Weird Granny Slater wrote:You really must get out more, Cap’n.
The fire at Grenfell Tower is political way beyond your imaginings, not because it has been ‘politicised’ by various of your bogey politicians, bogey Trotskyists or bogey fascists, but because how we live is a political issue. The fact that some of us live in safe mansions in rural acres and some of us in urban wardrobes in dangerous tower blocks is a political issue. The latter is a necessary condition of the former, and indicates the frankly obscene disparity in wealth and power in this country.
The desperate residents of tower blocks in Kensington have lived (and now died) with this stark reality on their doorstep, and the appalling fire has merely provided a focus for their anger in an economy in which quite a few seem to have done rather well out of ‘austerity.’
And by the way, do not underestimate the intelligence of others. Like many of us, the residents of tower blocks are more than capable of thinking and acting for themselves, and will resist being led by the nose by the SWP, Britain First or any other failed political grouping, despite what those great organs of truthfulness, The Sun and the Standard, have to say about it.
I first read stuff like this 40 years ago as a young teenager, nothing has changed and it never will, inequality is part of life. Unless you live in N Korea or Cuba where they're all equally poor. Still, organise a protest if it makes you feel better.
This is a tragedy of unimaginable proportions and whilst I'm no fan of Mrs May and her govt to blame them is ridiculous.
As for austerity, whatever it means, it seems that people are very quick to blame govt who stop giving them other people's money. Our politicians are dreadful, too oblivious and scared to tell us that we're drowning in debt.