“Burn neoliberalism, not people” said Clive Lewis in a tweet showing the skeleton of Grenfell Tower. Odd words from a Labour MP. When asked just what he meant, he explained that his ‘agenda’ is to ‘end not just the current government but Thatcherite economic dogma’. In this way the grief and anger after the Grenfell Tower disaster has been moulded into a march on No10 with chants of ‘May must go’ and ‘blood, blood, blood on your hands’. Just a few days ago, John McDonnell was calling for a protest march in Westminster. Now, he has got one.
"Blood on their hands." Posters at the #GrenfellTowerprotest pic.twitter.com/qp9ec8acJz
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) June 16, 2017
The protest at Kensington Town Hall this morning seemed to be dominated by the bereaved and the angry; the No10 march is posing as an organic extension of the Kensington movement but seemed to be a different March entirely involving far more middle-class activists.
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