ being included in new developments. Watch the working class be forced out of the area like the council wanted all along.
Capitalism. Private Property. Landlords. Policing. All working as designed.
‘I feel like the government are trying to kill us to force us out’
BBC lady: ‘ umm don’t say a bad word, you’ll offend people’
what’s offensive? what’s fuckin offensive
the BBC being as impartial as ever, this time by arguing against the opinions of a local resident about their own thoughts on a long standing push to destroy their home and drive them out.
Do not let their voices fall on deaf ears, spread their words and let the truth be known.
one of the reason the block burnt so intensely and rapidly is believed to be the outside plastic covering which was put on so the building won’t be an eyesore for the rich neighbours.
It’s no wonder he thinks it might not be an accident, for the way working class people in Britain are treated it may as well have been intentional even if the fire instead as accidental.
A thought occurred to me when I saw the BBC headline this morning of the Queen and Prince William visiting the area of the Grenfell tower fire. A fire that has left 17 people confirmed dead with 76 missing.
Buckingham Palace: Receives £370m for refurbishment.
Grenfell Tower: Doesn’t receive £300,000 for a sprinkler system.
As pointed out by numerous voices, one example being Aamer Anwar, these people died because they were poor. They continually raised awareness that fire alarms didn’t work and lifts repeatedly stopped.
People jumped.
People who were on the lower floors hurled whatever they could at windows to try and wake people up. They are at outside the incident now wondering whether they should have bothered as they think it would have been better if their neighbours had died from smoke inhalation in their sleep rather than in a panic to escape.
Aamer Anwar, human rights lawyer and current rector of Glasgow University, has said that a government inquiry is not good enough as it allows the government to set the parameters. He pointed out examples like the Hillsborough disaster and Bloody Sunday and how the government continually white washes these to make no one, especially the government, look at fault.
He wants an independent inquiry and a criminal investigation. This happened as a result of Tory austerity and cuts to both social housing and to the emergency services. That blood is on their hands.
When Boris Johnson was mayor of London he oversaw the closures of dozens of fire stations. We had Labour leader to Tony Blair, John McTernan, saying that ‘Only 2% of a fireman’s time is spent fighting fires.’ You cannot afford to cut emergency services to save a quick buck. Austerity does not work.
According to Akala, rapper and poet, rich people living nearby complained that the tower block was an eyesore and urged a refurbishment. This refurbishment results in ‘pretty panels’ being placed on the outside, according to Aamer Anwar these panels assisted the fire.
This is an absolute tragedy and it exposes the utter corruption at the heart of government and in Tory austerity policy. Like Anwar, we fucking hope it ends in criminal charges.
BBC has confirmed the death toll has risen to 30. Fire chiefs expect it to be higher.
They’ve said they don’t expect to find any survivors and there’s still over 100 people missing. Some could be outside and unaccounted for but that still leaves a lot of people.
Note that this was social housing, so a lot of the people here were disabled.
Many of which were also housed on the upper floors.
Floors that the fire brigade simply couldn’t reach. They only had equipment to get to the 11th floor. Surely the government must have known this.
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