Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thanks so much for tuning in wherever you are in the UK and indeed the rest of the world.

And yeah, we've got a lot to cram in in our time together.

If it's okay with all of you, I'm going to reflect on a couple of themes.

One of them being something that we have delved quite deep on in the past,

but something happened the other day, which made me think,

yeah, this highlights the completely bonkers pre-election tax and spend debate, which so

curtails anything Labour dares say in particular, but it has wider ramifications.

And I'll tell you what that is. And then a brief reflection, because it comes up in a lot of your

emails, where we are with the Green Debate Post Uxbridge. So those are a couple of reflections from me.

Then over to your emails a lot about the consequences. There are always consequences from

by-elections. And I kind of reflected on some in the by-election emergency special on Friday

after we got the results.

But you have been delving deep yourselves with some emails and I'll go to them.

And before that, just a couple of notices.

Yeah, actually kind of one, but they're interconnected for Patreon subscribers.

The bonus in August.

Some of you've been asking,

will you record any of the Edinburgh Festival shows?

And I thought we couldn't and wouldn't because it's expensive.

You know, it's like recording a Rolling Stones concert or Blur live at Wembley from a couple of weeks ago.

I mean, it's technically and costs and all the rest of it.

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