Grenfell exposed: How the fire brigade took TWO HOURS to evacuate residents, Blair paved the way for 'lethal cladding' and Jon Snow whipped up a frenzy... but the Tory council leader who resigned was blameless

Didge wrote:[*]The London Fire Brigade's response to Grenfell Tower fire had 'several blunders'
[*]Biggest error was failure to order full evacuation for hours after the blaze started
[*]Expose found emergency calls were diverted to Stratford, Kent and Newcastle


The London fire brigade, cladding firms and Tony Blair are responsible for the Grenfell tragedy, a major expose has claimed.

Firefighters failed to evacuate residents for two hours, cladding firms used 'lethal products' and Tony Blair relaxed building safety regulations, the report concluded.

Then housing minister Sajid Javid failed to deal with the aftermath properly and promised all families a house even though other accommodation may have been more suitable.

And Jon Snow, the TV news presenter, is blamed for whipping up a frenzy with his emotional questioning directly after the event.


However, Tory Kensington and Chelsea's council leader, Nicholas Paget-Brown, who fell on his sword over the tragedy, was not to blame for it. The expose exonerates the councillor despite him previously being at the centre of criticism.

The claims are made by journalist Andrew O'Hagan who has spent months investigating Grenfell and has now published a 30,000 word expose in  The London Review of Books

The piece - written to coincide with an inquiry hearing testimonies about the victims in central London - is a damning round-up of the failings that fuelled the lethal chaos of June 14 2017 and these are its main players:    
London Fire Brigade's failure to evacuate:

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5788627/Expose-blames-London-Fire-Brigade-series-blunders-response-Grenfell-Tower-fire.html#ixzz5H3ueNTwD 
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Angry Andy wrote:Perhaps they should have also blamed the flaxen haired freak Boris Johnson. The Pillock who shut down half of London's fire stations and increased response times. And reduced routine safety checks on high rise buildings.

nicko wrote:The only persons to blame are the Manufacturers, who willing sold the cladding knowing it wasn't fire proof !

People are blaming every tom dick and harry while the makers get hardly a mention !

Original Quill wrote:

nicko wrote:The only persons to blame are the Manufacturers, who willing sold the cladding knowing it wasn't fire proof !

People are blaming every tom dick and harry while the makers get hardly a mention !

And of course the civic authorities how made the selection of materials.

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

And of course the civic authorities how made the selection of materials.

The problem is that civic authorities - local councils, in our case - cannot possibly be, or even employ, technical experts in every field and it is not unreasonable that they should be able to rely on the professional capability of the companies who tender for contracts.

Fred M. wrote:and that of the firms who actually make it.

Fred M. wrote:Short of undergoing an experiment that involves physically setting fire to exactly the same sort of building constructed in exactly the same way and to exactly the same specifications, it is difficult to see what they, or indeed, national government could have done to prevent it.