Grenfell Tower Manslaughter Charges?

[EDDIE51]

Police are now considering Manslaughter charges ( as I predicted)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/23/grenfell-tower-fire-police-considering-manslaughter-charges
In theory at least could the MP's who voted against the implementation of safety updates be charged ?
If so what happens to them , will they be forced to resign?
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/tories-have-blocked-labour-legislation-to-improve-rented-homes-but-its-complicated
71 Tory landlord MP's voted down rule changes that would have made council owned homes safer from fire!
http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/the-71-tory-landlord-mps-who-voted-down.html

[ToraToraTora]

I expect bribery and corruption from politicians and building firms etc but how would they get the fire brigade to go along with it? I mean that cladding might as well have been fire lighters. Surely for a building like that to get a certificate the materials would have been tested. where those results ignored? falsified? I do hope the fire inspectors are not bent.

[Peter Pedant]

I know for a fact that this did happen in scotland in the late 50s but sadly could not be proven.

Most famous is T Dan SMith in Newcastle in the seventies and WAS proven - Poulson Scandal. One of my gt aunts kinsmen was caught by that - the Home Office Mandarin Pottinger who went to the slammer

Surrounded in my family as I am by bankrupts and back-hand takers - I have to say I am amazed it is even thought about or thought possible fifty years later

[Peter Pedant]

Poulson scandal is on wikki:
" Many of his contacts, in particular T. Dan Smith and George Pottinger, were similarly convicted and gaoled, though not the three MPs: it was found that there was a legal loophole through which members of parliament could not be considered as in charge of public funds. "

so well well Mikey is right - MPs CAN be indicted in circumstances such as these......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Poulson#D.C3.A9nouement

[johnny37]

And, of course, anyone who issued a fire certificate for any other dodgy building, private or public, will have committed a criminal offence.