£20 Billion BS
Talk Breakfast
Ricky Freelove
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good dinner party? |
| 0:01.0 | Fun. But you definitely blew our budget. |
| 0:03.0 | Budgets are meant to budge. |
| 0:05.0 | You got everyone a gift, but it wasn't anyone's birthday. |
| 0:08.0 | Says the person who gave a coupon as a tip last week. |
| 0:11.0 | Have you bought a chandelier for a one bedroom flat? |
| 0:13.0 | At least I didn't sublet the couch. |
| 0:15.0 | Sex to income and keep it down. |
| 0:17.0 | Joe is sleeping. |
| 0:19.0 | Studies show our relationship with money is formed from the age of seven. |
| 0:23.1 | That's why our expert Barclays team is here to help you take control of your money today. |
| 0:28.0 | Barclays, make money work for you. |
| 0:32.5 | The home of common sense. This is talk. |
| 0:38.3 | Here's an interesting story for you. We've just uncovered. Julian Jessup actually, |
| 0:43.3 | the economist we had on just about under an hour ago, who was talking to us about the flat rate of growth. |
| 0:50.3 | He's given us a story from the Financial Times. The Financial Times actually sent in a freedom of information request to the government to ask them if they could please detail the 22 billion pound fiscal black hole that they keep referring to. I mean, only yesterday, Keist Tama was referring to it in Prime Minister's questions. Rachel Reeves refers to it every single time she speaks. Every single Labour politician says, well, |
| 1:12.8 | we have to do this, particularly on the pensions front, we have to take money away from pensions |
| 1:16.7 | because of the 22 billion pound fiscal black hole. Well, interestingly enough, the freedom |
| 1:22.4 | of information requests by the Financial Times seeking a breakdown of this government overspend has been declined by the government. |
| 1:30.3 | And here's what they say. |
| 1:31.8 | The Treasury has said basically that Rachel Reeves needs to have officials insisting they need more time to ensure that the figures are actually accurate. |
| 1:42.3 | So I'll just read that back to you again. |
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