This was a terrible tragedy and like some other high profile disasters will righty be called a game changer.
It was an ugly and dated 60's block of flats that had become too unsightly with its ageing dour brown brick cladding.
We have spent literally billions of pounds worth of long term investment modernising the external appearance of these so called unsightly "concrete and brick monstrosities " all across the country cladding them in a new age modern combustible second skin when there really was no real construction need other than improving aesthetics to a prominent building on the London skyline.
It was one of those " State of the Art " fuck ups in high rise construction methods I'm afraid with horrendous consequences.
We will learn from this and the blame should be shared across the board with no one exempt.
This shit is plastered all over buildings over here as well (including the one I'm writing from now).
The tower opposite me which caught fire a few years ago (Sulafa Tower, you'll find plenty about that on Google) has finally had all its remaining cladding stripped off in the last couple of weeks as they're not legally allowed to replace damaged tiles with the same combustible shite.
What I will say, though, is that while this shit has no right being on the outside of any habitable building, it's clearly not the only thing that went wrong at Grenfell.
There's been several major fires in the block where I live (Sulafa, Princess, Torch x 2), and these towers are many many times bigger than Grenfell, but there's been very little internal damage to any of the buildings and no injuries, let alone deaths.
Many failings over many years combined to make Grenfell a deathtrap. The cladding was the most obvious, but on its own wouldn't have wrought the devastation it did had the rest of the building functioned how it was meant to.
No excuse though. That evil shit needs condemning to construction history.
