Theresa May was too scared to meet the Grenfell survivors. She’s finished | Polly Toynbee

Symbolism is everything in politics and nothing better signifies the austerity of May-Cameron-Osborne era than North Kensington's ghastly tomb

" Grenfell Tower fire - latest updates

That tomb in the sky will be forever Theresa May's monument. Grenfell marks the spot and her visit marks the moment the last vestiges of her career were finally rubbed out. She made it her own yesterday by that fateful "visit" to a handful of senior fire officers, guarding her from any contaminating contact with the bereaved and newly homeless. Dead to emotion or empathy, she sealed her fate.

Related: When I worked for KCTMO I had nightmares about burning tower blocks | Seraphima Kennedy

Continue reading...