1/6 Perhaps this shows the Westminster government’s ignorance of fundamental issues contributing to the cladding scandal. For starters, it’s a waste of time spending money, whether that’s £97 million or 97 pence, until you know how many buildings are affected #NotJustCladding
https://twitter.com/team_greenhalgh/status/1373270776443498501
2/6 Secondly, you also need to know the range of issues across the population of buildings. Thirdly, you need to determine what “safe” looks like and the expense reasonably justifiable in reaching that level of “safe” balanced against the risk posed by any given building.
3/6 Fourthly, you then need to work out how to phase works so the highest risk buildings (those farthest from “safe”) are fixed first and there are sufficient materials and manpower available at all times. Otherwise the risk is prices will shoot up.
4/6 Westminster has had 4 years to do this. It hasn’t. Instead the problem has been foisted on leaseholders via Advice Notes and EWS1. £5 billion of public money is being directed at a half-baked solution based on a moral panic about cladding instead of reason and evidence.
5/6 Billions more, in fact 2/3rds of the estimated £15 billion cost, are supposed to come from leaseholders, who can’t pay. All to implement a solution addressing only certain types of cladding on some buildings, ignoring other patent fire safety issues across all buildings.
6/6 My plea to anyone in government who wants to tweet about this is that you please tweet something useful, preferably a considered plan, instead of asking for another £97 million of public money to be wasted simply because it makes for a good headline. #EndOurCladdingScandal
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