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Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social |
Sunak’s most significant political legacy is that he has brought a form of climate denial politics firmly into the mainstream of British politics, to the point that “a bland statement about a ‘cost’ both parties are committed to” is being written up like this in the Times.
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Alan Rew
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What's never considered is the cost of NOT solving the problem.
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Stephen Bush
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It’s the only thing where Sunak has successfully advanced his form of politics, unfortunately. Stuff that his government is nominally committed to, that was central to the manifesto they fought in 2019, being written up in the Times as if it is a new, alien idea.
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Kevin Marks
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It's the Sunak Cost Fallacy, where you don't do a cost/benefit analysis, just moan about the costs. Admittedly a lot of Sunak’s spending was all cost and no public benefit, like eat out to help out or PPE corruption, but that doesn't generalise to all government spending.
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Rob
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Remember when the BBC did a graphic of Sunak dressed like Superman? Good times.
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Corner.
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Youse also need to interrogate the role of the right wing press in adopting this framing.
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Meher Oliaji
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Whatever will you post about after next week?
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Charles EP Murphy
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Hundreds of millions of pounds in investment over a two-decade period, reducing the cost of a more disruptive climate change and aging infrastructure? Okay, that sounds like a good deal. We say "if it was like a household budget---" but we do renovate homes.
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