Thread by @Stuzipants

1. On the morning that Ofgem announce an 80% increase in the energy price cap, effectively triggering a social and economic disaster in the U.K. the likes of which hasn’t been seen for 75 years, and with experts predicting a grim death toll as a direct result, the media brought

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2. the wonderfully astute financial expert Martin Lewis to once more spell out the immediacy of the emergency facing the poorest in society. Of course for these continued efforts we’re supremely grateful… but if you’re half awake today you may have noticed a glaring omission

3. in this morning’s wall to wall coverage of the ever worsening fiduciary catastrophe… those among us who think may have spotted the lack thereof of a representative from the only people who can actually do something to bring essential aid to those literally choosing between

4. heating and eating. The most basic of duty for any government is to be at the very least visible, and to lay out a timeline to provide some solace amid the palpable anxiety taking hold of many who’ve never faced a fiscal downturn quite like the one facing Britain right now

5. So where were they?

Breakfast television producers took the usual steps to ensure a Tory MP did the bare minimum duty by being appearing to face questions and accountability but to no avail… so what were the excuses? 👇

6. Team Liz Truss

“Liz Truss won’t be available for media interviews this morning as she’s too busy writing an apology letter to Emmanuel Macron having called him a gobshite while trying on bras in a unisex changing room. Oh and we prefer it when she keeps her trap shut”

7. Team Ready for Rishi

“Apologies but former Chancellor of the Exchequer and so called financial Gandalf Rishi Sunak has no comment to offer on Britain’s economic cliff edge but if it helps he’s having a Faberge Egg for breakfast (hard boiled just like Rishi”

7. Team Boris Johnson

“Apologies but Boris can’t offer up 2 hours of his Friday morning… not because he doesn’t want to, but simply because he was last seen joining a 14 person gangbang in the Donbas region of Ukraine having slipped his security and stolen a helicopter 🚁”

8. Not one Tory MP had the basic common decency to come out and face down questions to a dire economic shock that’s in no small part down to 12 years of governance that they’ll make disaster movies about in generations to come. That right there is the epitome of today’s Tory

9. Party. Responsible for nothing. Blaming anybody and everybody else, and all the time claiming that they’re the party of sound economics. Their absence this morning is the perfect explainer for a summary of British conservatism across 12 long and miserable years of abject

10. failure, cronyism, and the shifting of wealth to the ruling classes. Remember, not one Tory MP is choosing this morning between a meal and a hot shower. They’ve simply got to go
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