The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Prioritising fat cats over ordinary folk
Sir, – Research by the food foundation has revealed that more than one million adults in the UK went a whole day without food in the UK last month.
This is the reality of Tory austerity.
The response from the Tories to this and the higher fuel prices has been utter indifference, denial and contempt. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng was asked why the UK Government had allowed energy companies to put their prices up by 50% when France had only raised theirs by 4%.
His glib answer was that the UK needed to “protect the investors”.
In other words prioritising the fat cats. However, Mr Kwarteng’s
claim collapses with even a cursory look. France actually attracts more investment than the UK.
On the day that BP announced a profit of £9.5 billion the Tories whipped their MPS into voting for a real-terms cut to Universal Credit.
The response by Keir Starmer was to abstain. Yet again Starmer’s Labour Party shows how supine, craven and utterly useless they are.
This means that people already starving and freezing are going to suffer more misery. All for the perpetual benefit of the fat cats.
The response to the escalating crisis within the UK by Boris Johnson has been resorting to Trumpian tactics.
The baying mob that surrounded Keir Starmer was incited by Johnson.
His dog whistle of Jimmy Savile was aimed in the direction of the far right. There is a warning for people of the danger of the far right.
The atmosphere of mistrust and fear being whipped up for Brexit, for herd immunity and against Russia is having real consequences.
The Westminster
Parliament is a cesspit. Scotland needs to vacate and steer its own path away from this abomination.
Alan Hinnrichs. Gillespie Terrace, Dundee.