The sun rises for another glorious summer day which we peasants must be prevented from enjoying by gloom-and-doom mongers

 

I’m so angry there’s steam coming out of my ears. Yes, it’s because of the main theme which affects us plebs – inflation and energy bills – and the way the political theatre produced by the Truss & Sunak lot, in concert with the MSM, is addressing this. Then there’s ‘Teh Heat’, now going to be elevated officially to ‘drought’.

What the heck are the Westminster swamp dwellers thinking? Sorry – no, they don’t think, they only ask and write when there’s ‘guidance’, when there are ‘sources’ telling the hacks what to write. They only open their mouths when their ‘camp followers’, a.k.a. spin doctors, ‘advise’ them what to say to look good.

Firstly, have a quick look at the morning papers: what a dire, predictable stuff this is (link)! Two front pages – the Guardian and the DM – have items on the NHS. For some strange reason these reports have been buried well inside acres of pixels when you check their online editions. The DM’s report deserves to be hidden – it is not at all ‘news’, never asking about the exorbitant stipends paid to the NHS bosses (link). Clearly, what is sauce for the energy and water firm bosses’ goose is not sauce for the NHS gander. 

The Guardian has a piece about ‘patient safety’ because a week ago their software supplier was hit by a ransom attack. Allegedly, patient data might have been hacked. The software firm says it might take up to two weeks before all affected services have ‘recovered’ (link). Do the grauniad hacks ask why there’s no backup, no redundancy for those services? Do they ask why ‘recovery’ takes so long? Do they heck! It’s the Sacred Cow and all is well. Just give them more money.

And so to the energy and inflation crisis. You’ll be glad to hear that actually, Johnson himself deigned to reappear and share a meeting. Fat lot of good that did. Yes, everybody is ‘concerned’, but neither the energy bosses nor the politicians are even proposing that these super rich people might perhaps forego their bonuses this year and pay them into a welfare fund to help ‘Teh Poor’, as a nice gesture. No, it’s about windfall taxes and the evil thereof. Thus we have La Truss who is adamantly against them:

“Liz Truss on Thursday night rejected calls to increase the windfall tax on energy companies to fund cost of living handouts for households, saying profit is not a “dirty word”. The Foreign Secretary said she was “absolutely” against such taxes, arguing that such a policy approach would be taken by Labour.” (paywalled link)

Yeah right – better not do what Labour might do, especially since this and the previous so-called Tory governments have been Blair continuity governments. Do they all think we hadn’t noticed? Is that why we common plebs keep saying the two legacy parties are two cheeks of the same arse? Speaking of Labour: where are they? Why are they silent, except for Gord warbling about ‘temporary re-nationalisation’? On holidays, that’s where!

Oh, La Truss also said she’d lift the ban on fracking. How nice. Does she think this would help us in the short term? Because installing the whole infrastructure, from fracking to the consumer, is going to happen in the blink of an eye, isn’t it! Oh yeah – the DT in yon report hammers home Miz Liz’ saying that profit isn’t a dirty word.

But wait – there’s Sunak who ‘has a plan’. He wrote an article for The Times (link, paywalled) from which we learn that he’s ever so compassionate. He will help, yeah, but doesn’t yet know by how much. He’ll help ‘the most vulnerable’ and the pensioners’. Yes, Rishi, we believe you, especially after you removed that triple pension lock even as the energy crisis and inflation were predicted last autumn. This is his proposal:

“Every household would benefit from a £200 reduction in their bills by abolishing VAT on energy, in a challenge to Truss, who has said only that she would consider the measures.” (link, paywalled)

Is this reduction meant to be per month? We’re not told. If, as I suspect, this is a one-off, then how is a reduction by £200 going to help when bills are now projected to reach £5,000 next year? He’s apparently also gonna sprinkle an extra £200 on those ’vulnerable’ people using ‘the welfare system’. In other words, if you’re not in that system, you’re effed, you’re ‘rich’ and can afford to pay those sums!

Neither Truss nor Sunak and of course none of the Westminster hacks mentions with one word that removing that ‘green renewable surcharge’, instigated by a certain Mr Miliband (Lab) might also reduce the horrendous energy bills. Moreover and more importantly, none of them ask why energy prices should rise to yon £5,00. How are these prices calculated? Let us know if you have information!

How callous they all are is shown by the fact that the lot of them – the current PM and the wannabe PMs – are all insisting that nothing can be done now. Sunak, as we saw above, said he needs to wait until he has ‘more data’ once he’s in No 10. At that meeting yesterday (my emphasis):

“Boris Johnson […] continued to insist the government could not act until a new prime minister has been chosen.” (link, paywalled)

Twaddle. If there were an emergency such as a terrorist attack, God forbid, or a huge ‘wlidfire’ across large parts of England would government also not act until that new PM has got his or her feet under the table? Of course not! But we plebs don’t need reassurance, do we – we only need ‘guidance’, like not eating and not taking showers!

As for Miz Liz … This quote demonstrates perfectly that she is the mouthpiece for faceless puppet masters who are manufacturing her so that she doesn’t look or sound ‘like Labour’:

“Truss has insisted detailed plans must wait until an emergency budget in September but her camp has now acknowledged she will need to give direct support to the poorest households despite criticism of “handouts”.” (link, paywalled)

Handouts! Dear God – how removed from the reality of life does one have to be to call help with those destructive energy bills ‘handouts’! Here’s one little footnote which ought to concentrate the minds of Truss, Sunak and their ‘camps’: “EDF customers in France pay HALF as much for their energy as British households shell out” (link). Profit might not be a dirty word in Miz Truss’ books – profiteering certainly is in mine, and this is profiteering.

Perhaps she and her ‘allies’ in her ‘camp’ ought to have read Lord Frost’s article in the DT today, under the headline “Tories can no longer avoid telling hard truths about the route out of this mess – The party stopped talking about conservative ideas, fearful of being stigmatised by our failed establishment” (paywalled link). We’ll un-paywall this essay, later.

I leave you with one final inanity, from an article in The Times on water shortages and all that jazz:

“Jamie Hannaford, the principal hydrologist for the UKCEH, said that only “very exceptional” rainfall would replenish river levels, reservoirs and groundwater supplies.” (link, paywalled). ‘

‘Very exceptional rainfall’ – we know what that means! More ‘red weather alerts’, more ’guidance’ on taking a brolly when going out or even better: to stay in because one could get wet. Sadly, such rainfall also leads to flash floods and more misery and thus another ‘crisis’. Moreover, all that rain will just rush off into the sea because no new reservoirs have been built in decades, all those profits notwithstanding.

Better enjoy the few remaining days of wall-to-wall sunshine. The outlook for our country is so grim that we may regret not storing up good memories of all glorious days while we can, leaving the fear and doom mongers to monger amongst themselves.



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