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Very sadly, there has been a total failure of imagination in the whole of the political class — all of them, not just the Idiots In Power. Sir Keir Starmer seems so hypnotised by the horrible possibility of rerunning the election of 1992 — when the Tories won again — that he literally doesn’t dare to put a foot anywhere in case it’s wrong. Green party and Lib-dems are muttering about getting a better voting system than first-past-the-post but nobody at all is thundering about going back into the Common Market (if they’ll have us) or getting rid of the current lobbying system or indeed getting rid of the corrupted voting system that we’ve got.
Nobody is thundering about anything because the petrolhead media has them all scared. Everybody is either shouting about the pros and cons of the egregious Boris or whatever is the latest nasty piece in the Daily Mail about the eco-woke terrorists from Just Stop Oil.
People, peace. I will come to your rescue. I am by way of being a specialist in imagination. At any rate I’m bloody certain I can do it better than all the dull incompetent petrolheads in Parliament — yes, Richie, I’m looking at you. Actually I’m being unfair. I think you’re a bit competent and certainly you outcomp Boris, but you are clearly imagination-free and you’re in love with fossil fuels.
