By the way - as predicted, wagon-circling is well and truly underway.
Lily Allen, the singer, spoe on national terrestrial TV to say the dead would number about 150, and that she was receiving that information from local police and fire crews.
The BBC - a government controlled media agency! - has now chucked her off an important broadcast:
Other news outlets are creeping towards the 100 figure, but embedded interests want to get in and manage public opinion before the extent of the death becomes clear.
Coincident with that, it is becoming clearer that for £5,000 more, the cladding would have been fire resistant.
Further, the tower was largely populated by immigrants.
So I estimate the conservative local council has been desperately trying to stave things off, because it’s a political gordian knot (indicating the involvement of the Cabinet), and also because they know damn well they let this happen in the face of a continous stream of fearful warnings from the residents.
I recommend to everyone living in a clad tower to slice off a bit, and live stream on Youtube as they see if it burns, and how quickly it does.
@dfaris - to be fair, in this kind of environment, with this kind of tragedy, being seen in any way to quell information dispersal is going to be ruinous. That’s why you’re getting knocked left right and centre. It’s not about winning or losing - it’s about the shocked surprised, particularly and especially in BB land (where people are very, very media savvy), that anyone would advocate holding on and waiting.
