The chief executive of Kensington and Chelsea council has resigned amid criticism over the borough's response to the Grenfell Tower fire.
Nicholas Holgate said Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid asked for him to go - this is denied by the government. Mr Holgate said the fire in which at least 79 people died, was "heart-breaking" but his presence would be a "distraction".
Perhaps if his council had not ignored the Tenants Association Meetings warnings, that were recorder; Telling them that a disastrous fire: The chief executive of Grenfell Tower's landlord body told colleagues to ignore a resident who warned eight months before the fire that:“Only a catastrophic event will expose the ineptitude and incompetence of our landlord”. He might not have had to resign at all?
Why has the legal system not used these in a prosecution?
The reappearance of Nicholas Holgate
Posted on May 4, 2022 by northkenthinker
Tomorrow, Thursday May the 5th, might be Election Day, but for some also thinking about RBKC, it will also be when Nicholas “Naughty Nick” Holgate appears at the Grenfell Inquiry: People in and around the Grenfell community might remember Nicholas Holgate. He was the Town Clerk of RBKC (Barry Quirk’s predecessor) until shortly after the Grenfell Tower fire when 72 innocent members of our community lost.
their lives. He resigned from the Council around a week after the disaster, saying he would be a “distraction”.
But when asked by journalists if the then Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Sajid Javid authorised this. MHCLG did not deny this and just issued a statement saying that “The appointment of chief executives is entirely the responsibility of the local authority,” sometime afterwards.
For anyone who happens to think Holgate was just some innocent “fall guy” director simply doing his job and simply just took the rap from the decisions of Nick Paget-Brown, “Jailhouse” Rock Feilding-Mellen and co, we’ll just post a link to his statements and evidence so far:
https://www.grenfelltowerinquiry.org.uk/evidence/nicholas-holgate-evidence-read-26-july-2021
Holgate might be highly intelligent and like to think he can cover his terms with official speak and an air of detachment but reading what he says and contrasting that with the goings on at the time tells quite another story – and that story is that he was a collaborator. We recommend interested readers to have a look through the Grenfell Action Group archive to decide for themselves.: Holgate is back in teaching!
Not so long ago, friends of a Grenfell survivor were horrified to find out that their daughters maths teacher at Godolphin and Latymer School, was Holgate This school is also fairly nearby and is only 2 miles from Grenfell. We’ll remind Holgate that 18 of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire were children!
https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/
I didn't intend to get onto the Grenfell disaster. But it's been on my mind ever since the fire. I knew, as most people did, that there would be no justice, and the Tories would cover-up... not that any other party in power would do anyhting different.
It shows the rotteness of out political system.
A bit of a fun ode, that turned out political - Sorry!
