The de-regulation of fire safety needs to be reversed and handed back to the The deregulation of fire safety is essential in understanding how a death trap was created at Grenfell Tower, writes Matt Wrack
Why was the Grenfell Tower fire allowed to happen? This is the central question that the Grenfell Tower Inquiry must answer.
To get to the bottom of the issues, the public inquiry must address the whole fire safety regime and in particular the process of deregulation established over recent decades. Sadly, prime minister Theresa May and inquiry chair Martin Moore-Bick decided that the terms of reference would not explicitly include deregulation, despite advice from the Fire Brigades Union, representatives of the bereaved, survivors and residents, and some other interested parties.
If they are serious about “leaving no stone unturned” then we need a wide-ranging public inquiry that takes in the systematic attacks on legislation, so-called ‘red tape’, privatisation, contracting out – in short, about deregulation.
The Sky report this morning said that her statement saying she wouldn't have changed anything, was the last straw. She will be ok though £140k a year pension.
London fire chief Dany Cotton forced to quit early after Grenfell Tower families demand she goes
The de-regulation of fire safety needs to be reversed and handed back to the The deregulation of fire safety is essential in understanding how a death trap was created at Grenfell Tower, writes Matt Wrack
Why was the Grenfell Tower fire allowed to happen? This is the central question that the Grenfell Tower Inquiry must answer.
To get to the bottom of the issues, the public inquiry must address the whole fire safety regime and in particular the process of deregulation established over recent decades. Sadly, prime minister Theresa May and inquiry chair Martin Moore-Bick decided that the terms of reference would not explicitly include deregulation, despite advice from the Fire Brigades Union, representatives of the bereaved, survivors and residents, and some other interested parties.
If they are serious about “leaving no stone unturned” then we need a wide-ranging public inquiry that takes in the systematic attacks on legislation, so-called ‘red tape’, privatisation, contracting out – in short, about deregulation.
The Sky report this morning said that her statement saying she wouldn't have changed anything, was the last straw. She will be ok though £140k a year pension.
London fire chief Dany Cotton forced to quit early after Grenfell Tower families demand she goes
The de-regulation of fire safety needs to be reversed and handed back to the The deregulation of fire safety is essential in understanding how a death trap was created at Grenfell Tower, writes Matt Wrack
Why was the Grenfell Tower fire allowed to happen? This is the central question that the Grenfell Tower Inquiry must answer.
To get to the bottom of the issues, the public inquiry must address the whole fire safety regime and in particular the process of deregulation established over recent decades. Sadly, prime minister Theresa May and inquiry chair Martin Moore-Bick decided that the terms of reference would not explicitly include deregulation, despite advice from the Fire Brigades Union, representatives of the bereaved, survivors and residents, and some other interested parties.
If they are serious about “leaving no stone unturned” then we need a wide-ranging public inquiry that takes in the systematic attacks on legislation, so-called ‘red tape’, privatisation, contracting out – in short, about deregulation.
The Sky report this morning said that her statement saying she wouldn't have changed anything, was the last straw. She will be ok though £140k a year pension.
London fire chief Dany Cotton forced to quit early after Grenfell Tower families demand she goes
Ah, a scapegoat, fabulous. That’ll solve things going forward.
Scapegoat?
London fire commissioner Dany Cotton was today forced to quit after losing the support of bereaved Grenfell Tower families. Mayor Sadiq Khan felt compelled to act after a delegation of families went to City Hall to call for her to go. She was personally criticised for “remarkable insensitivity" in telling the Grenfell Tower public inquiry that she would not have done anything differently in terms of how the brigade responded to the fire, on June 14, 2017.
The disaster claimed 72 lives. Inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick said the brigade’s planning and preparation for a fire such as at Grenfell was “gravely inadequate” and it failed to learn the lessons of the 2009 fatal tower block fire at Lakanal House in Camberwell. He said it was likely there would have been “fewer fatalities” if the tower had been evacuated between 1.30am and 1.50am and blamed brigade commanders on the scene for sticking with the “stay put” advice to trapped residents. The strategy was rescinded at 2.47am, about two hours after the fire started.
Labour MP David Lammy, former Tory fire authority chairman Brian Coleman and Tory mayoral candidate had previously called for her to quit.
In response to the news, Grenfell United, the bereaved families and survivor group, said: “This change in leadership is needed to keep Londoners safe.
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Undoubtedly some could have been saved, but how many?
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She will be ok though £140k a year pension.
London fire chief Dany Cotton forced to quit early after Grenfell Tower families demand she goes
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/london-fire-chief-dany-cotton-forced-to-quit-early-after-grenfell-tower-families-demand-she-goes/ar-BBXQ8jO?ocid=spartanntp
That’ll solve things going forward.
Scapegoat?
London fire commissioner Dany Cotton was today forced to quit after losing the support of bereaved Grenfell Tower families.
Mayor Sadiq Khan felt compelled to act after a delegation of families went to City Hall to call for her to go.
She was personally criticised for “remarkable insensitivity" in telling the Grenfell Tower public inquiry that she would not have done anything differently in terms of how the brigade responded to the fire, on June 14, 2017.
The disaster claimed 72 lives. Inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick said the brigade’s planning and preparation for a fire such as at Grenfell was “gravely inadequate” and it failed to learn the lessons of the 2009 fatal tower block fire at Lakanal House in Camberwell.
He said it was likely there would have been “fewer fatalities” if the tower had been evacuated between 1.30am and 1.50am and blamed brigade commanders on the scene for sticking with the “stay put” advice to trapped residents. The strategy was rescinded at 2.47am, about two hours after the fire started.
Labour MP David Lammy, former Tory fire authority chairman Brian Coleman and Tory mayoral candidate had previously called for her to quit.
In response to the news, Grenfell United, the bereaved families and survivor group, said: “This change in leadership is needed to keep Londoners safe.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/london-fire-chief-dany-cotton-forced-to-quit-early-after-grenfell-tower-families-demand-she-goes/ar-BBXQ8jO?ocid=spartanntp