Ann Pettifor
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along with Karl Polanyi, that they're so mad they're looking for strong men to protect them from these bad guys.
And that strong man could be Donald Trump.
You know, I was shocked.
Donald Trump went to Davos and he talked to the bankers and he said, you've got to put a cap on interest rates on credit cards.
You know, like that is so blindingly obviously a wrong.
And it takes a fascist to make the point, really.
But what he's doing there is saying, don't worry, I haven't forgotten my base here.
My base elected me because they said they want to, you know.
Of course, I won't touch Wall Street and I ain't going to mess with Elon Musk.
But every so often I'm going to throw a bone.
Well, two things.
On the insurance industry, I live in a little town called Saxmundum in Suffolk.
And on the coast is another village called Thorpness.
And it's literally being washed away by the storms this last few weeks.
This is happening across the coast in England.
This is because the seas are rising.
And this is because temperatures are rising.
And the scientists have been telling us that for a very long time.
Now, the key thing about that is that people bought their houses at great expense because this is quite an exclusive little village, really.