Johnson is currently expecting to head out of Number 10 in the autumn. As that autumn turns to winter, millions of people will be facing another £800 hike on their energy bills. Food banks are at capacity. Children across the country are going hungry. There is only really one thing to say about a media and political class that has spent years conspiring to bring us to this point, and would do so again in a second: don’t let them get away with it.
„Them“ is here referring to the political actors who control wealth, power, and so the media in the UK. The paragraph above closes an article detailing how the UK’s wealthy classes are able to rehabilitate the reputations of members of the ruling party while fending off any threat to existing power structures. Newton draws a contrast between the UK’s state and that of „a functional political culture“: the UK is dysfunctional, and no prospective challenge is on the horizon.
I don’t disagree with her assessment of the UK’s situation, however that makes her closing sentence quite a non sequitur. Given a Labour which threw over Corbyn for Starmer these millions of people facing another £800 hike on their energy bills are not in a position to prevent „them“ from getting away with anything.
