Colin Martin: Councillor for Lostwithiel 🔶

Correction: The state can't do its job properly due to short-sighted funding cuts, so the populist politician seeks to create a false division between "the good people" and "the bureaucratic elite". In fact they both want to see the back of a failing Conservative Government.

Correction: The state can't do its job properly due to short-sighted funding cuts, so the populist politician seeks to create a false division between "the good people" and "the bureaucratic elite". In fact they both want to see the back of a failing Conservative Government.

So, the government approves a new coal mine in Cumbria. A ridiculous and dreadful decision. Climate change is our biggest earthly threat, yet the Tories want to dig up and burn more fossil fuels. What a pathetic failure of leadership.