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

Thank you for tuning in wherever you are. And no doubt wherever you are, your mind is turning

even more towards the budget on October the 30th. I've said before,

I'll say it again, I've never known a budget in advance to carry so much weight, to be so

burdened by anticipation, expectation, fear, all those highly charged emotions which often greet a budget

afterwards, but not in advance. Anyway, and this is my kind of assembly notice, merging neatly

segueing into my reflections today before we turn to some of your brilliant questions, which is budget-related.

But I'm not today, if it's okay with all of you, going to explore the fairly familiar terrain

of the economics and politics of this budget. There's one more podcast to go before Christmas

day. I mean, sorry, I mean October the 30th of the budget. There's one more podcast to go before Christmas Day. I mean, sorry, I mean

October the 30th of the budget. And we can do it then. It will probably feel urgently

necessary to delve deep next week in advance of the budget. So do subscribe so you get it

in advance of the budget. None of this. Oh yes. We miss rock and roll politics. Let's get it on the Thursday and it's a preview of the budget. None of this. Oh, yes. We miss rock and roll politics.

Let's get it on the Thursday. And it's a preview of the budget. And you'll have heard the budget.

But anyway, for, are we going to do something different? Now, explain why. For the bonus podcast for

Patreon subscribers. And thank you, Patreon subscribers. You keep this on the road with the legendary podmasters

who get it out to all of you so elegantly. Anyway, the bonus podcast for Patreon subscribers,

who incidentally get the podcast a day early ad-free, so do join us in the kind of, what should I call it, the elite cooperative, I sometimes call it,

but we're all part of the cooperative, I must stress. I've looked at post-war budgets of great

political and economic significance that really did define the course of a government and

change the course of British political history.

And they include budgets like Hugh Gateskills' budget in 1951, going up, of course, we only cover it

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