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I was praying Boris's place would go up in flames...
Do you mean City Hall? I think that's a rubbish building and I'd quite like to see it gone, but not by fire. I'm sure it's quite fire safe up to modern standards. I mean, it's not as if you have poor people living there.
It's generally quite safe to punch downwards and victimise vulnerable sections of society, waste public money, and be rewarded for failure on all fronts.
Yes, that was probably the main trick--there was just so much smashing and grabbing that fire stations closing was just another story in the local papers. I'm convinced that there's a direct link to things like Grenfell, but it's hard to prove.