The Please stop clapping I feel very uncomfortable.

Um, hello. Please stop clapping, I feel very uncomfortable.

Hello and welcome to the Navarro media End of year slash Christmas slash general holiday,

winterval, round up of 2023.

Thank you so much for braving the wind and the rain

and South London to come here.

It was distressing for me also crossing the river.

So just to, I don't know. for me also crossing the river.

So just to describe the context a little bit

of the it that's just been, for me

when I was trying to think about

how I wanted to frame this event and what I wanted to ask this illustrious panel beside me,

it feels that 2023 is a year where the position of the public and most people their desires and their

political priorities is really, really far away from where the elites are.

Whereas in 2022 there was a degree of responsiveness

particularly around things like energy bills. Right now it feels like the

political classes, whether they're wearing a red rosette or a blue rosette, are quite happy to be like,

well, yeah, get fucked, but don't really care what you think.

And that's the case, whether you're talking about the fact we've got crumbling infrastructure

and neither party is willing to

countenance a wealth tax the fact that there is still a cost of living crisis and

neither major party in Westminster wants to consider a rent cap or a rent freeze or some manner of rent controls or it might

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