Another Outing For Mr Nobody

by Les May

LISTENING to the news reports of the response by the different agencies one might have expected to have taken action earlier to shut down the Leicester ‘sweat shops’ I had a strong sense of deja vu; I’ve heard it all before.  I saw it in my own town a few years ago when a ‘marked register’, a precaution against voter fraud, went missing, possibly stolen, from a polling station.  There should have been a police investigation; there wasn’t.  A candidate who should have been informed that this had happened and wasn’t, tried to pursue the matter and found nobody would take responsibility.  He described it as the ‘sloping shoulders syndrome’. I saw it again when a Rochdale Labour councillor, Faisal Rana, who had voted twice in the election failed to declare his interests within the specified time.   Council officers wriggled and squirmed to avoid taking any action.   Once again nobody would take responsibility. It reached scandal proportions with regard to the Grenfell Tower fire.   It was Mr Nobody who was responsible yet again.

In Leicester it not even true to say the existence of the sweat shops and what was happening in the decrepit buildings that housed them was ‘an open secret’; it wasn’t even a secret!  A journalist had written an article for the Financial Times drawing attention to them.  In January 2020 Tory MP Andrew Bridgen had raised serious concerns over the conditions in garment factories.  Nobody took notice.

The agencies which might have been involved, HMRC to check no one was fiddling the furlough scheme, the Health and Safety Executive that social distancing by workers was being enforces, the Fire Service that the decrepit buildings were not a fire risk, the Police to check that no one was being forced to work in unsafe conditions against their will, do to some extent have the excuse that that they were no asked to intervene by the body that has ultimate responsibility for what goes on in Leicester, the local council. It seems Mr Nobody was responsible once again.

What is perhaps most disturbing about this is that responsibility for keeping the rate of transmission of the SarsCov2 virus which causes Covid19 disease is being placed in the hands of local councils.  Will Mr Nobody be responsible if they don’t do the job properly?  Figures released on Friday show that Rochdale where I live has 149 cases which is an infection rate of 68 per 100,000 of the population. (These figures are based on data for the fortnight up to 12 July)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-53448533

If you actually look at the advice being given by RMBC to bring down the rate of infection, limit visitors in your home to two, wear a face mask in public and keep two metres apart from at all times they are not really much different from the vague advice coming from Boris Johnson et al.  Where is the guidance about work?  About travel?   About eating out?  But should I really expect better from a council which feels it is acceptable that a councillor who admitted voting twice in the same election should be appointed to a committee which deals with planning applications?

http://democracy.rochdale.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=6271

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There will be more fires like Grenfell,

 and lives will be lost

 Forwarded to NV by Joe Bailey

Sandra Ruiz

Warnings before the tragedy were ignored. Two years on, a lack of action means thousands still live in towers with combustible cladding

• Sandra Ruiz is a member of the Grenfell United action group

Tue 3 Dec 2019 18.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 3 Dec 2019 18.20 GMT

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Comments on the Bolton Fire

— Grenfell United (@GrenfellUnited) November 16, 2019

The Pressure Group Grenfell United said the fire in Bolton 'brings back memories' of the Grenfell Tower fire, which claimed 72 lives in 2017, and called for Government action.
“Devastating to see images of such quick fire spread last night in #Bolton,” tweeted the group, which represents bereaved and survivors from the fire.

Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said it was “deeply troubling” to see fire spread rapidly up a building’s exterior again and called for a “complete overhaul” of fire safety in the UK.

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Doreen (Baroness) Lawrence accuses Grenfell firefighters of RACISM!

TORY TOFF - JACOB REES-MOGG

Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, is the kind of person you either like or loathe. I was much more of a fan of his father, William Rees-Mogg, who died in 2012 aged 84. A liberal conservative and former editor of the Times, he criticised the jailing of Mick Jagger for minor drug offences in 1967, in an editorial entitled, "Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?"

An article that I recently read in the New Yorker by the journalist Sam Knight, had this to say of his son, Jacob Rees-Mogg:

"Even to a British person, Rees-Mogg is a figure out of time. His voice, a plangent, plummy thing, is like an artificial-intelligence simulacrum of how the upper classes spoke in Edwardian England."

Undoubtedly, Rees-Mogg is an anachronism even in today's Conservative Party. Dubbed the Honourable Member for the 18th century, the footage  of Rees-Mogg reclining  like a patrician, on the green benches in the House of Commons, as if he were at a Roman bath, went viral. This devout Roman Catholic and quintessentially English eccentric, opposes both abortion and same sex marriage. In 2012, he suggested that the county of Somerset should have its own time zone. While it is said that Jeremy Corbyn rebelled some 428 times against his own party's leadership in parliamentary votes, during the last Labour government, Rees-Mogg, before joining Boris Johnson's administration and becoming Leader of the House of Commons, had voted against the governments of Theresa May and David Cameron a hundred and twenty-seven times. 

Jacob Rees-Mogg has recently come under attack for what some people have said are crass and insensitive remarks that he made about the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, in which 72 people died. In a phone-in interview with LBC radio presenter Nick Ferrari on Monday, Rees-Mogg claimed that the Grenfell Tower fire victims did not use 'common sense' and leave the building in spite of the London Fire brigade's instructions to stay put. In a later statement issued to the Evening Standard, he apologised for his remarks and said:

"I profoundly apologise. What I meant to say is that I would also have listened to the fire brigade's advice to stay and wait at the time. However, with what we know now and with hindsight I wouldn't and I don't think anyone else would. What's so sad is that the advice given overrides common sense because everybody would want to leave a burning building..."

Like his boss, the Prime Minister,  Boris Johnson, another pedigree chum from Eton, who talks of "pickaninnies with water melon smiles - a racial insult to black people - Rees-Mogg is also rather loose with the lip and has a habit of putting his foot in his mouth. After his remarks on the Grenfell fire there were calls for Rees-Mogg to fall on his sword and resign.

Yet, compared with the utterly outrageous comments made by Doreen (Baroness) Lawrence, about the same Grenfell tragedy, remarks made by the Leader of the House of Commons, seem to be more like a faux pas, a careless or stupid blunder, for which he later apologised.

Last month, Baroness Lawrence in an interview with Channel 4 News, claimed that the firefighters tackling the Grenfell Tower blaze were racist and that she had "no doubt" that the response to the inferno that killed 72 people was motivated by racism. She told channel 4 News: 

BARONESS LAWRENCE 

"Had that block been full of white people, they'd have done everything to get them out as fast as possible and make sure that they did what they needed to do."

The Grenfell Tower fire may have disproportionately affected minority ethnic communities, but 18 children died in that fire along with seven white Britons. And to suggests without a shred of evidence that the firefighters who risked their own lives in fighting that fire on the night, were more concerned with racial profiling than in seeking to rescue people and save lives, seems to be the most arrant nonsense. The Baroness, whose 18-year-old son Stephen Lawrence, was stabbed to death by a gang of racist thugs in south east London in 1993, was criticised for her 'poisonous', 'disgusting' and 'appalling' comments. Her  claims were strongly refuted by the London Fire Brigade (LFB), and were described as "misjudged and insulting."

Matt Wrack, the general secretary of the FBU, said:

"The Fire Brigades Union has a long history of standing against racism. We do not accept that the actions of individual firefighters that night were motivated by race or any other discriminating factor."

Doreen Lawrence was made a Labour Life Peer in 2013. Unlike the Tory toff Rees-Mogg, I'm not aware that there have been any calls for Doreen Lawrence to resign, but at the very least, I think she owes the London Fire Brigade an apology.

Who should be charged over Grenfell?

by Andrew Wastling .

ARTICLE [Public Order & Bad Taste]  raises valid points about freedom of the individual.  The burning of any effigy of another human being could be considered incitement to hate - or alternatively as a collective way of channel anger into a less destructive avenue than real violence.  I have no qualms whatsoever ,for instance , when people in mining communities burnt the effigy of Margaret Thatcher on celebratory bonfires when she died and sang ' ding dong the witches dead' in a perfectly understandable communal response to the damage Her government dealt out to the mining communities.

On the other hand I'd be much more concerned by people burning books on bonfires, conjuring up as the image does obvious Nazi imagery and symbolism.

The swiftness of the State in this incident surely exposes the sheer hypocrisy & double standards of the authorities in choosing when and when not to act as suits their own agenda when we compare the relative speed in which the lowlifes who burnt an effigy of Grenfell were arrested, when compared to the rather posher lowlifes who burnt the real Grenfell.

When will they be arrested on charges of possible corporate manslaughter I wonder?

I know which many people will regard as the greater 'hate crime'; towards people, and which is the more deserving of police action and prosecution for criminality.

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Public Order & Bad Taste

Could Local Bonfires Become a Hate Crime? 
by Brian Bamford

POLICE are now considering charging six men with a public order offence following a video being posted of the burning of a model of Grenville Towers on a bonfire.

The Metropolitan Police said the men - two aged 49 and the others aged 19, 46 and 55 - handed themselves in at a south London station on Monday night.

A righteous tone was set by the Prime Minister Theresa May, who has called the video 'utterly unacceptable'.

Footage shows a large model bearing a Grenfell Tower sign, complete with paper figures at the windows, being set on fire.

Laughter can be heard off camera as the effigy is set alight, with onlookers shouting 'Help me! Help me!' and 'Jump out the window!'.

The men have been arrested under section 4a of the Public Order Act 1986, which covers intentional 'harassment, alarm or distress" caused via the use of 'threatening, abusive or insulting' words or signs.

Under this law offences committed on a private residence where a person 'had no reason to believe' it would be 'heard or seen by a person outside that or any other dwelling' are protected from prosecution under the act.

On the face of it most anarchists ought to find these arrests disturbing and the reports yesterday of the police searching a property in South Norwood, south London, suggests a fishing expedition by the police and this not good news for those of us who believe in freedom in private life.  No decent person would surely want an East German regime such as was shown in the film 'The Lives of Others'.

If what happened in the garden at South Norwood was just a joke that was simply offensive and in bad taste, it would not seem to be sufficient for a prosecution.

There is also a historical dimension to this traditional event even if we accept that what happened was in bad taste.  It is worth  remembering that the burning of the effigy of Guy Fawkes could itself be technically classed as a 'hate crime'.  Guy Fawkes was a catholic convert, and I understand that this is not practised in the Republic of Ireland; meanwhile a bonfire night held in Northern Ireland in July has many similarities to Guy Fawkes Night in that a vitriolic anti-Catholicism is celebrated and that the pope may be burned in effigy (alongside politicians like Gerry Adams).

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Justice for Grenfell

Public Meeting:

Justice for Grenfell
We need answers!

WE DEMAND SAFE, SECURE HOMES

6 pm on Tuesday 22nd of August
Salford Arts Theatre, Kemsing Walk (off Liverpool St), Salford M5 4BS.

Speakers from:
Justice4Grenfell Campaign
Mark Rowe, FBU North West Regional Secretary
Hilda Palmer, GM Hazards Campaign
Salford City Unison

All Welcome

For more information contact Salford City Unison Branch Office on 0161794 7425 or got to http://salfordcityunison.org.uk/justice-4-grenfell/

Grenfell Towers: Consequences for Manchester

 excerpt from analysis by Eimear McCartan and Sam Blewitt, Campaign Volunteers at the 

Greater Manchester Law Centre

REACTIONS of grief and anger have been voiced by not only the affected community, but also by the wider community as residents in similarly constructed housing all around Britain justifiably raise concerns about their safety.
Lucy Powell, Labour’s MP for Manchester Central has expressed concerns about housing safety in Manchester and has called for tighter safety regulations in an interview with the Manchester Evening News. She amongst others, have raised concerns that all high-rise buildings should be reviewed, and not just council flats.
“We shouldn’t just be focusing on former council blocks, because in Manchester – particularly in the city centre – we have had a huge increase in the number of high rise blocks,” she said. ^[2]
However, steps have already been taken in Greater Manchester to assuage the community’s unrest. Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has set up a scheme headed by Paul Dennett (Mayor of Salford) in which every high-rise building above 6 stories will be reviewed, providing residents reassurance about fire safety standards.
On 23^rd June, the Mayor of Salford also announced that cladding used on nine different high-rise blocks in Salford that were a similar material to the ones used to insulate Grenfell Tower would be removed.

For more:   http://www.gmlaw.org.uk/were-grenfell-tower-residents-denied-access-to-justice/

Blacklist Support Group update 10th July 2017:

1. One word. Shocking. Undercover Police Monitored And Spied On Jeremy Corbyn for 20 years. Jeremy as ever has the BSG's full support

http://londonwebnews.com/2017/06/30/police-monitored-jeremy-corbyn/

2. Did Undercover Police Target Grenfell Residents Who Raised Fears About Safety?

Dave Smith representing. As above with Jeremy, the Grenfell residents can count on the BSG's support. As a Hillsborough survivor, i can assure the victims of the fire that they can count on our solidarity too

http://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-fcb3-Did-undercover-police-target-Grenfell-residents-who-raised-fears-about-safety#.WWB_tX_TXYW 
3. Blacklisted worker Roy Bentham causes the establishment and mainstream media to go into frenzy after being elected to a union liaison role in Wavertree Labour Party 
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4670494/Luciana-Berger-threatened-deselection-hard-left.html

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/06/labour-mps-critical-of-corbyn-fear-deselection-after-get-on-board-warning?CMP=share_btn_fb

4. Protest in solidarity with great comrade of the Blacklist Support Group Bob Carnegie  over Lendlease. Special mention to BSG member Keith Dobie in coordinating last weeks demonstration against Haringey Council regarding their partnership with the rogue company. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=3aZbDY1MvOw

5.  There was a protest outside Housing conference  in Manchester Central (GMEX) on Thursday 29th June when the Mears CEO was speaking. 

Maintenance workers, employed by Mears and working on social housing in Manchester, are in the middle of 12 weeks of strike action over unequal pay and attacks on terms and conditions. 

The BSG sends its support and solidarity 

http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/mears-using-manchester-pay-to-suppress-wages/

6.  'Blacklisted' book (echoing union activists) describes umbrella payroll companies in the construction industry as a giant scam designed to deny workers basic employment rights and at the same time deprive the tax man of billions in revenue. 

Now the bosses who orchestrated these schemes are starting to be sent to jail.

http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2017/06/14/umbrella-payroll-cheats-jailed-for-pocketing-45m/

7. Blacklisted workers travelled from across the country to the big Tories Out demonstration last Saturday. 

#NotOneDayMore 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40468881

8.  Calling all blacklisted workers or associates in the Manchester area!

MIF are working with the Turner Prize-nominated visual artist Phil Collins on a project for the Manchester International Festival on July 16th. Phil’s project is a very timely examination of current day working practices - minimum wage, zero hours contracts, blacklisting and exploitation. 

Get yourself along if you are in the area. 

http://mif.co.uk/mif17-events/ceremony/

9. Great result at the Football Supporters Federation AGM on Sunday at the FA National Centre in Burton. 70 Football fan groups voted in favour of boycotting the S*n from their respective clubs. 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hillsborough-disaster-latest-news-the-sun-boycott-fans-70-football-clubs-liverpool-sheffield-a7820391.html

10. 21st June. Jeremy Corbyn received one of our justice campaigns banner t shirts at a recent Unite Executive Council meeting in Holborn during an impromptu visit.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/jeremy-corbyn-receives-special-scouse-13217190

11. Durham Miners Gala. 8th July

Plenty of BSG members in attendance at an event which garnered record crowds with Jeremy addressing a reported 200,000 supporters. Don't forget Tolpuddle this weekend.  

12. Private Investigators spying on union and fracking activists

https://thebristolcable.org/2017/07/private-investigators-spying-fracking-trade-union-activists/

And finally best wishes to brother Dave Smith who is studying hard to get his PHD nailed. 

I'd also like to thank everyone within the group for campaigning magnificently on behalf of the Labour Party during the election too. 

Never forget. We are the many 

Roy Bentham (joint secretary)

Blacklist Support Group 

When is a product banned?

Tim Clark, acting news editor, Construction News (Monday 19 June):

When is a product banned and when is it not banned?  Responding to a question on The Andrew Marr Show yesterday, chancellor Philip Hammond said it was “his understanding” that the cladding used on the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower was “banned” in the UK.  Hammond’s assertion was clarified by a Treasury official who said the chancellor was commenting on buildings “above a certain height”. Mr Hammond’s comments have been rejected by the boss of CEP Architectural Facades, which fabricated the rainscreen panels and windows for Harley Facades, the subcontractor appointed to install the cladding on the tower block. CEP Architectural Facades’ MD John Cowley said that the product in question, Reynobond PE, is actually not banned in the UK. So which is it, and why is the chancellor becoming involved in a story which is a long way from his brief at the Treasury? Industry expert and chief executive of Cast Consulting Mark Farmer told CN that he was “astonished” by Mr Hammond’s remarks. Mr Farmer said: “How can a senior member of government misrepresent the position like this at such a sensitive time? The inquiry will shine a public spotlight on the construction industry as perhaps never before. “It is bound to identify many of the systemic failings that we suffer from in the industry but there are some simple regulatory facts that should be identified quickly – ie whether the cladding was indeed banned in the UK or not under Building Regulations when used as part of a refurbishment.” As far as Construction News understands the chancellor may be correct – if the terms of his comments are applied to the narrow view of how the particular materials were used on Grenfell Tower itself. The chancellor’s views can be backed up by technical requirements for tall buildings which are found in the depths of Part B of the building regulations code. To explain we need to take a short history lesson. In the aftermath of the great fire of London in 1666, the capital drew up some of the most stringent fire regulations anywhere in the world. However, after being in force for around three centuries, the London Building Regulations were superseded in the mid-1980s when national building regulations came into force. According to former chief fire officer Ronnie King, the cladding used at Grenfell “may” not have been allowed if the previous London building regs were still in force today. Mr King, who now acts as group secretariat for the Parliament’s all-party parliamentary fire safety and rescue group said that, the current rules – which were probed in depth during the coroner’s report into the Lakanal incident in 2009 – were however “ambiguous”. Par 12.7 of part B2 of the building regs says that “in a building with a story 18m or more above ground level any insulation product, filler material (not including gaskets, sealants and similar) etc. used in the external wall construction construction should be of limited combustibility”. Mr King says that, if the core of a building has a combustible material contained within it, then the cladding of the building has to be non-flammable for buildings above 18 m. Mr King says: “The proviso that Hammond went to, is that one table in the Approved Documents relating to dwellings said that when the core is combustible – the cladding would not have been compliant if the building was above 18 m. “It would seem that those officials who confirmed that were right. “However it is complicated as the coroner from Lakanal said was that the building regs themselves were too confusing, the lawyers can’t interpret them. “After Lakanal, we had all these QCs at the inquest and they were all confused over what was applicable and what wasn’t.”  A key issue here however is to establish whether the core of the tower at Grenfell did have a combustible material, and whether this meant that using the type of cladding would be banned. However these issues are usually established through forensic investigation, either by an inquiry or through a London Fire Brigade report into the causes of the fire. Having these facts established from a senior minister on national TV on a Sunday morning within days of the national tragedy has understandably raised eyebrows.

Grenfell Fire Sheds Light on Unfair Society

& the British Building Trade

LAST month, the National Rank & File construction workers held a conference in Manchester at which a booklet. which formed part of the theme of the conference, was promoted entitled 'BUILDING WORKERS INTO BEGGARS'.
This week the Grenfell fire illuminated some of the most telling problems of modern society not just in Britain but throughout the world.

Yesterday, the Financial Times ran an editorial, which one former communist told me was better than anything in the Morning Star; the FT leader writer wrote:

'The tower's  blackened silhouette looming above London's most affluent enclaves, is rapidly becoming a symbol of the divisions in British society.  The tragedy is fuelling resentment over inequality over the inequality and impact of austerity on the poorest.  It represents a serious political threat to a prime minister struggling to assert her authority.... Yet the disaster is also causing disquiet across the world in cities where high rise housing is an essential part of contemporary urban living.'

Pre-fabricated construction & low pay

Meanwhile, in their book at the building worker's Manchester Rank & File conference Dr. Brian Parker and Peter Shaw, a Technical Member of  the Institute of Technology wrote in their introduction to their booklet 'BUILDING WORKERS INTO BEGGARS' :

'The UK construction industry has a long-established, and rarely broken history of low basic wages, employment casualisation, bonus and incentive pay reliance, low trade union density as well as persistently high serious injury and fatality rates.'

The Parkin and Shaw report continues:

''.... over the last four decades {construction) has been in many ways transformed by increased mechanisation, modular and pre-fabricated systems of construction methods and pre-site assembly of many electrical and mechanical services systems.... Over the same period the employers have consistently attempted to further deregulate the construction industry's labour market by an outright assault on skilled (mainly) electrician's pay grades...'

This brief report explains how it arose from discussions at the National Construction Rank & File executive 'concerning the plight of younger construction workers, who due to [the] low entry level ...of in-course training pay, find themselves excluded from an already out of control housing market.'

What this report is outlining is that the lads (and it is mainly lads) that build the houses in this country can't afford to live in them, and that on the technical aspect the book is highlighting that today 'pre-fabricated systems of construction.. and pre-site assembly (methods)' are being used.

The Devil of Deregulation

The National Rank & File construction worker's booklet report is naturally concerned about the 'deregulation' of skills, pay and conditions.  The Financial Times editor is worried about the deregulation applied generally to the building industry.

The FT warns the government that this (Grenfell Tower's Fire) 'should serve as a warning to anyone in government who still believes in deregulation measured on an absurd "one in three out" numerical basis, as an ideological goal.'

Yesterday's FT editorial concludes:

'The fire that swept through King's Cross underground station in 1987 prompted tougher regulation, a huge progamme of works to make the tube network safer and a fundamental rethink of approaches to fire safety.  The towering inferno in North Kensington was a tragedy that could almost certainly have been prevented and demands a similar response.'

At the time on the Lisbon earthquake on November 1, 1755, the greater part of the city of Lisbon, Portugal, was destroyed, sixty thousand were said to have lost their lives, and the property damage, although it cannot be estimated accurately, was of course enormous.  But the Lisbon earthquake was what some call an 'Act of God', the Grenfell fire is not.  Because of the sociological circumstances of the time the Lisbon earthquake caused tremendous theological disputes over the nature of God and the responsibility of the Pope, not least between the French philosophers Rousseau and Voltaire. 

A leading letter in the FT yesterday from Prof. Christopher Hall writing about the Grenfell fire said:  'The fact of this fire is a regulatory failure of government.  It is particularly damning that this failure occurred in public housing, where government must be the guarantor of safety for tenants who may have little choice where they live.' 

Pro. Hall then claims that with regard to the 'lethal danger of combustible materials and unimpeded cavities on the exterior of buildings' that '[i]t is elementary to avoid such features, but it requires alert and expert regulators to keep abreast of changes in construction methods and materials.'

Alternatively, we could always adopt Jean-Jacques Rousseau's recommendation provided following the Lisbon earthquake:

'(That) if men had abandoned city life and returned to nature rather than congregating in Lisbon, the result would have been different. "Admit," wrote Rousseau, "that it was not nature's way to crowd together 20,000 houses with 6 or 7 stories each, and if all the inhabitants of this large city had been dispersed more equally, the damage would have been much less, maybe nil."

Grenfell Tower - THEY WERE WARNED

Wednesday, 14 June 2017

LONDONERS awoke this morning to find that the Grenfell Tower, a 24-story block located near the Westway and Latimer Road Underground, had suffered a major fire during the night.   As many as 40 fire appliances and 200 firefighters attended the blaze, which broke out just before 0100 hours.  At least six people are known to have died, with the grim knowledge that “the death toll is likely to rise”.

Grenfell Tower - still ablaze this morning

And while residents, many still in shock, are comforted by their fellow locals, charities and places of worship representing many faiths, the speed at which today’s news media operates means that the questions have begun to be asked.  Why did the fire spread so rapidly in a building that had been recently refurbished?   And if, as has been suggested, the Grenfell Tower was compartmentalised, why was staying put not a good thing?

That refurbishment is already coming under scrutiny, and for good reason. The external cladding applied to the building we know all too well: it was specified as “Rayondbond”, but this is a mis-spelling. The cladding is called Raynobond (the use of the term “Raynolux”, another trade mark of the same company, gives the game away).*

 For more go to: 
www.zelo-street.blogspot.com/2017/06/grenfell-tower-they-were-warned.html   
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* The nature of Reynobond aluminium composite panels according to their own blub.  It seems that the aluminium sheets are the thickness of aluminium foil and that it melts when exposed to heat as would be experienced in a fire:
  Discover the many features of Reynobond aluminium composite panels.   Reynobond aluminium composite panels is a aluminium panel consisting of two coil-coated aluminium sheets that are fusion bonded to both sides of a polyethylene core.
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• Extensive selection of colours and gloss levels, non-standard design surfaces and special coatings.

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