Get out! It's my turn in the swimming pool

The Daily Mail online today runs a story about the Tories planning £20billion in tax cuts. This at the same time as increasing public spending by a similar amount—all based on a post-Brexit economy which most reputable forecasters predict will shrink. No wonder the government doesn’t see the need to produce its own economic forecast relating to Johnson’s Brexit deal. They really do believe the UK population is composed entirely of suckers. But they have form. I remember before the 1979 election them saying they wouldn’t put VAT up. It was one of the first things they did.

​Elsewhere there was some good news. It seems that the very wealthiest spongers in our midst have already been preparing for a Corbyn victory by drawing up plans to leave the UK. I wonder which country they will choose to go to. Will there be enough space on Necker Island? How will they all get along with each other and their over-inflated egos? Bad luck to ‘em.

​One of the rich bastards named by Jeremy Corbyn the other day was Jim Ratcliffe, owner of Ineos and a great believer in fracking. He can’t be too happy with the Tories newly, cynically coined fracking moratorium. Perhaps that’s one reason he’s already packed his bags to leave the UK. But the moratorium could have repercussions. Earlier last month a coalition of environmental groups called on the government to stop fracking, citing, perhaps in passing, that much of the activity would take place in Tory held seats, some of them marginal. So along comes a general election and all of a sudden we get a moratorium—but not a ban. If the Tories are re-elected, one could with certainty win a bet fracking will be back. And if this moratorium does aid Johnson in his re-election, we won’t get Labour’s new green deal (which means a permanent ban on fracking amongst many other things). Perhaps the environmental lobby will have shot itself in the foot.