Grenfell blame game

DON’T those who miraculously escaped the Grenfell Tower inferno, or who lost loved ones in that hellish conflagration deserve better treatment?

Not a single company involved in refurbishing the high-rise block – and covering it with flammable cladding – has admitted a sliver of guilt.

And instead of showing decency and humanity, their lavishly remunerated bosses are treating the survivors of this grotesque tragedy with contempt.

Rather than facing their shortcomings, they have resorted to finger pointing.

Richard Millett QC, lead counsel to the Grenfell inquiry, hit the nail squarely on the head when he said the firms had embarked on a ‘merry-go round of buck-passing’.

Whatever happened to the concept of taking responsibility?

The second phase of the inquiry into the horrific fire will shine a light on issues like the block’s cladding. How, it will ask, could this have happened in the middle of one of the world’s richest cities?

In damning evidence, it was revealed that a manager at the US company that made the flammable cladding had warned six years before the devastating inferno that it was dangerous.

Were they and other firms selling inferior materials and lax building regulations failing to stop them?

Inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick will sift through the evidence with cold precision. He has already castigated London Fire Brigade. When he publishes his next report, he must not pull his punches.