Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Grenfell Tower: Petition
If, like me, you have been monumentally shaken by what happened on Wednesday at Grenfell Tower you may be interested in signing this electronic petition as I did last night.
I do not normally share things like this, but I thank my lucky stars that the worst that might happen to me if there was a fire and I had to decide between the flames and jumping is a couple of broken legs. If you feel the same way then put your mark on this. Believe it or not you would be surprised to know that politicians do actually listen to these kinds of protests!
I hope that Haringey are looking very, very closely at this and rapidly re calibrating their risk assessments!
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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When you know post it here...
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Permalink Reply by maggie on
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Thanks Justin.
The lack of care over ensuring safe housing is criminal. For the lack of a sprinkler system and penny pinching so many people yet again have died unnecasarily. Poor people living in poor and dangerous housing even when they themselves knew it was dangerous- its a total disgrace.
Two hundred fire fighters entered that blazing tower block knowing that with proper fire, health and safety enforcement of previous recommendations they should not be having to put their lives in danger.
The fire service, along with police and NHS, has against all advice been cut so badly that those fire fighters had to keep going back in and fighting for so many hours because they did not have the resources to be relieved.
We are still one of the wealthies countries in the world but our priority, which should be to look after the health and safety of our people, has become distorted and severely undermined. Decent, safe housing and adequately funded services should be a given in our society, it is shameful that they are not.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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The flats were originally designed so that a fire in one of them would be self contained. I have seen tower blocks with one obviously burnt out flat before.
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One of the original architects has stated that in its original state the block would not have burned; the enquiry should reveal further evidence.
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Permalink Reply by Mavic Starfish on
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According to Parliament's register of interests at the time, 72 of the MPs who voted down the amendment on homes being “fit for human habitation” were themselves landlords who derived an income from a property.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-vote-down-law-...
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/16/manufacturer-of-cla...
Cladding for Grenfell Tower was cheaper, more flammable option
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Thanks for posting this Justin.
What has added to my despair over this disaster are the stories that are emerging of both residents warning of exactly this happening at Grenfell Tower and that successive governments have ignored, again and again, warnings and recommendations following other fires.
It's good that the PM has said that the enquiry will be open but there needs to be constant pressure for it to be treated as a matter of urgency (so as not turn into another Chilcot saga) and an absolutely commitment that the outcome of the enquiry will be both acted on and properly funded.
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I hope they leave the tower as it is but put a big red bow on top of it to placate the residents living around it for whom the cladding was put on. I hope that they also manufacture an enormous red ribbon and leave it at the base, cut in half.
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Crispy Mick from Tottenham fire crew, we salute you
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Where can I get a "❤️ Crispy Mick" t-shirt?
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Permalink Reply by L F T Snowflake on
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its not in Westminster, its in Kensington and Chelsea.
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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The British Red Cross are raising funds - I've just donated here: https://beta.redcross.org.uk/appeal/London-fire-relief-fund
There is an Evening Standard fund too.
Like others have said, just the most heart-breakingly awful thing. And watching the failure of local and national government to deal with the immediate aftermath is pretty dreadful too.
Love crispy Mick though! :)
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