Grenfell Tower Victims: Murdered by the Right Wing.

 

The burnt-out shell of Grenfell Tower is an emblematic symbol of Tory Britain. A land where the poor, the low paid, and the disenfranchised are ignored by corporate and establishment right-wing interests because they do not vote for them. A Tory land where firefighters, who ran into a burning building, risking their own lives to save the lives of others, have been demonised by, gutter tabloids, right wing journalists and right-wing politicians for the last seven years. A country where hate-speaking right-wing rags and their political enablers on the Dacre/Murdoch/Barclay axis, scream ‘marxism!’ when it’s suggested that the hundreds of properties left empty for the purposes of financial gain in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea should be used to house the victims. It’s not Marxism, its humanity. These hate speakers conveniently ignore the fact that it’s not unusual for governments to requisition properties, land or services, when infrastructure needs to be built or in time of need (railways, sewage works, motorways, power stations WWII etc), so calling for empty properties, many of which have never been lived in, to fill a short-term need is not the politics of envy but just a short term practical solution which would alleviate extreme suffering. What exactly is your problem fascists!

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 8^th 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.

 Political Horse Trading.

The current attempts by the minority Tory government (that was 130 million pounds down the drain Mrs May), to work an agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party demonstrates the utter degenerate and unprincipled heart of British politics. What’s there to work out? The DUP and the Tory’s are supposed to be working in the interests of the entire nation, yet it appears the only interest they’re working in is their own.

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.

 

 "there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and

                                women and there are families."

(Margaret Thatcher, former Tory British Prime Minister and Goddess of greed and the right-wing).