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Re:The Grenfell Tower inquiry is uncovering a major corporat... by willyt on Sunday December 06, 2020 @01:46PM (#25325566)
This is the crux of it really, it wasn’t really government housing any more. It was owned and operated by a independent entity called a tenant management organisation, a nonprofit organisation constituted for the purpose of allowing the government to offload the responsibility of running social housing properly. Likewise the government also privatised the building inspection system which is now also much more vulnerable to corruption. So it was a government screw up, but not in the American sense that ‘the government screws up everything they run’, but in the sense that the government set up a flawed semi privatised system which is prone to corruption at lots of levels.
Re:The Grenfell Tower inquiry is uncovering a major corporat... by tarkin2 on Sunday December 06, 2020 @02:20PM (#25325886)
Agree. And that makes it worse. The government washed their hands of responsibility - in the name of their favourite mantra "shrinking the state" - and the results are horrific to see. If government, and those who profit from these schemes, can shirk responsibility and point their finger elsewhere, they'll suffer little electoral repercussions.
Re:The Grenfell Tower inquiry is uncovering a major corporat... by Retric on Sunday December 06, 2020 @09:34PM (#25328827)
It’s an odd complaint to say government wants to shrink. That’s a political stance / opening for corruption, not a governmental goal.

It’s an endless cycle of people wanting less government oversight until they realize why it was there in the first place.