Hi, this is Steve Richards with the Rock and Roll Politics Podcast and a reminder that the Rock and Roll Politics Podcast is in effect being streamed live tomorrow night or tonight, depending on when you're listening to this. It's Monday night at 7pm. It's also live at King's Place in the hall. So it would be great if you could

join us all in one form or another. It's on the Kingsplace website, kingsplace.co.

UK, where there are tickets for the stream and some tickets still for the live event in the

hall starting at 7 o'clock. This is what we'll be doing together.

I'll begin, as usual, with these live shows, getting your prediction. These now are legendary,

these predictions for getting everything wholly wrong about what is about to take place. But it's a big question

tomorrow. I won't tell you now what the question is. I just need the right to change it at the

last minute, depending on fast-moving events. And during these shows, quite often the events are

fast-moving as we are all together at King's Place.

So, yeah, there will be the prediction. Then if it's okay with all of you, I'm going to reflect on

that really significant period of recent days with the rise in national insurance and the extension of the national insurance to be paid by

working pensioners as well. And posing the question and trying to answer the question,

is this a significant move by Boris Johnson to the left in British politics or another example of chaotic leadership

or perhaps a combination of both and then suggest how Kyr-Stama and Labour should respond to this,

the most significant move I think since the pandemic and in terms of domestic policy

since Brexit. Not the Brexit is done, by the way, because we all know it isn't, but since

the eruption of the Brexit drama. It is a moment of great significance, but in what form should we take that significance? Well, that will be a

theme. Then I'll get some of your thoughts on that on the stream and live in the hall. Then we'll all

need to lie down in a darken room for a few minutes, short break, get a glass or whatever.

And then in the second half, we'll be reflecting more on that

prediction which is not to do directly with the national insurance rise and

social care and all that kind of vitally centrally important matters so we'll

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