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‘This is political expediency’: how the Tories turned on 15-minute cities (archive.ph)

submitted 1 year ago by JoBo to c/uk_politics

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More conspiracy nutjobbing from the Tories.

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[–] NotACube 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They're really descending into the pits of weird fringe politics - like the sort of stuff you'd see from pre-Farage UKIP.

It also seems to be the opposite strategy to Johnson, who was essentially the bullshitting yes man that wanted great, wonderful, positive things for everyone but with no plan on how to achieve it. Instead of grand visions of new (unfeasable) infrastructure projects based on (non existent) future technology that the government will help develop, and impressive sounding targets (with no execution plan) to "make Britain world beating", we now have policies seeking to actively block and slow development of anything new. Johnson was popular because he was promising progress and great things to everyone. Sunak is now attempting to do the polar opposite of what Johnson used to achieve electoral success, presumably because he's aiming for the opposite of electoral success???

[–] frog@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I suspect Sunak has picked up on the general "we're sick of being promised things that never materialise" vibe, and is trying to pander to it with an "honest" response of "you get nothing!" He just lacks the wisdom to realise that's not going to work. People already know they're getting nothing. What they want is a government that promises change and then actually delivers it. Johnson let them down by promising everything and giving nothing. Sunak's not going to win by promising nothing and giving nothing. He's probably also hoping that something will turn up between now and the general election, which he can point to and claim that he has delivered (under promise, over deliver is a good strategy when it's achievable).