Alastair Campbell
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Yeah.
And so all these projects that the USAID was running, the projects that Doge went in and cut in all across the government and then just walked off.
And he describes, this guy Nick Enrich was describing these kind of, you know, 20-year-old tech kids who were coming in and didn't have a clue.
about what USAID was, what it did, and we're just in there with a spreadsheet that had been given to him by Elon Musk and his parasites.
So this, the Foreign Office cut, is bad, but honestly, when you listen to this guy talking about what he was responsible for and what no longer now exists, we talk about good and evil.
There is a special place in hell, in my view.
Yes, he's done some amazing things, but what he did in relation to Doge is an absolute abomination.
Here's one from Janet, TripPlus member from Exeter.
Have you come across any issues recently where there is actually a surprising level of consensus?
Well, I'm going to go on mental health because we were in Belgrade.
I couldn't be at the launch of a campaign I was supposed to help launch in the House of Commons, which is a campaign called Head On, which is bringing together 20 organizations in the mental health field, plus people with lived experience, as it's called.
And the Wellcome Trust funded this.
And they've been good on mental health for a long, long time.
And they did some polling with More in Common.
And it is really interesting because three quarters of Britain say the government should do more.
But you know when we did our populism series with Liam Byrne and he had these polling groups.
And More in Common have got these groups.
Progressive activists, politically active left, incremental left.
They are...
left-leaning but not very political, established liberals, prosperous pro-Remain centrists who trust institutions, I guess I'll be one of them, rooted patriots who are the Red Wall, sceptical scrollers, online, don't like elites, traditional conservatives, says what it is, and dissenting disruptors who want radical change.