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Quite a nasty tit for tat battle about cladding on PMQs today with May saying that the cladding started during the Blair administration. Not sure how that excuses flammable materials.

 

Things go wrong, but there have now, for quite a few years, been recommendations after serious fires in other tower blocks. In the Blair years, the enquirers came after.

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The question is how do YOU know? You were the one that said they were meeting to discuss cladding.

 

I take your second point completely.

 

They were going to discuss what is effectively a materials list which included cladding. Are you now arguing that cladding wasnt on the list.

 

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Things go wrong, but there have now, for quite a few years, been recommendations after serious fires in other tower blocks. In the Blair years, the enquirers came after.

 

There's multiple political aspects.

 

There the national aspect which whether they like it or not the Tories are responsible for. It is their job to set up enquiries, reviews etc..., devise a strategy for dealing with thousands of dangerous dwellings, and to take steps to avoid a repeat. They cannot avoid it. It is their job and blame is not what the public are looking for right now from them.

 

Then there is the local political aspect. Dozens of councils and local authorities with serious questions to answer.

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They were going to discuss what is effectively a materials list which included cladding. Are you now arguing that cladding wasnt on the list.

 

You know exactly what l'm arguing.

It would have taken them from here to kingdom come to discuss every material that was on that list so your assertion that they met 'to discuss cladding' was at best a stab in the dark. Don't believe everything Greenpeace say because they know as much as you and me.

At least they had the good grace to say they met to discuss 'materials such as cladding'.

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Why employ a retired judge to look into this?Doesn't make sense to be he'll be living in the past.

He only retired in December 2016. I guess non retired Judges would have a busy work load. Whoever was chosen, would not suit everyone.

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I see where amnesty if to be given to anyone who was acting illegally by sub-letting flats at Grenfell. Double edged sword - this way there's some chance of finding out who have lost their lives, but condoning what was illegal in order to do so. Like everyone, I have found this so distressing and also the aftermath of continuing chaos. I feel so genuinely sorry for everyone affected. And how horrible to never know if your relative, friend died there. And no-one, whoever they were, deserved such an end. But it worries me that it was known that this was happening but nothing was done about it. So no-one knew who and how many lived there; whether they should even have been in this country. And how many similar circumstances in other developments? And how much possible overcrowding, adding to the numbers of, and making it even more difficult, to escape. Your thoughts?

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