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The headline MSM news across the UK on June 29 was that :-

Retired Court of Appeal judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick has been chosen to lead the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire, the PM has said.

Sir Martin said he understood the "desire of local people for justice", while Theresa May said "no stone will be left unturned" during the inquiry.

And as a disingenuous footnote the BBC website added :-
Grenfell resident Oluwaseun Talabi said victims were unhappy at not being involved in Sir Martin's appointment.

The  BBC's disingenuous footnote is indicative of the hastily contrived populist campaign of agitation instigated by Labour to run and manage the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower Disaster. Leading metropolitan elitist Labour figures,such as Mayor Sadiq Khan and MP for Tottenham David Lammy, have positioned themselves  at the forefront of hurling a plethora of unsubstantiated allegations and innuendo both at the government and Kensington council. Corbyn's demagogue-manque histrionics at the previous PMQs was an  exemplary exercise in absurdist performance art. " Austerity " he pronounced, in essence was singularly to blame and was the raison d'etre for the Disaster itself. He asserted that had successive Tory governments not carried out massive public sector funding cuts then Grenfell would never have happened. This otiose cant had itself been articulated a few days earlier by Comrade McDonnell who claimed, without any recourse to reason,logic or empirical proof, that the victims of Grenfell had been murdered no less,by political decisions. Widespread bureaucratic hysteria seems to be the default response of local authorities as well as various departments within government and the civil service here in the UK,irrespective of the nature and extent of the particular  " disaster " at the time.It was ever thus.  Instructed by the Prime Minister to send samples of cladding on all tower blocks for forensic examination without delay, most local Councils failed spectacularly to even comply with this simple advice. Some Councils,notably the Labour run authority of Camden hastily evacuated four tower blocks and encountered grassroots reluctance and a measure of disobedience from hundreds of their tenants. Within hours of hitting the panic button,Camden Council had to admit that their initial safety audit of the said tower blocks revealed a monumental scandal of 1,000 fire safety doors gone missing. Naturally,Corbyn and his ideologically ill assorted  Labour confreres failed to attribute any institutional malevolence to this. And lest the entire MSM narrative becomes a work of meta fiction,the Prime Minister reminded the House of Commons that the legal requirement for Local Fire authority inspections of tower blocks was abolished  under the Blair government in 2005. Again another matter of fact that Corbyn and the other assailants against reason and common sense chose to let slip by.

So why weren't  " victims " of the Grenfell disaster not involved in the appointment of the Inquiry's chairman? Because all such appointments are always made by the Lord Chancellor. there we go with the facts ,again.

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There is no need to recapitulate the details of what, has now  become known as the Grenfell Tower disaster in Kensington. There is no need to delve speculatively into the whys and wherefores and who might be held accountable.All of that will emerge as invariably such matters do via due process of whatever inquiries and commissions and inquests that will,no doubt be instigated and held shortly. Events of such gravity and magnitude get bound up with the politics of their time. That doesn't make them any more palatable or their aftermath somehow more manageable.  Righteous and wholly understandable popular anger and resentment are never the actual problem in any such events. It's the accompanying squalid,vituperative internecine and factional partisan politicking that really pisses everyone off. Barely one week after an over heated and indecisive general election off they bloody well go again. The Labour Party ( now enjoying an illicit ideological armistice  between Corbyn's Momentum and what they refer to as the Blairites,but basically anyone who dislikes the Left) truly are the most mendacious cynical set of contemptible bastards imaginable. Fact :- Labour punishes and suspends all of its Councillors who dare to speak out against let alone oppose the implementation of local austerity budget cuts. The actual number of such brave individual councillors right across the UK who have spoken out and refused to agree to implementing cuts probably numbers less than 20,if that. It is clear therefore that the Labour Party never stand up or with the many,ever. Nevertheless, Grenfell Tower,in the space of just a few days degenerated into a faux-ideological school playground fight,with all the attendant loss of sobriety,reason,common sense and dignity that such displays of immaturity and petulance always entail. Corbyn- the demagogue-manque and his acolytes resorted to calling for the immediate expropriation by state authorities of private property that might ,a) exist and b) be suitable for immediate occupation by those rendered homeless by the fire.The fevered sub- standard rhetoric of conspiracy theories became the norm. From " May must go!" and the evils of private enterprise on Friday through into of all things the annual "Al Quds Day" march by Hezbollah and their zealots in London whose  public speakers explicitly said that it was the Zionist Corporations supporting May that were responsible for the Grenfell Tower fire. This is Britain,2017 and you're welcome to it.