And of course being Rogers favourite site, its not long before a commentary that starts off reasonably descends into bitter right wing tripe and racism.
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The other key point is a political one. Scarcely had the last smouldering embers of the Grenfell conflagration been extinguished when the whole tragedy was seized by the left and used as a stick with which to beat all its favourite targets: rich people, white people, Tories.
Like the death of Diana, it became a litmus test for how in tune you were with the national mood of collective hysteria: if you didn’t think it was the worse thing ever, if you weren’t out there on the streets laying flowers or raising funds or — in the case of the Duchess of Sussex, launching a cookbook — for the victims, if you didn’t hate Theresa May for showing insufficient emotion on her visit to the site, then basically you were heartless scum.
So many Corbynistas and race-baiting activists have made political mileage out of Grenfell, so many con-artists have ripped off the compensation system, so preferential has been the treatment afforded the survivors (given superior housing as a kind of emotional Danegeld to buy off all those shrill, angry leftist campaigners determined to milk every last drop out of the tragedy) that Grenfell has become a kind of emblem for almost everything at least one half of the country fears about how Britain would look if ever Jeremy Corbyn’s hard left lunatics got into power.
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