The fall of the Tory party

I've given up on Today - all the bile and righteous anger sparked by the unchallenged lies, propaganda and, lately, endless fawning deference just sets you up really badly for the day. It's the aural equivalent of doomscrolling.

Yes - that's completely true actually.

I guess trying to price producers according to their costs of production (rather than equally according to the utility of what they produce) doesn't make sense either - why would you pay a gas supplier less than a coal supplier just because they're higher up the order?

Almost as if the Tory mantra "the market will sort things out" is utter bollocks.

Does it present a case for nationalising the energy supply, remove the market & 'shareholder value' motive?

PMQ's at noon reminder.

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I end up doing this every single morning listening to Today

Snap.

Does it present a case for nationalising the energy supply, remove the market & 'shareholder value' motive?

Certainly a case for changing the power pricing structure. Everyone wants more cheap renewables, but it makes no sense to then pay record pricing for it because there's a price surge in another market.

“the shelf-life of a lettuce”
The Economist puts it rather succinctly

My expectations were low but fuck me, she was poor

Her floundering on the Heathrow Q was quite telling I thought, amongst the general cluster fuck of decisive energy script.

devisive energy script

Surely?

This is why they're trying to get renewable suppliers onto a contract for difference instead. Instead of paying them the gas production price plus a margin, you just pay them their production price plus a margin

Edit: Actually this came out today https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-introduces-new-energy-prices-bill-to-ensure-vital-support-gets-to-british-consumers-this-winter

JRM…what a massive cunt that bloke is

Can never be reiterated too many time imho

https://liveapp.inews.co.uk/2022/10/12/even-in-her-worst-nightmares-liz-truss-could-never-have-dreamed-it-would-be-this-bad/content.html

Oof

Sums it up nicely I think. Scathing

A lady expert being interviewed from New York on C4 news about the market turmoil issues just said that JRM was “talking bollocks” when asked about his utterances.

Is there no way the rest of the parties can start a vote of no confidence and call for a general election. Given how bad things are it surely can’t go on

Well, I’m calling it a day with some cans of strong lager
State of this shit
Honestly

Tory MPs would have to vote for it and most of them would lose their jobs. It's also not something you can do every day, you need to pick the moment

It’ll need Conservative MPs to vote against their own leader to succeed. It’s not beyond the realms of possibility, but generally turkeys don’t vote for Christmas.

Saw that. She's not wrong.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy has just apologised to those using subtitles as it was transcribed as bullocks

Peston recons even the turkeys are starting to see Christmas as a sweet relief
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1580262987402616837

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