Hoping endlessly to find something, anything, the SNP Government has failed to do, the above writer knows and/or cares little for the facts in Scotland.
Leaving aside that it’s the local authorities, some Tory/Labour or Lib Dem, who just haven’t asked for the money, there’s one simple reason, they don’t need it because they just don’t have tower blocks prone to go up like Grenfell.
Regulars here may wonder how often I’m going the repost the following. I do too but, you neve know where and when it may stick:
From BBC Glasgow & West today [25/9/22]:
Firefighters have extinguished a blaze which broke out at a tower block in the south side of Glasgow.
Emergency services were alerted to the incident in Shawhill Road, Shawlands, at about 21:00 on Saturday.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service dispatched eight fire engines. Large plumes of smoke were seen coming from windows on the block’s upper floors.
The fire was reported as extinguished after 22:00. It is understood there were no reported casualties.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-63023916
Why did this fire not spread to other floors and with terrible consequences?
Simple: Cavity Fire Barriers.
What?
These:
Reader Gordon Darge wrote for us in January 2020:
As a chartered architect in Scotland for 40 years I can confirm that the Building Regulations Technical Standards Scotland have for two decades required cavity fire barriers
2.4 Cavities
Mandatory Standard
Standard 2.4
Every building must be designed and constructed in such a way that in the event of an outbreak of fire within the building, the spread of fire and smoke within cavities in its structure and fabric is inhibited.
This includes for example, around the head, jambs and sill of an external door or window opening, at all floor levels and building corners etc. to prevent the spread of fire in building cavities. This would have prevented the spread of the fire at Grenfell Tower.
This is difficult and expensive to achieve and I can only guess that in England they did not follow the Scottish model because Westminster and the Tories were led by the vested interests of big business, property developers and large construction firms.
For anyone wanting more info see:
Cavity fire barriers prevent this:
The Chimney Effect
As I understand it, it is not so much the flammability of the material used as the construction of the external cladding to deny the spread of fire via a chimney effect.
They worked in tower block fire in 2021:
a fire in 2021 which was contained within one floor and had no casualties:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58046347According to BBC Scotland:
Residents of a multi-storey block of flats in Glasgow had to be evacuated after a fire broke out on the 17th floor. Fire crews were called to the block on Lincoln Avenue in the Knightswood area of the city at 04:08. Residents were safely removed from the building by the fire service and there were no casualties. A total of nine fire appliances attended the incident which took about five hours to bring under full control. A spokeswoman for Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: “Operations control mobilised nine appliances to Lincoln Avenue where the fire was affecting the 17th floor of the multi-storey block of flats.” The spokeswoman said residents from the 17th and 18th floors were removed and the fire has been extinguished.
No towering inferno.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Well done keep posting this repost to the Britishers negativity.
The reason they are on about towering infernos in Scotland which as you say is a figment of their imagination , is that it deflects from the real towering infernos today across the water in Northern Ireland where the Britishers are lighting 100 feet high bonfires with effigy’s of people they don’t like , sitting atop them , a typical example of the knuckle dragging idiots they attract I mean who in their right mind has “ a marching calendar” or an “ Orange culture”.
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Tom Saunders currently a graduate journalist with the times was once a ‘ data journalist ‘ with ipaper( or something )
Data journalism or data-driven journalism (DDJ) is journalism based on the filtering and analysis of large data sets for the purpose of creating or elevating a news story.
Data journalism reflects the increased role of numerical data in the production and distribution of information in the digital era. It involves a blending of journalism with other fields such as data visualization, computer science, and statistics, “an overlapping set of competencies drawn from disparate fields”.[1]
Nae excuses for this baistart then.
Reportedly when asked who his journalist hero was, he replied Tom Gordon.
That’s a lie by the way, a made that up.
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Plausible guess
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Sadly , media outlets like The Herald and BBCscorchedland appear to relish the thought of a Grenfell Tower disaster in Scotland which would allow them free rein to go in with all guns blazing on the Scottish Government .
( Not that they are restrained in their criticism on any given day at the moment ! )
And good , upstanding patriots like Damn Jackie Baillie will be on hand to put the boot in with Brylcreem Gulhane holding her jaiket !
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Ever so slightly OT, might this be indicative of the media’s problem, “BBC Scotland viewing figures drop by a third” as reported by the National, naturally not a cheep from James Cook…
Owing to past difficulties I’ll post the archive with spacing to ensure it gets through https: //archive. ph /JUn1O
Rather than react to these interminable flounces from the State of a Secretary for Scotland via ‘flunkies’ to the Times, might I suggest focus on the Grenfell Inquiry in the coming days, with funding being the theme…
The Tories and the Telegraph have a long history of setting up diversion to incoming embarrassment for HMG when in power, and amplification when they’re not…
On the Times bullshit from Thomas Saunders, the ‘funding’ is neither quantified nor justified, but crucially is NOT “provided by the UK government” – Funds are ‘pencilled in’ by HMG, but may only be drawn down after ‘rigorous’ examination of the justifications, viz the Minister of Flounce gives thumbs up or down whilst one of his flunkies peels a fresh grape….
Whilst I agree Scotland’s building standards make the uptake of these funds by SG minimal, let us not forget there hasn’t been a single city in Scotland subjected to total control by Tory lunatics in recent history let alone the current shower…..
The residents of Grenfell weren’t so lucky, and paid for Tory dogma with their lives…
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Aberdeen City under the Tory/Labour Council was to all intents and purposes a Tory Council. The Labour Group despite Scottish Labour policy of no deals with the Tories went ahead and made a deal. And, of course, Scottish Labour has taken no action against them.
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Understood, but my point was “total control” as in FPTP England style.
Declining support in Scotland for the Tories and frankly Labour put’s both at the DUP end of the political spectrum in Scotland, “here’s your coat” territory…
Despite HMS James Cook’s best efforts to up Labour’s chances of avoiding a rout, Sarwar and DRoss are in their final days as leaders of their respective branch offices.
England’s electorate may not have a choice, Scotland does…
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Abit, abit—whit if the cladding on the ferries catch fire?
Ye hunae answered that!!!
Whit if Jackie Ballie self-combusted and there were nae fire engines?
And if Generalissimo DRossie caught fire and yon Jammie Greene fellow widnae even p!sh oan him?
Whit then?
Wid Cauld-Ham or Wee Wullie rush furrit tae dae it?
A Con-Lib P!sh-pact?
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Whit if the cladding on the ferries catch fire??
Brilliant! Another mockup!
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The media negativity as it relates to Scotland is seemingly spreading to the ‘National’ with their headline today that apparently Edinburgh Castle is the most ‘overcrowded’ tourist attraction in Britain at No1 slot above that of the Buckingham Palace. Not of course the ‘most visited’ but using the negative term clearly designed to put off visitors.
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