Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
It must be heartbreaking to hear their stories.
On a side note, a West Indian missed his mother's funeral due to being refused entry, revealed as part of the Windrush story. The Home Office has a lot to answer for.
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[News] Grenfell
- Thread starter Official Old Man
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It must be heartbreaking to hear their stories.
On a side note, a West Indian missed his mother's funeral due to being refused entry, revealed as part of the Windrush story. The Home Office has a lot to answer for.
smillie's garden
Am I evil?
- Aug 11, 2003
- 2,602
Much like how the chap, sitting on the park bench, with a tin foil hat, talks about chem trails quite loudly? Got it.
If that's how you choose to view the opinion of a 40+ year Washington political journalist with not only Huff Post and MSNBC on his CV but has previously been the senior editor of Newsweek, then so be it.
jameswestport
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- Sep 7, 2011
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https://www.metro.news/pure-greed-of-grenfell-fraudsters/1078527/
Saw this in the Metro this morning. What a pair of greedy *****.
Saw this in the Metro this morning. What a pair of greedy *****.
symyjym
Banned
I’m confused with the numbers reported. Grenfell housed up to 600 people. And in a fire when most people would be at home in bed, 80 people died and 255 were evacuated. Unless I have my figures wrong, what has happened to the other 250 people?
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Very sad but it is extremely doubtful there would have been immigration officers at the Grenfell Inquiry ready and waiting to arrest and deport him. Would imagine they have other cases to deal with and in any case deportation takes some time. I would have thought it added significant compassionate reasons to his case if he had turned up to give evidence and if arrested he could have made an application under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act (right to family life) surely?
symyjym
Banned
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beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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to drag up an old conspiracy, based on nothing but a youtube clip at the time. there were 120-odd flats, many single occupancy, with no evidence that there were 600 people living in the block.
symyjym
Banned
I didn't know it was an old conspiracy but I remember at the time some residents were claiming that two or three hundred had not escaped.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I've always felt that the death toll of 72 was remarkably low. Even the tenant management organisation and the council didn't know who was living in that tower block.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
How do you get through passport contol at the airport?
- Jul 7, 2003
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Shift workers could account for some of that.
That said, I'm not sure what the deal is when people imply there were a lot more dead. What would anybody- specifically the government- have to gain by fiddling the figures? If 150 people died, it can't really make that dreadful situation worse: it's a human tragedy whether ten, fifty or a hundred perished.
Also, how would you keep it quiet if you had tried to hush up the numbers? Are families going to say nothing when the list of dead is published and all their relatives are seemingly not on it? Granted, some might have reasons not to stir things up, but there's no way in my mind another fifty (say) grieving families are just going to pretend everything is fine (and other people would notice their loss even if they didn't publicly say anything!).
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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fair enough. it made me angry at the time, people wanting to make more of a tragedy. one youtube clip made a claim, it "went viral" and then attention seekers made assumptions from there. the initial number you cite is false to begin, the official capacity was only ~220, a mix of 1 and 2 bed flats. obviously some would have had more, equally some would have been just been the expected occupancy. for 600 you'd need nearly 5 to every flat.
Brighton Mod
Its All Too Beautiful
The biggest question yet to be answered is why was wrong advise given to these residents by the authorities (Fire Brigade). As yet virtually no word of this and yet it would have appeared that with the correct advice this tragedy on such terms could have been averted. Cover up coming from the Fire Brigade, senior members of the brigade already on sick leave with stress, I do hope the truth will come out. Whats the bully Khan had to say about all this? LFB not fit for purpose in this case.
alfredmizen
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- Mar 11, 2015
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TI wouldnt wish this tragedy on anybody , but here a list of the poor souls that perished , how many british names on that list ? (ive heard the relatives accents on news reports so lets not try to pretend they were all native) when my marriage went tits up i ended up in a bedsit with a mini fridge and cooker in the corner which i struggled to pay for as i was skint, worked and paid taxes all my life, been in the army, where*was MY f*cking council flat ?? they can*find em for everybkdy except our own
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
See post 35
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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CJTC.
The Large One
Who's Next?
No - the biggest questions are why this happened, was it preventable, and what can be done to stop in from happening again?
The advice given previously by the fire brigade (to stay put) was sound assuming that tower blocks were designed and built to the specification that they should have been. Now they've changed their advice (to flee rather than stay put) as they are not satisfied with the structural integrity of many tower blocks.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...s-cladding-unsafe-fire-brigade-advice-to-flee
No idea why you've fabricated the notion of a cover up - and chosen to blame the Mayor for it when he had been in place for six weeks at the time.
alfredmizen
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- Mar 11, 2015
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It’s a perfectly valid question , pr1ck. .
alfredmizen
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- Mar 11, 2015
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