Originally Posted by
johnroe
Here's a good one for you. I would lay the blame for the death by fires in blocks, and also most of the problems the UK is facing with one person; Tony Blair and his policies. (Although no doubt I'm biased, I stopped voting Labour the moment he decided to validate Bush's war on Iraq).
Let's start with Iraq, if you look back over it's history particularly since the First world war, you will quickly see it's importance in terms of having 20% of the world's oil resources, to it's position strategically. Both the UK and US were heavily involved with Saddam's government. They knew what weapons he had because UK and German companies had supplied those weapons. The chemical weapons he used against the Kurdish people were supplied covertly by America. They wanted him to use them against Iran.
So while simultaneously destroying Iraq, they opened up a space and ideology behind the IS caliphate, which they extended into Syria. The CIA and MI6 hoped to destabilise Syria by supplying weapons to those opposed to Assad, but they ended up arming IS and bringing Russia into the conflict. Hence TB is responsible for importing Fundamentalist Islam to the UK, while justifying their attacks on the UK(in their eyes the UK and US invaded Arab countries first).
Wtf has that to do with overcrowded buildings in the UK that are being used to 'warehouse' immigrants, I hear you shout. In the late seventies the Conservative government drew up plans involving the rights of British subjects living in the Commonwealth. At that time they realised that 450 million people had the right to come to the UK, so they put in restrictions controlling the entry.
The EU and TB decided to undermine this; reduced those restrictions, while simultaneously inviting millions of immigrants from countries that have no link to the Commonwealth. EU officials went to these countries and instructed immigrants to 'make up a story that would get them considered for asylum', then all they had to do was enter the Schengen zone and head for the UK. The EU and Labour councils diverted the EU Social fund to build them a new life in the UK. They didn't understand how many would make the trip, and how many in the world would view this as ' an open door ' policy.
When these councils and the Labour party bring millions of immigrants into this country it's purely a political statement(they brought 2.3 M from one small African country that only has double that as a population). The reality is it's detrimental to the people of the UK(partially responsible for EU referendum vote), but also they didn't build any new houses, schools or health centres to accommodate these new arrivals before they arrived. Hence families are living in out of date buildings, where the overcrowded families are trapped by being high up in a burning building, with only a narrow stair well to escape by.
Maybe the reason not enough houses are being built is austerity. TB's associate Brown deregulated the financial sector, leading to it's collapse and bail out. Everything's connected, and it all leads back to TB's disastrous policies. 'Cladding' is just a means of covering up a problem that most want to ignore.