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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 8037718" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>We'll have to wait until bread disappears from the shelves for something to be done. Politics works on ludicrously short forward looking timescales, not necessarily because they can't see that far ahead, more because politicians don't get any credit from the voters if they head a crisis off at the pass. Then all they get is abuse - 'Why did you introduce this unpopular regulation/tax me more/change a policy I agreed with, there was no crisis!' Voters don't see the crisis that doesn't happen. </p><p></p><p>Whereas once the crisis appears and affects the voters then the politicians can spring into action and hopefully solve it, thus gaining their gratitude. So its no use them trying to solve now the obvious problem of high fertiliser prices resulting in less fert use, lower yields and a reduced harvest in 6 months time, because whatever policy they enacted would be unpopular (rationing/more subsidies for farmers/change of green policies) and if the policy worked the voters would just ask 'What crisis?' and blame politicians for unpopular changes. If you need to enact unpopular policies you need a good crisis to justify them. </p><p></p><p>The same will go for energy policy - we will have to wait until energy bills are double or triple what they are now (which they will be) for policies to be enacted that might help - starting fracking, green lighting new N Sea oil and gas field, abolition of Net Zero etc. The public only live in the here and now, living from month to month pay cheques, and thus thats about the same political event horizon as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 8037718, member: 818"] We'll have to wait until bread disappears from the shelves for something to be done. Politics works on ludicrously short forward looking timescales, not necessarily because they can't see that far ahead, more because politicians don't get any credit from the voters if they head a crisis off at the pass. Then all they get is abuse - 'Why did you introduce this unpopular regulation/tax me more/change a policy I agreed with, there was no crisis!' Voters don't see the crisis that doesn't happen. Whereas once the crisis appears and affects the voters then the politicians can spring into action and hopefully solve it, thus gaining their gratitude. So its no use them trying to solve now the obvious problem of high fertiliser prices resulting in less fert use, lower yields and a reduced harvest in 6 months time, because whatever policy they enacted would be unpopular (rationing/more subsidies for farmers/change of green policies) and if the policy worked the voters would just ask 'What crisis?' and blame politicians for unpopular changes. If you need to enact unpopular policies you need a good crisis to justify them. The same will go for energy policy - we will have to wait until energy bills are double or triple what they are now (which they will be) for policies to be enacted that might help - starting fracking, green lighting new N Sea oil and gas field, abolition of Net Zero etc. The public only live in the here and now, living from month to month pay cheques, and thus thats about the same political event horizon as well. [/QUOTE]
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