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Let them eat ... what? Britain’s implosion of political leadership
With global supply routes choked up by Covid and the war in Ukraine leading to a catastrophic shortage of grain, our nation urgently needs a 'national food plan' that will us becoming self-reliant once again, writes ALAN SIMPSON
Britain urgently needs a 'national food plan', that keeps Britain’s farmers in business and makes food affordable to the poor.
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THE 1.5 million households in Britain facing destitution and the 10 million simply in poverty will have wept at the emptiness of the government’s Queen’s Speech programme.
There’s to be no emergency Budget to pay the first £1,000 of spiralling energy costs, no windfall tax on oil and gas profiteering, no restoration of cuts in universal credit, no radical plan to support local food supply, no national home insulation programme.
Instead, communities are promised new rights to determine their local street names. I can see us all fighting to get in first — Destitution Row, Food Bank Close(d), Disconnection Drive, Poverty Place ... We will all be itching to redefine our place in Boris’s Broken Britain.
In case we get fed up with this, families will also get the right to object to their neighbour’s home improvement plans. This will not, of course, build a single new house or improve and insulate any existing ones. What it will do is shift the locus of social conflict from the catastrophic failure of government to the questionable conduct of our neighbours.
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