Is there any hope after austerity 2.0?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 20 November 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Hunt’s cuts upon cuts have left the nation worried, depressed and frightened. Is there any hope beyond austerity 2.0? Marc Stears, director of the UCL Policy Lab, author of Out of the Ordinary and former Ed Miliband speechwriter, speaks to Ros Taylor about the state of Britain and its future prospects. “The reality of the economy is an extraordinary living standards squeeze that people confront in their daily lives.” “Anger, rage, unpredictability – you see that everywhere at the moment, but particularly in the Conservative backbenches.” “We’re probably overly gloomy as to where we might be able to get, but not gloomy enough about where we are now.” “People are fed up with overly grandiose stories which turned out to have nothing in them.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Ros Taylor. Producers: Jet Gerbertson and Alex Rees. Assistant Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: Alex Rees. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:15.9	Our public services are struggling. We've had four Prime Ministers in five years.
1:20.1	Even the death of the Queen has felt like the end of something more.
1:23.2	People like me could say, and we do say, I told you so, this was what was always going to happen
1:27.8	after Brexit. But that wouldn't move us forward.
1:30.3	Where is Britain going? Where does it want to go? And how could we adjust to the way we live now?
1:35.0	With me to talk over those big questions is political thinker Mark Steers.
1:39.0	He's director of the University College London Policy Lab.
1:42.0	He was Ed Miliband's chief speech writer and was a
1:45.3	leading figure in what was called the Blue Labor Movement. He even taught Liz Truss at Oxford.
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