Kelly Does this man have no shame?

was drastically reducing police numbers which increased insecurity on our streets, an obsession with privatising former public services which are made catastrophically worse when the profit motive is factored in, and also a mania for deregulation because regulation costs money and gets in the way of private enterprise.

And when people like private landlords who take up the slack in social housing are free to do more or less as they wish, they do things like put cheaper flammable cladding on buildings instead of more expensive inflammable material.

So while Prime Minister Theresa May has been, rightly, vilified for her abject response to the situation and will surely resign, why no mention of Osborne?

I seem to recall around 2013 when a bit of praise came his way for how the UK economy was doing he was quick to accept the plaudits.

Yet in the longer run when his policies have been revealed for the folly they are, their failure now symbolised in the charred remains of Grenfell Tower, is he going to accept he was in anyway wrong?

The day before the horrific blaze started, Osborne’s Standard was calling claims that austerity will be abandoned “worrying” while Tory backbenchers were saying it was “fantasy” that economic problems could be solved by a spending splurge. What do they think now? Part of me wants to suggest Grenfell Tower is left standing in its present state as a constant reminder of what happens when a Government chooses to abandon its responsibility to the people it was elected to represent by selling off services on the cheap to the private sector.

But what should happen is that it be demolished and replaced with a new building, something that offers hope for a different kind of future.

Safe and affordable homes for the community which need them, and not apart of someone’s expanding investment portfolio. Former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne