Not everyone is positive about the idea. Grenfell Next of Kin, an advocacy group for the immediate families of the deceased, feel this is more virtue signalling from MHCLG. The group said: “Eight-and-a-half years on, the MHCLG Grenfell team and Memorial Commission hide behind Instagram virtue-signalling, empty gestures, and PR stunts, while ignoring our voices, demands, and agency. We live every day with the manslaughter of our parents, partners, children, and siblings — our kin. We don’t need a light show or performative gestures funded through the public purse and dished out to crony contracts.”
