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Too many of London’s leaders are hypocrites. They say one thing - that we
are all in this together - and they do the other. Their smiles are as fake and
hostile as the cladding on the Grenfell Tower. They are pretty and welcoming
from a distance, but if you get too close they will burn you alive.
Shame on them, who looked at everything beautiful that London ever made and
felt only an erotic thrill for profit. The Grenfell fire has exposed them. It has shown
their morality to be more hollow and charred than the husk the inferno left behind.
They have turned the Grenfell scandal into a battle between those who
have wealth and those who do not. It is a battle they will lose.
They will lose because they have failed the best of London, and everyone knows it.
Looking at the languages spoken by those who died and narrowly survived,
we can see the true diversity of the people who have been betrayed.
English. Pashto. Somali. Arabic. French. Spanish. Polish. Romanian. Lithuanian.
Russian. Hungarian. Urdu. Hindi. Punjabi. Italian. Farsi. Tagalog. Japanese.
A gathering of humanity so broad, you might find it in the queue at an
international airport. A whole world died in that building. It is up to us left
behind to see that their memory survives.