The Tory MPs Are Right

The vile McDonnell and equally noxious Corbyn are politicising a tragic accident.

John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, has claimed that the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire were “murdered by political decisions”, saying politicians’ decisions over recent decades were important factors in the deaths of 79 people in the tower block in north Kensington, London.

Oh, do fuck off already. Errors were made. There may even be a case for manslaughter, but using this as an excuse to blame the Evil Toreees is just sinking lower than even I thought these reprobates were capable of.

Addressing a debate on Sunday at the Glastonbury festival, in Somerset, chaired by the Guardian’s John Harris, McDonnell said: “Is democracy working? It didn’t work if you were a family living on the 20th floor of Grenfell Tower. Those families, those individuals – 79 so far and there will be more – were murdered by political decisions that were taken over recent decades.”

Nope. The local council may well have made poor decisions, there may have been a failure in the purchasing decisions and the inspection regime, but that the extent of the fire was foreseeable is yet to be determined. But it wasn’t murder. Murder requires malice aforethought and neither the council, nor the national government planned the deaths of these people. It was not murder and it was not political decisions by the Tories that was responsible. The claims that cutbacks in social housing was responsible seems to ignore the little factor of around £70,000 per flat being spent on the renovations. Those kind of cutbacks.

The strength of the language used by the MP, whose Hayes and Harlington constituency is a few miles from the site of the tower block fire, will anger some Conservative MPs who have accused Labour of trying to politicise a disaster.

Indeed – and those MPs are right to be angry. Likewise the decision by these scumbags to go to Glastonbury and use a music festival to peddle their poison. Worryingly, there are plenty of people lapping it up, forgetting what happened the last time this evil ideology was tried in practice. At best, it results in trashed economies. At worst, piles of dead bodies.

4 Comments

  1. If we substitute killed for murdered, and remember that the Labour party is entirely composed of politicians, I wouldn’t argue too much with McDonnel’s statement.
    But tell me, what are his proposals to get government out of the planning, building and maintenance of property. Indeed what are his proposals to get government out of the way of anything?
    Rather he wants more government involvement in everything, hence more political decisions.

  2. Yeah democracy didn’t save all those people that McDonnell’s freedom fighting chums in the IRA killed either, did it?

  3. If the electorate (as opposed to the idiot yuppies who attend Glastonbury) can’t see Corbyn and McDonnell for the dangerous stupid scum they are, then this country has decayed so much that it’s almost not worth caring about. Look after your own prosperity, but “fuimus Troës, fuit Ilium, et ingens gloria Teucrorum”.

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