This is a very strong offering from Newsnight which - following several reports over the last few months - has dedicated its entire show to the building safety crisis and has nailed the key points. No government representative willing to argue its case on air.
https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1433543656036659200
Will this finally be the moment this national scandal becomes a national leading story in the way it should be? Maybe. But there have been several times over the last four years when I thought that was about to happen and it hasn't yet.
I think the thing is though this story just won't ever go away. However exhausted the campaigners get (and many of them are - it has been a hell of a slog to this point), people have no real choice but to keep fighting.
The govt seems to expect them to shut up and pay eventually, but of course they cannot. Most people do not have daddy's trust fund ready and waiting to clear a five (or six) figure bill. Especially not when they've paid for waking watch and insurance for four years.
So if you are in this position, keep shouting about it (and attend the rally on the 16th if you can). There are no easy solutions, but there are better ones. It is and always was ultimately a question of political will.
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