Viper wrote:Stooo wrote:Seventeen years ago?
Talk about desperate.
It could have been prevented 17 years ago? Should it have been?
As ever Viper is entirely disingenuous at best.
In 2013 Eric Pickles was asked change regulations so that all future routine maintenance of tower blocks would include a sprinkler system and all cladding should be a fireproof variety made with mineral wool. Homes and Communities Secretary Eric Pickles chose to listen to Conservative councils anxious not to put up Council Taxes too much rather than safety experts who foresaw that Grenfell Tower was only a matter of time.
The blood is very specifically on Eric Pickles hands