In the UK, senior fire chiefs are sounding the alarm – not about a blaze, but about bureaucracy.
Years after the Grenfell tragedy, thousands of unsafe buildings remain untouched, wrapped in legal red tape instead of safety netting.
According to the latest report, the government’s building remediation program has turned into a paperwork inferno. Contractors wait for approvals, approvals wait for funding, and funding waits for headlines. Meanwhile, residents keep sleeping under flammable cladding – the modern equivalent of living in a matchbox and hoping it doesn’t rain sparks.
Officials call it “a complex process.” That’s one way to describe a system where accountability goes missing faster than a fire extinguisher at a budget meeting.
Every report ends the same way – “Lessons must be learned.” But the system keeps repeating the test and failing harder each time. Maybe it’s not broken. Maybe it’s just built that way.
