Rishi Sunak to ‘double down’ on anti-green policies in king’s speech

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Rishi Sunak to ‘double down’ on anti-green policies in king’s speech

www.theguardian.com /politics/2023/oct/28/rishi-sunak-to-double-down-on-anti-green-policies-in-kings-speech

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This cunt.
- Not just this cunt, tory cunts.
And the only rationale is this..?
in the hope of opening up a clear divide over the green agenda with Labour
- Either
  cos they are just trying to burn it down and make a quick quid for their mates
  it's genuinely a fault in the voting line and they have realised they'll manage to cling on to power
  I can't decide which makes me angrier.
- He's setting up him and his friends for jobs in banking and oil once he loses to a disastrous (for tories) labour majority in early 2025
  
  We voted for Brexit. Don't underestimate our ability to vote in these cunts again.
- He's trying to make sure his party will lose by an even greater margin?
- Makes me fucking livid. They don't pretend it's for anyone’s good any more: they just nakedly wreck shit for political gain. Pepperidge Farm remembers when these shitters used to try and justify their awfulness.
- It is basically guaranteed that he has lost the next election so he is just frantically throwing everything at the wall to see if anything sticks
What a cunt
I'm nothing like a royalist or anything, but Charles isn't gonna like that given his involvement in environmental causes.
- I imagine there's going to be quite a lot inward wincing and teeth grinding.
- I'm pretty sure Charles is the "we need to sterilise the poor so they can't breed because the world is over populated" kind of environmentalist that probably also supports fox hunting. At least that's the only kind environmentalist British aristocrats tend to be.
At this point I consider any of these "policies" to be a form of suicide.
British Ajit Pai
- The Prime Minister holds rather a lot more power
  
  Like what, setting the tea prices?
It's fairly clear at this point that conservatism and conservatives are an existential threat.
It's unfortunate that right-wing parties will likely get more and more popular the worse things get as people tend to flock to populists in times of crisis, and I don't know about other countries but here in Finland the under-25's are actually more conservative than eg. millennials or gen X – in this year's parliamentary elections ~30% of them voted for either an extremist right wing party that has a nontrivial amount of literal neo-Nazis in it, or the "fiscally conservative" party which isn't much better (and has a bit of a revolving door with the extremists).