Hi John,
Yesterday Liz Truss sacrificed her chancellor to try and save her premiership – insisting her mission is unchanged. But that’s exactly the problem: the prime minister’s mission means distributing more wealth to the already rich and slashing regulations that protect people and the planet. If she succeeds, the consequences will be devastating in this country and around the world. But there is also hope. The extremism of Truss’s government, together with its incompetence, has shifted things. We can defeat this agenda.
Truss is the most ideologically-driven prime minister in recent decades. She believes that handing over more power to the market, to big corporations, is the solution to the global problems we face. She claims that more wealth for those at the top will ‘trickle down’ to the rest of us. Truss is the embodiment of the disaster capitalism we have long stood against. Even if her government falls in the coming days or weeks, we need to make sure that these ideas are wholly discredited in the process.
The prime minister hopes that her latest u-turns will allow the government to move on to her main mission of ‘trickle-down’ economic reforms – things like deregulating the banks, doubling down on fossil fuel exploration and signing Britain up to pro-corporate trade deals. Sadly, much of this agenda is popular in her party. But it’s deeply unpopular in the general public. That’s why I feel more hope than I have for many months that the end of these policies could be in sight. If we work together.
I know times are tough, but if you can spare £3 a month, joining Global Justice Now today can make a difference to our ability to take on Truss’s dangerous mission.
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