Slightly Fired

Since neither Jacob Rees-Mogg nor Andrew Bridgen is a spad who can be sacked for the slipping masks of Andrew Bridgen and Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Government has done the next best thing and given the builder mainly responsible for the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower a bit of a holiday. The Minister for Homelessness announced that he was overturning previous policy, which was to allow the company to continue bidding for public contracts on the grounds that corporations are always innocent until proven guilty and frequently afterwards too. The inquiry's preliminary finding that fire brigade guidelines work best in buildings that are legally safe has already been considerately re-framed by the free and cantankerous press as a condemnation of the fire brigade for giving the wrong advice; so the company should not have to wait too long before Her Majesty's Government decides that the entire inferno has been taken rather out of context. Still, it cannot be denied that the company is at least partly responsible for bringing into temporary disrepute the right-wing crusade against health and safety regulations; so it's only common sense that the builders should be made to shoulder at least some of whatever blame cannot be sustainably unloaded onto the firefighters and the victims.