Opinion: Kenilworth's MP is protecting his own career rather than calling on PM to resign
By James Smith
17th Feb 2022 | Opinion
Jeremy Wright is not, as I expected, but not as I hoped, taking a stand to improve the standard of British politics.
The sad fact of the matter that the Conservative Party don't have a good replacement candidate and will probably allow Boris Johnson to soldier on until the May council elections - accepting that Mr Johnson's failures are "costed in" to the pros and cons of his appeal to the minority Conservative electorate who supported him.
The retired middle class who support Mr Johnson - who don't pay NI, have not taken overseas holidays due to Covid can probably well afford the addition costs that they now have to endure, rather than accepting and being concerned that life is increasingly difficult financially for the less well off.
No one from any of the main parties is prepared to "tell it like it is" – and will be in future - with regard to the rising cost of energy and climate change impact.
The parliamentarians are spoon-feeding the population soma as in George Orwell's 1984.
Today people have been enjoying consuming gas at a price 1/5 (per kWh) of electricity.
Now electricity is derived, at present 30 per cent+ annually from renewables whilst gas 0 per cent from renewables.
Global gas prices are bound to rise as gas become less available.
As these realities start to bite we need a PM who can take the population of the country with them as we face global problems rather than one who has the multiple failing of Boris Johnson who focuses only on narrow personal interests.
As a consumer I am choosing to use non-renewable gas instead of partially-renewable electricity for my water heating needs because it is cheaper.
Others will do the same.
Only when gas is priced due to its long term scarcity value will this situation be reversed. Will you sell it to the population of shall I?
Jeremy Wright is one of the most intellectually able of the Conservative MPs even to the point of being PM material.
But he is not prepared to engage in a campaign to remove the present prime minister as he is not prepared to "put his head above the parapet".
Instead he prefers to favour his future career rather than to do the right things so that one day he will be able to re-join the top table of cabinet ministers when others have unseated Boris Johnson.
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