+It has been suggested that the ‘new’ government will freeze energy prices, paid for by borrowing around £100 billion over the next year or two. No doubt such a freeze could be maintained until the next general election, late next year or early in 2024. That will be one of the considerations. Another is that if the borrowing is to be paid back—by the public—over decades, then once again pensioners, the perceived core demographic of Conservative support won’t have to worry too much. They’ll be dead before the loan is paid off. And all the while energy company profits will be propped up. It’s an all-round good’un for the Tories, they will hope.
+I listened to the live broadcast of our new PM’s speech at teatime today, and was most impressed by her polished use of clichés, even to the extent that in no time at all there are going to be ‘spades in the ground’ and she’s going to ‘get Britain working again.’ Such originality! Such insight! Of course, whatever a new PM says on the steps of No.10 is largely going to be bollocks. They’re too thrilled to be standing there to say anything profound. Remember Thatcher with her quote from St Francis (or whoever) about bringing us all together? Nothing was further from her mind. One of the media sports on such occasions is to read into the new PM’s inaugural words (thank god we don’t have to go through a US style inauguration ceremony every two years) all sorts of things they would like to think she/he really said. Naturally, such commentary will be worthless, since the commentariat is rarely any wiser than the rest of us. They could save their breath and just say ‘same old, same old,’ a cliché which in a year or two’s time will have proven its worth.
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