This is a global player original podcast.

It's four minutes after ten, and what a peculiar time it is to be a progressive,

whatever that word means, but whatever it means, I almost certainly am one.

I was live on air yesterday, as you know, when the O&S figures dropped or shortly afterwards,

and reported to you that we are in the midst of an almost unprecedented plummet in net migration figures.

And I kind of wondered out loud how the right-wing media or elements of the, I mean the really

bent bits of the right wing media or the bits that simply don't care about facts.

They just want to get you cross about something regardless of what the numbers actually say.

I wondered how they would accommodate it.

I knew that Farage would lie because he has done in the past. He's lied about

these numbers actually having nothing to do with the reduction in the number of people coming

here and everything to do with an increase in the number of people leaving, which is so

demonstrably untrue that you can see it from space. But Farage lying is, you know, it's like

the rest of us breathing.

But I did wonder how far that infection might spread.

I guess the capacity to still be shocked is something to be thankful for.

When you're not shocked anymore, that's when you know that the game is up, isn't it?

When you're not shocked anymore, that's when you know that the game is up, isn't it? When you're not shocked anymore,

that's when you know that the ship has sailed, the gig is over, because I turned to the mail and the telegraph and the sun and some others this morning. And I learn that there's actually

a brain drain in the UK as young people turn their backs on Labour's broken Britain.

Somebody actually wrote those words in the Daily Mail.

The idea that Labour would have managed to do lasting harm to the country in the space of two years,

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