Well, suddenly Denmark is in the news and not necessarily in a good way.

It is probably embarrassing for lefties, progressives and Nordic lovers like myself

to discover that Denmark is the poster child for the really hardline changes to asylum

and immigration being introduced by the Labour government here.

And yet, the architect of that in Denmark has said

they think it wouldn't work in the United Kingdom. We discuss why. We also look back to what's

been described as the circular firing squad of Labor's inept briefing against West Streeting

and the kind of will-she-won-she-won-she-hokey budget where

the tax rises that were supposed to be inevitable have suddenly been off-laid by discovering

some money down the back of the sofa. All that and much more coming. Those are the headlines.

Now for the podcast. Well, hi folks and welcome to this week's Leslie Riddock podcast.

I was minded of the old, I was at Punting Dennis that had the worst week of the week award awarded weekly on a week by week basis.

It's been a bad week for the UK government, as we might say, every blinking week.

In fact, it's been so bad this week, I find

myself when I'm trying to prepare for this, going back and thinking, but did that happen this

week or last week? It's just all rolling into one. I mean, what a total guddle. How are you, Leslie?

Well, so, I sort of, you know, I think a lot of people who've had one of the lurgies will say, a lot of my pals have said,

you really need to get that there's this post-viral fatigue thing.

So I keep going to stuff and then sort of finding myself semi-asleep in the middle of the meeting and wondering why.

So, yeah, not a full tilt.

But, I mean, even at sort of 1% tilt,

the thing that actually took a while for the penny to drop last week

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