Business as Usual

In the towering spirit of British justice, a public inquiry has taken seven years to discover that landlords, corporate profiteers and laissez-brûler governments all did their bit towards causing the seventy-two avoidable deaths in the Grenfell disaster. Dear me, who would have thought it? Fortunately, a certain stability was apparent in the predictability of the responses. The corporate spokesbeings responded with blanket denials and blame-shifting. The CEO of Team Starmer responded with a pledge to deprive the relevant corporations of Government contracts; it remains to be seen how much or how little difference this will make once they start trading under different names. The Metropolitan Police responded that further patience will be required, since a further year or two will be necessary to go through the report and ensure that legal culpability for the deaths is sufficiently attenuated to make prosecutions appropriately impracticable.