The art of the whitewash

  

Subject: The art of the whitewash.

And so now we know. The investigation into the Grenfell Tower will not have the remit to look at the causes of how but only at the why the building went up in flames so quickly.
It will be a technical exercise in cladding and why the cladding burst into flames. It will not concern itself with how the regulation were watered down, "a bonfire of regulations" as David Cameron proudly claimed as he gave business the Green light to cut corners and massage their bottom line.
There will be no investigation of how under Tony Blair the regulatory responsibility for fire regulation and its compliance was removed from the fire service and given to a quango which was much more sympathetic to the building industry.
It will not have as its remit the power to investigate the cruel disregard of Kensington and Chelsea towards the tenants after the fire nor their lack of response to the claims by the tenants in the two years leading up to the fire.
This investigation which will be long and expensive has been hobbled from the start by Mrs May and her cohorts to ensure that the guilt will be well away from the real source and instead will be carried by the greed of a contractor who saw an opportunity but never the the real crime, the political crime of allowing the greed of a contractor to do what he did in the first place.
All points covered, let's begin and spend money deflecting where the true causes in the demise in our society lie.
Make sure the fire retardant barriers are up around the usual suspects and we can start the usual whitewash that Whitehall is so famous for.