Hi, welcome to the John Gaunt podcast. What have I always told you? They are all the same. Who gaunty? Politicians. They are all

self-serving pigs with their snouts in the trough. Evidence? well, let's look at the new Labour government,

Sarkir Smama and his mob. They might not be as bad as the Tories were at the end, but they're

starting off on a pretty similar trajectory. Absolutely smeared in slees over this weekend, of course.

And what do you make of this story? The bloke who used to own the Big Breakfast,

oh, that's who he is, Lord Ali. He had a pass to get into Downing Street. Even cabinet ministers

haven't got that.

He also gave them a load of money.

He was donating money to them.

It's only the beginning of a sleaze argument, but I'm much more concerned with people like

Rachel Reeves, the new chancellor.

She's cutting the winter fuel payment to millions of pensioners,

while she and many other politicians pick up their bills on the state. Oh yes, their gas

and lecky are paid for by me and you, the thick taxpayers. Well, I thought that politicians work for us, but clearly

it's the other way around. Had to agree with a very old friend of mine, a guy called Glenn Jenkins.

He was a listener and also a guest many times when I worked on BBC Three Counties Radio.

He's a fascinating guy.

He runs a kind of collective.

I used to think there were just a bunch of hippies.

They occupied this old hospital next to the children's hospice that I used to be involved in in Luton.

And also they had a site on the M1.

It was a derelict site which they took over.

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