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CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER OF KENSINGTON'S POOREST

This is what slashed “red tape” and health and safety laws, and “creative destruction” (Francis Maude) of the public sector looks like! The gutted, smoking relic of Grenfell Tower is a blackened monument to the accumulative effects of years of Tory austerity!
After seven years of remorseless austerity cuts forced on local councils by central government that have seen, for instance, health and safety and fire services slashed, is the political choice of relentless austerity to blame for the horrific Grenfell inferno and the tragic deaths of scores of its residents?
It seems increasingly likely that this tragedy was entirely preventable but for corner-cutting and cost-cutting by the arms’-length maintenance organisation (almo) responsible for its recent refurbishments which used cheaper and combustible external cladding (banned in Germany for high-rises) –actually to “prettify” Grenfell for the sake of rich Kensington residents’ views rather than for any beneficial purpose for the residents of the social housing block– and Kensington & Chelsea Council’s deaf ears to the concerns of residents about various fire and safety discrepancies, and the fatal failure to retrofit sprinklers that could have contained the fire to one apartment and most probably avoided the mass tragedy…

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War on Welfare Petition

The lies we tell ourselves:
ending comfortable myths about poverty

Social Security for All renewal of the welfare state

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An Unsocial Socialist (1883)

The want of poetical power is the impelling force in the case of most versifiers. They would fain be poets, and imagine that the best way is to try to write poetry and to publish what they write. They will never see their mistake.
Equus asinus still believes that the possession of an organ of noise is sufficient, with a little practice, to enable him to sing like a nightingale.
John Davidson (1857 – 1909)