Ben Harnwell
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64 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2025
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Ben Harnwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Talking about some of the poorest areas in Great Britain.
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You added on to that, um, saying that these were uh the the post-industrial areas.
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These are the areas which British policymakers for decades have neglected and taken for granted.
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This is the point here.
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Um areas, if you go to them, I mean
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Americans will have an idea of what, you know, of of what the Rust Belt is like in the United States.
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These areas i in the UK, the the deprivation uh and poverty is simply astonishing for a s a supposedly first world um indust industrial economic nation.
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And here's the thing.
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People there are living in poverty because they have been ignored by the
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Brit the the British political class.
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Same thing in the United States.
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And what we call the uni party
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Is you know, it it literally exists.
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You have the same set of policies divided under two different colours, red colour or or blue colour.
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None of which seem to be serious about responding to the needs of the neglected forgotten people.
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And that is why something that we've been saying on this show repeatedly, I think, sin since Steve and and Raheem uh founded the show si six or so years ago.
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It's the same political movement, effectively, the same set of ignored uh
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um desires on behalf of of of the pe of the citizen.
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In two separate countries, America and the uh and the UK.
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