These pricks

This appeared in the Independent today:
 
‘Sir Keir Starmer is under growing pressure from his own MPs to reverse the government's controversial cuts to winter fuel payments, with a group of 45 Labour MPs demanding he “act now” to respond to concerns over the policy following Labour's disastrous performance at the local elections. The Red Wall caucus of MPs issued a damning verdict in the wake of the results, warning that voters across the UK had told the Labour Party “loudly and clearly that we have not met their expectations". Downing Street continues to double down on the policy, with the PM’s official spokesperson telling reporters on Wednesday that the public “didn’t elect this government to be knocked off course”
 
What does this tell us? That the ‘Red Wall’ MPs are a spineless bunch? They acquiesce in the abolition of Winter Fuel Payments, but as soon as Labour gets an electoral drubbing they develop the spine to say ‘boo!’ And they may wonder why voters are pissed off. Of course there’s more to the story than WFPs, there’s that more than nagging doubt that this government, especially given its majority, has the imagination or politics to actually reshape how the country is run. Nor does it have the language. Consider the last sentence of the above ’official spokesperson’s’ complacent, patronising comment. ’We won’t be knocked off course’ comes straight out of an AI drone’s script, except here AI stands for ‘artificial ignorance’ where a pretence is made that the reason Labour got smashed is because people are deeply concerned that the government could be ’knocked off course.’ It is precisely because of the ’course’ you dimwit! Never mind. A career in consulting awaits these pricks.