Not only is this environmental suicide, as Owen Jones writes: “If the purpose of this is to confront the looming social catastrophe of energy bills, to describe it as an exercise in futility would be generous: it takes the best part of three decades to pump fossil fuels out of the ground and put them onstream.” ![]() If they have nothing to say about socio-economic collapse, what they have to say about ecological catastrophe is actually worse.Īs Pakistan goes under water, Truss, playing to the gallery apparently intends to issue up to 130 drilling licences for oil and gas firms in the North Sea. These people inhabit a different world from the rest of us. He faced not one question – not a single one – concerning the cost of living crisis. In Hertfordshire this week Sunak presented his case – such as it is – to Conservative party members. ![]() Her colleagues are already predicting her political demise so sure are they of her incompetence. Truss can only speak about tax cuts as she babbles to the party faithful seemingly detached from reality and published gibberish in The Sun while ducking out of facing serious journalists. Next week we face the appointment of a leader silent about the calamity around us. Tomorrow she will ascend to the highest political position in the land – a test case of failing upwards – with an agenda of attacking workers’ rights and destroying environmental regulations.Īs the whole of Britain discusses the social catastrophe we all face, these two putative leaders have nothing to say at all. After a seemingly endless leadership campaign in which the media has indulged the miserable figures of Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss with acres of newsprint and hours of screen time in some twisted pretence that this was a democratic process, it will end soon. The UK’s already a laughing stock, now comes Liz Truss to make things immeasurably worse.
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