Re: Grenfell Tower: Summed up by Jonathan Pie
Poverty is relative .
Many of the people living in the flats were from other countries where living in this tower blaock would be considered good fortune not poverty ..
Many come from countries where life is cheap and hard -that is why they come to the UK for a better life .if you live in an overcrowded hovel in the Phillipines or a shack in Bangladesh an apartment and the chance of employment in London UK people are still treated as people despite everything is a great option that is why people come here . TO escape poverty as they know it and bad treatment from repressive governments .
Going to the town hall and kicking the doors down would simply not be tolerated in many of the countries of origin of some of the protestors .
The police would just come out and at best beat you up at worst shoot you without turning a hair .
The government do not rush in to support people in a discaster in these cases international aid is usually the first on the scene .
This is the one of the worst disasters for the Uk within living history .
People just don't really know what to do .
The injured are in hospital those who are missing are dead no amount of shouting and cursing Teresa May will bring them back .
They have been incinerated beyond recognition how do they expect anyone to identify them in less than a week ?
No one has died from exposure or starvation or lack of water all has been provided for from charities and good people .
And that is a quintessential part of being in the Uk someone will help you .
You won't be left to die in the gutter although if you are old you may end up dying in a corridor because our health services are overwhelmed by the amount of people they have to care for.
When I see these political agitators screaming abuse it makes me feel ill.
Most have not lost friends family they are just making this a political issue .
These were poor people in these apartments but I bet that when they were alotted them they considered themselves very lucky indeed . An apartment in central London is something to be desired not sniffed at as pretiffying poverty Most people in London live in apartments that they pay through the nose for and aren't pretty .
They have no choice and they can't pick and chose where they live for community reasons either . They live where they can afford .