https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/23/sajid-javid-grenfell-has-shaken-my-comprehension-of-being-in-office
That seems a pretty honest assessment. I think that in day to day management a cabinet minister's role is not to fuck anything up too badly. The tragedy of Grenfell is that it may well be possible that individual ministers and govts managed to not fuck up too badly but a combination of small fuck uos led to this. It is hard to then know how you avoid such thungs.
I think May is right that there is a need to change the attitude to social housing but that is an area where there have always been problems. It's difficult to see how you magic a change which avoids small scale individual decisions having a cumulative effect. It's obvious that for many decision makers, this will be a hugely affecting moment but how that plays out isn't easy to know. Iain Duncan Smith claimed a road to Damascus moment but that leas to grandiose ideas and the culpable deaths of many in his time at Welfare.
I read in Javid's comments a worry that we are just a bit shite at making relatively small decisions, and that this easily leads us to making huge mistakes in more complex areas. Dan Hannan wrote a piece, that I will try to find, saying that perhaps despite the tragedy, it wasn't indicative of some great evil, and he may be right but that then means the helplessness of inability to understand the impact of decisions reigns.
