Even now,
only days after men, women and children have suffocated or burned to death, the
right-wing are attempting to distract the nation from the truth by suggesting
the disaster may be down to European regulations (it wasn’t. The cladding used
to cloak Grenfell Tower is banned in Germany) or environmental/climate change
regulations (it wasn’t), or that the fire was either a terrorist act (classic
right -wing rag tactic and wet dream. ), or self-inflicted (an attempt to blame
the victims. A right-wing speciality). These are of course the same flat
earthers who endlessly complain about Health and Safety regulations, (like a requirement
that cladding on a tower block should be flame retardant), bureaucracy and red
tape. Or accusing the Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn of grandstanding,
because he has the ability to show compassion and sympathy for the victims
while the Prime Minister (in name only) Theresa May, who appears to be a very
distant stranger to both compassion and sympathy (and human), makes a covert
visit under strict security and speaks to a few selected firemen. No doubt the
thought of speaking to poor people who have lost everything, was too much for
her to cope with, poor little lamb. After all, she may have had to touch one of
them. I expect a photo opportunity will be arranged, with May standing quite
close to a survivor, in an attempt to repair the damage accrued through the
first visit (although I expect the survivor will be given strict instructions
not to speak or make eye contact with the Prime Minister).
I await the
arrival of the trolls on social media. After all, it took only weeks for scum
like Farage, Banks, and Delingpole to crawl out from their fetid stinking
burrows and troll Brendan Cox the widower of Jo Cox, and father of two small
children. For those unaware, Jo Cox was a Labour Member of Parliament who was
slaughtered in the street by Thomas Mair, a white supremacist. Mair being the
type of person who would probably be a big fan of Farage, Banks and Delingpole,
as well as the Daily Mail and The Sun. Even now the right wingers are beginning
to furtively suggest that immigration may have played a part because of the
diversity of the survivors and victims, and that some of the victims may have
been illegal immigrants and therefore presumably, using right-wing logic,
deserved to burn alive. Not enough white faces among the survivors they scream,
must be foreigners here illegally. Furtive suggestions of anti-social behaviour
are creeping into the right-wing media and social media. Soon the fascists will
break cover and openly begin to blame tenants, accuse critics of Theresa May as
being the usual left-wing conspirators trying to undermine law and order, and
attempt to blacken the characters of the victims. Even now right-wing rags are
looking for any piece of news that will move this tragedy of the front page,
ideally either public unrest or a terrorist atrocity would be their first
preference ( Note: this weeks attack on the Finsbury mosque was the wrong sort of terrorist attack for the right-wing media).Then they can return to victim shaming. These right-wing trolls and
their camp followers are vermin and have no place in a caring compassionate
society.
What has
been brought into stark contrast by the tragedy of Grenfell Tower is the
community spirit and compassion that obviously exists and has been mobilised
within a diverse community in Kensington and Chelsea and was the bedrock,
nationally, of the Election result on the 8th June, and the right-wing
attitude, exemplified by the Dacre’s and Farage’s of this land and their
fascist foot soldiers. These are the people who wish to divide and rule by
sowing dissent and division within our country, by scapegoating minorities and
the less well off, so we turn against each other, whilst allowing them to enrich
themselves and their wealthy backers as they rape the country of its wealth with
impunity, while ignoring, demonising and stigmatising millions who are living
lives not dissimilar to the people of Grenfell Tower.
It is the
right-wing disseminators of hate and lies that are the traitors of this country
and indirectly they are the architects of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Quite
simply they didn’t care, they don’t care, and they never will. They infest our
communities, spread hate, division and discord. They are the entitled who
believe the unentitled are undeserving of care and compassion and are the
architects of their own poverty. That is the self-interested, spurious bile
these purveyors of hate spew out. And it is willingly gulped down by the
fascist foot soldiers who seem happy to continually punch themselves in the
face as long as they “get their country back”.
There are
calls for this tragedy not to be politicised. That is covert language for those
people responsible not being challenged or brought to account. That a Tory
Housing Minister, Brandon Lewis, should not be asked to explain why he said
that installing sprinkler systems in tower blocks should not be made law, or
why Theresa May’s Chief of Staff, Gavin Barwell, refused to implement
recommendations from a review on fire safety from a previous tower block fire
which could have saved the lives of those who perished in Grenfell Tower. Or
why the Tory’s voted down a labour amendment to the Housing Bill which would
have made landlords responsible for ensuring all rented properties were
habitable and safe. I’m sure it had nothing to do with the fact that
relatively, a large percentage of Tory Members of Parliament are also
landlords. Or why, when countless complaints about the refurbishment of
Grenfell Tower, particularly highlighting fire safety before and after the
refurbishment, had been made by tenants, they were ignored by the Tory council
and Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation, the private company
who were supposed to manage the building. Of course, the tenants were denied
the opportunity to resort to the law because the Tory government have removed
legal aid in housing matters so the poor are denied access to justice. It would
appear only the rich are deserving of justice in Toryland. Yet another example
of the Tory’s attack on the poor and their rights. Or on a broader point, why,
in the sixth richest country on the planet, there is such inequality, and why
the few have been allowed, and aided through government policy, to corral
eighty per cent of the wealth, to the extreme detriment of the many, yet give
so little back into society. That is the question they really do not want asked,
and definitely not answered. The wealthy are concerned that Grenfell Tower will
open up and display the cancer of greed and self-interest this country is
riddled with. They are desperate to shut down any discourse.
And just to
show right wingers don’t do irony but do hypocrisy exceedingly well, Mail
journalist Sarah Vine accuses Labour of crass politicisation of the tragedy,
thus crassly politicising the tragedy. Vine is the wife of a Tory minister, so
no self-interest there then? The right-wing often accuse those on the left of virtue
signalling, which is just code for angry right-wingers objecting to the left
having feelings, empathy and a humanity for others less fortunate than
themselves. Caring for others sickens the right-wing, whereas the only people
right-wingers care about are themselves. Which probably explains the absence of
any representatives from the Tory government or the local Tory council on the
day of the tragedy. They just didn’t care.
I am happy
to politicise this tragedy because that is the only way the victims and
survivors will see justice delivered. This whole tragedy is rooted in politics,
so for Tory politicians to attempt to silence freedom of speech by criticising
anybody who should have the temerity to question why men, women, and children
have died in a blazing inferno is yet another example of disgusting
self-serving Tory hypocrisy. If people are muzzled and denied the right to
voice their opinions then frustration will lead to anger which could then erupt
into violence. Perhaps that’s the right-wings plan. To translate people like
Boris Johnson when they whinge about people voicing their opinions, what they
mean is “shut up plebs, how dare you speak out of turn, just shut up and suffer
injustice. You should remain submissive, subservient and docile”. It’s classic
fascism. What are they right afraid of? The truth?
This cannot
be yet another example of where deputy heads roll and people lower down the
food chain are sacrificed, while the true perpetrators, who put profit before
people and would appear to consider the lives of the poor as cheap and expendable,
suitable to be sacrificed on the altar of austerity, again escape justice and
take early retirement with a nice fat pension. That should not be allowed to
happen. Not again. People have a right to be heard.
The bedrock
to the anger and resentment being demonstrated by the local community in and
around Kensington and Chelsea is that the material poor have been devalued,
degraded, and feel abandoned, that the poor have been marginalised and abused
by greedy landlords and property developers and that the Tory council, under a
brutal program of gentrification, had embarked on a pogrom of social cleansing
to remove the impoverished from the borough and replace them with oligarchs,
celebrities, politicians and media types. Hence the anger being directed at
politicians and the media. The tenants of Grenfell Tower knew, not thought, but
knew that the council considered them and their needs as unimportant and the
wealthy in that borough considered Tower blocks such as Grenfell Tower as
eyesores that spoilt the aesthetics of the area. Emphasising the point made
earlier that the right-wing only care about themselves. The social contract,
which is the bedrock of any civilised society, has been smashed by vested
interests solely for the purposes of avaricious greed. The wealthy of
Kensington and Chelsea considered the people of Grenfell Tower, and people like
them, as nothing more than trash.
The
unblemished and stark facts are simple. The Tory’s ideological drive to end the
availability of social housing by starving it of funds, their crusade to make
the poor pay for the crimes and misdemeanours of the bankers through austerity,
aligned with their pathological fervour to reduce local funding to councils to
1930’s levels, has led to the death of close to a hundred souls.
Finally, to
the people who are circling their wagons around the Prime Minister and
complaining about how unfairly she is being treated. Let’s make one thing
clear. Theresa May is not a victim in this tragedy. The victims are the people
who suffocated and burned to death. The victims are the people who had
relatives and friends, children and babies, suffocate and burned to death. The
Prime Minister is not a victim, nor is the Tory party and neither is Kensington
and Chelsea Borough Council. They are not the victims of this crime, if
anything they are the perpetrators.
The Grenfell
Tower tragedy has opened up a conversation about what type of society we want
to live in and how inequality is used as a tool to enrich the few to the
detriment of the many. The right-wing will do everything possible to close down
that conversation.
Their first
step will be to blame the poor, yet again.
However,
there is a slight silver lining to the Tory’s very black cloud. They are
desperate to do the bidding for one group of supporters, the Countryside
Alliance. A group of degenerates who enjoy immensely, chasing, on horseback, a sentient being
across the countryside, to the point of exhaustion, and then watching as it is
ripped apart by a pack of hounds. What larks, pip, pip. I think they see it as
a metaphor for how they believe the wealthy should be allowed to treat the poor
in this country.
The
Countryside Alliance’s main aim is to see the 2004 Hunting Act repealed by the minority
Tory government so that fox hunting is again legal. And with the DUP on board I
think that is a realistic aim as long as the Tory’s replace the hunting ban
with a hunting bill that includes homosexuals and Catholic’s, as well as foxes.
That would suit the DUP down to the ground.
(Margaret Thatcher, former Tory British Prime Minister and Goddess of greed and the right-wing).


