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Yes this is something I've been thinking about comparing the state's response to London/Westminster bridges (immediate Cobra meeting etc) compared to the poor response to grenfell from authority.

In the bridge attacks the establishment was attacked directly because the perps represented an ideology that is anti-our establishment. The victims of the Grenfell tower who would have really benefitted from a strong and coordinated response, an immediate look at the death tally etc were so not establishment that it really took a while for the state to move

I don't think that comparison works. As one former police officer said after the London Bridge incident, in London or Manchester you can still have that kind of police response, but elsewhere police cover for that sort of thing is 'threadbare', caused by police cuts.

Council cuts have devastated local authorities, or, perhaps, given a wealthier authority like K&C an excuse to scale services back--I'm sure they haven't suffered financially as badly as somewhere like Hackney, but perhaps they've taken other measures that have weakened their services. (In Hackney, I watched the Council rebuild itself after the financial crisis of 1999/2000 over a period of more than ten years before that 'austerity' arseholery destroyed so much again.)

While K&C seems to have had very poor management on this, I can't really imagine other authorities to have coped much better with the need to immediately rehouse hundreds of people while they undoubtedly already have extremely long and non-moving waiting lists.