People in tower blocks don't matter to politicians until they're dead
People in tower blocks don't matter to politicians until they're dead In the UK tower blocks are traditionally a place where governments put people who don't matter. They pile up the poor, and then ignore them because they probably don't vote and will probably never get out of the carefully-designed ghetto they've been installed in. Now the 24-storey Grenfell Tower has burned itself on our retinas, we all have a chance to study it. A council block with hundreds of people living in it, heaped upon one another while they love and argue and raise or grieve their children, just like everyone else. Last night those people woke up to the smell of burning plastic and a conflagration that in less than an hour had turned their homes into a 67-metre torch. In the darkness and early dawn at least six of them perished, a figure likely to rise as firefighters pick through the smoking ruins to find those who succumbed to the fumes and flames. There are already reports...
