Having been out of the country for a week now, I’m assuming things at home are ticking along quite nicely. Liz Truss has her firm hand on the tiller and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is sorting out the country’s finances, right? I know really. Although I haven’t seen anything on telly, apart from some football and rugby league, I definitely haven’t seen a newspaper (or the Daily Mail) and I’ve only had the radio on for Radcliffe and Maconie on 6 Music, the internet has filled the gap. And some.
To my amazement, that well known spelling mistake Jeremy Hunt is now chancellor, having come bottom of the MPs poll to succeed liar Boris Johnson to become PM. WTAF, as the kids say? KamiKwasi, having ruined the dreams of millions applying for mortgages and bumped up the cost for millions more, has been dumped for implementing lame duck Liz Truss’s howling mad policies including borrowing money to give the very rich tax cuts and now Hunt has come in to clear up the mess by creating more of it.
At least Truss guaranteed cheaper fuel bills for two years but Hunt has said that is now for six months only, after which fuel bills will double. This will come as great news to the pensioners who actually survive this winter only to find Hunt is taking the axe to the pension triple lock in order to ensure they – we, as it happens – don’t make it through the winter of 23/24. Christ: if Hunt carries on like this. laughing boy KamiKwasi will be welcomed back with open arms.
But it’s worse than that, especially for those of who like a drink. KamiKwasi froze duty on booze in his otherwise barking mad budget but Hunt has cancelled that. KamiKwasi boasted he’d saved the punter 7p on a pint of beer, 4p on a pint of cider, 38p on a bottle of wine and £1.35 on a bottle of spirits. If you thought you could simply get pissed to get away from madness in our country, then think again. What a kick in the teeth for every single pub in the land. Thanks, Mr Cu…Hunt.
I’m guessing that fuel duty will go up to because that was frozen, too. Have the media missed a trick by not telling us about it?
At least here on a Canary Island, I can get a decent pint of Estrella for around €2.5 or a terrible pint of Magners or Carling for nearly twice that.
As soon as I get home, I’ll invest in some candles in order to have some light during the winter months, particularly because the horse warmer Nadhim Zahawi has said there won’t be power cuts. I’ll walk everywhere and drink tap water, if I can still afford it.
Lying by the pool, reading a book, grilling gently under the sun never felt better. Things can’t get any worse at home, can they?
