I am really confused why you seem to be so fundamentally uninformed on a subject that you insist on commenting. I am going to be generous and assume that you just struggling to process the easily available information on the Grenfell tragedy rather than intentionally spreading alternative facts.
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It’s not a maintenance issue -
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Choice of material is a maintenance issues. Period. The materials chosen for the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower have been known to be unsafe. Fire Safety Experts have warned against their use for years. It is a maintenance issue. Period.
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but what would be a better way of running things? Your options are 1) Old school council runs everything, 2) Tenant-owned companies 3) Private for-profit companies contracting with the council. Of these, I’d argue that 2) ought to give tenants a much bigger say and more accountability. I’m genuinely not aware of another option - maybe smaller tenant-run companies for each building?
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Have you read or listened to anything the people involved in this tragedy have written or said?
Your “accountable” option 2) KCTMO was considered an unaccountable sham by the tenants. KCTMO threatened to sue the tenants who raised safety concern. Threatening to sue the people you are supposedly representing doesn’t really smell of accountability.
I am struggling to understand how anyone with basic knowledge of the facts would consider Tenant Management Organisations a particularly good way to run anything. Just look up the number of court cases regarding maintenance. Thanks to this horrendous and utterly avoidable tragedy we will now find out about every last criminal detail of how these quasi Mafiosi structures operate and syphon of public assets.
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nothing here overrides my main point, that Cory’s was quite wrong to link this tragedy to a proposed amendment which was about something completely unrelated.
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Do explain how is housing legislation not relevant to an issue on housing? Cory’s point is that housing in the UK is a legislative and political shambles. The fact that MPs rejected legislation which required landlords to ensure housing is fit for human habitation seems highly relevant in this context. The fact that thanks to Thatcher and her various co-horts housing is generally a fragmented mess. And that as a consequence legislation differentiates between different kinds of landlords is a small detail which doesn’t effect the central point.
