People are still in the building, people raised safety issues for two years prior.
Grenfell Towers.
Immediate necessities, a starting point, and a timeline of action.
I think - and bear in mind my lack of expertise, or access to any resource, or experience in any of this, and my lack of knowledge on so much of the detail of this dreadful trauma, this unforgiving event, this horror and it's implications, I think that without delay – the nation, we the people and the state
must meet the needs of the people who are affected, bearing in mind that each
and everyone of them will be an
individual case, with individual dynamics and will need precisely
attenuated
support to meet their needs. No one size fits all protocols. Meet those
needs in
full, without any reservation. Attention to detail essential as these
people process and deal with what has just happened, and is happening to
them.
Appropriate support without question. Just a thought.
Provided with love, and shared grief, and all due care and intention.
Here's something else I thought about.
I'd like to share this perspective. I have not seen it anywhere else, though I have not looked so hard to see. I want to have it checked.
My question is am I making sense?
The answer is not about me.
Here goes.
The lived experience,
before the fire.
Bear in mind for a moment the time 2 - 3 year period, planning, installation, emergence of problems, emergence of
evidence, emergence of detailed complaints brought to the management
‘organisation’ based on available evidence, and not being heard when raising
these matters again, and again, and living all that time with a sense of the
risk…. of a fire.
If I and my family were living on upper floors.
How nervous would I be?
Day in, day out.
Morning, noon and night, 24/7?
Over a period of two years or so.
Inadequate response and minimal action taken, grudgingly.
Issues avoided.
Threats.
There is evidence of all this in the
public domain.
Evidence.
Terror.
Evidence.
A constant state of being aware of an unbearable risk, and not being heard by
those responsible for that risk? Your children? My mother?
Leaving those families, imagine leaving your family in that potentially lethal
uncertainty for an extended period?
How that that happen? How is that possible? Where is this possible?
Cui Bono?
This egregious incident, this dreadful
trauma is set in a context of a political and economic ideology that is re-directing
taxation revenue, (a shared community resource, with all that that should
imply), and turning it towards commercial profit based contracted out work, as
a cultural practice, placing the taxpayers funds into an arena where the
ideology of business is to make something and do something, and then cut costs
– usually labour costs, material costs, externalised costs – to increase profit
yield well beyond the cost of the civil infrastructure and a fair fee, which ought
to be the correct approach for a civil project of any kind.
Taxes are not for shareholders, or bond holders.
Taxes are for people.
Civic infrastructure cannot be a profit center.
Civic is not business., it is not
commerce.
It is about us, as a people. Our home. Land.
Our money. Our lives. Our children.
The State can afford to bail out the Banks, whose behaviour
was the root cause of the problem, yet it cannot afford to implement the
recommendations of the
Lakanal House Coroners Inquest …
immediately?
That said, Eric Pickles first public
response
to the Coroner’s recommendation’s is interesting. He avoids more than he
embraces. Have a read. Read it again. Break it down.
So from here, today I suggest a
timeline:
1. Complete fire investigation, and while that is underway collect ALL evidence
from residents related to the incident, and all material, hard copy or digital,
related to the entire process from planning to delivery to emergence of issues
to the incident, from all sources. Assign adequate, sustainable resources to
complete the task rapidly, thoroughly.
PROTECT THE 650,00 people living in High Rise buildings. Now.
2. Initiate a police inquiry. Let that roll.
3. At the same time, as I outline above, which is now, should have been immediate, without delay – the nation, we the people and the state
must meet the needs of the people who are affected, bearing in mind that
each and everyone of them will be an
individual case, with individual dynamics and will need precisely attenuated
support to meet their needs. No one size fits all protocols. Meet those needs in
full, without any reservation. Attention to detail essential as these people process and deal with what has just happened, and is happening to them. Appropriate support without question.
4. Immediate implementation of the
Lakanal House Fire Investigation and Coroners
recommendations, by
legislation, then
immediate action,
starting with checks.
5. Surely this is worth more to the tax payer, the ordinary citizen, and all
our children than the 100 billion ear marked for Trident, another destructive
nasty lethal mass accident waiting to happen.
6. Inquest on completion of the Fire Investigation.
7. If any form of criminal responsibility emerges, indictments, criminal
investigations, sanctions, prosecutions.
8. Inquiry.
Must examine the culture,
the behaviour,
the outcomes based on all
the available evidence.
8.a There must be robust legislative response to the Inquiry, immediately after
the Inquiry has published its findings.
9. Material action must follow on its heels.
And we must maintain oversight at the grass roots level, and have executive
rights in terms of decision making during progress. Government instructed by the
people.
Civic Infrastructure must be set aside from the corporate profit culture. It is
wholly inappropriate and it creates a series of well known and well documented
conflicts of interest. It’s a shit storm.
Hillsborough, et al.
The fact that folks think the emergence of the Hillsborough Inquiry is the
exception that proves the rule, when it is the rule. The exception meme is a
veil.
Denial, mitigation, preserving power, status, rank, organisation is the rule.
The History of Public Inquiries and Government or State response in the UK is
appalling, and it is frequently toxic mime of Justice that is acted out, time
and time again, against a relatively disempower people.
And some people have the temerity to complain about British Sovereignty? Give
me a break!
This behaviour is not rational at the human level.
It is rationalised at the institutional level.
That cannot stand.
Start today.
Hold our brothers ad sisters, our mothers and fathers close.
Be strong enough to bear it and act on what
we know, with what we have - our Human Rights.
Meet the needs of the people who are
affected, afflicted with this horrific trauma - each and everyone of them will
be an individual case, with individual dynamics and will need precisely
attenuated support to meet their
needs.
Call in the UN?
The UN issued a damning
Human Rights Report on the UK in 2018, following on after a previous report in 2009 that was
not exactly glowing, on Human Rights Breaches committed by the British Government, across the UK.
The Just Fair Consortium includes 76 national and local organisations and
has published a series of reports that have highlighted the
impact of austerity measures .
Full report here:
http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/news/uk-in-breachhuman-rights/00287.html
Business as usual.
This dreadful, lethal fire, this horror must therefore be assessed within the
wider context of an ideological political and social setting.
It is so much more, such that one can say that it is an institutional power
culture.
An institutional culture that assumes the risk is, more often than not, worth
it, when the poor pay the price.
And think too of the many, many others, innocents all, who die in wars our taxes are spent on. Risk Assessed.
A culture where one will assess the cheapest manner in which to appear to meet
the risk, and deal with any consequences, no matter how grave, with resistance to the evidence,
followed by Public Inquiries, and much later on related some legislative change.. and
as we see, repeatedly, responsibilities are not assigned for the harms caused, even if a
settlement is made. The status quo is preserved.
Justice as a business model.
Pay the fee, no body is jailed. It is just another business expense.
Now then, what’s next?
Is it not quite appalling that we taxpayers are forced to accept this as good
Governance?
“Strong and Stable?”
“Things can only get better?”
“All in it together?”
“Big Society?”
Empty slogans.
Bullying.
Resolvable.
Surely, in 2017?
Twenty First Century….
This is where we are.
And it's shit.
Which is why we really must deal with it, and clean it up.
Like healthy adults would.
The dead are now our ancestors.
We must listen to our ancestors.
We too will become ancestors.
What will we leave for our descendants?
We are alive now.
Start today.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
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