Exactly Steve.
Grenfell was literally and metaphorically, the bonfire of regulations.
Not the result of “mistakes” or of "failure" by the State, but of deliberate decsions, of boardroom-calculated institutional violence.

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Thanks Uilleam, and everyone who liked the poem.

In my mind, the man who built the burning house is the construction industry who, seven years on from the fire at Grenfell Tower, are still driven by profit first and "value engineering", and who we know will not simply release 1.5 million new homes onto the market but will drip-feed supply in order to keep demand, and prices, high.

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The UK;
a burning house built on sand,
built on a flood plain, full of turds
but neh mind eh; as long as Charlie's there, we'll be ok; our anchor in a sea of shit.

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