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May has shown herself to be totally devoid of any humanity, compassion or common decency, Corbyn was on site within 12 hours of the fire and faced no protests Theresa May had to be dragged kicking and screaming to meet the people who suffered loss from this fire and that is why there was anger.


Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council are the people who in order to save less than £7000 (on a £2.3 million contract) specified plastic cladding (which was not fire retardant) rather than mineral cladding which was fire retardant.



The cladding was only done so that the wealthy people in their multimillion pound houses wouldnt have to look at ugly concrete tower bocks

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The missing and dead has risen to 79. From the photos there is a significant amount of Internal damage that does not justify just the outside skin being a issue. For the fire to get as hot Internal to the building there had to be a significant to excessive level of combustible INSIDE.
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For the fire to get as hot Internal to the building there had to be a significant to excessive level of combustible INSIDE



Here in UK quite a lot of people have furniture - you may have heard of it, it is often made of wood and fabric, some people also have books, beds and bedding and other flamable stuff

Of course there was burning inside but the spreading was outside.
 fire transmits only very slowly through concrete - this fire travelled from its source on the fourth floor to the entirety of the block in less than 30 minutes. Travelling from flat to flat up the outside of the block enetring the flats through the broken windows

It is now being reported that the cladding as fitted was actually against existing fire safety laws - but we will have to see how that pans out

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Once the cladding became alight the fire spread rather quickly over the whole building. The intensity of the temperature in burning the cladding made sure of that and the incineration of most of the contents.
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Yobbo not only was the cladding inflamable but there was an air space between it and the tower this functioned like a chimney feeding air at pressure to the advancing fire meaning that the cladding burnt at a very high temperature - far higher than it would in free space

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Yes, I omitted that.

The refurbishing of the building was done in particularly slack ways, mostly for appearances.
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Yobbo not only was the cladding inflamable but there was an air space between it and the tower this functioned like a chimney feeding air at pressure to the advancing fire meaning that the cladding burnt at a very high temperature - far higher than it would in free space



How sad...that so many have lost so much and some their life just to keep up appearances. emoticon
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Picture of a poster in an adjacent block campaigning NOT to have sprinklers fitted

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I think there'll be fewer takers after the tower building fire.
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After the London Inferno, a Question For Laissez-faire Zealots: Is a Human Life Worth No More Than $100?

by Eamonn Fingleton

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If British reports are to be believed, the Grenfell Tower inferno in central London might have been averted for a cost of a mere $6,000 — or a little more than $100 for each of the 58 unfortunates who, on the best estimate available this weekend, perished in the disaster.

According to the London Daily Mail, when the tower was recently renovated, builders opted for a cladding material so inappropriate that it is rated “flammable” in Germany and its use in tall buildings in even lightly regulated America is banned. The attraction was a saving of a mere 10 percent. On the Mail’s numbers that added up to a total saving compared to a safe material of £5,000 — equal to a little more than $6,000.
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