PM will announce a new system for awarding oil and gas exploration licences, and new pro-car legislation, sources say
    • HelloThere@sh.itjust.works
      37·
      8 months ago

      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.

    • echo64@lemmy.world
      21·
      8 months ago

      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

      • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
        191·
        8 months ago

        We voted for Brexit. Don’t underestimate our ability to vote in these cunts again.

        • echo64@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 months ago

          Oh sure, but also I’m just going on what seems to actually be happening. He’s losing should-never-lose battles. I’m more worried that farages new fasicist and popularist party will get too much power rather than the tories. Tories are kind of just dead in the water now

    • gmtom@lemmy.world
      5·
      8 months ago

      He knows his party is fucked so he’s trying to do favours for his mates in the oil industry while he still can

    • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 months ago

      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.

    • Rambi@lemm.ee
      2·
      8 months ago

      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