Grenfell death toll 'could have been covered up' to avoid riots, MP suggests
 

The Government says "nobody is hiding anything" as an MP raises fears of a cover-up and tower block residents demand justice.

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David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, who lost a friend in the disaster, raised fears of a cover-up.

"What people say is that if you put the numbers out early, there could be civil unrest. That's what they say," he told BBC2's Newsnight.

"I am sympathetic to it, I am going to walk alongside those people."

Asked if he believed the number of dead had not been released due to the potential for civil unrest, he said: "The truth is the media cycle is now beginning to move on to other things, that's the truth.

"And so what people say is that in two, three weeks' time, if you start to reveal the numbers, things have moved on."

"In one flat alone, people say there were up to 40 people gathering, because they gathered in the flat, it was Ramadan," he said.

http://news.sky.com/story/grenfell-f...quiry-10928385


What do you think?

Talk about trying to cause trouble and diversity.Someone must be bored

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Hundreds of people died in that tower, it's disgusting that weeks on the government is refusing to acknowledge that to save their own skins.

They really do need to release a more plausible estimate for the number killed. What do they think is going to happen? That t hey might over-estimate and then people will be annoyed that there are fewer dead than they had thought? Surely it's worse to be told that 70 are dead and then find out it's 200, than be told that 300 are dead and find out it's 200 :think:.

maybe there were like twice the number of people in that block than there should have been and the council knew about it but because they did nowt about it they dont want the number coming out?

How would the government etc, know how many people were in there, do visitors have to sign in ? there are rumours of 40 in one flat,how would the authorities KNOW that ?

Lammy is a Trouble maker

They wouldn't, but they could provide a more realistic estimate until a full search of the building has been completed.

Obviously there are more than the 70 or so deaths that is claimed so far. I can well believe this. Even without 40 (?!) gathered in one flat there shoiuld be like 4 or 5 hundred residents in such a large block. Anyone who was in the top few floors are probably dead :S

No point in talking common sense Kazanne. As happens in any tragedy, the numbers will be released as people are identified and known to be definitely deceased. The authorities aren't going to play guessing games.

If they believe only 79 people are believed missing/dead, then someone somewhere is basing this on the expected people believed to be in the building at the time.
Pretty obvious that there could have been many more people in the block of flats that are known about.
Unless they are actually reported missing by family and friends then it will be very difficult to know how many.
To think that there will be an actual body count might be just too hopeful.

At this point it should be obvious who is dead, it's been weeks since it happened, if the people who had been living in those flats haven't gotten in touch with anyone since the fire and they aren't already accounted for then they are almost certainly dead.

Do they think we are stupid?... 79 dead in a block that holds almost 600!

Of course theres a cover up!

Well of course. If they had been out somewhere at the time and the building went up in flames, they are hardly likely to just **** off and never contact anyone again. Why on earth would they do that? First thing I would do is contact family to let them know I am ok :S

Well there have been cases like this where a woman had been feared dead by everybody but was actually alive: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-hospital/amp/

I get that when trying to click that D:

Guessing story from link name...the hospital didn't contact her next of kin? Pretty crap.

Well that accounts for 1 missing person... where are the rest?

She was actually in hospital surrounded by her family who hadn't realised there were loads of people out looking for her and posters put up :unsure: so I'm not sure if she was officially considered missing or not. I guess it is problematic when a lot of the residents will have been immigrants who might not speak much English and have little contact with the authorities.

Most of them probably are dead. We will know for sure in due course - why are you so impatient to declare them dead now?

Who are the rest though Kizzy?
Only 79 reported dead or missing, surely that would mean the rest are all accounted for.
The saddest thing about it is that there may be no closure for some families as identification of everybody could be impossible.

Without wanting to get too graphic I saw someone say that a cremation takes four hours and leaves effectively no remains... the fire lasted for over 24 didn't it? I just don't know if there's ever going to be everything found.

David Lammy is a known manipulator and will say anything to make the Conservatives look bad. In addition, I think 79 people is bad PR anyways and I would see no reason for a cover up and also there are independent institutions that deal with these things.

Something that crossed my mind as well Shaun, we have to accept that some people will never be accounted for unless they are reported missing as there won't be anything left to identify them by.
Very sad.

That's true actually, the 79 death toll does include the missing

The officer in charge did say they expect that to rise though because of people who might have been in the flats who they did not know were in there/were not official residents