Lee Anderson’s ugly words shame Britain

The Guardian says A week after the devastating fire that consumed Grenfell Tower in June 2017, I joined a march of silence from the library in Ladbroke Grove to Grenfell Tower.

Nothing prepared me as I raised my eyes to look at the terrible and shocking black shell of the tower, as though transplanted from hell’s own landscape – an unsightly and menacing frame, a blind, burnt, blackened towering box, its empty glassless windows a shocking indictment of negligence and all that is morally ugly in our society.

I am haunted by that image, as I imagine many others are, seeing the Bibby Stockholm barge moored in Portland, Dorset, and reading the descriptions of its claustrophobic cabins and corridors, the risks of fire and illness, the fear of those who are now taking up residence in what will become an overcrowded, dangerous and humiliating space for people arriving in this country.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/09/lee-anderson-ugly-words-shame-britain