Boris Johnson defends leaving fuel crisis response to successor
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62477155
Energy bills forecast to hit over £4,200 a year
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62475171
Do the Tories even have control of the economy any more? Do they even care, seeing as they just want to finish their holidays before saying anything at all?
I think back to August last year when Kabul fell to the Taliban while Boris’ government refused to recall Parliament.
Yet again, one year later, we’re now in a unbelievably bad domestic economic catastrophe… and they couldn’t give a shit either.
The fact that yesterday the most awful yet unprecedented energy price rises have been announced and Boris is still committed to being on holiday and is saying that this all this is a matter for the next PM.
WHY IS BORIS JOHNSON STILL PM IF HES NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING? Why didn’t he just resign cleanly? Why didn’t we get a general election then? Why are we being expected to swallow all this while the Conservative party continues to put itself before people’s lives- no exaggeration whatsoever, this level of economic stress will be killing some very vulnerable people in the UK right now.
Gordon Brown was in the Observer last Sunday saying that we need an emergency budget, recall of Parliament and a Cobra meeting on the cost of living crisis. Yes we do. And what does our Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson do- absolutely nothing, because he’s too busy having parties and holidays paid for by god knows who, and flying military jets for fun at taxpayer expense. He’s disgusting.
Gordon Brown wrote: “The facts are grim: Four in every five pensioners, four in every five single parents and four in every five large families face fuel poverty – that’s when their energy bills come to more than 10 per cent of their weekly incomes. About 35million people in 13.5million households are under threat of fuel poverty in October – that’s an unprecedented 49.6 per cent of the UK ”
OK this is mass economic catastrophe.
Where is Johnson’s OR Truss’ or Sunak’s or anyone else in Government’s sense of shame and responsibility about this? They’d rather that millions of people live in fear over how to live- than to do their actual jobs and pause their holidays to help. I’m still constantly shocked by how shamefully this Conservative government can treat us. They’ve done it again. This is jaw-droppingly bad.
www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/06/gordon-brown-set-emergency-budget-or-risk-a-winter-of-dire-poverty
Labour are working on their economic solution, tbc. Meanwhile Lib Dems have just suggested a new approach that looks worth exploring- Liberal Democrats call for scrapping of energy price cap rise www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62466386
i’m going to write to my Tory MP to express my utter disgust at this failure of duty but I’m fully expecting to just get an Out of Office reply instead. I wish we could all heat our homes and cook our food on the burning hot shame that the Conservative party should be feeling right now.
Whats it going to take, to find some government responsibility, a plea from the Queen?
I don’t know how anyone with a conscience can justify remaining a Tory party member while this goes on, let alone supporting this protracted leadership election just to serve Johnson’s vanity and wish not to be a shorter-serving PM than May.
I’m baffled how anyone would consider voting Tory ever again after they’re apparently so relaxed about this complete and utter failure of their government, in their own interests if they really couldn’t care less about anyone else’s lives.
Now we are seeing, out of necessity, news reports giving out debt advice to the public:
*Households already in debt as energy bills rise’
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62483770