Grenfell fire is inexcusable, and fury over failures is justified — but blaming ‘Tory cuts’ is facile
Money is tight because it ran out under Labour in 2010, and overthrowing capitalism is not the answer
THE anger over the Grenfell Tower catastrophe is off the scale and rightly so.
The failures that led to so many appalling deaths are many and grotesque.
The safety of poor people in a council block was compromised, apparently to save money, while officials turned a deaf ear to their fears and the Government seemingly sat on its hands.
It is inexcusable and, once provable facts are known, someone must be held to account.
It is no wonder so many people, especially under 45, blame this economic system and clamour for socialism despite its total failure elsewhere.
It is no wonder so many people clamour for socialism despite its total failure elsewhere
They already felt it robbed them of opportunities, while letting failing fatcats get rich and billionaires get even richer off the backs of staff earning less than the minimum wage.
Now they see it putting money before children’s lives.
It is facile to blame “Tory cuts”. Money is tight because it ran out under Labour in 2010.
And the answer is not to overthrow capitalism, the greatest creator of prosperity in history, but to reset it with greater emphasis on the public good.
Theresa May knows this. It was in her manifesto, lost among the grim cuts.
She — or a successor — must not lose sight of it.
Labour’s mob
YOU’D think London and its police had enough to deal with without the Shadow Chancellor whipping up a million-strong mob to march on Downing Street.
No prizes for guessing how John McDonnell would like that demo to pan out too.
He once hailed masked, violent thugs as “the best of our movement”.
And what would this be, but a march against democracy? Let down by the electorate a week ago, McDonnell now hopes a mass protest will help eject the Government so he can install himself and Jeremy Corbyn.
Who cares that the Tories won more seats and votes? Those 13,669,883 people don’t count to McDonnell.
It is bad enough he is an MP in the world’s fifth biggest economy.
Corbyn’s voters want this sinister Marxist to RUN the economy.
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Fudged Brexit
STAYING in the Customs Union might appease the “soft Brexit” crowd.
It looks like madness to us.
One vital reason to leave the EU was to forge trade deals independently with major nations like America, China, India, Canada and Australia.
That looks a better long-term bet than being locked forever inside the Brussels club. Yet this is what so many “soft Brexiters” want to compromise on.
Voters might accept that, if we reclaim control of our borders, laws and money.
To us, it denies Britain a route to future wealth — a key part of the case for Brexit.