Tim Evans
Who killed Grenfell? Who was it killed the people of Grenfell?
Who put their lives at deadly peril?
Very well, I’ll resign, said Paget-Brown
But it wasn’t me who put them down.
I didn’t give them the runaround.
I didn’t want them out of town.
Their deaths aren’t down to my account.
No, I didn’t kill the people of Grenfell.
Who was it killed the people of Grenfell? Who put their lives at deadly peril?
Not us, said the leaders of the TMO
It shouldn’t be us that have to go.
We listened, we really listened, you know.
We dealt with their complaints like the seasoned pros
We are, and that our salaries show.
No, we didn’t kill the people of Grenfell.
Who was it killed the people of Grenfell? Who put their lives at deadly peril?
Not me, said Housing Minister Barwell.
I was always a hundred per cent impartial.
My door was always open wide, as normal.
We had endless meetings, minuted and formal.
My interests were in no way commercial.
No, I didn’t kill the people of Grenfell.
Who was it killed the people of Grenfell? Who put their lives at deadly peril?
Not us, said the 72 Tory MPs.
We never voted down that amendment, you see,
To make rented properties safe and clean.
And while we’re all landlords, as it seems,
We didn’t kill the people of Grenfell.
Who was it killed the people of Grenfell? Who put their lives at deadly peril?
It wasn’t me, said Boris Johnson.
I closed 10 fire stations? That’s just nonsense.
The Knightsbridge one was of special importance.
Just next to Grenfell, by all the evidence.
Thank God I don’t have that on my conscience.
No, I didn’t kill the people of Grenfell.
Who was it killed the people of Grenfell? Who put their lives at deadly peril?
Not us, said the British Government.
You can’t threaten any of us with imprisonment.
A bonfire of regulations, that was our sentiment.
Health and safety just filled us with merriment.
For business and profits, there must be no impediment.
We didn’t kill the people of Grenfell
We didn’t kill the people of Grenfell
We didn’t kill the people of Grenfell
We didn’t kill the people of Grenfell.
NOTE
On 14 June 2017 a catastrophic fire in the Grenfell tower block in West London caused 72 deaths and 70 injuries and made hundreds homeless. Four years later and nobody has been held to account for what the then Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, called ‘social murder’ – criminal irresponsibility, cowardice and racism by the Tory Government. We will not rest until the guilty are brought to book. No justice – no peace.
The poem will appear in my next collection, ‘Bones of the Apocalypse’, published by Frequency Press. Tim Evans
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