Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "'I feel impotent today': James O'Brien hears from Martin Lewis during energy bills crisis" video.

  1.  @loracle540  : You ask that question in bad faith faith. Just as Lewis said, all you want to do is shift the ground to debating a separate issue. Because you know the answer is complex and can be talked into the ground without ever reaching a solution. The energy companies are reporting record profits, so you do the math. But as Lewis said himself, he has lots of ideas, so that’s not the point. A government that’s willing to acknowledge it’s an unacceptable problem and commit to doing something about it is what’s necessary.
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  2. I understand how he feels, having worked in government myself on crisis management. He’s found himself in a world where, “Consultation Exercises,” mean, “We’ve already decided what we’re doing but we’re holding up a fig leaf of accountability,” a world where people just keep talking to use up time so you can’t get a word in to make your very obvious point, a world in which the feckless and incapable are in charge over the bright, young and capable. And what he can’t say out loud, for fear of alienating the very people he has to go cap in hand to every day, is that he’s dealing with the most unvarnished greed and venality he’s ever encountered in his life. Combine Charles Dickens’s Circumlocution Office with Kafka’s judicial system in The Trial and you’re still only approaching the self defeating illogical hall of mirrors that is government. I fear for his mental health in the wake of these experiences. Maybe he needs to set up a political party? The Fiscal Responsibility Party or something? Of course, he would be assassinated if it got any traction.
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  3. If only politicians cared as much about the vulnerable in society as Martin Lewis. Britain would be the envy of the world. And we wouldn’t be hostages to this Ancien Régime
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  4. He must be starting to realise by now that the only way he could ever hope to match the power of these greedy, feckless politicians is to set up a challenging party for the next election? The fiscal responsibility party or something? It would be a peaceful revolution in Britain and may restore hope, along with genuine equity?
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