Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you for tuning in.

And are you all excited because we are here gathering together on the eve of the budget.

It's a bit like Christmas Eve.

It's always more exciting than the day itself.

And the buildup to this budget has been like no other, I can remember,

and I would argue, post-45, this budget that has been more speculation, more build-up, more weight

on it than any budget in modern time. Some budgets have been weighty retrospectively, but not this,

this kind of anticipation in advance and a frenzy of speculation that has been going on for weeks,

if not months. Anyway, it's here. It's here. By the time a lot of you are listening to it,

it really will be budget evil, maybe the day

itself.

So we've got a lot to reflect on some brilliant questions from some of the Rock and Roll

Politics Cooperative.

Just a reminder that we're coming up to the last two live shows of the year.

Down on the South Coast in the beautiful

rope tackle arts centre on November the 6th. That is the day after the presidential election.

And then on November the 27th, the last show of the year. And what a year we've got to make sense

of. An election year is always, of course,

compelling. But this one, especially so. A change of government doesn't often happen in Britain

and a new Labour government. So we would be delving deep, but having some fun. It's the festive season

for us. It's the Christmas show, really, but it's happening then, November the 27th.

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