T_i_B
T_i_B's JournalWhen confronted with looming economic catastrophe...
...our politicians are like rabbits caught in the headlights of a speeding car. There are no solutions to this mess that don't involve a lot of pain or telling people who read the Diana Express a few home truths they don't want to hear.
All very depressing isn't it?
They only have to appeal to a very narrow, and rather extreme electorate in the form of grassroots Tories and this contest is almost certain to deliver a new PM with no idea about how to work for anyone else.
None of the candidates seem to have much idea of how to clean up the sleaze and dishonesty of the Johnson era, let alone how to deal with rampant inflation, or collapsing trade to name but 2 problems.
I don't expect the more moderate runners such as Tugdenhat or Hunt to make much headway. Morduant and Braverman look error prone. Sunak appears to have a big target on his back. Zahawi is making all sorts of wild, undeliverable promises. Grant Schapps has too much personal baggage even for this lot. Kemi Badenoch may be someone who's politics I firmly dislike, but she seems to be quietly building up a fair bit of support.
The usual Tory "defence" of their lockdown shenanigans....
... Is to claim that the general public isn't interested and would much rather that the government got on with their usual agenda of being beastly to foreigners.
The trouble is that people are interested, and actually quite annoyed by all this. The Coronavirus pandemic has been a life changing experience for almost all of us so it's quite galling to see SW1 muppets thinking that the rules they foist on the rest of us don't apply to them.
The fallout from this isn't just something remote from the rest of us either. Aside from the abysmal example being set by politicians, it's making the fight against Coronavirus more difficult and also dragging more and more people into the mire, as can be seen with the current situation with the chief executive of Sheffield Council at present.
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