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I can see the point about criticising Theresa May's assertions that we need to learn lessons. While I actually agree that we do need to, they do say this at every major disaster, and yet it frequently seems lessons are not learned. This fire should not have been so bad. It's impact should have been limited by the systems put in place after the recommendations of the previous report. It's incidents like this that make it feel like stating we need to learn lessons are just template responses from some politician's guide on how to deal with major incidents.
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The 'learning of lessons' comes at a price and clearly every government in our history has had to make decisions which are based on cost not what they'd like to be able to do if they could and had a never ending supply of money and resources. Frequently lives are lost because of that.
Armies are sent to war without the best possible equipment, hospitals are run without being able to offer every possible drug or treatment etc. It may well be possible to solve some of the problems with these blocks as a result of lessons learned from this disaster but it will never be possible to eradicate every potential for catastrophe in our towns and cities no matter how many lessons are learned. That's the problem all governments face - how best to spend the limited resources they have.
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As regards all those 'empty' properties Corbyn suddenly wants to seize control of:
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Corbyn and Labour are peddling the idea that there are vast numbers of empty foreign-owned properties across London. Awkward truth bullet: the experts say this trope is a myth. The overwhelming majority of overseas-owned property is rented on the UK market or occupied by the owner’s family members. As for new builds, an LSE report commissioned by London mayor Sadiq Khan last year found less than 1% are so-called ‘buy to leave’ investments. There is “almost no evidence” that luxury properties in ‘gentrified’ areas are bought up and kept empty.
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https://order-order.com/2017/06/16/s...aim-is-a-myth/