text: If you follow the British press and comments therein, it's quite realistic to believe that this situation will result in a backlash against immigrants and Council housing tenants in Britain.  Assistance to the survivors of Grenfell Tower is already causing victims of other misfortunes and disasters to complain that they received far less help, while accommodating the survivors puts them in conflict with those on existing waiting lists. Now the sudden eviction of thousands for weeks or months is causing considerable stress, for which Labour councils will get the blame (and especially the unreconstructed Blairite leader of the Camden council). The evictions in my opinion were unnecessary, since guards could have been hired, and adequate fire extinguishers and lighting distributed, along with organised fire drills, while repairs were undertaken.