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Oh, some good stuff for you this week. It's an episode of thirds, not two halves, three thirds.

The first two thirds are from a period when Bodger Johnson, Mr. Blobby, was the dear leader,

in which there is a bank alert.

And then in the last third, there is a bang-up-to-date clip about an advert for, or rather against, Britain.

Who do you think you're talking to?

A bloke called Steve in Manchester. Hello, Steve. Hello, bloke called Nick. Yes. You're right. Good, thanks. It's been a quiet week, hasn't it, on the news? Very, very quiet. Yeah, nothing's happened so far. Well, it's, you know, you were pondering what's next, and you're quite right that the juggernaut carries on in broadly the same direction,

whether Johnson's there or not.

And I wanted to talk about what that largely entails from the financial point.

If you're obviously going to be authoritarianism and pretending to care about the North and that kind of thing.

But Sunak earlier this week started launching a bunch of announcements about financial

deregulation and people with slightly long memories will maybe recall where that got us

in the past, which is...

Yeah, financial deregulation.

Warning, warning, which I think is actually why we have left the European Union, why we were persuaded to act against our best interest to leave the European Union.

So the banking racket could get back to what it does best, taking our money from us.

And laundering Russian and charity money and otherwise for that as well.

But what interests me is what that kind of led to, not just obviously the financial calamity

that happened after that.

But, you know, if we dredge our memories, along with the expenses scandal and stuff,

10-ish years ago, there was an enormous amount of dissatisfaction and anger with the system, the establishment, you know, corrupt

politicians, oh, they all lie, they're all the same, blah, blah, blah. And it rose to this

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