It’s a fracking disaster

 It was fun at the beginning. 

Watching a political party, you are ideologically at odds with, implode was fun at first. Now, even the hardy journalists who love this sort of thing are finding it so hard to watch they are focusing on a lettuce.

Yesterday Home Secretary, the poisonous Suella Braveman resigned, saying it was because she made a mistake. The Daily Mail has reported that this resignation followed a 90 minute shouting match.

A conservative back bench MP of 17 years standing was interviewed live, shaking with fury said, “I think it’s a shambles and a disgrace. It’s utterly appalling.”

And the thing that made him so furious?

A vote on fracking.

A fracking distraction to the real issue of climate change. Jacob Rees-Mogg decided to allow the North of the country to be plunged into years of earthquakes to extract gas that we shouldn’t be using. He wants this because he doesn’t want to believe in climate change. Or maybe he does and doesn’t care how much he destabilises the country because he knows how to use this to make a lot of money.

Most of the conservative government disagree. They have been elected on promises to protect the environment. Labour, cleverly, put forward a motion to ban fracking. The government can’t be seen to lose when they have a large majority, so they make it a three line whip and suggest it’s a vote of confidence. No one has confidence. Even the lettuce is scared (the lettuce in the Daily Star journalist’s bedroom, which he is suggesting will last longer than Liz Truss). But they forget to tell everyone, or nobody believes it and the government nearly loses the vote (which they should have because it was the right thing) which makes them look weak against Labour. It believed that even the Prime Minister didn’t vote against the motion to ban fracking but that is probably irrelevant because they are calling her PINO (Pm in name only). Then they say that there wasn’t a three line whip and the chief whip and deputy chief whip resign. Then they unresign and they say that there was and all the MPs who voted against or abstained will be disciplined. 

Meanwhile, inflation has gone into double figures (the first time since the eighties), more people are using food banks……

“Can we just turn the News off?” the Long Suffering Husband asks. It’s all very depressing.

It’s not just depressing it’s a fracking disaster and it’s not fun to watch anymore.