Thread by @gremlinlou

A rant about #boltonfire

So they've come out and said that the cladding was categorically not the same as Grenfell.

That's the great thing about words though. It probably isn't the same. I can buy a pack of chocolate bourbons from Tesco, and a pack of chocolate bourbons from Aldi, and I can assure you my toddler will insist they are not the fucking same.

But they are same aren't they? In reality, it's still chocolately biscuit heaven. It tastes the same. It looks the same. If I set it on fire, it burns the fucking same.

The same I'm sure will be true of the cladding. Maybe it's from a different factory. Maybe it is made of slightly different components. I'm sure if you take a sample & put it through mass spectrometry, then results will prove it is categorically not Grenfell cladding.

But it still went up like a lit match. It still spread faster than was reasonable, and if the building had been higher than six stories, if it had been 3am, and if it wasn't populated by essentially able bodied, young students, we'd be looking at a death count.

It's 2019. We shouldn't be looking at fires that spread across a top floor within 20 minutes. We have the materials, the fire safety knowledge and the architectural know-how to make sure this sort of thing doesn't happen.

What we seemingly lack is the ability to put human life and human safety above cheap profit for landlords.

Thanks for listening, vote progressively.