Still here

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Three hours ago, the voice of the wannabe rapturised was waiting for something to happen within 6 minutes. I feel no different. Hope you're fine!

I shouldn't laugh. We may be in dire straits ourselves. Not long before Liz Truss is PM, and from what I can see, she is going to be entirely governed by the ERG. Here's today's headline in the Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/truss-eyes-bonfire-of-workers-rights-to-boost-economy-3dmpf0gfg?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1662195757-1

Truss wants to play Thatcher, bring unions to heel, force conditions that make more money for the rich, and supposedly trickle down to the poor eventually. She expects the workers to knuckle under because this looks to be a damn tough winter. The far right of her party will applaud and the far left of Labour will chuckle, because out of that capitalist bonfire, they expect the phoenix of Marxism to rise. Hmm.

I'm looking at air fryers and proper thermal blinds/curtains but here's the thing; I'm doing it because we can. It's proper Vimes economy;

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. Men At Arms - Terry Pratchett

We can do what feels right and less wasteful, precisely because we can afford to and also afford not to. Piling on the jumpers is not going to work for an 80 year old with her 70s electric bar fire.

Into this comes Truss with all her vanity, her utter lack of comprehension and only the will to power. She won't want to give it back to BJ, who I suspect, looks to be the real winner here. If she fails dismally, he will expect the party to turn to him; already his approval ratings are back in the mid 40s% range among party members. He'll treat these as his wilderness years. What with him playing Churchill and Truss playing Thatcher, it feels like being trapped at some terrible cosplay conference with all the exits locked.

So you know, maybe that ascension/rapture thing wouldn't have been so bad. Except that once again, the Book of Revelations appears to have stood us up.