Enda Brady: UK correspondent on the damning findings concerning London's Grenfell Tower fire tragedy

Survivors of London's Grenfell Tower Fire are urging swift change from the UK Government in the wake of a scathing report.

The 1600-page report from the public inquiry, published seven years after the tragedy, says all 72 deaths were avoidable.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says dishonest companies and political failings have been blamed for the disaster - and prosecutions will likely take place.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady a UK correspondents with US Evening.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Indo, Hey, Heather, good evening to you.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Do you reckon We're going to see criminal prosecutions in
the Greenfield tragedy.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yes, eventually. Look, the families have been wanting this for
seven years. That's how long they've waited for the Public
Inquiry to report back. It is front page news absolutely
everywhere here and the report is scathing. I'm sure you've
covered it already, but you know it lays bare the
systemic failures, the lies, the greed of the cladding companies,

(00:30):
the construction companies, the failure of humanity really in the
local council and its leadership and London Fire Brigade, the
issues they had with leadership and advice given on the night. Basically,
all the Grenfell families have been so badly let down
they're putting their trust now in Keir Starmer, who has
promised them there will be justice. And I think the

(00:52):
big difference now is that the UK Prime Minister is
an ex prosecutor. He was head of the Crown Prosecution Service.
He knows what he's talking about, he knows what needs
to happen to see criminal prosecutions so it may take
two or three more years. But the key line from
the Metropolitan Police in London is that they are reading
that report sixteen hundred and ninety four pages, line by

(01:15):
line to identify where they can go with their investigation.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
And who do you think would be most likely to
be prosecuted.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I think initially you're going to see perhaps corporate manslaughter
charges perhaps against some people. From what I'm hearing, the
police have a list of nineteen companies or organizations that
they're interested in and fifty eight individuals, so they know
who they're after, they know where they are, and they

(01:43):
know what they need to do. But the families cannot
be let down anymore. I mean I was there. I
mean never ever forget seeing Grenfell for the first time
the aftermath, to see something like that happen in a
city as wealthy as this, in a country as rich
as this, to see something as utterly disgraceful as what
happened at Grenfell, and it was all because of the

(02:06):
multiple flage failures. But them, I don't know how the
families have kept going, and I salute their resilience.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
And I have been dying to talk to you about
this bast shelter since I spotted it yeast today, what
do you make.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well? I spoke to a few politicians in Dublin overnight
and people are bewildered, very angry and just wondering who
on Earth signed off on this. So, for listeners who
perhaps haven't seen, I know you've had expensive bike shelters
in the past, six hundred thousand en Z dollars the
Irish government has spent on a bike rack for cycling.

(02:39):
Politicians now have a Google around Irish politicians. They're not
the fittest looking bunch, as you can imagine, expenses, nice bars, hotels,
Dublin lifestyle. They're never going to win the Tour de France.
Let's be frank here. And our government has decided to
spend in a cost of living crisis, in a housing
emergency where we don't have enough homes for our Irish people.

(03:01):
The government has spent six hundred thousand dollars on a
bike rack. I just cannot believe. It's not even made
of gold.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
No, it's not even a good one, not even a
good one. No, it's not even got three walls, it's
only got one. It's basically a canopy.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, yeah, And from speaking to people yesterday. There's about
a dozen cyclists in the political community in government, so goalfigure.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, well we just popped one up in Wellington for
five hundred and sixty thousand dollars. So you know, I'm starting,
do you know what, I'm starting to form a theory
that we are spirit animals on the other side of
the world, like quite capable of making stupid decisions, like
equally stupid decisions, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'm starting to think I'm in the wrong business. Bike
shelters is obviously the way forward by for gullible people.
I'm just honestly, I'm just so so angry where I'm from,
and from a small market town country town in the
southeast of Ireland called Enniscorthy and County Wexford. I guarantee
you if someone give me six hundred thousand dollars right now,

(04:00):
I reckon I could get three family homes, not a
word of a lie. I could get three families housed
for that in nice surroundings, in a nice part of
town with a little garden and a nice life.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
That puts it in context. Hey, I see the oasis
have broken this silence finally and they're going to do
a couple more shows at Wimbley, and the shows are
going to be for people who missed out in the
ticket Master Tobacca. Are you going to go for these tickets?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Do you know whatever? I'm not. I'm kind of sick
of Oasis this week, everything that has gone on, the
lack of leadership, the lack of communication with the fans,
and as I said earlier in the week, you know,
working class people ripping off working class people. So I'm
going to take a step back from that. Good luck
to them. I wonder how they will distribute tickets, and
I'm starting to think. I spoke to my mother in

(04:43):
law the other day and she told me that she
has memories of queuing up in Ipswich Town in Suffolk
when she was a teenager to get tickets for the Beatles.
And she said it was a matter of getting there
late at night and camping on a street and getting there,
being in the queue first thing in the morning and
you've got tickets to see the Beatles. She did that twice.
And I'm starting to think, is that how we beat

(05:05):
the butts and the corporates that you know, tickets will
be on sale and they'll go on sale at seven
am and people can just queue up and I think
that solves the problem.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, the old school way. Inda, thank you very much, appreciated,
look after yourself. That's into Brady, our correspondent out of
the UK.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
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