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🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in the UK. |
0:06.2 | Things are not looking good for Stomer, and his popularity is collapsing. |
0:14.1 | And he's arresting a lot of people, it seems. |
0:16.6 | That's the sense that I get. |
0:18.0 | Actually, that's what we're seeing seeing is a lot of arrests are being made |
0:21.8 | throughout the UK for various things, mostly connected to censoring and going after journalists |
0:28.6 | and stuff like that. And the economy is looking like it's in very bad shape. So what is going on with Stommer? |
0:40.6 | What's going on with his administration? |
0:44.3 | They are off to a very bad start. |
0:48.4 | And they don't seem to want to make things better either. |
0:50.6 | Just sorry, they don't seem to want to make things better. |
0:52.7 | They seem that they're making things worse. What's going on? Well, I think your last comment actually gets to the heart of it, |
0:59.6 | because this is, in some ways, the most astonishing government I've ever seen, because most |
1:04.3 | governments, new governments, when they've been elected, especially if they're coming to power |
1:10.3 | after a long period when the other party, |
1:14.4 | the other side, have been in power. What they try to do is that they try to foster an atmosphere |
1:21.4 | of optimism and hope. They say, look, we're in charge now. You know, the other side may have messed up, but we are |
1:28.5 | going to turn things round. You can have hope and optimism and things are going to get better |
1:35.6 | from this point on. When Tony Blair became Prime Minister in 1997, he actually had a song, |
1:42.0 | a hymn that we were hearing all the time, |
1:44.3 | which was that things can only get better. |
1:47.9 | That was the sort of thing that he was pumping out at that time. |
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