Know Your Enemy

"Many of the underlying issues at Grenfell were due to unsafe conditions that had been allowed to fester under Tory governments and a council for which Theresa May bears ultimate responsibility. The inquiry she launched has kicked scrutiny of corporate and government interests into the long grass, denying families and survivors justice, while allowing business as usual to continue for the wealthy. For the outgoing Prime Minister to suggest that her awful response to Grenfell is a proud part of her legacy is, frankly, disgraceful."

Sympathy for Theresa May has been in pleasingly short supply on my Twitter feed today, with her resignation announcement waterworks failing to distract people from passing judgement on her general incompetence and the utter shitshow that has unfolded on her watch, often accelerated by her decisions and those of her party - from the desperate skin-saving pact with religious fundamentalist loons the DUP, to the Windrush scandal, to the worsening levels of inequality and poverty brought about by ideologically motivated austerity measures.

Perhaps most damning, however, were the above comments from Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union. As Ben Beach observed in an article for Vice, Grenfell was "a tragedy, but not an accident", and something of which there had been plenty of prior warnings - and yet, nearly two years on, staggeringly little has changed.