Two Safety Campaigners Threatened With Legal Action Dead In Grenfell Tower Inferno

It is being reported that two young women who had been campaigning against the lack of fire safety in the Grenfell Tower high rise, were threatened by Kensington and Chelsea council with legal action and branded as trouble makers; because they were complaning of fire safety risks duirng and following the 2016 tower refurbishment, are amongst the 58 missing people; presumed dead.

The Mirror reported:

" Two women feared dead in the Grenfell Tower tragedy were threatened with legal action by housing bosses after raising fears about safety in the doomed block. Mariem Elgwahry, 27, and mum-of-three Nadia Choucair, 33, are believed to have received letters warning them to stop a campaign calling for improved fire safety.

But the pair battled on in their fight against Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation in a bid to prevent the sort of disaster they both appear to have perished in.

Mariem and Nadia were helped in their protest by the Radical Housing Network. The group’s Pilgrim Tucker said:

“The TMO’s response was to threaten tenants with legal action and send out letters. Nadia and Mariem would have received them too. They both just wanted to do their best for their neighbours and keep everyone safe. Things had got so bad they knew a disaster like this was inevitable, but if there was a chance of stopping it they were up for the fight. But no one listened and now this community is ­devastated. We have to get justice for them. The TMO treated tenants disgracefully and with disdain.

They bullied them and persecuted those like Nadia and Mariem who were brave enough to speak out, branding them troublemakers. Their job was to listen to the tenants and make sure homes were safe and they didn’t do that. If they had then this would never have happened.”

As a result of ignoring the health and safety needs of their tenants an estimated (by tower block residents) 150 people have been killed. Indeed, local resident and DJ Ilsla demdned a list of names of the people living in the Tower and said there are over 500 residents, all of whom could be dead.

But it is not only the borough of Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation that has blood on it's hands. So too does this government and indeed David Cameron who led the attacks on Health and safety legislation in 2010 by branding it as 'Red Tape' whilst setting up his Red Tape Challenge department and website.

Both May and Cameron have been supported in their atatcks on Health and Safety legislation by a media happy to tell lies, distort facts and lead a campaign of ridicule against legislation and anyone standing up for the health, safety and welfare of people and workers.

Cameron made this bold claim, that we live in a 'health and safety culture' which costs business millions and stops people living their lives as they wish too. With newspaper articles claiming that the children's game of conkers is band by law and that Christmas trees are a health and safety risk according to health and safety legislation; the public went along with this and indeed even added their own gallery of scorn on social media.

Cameron amde this onimous statement which effectively, gave a green light to building companies and organisations to ignore health and safety completely in their aim of maximising profit and legitimised the usual cost-cutting by slashing health and safety training budgets, using inappropriate materials and ignoring hazards.

"We need to realise we cannot eliminate risk and that some accidents are inevitable" he said in 2012.

Read the full story and watch Cameron's speech which many are seeing as setting the scene for loss of life due to lack of health and safety concerns by business, here

You can read the Mirror article here and this from The Independent newspaper here

Source: The Mirror / The Independent

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