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I
am so interested in this story of the Grenfell Tower inferno,not only
because it is so tragic (the latest estimate is that up to 50
children may have perished) but because of the back story an agenda
of an elite that is carrying out social engineering under the guise
of austerity,
Make
sure you watch the very good analysis of the underlying social agenda
from UK Column.
The
following has resonance around the world. The same cutbacks are
happening in this country while the now-PM, Bill English,is
justifying mass immigration and cheap labour by claiming NZ workers
are ‘pretty damned useless’
Finance
Minister Bill English is not backing down from his comments that some
Kiwis hunting for work are "pretty damned hopeless" and
"can't read and write properly".
At
a Federated Farmers meeting in Feilding last week English said there
was a "cohort of Kiwis now" who couldn't get a licence
because they were illiterate and "don't look to be employable".
His
comments were directed at "young males" who didn't turn up
to work or didn't stay on when offered a job.
Shameless
Tory council leader blames Grenfell Tower block residents for lack of
sprinklers claiming they didn't want 'disruption'
Nick
Paget-Brown, leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council, claimed the
"collective view" was not in favour of sprinklers
16
June, 2017
A
shameless Tory has blamed Grenfell Tower block residents for the lack
of sprinklers in the building.
Nick
Paget-Brown, the Conservative leader of Kensington and Chelsea
Council, claimed tenants didn't want the 'disruption' of them being
fitted.
Experts
have suggested that sprinklers could have been fitted in the
24-storey building for just £200,000 during the £10 million
refurbishment.
Asked
if installing sprinklers was considered as part of the refurbishment,
Mr Paget-Brown said the advice was that the best way to combat the
spread of a fire was to contain it.
He
told BBC2's Newsnight: "There was not a collective view that all
the flats should be fitted with sprinklers because that would have
delayed and made the refurbishment of the block more disruptive."
"We
are now talking retrospectively after the most enormous tragedy, but
many
residents felt that we needed to get on with the installation of new
hot water systems, new boilers and that trying to retrofit more would
delay the building and that sprinklers aren't the answer."
He
added:"I didn't consider retrofitting sprinklers because we were
told that what you try to do when you are refurbishing is to contain
a fire within a particular flat so that the fire service can evacuate
that flat, deal with the fire."
But
he said: "Of course I regret anything that we might have done
differently that would have avoided this tragedy."
The
British Automatic Fire Sprinkler Association has put the cost of
installing a sprinkler system at £200,000.
Mr
Paget-Brown was unable to say how many tower blocks in his borough
lacked sprinkler systems.
Amid
speculation that the cladding fitted to Grenfell Tower could have
been a factor in the fatal blaze, Mr Paget-Brown said no other
refurbishments in the borough would use the system.
"As
far as I know there are no other towers with that cladding," he
said.
Asked
if the borough would use similar components on towers in the future,
he said: "No."
He
added: "We have asked the London Fire Brigade to look at all our
towers and give us a report on whether fire safety in all of the
towers - because we are very conscious residents are worried about
this - whether they can give us the assurance that we need that all
of those towers are safe and that they comply with fire standards,
fire regulations."
The Daily Mail and the Sun are quick to pin the blame on the poor
The Daily Mail and the Sun are quick to pin the blame on the poor
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