Alastair Campbell

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805 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

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TRIGGERnometry · Alastair Campbell vs. TRIGGERnometry: Grooming Gangs, Immigration and Iraq · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

It was to become prime minister. matched

That's what I meant by the crash. matched

Yeah. matched

What you had was socialism for the banks and austerity for the people. matched

The banks who caused it... matched

And then the people who didn't, and, you know, how many people have gone to jail through the global financial crisis, right? matched

And then, whereas the people have paid a massive price. matched

Now, and then what happened is because this is just the way politics works, matched

Politicians got blamed for not holding the bankers' property to account. matched

Politicians got blamed because whenever there's an economic hit, it's politicians who tend to cop it. matched

But I completely agree with you. matched

People, even if they didn't, you know, you didn't have people sitting around saying, well, this is terrible, you know, this is socialism for the banks and austerity for us. matched

But they did think, well, hold on a minute, these guys have completely f***ed it up. matched

They're getting bailed out with our money. matched

And even though, and I remember Alistair Darling, chancellor at the time, and you know, I mean, that was a very, very stressful time for those guys. matched

But I remember talking to him about it. matched

It's a very hard thing to have to explain. matched

that this is going to be bad but if we don't do this it's going to be even worse but there's no doubt that was a driver i think that was a driver of a lot of the polarization that we feel now as well because that is the thing that allowed the populists to say they're the reason they're helping out the banks because these are the elitists matched

and you, the people, are paying the price. matched

But who were they, the leaders? matched

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