She's a good resource allocator.

'Amber, you can do the tv debate. Oh your father just died? Chin up, think of the party.'

'Andrea, we're still friends. I forgive you. Can you go and sweeten the people from Grenfell Tower. The Queen is there now. Someone should go.'

COYP

If only there was some body of elected officials whose job it was to decide what is and isn't legal.

Exactly.

Clearly if this was all legal then our lawmakers have allowed something to persist that's seriously wrong and the reasons for that are fairly obvious. If the building was below regs then the landlord has questions to answer. The facts that we do know already (speed and extent of blaze, lack of smoke alarms, no sprinklers) indicate that either the landlord has cut corners or the law is unfit or both.

Interestingly, most institutional US property investors (if not all) will not even contemplate buying buildings which don't have sprinkler systems fitted. That was certainly the policy my former employer held. If we looked at any building anywhere in the world the first question was "does it have sprinklers" and if not how much would it cost to retrofit.

Yes the shock is wearing off and the anger and sheer horror is setting in. Saw some pictures on tv this morning of the inside. Seeing the outside KNOWING it's full of remains of people is very upsetting and as I keep saying very frightening.

The government to an extent is bloody lucky it's going to take a while to recover and try and identify those who were inside. If the actual death toll was to be released now there could be riots.

I don't know how to put this nicely but I grew up on a council estate and when the authorities start lying to and trying to f*** over the people who many would say are at the bottom of the pile in society then there can be an uprising .

Saw from an old school friend on social media this morning who appears to work for Ken and chels council in some form .waxing lyrical that everyone who is homeless and displaced will be rehoused within the borough. Find this very hard to believe with the size of the housing lists across the country and I am sure many will be within their rights to not want to live in another tower block.

There's all this legislation which exists and shows tenants rights have come on leaps and bounds but the renters and council tenants or indeed anyone who has attempted to seek housing assistance from the local authority will tell you about the scandal of rental properties in this country. No one gives a f***. No one cares. You pay your money and you are left to f***ing rot. While the government bang on about home ownership and getting people on the property ladder. Absolutely scandalous. Makes me so angry

When I was a young girl my Mother said to me.. You listen here kid you're CPFC

The UK test is whether it fits the code not whether it is actually "fire safe". Nothing is 100% safe, everything has a risk involved.

"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."