All right, Alexander, let's talk about the state of the UK economy.

As Stammer is playing make-believe Churchill in Paris,

talking about how the UK is going to defeat Russia

and how the UK military is going to enter Ukraine,

we have a terrible situation that is happening in the UK with regards

to the economy. Stommer doesn't seem to be paying much attention to what is happening in the

economy, but things are getting very bad. What is the situation in the UK? I have never known a Prime Minister who has spent so little time on domestic and economic

questions, as Kirstehmann does, before the last couple of weeks,, the diplomacy over Ukraine started to crank up.

And before Starmat set up his coalition of the willing and all of that, even then, apparently,

he was devoting around half his time to foreign policy.

Now I suspect foreign policy is about the only thing he devotes his time to foreign policy. Now I suspect foreign policy is about the only thing

he devotes his time to. And I think the reason he's doing that is because he cannot face

what look like increasingly insurmountable problems close home, closer to home. Now, last year, basically the British economy flatlined. In January,

it contracted, which came as a shock to many people. There was expectations that the economy would

grow. Last year, last, in the autumn, if you remember, the government presented its budget.

It increased spending considerably, mostly by paying public sector workers.

It increased taxes.

And at the same time, it has committed itself to borrowing more.

The government then gave various figures, saying that in a couple of years time, everything

would balance out and we'd be on a sustainable trajectory. Well, that didn't last very long because over the last couple of months, the economy has

contracted, as I said, government receipts have been lower than expected.

And the result has been that the fiscal headroom, as it's called, the available money that the

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