The Conservative Party and humanity are mutually exclusive

As you will all be painfully aware, we have had a major disaster in the shape of the Grenfell Tower inferno in London's Kensington area. This, as you will also be aware is the richest piece of real estate in Europe, if not the world, but which also, paradoxically, contains parcels of working class habitation, of which Grenfell Tower is one of the best examples. It has now become a symbol of all that is wrong with Tory government, the free market, and neoliberalism, and of what I have been writing to you about all these years. People are desperately searching for reasons to why such a tragedy has occurred and I will give you the answer in one word, deregulation. These terrible events vindicate everything I have been writing about and concluding that 'you have been warned.' It honestly gives me no pleasure to write this but I quote the Grenfell Tower residents action group who have told the nation that

"All our warnings fell on deaf ears and we predicted that a catastrophe like this was inevitable and just a matter of time.”
Anyone who reads this blog will probably be fed up with me telling you how free market zealots, led
by the Conservative Party, constantly demand that all barriers to what they call wealth creation are removed because such barriers are costs and drive down profit margins. The greatest of such barriers are regulations constraining the ability to do whatever you want especially with respect to health and safety. This is one of the great drivers of Brexit, to make, as Mayhem neatly put it, a bonfire of regulations. That was the driving ideal behind Thatcher's wars against trades unions, to undermine and undo the regulatory framework they had erected protecting workers, their rights and their health and safety. Grenfell Tower is the demonstrable result of greed and political and economic insanity driven by a catastrophic ideology. It is the ultimate end product of Thatcherism. I have written before how the free market destroys people, communities and nations and we now have a graphic example that cannot be denied. As the Labour MP David Lammy told us today, this is corporate manslaughter, which is a bit rich as he was one of the cheer leaders for Mad Tony and Daphne Broon who were just as zealous for the free market and deregulation as any Tory, because they of course are Tories by another name. But a penitent is welcome. I wrote in my last post about the selfishness and exclusivity of the Tories, and with respect to the Grenfell Tower disaster would bring to your attention how in 2016, the Tories ganged up on a Labour amendment to the Housing and Planning Act and voted down a clause that sought to ensure all private landlords made certain their homes were “fit for human habitation”. Seventy-two of those voting against this amendment were themselves private landlords, amongst whom were the then Prime Minister, The Cameroon. Now think about that, here we have the Conservative Party, the party of government, led by the Prime Minister, who claimed to be a God fearing Christian, voting to prevent measures being taken to ensure that homes must be fit for human habitation. If that is not barbarity and inhumanity on a breathtaking scale, then perhaps someone can explain to me what it is? That is what free market neoliberalism is, barbarism and inhumanity on a breathtaking scale. The then Housing Minister, Brandon Lewis, another of the 72 Tory private landlords, refused, in 2014, to compel developers and private landlords to fit sprinklers on the grounds that it would raise the cost of building. The one thing you will never blame a Tory for is inconsistency. To a Tory, the cost of fitting health and safety in any building is a far greater burden than ensuring the lives of the human occupants of that building, and I trust you will not accuse me of exaggeration in saying that because you have the empirical evidence of the Tories actions before you. 

Under Boris the Spider's mayorality of London, 600 firefighters were sacked and ten fire stations closed. Across Britain under the last five years of Tory government, 7,000 firefighters have lost their jobs. No-one can now say that austerity is not a threat to people's lives. Although the Kensington Tory council are the owners of Grenfell Tower, its management was privatised to a group calling itself the Kensington & Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation, a private property company contracted by the council to provide services and repairs. On its website this group claim to own 10,000 homes in West London. The Grenfell Towers residents association, the Grenfell Action Group, had repeatedly complained that health and safety laws were being breached as a result of what they deemed to be failures on the part of the KCTMO. In a blogpost last year entitled Playing with Fire, they wrote: “It is a truly terrifying thought but the Grenfell Action Group firmly believe that only a catastrophic event will expose the ineptitude and incompetence of our landlord.” Welcome to free market privatisation, welcome to the Devil. In a policy paper the Tories actually admitted that one of the great benefits of Brexit in the eyes of these Tory landlord MPs was that they would be able to opt out of EU building standards, thus making building standards in Britain even worse than they already are.

I will stop here because I am getting more disgusted, angry and depressed. There is no low that a Tory will not sink to. Mayhem visited the scene of the disaster today and actually refused to meet any of the victims or any of the residents, who were left to show placards to the media asking 'where are you Theresa May?' At the same time, pop stars such as Adele, Lily Allen and Rita Ora were down helping, comforting victims and giving aid. Ariana Grande has just been made Manchester's first honorary citizen because of her reaction to the Manchester bombing. As I continually tell you, a Tory has no shame. You have been warned.

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