Labour! Leave our kids alone
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Another black hole has appeared in the country’s coffers, but you can bank on your co-pilots to make sense of the pennies and cents.
Allison thinks Starmer’s new migrant swap deal with France is nonsense and nothing more than a secret legal route made by Labour under the pretence of benefiting the British tax payer.
Whilst Liam says the ongoing cost of Labour’s private school VAT increase is crippling families and private schools help the local community as well as the tax payers as they free up spaces in State schools.
Stowing away this week is mum of 2 Emma, who shares the experience of an average family hit by Labour’s VAT on private schools
Read Allison: ‘Our complicit elite is to blame for every sexual assault by an illegal migrant’ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/05/complicit-elite-blame-for-sex-assault-by-illegal-migrants/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
‘Read Liam: Why the OBR is now warning about the "serious...unsustainable" fiscal cost of high immigration’
https://liamhalligan.substack.com/p/why-the-obr-is-now-warning-about?r=rm4f5&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action |
Read Liam: ‘Trump is wrong to pick a fight with Powell – but is right about interest rates’ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/03/trump-wrong-pick-fight-powell-right-interest-rates/ |
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.0 | I really like Numpy, and that's basically the entire cabinet. |
| 0:15.0 | Four. |
| 0:16.5 | Labor government, leave our kids alone. |
| 0:18.6 | Three. |
| 0:20.0 | We have a national emergency in immigration. |
| 0:23.8 | Two. |
| 0:25.1 | An absolutely basic stone age principle of taxation is that you tax demerit goods and you don't tax merit goods. |
| 0:34.3 | One. |
| 0:38.1 | We have lift off. One. We have left off. |
| 0:41.2 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:45.4 | Hello. |
| 0:46.2 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:48.3 | High immigration is doing quotes, serious, unsustainable damage to the UK's public finances. |
| 0:54.9 | Not my words co-pilot, but the verdict of Professor David Miles, |
| 0:58.8 | a senior official at the Office for Budget Responsibility, |
| 1:02.2 | the government's official fiscal watchdog. |
| 1:04.9 | With net legal migration averaging half a million over each of the last eight years, |
| 1:12.3 | an annual population increase equal to Sheffield, our fifth biggest city, and illegal small boat migrants sparking protests |
| 1:17.9 | at so-called asylum hotels countrywide, establishment analysts are finally acknowledging |
| 1:23.3 | what has long been obvious. Yes, to a reasonable flow of highly skilled, creative, hard-working |
| 1:29.1 | migrants. The net figure was 50,000 as recently as the late 90s, and largely comprised those |
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