Emergency Budget Special with Nigel Farage
Disruptors
Rob Moore
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🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So Nigel, what's the biggest thing that shocked you in the budget? Did any of it shock you? |
| 0:06.0 | Well, it was always going to be the doom budget, wasn't it? Because Kirstama had given this address a few weeks ago. |
| 0:11.5 | The, as I called it, things can only get worse. Speech. |
| 0:15.8 | Quite what do you think is he's doing to business confidence? I don't know. |
| 0:19.5 | It was, I mean, obviously, having for the last 45 years been fascinated by budgets |
| 0:25.6 | because of, you know, my life in the commodity markets and current affairs and politics and media, |
| 0:31.7 | and to actually sit in my chamber for it was that in a way was quite a privilege. |
| 0:35.8 | Politically, it was clever, very clever. |
| 0:38.6 | There were things like, oh, we're going to give half a million pounds to potholes. |
| 0:42.0 | Well, everyone goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, we need that. |
| 0:45.2 | Not raising, not raising the fuel escalator. |
| 0:49.2 | Things like the fuel escalator not being put back on. |
| 0:52.0 | 15th year in a row, it's been frozen. 37 million plus car |
| 0:55.5 | drivers in the country, politically quite clever, especially as everyone thought they were |
| 1:00.6 | going to put another 5p a tank on petrol and diesel. The Scottish stuff was genius. |
| 1:06.0 | I was genius. You know, more money from central government to Scotland than ever in history. |
| 1:13.6 | The SMP was sitting in front of me and they had a rotten afternoon. So on all of that stuff, it was clever. |
| 1:16.6 | I think what we hadn't perhaps realised is just how ideological Reeves and Stama are. |
| 1:23.6 | These guys are way to the left of how they portrayed themselves at the general |
| 1:28.1 | election. So more left than people think they are left. Oh yeah. And you've only got to look |
| 1:33.2 | at the portraits in number 10 and 11 that they've taken down and put up to realize this. So Nigel |
| 1:38.7 | Lawson's portrait's gone to be replaced by a woman who was a founder member of the Communist Party |
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