Liz Truss is not listening to the Bank of England, and she and the Bank seem to be working against each other. Liz Truss is not listening to the IFS, which is warning that excessive and expensive borrowing and tax cuts will far from guarantee economic growth. Liz Truss is not listening to the big noises who used to work for Cuadrilla, who are saying loud and clear that fracking in the UK is not only not an answer to anything but is actually non-viable. It seems that charging on without listening is her means of asserting herself as a Strong Leader in the eyes of the public. Thatcher did that par excellence, and Starmer's bending with the wind and "listening to the people" is looking pusillanimous in the extreme. These bastard ideologues know exactly what they're doing, don't they?

Along with her new energy price cap and the tax cuts, both of which are designed to benefit mainly the better off, and as with lifting the cap on bankers' bonuses, we can expect an attack on Universal Credit claimants tomorrow. Well they don't vote Tory anyway. And Truss's boozy mate Coffey is talking about scrapping the sugary drinks levy and the anti-obesity drive (of all the people who should be doing that!), as well as telling GPs, without telling them how to do it, that they must offer appointments to all their patients within two weeks. Dunno about round your way but it's five to six weeks round here. Maybe we'll all have to take our strokes and cancer scares to the nearest Boots from now on. Tomorrow we have to hear Kwasi with his mini-budget. I should think that all sentient beings, by the end of tomorrow, will conclude that Mrs Mopp would make a better chancellor. Unfortunately, when it comes to politics there appears to be a severe lack of said sentient beings on the electoral registers...