Hello and welcome to episode five of Not Another One.

And it's us again, me, Steve Richards, Tim Montgomery, Ian Martin, and Miranda Green.

Miranda Green isn't with us live, but she will be contributing in a very significant way shortly.

Before we get going with our theme that we're going to delve deep into today, thanks to Get Living, our sponsors, and we will hear

more about them around halfway through the podcast. Now, as regular listeners know, and new listeners

are about to discover, we like to pose a question and explore the many layers that might arise as a result. And what we're going to look at today

as that election date moves ever closer, can voters handle the truth? Now that question,

actually, even the terms raise many issues that we can explore. And to set the same,

Miranda's not feeling particularly well today, so she's not in the studio. But she set this whole discussion up brilliantly. So let's

hear from Miranda first before us three explore this theme. This is a brilliant question. I'm

really sorry, I can't be with you. The viruses and the heat have defeated me this week.

But it seems to me, particularly after all the television confrontations

between the party leaders and audiences made up of voters,

that the politicians are quite afraid of the electorate now,

and probably with good reason, because they're so disillusioned.

But I think that avoiding what we're calling the truth is a bit of a tricky one to prove, because of course the truth

is different depending on your perspective. But I think it's certainly true that there are a lot of

people who think that it's the Jean-Claude Juncker problem when he famously said, we all know

what has to be done, but the problem is none of us will get re-elected afterwards if we do it.

And this is the verbal equivalent.

How is a party to get elected if it really confronts the country with the things that need to be changed, particularly in our economy?

I hope you enjoy today. See you next week.

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