Pragmatism Before Planet

As so often in its relentless quest for the centre ground, Team Starmer is apparently preparing to pander yet further to the climate-denying far right. Labour's environmental policy has already progressed from "we'll spend twenty-eight billion!" to "actually, we might not!" and thence to "we'll need a couple of parliaments to think it over;" and now the great man's sometime publishers in the Murdoch scumbag press have reported that the whole ghastly affair is about to be abandoned altogether. Indeed, it is becoming increasingly evident that retaining any shred of commitment to the plans would create an unacceptable degree of divergence between Team Starmer and the Conservative Party; and since it is clearly a vital function of His Majesty's Acquiescent Opposition to corroborate the globberings of the scumbag press, Team Starmer has convened an urgent blah-blah to discuss how best to keep on board those voters who take their legitimate and understandable concerns from the Murdoch tabloids and the Rothermere Daily Stürmer. Meanwhile the Leader himself has reiterated his commitment to the plans, which of course constitutes the clearest possible signal that they are not far from the incinerator.