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Liz Truss claims Brits would be on Mars by 2040 if she hadn’t been ousted (www.politico.eu)

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[–] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 63 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, if the tories - and Truss particularly - had remained in power until then, I can imagine that a lot of people would be taking extreme measure to get away, so I can see her point.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 11 points 2 days ago

They’d be sent up as indentured servants, as that would be many people’s only way of survival in perma-austerity. Those who got close to putting away enough company-store credits for the voyage back would find their oxygen bills algorithmically surge-priced upwards.