The mention of sub-letting is another issue really but is perhaps another point surrounding "affordable housing"?

This "affordable housing" or "social housing" has little regard to either affordable or social. It's another word for the slums of tomorrow. Small "housing units" all crammed together isn't very appealing at the best of times and those proposing them should be made to live in them?

I thought the "right to buy" scheme was a bad idea from the off because not all Council properties were really suitable for selling off. Drive round some of the Council estates now and have a look at the houses. Many of the estates have had the houses "modernised" by the local authority and those in private ownership stand out now. The roofs are old as are the facias, windows, doors, gutters and downspouts while the modernised ones have new roofs etc and some have solar panels. Some of the ones in private ownership are also rented out and are occupied by a transient population who don't care about the conditions they live in or their effect on their neighbours either.

On the other hand, there are houses on the fringes of Council estates which have been sold off and stand out as well preseved and well presented properties with nice gardens and only the style gives away their "Council" heritage.

Going back to the tenants being thrown out of the tower blacks, it wouldn't take much to supply fire fighting equipment, proper fire alarms and as FA suggested, fire marshals as a stop-gap measure while other remedies are effected? The only thing is, there are those around who vandalise fixtures and fittings, steal anything not nailed down or load communal corridors and entrances with all sorts of junk because they can't be bothered to dispose of it properly.

In the end, it's people who make some short-comings a death trap?

Just after the fire, one chap was on TV saying his neighbour said "his fridge had exploded" so the fridge angle was known about from day one. The things is, if it was your fridge wouldn't you try to extinguish it just after it happened?

Oh yes, another thing, when there's a largish fire, didn't the fire brigade say "Get out and stay out"? At that tower they were telling people to stay put?????

Surely these days the electrical system has circuit breakers instead of fuses so that the electrical supply is cut off (and the power to sockets is separate from the lighting) meaning that you could safely use water to put out a fire in an appliance before it gets out of control?

There's many questions and very few answers at the moment?