PMQs #006 - The Quiet Leviathan — Inflation Is Breaking Everything

Hello. Hello. Welcome to the show. Hope you're doing well. I'm your host, Peter McCormack. I've got your cohost, radical mister Connor McCormack here. How are you, boy? Doing well. Actually, no. I'm not. I just read probably one of the most beautiful and devastating things I think I have in a long time. Yes. I know exactly what you're talking about. So this is our final show of the year, and there's there was a lot to talk about, and we've been planning this show for a week or so. We were thinking, like, it's final show of the year. What do we do? We could do a review of the year, talk about the biggest things, and we kinda planned it around that. And we've been sat in a hotel for the last two hours just doing a bit of work, bit of planning that goes into it. And Connor sent me a tweet. He's gonna bring it up. And with this tweet, we, we realized we need to talk about something else. It's not it's not the big stories of the year. I think it's what is the most important topic we need to talk about. I've been ranting about this on Twitter a lot recently. It's about inflation. And so this was there was a tweet that went with it, but it's a post from four Chan. And I'll read it out because some of you are gonna be listening, and it's a it's a bit long, but bear with me. There will be no collapse the way some of these people think of it. It's not going to be like the movie Dawn of the Dead or whatever when one day suddenly shit hits the fan and the prices skyrocket and everyone begins to riot and the SS comes marching down the street to kill everyone. There will be no happening. It's far more insidious than that. Read the poem hollow the hollow men by T. S. Eliot, and you'll understand. You'll just notice that every day, simple things will become a little bit more expensive. Everyone's homes and apartments will start to get smaller. Your work hours will get longer, but your pay will decrease. You'll see your family and friends less and find that in time, you care less about them. Every day, you'll find yourself lowering your standards for everything, work, food, relationships, etcetera. Job security will no longer exist as a concept. You'll notice houses and apartments shrinking, people will start hanging onto clothing longer and longer, less people will get married, even less will have children, People engross themselves in technological distractions and fantasy while never truly experiencing the world. Whatever dream people used to have about what their lives are going to be will become from a distant memory, will become for them a distant memory. The only thing left for them will be the reality of their debt and their poverty. And every minute of every day, they …