Well, there was no black hole all along.

And of course, if you're any of the unfortunate Labour cabinet members sent out to defend the weak chancellor,

you will say that no black hole was ever mentioned in those terms.

But come on.

I mean, we were all prepared for doom and gloom thanks to Rachel Reeves.

And then it turned out that the Office of Budget Responsibility

had already told her that other things were mitigating problems about growth and that she

basically had some money in the kitty after all. So has that really destroyed trust? Can it be

weaponised since it does begin to sound quite technocratic? Or are most people thinking, do you know something,

mate, you dragged us into paying more tax by freezing the income tax bans and that broke the

Labour manifesto promise? We discuss all of that. We look also at planning nightmares in the highlands

over wind farm expansion.

We talk about Barclays Hamden and whether anybody will ever call it that and it doesn't matter

or it's just the worst move imaginable.

And of course, the resignation of the heat bummer of the OBR.

It's been quite a week.

Those are the headlines now for the podcast. Well, hi chums and

welcome to this week's Leslie Riddick podcast. Leslie, happy St Andrew's Day. Oh yes. Actually,

yeah, we didn't stage this. I'm still just laughing because you come out of the blocks like a

blumen whip it. You know, normal people were just like we have a bit of ch-chat and normal people just kind of go, right, where was I? And pick yourself up and they're like, bang, first is straight in. I've been finally managing to get Radio Scotland to see if their new breakfast program is any different to the previous one, which is not really. But, oh, well, thank you very much for having me on this morning. And you can just imagine them sitting at the other side of the microphone going, just answer the bloody question. I've already introduced you. You've wasted 10 seconds. Just just while we're on this little diversion. I mean, there's a couple of, that was absolutely people's, you know, pet hates was that sort of thing. It's all, you know, it's like even people saying, how are you and everything? It just kind of, it's like, can you just not do that? You know, we've just assumed that you're here. You're happy to be there. You know, you're alive, I'm alive. Can you just answer the bluing question? And it's quite hard not to get immediately your backup actually as an interviewer

when you start to get all this media taught bullocks actually

and often taught by people who used to be, you know, in the business.

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