Camden Council leader made a very rash and unwise decision, just to cover their past failings, evacuating residents causing unnecessary panic and much inconvenience to occupiers, which can only result in anger and confusion and unnecessary public expenditure, it was a rather a shear stupidity to have done so.
Many residents did not want to leave, and they have been threatened with forceful removal, the point is why all of a sudden, literally overnight has these high rise blocks become life threatening? what difference would a few more weeks make if workers started on stripping dangerous cladding from the outside, whilst residents remained in.
Fair enough other breaches have been found in fire safety, but for how long have these breaches gone unnoticed, as a guess may be for some time, a few good months to perhaps over a year, so how come no one died during this neglect period.
Why were these towers not checked out then for fire safety breaches , why only now have these Camden towers suddenly become deadly after Grenfell fire?
Sorry according to me, it is no less than shear stupidity at its best, nothing to do with risk to life, that's just a lame excuse to cover their ass. I think residents are now at a greater risk of losing life by staying in unfamiliar places and meeting with an accident.
( I know some of you may not agree with me) but if I was one of the occupiers I would stay put whilst workers go about removing dangerous cladding, if you were having a new roofing done on your house, do roofing contractors ask you to leave your house? try and explain how did the workers put up the cladding in the first place whilst residents occupied the towers?
I don't think any one can guarantee safety of life, no matter what, we simply cannot cover all angles, like terrorism that can strike us when least expected, even the security forces have said that they cannot protect lives all of the time at all places, we have to be rational about it.