Thread by @DMinghella

The UK has a sword-of-Damocles cost of living (and cost of trading) crisis hanging over it, and no effective government.
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Will this get better when Johnson finally sheds his current snakeskin, and Truss or (just possibly) Sunak takes over? It will not. They both represent more of the same - a breathtaking disregard for real people.
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Amazingly (for Tories) they don't care about business either. When they had to choose between Brexit and business, they chose Brexit. They chose 'fuck business'.
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(Of course they don't mind businesses run by friends, family, their pub landlords, or party donors. Those guys will continue to make unprecedented profits, paid for by you and me.)
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They literally have no idea how to build a modern Britain. A senior energy industry figure told me a couple of years ago that it wasn't that the government had a bad energy policy - it was that they had no energy policy AT ALL.
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Think about that, as we face a terrifying winter for households, public services and businesses. They had no energy policy AT ALL.
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It's not just energy. Across the board, the Tories have no ideas where it counts. No ideas for improving trade with the world's biggest free market on our doorstep. (But plenty of energy for breaking what remains of our relations with the EU.)
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No ideas for saving the NHS. If they were going to find them, after 12 years in power, they'd have found them by now. Their latest bill is more of the same sneaky privatisation. As if that's gonna work.
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No ideas for education except badmouthing humanities, running down state schools, screwing up exam results and demoralising universities.
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No ideas for the young, whose futures are now set to be less comfortable than those of their parents.
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No ideas for social care, beyond weaponising it as a justification for hefty (and falsely hypothecated) tax rises.
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No ideas for the legal system, beyong turning legal protection into a privilege reserved for the rich.
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No ideas for the public sector beyond botched policies to reduce regional pay and brand civil servants as woke and antisemitic.
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No foreign policy, beyond riding on the back of Zelenskyy (and completely forgetting their refusal to assist Ukraine until it was too late).
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No immigration policy to facilitate economic growth and replace lost NHS staff, care workers, hospitality staff and seasonal workers. But plenty of energy for forcing asylum seekers into perilous crossings, while pretending to care oh so deeply about those perils
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No serious policy to help UK science continue with international research, which is how science is done these days.
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No effective policy to improve water delivery, and a woeful - let's face it, shitty - record on sewage. Who needs a metaphor for how shit these Tories have been, when millions of tons of literal shit are polluting our beaches and waterways?
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No policy to keep alive our culture and our arts - some of Britain's best exports and a key ingredient in our 'soft power'. Instead, musicians can't tour abroad, our BBC has been infiltrated, intimidated and defunded, and Channel Four is openly bullied.
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No strategy to tackle the now extraordinary levels of inequality in the UK, beyond an insultingly empty phrase, Levelling Up, and a set of bribes nakedly available only to Tory constituencies.
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In short, this twelve-year Tory era has delivered nothing but strife. In a grotesque inversion of that Monty Python joke - What did the Romans ever do for us? - the Tories really have done nothing, save to tear down our institutions and destroy our safety nets.
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Twelve years of Tory has reduced the UK to poverty, inequality, disintegration and isolation. It has brought us to the brink of an economic abyss. The anointment of another Tory leader is a near-irrelevance. It won't change a thing.
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We can't go on like this. We can't go on with their failed ideologies, their lies, and the wilful destruction of our culture, institutions and norms. We need truth back. Decency back. Compassion back. We need dramatically different government, and we need it now.
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PS It would be quite wrong of me to suggest the Tories have NO meaningful policies: there's their rock-solid commitment to 1.5°C, right? They don't secretly think it's all 'green crap', and they don't rush to misrepresent (and abandon) green levies, do they?🤔
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