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🗓️ 26 March 2025
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0:00.0 | The grotesque sight of a Labour government, a Labour government scuttering out budgets and statements to drive some of the most vulnerable people in society into poverty or deeper into poverty. |
0:12.8 | That's what Rachel Reeves, our Chancellor, is doing. |
0:17.9 | I've got the brilliant James Budeway. |
0:19.6 | This is kind of a tradition. |
0:20.9 | We talk over terrible budgets and statements by the government of the day. |
0:27.6 | Obviously, we've done the Tories a lot, |
0:29.2 | and now we have a total different changing political landscape under the Labour government. |
0:35.1 | James, brilliant economist. |
0:36.3 | Also, by the way, Macrodose, co-host of everyone check out Macrodose. |
0:40.3 | So then you can just get all this wisdom all the time rather than my tradition. |
0:43.6 | And it's great tradition. |
0:44.9 | But, you know, just get even more of it. |
0:48.4 | So let's just start. |
0:49.4 | 3.2 million Brits are going to lose from benefit cuts. |
0:52.5 | An average of $1,070,0 a year. |
0:55.5 | But talking about personal independence payment, which for those you don't know, |
0:58.8 | and it's not for people out of work. It's, it goes to people in or out of work, |
1:04.1 | depending on their needs to secure their independence. It's for disabled people, |
1:08.5 | people with very serious long-term conditions to whether it be mobility, |
1:12.7 | whether it be a carer. So 370,000 of those claimants and 430,000 future claimants will lose an |
1:19.1 | average of £4,500 a year. Just talk, let's just talk about these, your sense, your response |
1:26.7 | to these particular cuts. |
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