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Grenfell Tower Manslaughter Charges?
Police are now considering Manslaughter charges ( as I predicted)
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In theory at least could the MP's who voted against the implementation of safety updates be charged ?
If so what happens to them , will they be forced to resign?
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71 Tory landlord MP's voted down rule changes that would have made council owned homes safer from fire!
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In theory at least could the MP's who voted against the implementation of safety updates be charged ?
If so what happens to them , will they be forced to resign?
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71 Tory landlord MP's voted down rule changes that would have made council owned homes safer from fire!
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I expect bribery and corruption from politicians and building firms etc but how would they get the fire brigade to go along with it? I mean that cladding might as well have been fire lighters. Surely for a building like that to get a certificate the materials would have been tested. where those results ignored? falsified? I do hope the fire inspectors are not bent.
I know for a fact that this did happen in scotland in the late 50s but sadly could not be proven.
Most famous is T Dan SMith in Newcastle in the seventies and WAS proven - Poulson Scandal. One of my gt aunts kinsmen was caught by that - the Home Office Mandarin Pottinger who went to the slammer
Surrounded in my family as I am by bankrupts and back-hand takers - I have to say I am amazed it is even thought about or thought possible fifty years later
Most famous is T Dan SMith in Newcastle in the seventies and WAS proven - Poulson Scandal. One of my gt aunts kinsmen was caught by that - the Home Office Mandarin Pottinger who went to the slammer
Surrounded in my family as I am by bankrupts and back-hand takers - I have to say I am amazed it is even thought about or thought possible fifty years later
Poulson scandal is on wikki:
" Many of his contacts, in particular T. Dan Smith and George Pottinger, were similarly convicted and gaoled, though not the three MPs: it was found that there was a legal loophole through which members of parliament could not be considered as in charge of public funds. "
so well well Mikey is right - MPs CAN be indicted in circumstances such as these......
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" Many of his contacts, in particular T. Dan Smith and George Pottinger, were similarly convicted and gaoled, though not the three MPs: it was found that there was a legal loophole through which members of parliament could not be considered as in charge of public funds. "
so well well Mikey is right - MPs CAN be indicted in circumstances such as these......
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