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Hello.

And are you feeling that spring statement are you

feeling springy are you feeling the bounce i mean we've had a few days of nice weather and if you wanted

anything to absolutely body slam that positive sentiment it was rachel reeves just telling you the bad

news isn't it that slightly accusatory way that she's got i've looked at the figures

b b b b b b b b b b b um has anybody checked it? I wonder if there's a podcast listener that could check. Is her voice just Keir Starma on 1.5 speed? You know, like when you accidentally speed up her podcast or a WhatsApp message, is her voice just Kerstresterma on a slightly different chapo? You know, if you speed that up, I'm going to be up,

I'm going to be up, don't know.

It'd be good to do the analysis. But the point is we've had the spring statement definitely wasn't an emergency. I mean, bearing in mind, it was supposed to be just her sort of like standing up going, yep, yep, sign it, yeah, sign it off. Those of the accounts. and then in the end she has to do some quite significant stuff.

So maybe not an emergency budget, but a slightly panicked budget. And we've got a little bit of diet austerity there. It's not like Tory austerity. You can see when Tory's cut benefits, it's because they wanted to. Because they hate disabled people, you see. But when Labor do it, it's okay because they're sad about it.

It's a new improved austerity with added regrets.

It's interesting times for Labor.

I mean, look, we will get right into the guts of this.

But one of the things that they're trying to say is that, you know, the world has changed.

The world has changed.

There are global economic headwinds. And I think only an idiot would say there hasn't been some of those.

But I think certainly Labor have added to those headwinds with a giant fiscal fart of their own.

Anyway, we'll get on to that.

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