PMQs #003 - Four Lies Buys A Generation of Decay

Hello. Hello. Welcome to the show. It's been another crazy weekend in the clown world British politics following our budget last week. So, I'm gonna address this here, and there's something I really wanna address today. It's been bothering me for a while. It's a little bit obvious, but it's this constant lying from our politicians. I've got my, I've got my laptop here today. I've got a lot of notes. I might be referring to them because I don't wanna miss some bits, but yeah. Welcome to the show, Connor. How you doing? Doing alright. A groiper in the corner. Let's be clear. I'm not a groiper. The British groiper. How are you enjoying your newfound, group of young female fans that we heard about? I actually think it might potentially be old fish, old man. It's just kinda weird. So No. I know for a fact we have, some new younger, in their twenties, younger in their 20 girls who like the podcast. Well, let's just leave that there. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Anyway, welcome to the show. Yeah. It's been another clown weekend, and, I'm just kind of over it. I think the country I think we all we talked about this on the last show. Everyone's sick of being lied to all the time. We know in the last election, we had one of the lowest turnouts ever. We know people are switching party really quickly. And I think there's a bigger issue at hand here. I wanna talk about this today. I wanna get into this constant lying. And, it started over the weekend when we found out that, maybe Rachel Reeves had misled the public so she could come and tax us again. Richard Hughes from the OBR wrote to the commons treasury committee, and told them as of mid September that it wasn't all doom and gloom, but actually there was a buffer there. Despite Rachel Reeves coming out and publicly preparing us for taxes, telling us that the economy was in a desperate state, We'd find out it was probably just her mislead the public because she wanted to tax us more. So I wanna talk about this a lot today, because it's starting to frustrate me. I'm I'm so yeah. Connor, what do you think about this? Because we on the way down, I phoned I phoned his, his granddad, my dad. And and I said to him, I was like, dad, has politics always been this much of a clown show? Because sometimes you you maybe you think this is all crazy. They're all idiots, but maybe it's always been like that. Maybe it's just recency bias. But my dad said no. He said it is definitely worse now. Yeah. Previously, there were politicians on the opposite side to what my dad would have voted for, and he said, look. I maybe didn't like them, but I respected them. But my problem is is I I don't really respect anyone. They …