London Tower Block Inferno

[pjclarke]

Much as people want to make this a party-political point - that's bollocks. .

Obvs. Climate change is to blame.

Fears were raised that green energy concerns were prioritised ahead of safety as it emerged that cladding used to make the building more sustainable could have accelerated the fire.

Grenfell Tower inferno a 'disaster waiting to happen' as concerns are raised for safety of other buildings

[NotAllThere]

So Class O is as good as it gets?

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What is Class 0 ?
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Is Class 0 the same as Class O? Are they referring to the same thing?

[SueEllen]

Obvs. Climate change is to blame.

Fears were raised that green energy concerns were prioritised ahead of safety as it emerged that cladding used to make the building more sustainable could have accelerated the fire.

Grenfell Tower inferno a 'disaster waiting to happen' as concerns are raised for safety of other buildings

Nah councils are legally obliged to go with the lowest quote.

So if the lowest quote was £5,000 lower by not using fire resistant material it won the bid.....

[BrilloPad]

Nah councils are legally obliged to go with the lowest quote.

So if the lowest quote was £5,000 lower by not using fire resistant material it won the bid.....

However it was still legal.

[SueEllen]

Breaking news - Theresa May met some survivors in a hospital. She spent under an hour there. link

[shaunbhoy]

Breaking news - Theresa May met some survivors in a hospital. She spent under an hour there.

Well she probably felt they had been through enough. The woman is overflowing with compassion.

[northernladyuk]

Nah councils are legally obliged to go with the lowest quote.

So if the lowest quote was £5,000 lower by not using fire resistant material it won the bid.....

No they are not. They are obliged to go either:

a) with the lowest price that meet specification / requirements, or
b) with the most economically advantageous quote (value for money)

...unless something has changed recently.

[Bee]

What a tragedy.

Normally this kind of accidents would be contained in one or two apartments in this case the flames went spread in all the tower in 30 minutes.

17 deads and an undetermined number of disappearances, unfortunately, I have to conclude that the number of disappearances will be the number of casualties.

The only justice that could be made is that the responsibles who ignored the safety of the building should spend a large time in jail.

[NotAllThere]

Breaking news - Theresa May met some survivors in a hospital. She spent under an hour there. link

Mrs May snapped leaving the hospital around an hour later

Now there's an ambiguous statement.

[Paddy]

"I know so many of the dead": Grenfell Tower resident whose faulty fridge sparked fire tells of despair

"I know so many of the dead": Grenfell Tower resident whose faulty fridge sparked fire tells of despair - Mirror Online

Shameless Tory council leader blames Grenfell Tower block residents for lack of sprinklers claiming they didn't want 'disruption'

Shameless Tory council leader blames Grenfell Tower block residents for lack of sprinklers claiming they didn't want 'disruption' - Mirror Online